BUT one of the big underdiscussed aspects of all this is the use of academic/activist language that most people don't *really* get
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@kittykaraoke not skeptical that it exists at all. Skeptical that it's always the biggest explanatory factorThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@jessesingal It's probably worth acknowledging that those terms don't have parallel definitions -
@WordOfZac they don't. I guess my point is I think a lot of radical/academic language is fuzzy and oversimplified
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@kittykaraoke I guess what I'm saying is for Neta to say that "whiteness" explains crazy religious lady, or Deray to say "whiteness" 1/n -
@kittykaraoke explains the (black, as it turned out) on-air shooter, doesn't seem to me like a critical, nuanced way of viewing world 2/2
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@kittykaraoke Well things like redlining, the ways black people got locked out of suburbs in 1950s on, stuff like thatThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@kittykaraoke there were unofficial official policies among place among Detroit realtors to keep blacks out of suburbs, for exampleThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@kittykaraoke part of a bigger, centuries-long effort to do same that that has taken different forms throughoutThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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