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Abundant tweets about civil liberties & national security. "Has a longer memory than an elephant & keeps more records than Jim Comey.” Legendary potty mouth.

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    1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HumorlessKev @owenrumney @Travisorama

      And you have been using racially charged language unthinkingly, and are too embarrassed to think it through now.

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    2. Petrel‏ @burevestnik3 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @HumorlessKev and

      You're just making stuff up. The term is not 'racially charged language' - that's total nonsense.

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    3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @burevestnik3 @HumorlessKev and

      It is a historic term that white AMericans used to dismiss Russian criticisms of US race relations. The term depended on white people not understanding that our persecution of blacks really was a political act, just like persecuting dissidents.

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    4. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @HumorlessKev and

      So, yes, by using it, you are adopting the viewpoint that lynching black people was not a political act.

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    5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @HumorlessKev @owenrumney @Travisorama

      No. You do realize there's a ton of language Americans use all the time w/o realizing the racist subtext out of which the language arises?

      2 replies 0 retweets 1 like
    6. Petrel‏ @burevestnik3 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @HumorlessKev and

      whataboutism is not an example of this

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    7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @burevestnik3 @HumorlessKev and

      You're right. When Russians raised lynchings to dismiss US criticism and Americans blew that off bc lynchings were acceptable that wasn't racist at all.

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    8. Foe To Princes  🐰‏ @ifthedevilisix 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @emptywheel @HumorlessKev and

      That doesn't mean that every invocation of this concept is inherently racist. What are you trying to pull here?

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      emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
      Replying to @ifthedevilisix @HumorlessKev and

      I'm trying to get people to realize that the historic evolution of the term involves white people being perfectly okay with lynching.

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        1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @ifthedevilisix and

          It's also worth considering that if we had actually SOLVED the race problem the Soviet Russians harped on, we wouldn't have Trump.

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        2. Foe To Princes  🐰‏ @ifthedevilisix 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @HumorlessKev and

          Ok, so let's call it something else: Deliberate deflection. You're using it right now to deflect from the FBI Assad story.

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        1. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @HumorlessKev @ifthedevilisix and

          Are you really going to fill up my TL proving you can't read all afternoon? If so I'll just block you, but maybe you should try to read instead?

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        3. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @HumorlessKev @ifthedevilisix and

          Oh, now you admit you can't click a link. Sorry. gotta block you now for littering the TL.

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        1. GhostTrace‏ @owenrumney 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @ifthedevilisix and

          OK let's say we accept that. Now please finish the story of Assad and the FBI informant.

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        2. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @owenrumney @ifthedevilisix and

          Nah. I like laughing at how Bernie talks about shit he doesn't know about.

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        3. GhostTrace‏ @owenrumney 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @ifthedevilisix and

          You totally made it up didn't you

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        4. Foe To Princes  🐰‏ @ifthedevilisix 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @owenrumney @emptywheel and

          Let's not devolve into bickering. I'm genuinely curious about what she's talking about. What are you talking about, @emptywheel?

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        5. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @ifthedevilisix @owenrumney and

          We've already devolved there. Bernie is pretty much an ass any time he enters my TL and then gets cranky when I don't do his bidding on order.

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        6. Foe To Princes  🐰‏ @ifthedevilisix 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @owenrumney and

          Let's start over, then. What are you referring to with "FBI/Assad" comment?

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        7. emptywheel‏ @emptywheel 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @ifthedevilisix @owenrumney and

          HIt me up sometime Bernie's not littering my TL. Happy to share it with you.

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        8. Foe To Princes  🐰‏ @ifthedevilisix 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @owenrumney and

          Ok

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        1. Petrel‏ @burevestnik3 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @ifthedevilisix and

          You keep asserting that, even though it's not true. Saying something over and over doesn't make it true. I keep telling Trump that, but he doesn't listen.

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        1. Foe To Princes  🐰‏ @ifthedevilisix 28 Nov 2017
          Replying to @emptywheel @HumorlessKev and

          This argument doesn't make sense to me.

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