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Take 2 minutes to listen to Harry Belafonte in 1963 reflect on the prospects for racial justice in the US. This was 57 years ago. And some people, whose name
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I know several such white voters for whom this is 100% true.https://twitter.com/mharrisperry/status/1299317720849289218 I talked about this dynamic in this June thread.https://twitter.com/sethcotlar/status/1277106596099710978 Here is the sa
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There’s a distinctive way that right wingers broach issues of race that is captured well in this scene from The Plot Against America. The point is not to get “the
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Interesting article by Douthat. Strange that of his three scenarios, the one with, IMHO, about a 1% chance of happening is the one he put first.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/22/opinion/sunday/trump-republican-party.html The phrase “the
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I've had this conversation dozens of times with white friends and colleagues. It is, I would argue, one of the major epistemological fault lines in our political culture today. tl;dr--structures/systems
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This is spot on. Post-war US conservatism's allegiance to "liberal democracy" was never as strong as many of conservatism's intellectual defenders claim it was.https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/27/opinion/anne-applebaum-twil
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The conservative freak out about the 1619 Project (of which Cotton is just the latest example) is not about history. It's about memory; about what parts of the nation's past
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Fence at Federal Center tonight has been decorated with flowers. #fuckfeds Memorial honoring black lives lost to racial injustice. Grandma and grandpa for BLM. Wall of vets getting preparing
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We really need to have a conversation about how the rhetoric of "free speech and the marketplace of ideas" has been used to as a cynical cover by far right
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Threadhttps://twitter.com/jnthnwwlsn/status/1285210635140292608 When a political party deploys disapproval (fading into outright hatred) of a racialized "other" in its messaging to voters, it legitimizes and encourages the growth
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Because the American right has made itself so unappealing to the majority of young people, it has only been able to reproduce itself by creating a massive infrastructure that elevates
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The South Dakota crowd really Goebbeled this up. I can't stress enough how angry and reactionary this speech is, on a day that celebrates the violent, statue-destroying revolution that birthed
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