Vicente Rafael
@vrafael82
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All things counter, original, spare, strange;/ Whatever is fickle, freckled (who knows how?) Professor of History, Univ of Washington, Seattle
Seattle and Manila
Joined March 2011
During the Philippine–American War, the US Army’s massacre of between 600 and 1,200 civilians made for “sensational news in the United States when it was first reported…. Eventually the event disappeared from popular consciousness and barely figured in popular accounts.”
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The history of a single photograph reveals how an atrocity in the Philippines was forgotten by its American perpetrators.
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Setting aside the Anne Frank-like element of this story, 2 horrific things jumped out at me: looks like landlords are giving ICE info about squatters; and ICE uses a "sticker" system on doors (reminiscent of yellow stars) to mark targets.
During a military-style raid on a building in Chicago’s South Shore, one resident heard a knock on his door. It wasn’t the feds — it was a mom and her 7-year-old daughter, pleading for help. He let them hide in his unit for the next 3 days. https://t.co/c9C7Zm4wsn
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Vicente L. Rafael (@vrafael82) on how a massacre in the Philippines faded from American history
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The history of a single photograph reveals how an atrocity in the Philippines was forgotten by its American perpetrators.
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My recent piece in NYRB
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Politics, Literature, Arts, Ideas: the latest articles and features from The New York Review.
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The great Ta-Nehisi Coates speaks the truth about Charlie Kirk: “I think Charlie Kirk was a hatemonger... I take no joy in the killing of anyone no matter what they said. But if you ask me what the truth of his life was.. I would have to tell you it’s hate.”
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🧵1/4 On the 53rd anniversary of martial law, the Philippines grapples with a flood control scandal reminiscent of the corruption blueprint pioneered by Marcos Sr. The method: systematic extraction of "commissions" from public contracts.
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Unprecedented personal corruption, secret police seizing people off the streets, a crumbling economy where 80% of people can’t keep pace with inflation, a bizarre trade policy that harms US businesses, a collapsing farm economy, a foreign policy of extrajudicial murder.
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You live by the sword etc
🧵/ Times Charlie Kirk directly called for, supported, organized, and/or financed political violence, a thread with receipts: Here's Charlie Kirk calling for the killing of Joe Biden https://t.co/ENXRUxlX80
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I am so fucking pissed off that somehow Kirk is being made out by all the wishy-washy liberals as a martyred saint of free speech. The fucker actually had a professor watch list to hound anyone whose political views disagreed with him. Stop with your rewriting of history.
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Job opening at Berkeley: The Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is searching for a tenure-track assistant professor in Modern Southeast Asian Humanities. https://t.co/304mDxuKW2
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Here’s my write up on today's racist Supreme Court decision. The court approved of Trump’s racial profiling of Latinos with Brett Kavanaugh saying being harassed based on the color of your skin is “common sense.” In @thenation
https://t.co/uxrGdXgQrP
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The court’s ruling allowing ICE to resume its indiscriminate roundups of LA’s Latino residents can only be described as one thing.
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The Department of War was created in 1789 and presided over the removal, extermination, pacification, and genocide of the continent’s first peoples. It changed name to Defense in ‘47, two years after Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
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This was one of the last bridges between Jews and Arabs. Israel demolished it, too
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Chartbook 400: Murder not crisis - Why Israel's starvation of Gaza is exceptional in a global context. , by @adam_tooze
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