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my book, in memes and gifs (I'll do one or two at a time): https://twitter.com/erinrpineda/status/1348373249172901888
my book, in memes and gifs (I'll do one or two at a time): https://twitter.com/erinrpineda/status/1348373249172901888
Chapter 1: Seeing Like a White State
"The civil rights struggle is a nice example of a conflict for which our moral/political language was & is entirely adequate...such that public disagreement could focus only on how (or how quickly) they might best be realized."
โ ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐ถ๐บ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ.
โ ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐ถ๐บ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ.
"I shall assume, as requiring no argument, that there is, at least in a society such as ours, a moral obligation to obey the law."
โ ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐ถ๐บ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ผ ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ต๐ถ๐น๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฎ๐.
โ ๐ง๐ต๐ถ๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐ถ๐บ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฑ๐ถ๐๐ฝ๐๐๐ฒ๐ฑ ๐ฎ๐ป๐ฑ ๐ถ๐ ๐ฎ๐น๐๐ผ ๐ฎ ๐ฐ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ถ๐ป๐ด ๐ณ๐ผ๐ฟ ๐ฎ ๐ฝ๐ต๐ถ๐น๐ผ๐๐ผ๐ฝ๐ต๐ฒ๐ฟ ๐๐ผ ๐๐ฎ๐.
**Charles Mills intensifies.**
(h/t to whoever made this image, I saved the jpg but can't find the original tweet where I got it)
(h/t to whoever made this image, I saved the jpg but can't find the original tweet where I got it)
(contโd) Chapter 2: An Entire World in Motion
mid-20th century political philosophy:
mid-20th century political philosophy:
activists across four continents, insisting on the ties between colonialism and Jim Crow:
(cont'd) Chapter 3: Incarceration as Liberation
how it started (1865) / how it was going (1960)
how it started (1865) / how it was going (1960)
gonna tell my kids this was a song about the jail-ins as a practice of comparative freedom
Chapter 4: Forcing the Better Argument
Habermas: Civil disobedience is non-coercive and purely symbolic. Forceless force of the better argument!
Me:
Habermas: Civil disobedience is non-coercive and purely symbolic. Forceless force of the better argument!
Me:
I am once again asking you...
(contโd) Chapter 5: The Techniques of Disabowal
Siri, show me the myth of Southern exceptionalism at work:
Siri, show me the myth of Southern exceptionalism at work:
the โwhite liberal,โ upon being confronted with a protest that implicates them in white supremacy:
I wonder how we could theorize that?
James Baldwin, Charles Mills, and Elizabeth Spelman:
James Baldwin, Charles Mills, and Elizabeth Spelman:
(cont'd) In sum -- TL;DR
and also:
Rawls: "Inspired by the civil rights movement, I am going to theorize civil disobedience as fidelity to law within a nearly just state."
[**glares in civil rights movement activist**]
![and also:Rawls: "Inspired by the civil rights movement, I am going to theorize civil disobedience as fidelity to law within a nearly just state." [**glares in civil rights movement activist**]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Erp1Km6W8AEu3HL.jpg "and also:Rawls: \"Inspired by the civil rights movement, I am going to theorize civil disobedience as fidelity to law within a nearly just state.\" [**glares in civil rights movement activist**]")
![and also:Rawls: "Inspired by the civil rights movement, I am going to theorize civil disobedience as fidelity to law within a nearly just state." [**glares in civil rights movement activist**]](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Erp1L72WMAERkXx.jpg "and also:Rawls: \"Inspired by the civil rights movement, I am going to theorize civil disobedience as fidelity to law within a nearly just state.\" [**glares in civil rights movement activist**]")
Rawls: "Inspired by the civil rights movement, I am going to theorize civil disobedience as fidelity to law within a nearly just state."
[**glares in civil rights movement activist**]
finally, this should have come first, as the introduction, but I forgot, so:
Introduction: Civil Disobedience & the Civil Rights Movement
Introduction: Civil Disobedience & the Civil Rights Movement
