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Jun 4, 2019 • 21 tweets • 4 min read
A thread on the ”Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls” inquiry (MMIWG)…
The MMIWG was always a sham.
We knew upfront that most murdered and missing Indigenous people were men, but there was no will to investigate this, unless the focus was only on women.
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When the inquiry was in its proposal phase, I inquired with Crown-Indigenous Relations Minister Carolyn Bennett as to why the inquiry was going to ignore the majority of Indigenous murdered and missing cases. Her response was something along the lines of this…
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Mar 15, 2019 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I implore you to *please* take the time to read this short thread.
1. Before you say anything about the massacre that took place last night, I want you to think about the killer. What kind of response did he want? Did he want to see the world erupt in divisive fury, or in love?
2. The killer would never live to see the aftermath, the grand accomplishment of his actions. Yet, do you have any doubt that he felt confident as to what he could achieve upon his death? Why? Because he saw what happened the last time, and the time before that, and so on.
Jan 16, 2019 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
It’s a mistake to assume the @Gillette ad was a misfire aimed only at men. Here’s why. (thread)
1. Marketing campaigns for major brands are usually not so simplistically targeted as “all men” (or “all women”). Different segments of the population are targeted in different ways…
2. While men still earn the majority of money, women still spend the majority of money. Women not only buy Gillette products for themselves, many also buy health & beauty items for their male partner. And even when women aren’t making the purchase, they are still influencers…
Jan 3, 2019 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
Last night my partner tried to read me an article titled something like “How Capitalism is Literally Killing Us”. The Jacobin author romantically recounted their time spent in vibrant socialist Venezuela while contrasting that to the “soaring death rate” in capitalist America…
I found this confusing, to say the least.
How could the death rate, which has been stable since the dawn of time at 100% (give or take a prophet or two), now be “soaring” in the USA!?!
