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Charles M. Blow @CharlesMBlow
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PSA: STOP asking black people if WE believe this or that to be racist! It is a most insulting question because it is unanswerable in any definitive sense and the question is aware of its own quandary. Instead, YOU examine the EVIDENCE, and answer the damned question YOURSELF!!!
When someone asks you if you think something is racist, they already know it is. They’re really asking if you are offended by the racism and trying to figure out how much they can get away with or ignore without you moral judgement.
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Al Franken was drummed out if the Senate (and criticized by Trump) after allegations of kissing and groping a woman without her consent.

There was no completed investigation, no hearings, not trial.

Now Trump and those senators stand behind Kavanaugh accused of attempted rape
Although it was Dems who led the charge for Franken to resign, some Repubs joined:

@SenJohnThune on the resignation: "I think that's the right call given kind of what we know."

@SenatorTimScott: Franken needs to “find something else to do."

What say you about Kavanaugh gents?
Susan Collins on Franken and the allegations against him: “I did find the allegations against him to be both credible, disgusting and appalling and degrading to women.” And on Kavanaugh?…
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. @MikeBloomberg ballooned the racially discriminatory, morally indefensible Stop-And-Frisk program in NYC and argued for it endlessly. At its height, NYPD was stopping twice as many young black/Brown men as there WERE black/brown men. #NEVERbloomberg mobile.nytimes.com/2011/03/19/opi…
This meant that many of these young men were being stopped and frisked multiple times a year. But about 1-in-10 was ever charged with anything, and often that charge was for having a small amount of marijuana.
No legitimate policy has a 90 percent failure rate. None! This was a pattern of racism discrimination championed by @MikeBloomberg. I will punch a hole in my keyboard before I stop writing about what Bloomberg did. #NEVERbloomberg
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Let me correct folks abt white privilege: It’s not measured by the absence of struggle among white people. Some white people struggle too, obviously. But privilege is measured by whether people born into sim circumstances, with sim talents and sim work ethic have sim chances.
It’s not about personal anecdote either. It’s about what the data say in the aggregate. I’ve worn tired and bored by ppl using their personal story in a futile effort to disprove reams of data.
Following this logic, for white privilege to exist every white personal must be privileged over every nonehite one. And therefore, every example of nonwhite success and excellence disproves the rule. That’s just dumb.
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Okay. As someone who grew up in a destitute town that used to thrive on mining and collapsed years ago, I need to briefly fucking re-litigate 2016 because I feel like people STILL don't goddamn get it.
Bill Clinton devastated a lot of these communities. So there's a ton of resentment there. But let's be perfectly clear: NOT ALL OF THAT WAS BY DIRECTLY DESTROYING FUCKING JOBS. So you can't just say, "but he didn't ACTUALLY destroy their jobs." Because fuck you.
A lot of these communities were already suffering when Bill Clinton came along. But he threw salt in their wounds with things like the welfare reform bill and the criminal justice bill. This took already hurt communities and devastated them.
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"The Blacks must secure the existence of Black people and a future for Black children"
-Not 14 Words

"Because the beauty of the Black woman must not perish from the earth"
-Also Not 14 Words

IT'S OK TO BE BLACK
-NOT #racist #DogWhistle for supremacy

#Censorship #WrongThink
Whites must secure the existence of White people and a future for White children

Is this ONLY #OkIfNonWhite ?

#Censorship makes #WrongThink go away forever. Right?

OR maybe each adult can judge for yourself what is OK, what is TRUE?

BE AN ADULT.

@GetOnGab and #SpeakFreely!
Because the beauty of the White woman must not perish from the earth

Is this ONLY #OkIfNonWhite ?

#Censorship makes #WrongThink go away forever. Right?

OR maybe each adult can judge for yourself what is OK, what is TRUE?

BE AN ADULT.

@GetOnGab and #SpeakFreely!
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Jesse Singal is now angry that Black people aren't being kind about white women being racist to Black people. I don't know of any world in which it's misogynist to compare a woman to a gallon jug of whole milk, but apparently this is a serious problem in Jesse's world.
I do not know if Jesse being publicly racist will make a difference, but it's like we've been saying, transphobes are going to be terrible in other ways.

Anyway, h/t to @CChinneide for linking this.
And the story Jesse thinks is so awful to white women.

theroot.com/white-woman-sn…
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Historically, white supremacy was the idea that white people were inherently superior to black people. Black success, owning a store, living in a wealthy neighborhood, enjoying leisure time, all threatened white superiority. Segregation was the solution to stifle black success.
Legal segregation is gone, but we live in its residue. It’s assumptions. America never did much work to right these wrongs, to undue these notions when these laws were overturned. So here we are with folks unable to fathom that black folks belong in “nice” spaces.
Here we are looking at the violence that is always embedded in segregated spaces. People are able to access this violence with a quick 911 call about their own discomfort.
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Let’s talk about the new #russianbot/#russianshill/#russiantroll/#altright darling, #walkaway for a bit, shall we, since clearly they’re pushing this as their new marketing campaign.
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Now, it’s…#walkaway

(Christ, that’s a lot! They’re super gullible, enh? Heh)
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I stayed off Twitter for 24hrs to try &reclaim my personal time &prioritize writing, finishing this next book,since my health is so dire.
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But also,Saturday I was utterly disgusted by the overt racism of white women claiming to be Dems/progs/left in my mentions.It was awful.
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