#Whiteness

Please stop referring to Israel as The Jewish Homeland. Most Jews cannot trace their roots back to the area. It’s a settler colony that was conceived of in the 19th
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"I felt threatened" and "he resisted" and "she did not comply" and "he matched the description" and "I was afraid for my life" are modern-day code words that give white
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thread of resources for white people to educate themselves ab racism and racist/antiblack behaviors!! bc nobody owes you an education FIRST: this google doc!!! a masterlist of articles, books, podcasts,
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1. Since Nick Cannon is trending, let's talk about the roots of anti-Semitism in the Black community, and some of the disconnects that we have with our jewish brothers, sisters,
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Racial equality is what our politics are all about, folks. Our parties have become vehicles for this long-overdue conversation. When we pretend it’s just partisanship, we’re masking the real issue.
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Can we talk about one particular part from this exceptional piece of journalism by @kbeccaandrews? (Thread)https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2020/07/racism-university-mississippi-nickname-ole-miss-confederate-history-elma-meeks/ Our Chan
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This is finna be a thread on the pushback against White Fragility. As books on racism take over the bestseller lists, there’s inevitable debate about which books make it there
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By the way, Amy Cooper and Derek Chauvin are both Joe Biden's legacy.In 1994 Biden wrote a racist Crime Bill that disproportionately incarcerated black people. He actively worked to institutionalize
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That 17-year-old shooter and the Kenosha militias are precisely why the @nytimes running that Tom Cotton op-Ed promoting the use of “overwhelming force” to subdue protestors was so dangerous. Most
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Digital blackface is a thing. Not knowing about doesn't excuse it, and learning about it can help you recognize it and avoid it. Whiteness is uncomfortable to acknowledge and grapple
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Doing the right thing shouldn’t be transactional. We should oppose anti-black racism. Jews who say “if we don’t stand up for black lives we can’t expect solidarity in return” make
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What they don't teach you in j-school:So much of journalism is about compassion. Listening to people's stories of struggle + discrimination + having compassion/empathy but NOT pity. Being willing to
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On the topic of ‘patriotism’: Left wing notions of patriotism must be dispelled with. There is no form of patriotism that can be progressive because patriotism is inherently a right
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DO NOT TURN AWAYFor me, this image of an ASIAN cop turning his back on a WHITE cop as he murders a BLACK man symbolizes patently the anti-blackness that exists
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In light of the most recent controversy over the racist term 'Anglo-Saxon' I want to explain why it's important to have conversations about the existence of Black people, and wider
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Random thought: under settler-colonial regimes dispossession is always-already elimination (understood to both subsume genocide and be expansive beyond it), and elimination is always-already dispossession. The current theoretical turn by some
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