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1 Jun, 5 tweets, 2 min read
Far from some novel application of “woke” ideology, this is a summary of a thesis Hannah Arendt advanced in The Origins of Totalitarianism and one Aime Cesaire offered in Discourse on Colonialism.
Here is Cesaire for instance.
I might amend the summary in the original piece to say “racial antisemitism and white supremacy” to be very specific, but “white supremacy” alone is fine if you just assume it is inclusive of “racial antisemitism” since in this context, it obviously is.
The argument is still very contested, of course, the point is just that it’s old!
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2 Jun
lobbying gig most likely
being a do-nothing senator is a great gig. you have good pay, great benefits, a big staff that will tend to your needs, a platform for whatever you want to say, and you can travel a bunch too. after six years, you can parlay your experience into a 7-figure paycheck doing nothing.
the thing is, filibuster shenanigans aside, all the reporting i’ve read depicts her as someone with active contempt for liberal interest groups and constituents. if she wants to get reelected, that’s a weird way to go about it.
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2 Jun
I’ll say this is right but that it matters that one side’s vision of democracy is inclusive of the entire polity (no one is looking for ways to exclude rural whites from the vote) and one side’s clearly isn’t
which is to say that, yeah, the dispute here (as it is has always been) is what we mean when we say “american democracy”
reminded here of lincoln’s second inaugural. “Both read the same Bible and pray to the same God, and each invokes His aid against the other.”
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30 May
cc @CvilleCityHall
seriously this place loves parking mandates. its downtown core is close to being an unbroken set of surface lots, and yet people constantly complain there isn’t enough parking.
the city’s own data says we have more than enough parking but do not tell that to various business owners and city staffers, who insist that our economic survival depends on building ever more parking
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25 May
i really love this letter in support of the (wasteful, needless) proposed new parking garage, because it demonstrates everything wrong with how some influential stakeholders think of downtown charlottesville
first of all, the premise of the letter — that downtown faces a severe parking shortage that precludes visitors from experiencing the area — is demonstrably false. downtown charlottesville has two parking garages — which are rarely at capacity — & an abundance of surface parking.
in fact, the city hired consultants to do a study of downtown parking in 2015 which concluded that the parking problem was more management than supply, and urged city leaders to refrain from building new parking in favor of better management of existing resources.
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25 May
this is an incredible feature which also has me thinking about how interesting it is that the Tulsa massacre has gone from fairly obscure to basically mainstream knowledge in a few short years nytimes.com/interactive/20…
is it just the impact of HBO’s Watchmen?
i think this is right. a new generation of history-informed black journalists + the work of activists and historians = greater public awareness that then coalesces into the kind of popular presentation you saw on that show.
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24 May
i have complained about this on here before but let me say it again: cville economic development staff wants to spend $15 million on a 306-car garage across the street from another garage which is down the block from yet another garage, none of which are ever full.
all of this to satisfy an agreement that only calls for 90 reserved spaces. it’s madness.
still waiting for folks to stumble onto the straightforward answer to “how to get more people downtown” which is “construct more housing downtown”
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