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DR. ABOLISH THE POLICE

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15 Nov, 16 tweets, 2 min read

https://twitter.com/MBarany/status/1459870934052089864

Thread where I answer these questions in hopes of quelling the AMR induced stomach ache I currently have.

https://twitter.com/MBarany/status/1459870934052089864

right now i feel like we are watching a new white supremacist organization being born, and as annoying as that is, what is causing me physical discomfort is the confused white people.

has this already happened? a new organization/institution where it is known from the Beginning that it's effed and people are like oh idk they haven't said anything bad etc.

maybe that's too specific? i know there is a history of abolition which i do not know.

i would love to understand like my role in abolition. what should i be doing?

i just... historically speaking the confused white people are just wrong, so i want to show them. but it doesn't matter. slsjdsfalskdsflkasf idk.

what seems inevitable. i mean, academia! it's easier for me to imagine prison abolition than academia abolition b/c prison is actually not an appropriate solution to any problem whereas places of learning seems... worthwhile? if it could be not the way it currently is.

i see capitalism, racism, academia, colonialism, gender binary, ableism etc as like bound to each other. i have no idea what life looks like without them.

bahhhh i took too long to finish this and checked notifications and now i'm sad again!

i would like to learn the history of movements and organizing i guess. but what does it mean to community organize if your community is not regional?

how do people with the least to give out organize the ones with the most to spend

if i keep my head down and focus on math i get hurt

if i keep my head up and care about justice i get hurt

if i assimilate i get hurt

if i don't assimilate i get hurt

i want to imagine a world where people can learn and create and share freely.

i guess i want a like ground-rules of starting an organization within an oppressive system. i would like to show explicitly that AMR has already failed.

but also?? i still dont' think it matters b/c racists don't listen b/c it isn't about anything real it's about them wanting to do what they want to do and seeing no reason not to if they can

;oiaesfkjasdflasldkf idk.

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AMS notices said no unless a specific anecdote was removed. Then this:

"The Newsletter of the AWM did not have the space, (but suggested a short letter referring to this article), so electronic publication in this form seemed to be the best alternative."

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