#Political

I'm disappointed with how drastically we've gone from the ebullient mood of #EndSARS to this trash that's happening in NaijaWe need to make MAJOR political action before & by
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Similar to the deaths of expertise, truth, and the “news”, comedy has fallen victim to politicization/tribalization. Comedy has historically existed as uniquely-observed social commentary that used humor to make it
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Very much worth reading. In dealing w/ this pandemic, we need to be driven by science, facts & common sense. Far too many—on both sides of the aisle—view this crisis
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I’ve been seeing a lot about “anti-racism burnout” lately... which... is a conversation I’m too angry & sad to have.But I’ve ALSO seen a lot of “fixed comfort” floating around.
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Gaza spent $6M in the past 24 hours on rockets fired at Israeli civilians. They spent $100M on military in the past few years (rockets, tunnels, etc). When people talk
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Y'all ever think about how both Black-led MCU projects end with the "sympathetic" Black revolutionary "villains" getting poetically killed off for the sake of the Greater Good while the people
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Solidarity with UNSW colleagues. A quick note: the university sector is not ‘shedding excess staff’. It is being subjected to a concerted political effort to shift its organising values away
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BuzzFeed News Australia has always been what the company allegedly wanted from a news department: a powerful (yet tiny!) machine that competes with orgs 10x it’s size in a monopolised
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The media has been demanding our political leaders listen to experts. The Governor of Georgia has been doing so. The experts have advised him that a statewide shelter-in-place order was
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It's worth remembering that, until the 1960s, almost all the race riots in American history consisted of mobs of white men going into black neighborhoods to burn property and kill
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The USA temporarily had a moment where virtually ALL Americans were united in empathy and sympathy, over the pointless, awful killing of a fellow citizen. People of ALL colours and
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Just when @nytimes was starting to do better on their reporting about evangelical Christians, we get another classic, terribly-framed, schmaltzy and overly sympathetic piece about white Christians in middle America.Every
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Why is this ok in my book?Example: Family Separation is not a political stance. It’s a crime against humanity. If Nazi Germany had this freedom of speech in 1938 -
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Let's have a short thread about intersectionality, coming together, and tearing apart.What's the purpose of intersectionality? It's to bring a particular coalition together, obviously, AND to prevent any other coalition
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Following from certain recentdiscussions in history I’ve also thinking again about Irish history, exceptionality and comparative frameworks. (1) Not being a historian of Ireland (nor of colonialism) I’m also very
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Some of the best @whatisleftpod episodes I remember, from the free feed. Excluding the more topical ones; these are ones that stand on their own as more timeless critiques: Reparationshttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-left/id1454736929?i=10
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