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Aug 19, 2019 12 tweets 2 min read Read on X
1/ There's an incredible irony in all the white nationalist paranoia abt the 'great replacement' (i.e., the idea that people of color, Muslims & other 'non-Westerners') are demographically supplanting whites & Christians in places like the US/Europe due to higher birth rates...
2/ That irony is this: the differential birth rates between women of color and whites (and which they find so calamitous) is entirely a function of the very inequalities the far right demands be kept in place. How? Simple: birth rates are driven by educational levels for women...
3/ So women w/access to education & better jobs have fewer kids, per capita, than women w/o access. This is true for all ethnic/national groups at all times in history...it's why immigrant working class "whites" who came here used to have 5-10 kids but their descendants don't...
4/ So as 'white' women have gained opportunity (not fast enough or completely but relative 2 women of color for sure, globally), they have reduced birth rates, while women of color (still lagging in access due 2 systemic inequities which the right defends) have higher rates...
5/ Meaning, if the right is so worried about "replacement" due to birth rates there is a simple answer: a massive investment in opportunities for women of color for schooling and jobs, globally! That would bring down their birth rates very quickly actually...
6/ It's why in the U.S., for instance, birth rates for black women with degrees are equal to white women with degrees, and why black birth rates generally have fallen dramatically as opportunity expanded...
7/ But of course the right will NEVER call 4 more investment in expanding opportunities 4 women of color, even though this would "solve" their stupid replacement fears (re: demographic change). Hmmm, why? Must b bc demographic # s alone aren't their real concern. It's power...
8/ So expanding opportunity 4 women of color would defeat the purpose of their entire politic: maintaining white male dominance. Even if they retained numerical majority in the culture, if folks of color have = opportunity what good is that?...
9/ Which then brings us to the link between their racism and their misogyny. Rather than expand opps for WoC, which would solve their demographic "problem," they advocate restricting opps for white women. They want "traditional families" so white women have to bow to them too...
10/ And if white women don't have opportunities, presumably, they will start making white babies again and solve the demographic "problem" that way...in other words, they just want hegemony. They want to control POC and white women for their own benefit....
11/ It's not about demographic numbers alone, because that part could be addressed by producing greater EQUALITY. Inequality is what drives the very phenomenon they now fear. But they can't give up inequality because they are dependent on it for their own sense of importance...
12/ And 4 the relative benefits it provides them (privileges & advantages) which they're loath to give up, even as they deny they exist. They just want power at the expense of every1 who isn't white & male & are willing 2 use force, violence & authoritarian means 2 maintain it...

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Sep 12
Wait, JD Vance...how can low-wage immigrants both drive down the wage base of the labor force AND be to blame for inflation? I mean, this is some sorta basic stuff, which even a Hillbilly venture capitalist should be able to understand.
btw, they aren't to blame for either actually...real wages are actually rising even as America has become "browner" in part due to immigration, and inflation would be far worse if employers couldn't find workers bc the working age population among native born folks is far older
migrants who tend to be younger fill positions that older white folks (median age 46) can't physically fill by and large, and which are even hard to expect native born Black folks to fill (median age 36-37), and which are often in areas where those Black folks don't live...
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This JD Vance spin on the dog/cat eating story is absurd. He's trying to say "listen, my constituents have said this is happening...like 5 people! It needs to be looked into!" Sure, no evidence, bc "people are saying," just like with voter fraud. No proof but "vibes..." A 🧵...
2/ Look, it's simple: if 5 Black families called Vance's office and said MAGA flag waving white guys were harassing them or threatening them in public, I doubt seriously Vance would spread memes about white racists being racist, just bc "muh constituents said it's a thing..."
3/ He would assume they were lying. He only spreads cat memes and this vicious lie because he assumes Haitians are subhuman. He is a racist, no different than the Blood Tribe Nazi scum who initiated most of the trouble in Springfield...
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Sep 10
It's wild seeing MAGA folks attack the DOJ for indicting actual Neo-Nazi terrorists today. The default seems to be either a) there are no Neo-Nazis, it's all a myth, or b) the group is made up of Feds, or c) they may be racists but they weren't really plotting violence...A 🧵...
2/ This inability of right wingers to admit there are violent extremists on their side who hate people based on race/religion/sexuality and are willing to kill is fascinating. Rather than condemn them and say "we reject those kinds of people" they pretend they aren't real...
3/ Even as there has been case after case of the kind of terrorism this Terrorgram group promoted. In fact, that's the point of Terrorgram: to heap praise on past examples of these kinds of killers (whom they consider Saints) and inspire others to do similar things...
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Sep 3
The right's dislike of IVF is more evil than most realize. Most people think they oppose it bc of 'extra' embryos destroyed once a successful implantation occurs, as if the main issue for them is the 'destruction of human life.' But that's not really their main concern. A 🧵...
2/ Sure, that's an issue for some. But there's a bigger motivation beneath their contempt for IVF: namely, the belief that women use it for selfish reasons: to delay childbearing for career pursuits, which takes them away from their "natural function" as breeders and moms...
3/ Read the NYT piece today discussing the 2017 Heritage Foundation volume that JD Vance wrote the intro for. In a chapter critiquing IVF, the author laments that fertility treatments & IVF make women think they can have babies "whenever they wish," so they can keep working...
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Aug 19
The right can make fun of the Harris/Walz "joy" theme all they want, but what they miss about this critique is telling, and demonstrates how they've managed to paint themselves in a corner for years. And now, it's one they can't get out of. A 🧵...
2/ So for years, what has the right been telling us about Dems, liberals, the left, etc? That we're all a bunch of scowling, PC, humorless scolds who never smile bc we're so busy hating everyone and everything. We can't take a joke, laugh, etc. We're bitter, dour, etc...
3/ But meanwhile, as the Trump/Vance ticket so clearly demonstrates, THEY are the humorless ones. The ones with thin skin. Trump never smiles or laughs, and Vance scolds everyone whose families look differently than he thinks they should. They are bitter and angry and judgy...
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Aug 16
The whole uproar over the "white people tacos" thing with Tim Walz and Kamala Harris is a great example of how lots of white folks just lack the ability to laugh at ourselves. It's not "racist against white people" to say what Walz said, FFS. A 🧵...
2/ Self-deprecation (not the same as self-hatred) is a positive personality trait. It's a key component of empirically funny comedy, and what separates the often mean-spirited snark of Bill Maher or Dennis Miller from the actual and effective irony of Jon Stewart or Colbert...
3/ It's also something comedians of color have long done effectively. Oh sure, they might have made fun of white folks, as an act of resistance, but also poked at Black and brown folks. Jewish comics historically made fun of themselves all the time...
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