Everyone's Asking Their One Black Friend (tm) To Help Them Understand These 4 Things:
1. Is this a good corporate statement? 2. Did that person REALLY die of police brutality... 3. ...Or was it actually mental illness? 4. But if we defund police, what about X?
Answers below:
1. That corp. statement is passive trash, unless:
(A) a huge donation was made, or
(B) a leader is resigning, to be replaced by a BIPOC, or
(C) there's a CONCRETE plan to re-allocate money, access, & influence to BIPOC.
If none: it's no good.
2. Yes, it was police brutality.
May 31, 2020 • 13 tweets • 5 min read
Why would anyone want the riots to be MORE chaotic?
This is a classic tactic - using "Agents Provocateurs".
These are fake protesters (sometimes they're even actual police officers, acting with or without orders)
who deliberately add chaos & criminality to a situation because
...creating images of chaos, or symbols like burning police property, makes great news footage.
These images are a quick way to make a peaceful protest look violent.
And that means the leaders can justify using greater force.
The property that's being damaged or stolen...
Feb 11, 2020 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
Let’s quit using the term “non-white”.
Defining a group of people in relation to some other identity actually serves to marginalize that group, and it positions the other identity (in this case whiteness) as the default, “normal” way a person “should” be.
Mar 8, 2019 • 27 tweets • 6 min read
Story Time!
🛏️
Okay so a few weeks ago, my friend gave me a mattress to upgrade the one in my guest room. So I decided to pay the good karma forward...
...and give away my old mattress for free.
But it turns out, it's actually tough to give away a free mattress!
I got lots of interest, but people would have trouble wrangling a large enough vehicle, so they would cancel.
Finally...
Aug 15, 2018 • 18 tweets • 3 min read
My university roommate just reminded me that one time, in first year, I signed up to be a guinea pig in a psychology study and it was the best study ever...
The rate was $15 for an hour. I was brought into a small blank room with a computer and a plate of tiny cookies on the table.
