l try to side with people who don’t hide from history, facts, evidence. The Constitution has some elements which give weighted power to racists. #GoodTrouble
Sep 22, 2018 • 27 tweets • 11 min read
Conspiracy speculation I will now advance in all seriousness.
I suspect there is no sexual harassment claim against @GarrettVentry. I believe that he falsified his resume etc, or at least, I don’t care. But the media has quite possibly been thrown a bone to distract them from /1
This is who Garrett Ventry is. He works for CRC Public Relations Firm.
Feb 25, 2018 • 22 tweets • 4 min read
1) Underappreciated fact: people process news stories as if they are events in a narrative arc. Ie things that happen have to fit in with the stories that already exist in their head, otherwise they are mildly discomforting & quickly ignored.
Trump & co have open the story book
2) of cultural homogeneity. Where things that look the same are safe, and things that are visibly & culturally divergent are unsafe.
So they can process gun massacres such as the one in San Bernardino & Orlando because they can fit it into their story arc. The villain is the
Feb 19, 2018 • 23 tweets • 5 min read
Big topic: how it’s human and reasonable to gravitate towards attacking people. We instinctively support @Emma4Change because she attacks the ideas & not just the people. She takes the adversarial energy we all feel, & names out loud the bad ideas that have fuelled the betrayal/1
Of America’s youth, but more than that, the betrayal of all Americans, even the ones who have been led astray. Hence we unite behind her. Hence we condemn those who choose the path of self enrichment over the path of a duty of care to others. /2
