#Social

Harmless Hamster

hamster_right

How do we turn BLM on the liberal white managerial class? Is there a way to “bait” them to attacking leftist soft targets - specific zip codes, NFL stadiums, government

Dermot Casey

dermotcasey

So heres an alternative education plan that could have been worked on. n.b. this is not a fully worked out strategy and noting that we've spent €36billion so far on

Philosopher Kin vs Big Brother

rogerahicks

It's OK to be RACIST. #OK_to_be_RacistBecause it doesn't mean what it is supposed to mean. It's an Orwellian instrument of socio-political intimidation & control, like calling someone a heathen or

Peter Sagal

petersagal

Getting a lot of pushback on this, some of it angry, so a few points you can ignore and then yell anyway:https://twitter.com/petersagal/status/1334889052139565057 There are, by some estimates, up to 9M

©️as Mudde 😷

CasMudde

Very disappointing to see the power struggle play out so openly already now. To be clear, @AOC did not start it, but this doesn't help either. #ShortThread https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/nov/08/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-ends-tr

Mhairi Hunter

MhairiHunter

Scotpol urgently needs a working definition of transphobia before this horrible "debate" consumes everyone. There is so much dog whistling & coded language, it is exactly like anti-Semitism in that

cyanide dansen

cyanidedansen

Outing shitheads in your community isn't drama, it's trying to not let abuse take root.On this little note, too many friends in chiptune still follow or support trump supporters who

Alasdair Munro

apsmunro

A very interesting study here from South Korea, doing widespread contact tracing to give us a huge data set on secondary attack rates (SAR) for #COVID19 from different age groupsBut

Omair Ahmad

OmairTAhmad

Setting aside the Hindu-Muslim thing, the core issue behind families wanting to control marriages in India is about caste, about closed access to opportunities, and an unfair socio-economic base.In a

CILT at UCT

CILT_UCT

UCT recently surveyed students about experiences of Emergency Remote Teaching during term 2. Thank you to the 3818 students who provided feedback: your perspectives will help improve remote teaching for

Michael Merrick

michael_merrick

Really interesting stuff in @edwest new book on how liberals tend to shun authoritarian/masculine self-identity, which reminded of this tweet on how educational leadership can be hostile to working class

Richard Parker

velohistorian

Some may recall I took great exception to the way BBC Look North from Hull ran a serious of inflammatory news items a few months ago about cyclists. I lodged

John Preston

Professor_John

Imagine it is 1982 and we are at war with the USSR. If you didn't follow the advice of "Protect and Survive" and 'stay at home' you would be labelled

John Brown stan acct, reborn

thejb_stan

This is especially maddening in light of how many of the recent obsession on the right with "cancel culture". In 2002 it was basically impossible to be truly opposed to

Jesse Sumpter

jesse_sumpter

A friendly reminder Welcome to the party! I am serious about this. The husband is responsible for how his wife votes. He should not be abusive or a jerk about

Corey Quinn

QuinnyPig

And now a livetweet thread of a legal conference in the case of C21-31-BJR, Parler LLC v. @awscloud. Parler suggests "AWS just has to flip a switch and Parler gets

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