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6 Aug, 4 tweets, 1 min read
The GOP death march continues apace. Killing kids to own the libs.
By any objective standard, this is sociopathic behavior. But it's treated as a purely political horse race, a simple matter of which party is 'winning', instead of a completely unhinged willingness to literally risk kids' lives to serve GOP dogma.
How big a difference is there, really, between our antimask/antivax Right and the actual practice of human sacrifice?
As far as I can tell, the US Right wants to force you to have children just so they can die in a pandemic. This is insane.

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4 Aug
The mortal fear shown by these patriarchal white supremacists just underscores how important antiracist teaching really is. They know Fred Hampton was right when he said "you can jail a revolutionary, but you can’t jail the revolution.” But they're gonna try like hell anyway.
We are in the midst of what I think is a revolutionary reconfiguration of the ways in which History is envisaged, contemplated, and confronted. Those who see History as national celebration and dogma are being challenged in the public sphere on a larger scale than ever before.
The questions of who gets to speak, whose history is "important," and how to confront complicated, conflicted, and violent pasts are widely discussed in historical scholarship. But the fruits of those discussions are now in the public sphere as never before, I think.
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10 Jul
The only other republic in the Americas when Haiti won its independence in 1804 was the US-which reacted to this event by slapping an economic embargo on the new nation bc the slaveholder-dominated federal government was afraid enslaved ppl in the US would follow Haiti's example
Out of all the newly-independent nations in the Americas during the Age of Revolutions, Haiti was the one that most fully embodied the ideals of revolutionary liberty and universal freedom. So of course it became a pariah in the hemisphere, esp when it came to the US.
For the US, slaveholders' interests trumped supporting an actual republic founded on similar ideals to the ones possessed by the US's (mostly slaveholding) revolutionary elite. We didn't even diplomatically recognize Haiti until 1862. The US army occupied Haiti from 1915-34!
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7 Jul
I wrote a thread on this a few years back, but it's even more alarming now. The Right's authoritarian-verging-on-totalitarian approach to education--ban CRT! cameras in classrooms! no thoughtcrimes!--isn't an aberration, nor will it be overcome by an appeal to "the facts." 1/
These laws spring out of the Right's own vision of what "education" really is. Whether it's the fundamentalist homeschoolers, or evangelical church camps and purity culture, or the Young Republicans, they don't attract members so much as take hostages. /2
In this vein, education is really indoctrination. There is "our" correct view (Biblical inerrancy! A Christian Nation! White Supremacy!) and the heresies of "the other." Orthodoxy is rigidly enforced, often by adults who leverage peer influence also. Deviation is shunned. /3
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4 Jul
Love coming back from the movies to my notifications being filled by a bunch of right wing trolls who apparently think someone else on here is actually me on a burner account. Now I'm in the middle of some long running feud I have no idea about? I mean, who are these assholes?
They're all over this other account saying "we got you!" with a screenshot pic from my LinkedIn account (which I haven't done anything with in like 3 years). They must think they're elite hackers or something, but apparently this other account is in Canada, so...yeah.
So here's this guy in Canada, who seems like a good enough dude, with all these RWers tagging us both in an effort at mass harassment. And this dude is tweeting pics from in front of Tim Hortons and such saying "I am in Canada, you clowns," and they're like, NO, WE GOT YOU KEVIN
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30 Jun
There are many students who want to learn the unvarnished truth about how race, racism, and violence have suffused History. They want to learn how to change the broken world their elders are leaving them. They are braver than our "leaders." And they deserve our best as teachers.
I would guess that this is a majority of students, to be honest. The mythical entitled "snowflake" hasn't been part of my experience. Not every student is as far along in their journey, but for the most part they have the intellectual courage and desire to get there.
The real "snowflakes" are the white conservatives who believe that even talking about structural racism is a mortal threat to their hegemony. They're afraid of everything, and letting their fear stoke their anger. But their hegemony is crumbling--they know it and we know it.
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22 Jun
The sad part is that there are times where I feel like the Dem leadership either doesn't get it or doesn't care.
If you don't want people to be cynical, do the things you say you'll do in all these apocalyptic emails you send me imploring me to "stop Mitch." Binch, I voted for Y'ALL to do that. At least try.
"We need to elect more Democrats to stop the GOP!" Like...a majority, maybe? Boy imagine if we had that....
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