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Jan 21 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Whew. This thread.
This article seeks to capture some of the controversy around the event where Hannah-Jones spoke with MLK's words. What it doesn't do is hold to account those who tried to silence her. chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/…
The actual people who wrote the emails trying to whitewash MLK's legacy are not listed. Only the people who decided to be on her side. This is how it goes. White people who participate in racist backlash never have to actually be accountable to it.
This is why many of us say that white America has never *actually* reckoned with the reality of ongoing white supremacy. No one gets in trouble for it. No one actually experiences lasting consequences for continuing the exact same known patterns.
The people who wrote those emails will never face a public reckoning that what they did was extremely racist. We don't get to call it what it is. All of our institutions will bend around letting those people retain their self-image as "good people".
All I'm saying is that we know that actually ending racism is still not that important to white people. You can see it clearly in what they value and what they punish (or don't).

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Jan 8
I've been having some form of this conversation with white men for years now. My understanding of it as a moral ideology gets more and more refined over time. "Build nameless, faceless systems and blame them for the world's ills so that individuals cannot be held accountable."
Let me be extra clear in the statement that I'm making. I believe that Western white supremacist capitalist imperialism requires this kind of mental gymnastics in order to justify and sustain its continued violence. No one is to blame. The violence simply emerges naturally.
Blaming nameless, faceless systems is the perfect form of disenfranchisement. Because every single human in the system can claim that they don't actually have any agency. Their decisions are simply dictated by the system and have nothing to do with their values.
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Dec 22, 2021
I've gone back and forth on the right nuance here. What I tell people is to work hard on your own growth. Don't find yourself working hard because you expect that you'll magically be recognized and rewarded for it. That's often not how it goes, and it's a hard lesson for people.
What gets you recognized and rewarded is way more situational and way less predictable than people want to believe. In order to know how to get ahead, you have to understand what kind of organization you're in and how it operates.
The important thing to understand is this. You want to get rewarded for the *value* you bring. You do not want that to be tied to how many hours you work or how intensely you work. That is a recipe for burnout. Or at least for feeling overworked and underappreciated.
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Dec 22, 2021
Oh. protocol.com/bulletins/frac…
Remember what I said about "free markets" and "consenting adults"? Here are some choice quotes form this short article. protocol.com/bulletins/frac…
"The startup said in its announcement that it will fully compensate the victims of the hack..."

Does that sound "decentralized" to you?

"...in which an unauthorized user posted a fake minting link in Fractal's #announcements channel"

Does that sound like "transparency" to you?
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Dec 16, 2021
This is a thoughtful thread. But I want to say something real simple. Trying to keep people from getting scammed is not a bad thing. This isn’t about ego or “scolding” people. I’m trying to prevent harm. Like I try to do everywhere else.
Saying “it won’t work” is true in some sense. But it misses the point. You can’t really keep people from jumping on a bandwagon and getting harmed as a result. People are gonna to do what they want. But I believe we can help people see the truth sooner rather than later.
Cryptocurrency and NFTs are not too big to fail. I think the ideas will evolve in a few different ways. It’s not going to die completely. But it is unsustainable in its current form. Because a lot of people are going to get hurt. And at some point, that’s going to come to a head.
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Nov 30, 2021
Doing something with math or engineering was drilled into me from a young age. This was before "STEM" became the word of the day.

In college, all majors had to take intro to computer science. I found I had an aptitude for it. Not much more to it than that.
Like a lot of people, I didn't have a "passion". I always wanted to be a writer of some kind. But it takes a lot of work to create a career from that. And I was honestly too lazy. Didn't have that kind of initiative. I was hoping for a good job that paid well.
I didn't know anything about computers until my senior year in high school. But the more I poked around with one, it struck me as something that required a lot of skills and education. And where I come from, that means more money. So it seemed like a reasonable career bet.
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Nov 10, 2021
This is true, but also not sufficient. The thing to understand is the hype train has a purpose. It serves to attract money and resources to the cause. So that the work happens to turn web3 into whatever people need it to be.
The hype isn't about the current blockchain tech. People will flood this space and build things on and around the blockchain. Idealists who believe in all the promises of decentralization. That's what technologists do. And it'll all be taken advantage of by the scammers.
Technology idealists have always been exploited in this way. And as far as I can tell, most of them don't really mind.

It's not just them though. Our space is increasingly flooded with opportunists why don't give a shit about whether the tech is "good".
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