Thread by @usnehal

When will we admit that “clash of civilizations” of Islamophobia narrative is not only false but dangerous. “War on Terror”=waging war vs Muslims but #J6 & #BuffaloMassacre reveal terror is not one religion. When Muslims are “legit” targets…that supremacist hate spreads further.

https://twitter.com/VoLinxx/status/1539245182532583425

Who was it “okay” to torture? (assumed is a terrorist?) Whose civil liberties disappeared 20 years ago? Muslims.

“But you all ‘deserve’ it” we’ve heard &: Why didn’t you stop terrorism? Why haven’t you apologized about x & y?

Now: consequences of that

vox.com/2016/3/31/1133…

The “Great Replacement” is an extension of “Clash of Civilizations” that conflict/war is “inevitable” between “different” humans defined by race or religion. It dehumanizes some humans as “less than” or “threat.” Once you label as such, violence follows. vox.com/science-and-he…

Why do so many Black Americans take Muslim names? Before being enslaved, a portion of enslaved were Muslim & forced to convert to be “civilized” by white enslavers (& better controlled).

Antiblackness & Islamophobia are both parts of history of slavery.

theconversation.com/muslims-arrive…

A preserved autobiography in Library of Congress of a Muslim West African man kidnapped & brought to South Carolina proves Africans were not “barbarians” but literate,rich culture/heritage. “Violent brute” narrative is false (made up to justify slavery):

Americans don’t know the numbers we use *are* “Arabic numerals” iflscience.com/56-percent-of-…

Yes, this is bigotry. And yes, this was your precursor to all the bogus anti-#CRT fearmongering. It was there. This is you (50% of you) & your beliefs that got us here… yes, Dems too.

This & other tweets point out we have #juneteenth but banning teaching of any actual history under calling everything #CRT - also, what *is* wrong with teaching legal & policy literacy of how government & courts work? It is literal “civics” & a normal subject?

https://twitter.com/ebonyjhilton_md/status/1538953959418863619

As a Muslim I lost count of how many times someone told me they had not heard me apologize for this or that. Being constantly publicly ashamed of one’s identity & “take responsibility” of all history & 1.8 billion Muslims was expected & required.

Yet:

vanityfair.com/news/2022/01/f…

ALL improvement & change is uncomfortable.

Of course you will & should “feel bad”(ly) when you see harm. (Had to correct the grammar.)

If you feel distress, it would mean you are NOT a racist & you DO have empathy for a fellow human instead of this:

discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/r…

“She called me a racist!!!” & “She’s bullying me!!!” Uh, first, if you are in a system where the #economy depended on race-based chattel slavery, ALL of us are in a racist *system* & all of us, even POC & Black can have internalized antiBlackness & colorism, as an adaptation.

https://twitter.com/brooklynhistory/status/1173321850794971136

This nebulous “POC” label is too often exploited by racists to place a supremacist-minded, elitist “POC” who is anti-equity as a mouthpiece of antiBlackness.

Per this @NPR article, white-passing & white adjacent matter. Yes, they do.

npr.org/2020/09/29/918…

“POC” is the valued job criterion: ✅#DEI …even if actions are not pro-#equity/justice but serve elitism, I get this response when using the same terminology as NPR’s experts to educate a #SciComm #influencer/reputation expert who, like me, can be considered white passing

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1538330171689816064

Doing this work within the “POC” community is thankless yet the right thing to do - I know what it is like to feel reviled, mislabeled, bullied on identity & race. Above exchange resulted in a monetized hit piece manufacturing “data” vs me- exact “make it up” tactics used vs #CRT

https://twitter.com/natesfault/status/1537932903178375169

This relates back to earlier in 🧵 of being okay with torture = try to get information, without evidence, based on profiling someone/bias.

=Violence “ok” as long as the target was “valid” because “evil”? Well that is the same mental justification as this threat of violence:

https://twitter.com/adamkinzinger/status/1538647426348859393

Many religion references. If believe in a “clash of civilizations” by religion & race, will respond this way to a race/religion “traitor” …who upholds the Constitution & rule of law.

Where else is “traitor” belief?
British Neonazis & Prince Harry

thedailybeast.com/british-neo-na…

Repeating phrases:”race war”, “clash of civilizations”, “race traitor”, “the devil”

ANY manifestation of this is tribalism, which devalues/dehumanizes the “other” claiming “they hate our freedom” or “don’t share our values” (or worse)

Unsafe

I’ve been “marked” by QAnon groups

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1386661366468169736

Antiblackness in U.S. became coded after 1960s. Segregation ended. Racists felt “oppressed” by “PC culture.” What *was* “ok” to say, especially since 9/11: anti-Muslim bigotry. In fact the opposition vs Obama was framed in “acceptable” anti-Muslim terms. cnn.com/2015/09/18/pol…

Had spoken with @becker_sbecker on how flagrant anti-Muslim staff make hospitals unsafe by harassing & bullying Muslim trainees, for example, even while they are in a procedure, likely knowing trainees, especially on visas, cannot/are afraid to speak up.

go.beckershospitalreview.com/scott-becker-i…

So this is familiar & plausible, even likely. Yes, especially if you are a physician, in a position of so-called “prestige” or authority, you are going to be a target for those wanting to keep spaces “clean” or “pure” & who think not white, not Christian = “lost” “race war”

https://twitter.com/statnews/status/1538839200975491073

It used to be “just” racist hazing:either “rough it out” or quit

With increasing violence vs #HCW, doctors, #publichealth, is NOT safe to be targeting Black & POC #LGBTQ doctors like “Amy Cooper of Academia” does (especially if that “Amy Cooper” is making false claims online)

https://twitter.com/usnehal/status/1539149843624611841

No, am NOT saying racist hazing was okay but it was a reality one could not change as a trainee or early faculty… even in leadership if look at @DrDennar. It was not getting you shot in hospitals like now, tho

Who gave us “clash of civilizations”? Academia, wonks, intellectuals

So let’s drop this hogwash of it being the “uneducated” or “ignorant” - you can have full professorship or head up a policy think tank & be a bigot. That’s who gave us #Insurrection, #J6, #BuffaloMassacre & all these supposed “race war” or “civilization lost” foot soldiers.