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Ida Bae Wells
nhannahjones
This is dressed up bootstrapped-ism that maintains inequality by suggesting people can overcome systemic and structural racism if they simply tried harder. Giving a nod to those inequalities and then
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Yan Zhang
krzhang
Thread: We Already Have a Social Credit Scoretl;dr: (in the same way we have utility functions - by backsolving)Unpopular opinion that I actually believe: it’s dumb to make fun of
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Alyson Metzger
AlysonMetzger
Here's where all our money went. Over the last 30 years, the top 1 percent has added $21 trillion to their wealth while the bottom 50 percent has lost
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Hannah/Baystacks
giantbaystacks
Yesterday I was around more people than I have been for the past 2 1/2 months. I attended Cardiff’s #BlackLivesMatter protest because #WhiteSilenceIsViolence and it felt like the right
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Sarah Joseph
SarahIJoseph
A powerful @BBCNewsnight this evening with @maitlis #covid19 exposes the complexities & inequalities of our political, economic & social systems. The fault lines have been laid bare. Austerity didn’t just
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Agnes Odhiambo
AgnesOdhiambo
1.The Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Women in Africa, Lucy Asuagbor, has issued a statement raising concerns about violations of women's rights during the COVID-19 pandemic, and what govts
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Kit Yates
Kit_Yates_Maths
A short thread on vaccination data:Rate of vaccination is starting to pick up again after a dip earlier in April.It's still majority second doses being given to keep pace with
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Zedeck Siew
zedecksiew
Ask me about D&D + cultural appropriation and you get a hot take I'm sorryAlso, how many different ways can I say:" Focus on *end-goal* prioritises assuaging the consciences of
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hana riaz
hanariaz
Whenever I see the ‘Why?’ are people of colour disproportionately dying from COVID I see a scrambling for some pathological, biomedical explanation. quite frankly, like all patterns of health inequality,
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Chisomo Kalinga, PhD
MissChisomo
Some people on my timeline are a bit confused about the Karen debacle. So here’s a brief overview. “Karen” aka “Becky, Molly, Sharon or Susan” is a blanket term given
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Dr Duncan Robertson
Dr_D_Robertson
Vaccination progress is excellent - but it's worth noting there are disparities. It was good to hear in yesterday's Number 10 press conference that some of these disparities are being
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Chris Arnade 🐢
Chris_arnade
What has been happening over last 20 yrs or so, is the slow erosion of Public Trust, that weird invisible force that holds communities, societies, & nations together. But now
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Megan Phillips
meganphillips94
imagine knowing 1 in 3 children live in poverty and thinking ‘I’d like to teach them a lesson in dependency’ and not ‘I’d like them not to starve’ ?? #FreeSchoolMeals
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Everjoice Win
EverjoiceWin
It’s such a dif’cult being a Zimbabwean woman at this moment. We were told to wait until racism was eliminated, so that we could talk sexism. Ok. Independence came, we
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Omar Khan
omaromalleykhan
I am not 100% certain how to interpret higher rates of #COVID19 among BME ppl in the UK. On the one hand, it's quite surprising, given the much younger age
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Joe Thomas
joethomas73
#BlackLivesMatter If you watched this video and thought:But he was not complying with police!But he had an arrest warrant & a record!But…....Anything besides this is F’ing WRONG!!You have just
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