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Call a lie a lie. Call a money launderer a money launderer. Call a racist statement a racist statement. That’s what language is FOR.
I know that tweet probably sounds self-righteous, but isn’t this driving everyone crazy? The president is a global money launderer. The evidence has been there for a long time.
It is such a relief when somebody says the word lie. It’s like opening a window in a room filled with farts. In the meantime, WITCH HUNT!
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Watching Rebecca Traister talk at the NYPL about the women’s march—the largest one-day protest in US history—& how it was erased & laughed at in media afterward.
She’s talking about how excruciating the experience of MeToo was last fall—& how painful rage can be as well as liberating.

Then doing a hilarious riff about how interviewees wd say “I was angry, but now I’ve turned that into action!” and then 10 minutes later they’d be raging.
Correction: largest in human history.
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1983 in a nutshell: imdb.com/title/tt053511….

The phrase "date rape" was new & divisive. It's not that guys didn't know it was wrong or that girls saw it as normal. But it was def viewed in a different light & the teen movies of the 80s document that fact to a disturbing degree.
(Although now I'm confused: it seems like that episode actually ran in 1988, which makes more sense... nytimes.com/1988/01/05/art….)
Okay, figured it out. According to Wiki, the original "Date Rape" episode ran Feb 21, 1983. The one O'Connor was writing about came later, in January, 1988, and it focused on Cagney herself getting assaulted. So they did two stories: an abstract debate and a personal one.
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This is the end of a good thread on gun control, but it’s also an important point in itself. I was just thinking how amazing it is that women are so non-violent toward men as a group... Women certainly have motive. But it doesn’t happen. We turn the anger on ourselves instead.
And it’s not bc women are saints or non-violent, though we are certainly less violent... I mean, plenty of women are violent to children. But it’s notable that there’s simply no tradition at all of abstract misandrist shootings etc, while misogynist ones litter the landscape.
One side effect of this is that misogynist violence, and the maleness of mass killings, is made invisible, normal, not worth comment, just part of the landscape. Instead of saying “these shooters are all men,” people find other differences to distinguish them.
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1. Historian Circa 2100 (European History):
Facing rampant radical Islamic terrorism, Europeans rose up in arms against ... Islamophobia.
2. Historian Circa 2100:
Europe in early years of 21st century was so enthralled with virtue-signalling, people laid down their lives for it.
3. Historian Circa 2100:
America escaped Europe's fate narrowly, because Americans, at a perilous time in history, in a paroxysm of common sense, elected a plainspoken, headstrong leader who just wouldn't answer the siren call of suicidal virtue-signalling.
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Dr. Ford spent almost every day in the summer of 1982 swimming & diving at the Columbia Country Club. That's why she had a ONE PIECE bathing suit on under her clothes when she went to the gathering. THIS was an obstacle her assaulter was not counting on.
This ^ is the reason why I LOVE transcripts.

The little facts help corroborate the BIG facts.
Ford: Brett groped me and tried to take off my clothes. He had a hard time, because he was very inebriated, and because I was wearing a one-piece bathing suit underneath my clothing. I believed he was going to rape me.
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#Statement | The negative and surprising attitude of #Canada is an entirely false claim and utterly incorrect.
#Statement | We have been briefed by what the #Canadian foreign minister and the Canadian embassy to the #Kingdom released on what they named "civil society rights activists", and we affirm that this negative and surprising attitude is an incorrect claim.
#Statement | The Canadian position is an overt and blatant interference in the internal affairs of the Kingdom of #SaudiArabia and is in contravention of the most basic international norms and all the charters governing relations between States.
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Earlier, the subject of correcting child #language came up. That's a perfect segue to patterns of #acquisition for kids & adults

Both groups of learners will tend to go thru predictable patterns of errors and stages, regardless of language. Let's discuss some examples
U-shaped behavior: this is when someone gets super good at something, gets worse for awhile, then improves again

#languageteachers see this a lot and it's frustrating when you think, wait, "Student X just used the past tense perfectly all quarter! What are they doing now?!"
Overapplication: Maybe your kid or student learned how to form plurals! Except now, everything is marked (or double marked) for plural and you may hear things like gooses, dogses, rices, etc
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It’s so funny and ironic how #liberals call #RadicalFeminism “#WhiteFeminism”, yet, I’ve come across so much actual #racism directed at me and other #GenderCritical black women from self-righteous #trans activists/allies and libfems. 🙄
I’ve gotten more racism from that crowd in the past two weeks than I’ve gotten from any #RadicalFeminists in two months. Or any amount of time. Liberals routinely erase the radical #WomenOfColor from history who either called themselves #radfems or influenced radical feminism so
that they can call radical feminism “white”, misappropriate #Intersectionality from #BlackFeminism to try and justify including males in #feminism, argue that “transwomen are women the same way Black women are women”, (racist and dehumanizing comparison of black women to males),
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.Every day in twitterverse I watch straight young white people who identify as "progressive" demean and diminish the lives of the marginalized & insist that WE need to recognize that "economic security" is the #1 issue all liberals need to focus on which will then solve all. (1)
.I watch them speak from their lofty privilege not realizing that they are standing on a platform built by the very people they demean. Their lack of gratitude for the work of these before them blows my mind. Their robotic devotion to an establishment man with minimal (2)
.accomplishments in his career is staggering. What saves me from despair is the ongoing work of POC and LGBTQ activists and allies who continue to engage the #racist & #homophobic #misogynist #transphobic "sleeping" people. Huge credit to all of you doing this work (3)
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