This thread uncovered something very interesting - the rapid response of a professional trolling org means they're monitoring what I say, and put a high quality pseudointellectual troll on to try to discredit the parallels between 19th century slavers and modern private prisons.
Yes. I know that the first tweet is not perfect - in 280 characters, there's no way it could address all of the similarities and differences between the two situations.

But it seems to have struck a nerve with one troll in particular, who is working through their playbook.
And that investment of resources is the hallmark of an argument they're scared will hit the mainstream.

Not only is it playing to the dismissal of the original argument, but it's attempting to exacerbate any previously existing distrust between Black Americans and latinos...
Because they know: if Black Americans realize the parallel between the use of Black bodies and suffering for profit and the modern use of Hispanic bodies for profit... that incarceration of Hispanic immigrants is slavery without labor, where value is extracted from the Govt...
If that happened, they realize they'd be done.

So take a look at this thread, especially some of my responses that they refuse to address.

How can this be refined message to convey the concept in twitter-friendly format without disrespecting experiences of slaves or migrants?

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Disastroturfing (v.):

the use of feigned “grassroots” action to weaponize disasters or other instances of collective human suffering via amplification of inauthentic, polarizing messages fraudulently attributed to political opponents.
Disastroturfing is primarily initiated and sponsored by politically motivated entities, primarily aimed at deepening political divisions and enhancing partisanship -
the misrepresented ideology drives the 'otherization' of the target group by a mechanism that ultimately may instill fear in the targeted audience: 'others' may seem to pose an existential threat to one's own safety and security, should similar events arise domestically...
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I am sick of hearing biased coverage re: Israel while Ukraine is almost entirely ignored.

Israel and Russia are both Mafia States engaged in state-sponsored terrorism. I don't know if Hamas is as mobby, but def. terrorists.

Those governments should ALL be treated accordingly.
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Only 1/4 of those (2.4M), mostly the hard right, want Bibi to stay in power (interestingly, ~ the same % of Americans hardcore for Trump).

This clearly is not anti-Jewish sentiment. Image
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from ProPublica...

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And a fairly thorough look at the Chicago project from the Times.

nytimes.com/2020/10/27/bus…
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Just lost my thread about I-95 in Philly, so I'll just share these images while I decide if I should write it up again.

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Remember the last time someone in line for the presidency was prosecuted?

This might be more like that than you think.
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When I heard female gunman at a private school, this is what that made me think I'd find.

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Wonder why they started up that school of their own...
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