I'm unhappy with how this tweet sits in the frame of Twitter and I want to talk about that for a bit. https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/826793663586037760 … 1/
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Problem with a tweet like this is, people will tend to see it as apology for white nationalism. Certainly white nationalist scum will. 2/
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It's increasingly difficult to speak clearly when the rules of Twitter are optimized for erasing context and amplifying hysterics. 3/
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But one has to speak up about constructions of race like this. I didn't bring up white people, the ppl spouting that slogan did. 4/
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The strange loop/Kafkatrap/double-bind is fractal: Speaking is violence, not speaking is violence, and observing the trap is violence! 5/
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Of course nobody's going to enslave white people. Not outside Tumblr, college towns, cults, and other abusive relationships, anyway. 6/
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But as an awful bad terrible no-good classical liberal I still insist individual acts of concrete abuse and domination are The Problem. 7/
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In the end there is only the boot and the face. Black faces are more often stepped on, but a white face does not redeem the boot. 8/
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Categories can clarify where to direct our attention. They cannot turn abuse into justice. 9/
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St. Rev ☯️ 🏴 😻 Retweeted St. Rev ☯️ 🏴 😻
In conclusion: https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/826798458002690049 … 10/10
St. Rev ☯️ 🏴 😻 added,
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.