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    1. Marco Rogers‏ @polotek 28 Oct 2016
      Replying to @polotek

      If Trump is headed beyond the pale, then Thiel wants to accelerate his journey and join him there. Thiel is not safe.

      1 reply 6 retweets 37 likes
    2. Marco Rogers‏ @polotek 28 Oct 2016
      Replying to @polotek

      All that I've said before. What I'm just realizing is that this argument from folks defending Thiel has always been disingenuous.

      1 reply 6 retweets 32 likes
    3. Marco Rogers‏ @polotek 28 Oct 2016
      Replying to @polotek

      These folks act like it's about "politics". But they know it's about safety. They're protecting their safety too. Their position of power.

      1 reply 14 retweets 53 likes
    4. Marco Rogers‏ @polotek 28 Oct 2016
      Replying to @polotek

      The argument goes "this is just about politics. Let's not go SO FAR as to FIRE PEOPLE!" Because that's their boogeyman. Losing their spot.

      2 replies 17 retweets 47 likes
    5. Marco Rogers‏ @polotek 28 Oct 2016
      Replying to @polotek

      To the privileged, white dudes in particular, the only mob that comes for them is the McCarthy mob. That's the only time they feel unsafe.

      4 replies 27 retweets 80 likes
    6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @polotek

      this thread is wonderful. A little extra color: as a religious minority (Jewish), I have often felt unsafe. 1/

      1 reply 5 retweets 23 likes
    7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      I still vividly remember how I felt when groups of teenagers yelled racial slurs at me as a kid while throwing bottles or rocks 2/

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    8. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      it's a pale shadow of what others have felt, and it still catches me off guard when anything similar happens as an adult. 3/

      1 reply 0 retweets 8 likes
    9. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      Yehuda Katz  🥨 Retweeted Nick Corasaniti

      but it's why stuff like https://twitter.com/NYTnickc/status/792510299232284672 … chills me to the bone. If you've never felt the fear of being attacked this way 4/

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      Guy chants "Jew-S-A" in front of press pen pic.twitter.com/2yqgA6dD4k
      1 reply 2 retweets 9 likes
    10. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      you are privileged, and you may well think Twitter "mobs" are at the top of our list of problems to fix. But the group of people 5/

      1 reply 2 retweets 7 likes
      Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
      Replying to @wycats @polotek

      who has felt the sting of true unsafety caused by a lack of privilege is large and stand together in this election. 6/

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        2. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          however we made progress, or whether progress is still to come, there is a deep and abiding connection among everyone who has 7/

          1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
        3. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          ever been bullied or made to feel unsafe because of their lack of status or privilege, and Trump has brought it to the fore. 8/

          1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
        4. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          we stand together, all of us, because we have experienced the effects of Trump's worldview, and can't afford to go backwards. 9/

          1 reply 1 retweet 18 likes
        5. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          progress has been unfairly distributed unqually, but trump has reminded us all of how much we have to lose. He has united us. 10/10

          1 reply 0 retweets 10 likes
        6. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          sort of related: a big part, I think, of why jews tend to vote so liberal, is that the right's grievances feel bizarre, example: 1/

          3 replies 0 retweets 9 likes
        7. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          Fox has spent years ginning up this fake outrage about the "war on Christmas". I go to any store in Dec. in any liberal city 2/

          1 reply 0 retweets 7 likes
        8. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          & as a person not looking to shop for Christmas gifts it feels everywhere. Wall-to-wall. If I get lucky Hanukkah gets one shelf 3/

          2 replies 0 retweets 13 likes
        9. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          this is fine. Christians are a majority and people want to buy Christmas stuff. But hearing the right rage abt a War is surreal 4/

          2 replies 0 retweets 15 likes
        10. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          they're telling stores is that if a store wants to make me feel included by saying Happy Holidays it's a secular war on them 5/

          1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
        11. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          so here we have a religious majority bullying and threatening establishments using benign language to be more inclusive to *me* 6/

          1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
        12. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          and then these same people have the chutzpah to go on television and claim that they're the victims. 7/

          1 reply 1 retweet 19 likes
        13. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          in short, when you're out of a particular privilege, the panicked fear of losing it feels bizarre, surreal 8/

          1 reply 1 retweet 14 likes
        14. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          it's a visceral reminder of the ways (in this case relatively benign) systemic bias can cause ppl to feel they're under attack. 9/

          1 reply 0 retweets 11 likes
        15. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          and if you've felt it w/ War on Christmas, you see the same pattern with "PC", War on Guns, police brutality. 10/

          1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
        16. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          people who feel their privilege is under attack and in what they feel is self defense, attack those without privilege. 11/

          1 reply 6 retweets 27 likes
        17. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          once you've felt it in any context you can't unfeel it, and that empathy creates electoral solidarity. 12/

          1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
        18. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          I am deeply sad about how difficult it has been for Jews to get this basic point across. We're privileged in so many ways, but 13/

          1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
        19. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          still a religious minority, experiencing a steady drumbeat of minor impacts of that status. We know how it feels in the small 14/

          1 reply 1 retweet 6 likes
        20. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          and can't help be horrified by all of the ways that it happens to other minorities in the large (police executions!) 15/

          1 reply 1 retweet 10 likes
        21. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          I can't speak for all Jews of course, but it's not a coincidence that Jews are a highly liberal voting block, unpersuaded by 16/

          2 replies 0 retweets 11 likes
        22. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          the demonization attacks used against people on food stamps. Once you've felt the phony outrage in defense of privilege 17/

          1 reply 0 retweets 15 likes
        23. Yehuda Katz  🥨‏Verified account @wycats 30 Oct 2016
          Replying to @wycats @polotek

          personally, even in a small way, it doesn't work that well against other groups. We stand together in solidarity. 18/18

          2 replies 1 retweet 23 likes
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