#Slavery

abolitionism = spicy reformism

no_slave_coasts

“In 1789, the Spanish Crown declared free trade in slaves throughout the empire. No colony in Spanish America capitalized on the decree more than Cuba… from 1790 to 1820 at

Mya

AmiaahG

I hope you know “white“ people thinking they’re superior isn’t their fault. The first instance of superiority in the white child’s mind starts in school along with the inferiority of

Dancers Against Woke Ideology

UnwokeDancers

A couple clips from a recent Anti-Racist training for Blues, Lindy, and WCS dancers with a whopping 31k views. Dancers were taught that the US is not a democracy, it's

Oliver Willis

owillis

a lot of people in this country of ours spend an awful lot of their bandwidth on attempts to say slavery wasn't so bad or that the people who practiced

Tebogo Mogorosi

TBG_Himself

The narrative that bothers me on why God can’t exist is that of how our ancestors were enslaved. 1. As the idea that bad things shouldn’t happen. 2. As the

Jody David Armour

NiggaTheory

Lots of well meaning criminal justice reform advocates are lecturing #BLM activists and their allies on their political communication strategies, their “framing & messaging,” their chosen political slogans, such as

Crispy

RedheadMechanic

Let’s talk about abortion! More specifically, the repulsive appropriation and deracialization of the atrocities of history to abortion as used by #ProLife advocates, and how disrespectful and offensive they are.

Maddy

abhakhazia

I always think it's an interesting thought experiment to tie a historical date to the present one and examine history through that lens, because periodization can often blind us to

Christopher Frey

FreyChristopher

Since Aristotle on natural slavery is the philosophy twitter topic of the day, I thought I'd say something about his actual argument (and some of the reasons why it's wrong).

B

badnewsb_

Kylie’s garment workers make $95/a MONTH. Kylie makes roughly $19K/an HOUR but she can’t pay them a living wage? And y’all still sit there and support this family. OK. Kanye

Adam Jentleson 🎈

AJentleson

The filibuster was not part of the original Senate because the Framers knew exactly how it'd be used- they saw McConnell coming. The filibuster represents Calhoun's vision, not Madison's. Calhoun

VeritasVital

VeritasVital

I wasn't born with a deep defiance of fear. I was born with clinical OCD, and was in a perpetual state of panic as a child, mostly centered around germs,

Bo Winegard

EPoe187

1. Thread. The "Lost Cause" view of the Civil War. The Lost Cause is a pervasive and persistent myth about the Civil War, one that is still promulgated by many

R James King

RJamesKing1

It's Good Hawley / Bad Hawley day!Here's Good Hawley, once again, asking "Wait, why CAN'T we do something that is popular, helpful, and politically advantageous?"https://twitter.com/HawleyMO/status/1337070756371582980

Goatzel*

Goatzelll

Because it's not visible. Other forms of discrimination are visible. You can see whos black, you can see whos Asian, you can see whos middle Eastern. Therefore the discrimination they

Katie Donington

KatieDonington

Today's pronouncement that heritage orgs shouldn't engage with histories of slavery/empire because they 'do Britain down' is straight out of the UKIP handbook. Literally. This is an extract from their

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