Tim Wise
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Senior Fellow, @AAPolicyForum. Critical Race Theorist. Yes. That thing you don’t understand. https://t.co/agkBw1VFk0
Joined November 2011
This is a good start, but River Road is long. May the spirits of the enslaved rise and burn all the concentration camps that, like Nottaway, downplay their evil. No more wedding receptions. Either confront the sickness of white supremacy or let it all burn
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When you send your kids to school there is zero chance they will come back to you "a different gender," but there is certainly a chance they won't come back at all. Yet some of y'all are worried about the former while shrugging about the latter.
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This is how you deal with racists. Watch a grad level class.
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Stop fearing Trump. Start mocking him. And all his people. He wants you to think his power is unstoppable. Bullshit. It’s not.
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If you think booing the VP at the Kennedy Center is rude and unacceptable wait till you hear about the folks who once tried to hang a VP on the Capitol steps.
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If your defense against a rape charge is “she’s not my type,” you are definitely a rapist.
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Kamala Harris could offer free gas and bacon for a year and MAGA cultists would still vote for Trump bc it was never about prices. It was always about the racism.
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Identify this racist who verbally assaulted a family on a United Airlines shuttle (link in thread). If she has a job, let's make sure she doesn't for long. I'm tired of giving people like this grace. It's one thing to make a stupid remark and regret it. She doesn't. Wreck her.
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A guy at a Trump rally told a reporter Trump could sprout literal horns & he'd vote for him again. Why? Bc he "doesn't take shit." That is the level of thought among millions: attitude as a substitute for character and leadership. These people can't be saved. Roll over them.
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Elon Musk is a white supremacist, full stop.
Elon Musk has been retweeting prominent race scientist adherents on his platform X, spreading misinformation about racial minorities’ intelligence and physiology to his audience of 176.3 million followers.
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These armed militia guys can do their phony soldier cosplay all day in the woods like the shitkickers they are. but when they storm a capitol building (as in MI) & threaten lawmakers it's time to arrest them. They are terrorists. Take their guns. Take their freedom. Lock them up.
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1/ If the Dems blow this election it will not be because they were "too far left on policy" or because they "weren't left enough." It will have little to do with policy at all. They are making a mistake caused by traditional consultant theory that does not apply here. .
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I appreciate folks taking up for Tim Walz's son, but be careful. It's not OK that he cried because "sure he's a guy but he's also neuro-atypical." It's OK that he cried bc it's OK for guys to cry, period. Normal people do it. Healthy people do it. Men who don't are the problem.
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Anyone who says the killing of Tyre Nichols can’t be about racism because the cops were also Black really doesn’t understand how white supremacy or anti-Blackness work.
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Right-wingers insisted that once Elon took over they’d be able to speak their mind. Finally, the MAGA message can be heard!. And then as soon as they were “freed” to do this, they started screaming the n-word and bashing Jews. Lesson: hate IS the MAGA message. It always was.
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It's not enough to beat Trump. We need to salt the MAGA soil so nothing will grow there ever again. Ever.
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Helping Trump win bc you can’t vote for Harris bc of Gaza, when Trump would gladly kill every Palestinian and put up hotels in Gaza and the West Bank, isn’t the flex some of y’all think it is.
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1/ As people flee Twitter, or threaten to, in response to Elon’s takeover and the harassment it has already spawned and likely will bc of less content moderation, there are some things I’ve noticed. Please follow this thread and share it. It’s sorta important….
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Tomi Lahren's mad that some protesters are looting in response to the killing of George Floyd. She wants to know how violence helps the movement. She also attacked Colin Kaepernick for taking a knee. So I'm thinking she just doesn't give a shit about cops killing black people.
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If Obama or Biden had picked a Joint Chiefs head of color who was so unqualified they required a special waiver for the job — like Trump just did for a white man — some of y’all would have lost your minds. Black excellence scares you. White mediocrity is your security blanket.
