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16 Feb, 4 tweets, 1 min read
After it lost the Civil War, and to shore up white supremacy, the white South did not merely put up Confederate statues. It also funded southern history courses taught by white southerners in southern universities, to ensure no opposing interpretations could find their way in.
Not sure what made me think of that right now … 🧐
For non-UK followers: I was drawing a parallel with a new effort by UK govt to control history and ensure it likes the narrative being told.
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@ClementsAustinJ @SethCotlar No, I found that it goes back to at least the 1880s, & was popularized by Wilson in 1915 in a speech he gave to the DAR over debates re “hyphenate Americans". I trace all of this in my book on the history of the phrase.
@ClementsAustinJ @SethCotlar The first is from 1888. It was used to support William Jennings Bryan in 1896.
@ClementsAustinJ @SethCotlar Wilson campaigned on it in 1916. So did Charles Evans Hughes, his GOP opponent. Hearst flew it above his masthead throughout WWI, the first Red Scare, and against League of Nations & Treaty of Versailles.
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A few days ago @mrjamesob asked me if I felt vindicated bc I’ve been saying for years that they’re fascists. And I realized when I woke up this morning the answer is: I feel angry. Furious. We warned people, using historical evidence, of what was happening.
Now they’ve come out as fascists and smeared the capitol with feces and bashed a cop’s head in and tried to overturn the election and now those fuckers are calling for “unity”?!
Make no mistake: a call for unity with people who incited and took part in an insurrection against American democracy is not a call for unity, but for surrender.

Unity with fascists makes us fascist.

We don’t unite with fascists. We defeat them.
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#Fortnums new windows: celebrating London theatre and joy. This is lovely. 👇
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28 Sep 20
C4 news tonight leading with data leak from Trump's 2016 campaign database: “a major investigation reveals data leak & evidence that 3.5m Black voters were marked as ‘deterrence’ in a bid to stop them going to polls."
“In one of biggest database leaks ever” C4 reveals that 3.5 million black voters were targeted in Wisconsin by Trump campaign and other swing states. Clear racist voter suppression.
#C4News have obtained a huge cache of Trump 2016 campaign database. They had a group called “Deterrence” they knew wouldn’t vote for them and so they tried to stop from voting.
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24 Sep 20
Happy 124th birthday to Scott Fitzgerald, born #otd in 1896. The best decision of my professional life was to center it around his works and the interwar period he chronicled. Image
This year also marks the centenary of his literary career, which kicked off with the proverbial bang in 1920 - in honor of which I’ve done an essay for the latest issue of @nybooks ($) nybooks.com/articles/2020/…
I’ve written scores of essays about him and his work, but here’s one that isn’t paywalled, and includes my favorite photograph of him. newstatesman.com/culture/books/…
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26 Aug 20
Michelle Obama, DNC, 2016: “That is the story of this country, the story that has brought me to this stage tonight, the story of generations of people who felt the lash of bondage, the shame of servitude, the sting of segregation, but who kept on striving and hoping and doing...
... and doing what needed to be done so that today I wake up every morning in a house that was built by slaves. And I watch my daughters, two beautiful, intelligent, black young women playing with their dogs on the White House lawn.”
Please tell me more about how rare it is for First Ladies to talk about slavery in the White House... Melania just plagiarizing Michelle again.
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