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1 Jun, 11 tweets, 3 min read
1. The people who are misreading my Naomi Osaka thread and putting words in my mouth or assuming I don’t have any standing to speak about anything Osaka-related because I admitted to not following tennis/sports are revealing more about themselves than me.

2. Tweeting about controversial topics is sometimes like a Rorschach test.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rorschach…
3. Some people aren’t able to fathom what you’re talking about because it’s filtered through their own bias and they assume that because you sound like you’re saying X that you are uninformed, stupid, and lazy.
4. Some people may not be able to decipher my bio.

日系人 (nikkeijin) ← This means I’m in the Japanese diaspora. Japanese Okinawan American to be specific.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_…
5. I am mentally ill. I’m aware that being open about this opens me up to being discredited because of it but it is what it is. 🤷🏻‍♀️

6. I write about media and social media literacy and tweet media critiques.

7. I don’t know about tennis. But one doesn’t need to know about tennis to have opinions on how Naomi Osaka handled her exit from the French Open and how Twitter and the media are spinning the narrative.
8. So far I haven’t come across any in-depth reporting & analysis. Maybe I’ve missed it or maybe it’s too soon since a lot happened on Monday. If you’ve seen such an article, please send me a link.
9. Oh and I forgot to mention that I’m a woman. I get misgendered by people who don’t know Keiko is a Japanese woman’s name and think I look like a man in my profile pic. 🤷🏻‍♀️
10. For anyone who cares I’m also queer and indigenous but none of this should matter.

Everyone is free to have an opinion about international news even if you don’t like them, their identities, or their opinion.
11. But please stop pretending you’re for diversity and inclusion if you’re going to police my opinions when you don’t know me.

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1 Jun
1. I just listened to a maddening interview with a white journalist who seemed to be advocating for different rules for women of color because we have a harder time than white people and should therefore be treated differently. 🤯
2. I understand that there are some women/people of color pushing this idea that we need to be treated with kid gloves because it’s exhausting to talk to people different from ourselves but come on, we don’t all think this way! 🤨
3. I don’t need/want white women speaking for me. I can speak for myself.
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31 May
1. Dogs are really remarkable! 🐕

Article about working Labradors in Thailand trained to identify people with COVID-19. 😮

h/t @MyNextAct

nytimes.com/2021/05/31/wor…
2.

"as a group, the dogs being trained in Thailand — Angel, Bobby, Bravo and three others, Apollo, Tiger and Nasa — accurately detected the virus 96.2 percent of the time in controlled settings, according to university researchers."
3. Dogs are faster than PCR testing.

"An intake of air through their sensitive snouts is enough to identify within a second the volatile organic compound or cocktail of compounds that are produced when a person with Covid-19 sheds damaged cells, researchers say."
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31 May
1. Naomi Osaka has been trending all day. When I first looked at this page it was about how she'd skipped contractual media obligations and might be fined $15K and face other penalties. She's now been fined and withdrawn from the French Open.

twitter.com/i/events/13993…
2. Osaka said in a statement on Twitter a few days ago that she was skipping these appearances for her mental health.
archive.ph/Mz9E0

Her latest statement says she has "suffered long bouts of depression since the US Open in 2018".
archive.ph/RDWhh
3. I don't follow tennis or any other sports so don't have an informed opinion on how traumatic press conferences are for elite athletes but I'd like to hear a range of opinions.

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30 May
1. There are screenshots of a Reddit post circulating claiming that the purported author, a black man, will commit a mass shooting of "every minority in sight" and city council members + suicide.

It seems the person named in the post is real, but not clear he's the author.
2. Post from City of Lakewood's Facebook page saying "the Sheriff’s Dept. is taking all appropriate steps to quickly address the threat and the person who may have made the social media post, which may not be the person identified in the post."

facebook.com/LakewoodCalifo…
3. If you ever see a social media post like this, report it to the platform, look for news, law enforcement, and city social media posts about it, and call law enforcement if it seems they're unaware.
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30 May
1. Would love to see it become the norm that when someone is doing something out of ignorance, they're given an opportunity to have dinner with the people from the community they’re ignorant about, hear why what they’ve done is hurtful, go to a museum, and have a chance to grow.
2. We’ve all been ignorant about something, although in years past, most of us were not able to broadcast that ignorance to millions of people online. Some of us have since learned either on our own or with the help of people we’ve met what we’re ignorant about. Some not.
3. But if we don’t give grace to others who don’t understand why their actions are hurtful, we shouldn’t expect it in return. Might as well stone everyone now. (H/t to @CathyYoung63 for introducing me to this Life of Brian clip. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monty_Pyt…)

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27 May
1. Just skimmed Amy Cooper's complaint against her former employer which you can find at the bottom of this article. Should be interesting to see how this case goes.

I'll highlight a few things below.

2. For those who missed or don't remember this case, Amy Cooper was the white dog owner who was caught on video by Christian Cooper (no relation), a black birder, having a meltdown in the Ramble section of Central Park last May.
3. They were having a confrontation over Amy's dog being off-leash, which isn't permitted in the Ramble. Christian had reportedly asked her to leash her dog, she refused, and things escalated.
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