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Ohio officials have now said there is nothing they can do about their state's recently uncovered Nazi homeschooler network. So, in OH you can graduate from HS having been taught actual racism. But you can't graduate having been taught ABOUT racism as a systemic force.
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The whole uproar over the "white people tacos" thing with Tim Walz and Kamala Harris is a great example of how lots of white folks just lack the ability to laugh at ourselves. It's not "racist against white people" to say what Walz said, FFS. A 🧵. .
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Let’s be clear: if Mollie Tibbetts had been killed by a white Iowa farm boy fresh off an 8 day meth binge or high on Fentanyl no one would know her name, the President wouldn’t give a shit about her & no one would b calling for a crackdown on corn fed Lutherans from Cedar Falls.
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When you say (as Trump did) that anyone identifying themselves as a Harris supporter would get hurt at your MAGA rally, you're admitting your movement is not a movement -- it's a hate group and a terrorist organization.
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31/ People who say the Dems should ignore Trump's race baiting because its some genius political strategy calculated to distract us, are idiots. He is no genius. And if you downplay it you NORMALIZE him. If you make this about policy, you NORMALIZE him. He is a racist. .
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DeSantis now says FL might ban ALL AP courses, all bc the College Board dared criticize the state's response to AP AfAm Studies. What a petty little child. Notice white folks: this is why racism hurts you too in the end. He'll sacrifice your kids for political points.
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For those white liberals talking about how they're "mourning," "in shock," and afraid. FFS buck up. I was just in KC at the 17th Annual Urban Summit, w/ a couple hundred Black folk and they are NOT crying or cowering. They are down to fight, like they've always had to. A 🧵. .
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White folks have been calling Haitians savages for over 200 years, not because of what they eat, but because of who they beat.
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For all you MAGA cultists who keep saying the market slump doesn’t matter bc 20 and 30 yr olds have plenty of time to make up losses, seriously, what is your answer for people retiring NOW who thought they were good until your guy fucked it up? What is your answer? Tough shit?.
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Shocking: a kid whose parents both have criminal records ends up being a criminal himself. hard to believe. Must be the culture of white families in America, right? I mean, that's what y'all would say if this was a Black kid. Lauren Boebert's son robbed a woman with a brain.
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Hey white people who are angry about immigration. just a heads up: there are not enough white folks to keep the economy afloat and support your social security into old age. So you better welcome immigrants who do work you won’t. or else prepare to eat cat food.
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When JD Vance says Kamala Harris isn't "grateful" enough for America, he is repeating the same trope racist white folks have always offered: Black people aren't grateful enough for all they've been "given" in this country. I have thoughts. A 🧵. .
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When right-wingers spend 50 years preaching that the problems in the Black community are caused by "father absence" and "out of wedlock childbirth" and then rally behind Herschel Walker, you know they were trolling you the whole time.
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If you get angrier at brown skinned poor folks receiving minimal public assistance than rich white folks receiving tax subsidies and preferential tax treatment for capital gains, you might be a racist:. .
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If you want to know the kind of evil we’re up against with the MAGA cult, please note: they’re on here this morning celebrating the death of Elijah Cummings. These people are ghouls. They must be completely defeated. No making nice. No reaching across the aisle. No mercy.
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So we are to believe:. 1. Hillary Clinton managed to have Seth Rich, Vince Foster & Jeffrey Epstein killed;. 2. But she can't manage to win Pennsylvania or Michigan;. Mmm. k y'all. Qballs gonna Qball. .
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Asking Sanders to release health records he promised to release is not remotely equal to birtherism. What an ignorant argument, Sanders HAD a heart attack. Obama was NOT born in Kenya. One is true, the other false. The parallel is absurd and diminishes the racism of the latter.
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22/ First, trying to flip Trump voters is a waste of time. Any of them who regret their vote don't need to be pandered to. They'll do the right thing. Don't focus on them. That said, very few will regret their vote. They cannot accept they voted for a monster or got suckered. .
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20/ James Baldwin explained it this way: “If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it bring must be borne…” Black people know this. White progressives must learn it.
