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6 May, 6 tweets, 1 min read
FALCON AND WINTER SOLDIER does that Marvel thing where it provides a spot-on critique of the whole premise of a character and then basically asks you to forget about it
Isaiah Bradley was right, is what I’m saying.
Zemo and Karli too.
in the real world if Sam Wilson attempted to get a national museum to share the story of Isaiah Bradley it would be a national political scandal with like Ted Cruz denouncing the “so-called Captain America” on the Senate floor
also if you really wanted to reframe the story in a museum experience you would have the Bradley exhibit come *before* the Steve Rogers stuff
“this so-called captain america is trying to put critical race theory in our museums”

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b-boy bouiebaisse Profile picture
6 May
ironically, if this description is accurate a high school history teacher who assigned a passage from “The Racial Contract” would be in the clear but one who handed out a reading from a David Barton book would not be. theguardian.com/us-news/2021/m… Image
of course in practice what would happen is that Christian nationalism would be fine and teaching, like, Edmund Morgan would be a criminal offense.
the whole point is to make prohibitions so vague and nebulous as to discourage educators from even touching topics like slavery or Jim Crow or present-day discrimination.
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4 May
a good example of this is here in charlottesville, where our (mostly) car-free pedestrian mall is a major tourist draw and proposals to make it car free — or create a similar area near the university — draw opposition, blank incomprehension and outright ridicule.
on a broader note, what ryan calls “car supremacy” is an absolute disaster for equity of any kind. car-centric design in cities & suburbs are a nightmare for low-income & working-class people who are forced to devote a large part of their income to car ownership and maintenance.
the suburbanization of poverty makes it all the worse, as people have to travel even longer distances to places of employment. if you can’t afford a car, then, you have to use underfunded and thus unreliable public transit or you have to walk
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3 May
in 1833, james madison wrote an unaddressed letter on the question of “majority government” in the context of the tariff fight of 1832 and the subsequent nullification crisis. it’s a discussion on the nature of majorities that ends on this (i think) provocative note
“....the vital principle of republican government is the lex majoris partis, the will of the majority; that if the will of a majority cannot be trusted where there are diversified and conflicting interests, it can be trusted nowhere”
Madison opens strong too
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1 May
i will watch literally anything tom clancy so we have WITHOUT REMORSE on right now and i will say that if this movie had been made in 1994 it would have starred steven seagal and been over-the-top in the best way
this movie, as it stands, takes itself way too seriously
ugh i hate that i am kind of excited for this rainbow 6 movie they teased
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30 Apr
watching FALLING DOWN and for now i’ll just say that if joel schumacher had a distinctive anything it was making very sweaty movies
thinking of doing a triple feature of this, DEATH WISH and the new bob odenkirk movie
it’s why i’m watching it! as maybe the definitive “white male rage” movie of the 1990s. i’m kind of interested in finding this equivalent movie for every decade since the 60s.
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28 Apr
There is no way to avoid the fact that the politics of redistributive policy in the United States is racialized. Studiously avoiding anti-racist language or mentions of race period does not actually stop or defuse this dynamic, and may actually make the policies more vulnerable.
Or to pose in the form of a question, how does one adjust race-neutral messaging for universal policies when opponents correctly point out that those policies will disproportionately help low-income black and brown Americans and argue (falsely) that this makes them “welfare?”
As an aside, many of these arguments feel as if we are low-key relitigating the 1990s with no acknowledgement of the fact that the Clintonite strategy of running against (black) liberalism did not actually work to insulate the Democratic Party from racialized attacks.
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