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12 Mar, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Oh.
Inequality doesn't happen by magic. It's not random. It's just humans doing what humans do.
"Why can't Black people get ahead? Must be something wrong with them."

Oh really?
"Reparations doesn't make sense. Nobody alive today has done anything to Black people."

Welp.
We haven't even talked about what it means that Black people pay more property taxes but still have underfunded schools. Make it make sense.

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13 Mar
See this is where it gets tough. I admit I never considered this aspect of a product like Liquid Death.

But we have to be smarter than this. We cannot spin up a whole capitalist machine, with all the inherent exploitation, because people don't want to feel awkward at parties.
My initial phrasing did come off as flippant. I apologize for that. I'm engaging with this thought quite seriously. It may be more than a "feeling awkward" problem. I'm still skeptical that a capitalist solution is what is needed there.
I think if you're gonna be anti-capitalist, you do need to be serious about addressing the problems people have. We know capitalism only provides surface level solutions. But a lot of people will pay for those in absence of something more permanent.
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13 Mar
This guy is wild. He is absolutely committed to lionizing the companies that are literally burning down the world.
Here's one of his previous joints about Amazon.
I think it's legitimately impressive the way he describes these companies and their executives. If I wasn't in the know because I work in this industry, I can see myself potentially being swayed by the way he tells stories. But this is the worst kind of bullshit.
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11 Mar
I'm seeing this a lot. Like a whole lot. And I just... y'all ain't learned shit.
A lot of people are working hard to convince themselves that it's okay to be part of the "mostly white people are getting the vaccine" statistic. Those same people are gonna be on here lamenting how awful that is when they are *in the fucking spreadsheet*.
I do a lot of moralizing on here. I try to be self-aware about it and not overdo it too much. What we've gone through with this virus is bound to be an extremely touchy subject. Because even the most privileged among us have been touched. And yet still, the impact is not the same
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11 Mar
Talking about privilege was never about shame. These folks aren't listening. Never were. Joe Lonsdale is gonna create whatever rhetoric allows him to keep doing whatever the fuck he wants to do.
Also are we gonna talk about what's underneath "the advantages I got from an awesome family?" I'm sure Joe doesn't wanna talk about what those advantages actually were. (Hint: it wasn't hard work)
Unfortunately, this is likely to be effective rhetoric for many white people. White men in particular. They already feel they're "under attack". The way white people respond to conflict is to create a strawman and use that to reject the moral argument.
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11 Mar
She sounds like a nice white lady. She probably thinks she's doing her best with the "Blacks" who are "the lower ones". Even given the *most possible* benefit of the doubt here, she just doesn't have the cultural competency required to serve Black students equitably.
I don't have time right this second to investigate this. There is a lot of missing context here for me. But there is a thing we can see just from this clip. This woman is choosing to identify the Black students as somehow separate and distinct from other low performing students.
The person she's taking to didn't ask her to do that. It wasn't necessary in order to address low performance. She decided all on her own to call that into significance. Even before addressing any other factors. That is what white supremacy does.
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10 Mar
I hate to say it, but he's not wrong. If you allow the conversation to be framed solely by identity, they're gonna trip you up with this every time. Men like Greenwald are able to thrive by wrapping themselves in their axis of marginalization.
We have this problem within marginalized communities. When you try to hold Black men accountable for the homophobia and transphobia in our community, you have to contend with this kind of derailing and misdirection.
If you've ever been a man of color trying to talk to a problematic white woman, you've probably been there too. Most of us have some axes of privilege and some of oppression. Many people will take the rhetoric of social justice and use it to shield themselves from criticism.
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