The far right has LONG been obsessed with "plagiarism" as a f*cking racist dog whistle, including against Dr. King. In the year 2024, do I really need to explain that the charge of "plagiarism" is steeped in the anti-Black supposition that Black people are "not as smart" or capable of writing as white people.

The Leigh Anne Touhy (#Blindside) story + the Rachel Bach story (#SaviorComplex) are different parts of the same phenomenon. These are what I call WHITE SAVIOR MOMS, same phenomenon as when actress Meg Ryan adopted a baby from China, she referred to the process as a “metaphysical kind of labor.” people.com/parents/meg-ry…

"The future they are now selling us, however—crypto fortunes, the merger of the human and the computer via AI, the prospect of spending our lives in the Metaverse or on Mars—is a lie."

vanityfair.com/news/2023/08/m… "These four projects—the Metaverse, crypto, interplanetary colonization, and transhumanism, not to mention AI—are an existential risk to the world in political, economic, and, perhaps most fundamentally, moral terms."

Sociologists need to consider the psychoanalytic if we're to understand whiteness. #ASA2023

https://twitter.com/JessieNYC/status/1693287412334547235

See, for ex., this (2009) piece "Whiteness as Pathological Narcissism" #openaccess d1wqtxts1xzle7.cloudfront.net/39273750/Mille…

"And she, the dutiful white wife to her Black husband, provides a kind of endorsement that he is not the dangerous kind of Black men that so many white people, including her own family, fears." (me, writing in 2022) @damemagazine

damemagazine.com/2022/07/28/wil… "This is the public role she has played for him since his confirmation hearings when she sat behind him, furrowed brow, an embodied rebuke of the meticulous charges of sexual harassment against Clarence Thomas made by Anita Hill."

"Fear speech is much less studied than hate speech." ~ @JuliaAngwin + citing the work of @SusanBenesh

nytimes.com/2023/05/06/opi… Angwin: "So how do we vaccinate ourselves against fear-based speech on social media that may incite violence? The first steps are to identify it and to recognize it as the cynical tactic that it is."