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28 Oct, 6 tweets, 2 min read
Texas Rep. Matt Krause has asked Texas school superintendents to confirm whether any books on a list of 850 titles are in their libraries and classrooms. This is a political stunt by a candidate for Texas attorney general. But it is also revealing. 1/6
texastribune.org/2021/10/26/tex…
What books does Krause consider to be about race/gender/sexuality or “make students feel discomfort”? Books with transphobic, sexist, homophobic or racist ideas? Books marginalizing people of color, LGBTQ people, and girls? Of course not. Their feelings don't matter to him. 2/6
Krause’s list contains books centering people of color, LGBTQ+ people, girls and women—or *challenging* transphobia, sexism, homophobia, and racism, including two of my books, STAMPED FROM THE BEGINNING and HOW TO BE AN ANTIRACIST. 3/6
To understand why is to understand the mindset of people being sexist, transphobic, homophobic, or racist. Let's take racist as an example. 4/6
To be racist is to see books containing racist ideas as books pertaining to *truth* not race. To be racist is to see books challenging racist ideas and evidencing the equality of the racial groups as books on *race* not truth. 5/6
To be racist is to see books by White authors on White people as pertaining to *people* not race. To be racist is to see books revealing the power and policy structure of racism as books provoking "division" and “discomfort,” not progress. 6/6

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What's "extreme" is for Ruy to ignore all the evidence and *not” ascribe racial disparities to racism.

It is also “dubious empirically” to suggest what he calls “class-based affirmative action” can eliminate racial disparities even as they persist when we control for class. 1/4
Ruy offered this tired and simplistic dichotomy whereby “the left” can only support “universalism” *or* antiracism policies, and the left has “abandoned” the former for the latter. It seems lost on Ruy that we can and should support both universalism and antiracist policies. 2/4
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12 Oct
Today, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Thompson v. Clark, a case that has major implications for police accountability and racial justice. The @AntiracismCtr partnered with @BULawDean to submit an amicus brief in this case. 1/8
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The Court is considering whether a person is barred from bringing certain civil rights claims unless the prior criminal proceeding ended in a manner that affirmatively indicates their innocence. This is the “indications-of-innocence” standard. 2/8
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23 Aug
Thrilled to announce that I’ve signed a multi-genre development agreement w/ @BOATROCKER. The deal will help launch my new production shingle #MaroonVisions & develop projects w/ Boat Rocker’s scripted, unscripted, and kids & family divisions. 1/4

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4 Aug
Today on #BeAntiracist, @DavidTreuer joins me to talk about his call @theatlantic for the U.S. government to return the National Parks to Native peoples. 1/4 podcasts.pushkin.fm/be-antiracist-…
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21 Jul
Restating the title for accuracy: Candace Owens dismantles Candace Owens’s flawed anti-racist rhetoric. Yet again someone is describing my work in a way I reject and attacking their own flawed description. 1/7
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"What he is alleging is that unless you are anti, which he defines as meaning, you are aggressively, constantly attacking it, then somehow you become it. So if you are not aggressively everyday waking up and looking and seeing racism everywhere, then you're a racist." 2/7
That’s actually not what I’m saying or even alleging, and I oppose this rhetoric. This flawed rhetoric defines racist as a fixed category, as who a person is, or becomes. 3/7
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9 Jul
“These critics aren’t arguing against me. They aren’t arguing against anti-racist thinkers. They aren’t arguing against critical race theorists. These critics are arguing against themselves.”

My latest @TheAtlantic. 1/5
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“What happens when a politician falsely proclaims what you think, and then criticizes that proclamation? Is she really critiquing your ideas—or her own?” 2/5
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“If a writer decides what both sides of an argument are stating, is he really engaging in an argument with another writer, or is he engaging in an argument with himself?” 3/5
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