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Joe Truss
trussleadership
Whiteness (a thread) Whiteness is absoluteWhiteness is “invisible”Whiteness is ubiquitous I’m tired of whiteness. Whiteness is not synonymous with white people but white people benefit from whiteness. We worked so
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Jason Okundaye
jasebyjason
Let’s retire the statement “pro-black is not anti-white” because it is useless and inaccurate. Race is a product of capitalism and the existence of whiteness is dependent on the subjugation
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Elle M. (they/them)
ellle_em
I am a queer, disabled white person. While I may face marginalization based on being queer & disabled I am still white. My whiteness is not overwritten by being queer/disabled.
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Jorge J Rodríguez V
JJRodV
I go back and forth on whether “whiteness studies” is an important field that helps us deconstruct and analyze how whiteness functions or whether “whiteness studies” is just an academic
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✨lesbian trophy wife✨
mxnrisa
i’ve been trying to say this for longest and people don’t understand. whiteness is a construct meaning it doesn’t necessitate being passed linearly. looking white means society treats you as
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Une année sans lumière
raspberryella
are allies actually claiming allyship fatigue ...? we need to be talking about this differently. i can imagine why allies are fatigued — there is no place within whiteness for
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DEFUND & ABOLISH POLICE, REFUND OUR COMMUNITIES
BreeNewsome
People defend policing because it’s a pillar of white supremacy and they are emotionally, psychologically and/or financially invested in preserving it. There are Black people who are invested in preserving
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David Dennis Jr.
DavidDTSS
so it's pretty clear to me that all this reopening stuff is all about white people feeling deprived of their believed God-given right to be served. They need to go
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Jo Luehmann
JoLuehmann
We were told we couldn’t be good on our own but God could make us good if we just accepted Jesus. Being perceived as not good meant we didn’t have
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Jen Schneider
JenDSchneider
One of the great ironies with this legislation is that critical race theory essentially predicts it. CRT argues that whiteness will do almost anything to defend itself against critique, that
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wikipedia brown demands #MoreThanDiversity
eveewing
Seeing this @CJR joint circulating...opinions vary & i understand journalists may feel differently, but I’ve said it before & I’ll say it again— imho this is the wrong approach. “White”
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Jeremy Price
jeremyfprice
It never ceases to amaze me how scared some people are of admitting they're white.Whiteness is totalizing, surely, but one of the keys to dismantling whiteness is to recognize the
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Marcos Gonsalez
MarcosSGonsalez
2nd year in grad school I promised myself I’d stop talking about “racism” & opt for terms like “white supremacy” “affective whiteness” in academic situations. convos definitely pivoted, & the
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Vijay Ramjattan
Vijay_Ramjattan
In this thread, I'll live tweet some noteworthy points from"Worth the Risk: Decoding and Decentering Whiteness in English Language Teaching."An @iatefl talk by @JPBGerald! .@JPBGerald: There's a growing literature on
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James Lindsay, man of internet swagger
ConceptualJames
In the hopefully unlikely event that Bad White Lady kills herself, we'll hear this:She did it to recenter whiteness. The real issue in this case is racist police violence killing
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WalkingInAustin
WalkingInAustin
I mention my whiteness a lot. I'm certainly not proud of it.I mention it because occasionally I get misidentified as someone w/Indigenous heritage.It speaks volumes of how many white people
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