Disappointed that @MotherJones is reporting that Canada did a cool headed job of covering today's shooting. It didn't. It was deeply racist.
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Journalists like
@globeandmail's@curryb and@OttawaCitizen's@davidreevely tweeted racist and unverfied descriptions of the shooter.1 reply 11 retweets 1 like -
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@globeandmail's@curryb tweeting that the shooter looked aboriginal means NOTHING. Aboriginal peoples come in all colors.1 reply 6 retweets 0 likes -
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And, to be clear, that
@curryb thinks all aboriginal peoples all look one way is deeply anti-black.2 replies 6 retweets 1 like -
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@OttawaCitizen's@davidreevely tweeting that the shooter looked South American means NOTHING. South Americans come in all colors.2 replies 8 retweets 6 likes -
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And, to be clear, that
@davidreevely thinks all South Americans all look one way is deeply anti-black.1 reply 6 retweets 1 like -
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And these tweets are coming from a Guarani from South America. So I can speak with some authority here about what we look like.
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I'm not even gonna touch the way Canada illustrated its profound Islamophobia today. For that, go to
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@MotherJones ignoring the racist ways in which Canadian media was explicitly racist fits in with the US's myth-making about our neighbor.1 reply 9 retweets 6 likes -
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Canada is cast by white people in the U.S. to be an anti-racist heaven. It's not. If you listened to Canadians of color, you'd know that.
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That white people in the US think Canadians did a good job covering today's shooting indicates how invested they are in white supremacy.
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