Share this page!

Tim Wise Profile picture
Twitter logo
8 Oct, 7 tweets, 2 min read
It's time for progressive parents to start showing up at these school board meetings and handing out giant paper snowflakes to the right-wing MAGA parents who are afraid to let their kids read books about MLK and Ruby Bridges, or who think masks are child abuse...Mock them. Daily
They should not be spoken to like adults or reasonable people They should be ridiculed, mocked, called out for their snowflake-like behavior, their cowardice to confront the truth about history or COVID for that matter...
They cannot be reasoned with. They should be treated like the broken brain people they are. Every time they shout laugh at them, point at them, make fun of them...
Stand up to them and make it clear how unintelligent and uneducated they are, deliberately humiliating them in front of their friends and neighbors. Enough with this "be nice" shit, or "keep it positive." No, mock them
And school board members and teachers need to be strong as well...and parents need to back them up to help them be strong. If you resign, they win. Stand strong and tell these parents to shut up. Stop cowering. That is how fascists win...
I know it's scary when they say shit like "We know where you live," but dammit at what point do you stop letting fear usher in fascism? How do you think you'll be safe if they get their way?
As I wrote a week or so ago...

medium.com/age-of-awarene…

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Tim Wise

Tim Wise Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @timjacobwise

Tim Wise Profile picture
9 Oct
This will be one of those threads that some people won't like. But having looked in the Mason Jar of Fucks that I keep on my bookshelf, and discovering it to be strangely devoid of content I might willingly relinquish, I'll proceed (1)...
January 6 and the reality of people who wish to overthrow democracy altogether and usher in right-wing, white nationalist authoritarianism is why I cannot ultimately support prison abolition (2)...
The thinkers, scholars & activists behind abolition, for whom I have much respect, devised that vision with very different offenders in mind than these folks (3)...
Read 25 tweets
Tim Wise Profile picture
8 Oct
(1) The fact that there are people who still think the left should make common cause (around issues of class, the 1%, etc) w/the kind of people storming school board meetings in anger about masks, vaccines and anti-racist teaching is why the left is such a joke in this country...
(2)...they actually think we should build coalitions with openly fascist people, people who threaten violence against teachers and school board members over public health measures and books about MLK/Rosa Parks, all to "stick it to the billionaires!"...News flash:...
(3) These people don't hate the rich. They want to be them. The only rich people they hate are entertainers and rich Black athletes. They are not a constituency for progressive change, the revolution, or your stupid Leninist fantasies...
Read 7 tweets
Tim Wise Profile picture
8 Oct
These parents in Southlake TX, forcing libraries and teachers to pull any books off the shelves about racism (historical or contemporary) unless they are "viewpoint neutral" are the face of conservatism: book banning authoritarians, and snowflakes at the same time...(1)
There is no "viewpoint neutrality." We all have perspectives. And those parents don't really want that anyway. They wouldn't want us to teach the Nazi side of WWII, or al-Qaeda's perspective on 9/11. They just want to silence Black people. And all "liberal" perspectives (2)...
All education is political. When you hold up the founders as heroes, without discussing their deep flaws as enslavers or apologists for slavery, you take a perspective. And it's an offensive one (3)...
Read 6 tweets
Tim Wise Profile picture
7 Oct
Although it's obvious (hopefully) that the "Great Replacement" nonsense pushed by Tucker Carlson, Charlie Kirk, Matt Gaetz, et al. is racist to the core, it's also blindingly absurd on its face. Of course, those pushing it know their audience is too stupid to know this...(1)
The MAGA verse doesn't understand the forces driving demographic change, and millions of other folks don't understand them either, making them vulnerable to these white nationalist fears of "takeover" and a presumed conspiracy to make it happen...(2)
The truth of course is that "globalists" don't need to import labor from poorer countries into the "white West" when they can just export capital and do the work offshore...(3)
Read 5 tweets
Tim Wise Profile picture
6 Oct
(THREAD w/essay link below) The "Can Black People Be Racist?" question is among the most aggravating that most of us who do anti-racism work get from folks. But sadly, our standard answer (racism = prejudice + power) isn't particularly helpful, let alone convincing...
(2) Even though the underlying rationale for it is true -- that power makes bias more destructive and worthy of concern -- it doesn't follow from that that racism is ONLY systemic and determined by power dynamics. "Isms" are systems and ideologies...
(3) At the systemic level, racism doesn't require prejudice, making the above equation false. And at the personal, ideological level, it doesn't require power, also making it false...
Read 4 tweets
Tim Wise Profile picture
6 Oct
Why are people so stupid? When Bill Gates said better health care and vaccines could reduce population growth he didn't mean "reduce population," or "hey, we should use vaccines to kill surplus people." The fact I have to explain this is pathetic, but here goes...(1)
...First off, if he DID think that, and was part of a conspiratorial plan to make that happen, do you think he'd say that in a public forum like a TED Talk, which is the accusation here? That's not how conspiracies work y'all...(2)
...Second, his point was rooted in an accurate understanding of how population growth works. Fact is, when life expectancy is lower in a country & infant mortality is higher (due to disease, famine, lack of vaccines, etc), folks have more kids to replace those who sadly die...(3)
Read 8 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Too expensive? Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal Become our Patreon

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Like this author's thread?

Get emails when @timjacobwise has new unrolls!

Check out other threads from @timjacobwise!

Read all threads by @timjacobwise

:(