One original nickname for the early Border Patrol was “Chinese catchers” jstor.org/stable/2700784
I did a story about this and spent months researching it. I love that whole region very much. But unearthing this history, of which I previously had known nothing, was absolutely shocking — the history itself but also how little I could find about it jstor.org/stable/2638496…
But we have to look at our own history in all its cruelties and avoidable suffering as well as everything else. We have to be honest with ourselves and each other about our own past so we can assess our present and plan for a better future together
Deleted a tweet in this thread because the image was frankly upsetting. Here’s an old thread of mine on this topic I just found instead
Ethnic studies and critical race theory are among the #TantonNetwork targets, as one might expect from a white supremacist "population control" group that disguises itself as anti-immigration. They've been trying this tired old schtick for decades.
"Rather, the bills–which legislators have discussed or introduced in at least 11 states–are the fruits of a concerted political strategy seeded by the far-right group Federation for American Immigration Reform...."
By the way, "incels" is just another name for "misogynists." If someone is murdering women simply out of hate for women, it's called "feminicide," or sometimes "femicide." We gain nothing by giving murderers and their motivations new names.
Further reading. We are not unique and special with unique and special American problems. We are part of a global community and suffer from global problems, such as gendered violence
“Questions still loom about who leaked police information to right-wing media March 4 alleging that Hardesty was involved in a hit-and-run.” wweek.com/news/2021/03/1…
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If you don’t vet the things that sources leak to you — or at the very barest of minimums couch it in caveats — you are simply spreading propaganda. Ngo’s no journalist. Glad we could put that one to rest
Boy, the #TantonNetwork is all in. Cruz must think it will change the subject from when he abandoned his constituents to suffer and die in an unprecedented winter storm, or perhaps he's trying to distract Americans from the insurrection he helped incite with weaponized rhetoric
This is, obviously, total bullshit he's spouting. There's no "open borders" policy. There's no dangerous horde. This is just what immigration policy looks like when eugenicists are given free rein to write it.
Everything you think you know about the border is a lie, the product of a disinformation campaign that corrupt or spineless politicians keep alive year over year for personal benefit. They're fundraising to "keep Americans safe" off the lives of the world's vulnerable.
Not to mention that this is the same disinformation campaign and weaponized rhetoric that's been used against the American public for decades. The whole world has changed, but the #TantonNetwork's lies have not.