#Ridicule

Tom Nichols

RadioFreeTom

On the anniversary of 9/11, a reminder of how we used to deal with odious conspiracy theories: Ridicule. For years, there were attempts to portray 9/11 as an inside job

Eugene*Grant

MrEugeneGrant

THREAD: Sometimes, all that is needed for #dwarfism and #disability discrimination to be effective is for it to send a signal that says:This? This banal, every day thing here?This is

Leah McElrath 🏳️‍🌈

leahmcelrath

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but apparently it’s a lot of people:There is nothing shameful or bad or funny about an adult needing or using briefs to

Mostly Borrowed Ideas

borrowed_ideas

1/ Thread: The danger of ridiculing early techSurvivorship bias is real, but it is always humbling to look back and see how different revolutionary tech was perceived when they first

Kurt "Masks Save Lives" Eichenwald

kurteichenwald

What is happening across the country is a demonstration of what I have called for years the GOP "just say things" strategy - in other words, deny (ex: climate change)

Seva

SevaUT

every time this account wants lots of engagement they post a simulacrum (neuschwanstein castle, mad men, this) knowing this opens them to ridicule w/o diluting the underlying messagehttps://twitter.com/western_trad/status/127616915682038170

SOMETHING ELSE.

SylvanaquaFarms

A Letter to BIPOC farmers: White people are going to laugh at your ideas to decolonize agriculture. You have to be ready for this, and be prepared to brush it

Katherine Crocker PhD supports #BLM

cricketcrocker

Hey folks.Using mixed capitalized/uncapitalized letters to mock a point is super ableist and possibly classist.If you can't ridicule bigotry without resorting to bigotry like that, you need to work on

Ed Morrish

edmorrish

The Millwall fans aren’t racist, they’re just anti-Marxist. And they have a long history of anti-Marxism activism, such as throwing bananas at players they suspect of being Marxists, making monkey

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tyjnick

[Thread] The fatphobia on social media today is really mortifying. Over the last 2 years, I have lost over 150 pounds, and It had NOTHING to do with me “getting

Ani O'Brien

aniobrien

Inciting violence against people of a religion is unacceptable. However we must be careful not to conflate this with simply speech that offends people of a religion. We got rid

Emma Bearman Chief of Play Galaxy Division

EmmaMBearman

The question is, do I want to be an activist, academic or an entrepreneur or a combo of all? Can you be entrepreneurial about creating space for others to think,

Crazy Ivar

ehutchinson1513

This is sound advice that our current Jacobins ought to, and of course will not, heed."It is easy to praise everything in the past which happens to resemble certain favorite

M. G. Brown ☩ ☧ ☩

mgbrown777

A theology of the cross understands that the Christian life is patterned after the life of our Lord: it is suffering now, glory later. If you're suffering, don't assume that

𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐓𝐡𝐫𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐚

MissThrilla

to love someone long-term is to attend a thousand funerals of the people they used to be. the ppl they’ve grown too exhausted to be any longer. the ppl they

Noorain Ahmed

NoorainAhmed1

My stand on LGBTQ+ (long thread) I’m well aware that all religious texts forbid it & specify it as act of Sin. I fully accept & do not contest on

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