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Jane Coaston

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16 Jul, 7 tweets, 2 min read

https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1415990777369530374

This is hardly the point but both of these people were.. assassinated for their views, so

https://twitter.com/revrrlewis/status/1415990777369530374

The FBI sent MLK letters demanding he commit suicide, which seems worse than Facebook not approving posts

I feel pretty strongly about my view that the power of the state, which can and will kill you, is greater than the power of tech companies.

That letter:

I will say that it's kind of hilarious that when King's circle of allies read this everyone immediately guessed correctly that it had been sent by the FBI.

As a side note: nytimes.com/1964/11/19/arc…

"J Edgar Hoover is mad at you again" "Tell him I'm on the beach"

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Jane Coaston

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https://twitter.com/indigogloves/status/1414932456990466053

I’ve never seen a baby who definite refers to every person under 50 as “young man” or “young lady” until now

https://twitter.com/indigogloves/status/1414932456990466053

Can a baby be a deacon

This reminds me that my late grandmother once referred to a 65 year old grandmother of two as “that young girl down at the church,” that’s the energy for me

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Jane Coaston

@janecoaston

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It's interesting how DiAngelo is tied to critical race theory while apparently entirely rejecting the materialism central to critical race theory while focusing on white people saying the wrong things. Granted, doing so is probably a better economic decision.

From "Critical Race Theory: An Introduction" -- pay particular attention to the third screenshot.

If I could gesture meaningfully again:

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Jane Coaston

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14 Jul

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1415395353906536450

Still waiting on that Toussaint Louverture biopic

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1415395353906536450

This biopic would be rated NC-17 for "excruciating violence and not in a fun way"

Hey speaking of Haiti bbc.com/news/world-eur…

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Jane Coaston

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14 Jul

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1415333073646985219

The evidence is wherever and whatever you want it to be!

https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1415333073646985219

Political media tends to do this thing where they take conclusions drawn from itself and project those conclusions onto voters (i.e. "I hate Trump, ergo, they will also hate Trump," or "I hate some culture war issue, ergo, it will be a winning issue for Republicans).