#Abolitionists

Laura Seay

texasinafrica

Most white American abolitionists were white supremacists. As I teach my students, they got it right on the evils of slavery & fighting to end it. But most were woefully

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

AOC

People who are actually “cancelled” don’t get their thoughts published and amplified in major outlets.This has been a public service announcement. The term “cancel culture” comes from entitlement - as

Robert P. George

McCormickProf

1/ I sometimes ask students what their position on slavery would have been had they been white and living in the South before abolition. Guess what? They all would have

Dreaming Freedom Practicing Abolition

studyabolition

As we begin to feel the limits of phone zaps as a method of direct action more intensely in the coming months, new sites of direct confrontation with the carceral

🌽🌽Erica, the white trash socialist🌽🌽™️

herosnvrdie69

I promise you: everything you fear would happen under communism is already happening now under capitalism. All of it. “Have fun in gulags” My dear, most leftists here are prison

Felonious Munk 🇪🇹

Felonious_munk

I remember when "legalize it" wasn't supported. It has been only in the last 30 years that public opinion on weed legalization has changed. Prior to that, weed was a

Sara Wachter-Boettcher

sara_ann_marie

My mom talked to me recently about how uncomfortable she was with "defund the police." The wording made her anxious. What would that mean for her safety? Let me tell

sheabutterfemme.

sheabutterfemme

TW Rape mention//It's not really about forgiveness imo. For me personally, I can't forgive the person who raped me because they haven't taken accountability for it.https://twitter.com/TheGrapevineTV/status/1335631400687595521 Bu

sheabutterfemme.

sheabutterfemme

Divest/invest is a good strategy and way to pull people over to abolition imo but I'm starting to get worried? I think maybe @cemicool has talked about this. But it

({|♡|}) Ex-Gynocrat

ExGynocrat

It disappoints me seeing black women & girls caping or muling for Black Patriarchy. Abolishing police & prisons while black women and girls endure scarily high disproportionate rates of intimate-partner

Jean-Pierre

jpm0031

Imagine if Shake Shack actually did poison those milkshakes. And then the government was like, “please don’t do that.” And then they did it again and killed 1000 ppl every

Brian Sonenstein

bsonenstein

a fundamental question that divides abolitionists from reformers: do you believe everyone is capable of, and commits, harm? or do you believe there are inferior people who embody harm and

Ryan Grim

ryangrim

I’ve kept thinking about this argument over the M4A floor vote because while the debate itself doesn’t mean much, it divided people in a useless way. So maybe this’ll help

CatholicBandito🧡🏴

repreaux

THREAD: It is the reason most missions-minded folks don't have much interest in abolishing abortion: they suppose love is a means to an end rather than an end in itself.

Ameen

Ameen_HGA

These last 4 years have done nothing but solidify my previous beliefs about American evangelicalism being a civic religion, a Christianity of the land rather than what Frederick Douglass would

tea, with bourbon (they/them)

ColonizedLocal

it’s very weird how y’all don’t expect anybody to be critical of your “political faves..”well, it’s not weird, it’s sad.it’s like y’all forget they’re human and that others have *actually*

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