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Natasha Varner @nsvarner
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If you're considering buying @sallykohn's new book "The Opposite of Hate" pls first read @IjeomaOluo's and @aminatou's comments about how quotes attributed to them were distorted, decontextualized, and invented. Kohn has shown 0 accountability but is reaping the benefits anyway.
Also: Kohn's shitty behavior should make all white writers get extremely self reflective about how we represent POC voices in our work. It's easy to distance yourself from such egregious behavior, the challenge is to see how you might be replicating the same patterns yourself.
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Cinco de Mayo puts me in a mood. Ignorant white people have turned it into racist Halloween targeted specifically at Mexico. Here in Seattle we get the Cinco de Mayo fun run where "costumes aren’t just okay, they’re encouraged." 😠
If you're not Mexican or Mexican American and want to celebrate #CincoDeMayo today, please do it respectfully and without taking up too much space at a community event like @elcentro72's: elcentrodelaraza.org/events/event/c…
This holiday (which is NOT Mexican Independence Day btw) is a chance for Mexican Americans to celebrate their heritage. Please respect that and think about the impact your dumb stereotypes have on people. As UW History PhD candidate Michael Aguirre put it:
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As Irish Americans, we can’t celebrate our heritage without first coming to terms with the fact that our identity is constructed on a foundation of anti-Blackness. A thread about that history for #StPatricksDay:
In the decades leading up to the Civil War, Irish immigration to the US was reaching its peak with nearly two million Irish arriving between 1820 and 1860.
In the Northern states, Irish immigrants and an increasing number of free Blacks found themselves competing for the same low rung on the social ladder, and for the same jobs.
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This Day in Labor History: January 4, 1977. California congressman Augustus Hawkins introduces what became the Humphrey-Hawkins Act, which initially was a government employment guarantee. Let's talk about why we need this today!
As late as the mid-1970s, liberals believed another era of left-leaning government was around the corner. When Ted Kennedy fought to kill Richard Nixon’s milquetoast national health care plan, it was under the assumption that something much better would come soon.
While the recession and oil shocks that began in 1973 put a damper on this, liberals did not believe the fundamental equation of American politics had changed. They had a lot more they wanted to do. One goal was to move toward full employment.
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Big revelation in front page NYT story on U.S. support for Saudi #YemenWar

On left: General Votel says to @SenWarren Pentagon unable to tell whether U.S. fuel/bombs were used in Saudi strikes that killed civilians (March 13, 2018)

On right: NYT investigation shows opposite.
Here's NYT must read on US support for Saudi Yemen War👇

Insightful quotes by @LarryLewis_ (State Dept point person for Saudi coalition civilian casualties 2015-17) @Malinowski (former senior US official and new member of Congress)

I was also interviewed
nytimes.com/2018/12/25/wor…
“We concluded that they [the Saudis] were just not willing to listen." “They were given specific coordinates of targets that should not be struck and they continued to strike them. That struck me as a willful disregard of advice they were getting”

@Malinowski on #YemenWar in NYT
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Who is the “We” to whom Sasse refers, I wonder.

Does it include gay people, or Muslims, or trans people, or native people, or asylum seekers, or immigrants, or disabled people, or those with preexisting medical conditions, or homeless, or any people of color, or any women?
Do the “We” who “hate each other” include the people of Flint, 4 years without drinking water?

Or the relatives of the 3000 dead in Puerto Rico, who Ben Sasse’s unconfronted leader claims were fabricated by “them” to make him look bad?
Is Colin Kaepernick among Ben Sasse’s “we” who hate each other?

Is Dr. Catherine Blasy-Ford?

Was Heather Heyer?

Was Trayvon Martin?

Was Sandra Bland?
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Had a short trip with lots of delays, which allowed me to burn through @michaelbatnick’s new book “Big Mistakes.” It’s a great read. Here are my top highlights/notes. Quotes are his. Rest is mine.

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“From 1929 to the bottom in 1932, (Ben) Graham lost 70%. If such a careful and thoughtful analyst can lose 70% of his money…”

An investor without major losses is a liar or inexperienced. Either is suboptimal.
“No one can make big money on what someone else tells him to do.” -Jesse Livermore

Mirroring action provides zero understanding. You can't know when the music stopped if you never heard the song.
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1/ I finished @nntaleb's new #book Skin in the game, and here are my learnings, insights and notes.

Warning: this thread is going to be huge.
2/ Human systems are systems within systems, interacting in complex ways. No article / paper / logic can capture all interactions of such systems and their evolution over a non-trivial amount of time.

So fear one shot, large scale interventions (such as invasions, UBI, CRISPR)
3/ People with fuck you money should call out famous or powerful people when they are wrong
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Recent rhetoric about “The Enlightenment” is bizarre. A major strand of the Enlightment was about the Perfectibility of Man through Reason. The revolutionary reconstruction of society. The French Revolution is a child of the E & the Bolshevik Revolution one of its grandchildren.
It’s as if the fans of the Counter-Enlightenment forgot themselves and have appropriated the Enlightenment.
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