#Privilege

126 members of the @HouseGOP asked SCOTUS to throw out the results of democratic elections in GA, PA, WI and MI. 121 members voted AFTER terrorists stormed the capital to
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THREAD: Can we take a moment to talk about how, in this age of THE INTERNET, OSSTF still elects its president via delegates sent to an in-person (temporarily online) conference?
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Building off this @WesPegden thread: We currently have three classes of people: 1. Those who CAN stay home/isolated and thrive2. Those who CAN'T stay home/isolated3. Those who don't want to
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Remember that the people who say this genuinely believe that they have nothing to hide and nothing to fear online. Even *believing* this is an enormous privilege, and far from
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I don't think men fully understand how exhausting the endless barrage of smart-ass derailing comments from men are for women on the Internet. It's a bit like random strangers showing
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Prof of Literature whose last paper is "Techno-Anxiety & the Middlebrow: Science-Fictionalizing in Fictional Mainstream of Early Twenty-First Century.” is of course going to argue elite education doesn't make you
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I am very confused about those who claim "birth-based" privilege for adhaytma. Do they mean to say that someone like Salil Tripathi or Anjana Chatterjee or Vikas Dubey has more
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Just a quick thread on the "Scotland can't afford to go it alone" drivel that we're seeing for the umpteenth time >> We heard the same re Ireland. The Brits
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I watch these events unfold as an educator. Specifically, a white educator of mostly white students. I think about how we've been complicit in creating the conditions that led to
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We shouldn’t shame our friends for driving drunk. We need to love and accept our friends unconditionally, even when they do things we don’t personally agree with. The only person
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I thought a lot about Holocaust Remembrance Day and a thought came to me which was as shocking as it was clear to me. I have no *right* to listen
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THREAD: Here are a few thoughts in response to this letter by a former @nysba president. For context, the author is responding to a recent @NYCBarAssn letter that proposed adopting
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One of the hardest things for people "privileged" enough to have indulged the illusion of someone's goodness is coming to terms with their own total failures of moral clarity. This
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Oh shithttps://twitter.com/jmartinwrites/status/1349921639312535563 This is a good thread to catch up on the basics, though I will say, I strongly disagree with the idea that being abled passing is what decides
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I don't have an important job, but it involves COVID research and I can't be super specific, but please, people, STOP TRAVELING. Stop visiting people outside your household. Get vaccinated
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This is something I want to talk about from a business perspective: The "De-Greening" (to borrow a phrase coined by the Brain Trust podcast, hosts tagged at the end of
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