#Privilege

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unchqrted_

here's why 'not caring' about someone's gender or sexuality isn't fighting for lgbt rights and equality, a thread: equality means making two people equal. simple, right? it's not about how

Jessi Lehman

jessi_lehman

1/ Books are my constant companions. This week I finished my 40th non-academic book of 2020. Recognize this reflects huge privilege but I want to highlight three outstanding books I

Wesley Yang

wesyang

NYC teachers union passes "Black Lives Matter at School" resolution calling for, among many other things, "disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family." https://twitter.com/MOREcaucusUFT/status/1329253369135984640 T

Andrew Sampson

Andrewmd5

Because bay area folks refuse to pay taxes, push homeless shelters out of their neighborhoods, fight against social programs that help the local populace suffering from addiction, and participate in

Marie Beecham

mariejbeech

Be intolerant of behaviors, not intolerant of people. A thread— (1) A lot of white people think, “I have privilege, so I should stand in solidarity with BIPOC and never

𝓕arrah-𝓐moy (Fäh ⋅ ruh – ăm ⋅ oi)

amoytheemd

I am sure it is difficult to see past your personal privilege into how this effectively bars Black and Brown students from attending since these pops have disparities in generational

Gabrielle V Fayant

GabrielleFayant

A lot of BIPOC have been experiencing gaslighting by white folx not ready to take accountability for their behaviour. Gaslighting is a form of emotional and mental abuse that anyone

Diana Butler Bass

dianabutlerbass

White evangelicals are 15% of the population but made up (roughly) 25% of the electorate on Tuesday. (NEP says 27%; AP 22%) Despite their declining numbers, they still exercise outsize

Wesley Yang

wesyang

Microsoft announces it will "double the number of Black and African American people managers, senior individual contributors, and senior leaders in the United States by 2025." https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2020/06/23/addressing

Pamina in a Pear Tree

pamina_q

Playing is good for adults and it feels kind of subversive! A thread: Over the last year or so, I’ve said “fuck it, I’m gonna do fun stuff even though

Adeline Virginia Stephen

A_V_Stephen

I will not leave the left. But the left has left me. I still believe in class analysis, but the left now propagates self-identity politics. 1/14 I will not leave

Jason Leopold

JasonLeopold

Under the Presidential Records Act, Presidential records are automatically transferred into the legal custody of the Archivist as soon as the president leaves officeThe public can #FOIA those docs after

Unite in justice for the poor & oppressed

BreeNewsome

No, I don't capitalize the "w" in white b/c folks are still not grasping that whiteness is a fluid social construct based on skin color. People who pass as white

sententiae antiquae

sentantiq

A thread on that Katz op-ed.Let’s leave aside the fact that writing for Q-llette (and heterodox etc) is an act to consciously affiliate oneself with a particular POV, one in

Dr. Kelli Ward 🇺🇸

kelliwardaz

WHAT IS THE DEAL? Mark Kelly is refusing to condemn his violent supporter who threatened to shoot @DrPaulGosar in the head! The mainstream media is either asleep at the wheel

Michael "Mike" Albert, MD

MichaelAlbertMD

Why you should consider a career in Obesity Medicine: Reason #1: Essentially No CallYes, I occasionally have to decrease insulin because a patient’s glycemic control is improving too rapidly. I

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