#PaulKrugman

Abdullah Hammoud

AHammoudMI

On 9/11, my mother, who observes hijab, picked me up from school. A driver cut us off and yelled "f**k you Muslims."Next day, walking home from school, a man pointed

Dana El Kurd دانا الكرد

danaelkurd

Hi @paulkrugman I was in the 6th grade during 9/11. I didnt understand the significance that morning. As a Palestinian I was accustomed to watching tragedy unfold on TV. When

Jennifer Cohn ✍🏻 📢

jennycohn1

For a long time, GOP elites imagined “they cld exploit racism & conspiracy theorizing while remaining focused on a plutocratic agenda. But w/ the rise...of the Tea Party, then of...Trump,

Farooq Ahmed

farooqtheahmed

Since @paulkrugman disastrously naive take on what life was like post-9/11 is going around, in this thread I'll catalog just a few things that I can remember happening to me

Jo Kaur

SikhFeminist

A historically inaccurate take.Sikhs and Muslims were hunted down, beaten, and killed on the streets in retaliation - months and even years to follow. The first person killed in backlash

Peter Savodnik

petersavodnik

This reads like a Bolshevik at his own show trial admitting he'd betrayed the revolution even though he never meant to betray the revolution because he loves the revolution.https://twitter.com/marcatracy/status/1357806202277797889 One

ines helene, ShroomGirl

inihelene

A few days after 9/11, a Sikh man was shot dead because turbans are stereotypically associated w Muslims. A white supremacist killed two men and wounded a third on Sept

Parker Molloy

ParkerMolloy

Krugman’s bafflingly-inaccurate thread shows why it’s important to talk about the way all American Muslims were demonized post-9/11, and why that wasn’t an acceptable response. We can’t just pretend “there

Ali A Olomi

aaolomi

Today is the 19th anniversary of 9/11 and once more we get to watch liberals and conservatives come together and praise George W Bush as if he did not lay

Shailja Patel

shailjapatel

Patriot Act, Department of Homeland Security, ICE, Guantanamo, bombing of Afghanistan for the next 19 years and counting, special registration program, over 30,000 Muslims deported, families and communities ripped apart...

Johannes Haushofer

jhaushofer

Today @haralduhlig, lead editor of the @JPolEcon, a prominent journal in economics, called for @paulkrugman to step down as @nytimes columnist to make room for a POC. I think this

🌝 ⬅️ ➡️ tanvi ⬅️ ➡️ 🌝

Tanvim

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUThttps://twitter.com/paulkrugman/status/1304385740063805440 “My wife and I went to Virgin Islands right after 9/11 and it was fine!” Literally, this guy is paid to write his opinions. Some

Michael Harris

MichaelH_PhD

I can walk you through this if you’d like.Let’s start in the ‘60s. We could start earlier but that’s a useful starting point.https://twitter.com/eiggam5955/status/1337568643492814848 The Civil Rights era is a time

Vijay Boyapati

real_vijay

There are four main valuation frameworks for #Bitcoin and I wanted to summarize them with a target valuation that one would assign if one subscribed to that framework.Thread

Norman Ornstein

NormOrnstein

. @brianstelter You need to have a sharp focus on the culpability over the past many years of the mainstream media. @paulkrugman, @jayrosen Tom Mann & I were among many

Dr. Genevieve Guenther

DoctorVive

So much economics (and thus political) discourse constructs the fossil fuel economy as a kind of good against which we measure the value of future generations. It strikes me that

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