#Racial

Venkatesh Rao

vgr

You know that line about judging people by their actions rather than their words? What about people whose only non-trivial output is words? (assume their actions are boringly uncontroversial, like

Seaver Wang

wang_seaver

A sentiment I’ve seen from some is: “Why correct people who overexaggerate climate impacts? It’s an emergency. The message should be extreme to motivate more action.”Unfortunately, I feel doomism can

Sridhar Jeripothula.

Sridhar_Jeri

Compilation of famous quotes of Dr. Ambedkar from his "ANNIHILATION OF CASTE" if you not yet read, please do read. Let we spend this quarantine by reading Dr. Ambedkar rather

Thomas M Keck

tmksyracuse

Joshua Braver is out with a thoughtful new paper on history of Court-packing in US. I highly recommend, though I remain unpersuaded by its central thesishttps://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3483927 Braver defines Court-packing as

Keiko

keikoinboston

1. Always amazing to watch the media run with misleading narratives about people shot by police.Because everything has to be oversimplified, one person must be “good” and one must be

Joy-Ann 😷Reid

JoyAnnReid

Bolstering the point I attempted to make tonight on @allinwithchris. For white Americans it is axiomatic that they are citizens; that in America: “every (European) man a king! Liberty is

AQ

Evollaqi

Reading about thinkers like Olympe de Gouges makes me wonder whether someone committed to the moral intuitions prevalent today really needs to invoke a mysterious notion of 'moral progress' -

NDI Democracy and Technology Team

NDItech

Rising authoritarianism is harnessing online campaigns to threaten democracy globally. @NDI’s @ipolitico surveyed these challenges and potential solutions at the #FutureOfDemocracy conference. Some highlights (thread ): COVID, the struggl

LSHS DEMOCRATS

lshsDems

2020 presidential debate: in tweets (a thread) First topic is the Supreme Court: Biden highlights the problems that Trump’s nominee Amy Coney Barrett would bring to the country if she

Steve Bloomfield

BloomfieldSJ

Anyone who thinks the centre-left needs to “get a handle on immigration” in order to defeat the rise of the far-right clearly hasn’t heard of New Labour. Let's take a

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

The politicization of online fandoms is always weird. Most fandoms (usually) have no intrinsic political valence, and indeed, a common strong affinity for an apolitical genre can make strange allies,

Evan Hill

evanhill

After a federal task force killed the self-described antifa activist Michael Reinoehl on Sept. 3, President Trump praised it as “retribution.” Our new investigation raises doubts about whether officers made

☠️AnonymousComrade☠️

anonymouscommie

The following exposé is brought to you by the Anonymous Comrades Collective in conjunction with @utah161 and @161partisan Let us start with a few acronyms that are relevant to the

Wokal Distance

wokal_distance

1/CHECK YOUR WHITE PRIVILEGE!!!The idea of "White Privilege" is everywhere...and it's NOT what you think. So, let's talk about it:A THREAD 2/The idea of white privilege has spread through society

Umbereen S. Nehal, MD, MPH

usnehal

Both/and. The issues of manipulation of our reality is true. That said, I have seen some of the most educated and supposedly intelligent so-called skeptics engage in high school types

Bobby D.

Ancient0History

Had a dream last night that I was trying to teach a college class about Lovecraft's racism. One of the students raised a hand and asked why there was a