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Feb 17 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Okay... who am I supposed to read to explain freaking Canada to me so I can appear educated and informed about the world
No. I'm not looking to learn about Canada generally. Like... I don't... care?? Exactly.

Just want to understand the current trucker thingy. Cause there's no @SouthPark episode on it yet I don't think.
Me: Why are rural whites even in Canada so susceptible to this right wing graft?
[Sees Pat King's theories on race]
Me: Oh, yeah. Never that far below the surface is it.
One big difference I'm seeing is that the Canadian news media seems to be going out of its way to point out how small the anti-vaxxers are as a percentage of the population, as opposed to our media where @Spotify tries to give every horse dewormer truther a megaphone and podcast.

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Feb 18
This judge done cried? She cried? Where at the "GIVING WHITE WOMEN A SLAP ON THE WRIST FOR MURDER MAKES ME CRY" stage of the proceedings? I just... wow. WOW. This judge cried. Cried y'all. Cried.
I can't... I can't believe this. I'm functionally speechless.
Imagine hating black people so much that you ask black parents to have sympathy with the white person who murdered their son while sentencing her to significantly less time than the guidelines suggest.
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Feb 18
I have to do something terrifying today: I am the mystery guest for my 6yo's 1st grade class. You're kind of supposed to share something about your job or family.

So I'm going to do some critical media training with the kids.
I'll have the kids pick the who what when where why and then we'll tell a story where the protag is the hero. THEN, same facts, we'll tell a story where the protag is the villain. Kids can see how changing the tone and adjectives can change our whole sense of the truth.
Lesson: Consider the source. I've done this before for 1st graders. Kids more or less had a good time.

But I also know that it'll be like 10 minutes of me talking and 5 minutes of "can I touch your hair." Which of course I let them. Because SIX YEARS OLD is when that's okay.
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Feb 16
Wife and I watched No Time To Die last night and agreed that it's the worst Bond since the Dalton era and that's maybe being unfair to Dalton.

I mean by the point they were all "you can be 007" I was literally shouting "NOBODY CARES" at my television.
[as they put the final plans into motion]
Wife: The science doesn't add...
Me: WHAT SCIENCE??? There are MAGIC SYSTEMS more grounded in reality than this!
And I just REFUSE to accept the universe where allegedly bad ass Black lady 007
A: Kills the unarmed scientist for some racial insensitivity as opposed to his LITERAL GENOCIDE PLOT
B: Gets on the boat WITH THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN instead of finishing the mission
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Feb 11
So I had the realist conversation with my 9yo about the n-word so far just now.
I guess a black friend at school said that another black person called him the word (not at school) and the friend was confused, as was my kid. Who also didn't know why it's such a "bad" word anyway.
So, I explained that any word can be turned into a slur if you say it often enough, about one group of people, with enough hate in your heart. I then started calling people "stupid SPOONS." "I'm going to to STEAL your Pokemon cards, you dumb ugly SPOON"
I explained that after a while, the word "spoon" would hurt you even without the other words, and that the n-word was the word white people have chosen to use against us for hundreds of years.
I said, to fight back, some black people have tried to take the word back...
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Feb 8
People need to stop saying that conservatives on the court are "like" Jim Crow. We are beyond that now. Now the Court is just DOING what the Court DID in the Jim Crow era.

It's just... the same. All that's missing is the violent vigilante enforcement of those rulings.
Like, understand, some states, some of the time, are always going to try to be racist when it comes to voting. Apartheid is in the very DNA of the "state's rights" argument.
The ONLY question is whether the Federal Government will stop them.
The Supreme Court doesn't have to *do* the racism. It just has to let the racism happen by pretending the 14th and 15th Amendment don't exist. That's what it did ever day from 1877 to 1954. That's what's it's done every day since 2013.
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Feb 7
Thomas, Alito, Gorsuch, Barrett, and alleged attempted rapist Brett Kavanaugh vote to let Alabama use it's racist maps, finding (wrongly) that it's too close to the election do anything about racism.

cnn.com/2022/02/07/pol…
It's not a surprise, given who we've allowed to be on the Court. But it is another reminded that the pro-racism wing of the conservative movement is ascendant and will not let the 14th or 15th amendments operate, just like these people did from 1868-->1965
It'd be nice if Senate Democrats could cobble together 50 votes against Jim Crow, but I know that the donors who control Joe Manchin and Krysten Sinema are offended on behalf of Mitt Romney when I call Republican policies what they are.
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