This analysis is the inevitable result of what happens when an all-white editorial team publishes something about climate change. smdh.https://twitter.com/thebafflermag/status/833667537820905472 …
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NEWS FLASH: If you're writing about inequity and climate change and you *only* quote and interview white people, you're doing it wrong.
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Penny's theory is: poor will suffer the consequences of climate change. Umm. It's people of color. You really did class over race... again.
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But what I'm especially offended by is this idea that people have a "puritan" culture here. What in the entire fuck?
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Or this idea that "our parents" were oddly calm about the threat of apocalypse. WHOSE parents? Not parents of color, I'll tell you that.
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As an indigenous person, I *been* concerned about climate change. We been concerned about it for a very long time.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VB2TQqqMWkI …
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Talk to indigenous peoples anywhere on the planet. Trust me, they been concerned with climate change for generations.
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It's offensive to shell this kind of analysis out in 2017. In fact, it's dangerous—it obscures who's being harmed. "savage confiscation" wtf
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@thebafflermag actually had poc on staff, they'd probably flag the fact that Laurie Penny is about to publish something really offensive. -
That's part of what's so painful about the Trump era: all-white editorial teams aren't telling the full the story or analysis.
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What "deadly" consequences are they dealing with?
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