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Tim Wise @timjacobwise
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1/ So in no particular order, here are some examples of the 'civility' & 'kindness' Trump cultists' dispense on those they hate, largely ignored by the man in whose name they often do it, even as they lecture the left for being unkind to them. rawstory.com/2018/06/watch-…
2/ Or this...bostonglobe.com/metro/2015/08/…
3/ Or this...abcactionnews.com/news/sarasota-…...
4/ Or this...courant.com/politics/capit…...
5/ Or this...huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-su…...
6/ Or this...taskandpurpose.com/national-guard…
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7/ Or this...lubbockonline.com/news/20180622/…...
8/ Or this increasingly evident phenomenon, for which there is no parallel coming from the left...buzzfeed.com/albertsamaha/k…
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9/ Or this... nypost.com/2018/05/24/dri…...
10/ Or this...news4jax.com/news/knife-stu…...
11/ Or this...clickorlando.com/news/national/…...
12/ Or Aaron Schlossberg, of course...rawstory.com/2018/05/white-…...
13/ Or this angry snowflake...abc11.com/education/vide…...
14/ Or this...huffingtonpost.com/entry/kansas-t…...
15/ Or this...newsweek.com/man-viral-face…...
16/ Or this...azcentral.com/story/news/loc…...
17/ Or this...losangeles.cbslocal.com/2018/03/04/rac…
18/ Or this...wlwt.com/article/elder-…...
19/ Or this...alternet.org/right-wing/tru…...
20/ Or this...tucsonnewsnow.com/story/37300215…...
21/ I have dozens and dozens more like this, where right-wingers, Tump lovers and those who clearly are not "the left" do more than just say mean words to cabinet officials...These seem quite a bit more problematic to me...and that's an understatement of Biblical proportions...
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1/ For those who think the arrest of a black man in the Jazmine Barnes killing will now lead to silence from the left since there’s no racism angle anymore, think again, on both counts...
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1/ It's fascinating how white racists like Paul nostalgize the days of "non-diversity" in schools, and suggest schools are now cesspools of violence and misconduct bc fewer whites/more POC, but actually violence in schools today is down considerably from years past
2/ From 1992-2016, the # of violent victimizations at schools dropped from 1.6 million per year to about 450,000 annually, thus, the violent victimization rate in U.S. schools fell 72 percent since the early '90s...even as the schools became considerably less white...
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Here is a happy family enjoying play in the snow in 1940. Hard to imagine their idyls getting disrupted by protesters, and they never would have. #civility 1/
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Protest is as American as apple pie. You don't have to be nice to anyone & are under no requirement to practice #civility in the face of rampant incivility.

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Your goal should be settling differences on your OWN side.
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