Imagine a world in which all the mainstream publications were filled with laments from socialists complaining about how they are marginalized by mainstream publications. 1
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Replying to @nberlat
So. I feel some kind of way about your diversity/representation claims here. I’m sure you didn’t mean to make this about nearly all white writers but... it’s ironic that you’re missing the way that poc are so underrepresented they’re hardly in your thread.
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Replying to @aurabogado
I talk about the overlap further down! (though maybe still not enough?)
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Replying to @nberlat
Ah, I must have missed that. Noticed Blow but no others in several tweets. I think I understand your broader point, but if the solution is more white writers (of a certain leaning), then the problem itself might need a reframe.
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Replying to @aurabogado
Yeah...I think that being willing to hire more radical writers would mean more POC writers, and a specific commitment to anti-racist hiring practices would also mean you'd have more left views. I think they go together...
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Replying to @nberlat @aurabogado
But also (sorry to butt in) I think it would also help reframe a lot of these stagnant left/right debates that ignore huge swaths of the conversation. There are major issues that simply do not get discussed because we keep fighting about college protests or whatever.
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Replying to @Crommunist @aurabogado
I don't think it's an accident that Coates, Serwer, and Kendi are probably the furthest left writers at these mainstream pubs (though I may be missing someone.) (also not an accident that they're all men, I'd say. Almost no WOC get those positions.)
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Replying to @nberlat
Sure. I guess I'm trying to push back on the "left/right" axis, as its current framing automatically centres the white writers that dominate the political discourse. I think bringing in more writers of colour takes us toward more interesting/varied axes.
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Replying to @Crommunist @nberlat
If you're for Puerto Rican statehood, are you "left" or "right"? If you're for Indigenous sovereignty? If you're for making Spanish an official government language? There are lots of issues that operate outside conventional understandings of the "left" and "right" dichotomy
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All of this. Women of color, esp black/latina/native women, aren’t seen as intellectuals no matter the leaning. It’s complicated but that’s also why it’s worth thinking about...
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