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29/ What the left never understands is: we need to stop approaching elections like the goddamned debate team, and start approaching it like the right does, like the cheerleading squad. .
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No Mr. President. The El Paso shooter was not a coward. He's a white racist terrorist. You and your party are the cowards: afraid to call it what it is for fear of offending your cult; for kowtowing to the criminal enterprise known as the NRA and for thinking prayer will stop it.
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Just a reminder that if you think Hillary would have been worse than this shit, you are a moron to whom no one should listen, about anything. ever again.
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Black churches getting burned down, Muslims being slaughtered at Mosque, Jews being shot in synagogues. But by all means, white evangelicals, tell us more about the "War On Christmas" and how upsetting it is when they say "Happy Holidays" at Walmart. .
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34/ Not to say the House shouldn't impeach over that stuff. They should. But the 2020 candidates must craft a message that is not about that. Trumpism is the threat to America, more than Putin. And Putin didn't birth Trumpism. Conservative White America did. .
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Elon continues to suspend parody accounts that make fun of him, but allow accounts with vile racist slurs to remain on the platform. Elon Musk is a white supremacist. Period.
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27/ And what I know for a FACT is that this message--that Trumpism is a threat to everything we care about and love about this country--is what will inspire the Dem base to vote. and THAT is what this election is about. .
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Thread. To understand white denial about American history, consider two photos. First, this pic of Hazel Bryan screaming at Elizabeth Eckford during the integration of Little Rock Central High. The date: September 4, 1957. As for the second photo, follow along. (1)
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And there it is. you just called two grown ass Black men boys. this is why folks think you're racist Nance. this shit right here.
These boys were so easily triggered.
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The murder rate in Kevin McCarthy’s county is double the murder rate in San Francisco, but please tell me again about how crime is due to liberalism…that one never gets old, or accurate.
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1/ I’m not one for ‘told ya so’s but in 1989 when David Duke won the state House seat in Louisiana, some of us said this was an inflection point in American politics. This wasn’t just the logical result of Reaganesque racial dog whistling. It was something different (a thread). .
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You can't have it both ways. You can't attack young folk for being self-absorbed & only concerned about makeup tutorials, celebrities & Instagram likes but also attack Greta Thunberg (and other young people) for giving a shit about the planet by saying they should just "be kids.".
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If u still support Biden after he said he would consider a Republican VP, I have no words. this is insanity. It is based on ignorance about what motivates voters and why they voted for Trump. It was NOT for bipartisanship. They will not reward you for this Joe. retire now.
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Just a reminder that this white terrorist in El Paso was taken alive after shooting dozens of people, and Tamir Rice was shot dead for playing with a toy gun and shooting nobody. Because America. .
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6/ That day was the day I forever understood that Black people are possibly the only thing standing in the way of utter destruction. White folks, even liberal ones, will often fold up their tents and go home when it gets too difficult….
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32/ He is a white nationalist. He is an authoritarian. He and his cult are a threat to the future of the nation and world because of their hatreds. His movement betrays the country's promise. THAT is the message that will drive turnout. Not debates over marginal tax rates. .
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Republicans who stormed a meeting they had no right to be in (they are not on the committee in question), and brought recording devices (in a meeting with classified info) should be arrested. Every last one of them. If any of us did that we would be. Arrest them now.
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Most BLM activism, especially by actual Black folks, has been nonviolent & disciplined. It's white folk who risk fucking this up: burning shit in Portland, breaking windows w/skateboards in MSP, screaming at diners in DC. White folk keep asking 'what can we do?' Yeah, not this.
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24/ Their support for Trump was never about policy. It was about the bigotry, the fact that he hates who they hate. Second, as for the "undecideds." . Not many of these but seriously? If you're still undecided at this point about this guy. .
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1/ For those who can't understand the "dysfunction" of the House GOP, you don't get it. This isn't dysfunction in the minds of the far-right MAGA members: it's their goal. Discredit government/governing altogether bc they never believed in it really. 🧵.
