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2 Feb, 5 tweets, 2 min read
We need to call a moratorium on performative anti-racism... forever.
Seriously though, the argument doesn't even make sense. The NAACP, UNIA, NOI, SNCC, SCLC, etc are all acronyms from the civil rights era and established by black people.
I wrote an article about performative anti-racism
medium.com/@rasmansa/perf…

Whoever told these people that acronyms are white supremacy should be ashamed.
Maybe San Francisco can do something about this bit of white supremacy culture instead of focusing on acronyms. Image
Black parents: we need you to do a better job educating our children

San Francisco school board: so you want to get rid of acronyms?

Black parents: no, reading, math, stuff like that.

San Francisco school board: Got it, acronyms are racist. See, we listen. Black Lives Matter!

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Dr. Mansa Keita Profile picture
1 Feb
I refused to think James could go deeper into the anti-Semitism thing, but I accept I was wrong.

This is beyond repulsive.

I think at this point he's actively trying to get banned. I can't even comprehend what he's doing otherwise, and I haven't been a fan of his work or bigotry for years.
So the most charitable read people have come up with here is that James is saying this tweet he's retweeting is proof that woke Jews are causing an increase in anti-Semitism.

I'll let you draw your own conclusions.
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9 Jan
Bo: "in academia it's indisputably the case that people of color are given advantages over white people...the who is the least likely to get a job all other things being equal is a white male"

Academia: 40% white males, 27% white women, 4% black, and less than 4% Hispanic.
Before someone says there aren't enough black academics with PhDs.

6.5% of PhD recipients are black and 7% Hispanic.
Yet these groups are max 4% each of full-time academic faculty.
The idea that black and Hispanic people have advantages getting faculty positions in academia, or have "minority privilege" in academia is completely divorced from the reality of academia.

If people want to make the argument that black people with PhDs aren't qualified, well...
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27 Dec 20
A lot of the Twitter reactions to this demonstrate how disheartening it is what people focus on.

For any flaws, the two young people in this story reacted a lot more admirably than a lot of the adults commenting on it.
nytimes.com/2020/12/26/us/…
I hope the young lady transfers to a college she wants to attend after. She seems to have changed her attitude from even before the video went viral, and still responds with the right spirit today.
The adults on here who think it's okay to refer to the young man who posted the video as a "psychopath", who simultaneously had little or nothing to say about the consistent racism mentioned in the same article, please understand this is why your pleas of good faith fall flat.
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26 Dec 20
Pet peeve:
- Not every dataset has an average.
- Even when you specify what you're looking for, it doesn't mean there must be an average.
- Even when you can identify an average, some averages are more meaningful/useful than others.
Examples:
- There is no meaningful "average dog in America".
- There is no meaningful "average handsomeness of a man in New York"
- If I have 100 numbers, 99 of them is 1 and the other is 10,000,001. My mean in this case is 100,000. Which is extremely unrepresentative.
Finally, "average" is one of those ridiculous terms that have multiple meanings in math. The mean, median and mode are all averages. There are other averages too. Don't mess with a field that makes it possible for 1+1 to equal 10, or if you want to get funky, 2+2 to equal 5.
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25 Nov 20
Systemic racism today creates structural/institutional racism tomorrow.

Structural racism - ongoing overall social disadvantage of a racialized group as a result of previous policies or social norms based on widely held beliefs of their inferiority in socially valued contexts.
While systemic racism is about currently existing beliefs of inferiority, structural racism reflects structures that are now "baked in". Let's say you create a race and deny that race the opportunity to earn wealth for 300 years. Structures that now depend on wealth enforce that
A lot of instances of structural racism are defensible if you ignore racial impacts. Schools being funded by income is defensible. Black neighborhoods being poorer, and that school funding system being rooted in that fact, makes it structural.
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27 Oct 20
Yes, I definitely discount the views of people using those terms "seriously". They've chosen to signal something and that's how I respond to that signal.

We should though be able to get past that and focus on the value/morality of specifics if they are provided.
I think this because I want the same treatment when talking about racism.

A person knows something about me when and how I refer to racism, and it's fair for them to factor that in.

We can get stuck on my use of the word, or we can talk about the issue I'm pointing to.
I'll say we often find ways to focus on minor things like our disagreement on social terms to avoid answering the social specifics. This goes both ways too, because I think "cancel culture" or "fascist" as terms are intentionally broad to avoid specifics.
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