#Tropes

Historians can do rigorous military or political history without endorsing the cause(s) for which historical actors fought. In fact, failure to practice judicious interpretation of evidence is partly how we
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I just read the summary for a popular YA where the heroine is from a (magical) marginalized group and her love interest is part of state sponsored police force that
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"I think she's frozen" "in the eyes of every editor in the world I was my ethnicity" "any journalist could go to Pakistan and claim they had breakfast with terrorists
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I don't know what he's trying to say here, but the issue of gender inequality is about an oppressive class system (the patriarchy). When you belong to an oppressive class,
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It is still not clear to me what these people actually want? This entire letter just sounds like prominent figures whining about people criticizing them online.https://twitter.com/MattWelch/status/1280489578336567297 Like, what is their
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The conditions facing Black America, including gun violence, are ALL DIRECTLY TIED TO THE WHITE SUPREMACIST SYSTEM. Stop trying to separate these things. This whole narrative about how we need
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While I'm waiting for my #RevPit subs to come in, how about a thread on the dreaded synopsis. I think a lot of the concern over the synopsis comes from
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“No black or other non-white musicians will be surprised by this.”No comment.Question: do we laugh or cry?https://twitter.com/thewiremagazine/status/1280145285516230656 Policing the borders of ‘experimental sound and music.’https://
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If you were wondering why it is so important for Democrats to shed Neoliberals from their leadership, @CassSunstein is exhibit A. In this nutty editorial, he actively argues that raising
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Started watching The Expanse, finally. Considering live tweeting itthe intro's nice First five minutes: Already impressed with the zero G hair flowing.Magnetic boots!aaaaaand now we've tied the hair back to
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I've been following the conversations about American Dirt and paying particular attention to the issue of bias (implicit or otherwise) that is so pervasive in the publishing industry. What's really
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This is a pretty common thought process among those on the centre/left when confronted with the need to cater to identity, but regrettably I feel it's a thoroughly wrong one.https://twitter.com/carolinejmolloy/status/1390216821291245572
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The Guardian is the paper of record for #LabourAntisemitism. How better to portray the issue of Corbyn's expulsion than in a classically Christian antisemitic reworking of the Jewish Salome slaying
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I've been thinking for a while that one of the problems with disability rep in media is that abled people are a) used to traditional disability narratives and b) unfamiliar
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Dedicated to all "Centre of Right" fellas who instantly jumped into the fray with assorted leftists/communists/radicals and demonized BHU students crying "Bigotry", "Casteism", "Conservatism". "(__)FAILAUG
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People getting scared while reading the first 6 chapters of Spawn (a thread) In case you’re not aware, Spawn was initially created as a short horror story meant to only
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