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Some of the same people who’d say it’s irrelevant that Ibram Kendi wrote an op-ed in college raising the possibility that white people “might be aliens” are quick to justify
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The logic of capitalizing the B in black but not the W in white—it simply doesn’t hold. The idea that white does not describe a shared cultural history, but that
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The performative aspect of Twitter demands that a surprising amount of people publicly proclaim that they would *obviously* be cool, calm and totally collected if a large group of protesters
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It is increasingly going to be the case that you’ll need to obtain an advanced to degree to know how to speak, write and signal in ways that broadcast you
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The problem was, in fact, what he said. He's gaffe prone and Trump said something worse, fine––that's to be expected. What's more disturbing is this acceptance of the idea that
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Oh my god.This is mortifying (on Biden’s behalf for that gratuitous use of “ain’t”) and revolting (on my own behalf) for that condescending racial essentialism. I say this as someone
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I understand people have to safeguard their brands, but who is coaching her on this response? Real equality would be treating people the same regardless of ethnicity (including being equally
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I described Ta-Nehisi Coates once (well after Between the World and Me) as a “self-made millionaire,” a statement I took to be neutral if not a compliment. He demanded the
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Late to this, but it’s way too much of a stretch to call the Alison Roman thing “racism.” That term—“racism”—cannot meaningfully encompass the specific brutality of what happened to Ahmaud
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I've been rereading a lot of Camus and Baldwin lately. In No Name in the Street, Baldwin criticizes Camus (somewhat unfairly). Anyway, I never noticed it before but Baldwin makes
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Bodies being layered on top of each other in mass graves in NYC. This is straight out of The Plague.https://twitter.com/cbsnews/status/1248596672776671232 For context: “Normally, about 25 bodies a week are interred
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