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Crissie Brown 🏳️‍🌈
@ComiCrissieB
Formerly the BPI Squirrel at BPICampus, now writing and illustrating comics.
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Nov 4, 2020 • 14 tweets • 3 min read
1/ In the U.S., we no longer hold elections. Instead, we have ethno-partisan herd counts.

And that means our system of government is broken. A brief thread. 2/ Several states both voted to accept the ACA's Medicare Expansion ... and voted for Trump and GOP leaders who oppose that.

Floridians overwhelmingly voted for a $15/hr minimum wage ... and voted for Trump and GOP leaders who oppose that.
Oct 11, 2020 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
A brief thread on why it's fine to #DragWhiteWomen:

1/ Last night on #SNL, #BillBurr dragged white women. He's not alone. It's constant, on Twitter and elsewhere. White men drag white women. POC drag white women. Even white women drag white women. Constantly.

And we deserve it. 2/ Why? Well, in 2008 and 2012, POC had the chance to make history by turning out for Barack Obama. And y'all did. Twice!

In 2016, white women had the chance to make history by turning out for Hillary Clinton. And 2/3rds of us voted for Trump, voted 3rd party, or didn't vote.
Jun 7, 2020 • 21 tweets • 5 min read
1/ A thread on Conservatism-by-Proxy, exemplified in the purportedly-liberal-but-really-strawman-based opposition to the #BLM movement's demand to #DefundPolice.... 2/ I've written before about Sexism- and Racism-by-Proxy. They're arguments of the form "I'M not sexist/racist but my customers are, so I have no choice but to discriminate against women/POC."
Apr 7, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
1/ A brief thread about these daily White House COVID Lie-athons, and why it's up to us - the viewers! - to stop them.... 2/ Imagine there's a burger joint nearby, doing drive-thru, but they've stopped buying meat patties. Instead, the manager saves his family's fecal matter and serves the customers ... scatburgers.
Mar 25, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
1/x To people claiming #Election2020 will be Trump vs. Coronavirus ... it won't. A brief thread.... 2/ Example: Assume #COVID19 kills 100,000 Americans because #Trump 'reopens' the economy.

Note that 100,000 American dead is on the low end of epidemiologists' estimates, but it would be *more than* the current projection of COVID-19 deaths for the rest of the world.
Mar 12, 2020 • 21 tweets • 6 min read
1/ With the God-King hopelessly bungling the response to #COVID19, herewith a lighthearted prognostication of our collective future. Beginning with ...

... @JoeBiden wins the Democratic nomination. (I know, what a stretch. Just wait for the rest of the thread....) 2/ After a ho-hum debate on March 15 and a multi-state defeat 2 days later, @BernieSanders withdrew from the race, endorsed Biden, and told his staff to work with the Biden staff to develop the most progressive Democratic platform that can win in 2020.
Sep 3, 2019 • 6 tweets • 4 min read
@BUCAblog @TheRaDR In 1978, the Carter administration (finally!) implemented a 1970 IRS rule to enforce fed court decisions in 1969 that barred fed tax exemptions for 'segregation academies' - private (mostly religious) schools founded to avoid Brown v. Board of Education. southerneducation.org/publications/h… @BUCAblog @TheRaDR Brief timeline:

1954 - In Brown v. Board of Ed, SCOTUS holds that racial segregation of public schools violates 14th Amend Equal Protection clause.

1950s-60s - White supremacists pull kids out of public schools and put them in private, mostly religious "segregation academies."
Jul 1, 2019 • 20 tweets • 6 min read
1/ #Racism- and #Sexism-by-Proxy … a thread:

A while back, my usually-progressive son said it was wrong to give children 'black' names like LaShawn or LaTonya.

"There's so much racism," he said. "Their resumes and other applications will be rejected because of their names." 2/ I said this was a classic example of racism-by-proxy: "I'M not racist, but OTHER PEOPLE are … and we should all cater to them."

"But I'm just being realistic!" he countered. "Racists won't change, so black parents should give their kids race-neutral names."
Nov 5, 2018 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Democrats' challenge with working class white women may be an individual-vs-comparative-vs-relational issue. (Thread) 2/ There are many ways to evaluate one's own political interests. You can do that individually -- will I find a better job, will my take-home pay go up, will it be easier for me to get health care, will I be more protected from sexual aggression, etc.