#Discourse

Beth Jellicoe

ZoziInTheMetro

omg not the "change your vocab by finding other words for stupid people" discourse... please... I'm so tired... "alternatives for calling someone an idiot :)"what do you think an idiot

Scott Greenberg

ScottElliotG

A quick thread, to elaborate a bit on this tweet:https://twitter.com/ScottElliotG/status/1357376922515341312 The U.S. welfare state is far from perfect. There are two ways that lawmakers could improve it:(1) Reforming existing programs

Kirsty Rolfe

avoiding_bears

I am not going to get involved in Discourse but... how do you not know about research assistants in academia and also can people stop being like postdocs only do

Thomas Bolin

Scaevola67

1. If by "Humanities," we mean simply "non-STEM curriculum," then of course they will be of little help in addressing the social and civic crisis we are in right now,

emmet f. cameron

emlfc

I think there’s a conversation to be had about (perceived as) straight authors *being centred* by the publishing industry while also being aware that that’s not purely a choice that

🇧🇧 Ethereal Bisexual Chanda Prescod-Weinstein

IBJIYONGI

So interesting to read about the origin of the phrase "white skin privilege" and note the enormous distance between what Theodore Allen meant & what people using "white privilege" mean

Vishal Ganesan

vjgtweets

An excellent point by @esaagar. Opposing hindutva is one thing, but treating it as a lunatic fringe is simply inaccurate, and a rhetorical ploy often used to justify reductive, bigoted

NAOMI SHAMBLES

LOUIS_via_ROMA

interesting how “cancel culture” originated from black Twitter as a way to have discourse & hold racists accountable ( starting point: Has Justine Landed ) & now whites people have

Micah Kenfield

GreenBureaucrat

November's been a banner month for questionable journalistic decisions, but running "We’re past the point of no return on global warming" as a headline has to be closing in on

Mangy Jay

magi_jay

About House Leadership: I don't think all progressives completely realize this, but they're unlikely to get someone better for their interests than Pelosi as Speaker. She is both personally quite

jules rylan ✡︎

radiantbutch

i’ve taken almost a week off of this site after what happened to me, and i feel prepared to express some of the pain i’ve been in and the honest

Clare O Connor

ClareOC_

I have a small following on here, but if a huge amount of people from an extremely vulnerable community told me they were hurt by something I did, I would

Enrico Dandolo

EnricoDandolo2

There’s at least three elements, though.1. I dislike this content.2. This content shouldn’t exist. 3. Society should take active steps to block content I don’t like.https://twitter.com/jbarro/status/1281438946682167297 Those who belie

Michael Hobbes

RottenInDenmark

Seeing a lot of empty hypocrisy takes along the lines of, "I guess libs only like protests when they're for causes they agree with" and, um, yes. It's actually fine

joshua ilon

cool___josh

That's Hercules Mulligan. I know Hamilton discourse is so three weeks ago, but I want to gripe very quickly about this asshole and why his portrayal is the worst part

Zeeshan Aleem

ZeeshanAleem

This is, as everyone is saying, an exceptional thread and also a beautifully written one. A few thoughts.One is that while @Millicentsomer's argument is piercing when it comes to discourse

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