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Bradly Mason

@AlsoACarpenter

31 Jan

Tried to post in the comments there a couple times, but they never appeared. Quickly deleted? IDK. So this is take 3:

I truly think that conflating the Frankfurt school with CRT is a basic mistake that many make. They are very different ideologies, with different purposes, 1/

2/ and different histories. I try to make this clearer in my series response to Dr. Trueman:

alsoacarpenter.com/2021/01/18/car…

See especially Part 3, where I discuss the Civil Rights tradition as central.

3/3 Also, I've written a general overview here:

alsoacarpenter.com/2020/12/28/in-…

While both projects are "critical," again, they are very different and this should be very clear to anyone familiar with both. But I don't think either Pruitt or Trueman are. It's such an obvious error.

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Bradly Mason

@AlsoACarpenter

14 Jan

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1336750287462273026

It is truly sad how little folks understand about the Civil Rights Movement and message. How could he have not spent the time to read and learn the tradition before beginning his silly inquisition?

And to invoke Dr. King for his cause is just so ignorant. 1/

https://twitter.com/ConceptualJames/status/1336750287462273026

2/ What did the REAL King teach?

"The dilemma of white America is the source and cause of the dilemma of Negro America. Just as the ambivalence of white Americans grows out of their oppressor status, the predicament of Negro Americans grows out of their oppressed status." (1967)

3/ Or, how about:

"[O]ne of the great problems that the Negro confronts is his lack of power. From the old plantations of the South to the newer ghettos of the North, the Negro has been confined to a life of voicelessness and powerlessness. Stripped of the right to make

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Bradly Mason

@AlsoACarpenter

13 Jan

And when you wanna make a parallel between "BLM" protests and the MAGA insurrection, take the number of people at the Capitol time total hours to get the total man hours, then divide by number of dead, injured, property, damage, democracies in jeopardy, etc., to get a rate of 1/

2/ destruction per man hour. Next, multiply that rate times the total worldwide man "BLM" protest man hours (many millions) to discover how many would be dead, how many injured, how much destroyed, how many democratic institutions threatened, etc. Finally, compare that

3/ number (i.e., rate of MAGA destruction times "BLM" protest man hours) with the actual totals from "BLM" protests.

My guess is, if the worldwide "BLM" protests had the same destruction rate of that MAGA insurrection, there would be tens, if not hundreds of thousands dead,

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Bradly Mason

@AlsoACarpenter

17 Dec 20

https://twitter.com/AlsoACarpenter/status/1339668238146228224

Here's what I mean; a thread:

Scylla: Trumpism and Christian Nationalism

Charybdis: "In the midst of blatant injustices inflicted upon the Negro, I have watched white churchmen stand on the sideline and mouth pious irrelevancies and sanctimonious trivialities. 1/

https://twitter.com/AlsoACarpenter/status/1339668238146228224

2/ In the midst of a mighty struggle to rid our nation of racial and economic injustice, I have heard many ministers say: 'Those are social issues, with which the gospel has no real concern.' And I have watched many churches commit themselves to a completely other worldly

3/ religion which makes a strange, un-Biblical distinction between body and soul, between the sacred and the secular." (Dr. King)

The Path Between: "There was a time when the church was very powerful—in the time when the early Christians rejoiced at being deemed worthy to suffer

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Bradly Mason

@AlsoACarpenter

17 Dec 20

When y’all are attempting to both sides the CRT/Christianity issue, just tell me again how we can adequately address racism without (1) recognizing “race” as a social construction, (2) recognizing racism as endemic to our contingent, historically created liberal order,

(3) having skepticism toward supposed “race-neutral” legal and social standards and policies, including “merit,” “objective tests,” etc.,

(4) seeing our current racial distribution of social and economic goods as rooted in historical ideas, systems, and policies, forged even in the earliest periods of colonial America,

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Bradly Mason

@AlsoACarpenter

12 Dec 20

"I grew up living in the past. The future, some versions of which had only the sheerest possibility of happening was treated with the respect of the already happened, seen through the expansively prismatic lenses of what had already happened. 1/

2/ "Thus, when I decided to go to law school, my mother told me that the Millers were lawyers so you have it in your blood. Now the Millers were the slaveholders of my maternal grandmother's clan.

3/ "The Millers were also my great-great-grandparents and great-aunts and who knows what else. My great-great-grandfather Austin Miller, a thirty-five-year old lawyer, bought my eleven year old great-great-grandmother, Sophic, and her parents (being 'family Negroes,' the previous

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