I've been down for the count with mononucleosis but several of you tagged me to this thread and I shall oblige you and problematize all of these things. Here we go. https://twitter.com/EricRWeinstein/status/1306704446114603008

A) Air Conditioners are extremely racist. They are most necessary where? In the former Confederacy, that's where. There for decades they served as a sharp dividing line between white and Black, with whites affording them and Blacks sweating in their houses, reminding them (cont)

of slavery and being forced to work outdoors. Further, they now serve to reify white dominance over nature and enable whites to decline responsibility for their guilt in climate change by sitting inside, cool, pretending the problem, mostly borne by POC, doesn't exist. Sick!

B) Haskell programming language. This is so obviously racist it's hardly worth a tweet. Buncha privileged cis white males in the sexist hellpit of STEM inventing a new language that only similarly privileged people can access and then deciding it's a mark of "worth" in the (cont)

marketplace to have skills in this made-up white dude bullshit. Disgusting and problematic AF. C) Igloos. Truly, only a privileged white male like @EricRWeinstein could even ask such a gross question. Igloos are a sustainable, green form of housing put in imminent danger (cont)

by western capitalist imperialism, melting the whole goddamn planet and forcing the noble brown people who live in igloos to have to adopt unsustainable housing methods. To say nothing of the cultural appropriation in using igloo as a metaphor for other things. Stay in your lane!

D) Pickles. Phallic shaped delicacies that are enjoyed where? At barbecues held by white men who are privileged enough to own grills to use in their backyards (that they shouldn't own, nobody should own land) to assert toxic masculinity over murdered animals as they assert (cont)

patriarchal dominance over their wives and children. Gross, gross, gross. And that's before we even get near the disgusting racism of all the exploited undocumented workers who do the actual work in the fields. E) Pants. Pants are a symbol of prostate-havers and the ones (cont)

assigned male at birth who identify with masculinity use them in a toxic manner. No purses for them, oh no! They carry their shit in their pockets. And what is the metaphor for being in charge? Wearing the pants. This is used as a weapon of misogyny in any heteronormative (cont)

family to ask who's the most masculine or male-like, reifying patriarchy, domination, and historical patterns of misogynist oppression. This is racist in particular against the many woman-headed families of color. In conclusion, all of these things are problematic and racist AF.

I’m glad you all enjoy the fruits of my three mandatory diversity classes. At least the debt is good for something.