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14 Jun, 4 tweets, 2 min read
This thread v the comments from three mainstream non-zealot conservative writer/editors. The pushback to CRT posits that we mustn't tell the truth about history because WHITE people will feel bad. But BLACK people have "felt bad" for 400+ years. Righting wrongs is painful.
Slavery was terrible. There is no way around that fact. We're told fictional versions like that Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson were a great love story when she was a woman who was kept in slavery. Jefferson didn't set her free and marry her and move her into his house.
These relentless tales of happy slaves are not the truth. And on the eve of #Juneteenth, Nikole Hannah-Jones was cheated of a position because men like the ones in the QT here made sure of it: Her history threatens their supremacy. Support CRT: It's TRUE history.
Acknowledging the truth about racism is not worse than racism, no matter how many white people tell you it is. Some of us were raised with the facts in actively anti-racist households. That is how it should be. Teaching CRT is a start.

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When women set boundaries on here to protect themselves, it is the zenith of anti-feminism to assert they are wrong to do so or that it's a moral failing. When that strident anti-intersectionality comes from other women, it's deeply hurtful and damaging.
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Sounds rapey. Yikes.
Hey--remember this?
And actually the massive payout was for "non-consensual sex," or what the rest of us call rape.

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This makes me deliriously happy.
The danger Wolf posed daily was evidenced by the people who followed her. The more QAnon she became, the more her follower count grew. Her claims were extreme even by anti-vax standards. She even held "Freedom" meetings "unmasked!" she announced.
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