Adding to this excellent thread & to better contextualise various White media personalities defending White supremacists: let's also talk about why White Australians fixate on overseas examples of racism but never meaningfully tackle racism here. Thread 1/https://twitter.com/alanalentin/status/1036820990662041600?s=19 …
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Here's where White people in general fail to interrogate their false notions of race and racism, and thereby reproduce White supremacy: by thinking racism is subjective rather than structural. That 'ideas' are not harmful. Whiteness sets up Nazi 'debate' as neutral. It's not 5/
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As to all the White people who are currently defending Nazis from overseas, or conversely pointing to USA/ UK as examples of 'bad' racism - these are two 'safe' ways in which White Australians excuse themselves from racial inequality in this country. 6/
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So while White media position themselves as bastions of 'free speech' - look to all the public & meaningful engagement these journalists and comedians have personally done to support the writing & talks of Indigenous people & other
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If you speak in support of Nazis but don't seek to understand why Indigenous & other
#POC don't need to live through yet another 'debate' about our humanity - you aren't here supporting 'free speech.' You're the same as any other White supremacist endangering our existence /finShow this thread
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Thank you for this. The pursuit of intellectual debate and ideology is coming at the expense of people whose humanity is being questioned or demoted through their race, religion, gender, etc. it’s a safety issue
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