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Sep 5, 2018 • 3 tweets • 1 min read
This a LOT. nytimes.com/interactive/20…
Ginia Bellafante had a sharp insight about this controversy back in March: when people are progressive — but also rich and opting to send their kids to an exclusive private school — they perform their politics in very particular ways: nytimes.com/2018/03/23/nyr…
This sign, tho:

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Oct 31, 2021
This family didn’t make a lot of noise about their teenage son being killed by the police in broad daylight because they were friendly with people on the force and some family members had been local officials themselves. They trusted that justice would be done.
The police don’t suddenly have mechanisms for accountability in place when their actions hurt the “wrong” people, tho — like in this case, where the teenager who was shot to death was white and came from a police-supporting family.
If you think police violence is just carried out by “bad apples,” you’re also kind of hoping that should that violence ever befall you, the “good apples” — somehow given different professional training and incentives — will rush to the fore to hear you out + make things right.
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Oct 30, 2021
Someone shared a Planet Money ep that starts with an anecdote: a veteran locksmith fixes a thing in two mins that would have taken an apprentice locksmith — or someone who wasn’t a locksmith — hours to do. But the customer is like, “I ain’t paying you $200 for this little job.”
When i first got to NPR, i had to shadow the folx on All Things Considered. I watched w/ growing panic as Theo Balcomb calmly made cuts to a taped piece at 4:29 pm that was going out onto national radio at 4:35.

there’s a lot of work involved for this stuff to sound effortless
when we were reimagining CS a few years ago, we talked about the difference between low-touch production and high-touch production podcasts

a low-touch podcast is something like Joe Rogan’s show. Just people…talking. Not a lot of bells and whistles.
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Sep 26, 2021
Someone close to me tested positive for COVID after a colleague of theirs who refuses to get vaccinated tested positive. That colleague works with children — when their parents find out said colleague is not vaxxed, it’s going to get ugly.
Now everybody’s lives are up in the air: arranging for childcare while quarantining, contacting everyone *they’ve* been in contact with who might have to make similar arrangements.
the selfishness.
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Sep 23, 2021
Bc we’re so bad abt thinking about class in the US, all the “Trump won non-college educated whites” post-mortems took that to mean his base was poor + working-class white folx and not, like, the dude who clears six figures + owns the car dealership or has a small contracting biz
His rise wasn’t fueled by the Tim Rigginses and their brothers. It was fueled by the Buddy Garritys.
To zoom out from the Trumpers: a labor organizer working on a living wage campaign said the most dogged opposition came from Black fast food franchisees who framed the campaign as “an attack on Black entrepreneurship”
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Sep 22, 2021
the wild part is that nothing about this freakout over curricula is novel. In the 1930s, there was a organized campaign by conservative activists against a set of widely used textbooks bc they acknowledged things like the existence of racism in US history and wealth inequality.
At one point, a powerful advertising lobby group got in on the controversy, taking issue with those social studies textbooks bc one included the phrase “advertising costs were passed on to the consumer.”

They said it disparaged USian marketing.
As @adamlaats told us, in some places, they took to just burning these social textbooks. (This was the 1930s, so those activists clearly didn’t think through the contemporary parallels in Europe to these book-burning campaigns.)
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Sep 12, 2021
Never heard of LulaRoe until v recently. There’s a LOT of race stuff in MLMs. (the way i heard target sellers described was “Mormons, [stay at home] moms, and minorities”: people with tight, cooperative social networks + constrained avenues to lucrative employment/compensation
This doc shows just how white the LulaRoe universe is. But that makes sense, right? These are Mormon and evangelical stay-at-home moms who are pumping their friend and family circles for sales. Even at five or six degrees removed, how many WOC are they likely to *know*?
And that white woman-ness in the network effects is embedded in the branding: even if them leggings were not hideous, they’re going to be received as vaguely MAGA-ass fashion.

They don’t have the credibility to rubber-stamp those tights as cool to people who ain’t them.
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