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6 Dec, 4 tweets, 2 min read
To the Patriot Front, “America is truly unique in this pan-European identity which forms the roots of our nationhood.” It organizes on the idea that (White) America is under attack (echoing the backlash against CRT and anti-racism as anti-American, anti-White and racist). 1/4
"In order to survive as a culture, a heritage, and a way of being, our nation must learn that its collective interests are fighting against its collective threats of replacement and enslavement," the Patriot Front states in its manifesto. 2/4
burlingtonfreepress.com/story/news/loc…
“America stands at the crossroads of an era. An uncertain future lies in the hands of a new generation which has been given a simple choice between sovereignty and subjugation,” the Patriot Front's manifesto says. A multiracial democracy? Not a choice. 3/4
splcenter.org/fighting-hate/…
The Patriot Front’s manifesto states, “the debasement of our history and the visions of our Founders has been both treasonous and prevalent.”

This is the same mantra of White supremacy expressed by GOP politicians and operatives--and on Fox News. 4/4
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…

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5 Dec
GOP Rep. Alicia Lekas, who says teachers are “indoctrinating students,” is sponsoring a “teacher loyalty” bill that will make New Hampshire teachers *indoctrinate* students in only positive accounts of US history (when not including worldwide context). 1/4
concordmonitor.com/House-Republic…
New Hampshire teachers will be ordered to indoctrinate students that the United States—with its free White, dispossessed Indigenous, and enslaved Black populations in 1776—was not founded on any racism. 2/4
New Hampshire Republicans effectively want educators to instruct students that the U.S., with all its racialized slavery then, was “not racist”—and the U.S., with all its racial inequities now, is “not racist.” 3/4
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30 Nov
“Anti-racism is anti-white” is the old and explosive mantra of avowed White supremacists. I document how it has been their organizing vehicle, fueling backlashes, fueling delusions that antiracism is the new racism. 1/7

My latest @TheAtlantic.
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
Americans are familiar with White-supremacist movements like the Klan, skinheads, neo-Nazis, and the Proud Boys. But they don’t seem to recognize White-supremacist *ideology*—the most venomous form of racist ideology. 2/7
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
"Wokism” or antiracism or CRT or the 1619 Project or BLM or any challenger of racial inequity is said to be anti-White or racist. Variations on this mantra have become so ubiquitous that people can dismiss its origin in White-supremacist thought. 3/7
theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/…
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17 Nov
Five years ago, on this day, I won the National Book Award for Nonfiction for my second book, Stamped from the Beginning. It was a surreal night as I didn't expect to win. #NBAwards 1/5
.@TheRealDrKendi urged me before we left for the ceremony to jot down some notes for a short speech in case I won. I resisted and then obliged. And, of course, Sadiqa turned out to be right. 2/5
But the highlight of my night wasn't winning. It was witnessing the conscience of the United States Congress, John Lewis, win for his graphic novel, March: Book Three. 3/5
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12 Nov
.@marcthiessen writes CRT “teaches that Whites are the oppressors,” casting me as a critical race theorist. In #HowToBeAnAntiracist, I don’t say all Whites are racist oppressors. Actually, I challenge those who do. What's dangerous is misinformation. 1/
washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/…
I write about in #HowToBeAnAntiracist that we should recognize "ordinary White people as the frequent victimizers of people of color and the frequent victims of racist power." 2/
This quote comes from a chapter called “White," which explains why we should not position all White people “as an oppressor class” and all people of color as an “oppressed class,” as Thiessen and Princeton professor Allen C. Guelzo claim CRT and I do. 3/
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5 Nov
Youngsters learn about race whether or not adults actively or consciously teach them. They observe how their caregivers—and our unequal society—value/devalue different skin colors. We know kids are like sponges. We must stop acting like these sponges aren’t soaking in race. 1/5
The question we should be asking: What are our kids soaking in about race? What is our highly unequal and segregated society teaching kids when we think they are not listening or watching or understanding? 2/5
What are young kids soaking in from an environment that says bad people, not bad policies, are the cause of racial inequality? How many kids are learning “dark is bad” when to be antiracist is to see no skin color or race as bad? 3/5
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1 Nov
Let’s talk about the deleted tweet. It was quite an entertaining weekend. 1/14
First, context. In 2017, 55 percent of White people were surveyed as saying White people are subjected to racism. But a smaller % of White folk said they have experienced racism. Only 11% stated they personally faced racism when applying for college. 2/14
npr.org/2017/10/24/559…
The anti-CRT crusade has spread this belief that White Americans are the victims of racism. As I posted last week, more than a third of White students lie about their race when applying for college, according to an online survey. 3/14
thehill.com/changing-ameri…
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