#Oppression

live-tweet thread of the gish zoom i don’t know what live tweeting entails i’ve never done this before so you get what you get i’m assuming most of you are
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The problem w/ "antifa is just as violent or even worse than Nazis" narrative is that it implies Nazis attacking poc isn't violence. If Nazis attacking poc was viewed as
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https://www.aei.org/articles/the-2011-nobel-prize-and-the-debate-over-jewish-iq/Extravagant success of Ashkenazi #Jews in wide range of intellectual domains serves as solid refutation to already exhausted #woke narrative of oppression, victimhood, &a
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This is important: @cdcgov came out with a report in 2018 that showed that 54% of Americans who died by suicide between 1999-2016 did not have a known mental health
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Every time that 'why didn't you go to HR' post shows up on my timeline I respond in my head 'because HR was the abuser' (Note: this story is
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Someone (actually, like 30 people in the last hour or two) told me they have to sit through an antiracist/diversity training for work tomorrow and asked for advice. Here's something
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Been thinking a lot lately about the construction of disability along lines of in/visibility to the medical gaze and I figure I may as well compile these fragmentary thoughts into
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The notion of “Ethical AI” has been leveraged by #bigtech to push for voluntary "AI Principles" over government regulation.But there are huge gaps in their programs that have very harmful,
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1/ Jericho is my hometown. This was my daily view of the Jordan Valley growing up from my grandparent’s house. The Barahmeh’s are one of the indigenous Jericho clans and
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The @CPC_HQ’s new leader is promoting a backwards foreign policy agenda which would violate principles of human rights and int’l law. @ErinOTooleMP wants Canada to increase support for Israeli and
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If you're a white cis male scientist and you think objectivity, rationality and universality are in danger because you see people fighting against being oppressed and misrepresented in research and
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This is true! Something that I, as an academic linguist, wish everyone knew: linguists use ‘grammar’ in a different meaning than what they told you ‘grammar’ meant in school. Here
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https://twitter.com/BenjaminNorton/status/1280869217429073920 Orwell is a figure who managed to carve out a much-needed niche of being anti-fascist, anti-imperialist, and anti-Communist simultaneously. Orwell perceived Stalinism to be a neg
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In which I focus on how black nationalism and white nationalism are often falsely equivocated, due to implicit reliance on a faulty and often America-centered definition of nationalism -- one
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Sooo... D&D's recent statement on their plans for diversity and depictions of race.TL;DR here. I support the promise of diversity, inclusion, and community, but I highly doubt that Wizards is
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ON WHO NEEDS TO LEARN MATHEMATICS: A THREAD. The pic features a quote from RG, one of the most prominent proponents of changing mathematical education. Though she has no degrees
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