#Abolition

Many Scots, while owning Scotland's role in slavery, still take the stance that "normal" or "working class" Scots got no advantages from the fortunes made with enslaved labour, or any
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Time to (Ashokan) Farewell the fuck out of 2020LET’S GOOOOOOOOO#civilitea https://twitter.com/gothamgirlblue/status/1344282502043750400 I’m seeing that Florentine Films card; I’m hearing the name of Wilmer McLean, and I’m feeling no
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So, lots of follow up questions from yesterday's budget thread wanting to know more about the police contract. Here’s a primer that tries to explain the interplay between the budget
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1/19 Il y a dans The Studio (1969), cet autoportrait de Guston en Klansman, la lucidité et la conscience historique qui font défaut à la "commémoration" de la première abolition
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Let me quote @Koenraad_Elst On the myth of "Sikhs protected Hindus". ""In the Guru lineage, we don’t see much physical fighting for Hinduism. Guru Nanak was a poet and a
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Tonight in #PortlandRiots, rioters decided to target a Multnomah County office building at 501 SE Hawthorne for vandalism & arson. This site had not been targeted previously.https://www.kgw.com/article/news/local/protests/protesters-gat
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THREAD: My book with @JonHaidt, Coddling of the American Mind, turns 2 this week! As part of our series updating the trends we addressed in the book, today we're looking
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1/x Thread on immigration detention and family separation during the Obama years.Trump may be awful, but our treatment of immigrant families has been horrendous for years, Democrats & Republicans can't
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As the national conversation about historical memory and memorialization continues to evolve, I have been thinking about some different types of memorialization that are less discussed. A thread. #twitterstorians /1
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if you see links on the tl, ive been informed that some may be overloaded rn so they may not load, please bookmark them and set reminders so that you
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Trans allyship: a thread. I've been asked to speak on panels about trans activism a lot the last few years, esp through pride month. One question I *always* get asked
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as much as I loved my grad arch school, part of this project needs to be about understanding how the formal/aesthetic aspects of my architectural pedagogy might be deeply racist,
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Protests are anything but spontaneous in the US. They're highly organized with multiple Democrat orgs colluding.Dec 17 2019 impeachment March and 1 day prior to Trumps Impeachment. 95,000 attended this.
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Oh also, I don't know if it was good faith or not, but at one point someone was like "how dare u suggest white protesters can escalate, only cops escalate"And,
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A thread of everything that's wrong with Steve Lee, the ex-NYPD cop who is running against @rontkim for NYS Assembly in AD40. Starting this thread since I haven't seen a
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On Thomas Paine's bones and what happened in Mahad (Maharashtra) in 1927. Thread. The most reviled man in early 19th century America (because he wrote The Age of Reason) died
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