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my general feeling about this stuff is that if black kids can experience racism at young ages then white kids can learn about it
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and another thing! why is there an NAACP but no NAAWP? sounds like racism to me pic.twitter.com/FwtKbcovsl
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to me the most important background to have for reading this “review” is that the author once angrily disputed the use of “plunder” to describe american racism pic.twitter.com/cjKtimYoyS
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i don’t know, seems like “do as much violent racism as possible” would be the case for plenty of people under a real-life purge scenario. sorry if this is boring pic.twitter.com/SKN8wR5l4a
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having a hard time understanding this tweet as anything other than anti-black racism. pic.twitter.com/xzhExhG1lK
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today in extremely petty racism https://amp.beaconjournal.com/amp/7508217002?__twitter_impression=true …
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“Reeves’ declaration that systemic racism does not exist in the country came on the heels of a breakdown in the capital city’s water system, which left residents of the 80%-Black city without drinkable running water for a month between February & March.” https://www.mississippifreepress.org/11705/systemic-racism-built-mississippi-gov-reeves-says-it-doesnt-exist/ …
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the president of the united states has been explicitly running on keeping america’s suburbs as segregated as possible and this jabroni thinks the real source of modern racism is the “woke left” https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/america-return-to-racism/ …
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“Active racism, exclusion, & environmental injustice have systematically destroyed or buried whole sections of Black history. Many of those who gripe about “erasing history” of Confederate monuments...have no idea how much history has already been erased.” https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/05/putting-black-history-back-record/618747/ …
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racism aside this seems like it might be a tactical misstep, since of the two, Warnock’s persona seems much more defined than Ossof’s. https://twitter.com/AsteadWesley/status/1336108944159354880 …
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a reminder that john roberts has been arguing "racism isn't a real problem" since the 1980s at least https://twitter.com/mjs_DC/status/1312023909097758723 …
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the function of racism is to naturalize the expropriation and exploitation of the designated “racial” other https://twitter.com/AdamHSays/status/1396798159179984896 …
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people are dunking on this tweet but it’s the next one that’s really incredible, since Shapiro points to Obama’s view that racism has marred the American project from the start as evidence of his “disdain” for the “founding values embedded” in the Constitution https://twitter.com/benshapiro/status/1296293932528091136 …
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file this under “not shocking but still wild.” familial relations, blood or otherwise, have never been inoculation against racism (see: american slavery, history of) but it is still wild to see it play out on an individual level.
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also this thread is a good example of why it is important for analytical reasons to be able to understand race/racism as both an interpersonal and structural force
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also, a focus on collective racial violence helps frame an understanding of racism as tied to questions of labor and capital.
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I specify “white” Christians only because conservative Christians within Black faith traditions do not seem to have the same difficulty with questions of racism and collective responsibility
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None of this stuff is actual critical race theory, but it does deal with ideas about racism and the structure of American society that has been deemed “critical race theory” by right-wing propagandists.
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anyway a fun thing is when dreher was in his twenties, in 1991, a third of the voters in his home parish — in a louisiana that, by his account, had made real progress on racism — voted for david duke for governor.
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1) I am wary of making direct historical comparisons for the simple reason that events are contingent. Jim Crow wasn’t the product of some transhistorical racism; it emerged out of the particular conditions of the South in the last decades of the 19th century...
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