#Classism

1/ Beginning of a long thread. Yesterday a CBC report noted that myself and a surgical colleague reported the hanging of a noose in June 2016. Thank you to everyone
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Beyond Solidarity Statements : Questions to ask yourself How will you engage with critique from Black people whose experiences with your organization are shaped by AntiBlack racism, who now find
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This op-ed is a great example of the wrong-headed scientism of school-must-open-now advocates.A thread.https://www.vox.com/2021/2/15/22280763/kids-covid-vaccine-teachers-unions-schools-reopening-cdc The article starts with a gesture towards
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Book 1 of 2019: The Private Joys of Nnenna MaloneyThis is an incredibly intelligent book. However, I find it hard to relate to this seemingly mature 17 year old that
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Meanwhile, in the rest of science... Amazingly, I seem to have written some articles that weren't about Covid this year; here are some of them. (A thread.) This was one
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8 years of Channel Orange: discussing a cult classic. Aided by a star-studded cast including the likes of Pharrell Williams, Tyler The Creator, Andre 3000, Earl Sweatshirt and John Mayer,
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When you begin to see how many harmful practices are tied to and/or depend upon abortion, you can't ever look at it the same:- rape- child brides- human trafficking- corporate
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Live tweeting “The Dig” on Netflix from 16:00 GMT. Expect delight, maybe indignation, excitement, the works. (The last time there was an ‘archaeology’ film it was Indiana Jones, and I
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Many folks bring up rape as a reason to not defund cops.Here's a screenshot of LA police threatening to not investigate rape if there's 5% cut on their nearly $1.8
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the riverdale thread starts now. god help mehttps://twitter.com/neon__glow/status/1325955154227523584 how many times will our narrator say the word ‘town’ in the intro i’m betting at least 6 fuck me i knew
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Joy James, Transcending the Talented Tenth: Black Leaders and American Intellectuals (1997) She begins with Du Bois' construction of "the Talented Tenth" as elite leadership of race managers & takes
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Big thread allert! I wanted to make a nice little fact thread called Disability things in the Netherlands. Some of these might apply for your country as well cause like
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One of the last lines of defense against critiques of capitalism is that despite all of its flaws & shortcomings, at least capitalism fosters unprecedented innovation.But, as we will prove
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1) stop funding/platforming/amplifying grifter reactionary class reductionists like dirtbag "leftists" and Jacobin2) read some bell hooks and sit with that shit3) start funding/platforming/amplifying intersectional liberatory orga
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Dear fellow white people. You seem to struggle with the meaning of the word “racist”. You think it means “hatred for other races”. This is incorrect. Allow me to explain.
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It’s my one-year Anneiversary!If I’ve learned anything over the past year, it’s that, by and large, academia is the same old dogshit disaster it always was & immeasurably worse than
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