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Trying to explain propaganda from the President to your kids during a Super Bowl party, let alone when football is otherwise banned in our house, is something else.

We have moved to a movie.
The Addams Family.

Less frightening than that ad by a long-shot.
This gets me in trouble every year on this day, but/and:

-the @NFL banned Kap for taking the knee

-it routinely excuses domestic violence

-TBIs are an epidemic in the league

-white owners profiting off black bodies that are sacrificed to violence is racist
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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So I have been reading about PTSD and family abuse for this new program we’re running at @GaiaWomenLead. Yesterday I interviewed Stanford’s foremost researcher on this issues.

I didn’t realize it at the time, but it explains everything about White women who vote for Trump.
In families where there is violent abuse of children, it’s a frequent phenomenon that one child (or more) will align themselves with the abuser to try to protect themselves. Over time, they can take on the qualities of the abuser, and play on their sympathy, to try to avoid abuse
These patterns continue into adulthood (this slayed me because I have it personally), where the adult siblings continue a repetition where one child is the victim and the other aligns with the abuser to continue to harm the victim, even in cases where the abuser is dead.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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While I'm not a huge fan of Joaquin Phoenix and haven't seen Joker b/c white male rage, I have been thinking about his speech at the #BAFTAs quite a bit.

I've also been thinking about how hard Taylor Swift had to push her mgmt to speak out against Blackburn for fear of blowback.
At this moment, we need more folks with huge platforms to speak out about systemic racism and sexism, no matter how uncomfortable it makes others, because the stakes are so high.

And Joaquin was right that those who benefit from systemic oppression need to work to dismantle it.
I've watched the blowback on some other celebs who have taken a stand and it's a tiny fraction of fanbases that get up in arms about this.

And the push by powerful voices willing to sit in uncomfortable silence to make the point has the potential to force awareness and shift.
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Elizabeth C. McLaughlin
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THREAD.

Yesterday, I said to @waltshaub that organizing for an election is “easy.”

He called me out a little on it, which was smart.

Overnight, I realized that as someone who org’d a mass mobilization and has trained 1000s of women to organize, I should share some thoughts.
1. Now is the time (really it was last year but now is fine) to get involved in your local Democratic Party machine. Many may not realize that in even the reddest of red America, most places have a local Democratic Party at the county level. It may not be robust, but it’s there.
I have spoken to quite a few women who have gotten involved at a local level and absolutely transformed an old school Dem party structure from the inside out, btw— taking over and modernizing ground game operations that may be out of date or just not passionate. You can do this.
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Shakira was hot last night.

All this hand wringing over dancing is giving me Foot Loose vibes.

Yes dancing. It involve the hips!

And ps there’s more “stripper poles” at cirque du sole than were on tv last night.

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Have you ever been to a NFL football game?

Since when are they 'family friendly' ??

Sanctioned violence.

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Alcohol and drunkenness.

and

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Just because there's a family bathroom now doesn't mean it's family friendly.
Are any of the ads on TV during the Super Bowl for kid's clothing? diapers? toys?

The ads are for cars and beer and insurance.

Things men aged 35-55 are purchasing....

Think cars and beers guys might be into Shakira too?

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