#Abolitionists

truly hate to think about tumblr seriously. but thinking about how tumblr had a lot of attempts to resolve abuse, csa, and harm without the legal system but its interesting
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Beware of leftist orgs raising money for calls to action that never come to fruition beyond Tweetstorms.If you use graphic images depicting Black radicals to promote your fundraiser, your organization
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The first major activist movement in the US after independence were the Abolitionists & I wonder sometimes if they set the tone for US activism - it's peculiar characteristic puritanism
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The best argument I have for voting for Biden: I know it seems bad that if Biden wins liberals go “back to sleep” but tbh we need liberals out of
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I don't know if this is the first time a country funded the civil war against itself (probably not), but I really do think we no longer need to pay
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Unpopular opinion - The caricature of Victorian women as frigid sex-hating prudes is a lingering backlash to the intersectional anti-rape movements started by Victorian women.Thread: Abolitionists were among the most
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Friends, calling for criminal charges against the white woman who called the cops flies in the face of decades of Black and WOC feminist anti-violence work. What I know for
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People who are actually “cancelled” don’t get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets.This has been a public service announcement. The term “cancel culture” comes from entitlement - as
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Dr. Angela Davis on the role of the trans and non-binary communities in the fight for the feminist abolition she advocates for: “The feminism I’m referring to does not respect
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Jesse James & Donald Trump: A thread.Trump's reelection slogans come straight from the long history of white supremacy:1) "Law & Order"2) "Radical left governors & mayors"3) "Protect the suburbs [fro
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when angela davis encouraged us to imagine justice outside of retributive justice, saying that the impulse towards vengeance is a state impulse, and that we can and should imagine justice
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Lewis Latimer, the black inventor Biden’s presumably referring to, is credited with creating an improved filament — as well as successfully testifying that Edison’s patents on the first practical lightbulbs
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1/ I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have
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It’s plain as day that exponentially more folx are tweeting our disdain of Sen. Harris than Biden. Not saying we’re wrong, but a lot of us didn’t keep that same
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1/ Some people only want to talk about what America has done right, and have no interest in addressing the dark shadows of slavery, genocide of Native Americans, and instances
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Something I think maybe reformers aren’t seeing (?) is that I (and other abolitionists, presumably) hold the positions i do because the state and carceral system literally cannot fulfill the
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