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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet Feb 5

    Jeet Heer Retweeted ℮oin Higgins

    "'My Racist Planet of the Apes Story Was Taken Out of Context' T-shirt is raising questions already answered by the shirt."https://twitter.com/EoinHiggins_/status/1490017084650180610 …

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    ℮oin HigginsVerified account @EoinHiggins_
    It's always about being "taken out of context" with these guys pic.twitter.com/Rv8NVvZd8W
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    9:41 AM - 5 Feb 2022
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    • Khadija Horton 🌸🌸🌸 Harjeet M sari graham Steven Solomon Valerie sont vaccinée 🏳️‍⚧️🍬💕 Candy Kimberly ♀💕🍭🏳️‍⚧️ Leo Macneil GA(y) Democrat🏳️‍🌈🍑♊️= marg boyer
    35 replies 123 retweets 795 likes
      1. Mosyapolitic‏ @mosyapolitic Feb 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        It’s the powerful genes of the “black body and white brain” that really gets me.

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      1. Andrew Rowe‏ @NewfieRowe Feb 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        It was racism all along!

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      1.  🛼 Komrad Iron  🛼#Fe-26 🛼  🛼  🛼‏ @Komrad_Iron Feb 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Like the word "Architectonic", the N-word is one that I would have to think about before using because it is not a word that I ever use. Somebody slipping up and saying it means that they use the word in their thoughts all the time.

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      1. blue and yellow meme‏ @TheBlueMeme Feb 5
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        There comes a point at which repeated reliance on the “you took my seemingly racist rant out of context” excuse itself becomes the context.

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      1. Ramesh Mantha‏ @ramesh3001 Feb 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Smart move would be to blame the roids

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      1. RealCivicEquality‏ @b9n10nt Feb 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        “Lib journalists can learn from Rogan’s informal & inviting approach to doing racisms.”

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      1. ENDTIMES SUPPORT GROUP‏ @LeighMarvin12 Feb 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        But his belief in race science? I'm very confused.https://youtu.be/3iYesdyvRfE 

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      1. 𝕔𝕙𝕣𝕚𝕤 𝕠𝕧𝕖𝕣𝕔𝕒𝕤𝕙‏ @covercash Feb 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet @keeltyc

        “I certainly wasn’t *trying* to be racist… it just comes naturally to me.”

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      2. Gored Licorice II: The Spookquel‏ @LordLicoriceDrp Feb 5
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        Telling people to not vaccinate, eat horse paste: OK Racism from a decade ago: NOT OK The lines our society is apparently willing to draw are fuckin' wild.

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