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19 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
I think nearly every day about how the American press and American policymakers ignore Asia's success fighting Covid.
It'S nOt JuSt ThE uNiTeD StaTeS!! EuRoPe ShOwS uS CoViD cAn'T bE cOnTrOLlEd!!
Maybe cumulative deaths per million makes the point better. (Although it is notable how the US curve looks different from my arbitrarily selected European countries.)
The graphs are from Alexij Jerchow's really handy Covid dataviz tool. covid.jerschow.com

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Remember that the correct answer to any question posed by a cop or an FBI agent is "I refuse to say anything without my lawyer."
There is some controversy about whether the US government actually used the phrase "premature antifascist" to describe people who were actively antifascist in the 1930s, especially those who volunteered to fight fascism in Spain.
Whether or not the phrase was used officially, it is known that the US military denied commissions to people who would otherwise have been officers in World War II on the basis of their antifascist activities before the war.
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1. I just retweeted @BreeNewsome quoting this tweet with the very correct indignation that in a time of crisis, people like Tim Scott are more worried about preserving economic precarity than actually helping people. Let me put this in some historical context.
2. The American welfare system, such as it is, has been based since the colonial period on the distinction drawn in the Elizabethan Poor Laws (Elizabethan as in Elizabeth I) between the worthy and the unworthy poor.
3. The very idea is a fiction: that there are "worthy" poor who are poor despite themselves (mostly disabled people, and the temporarily unlucky) and the "unworthy" poor who are poor because they are lazy.
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A distinguished German political scientist who studies far right extremism has been denied a visa. He was supposed to come to UVa this term as a visiting professor, but Trump’s State Department won’t let him. cavalierdaily.com/article/2020/0…
Eyal Weizman, one of the founders of Foresic Architecture and a human rights activist-architect, has also been denied a visa. archpaper.com/2020/02/eyal-w…
It’s important to note that visas are denied all the time to scholars from South Asia, the Middle East, and Africa, both for reasons of their personal politics and racism. (And students from East Asia also routinely run into visa problems.)
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