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12 Apr, 9 tweets, 3 min read
To those in power, Black protest is *synonymous* with anarchy. Y'all keep learning that. They're not subtle about it. How many times do y'all need to hear it?
I mean anarchy. Yes I know what it actually means. These folks aren't afraid of chaos. They create it on a daily basis. If you're gonna try to check me, please come prepared.
It's easy to get confused about where the critique is actually focused. It's a mistake to think that the problem with a riot is "chaos". Sure, that's the fear they sell to white people. And that is one aspect of the issue. But that is not what the powers that be are afraid of.
What power is afraid of is a community that doesn't respect that power. What they have always been afraid of is that Blackness will refuse to be oppressed under that power any longer. They know that these aren't "riots". They're not confused.
When you talk about them being afraid of "chaos", that is you buying into the narrative they're trying to sell you. When we name what they're actually afraid of, and we properly place the public narrative as the lie that it is, we have a more clear sense of reality.
The purpose of this discourse is for us all to move towards a more clear sense of reality. When we see things clearly, not only is it harder for us to be deceived. We also know what justice looks like. Justice is not complicated. They make things complicated to obscure justice
What they are afraid of is anarchy. That is the *reason* that it's meaning has been purposely co-opted and merged with this idea of chaos. That is why Black protest is synonymous with anarchy in their minds. They have always known that Blackness does not buy their story of power.
I talked a lot about why Blackness is somewhat resistant to this programming. We have to be.
Now I will admit that none of the nuance I just explained was apparent in my original comment. But I've been having this conversation for a long time. A lot of y'all are coming into the middle of it. Better to ask questions than to try to check people.

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9 Apr
I really need to put this on a billboard or something.
I'll say a few more words about this. Because I think there is a lot of work to do on the rift between individual contributors and middle managers. Those two groups should be working together to deal with issues that arise in the company.
As a manager, it can be tough when it feels like all people do is bring you problems and expect you to fix them. It feels draining, and you start to wonder if those people take any responsibility for the problems themselves.
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I guess this is happening. I need to get a beverage...
It'll be pretty off the cuff. Aniyia and I don't really have time for these things to be planned. But we're willing to be fairly open about the lessons we've learned in our relationship.
Tune in if you're interested. We're gonna try twitter spaces. You can't really link to it. So watch my account and look for it at the top of the app where the "fleets" are.
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7 Apr
This guy has no idea why this is such an ignorant comment. Which is part of the critique. What we want is for creators to have flexibility that is not constrained by white supremacy. The response from Whiteness is "well then jettison all context and pretend nothing matters".
Superman is an alien who just *happens* to look like an all American white male humanoid. Did you know that for the longest time all other Kryptonians just happened to be white as well? Coincidence I'm sure.
As time went on. Our time here in the real world. There was social and political progress. And eventually comic creators were like "yikes, I don't think all Kryptonians should be white". So they stopped doing that. There was never any creative barrier to it.
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I think companies should be more transparent about compensation. But let's be clear. Putting ranges in job descriptions doesn't really do any of these things Nathan suggests. Not without other tradeoffs anyway.
Does it save time? Sort of. If you mean you'll have a whole set of people self-select out of your process. Many don't want people self-selecting out early. There's flexibility to how things might work out. Posting salary ranges can suggest more rigidity than there truly is there.
Does it set expectations up front? Sort of. I mean there should be salary ranges that are consistent internally. But often the job description can't capture things like different levels that you might be evaluated at. Is the range for one level or multiple?
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7 Apr
Paraphrased: "Page auditioned to play Superman’s grandfather. They rejected him on grounds that fans expected the character to look like a young Henry Cavill."

This is really tortured way to say "white people must have white ancestors or white viewers get confused."
Ask Black Americans if we get confused when a Black character has white ancestors.

On second thought, don't.
That's just it though. Of all the ways that sci-fi and fantasy get to play with the rules of reality, we can see that white supremacy can not be tampered with. That's what we mean when we talk about how it pervades everything.
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You really need to get into Karla's thread. There is so much here. She has been chewing on power, and how it moves. I think it's such a necessary part of the discourse we are having about things need to change.
We've been talking about how social media platforms have created a new form of power. Unlike many of our older institutions, the power conferred by internet platforms is less able to be controlled by gatekeepers. People who haven't had power now have it.
Karla has also helped me see something else. (I highly recommend the thread and a follow).

Different kinds of power used to be coupled together. E.g. money, access, platform, decision-making. Now it's being decoupled. That has massive implications.
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