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Jul 23 • 5 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
When JD Vance says Kamala Harris isn't "grateful" enough for America, he is repeating the same trope racist white folks have always offered: Black people aren't grateful enough for all they've been "given" in this country. I have thoughts. A 🧵...
2/ First, folks of color haven't been "given" anything by America. Had it been up to most of "America" and especially most white folks they wouldn't have gotten freedom or the right to vote, etc. They fought for and earned those things. They weren't gifts...
3/ Second, if anyone has been given something they didn't earn it's white rich people like Donald Trump who got $400m from his daddy, not one penny of which he "earned." Beyond that, it was white folks who got 270 million acres of basically free land under the Homestead Act...
4/ and 35-40 million white folks who benefitted from FHA loans for housing in the mid 20th c when Black folks were blocked from the same. But white folks never even acknowledge those head starts and government-backed benefits bc we're too busy claiming we earned all we have..
5/ while telling black and brown folks to be grateful. Maybe we should be grateful that every step forward towards democracy and the fulfillment of our national ideals has been the result of black folks' efforts, far more than our own. We are the ones who need to show gratitude.

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Jul 25
JD Vance's claim that people without kids don't have a real stake in the country is not only a slap in the face to folks who can't have children for reasons of infertility, it's revealing of the sickness of the right-wing worldview. A 🧵...
2/ The right cannot imagine caring for the collective good of the country, for other people's kids, or for the health of families not their own. They are selfish, narcissistic misanthropes whose tribalism cannot allow for the possibility of altruism, or solidarity with others...
3/ They assume that someone w/o a child doesn't care if the country collapses because if they did, they'd have kids. But children are not promissory notes, FFS. At least not to rational people. Sadly, to right wingers they are, because everything is transactional with them...
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Jul 23
Folks calling Harris a DEI candidate bc Biden picked her for reasons of identity ignore that all VP choices are for reasons of identity: geographic, ideological, etc. It's only a problem for some when the balancing act elevates a woman of color. Palin was fine of course. A 🧵
2/ Running mates are never chosen based on some objective standard of merit. By definition they're about how they fit the main candidates ideology/policy positions, and can they help deliver key states/constituencies, etc...
3/ Bush Sr picked Quayle for that reason. He brought conservative cred to a ticket headed by someone the right never trusted. Dukakis picked Bentsen for the same: to balance a MA Governor with a TX Senator...
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Jul 21
The problem for progressives is not that we can't prove things like Project 2025 or Trumpism pose threats to democracy. I think we can. The problem is, we are assuming people are still sold on democracy because WE are, and that's not as true as we think. A 🧵...
2/ The left has an unnatural faith in the power of pure reason (even though facts don't tend to sway political decisions), and a faith that most people embrace values like democracy, such that they'll oppose any threat to it, once demonstrated. But what if that's not the case?..
3/ What if large numbers, for various reasons, are either ambivalent to democracy or even hostile? It's not far-fetched at all. In a society in which our daily choices are less democratic/collective than individualistic and rooted in consuming, the market subsumes democracy...
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Jul 3
Those claiming we have to stick with Biden, OR that we should have an open convention are both wrong, for reasons that should be obvious but apparently aren't. A 🧵 to explain the way forward...
2/ First, the idea that we're stuck with Biden is neither factually nor practically true. A change can be made and given the post-debate polling out today should be. Even if the debate didn't help Trump directly it will suppress Dem enthusiasm and that spells disaster...
3/ Not to mention, if you think Trump is most afraid of Biden you're not paying attention. Notice: a guy who instinctively gloats (he's a bully) largely remained restrained after the debate. Ask yourself WHY? He should have been yukking it up about "Sleepy Joe." He didn't...
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Mar 6
The reason Joy Reid said most GOP voters vote based racial resentment and fear is bc it's true. What problem do they NOT blame racial/ethnic minorities for? Literally every single one. Follow along....🧵
2/ Crime? Black & Latino folks, in their mind. Kid didn't get into the college of their choice? Affirmative action, naturally. Plane doors falling off? DEI efforts at Boeing. Taxes too high? Must be welfare for "those people..."
3/ Can't find a job? Must be bc brown immigrants "took them all..." Manufacturing base declining? Must be because of unfair trade practices by the Chinese, flooding our markets. K-12 educational problems? Must be bc schools are teaching "wokeness" and CRT...
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Jan 31
While it's true that Trumpism has given the green light to overt expressions of bigotry (racism, misogyny, Islamophobia, etc.), perhaps an even bigger horror is how it has bred a deep cynicism about democracy itself. One intended to pave the way for an authoritarian future... 🧵
2/By attacking the press as fake whenever it doesn't parrot MAGA talking points, questioning election outcomes (even when they win, bc they didn't win by enough!), by attacking higher ed and scientific expertise, Trumpism seeks to cast doubt on every guardrail of democracy...
3/ And by capitalizing on the longstanding frustrations Americans feel towards politics and politicians (they're all crooked! It's a swamp, etc), Trumpism hopes Americans will withdraw from civic participation and let him and those coming after rule how they please...
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