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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted

      1. Harriet Tubman never said that. 2. This fake quote is actually pro-slavery since it implies that slaves deserved their condition because of ignorance or inherent servility. 3. Stop this. https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/991476958721556487 …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 1 May 2018

      Jeet Heer Retweeted Striker Titan

      More on the fake Harriet Tubman quote Kanye is peddling:https://twitter.com/jrstriker12/status/991494398386098176 …

      Jeet Heer added,

      Striker Titan @jrstriker12
      Replying to @brentinmock @GeeDee215
      http://www.historiansagainstslavery.org/main/2016/03/dangers-of-a-fake-tubman-quote-mcdaniel/ … "Yet as an historian of slavery and abolition, I have always found this particular fake quote to be particularly insidious. The idea it expresses even seems perilously close to proslavery ideology as it existed in the early American republic."
      7:00 PM - 1 May 2018
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        2. PFL 🐆‏ @frankieindc 1 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Here is a good account of the origins of the fake quote in a feminist essay written during the 2008 primary race between Obama and Clinton. Also the newly established Underground Railroad @TubmanSP does not include it. Was there in March.https://www.maxwell.syr.edu/news.aspx?id=262 …

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        1. McBrosius‏ @McBrosius 1 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Powerful. Thanks for posting.

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        1. Christopher Ostella‏ @Co7Ostella 1 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          His ignorance knows no bounds. (Will Rogers paraphrase but fits well in this case).

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        1. Julie Hotard, PhD, psychologist, disinfo expert‏ @upine 1 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          So someone tell Kanye that the quote is a fake.

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        1.  🇺🇸 Cydney  🇺🇦  🌻‏ @MoodyCyd12 1 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          @kanyewest

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        1. Rainy Roses‏ @gamingMom4life 1 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Is he having some kind of artist break down or substance issue or anything – I don’t really follow him too closely but this kind of thing tends to happen.

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        1. Grumpy Pup  🇺🇦‏ @_njd_ 1 May 2018
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          “Kanye is as dumb as a rock” – Harriet Tubman. Fake quote, obviously.
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        1. Jayme Crooks‏ @jayme_crooks 2 May 2018
          Replying to @HeerJeet

          Positive attention, negative attention, its attention just the same. Shame on us for fueling this fire. #FalseProphets #ForProfit

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        1. Garth Godsman‏ @GarthGodsman 2 May 2018
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          Jeet Heer going on about spreading fake news? There's some chutzpah for you!

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