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12/ To those white folks worried about Twitter toxicity. Please, AMERICA has been toxic for Black people for hundreds of years. If they can manage to fight on, survive and thrive despite it, you can deal with ugliness in your timeline.
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18/ To flip Duke voters would require that they accept the fact that they had previously voted for a monster, and people are loath to do that. Our goal was not to flip them, but to DRIVE UP TURNOUT among the good folks, many of whom stayed home in 90. .
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26/ If anything, I would say crafting an argument that this is an existential crisis for the nation--and making it about Trump's bigotry and who we want to be as a country, would be far more effective in inspiring them to make up their minds. .
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If u wanted to remove Clinton bc he lied about blow jobs, or Obama bc you think he's not even an American, but u give Trump a pass bc asking for foreign interference in elections is no biggie, you are a cult member & irredeemable. The goal is not to change you. It is to crush you.
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13/ . Who said they weren't going 2 vote bc after all Duke's Dem opponent was just a shill for the oil and gas industry, and that was just as bad, blah blah fucking blah. because some lefties can't tell the difference between corporatist assholes and actual literal Nazis. .
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TX is looking to pass a law that would require teachers to discuss historical & political issues or current events by "giving deference to both sides." So I guess they'll present the al-Qaeda perspective on 9/11, right? The Soviet angle on the Cold War? Hitler's take on the Jews?.
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When y'all stop making Jesus a white man you can complain about Disney making Ariel black. Thanks.
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Time to arrest Alex Jones. This was a threat against the president elect. It is not protected speech. Arrest him.
Joe Biden "will be removed one way or another," Alex Jones tells pro-Trump march
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So Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are pissed about the Juneteenth holiday bc "there's only one independence day!" Meaning, they think independence from England is more meaningful than independence from enslavement & Black people should be satisfied with the former I guess. .
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White men bring guns to protests, a) bc they have the privilege to get away w/ it, and b) bc they don't have the courage or fortitude to protest like this.
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23/ Duke retained 94% of the folks he got the first time out (and got new people too), as Trump likely will. So forget these people--or at least don't wast time tailoring messages to them. And policy plans for affordable college don't mean shit to them, nor health care. .
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10/ While a distressing number of white progressives talk about how “toxic” it will become (or has already) and how they just can’t be around that. “Is it hard, dear?” Rings in my ears yet again….
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30/ The right knows psychology and we know public policy and sociology. great. The latter does not win elections. .
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7/ But Black people cannot, by and large, do this. They have never been able to do this. They have to stay and fight no matter the cost. Now, back to the “Twexodus”….
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2/ And by listening to influential pundits in liberal media who also don't get the unique nature of Trumpism, relative to normal political movements & campaigns. this election is NOT going to be won by talking about all your "great plans" for health care, jobs, education, etc. .
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9/ Even as Black Twitter catches the most hell, deals with racism, misogynoir, all the things, all the time…they are here, fighting and refusing to concede this ground….
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So while folks are telling us how the Chauvin verdict proves change is here, please note: the Columbus PD killed a 15 yr old girl #MakiyahBryant today. But they didn't even arrest any of the OSU students who were flipping cars and tearing shit up after a damned exhibition game.
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11/ It allowed people to say "well if he's really this racist, white supremacist, why are they talking about all this other stuff?" It actually undermined our ability to paint him as the extremist he was/is. And as a result, the threat he posed was not clear enough to voters. .
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Just a reminder that #JohnCrawford was shot dead in a Walmart for standing in an aisle with an air rifle sold at Walmart, and this white terrorist, #PatrickCrusius was taken alive after shooting dozens of people in a Walmart with an assault rifle. Because America. .
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Folks blaming wokeness for Harris's defeat are hilarious in their ignorance. She did not run on a woke platform. She ran on protecting the border, owning a gun, being a prosecutor, loving capitalism, and rarely talked about anything related to racism, sexism, etc. .
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For those who suggest the big problem for the Dems was information silos -- the fact that Trump targeted livestreamers/podcasters/YouTubers -- and that's where a lot of people, especially young people get info, that's true, but, there's something to consider. A 🧵. .
