#Slavery

1. Thread of 1850s electoral tidbits from Eric Foner's "Free Soil, Free Labor, Free Men", which is a great book about the ideology of the pre-Civil War Republican Party. Everything
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"American Dream" a phrased coined by James Adams in 1931 said it was "a dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone,
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psa: anyone treating this kanye 2020 thing as if it's at all legitimate is a f cking idiot. even indulging it this month makes you look like a f cking
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I have never thought the distinction we make betwn colonialism & enslavement is particularly useful esp. when thinking about Africa. Colonialism necessary entails enslavement. Whiteness likes to change terminology to
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So when @RepKarenBass asks am I serious about the questions I want added to immigration about applicant's family's past or current wealth coming from the slave trade or flesh trade
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1/ @MichaelRWear and @PaulDMiller2 ask: "What's the difference between White Christian Nationalism and American Civil Religion.I have a few thoughts about that... Caveat: wonky. 2/ Identifying characteristics of contemporary White
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Thread: In @Trent_Horn's book "Can a Catholic Be a Socialist?", he urges the logic (defending Capitalism's abuses) that tolerating sweatshops is acceptable because it prevents what would be worse alternatives
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Reagan Republicans destroyed Unions because Black people started joining them. Reagan Republicans destroyed American industrial industries because Black Americans found jobs in factories after WWII Reagan Republicans gutted social safety
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The FIRE (Financial Independence, Retire Early) movement has a number of powerful ideas...I‘m very glad that I found it when I did...And their core thesis is 100% DEAD WRONG.THREAD:First off,
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I know I said no more threads til Princess Diaries (that’s tonight btw), but I lied. I call this one Racism Rebuttals for Those Want to Learn. Read on: “You
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1/10Three days ago, we saw the putrid runoff of what’s been stoked, distilled & fomented by Trump since the beginning of his term. The riot in service of an attempted
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It's been a month since the siege on the Capitol, which exposed for many Americans the existence of a domestic terror threat. The thing is, there's been a race war
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1. Poem by Cordelia Ray written for the dedication of Emancipation Monument:To-day, O martyred chief, beneath the sunWe would unveil thy form; to thee who wonThe applause of nations, for
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Why I think marxist humanism sucks (a thread):I think in general the secret logic of humanism as althusser says is the difference between inhuman/human (this logic was used to justify
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It's a big deal the @nytimes ran a piece on Israeli lethal force,it's also obvs the author was writing defensively against Israeli protest. #IyadHallaq bookends the article but it refuses
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