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Coddled affluent professional

@feelsdesperate

Apr 28 • 33 tweets • 8 min read • Read on X

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Is your hobby racist?

Is chess RACIST?

Your Monopoly board holds dark secrets.

Baseball cards may be transmitting racist ideology.

Birding has a racism problem (you knew this already).

Big racism problem for birding.

Reckoning for birding.

Knitting.

Cycling.

Even in the garden, there's bigotry to be found.

Gardening has its roots in racial injustice.

The whiteness of glassblowing.

The unbearable whiteness of hiking

'Bad things happen in the woods': the anxiety of hiking while black.

Pottery and racism. 'Before I can talk about clay.'

Origami rose to the occasion.

Scrapbooking as an act of 'radical self-care'

The whitewashed legacy of the cross-stitch

People of color are carving out safe spaces for themselves int he white male dominated activity of rock climbing.

Systemic racism can't be fixed without tackling it within cycling.

Kayaking is too white.

Skiing has a diversity problem.

Racism in fishing

Jogging

Skateboarding can help fight racism.

Improv

Yoga's got a racism problem

Racist history of diving

Golf

Magic: The Gathering

Dungeons & Dragons

Soul Cycle and Peleton had a reckoning.

CrossFit might be the most racist exercise

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