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Feb. 26th, 2017 12:00 pm
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  • Sun, 05:36: RT @Crystal1Johnson: A visual reminder of what Ruby Bridges faced every day and why what she did was so powerful #BlackHistoryMonth #Flashb…
  • Sun, 05:36: RT @GeorgeTakei: A powerful thread. Take the time to read it and understand what is happening. https://t.co/uXcBUoFyjb
  • Sun, 05:36: RT @AnandWrites: I am shocked by the murder of Srinivas Kuchibhotla in Kansas, and want to share some things I learned reporting on a simil…
  • Sun, 05:36: RT @AnandWrites: Like the Kansas attacker, Mark Stroman of Dallas thought he was targeting Middle Easterners, and thought he was protecting…
  • Sun, 05:36: RT @AnandWrites: President Trump's administration has quickly leapt to say his talk and actions have nothing to do with this crime. https:/…
  • Sun, 05:36: RT @AnandWrites: I would like to explain why the president is dead wrong on this one. He has everything to do with this, and I can explain.
  • Sun, 05:36: RT @AnandWrites: What I learned reporting on the Stroman spree, which occurred right after 9/11, is how such an act is dependent on circles…
  • Sun, 05:36: RT @AnandWrites: Frankly, Stroman wasn't intellectually sophisticated enough to channel his anger in this direction on his own. He needed h…
  • Sun, 05:36: RT @AnandWrites: When I reviewed his letters, prison writings and blog posts, what amazed me was how he had stolen so much language from hi…
  • Sun, 05:36: RT @AnandWrites: It mattered greatly what politicians and pundits said, because it gave his inchoate drifter emotions a purpose and a narra…
  • Sun, 05:36: RT @AnandWrites: He heard talk of "enemy combatants" on the news. He was inspired by that to call himself an "allied combatant."
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: So many of his phrases were borrowed from Fox News. He was a man without purpose all his life. This borrowed language gave…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: These stories are so often of drifting lives electrified by a sense of having to save one's country. That call to save com…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: Here's the thing. Stroman had no explicit support in 2001 from the highest levels of U.S. power. But the Kansas killer did…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: W. Bush explicitly praised Islam and supported Muslims. Trump has explicitly degraded them and called them a problem. Peop…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: Trump makes the statements and goes back to his chefs and jet. But there are aimless Americans who take the words as a sum…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: Part of being a leader is understanding how what you say will be used, how it will refract into other lives. That explains…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: Based on my reporting on Stroman, I can say that Trump has supplied more permission than Stroman ever received back in 200…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: Trump not only identifies and exaggerates this threat to America. He also keeps talking down our institutional capacity to…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: Please understand, Mr. President, that this too gives permission, by dog-whistling to drifters that they might do what the…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: Stroman was deeply motivated by the idea that the government wasn't going to be tough after 9/11. So he had to be.
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: So when @Potus denigrates our intel services and says he knows more than the generals, out there in America it empowers th…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: When he spreads his idea of Americanness-as-whiteness, he and his rich friends can laugh about the brilliant tactic. But p…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: And a small fraction of those who listen will arm themselves and go to war. And people will die. And the president should…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: .@potus understood one thing well: millions of Americans felt punched down upon for a generation. Some were right.
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: But now he answers their feelings not by shielding them or helping, but by diverting blame from those who screwed them to…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: So the answer to those who felt punched down upon is the chance for them now to punch down at others. That isn't leadershi…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: U.S. elites did long neglect middle- and working-class folks. The remedy isn't giving them permission to hate and sometime…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: In other words, the least vulnerable Americans screwed the middlingly vulnerable, and Trump's answer is a war against the…
  • Sun, 05:37: RT @AnandWrites: Goldman guy cost Scranton guy his house and hours, and now brown, Muslim & immigrant communities are attacked. Goldman guy…
  • Sun, 06:32: RT @HistoryTime_: On February 26, 1919, Congress passed the act that established the Grand Canyon National Park in the state of Arizona. ht…
  • Sun, 06:34: RT @ab_silvera: I read the disgraceful Guardian profile of Rachel Dolezal so you don't have to, a trans feminist thread.
  • Sun, 06:34: RT @ab_silvera: Today, Paper Of Note The Guardian published a profile of Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who infamously passed herself off…
  • Sun, 06:34: RT @ab_silvera: This self-pitying piece was clearly a promotion for her new memoir. I'm writing this so you don't give her the traffic/atte…
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: Dolezal says she won't 'apologise and grovel'. What this means is she won't apologise at all. Ever. She still tells people…
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: Apparently 30 publishers rejected her book. She still got a book deal, however.
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: Interview lists all the ways in which she's suffered and how she's always felt black 'inside'. No apology at all.
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: She proceeds to directly draw a comparison with being trans and leans heavily on ideas of social construction of identity.
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: The interviewer namelessly links to trans critics, but she spends far longer asking 'if trans is a thing why can't transrac…
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: Let me be clear: no, 'transracial' in this sense is not a thing. If you're trans and supporting this woman, you are wrong.…
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: Let me put my sociologist hat on: Just because two concepts are social constructs does not mean they operate the same way.
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: A road sign contains socially constructed symbols. Doesn't mean it works the same as, say, backgammon.
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: Being trans, people living outside birth-assigned gender etc has occurred in numerous civilisations across history.
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: People have historically also been adopted into an ethnic group not their own. But NOT in this deceitful manner.
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: However, darkening the skin of a white American person in the present to pretend to be black is blackface. That's the reali…
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: It's irresponsible of the Guardian to seriously give credence to the idea that this is equivalent to being trans. It is not.
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: Irresponsible but not surprising. The Guardian regularly publishes transphobia. Still quite awful and intentional.
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: So no, trans dynamics of gender do not apply here. This is someone who has mental health shit that turned oppressive. That'…
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: Tl;dr don't read Rachel Dolezal's interview in the Guardian, or her book. She's unrepentant.
  • Sun, 06:35: RT @ab_silvera: Instead of giving her attention, signal boost black and other POC voices. I wrote this to disabuse any ideas of a trans con…
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