Cat lover, crocheter, painter, poet, child of redwoods, developmentally disabled. I talk wordlessly to objects around me, they talk wordlessly back.
Mar 31, 2019 • 17 tweets • 6 min read
I just tweeted in response to someone talking about rigid standards of what is good & bad journalism. I think there’s a problem with rigid standards that has become very general but it’s very hard to write about either general or specific so I’m struggling to wrap words arnd it.
The original context was abt incarcerated ppl being quoted in articles abt incarcerated ppl. 1 person said it’s failed journalism if u can’t quote incarcerated ppl, a formerly incarcerated journalist disagreed. But it goes beyond journalism and beyond 1 topic like incarceration.
I’m not Jewish and want to say that up front since it colors my judgement. But I’ve felt like the American SJ movement never abandoned Jews because they were never really on Jewish ppl’s side ever. Always lot of antisemitism & lot of denial of seriousness of antisemitism.
Also in this regard & many others I’ve noticed extreme parallels btwn ableism & antisemitism & how they’re treated by left & right & SJ. Down to little details not just the way oppression is always similar. Including denial of seriousness. Long wondered y the 2 r so similar.