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9/ I say "sadly" because doing that normalized Duke as a regular candidate. Attacking his generic character or bill paying habits (or even discussing his inadequate plans for job creation, etc) treated him like a normal candidate. But he was/is a NAZI. .
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@JacobAWohl Hey dumbass, that's not how it works. She was born in the U.S., thus she is a citizen, thus she is eligible. go to law school, or just learn to use Google perhaps. .
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28/ I'm not saying the Dems don't need policy ideas, but focusing on wonky, look-how-much-I've-thought about-this stuff is not going to move the needle in 2020. .
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MAGA White people are the biggest purveyors of victimhood in America. Always whining about what other people (especially people of color) are doing to them, and rarely taking personal responsibility for their lives. A 🧵. .
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21/ When it was over, Duke had gotten 65k more votes than in 90, but his white share went to 55 (from 60) and overall to 39 (from 44) because the anti-Duke turnout swamped him. So what does this have to do with 2020 and Trump? Do I really need to explain it?. .
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3/ And the reasons are several. Let me begin by saying that I have experience confronting the kind of phenomenon we see in Trumpism, and far more than most. Any of us who were involved in the fight against David Duke in LA in 90/91 know what this is and how it must be fought. .
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Let’s be clear. Black folks defending another Black man from the racist fuckery of white men is not criminality. It’s justice. It’s standing their ground. It’s vicarious defense of others. Fuck around and find out.
This video shows how the whole Alabama ferry brawl started. Brother man was doing his job telling these folks to move their boat so the ferry could dock. Privileged ass white people refused to move and then jumped him
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19/ And that is what happened. The concerted effort of the anti-Duke forces (not just us), challenging Duke's "politics of prejudice," and making the election about what kind of state we wanted to be, drove turnout through the roof. .
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Deliberately mispronouncing someone's name just to get laughs from your racist base is not "taking on the radical left." It's showing your ass. You don't need caffeine. You need an education and some basic human decency.
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When we gave out 240m acres of basically free land to whites under the Homestead Act or subsidized $120m worth of housing under the FHA program for whites, no one complained. But @VP proposes $25k relief for 1st time homebuyers and some of y’all lose your minds. We know why.
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If you think lying about oral sex in the White House is more impeachable than asking another country to dig up dirt on your possible election opponent's son (and threatening to hold up aid $$ unless they do), you are beyond help. And you would gladly welcome a Trump dictatorship.
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15/ In the Governor's race we dispensed w/ all that bullshit. We talked about Duke's ongoing Nazism and the moral/practical evil of his racist appeals. We discussed how that moral evil would have real world consequences (driving tourists and business away, rightly so, from LA). .
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10/ And none of his voters were voting 4 him bc of jobs, or tax policy or support for term limits, etc. And none were going to turn on him over late tax payments, Vietnam, etc. Indeed throwing that stuff out there & downplaying the elephant in the room (racism) seemed desperate. .
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When Katrina hit New Orleans, right wingers asked "why rebuild a city like that" when it's likely to get hit again. But they don't say that about Florida folks in the path of multiple storms, and we all know why they view them differently. Everything is about race. Everything.
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1/ The fact that people buy The Charlottesville Lie BS -- which claims Trump wasn't talking about Nazis when he said there were good people on both sides -- is evidence that the right is nothing but liars & apologists now. Unite the Right was ENTIRELY white nationalist. .
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It's almost as if when they screamed "blue lives matter" they only meant "when you're beating or shooting black people," not like, in general or something. .
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1/ I love how folk are posting fake voter reg info for the Dayton shooter Connor Betts, showing he's a Democrat. it shows him voting all the way back to '06, which would have been when he was 11. some people are 2 stupid to drive the internet. We don't know his politics yet. .
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If the reason a bill isn't "bipartisan" is because no one in your party will vote for it, whose fault is that? Basically, the GOP thinks bipartisanship means watering things down to what THEY would have passed if THEY had won the election They didn't. Sit down.
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