Twitter changed the colors of the unfollow button to the color of what used to the be follow button, so I've now unfollowed people I like several times under the mistaken impression that I had somehow unfollowed them. What a weird design change.
I'm not kidding. I nearly just unfollowed @DawnPorter because I thought I wasn't already following her because of the color of the button. This is madness!
And it happens so fast. You see it, click it, and then you realize, and you're like: ah, dammit.
If someone with a typical office job was brutally murdered and someone said they had a garden variety 9-5 office job, you wouldn't hear someone else reply: "Are we sure they had an office job? We should know this as a fact before saying it. Just to be sure." (thread)
And yet, if someone who might be a sex worker is killed and someone says they may have been a sex worker, the immediate response from many is: "Are you sure they were a sex worker? You really should be sure before saying that."
Are there people who might say this for a good reason? Sure, there are circumstances where that makes sense. But let's be honest: most of the folks saying that this week are saying it because being a sex worker is looked down upon by a lot of uninformed, condescending people.
3. @ChipRoytx is definitely the kind of white dude who fetishizes that racist coward John Wayne as some bizarre avatar of masculinity and wouldn't know real country music if it bit him in the ass.
According to research by Asian Pacific Policy and Planning Council (@A3PCON) and Chinese for Affirmative Action (@CAAsanfrancisco), hate crimes against Asian Americans increased by nearly 150% in 2020.
This didn't happen by accident. Some receipts... (thread)
Between April 10, 2020 and January 3, 2021, Donald Trump either tweeted (or RT'd) the term "China Virus" 44 times.
But that's not all he did, even while hate crimes against AAPI people rapidly increased with his messaging.
We knew early in the pandemic...
January 30, 2020
"As I headed to my apartment, a group of men shouted while looking in my direction, 'see that Japanese chick over there? Stay away from her if you don’t want to get the coronavirus'" -- @beingsarahkim
Like every college or university, Columbia has their primary graduation ceremony, where all the traditional things happen: formal commencement, degree conferral, etc. This is for all students graduating from Columbia. This is the ceremony you expect. The big show.
But in addition to the big ceremony, Columbia University, like so many colleges and universities, offer supplemental recognition ceremonies for students from marginalized backgrounds to celebrate their accomplishment with peers from their community. These are very different...