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As I& #39;ve been saying privately, a lot of POC have to worry about and prepare for two related but discrete things: the virus itself; and white panic
White panic: in the UK, you can be detained by the police on suspicion of being infected with coronavirus. Wonder which communities might be impacted the most https://twitter.com/steven_swinford/status/1238589554342461440">https://twitter.com/steven_sw...
White panic: hoarding and profiteering, reported with great sympathy https://twitter.com/erichaywood/status/1238820094194495488">https://twitter.com/erichaywo...
White panic: the same news organizations consistently linking sickness with Muslim, Asian, other populations https://twitter.com/sarahkendzior/status/1238822282841198593">https://twitter.com/sarahkend...
White panic (thread): stores serving poor and non-white communities being cleared out by those who have access to transportation, leaving regulars high and dry https://twitter.com/jenetallday/status/1238828962370875398">https://twitter.com/jenetalld...
Point is: to be safe, you need to know all of your threat vectors. Your news sites won& #39;t talk about race explicitly, so I guess we have to
Here comes the white panic legislated fascism https://twitter.com/timkmak/status/1241413073761689602">https://twitter.com/timkmak/s...
White panic: introduce massive risk so that white people can pretend to feel "safer" from people to whom they pose more danger than vice versa https://twitter.com/nkjemisin/status/1256013064517955585">https://twitter.com/nkjemisin...
