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9 Jun, 4 tweets, 1 min read
It’s infuriating
there’s no other position. It’s just infuriating.

Other relocated team names don’t rankle this way. LA ain’t got no lakes but it’s fine.

But the Jazz? shoulda left that in Louisiana, man. It feels like trolling.
Memphis Grizzlies is weird too.

A bunch of big-ass bears from Vancouver sweating to death in the Tennessee heat.

You know they stink.
Raptors is dumb, too. No relocation problem there. They just named their franchise after some things from a popular movie from the time they debuted? Think abt that.

They coulda been the Toronto Mrs Doubtfires.

The Toronto Pelican Briefs. The Toronto Indecent Proposals. 👎🏿

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Vaxton P. Hartnabrig. Profile picture
9 Jun
A few things from Jennifer and Hakeem's research:

1) white support for BLM surged last year, but it is now lower than it was *before* George Floyd's murder.
2.) maybe more people should have been skeptical of the so-called “reckoning.” @pikachudy said that public opinion polling of whites people on issues of race show that only about 1 in 5 white people consistently express some degree of distress at news of Black suffering.
(That data suggests it was unlikely that suddenly solid majorities of white ppl — 60 percent and higher, depending on the polls — had suddenly permanently moved into that “racially sympathetic” cohort after the killings of a George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.)
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8 Jun
Maxim is still a thing?
Y’all, it’s *Maxim.* It was always frat boy garbage. Who cares what they rubber stamp?

I honestly think representation politics is breaking people’s brains
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25 May
This is horrible.

cops lie as a matter of course, and reporting on them should start from a position of skepticism.
Also, while body cams captured this encounter, they did not and so not prevent things like this from happening, which seems to be what a lot of people hope they will do.
All this over an “unspecified traffic violation.” Not even a “crime.”

It’s telling that the reform-minded police voices in the story take issue with how Greene was treated after the police had him on the ground — but they don’t take issue with the fact of the encounter itself.
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24 May
ready for murdur durdur
she about to get her job back because police
"i bought you a gift basket. Cheesesteaks...hoagies...Goldberg's Peanut Chews...some Pennsylvania Dutch Soft Pretzels...Yuengling...'
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24 Apr
Congrats to this brother and also: these viral feel-good stories always have glaring omissions of context

Like, how is it that a school in OAKLAND that’s been around for 100 years has never had a Black valedictorian?
Also, one way you know it’s almost May is that the exceptional Black kid who got accepted to a bunch of elite university stories are all dropping

(Or the perennial story about UP in Chicago and their “100% college acceptance rate”)

sfchronicle.com/local/article/…
thedp.com/article/2019/0…
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22 Apr
10 minutes into the @yourewrongabout episode on politics correctness and it already feels like a look at the intellectual history that led to that moral panic-y NYT story about Smith College a few months ago.

podcasts.apple.com/nl/podcast/pol…
One thing that’s important context for fights over “culture” and “free speech” on campuses is that they are primary sites of conflict re: historical and ongoing segregation.
1) These are PWIs established *for* white students and white academics that are still reckoning with the reality that “integration” is more complicated than simply beginning to admit people who ain’t white. (Or straight or able-bodied or...)
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