#Myth

Renée Landell

Nay_Landell

So much engagement & questions, thank you all! I wanted to spend the most time speaking about Mammy as it's a hot topic right now #AuntJemimaBut let me very

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uglyluhan

As a prelude to a thread I was requested, I felt it necessary to first address a related issue we're all familiar with: the myth of the lazy Malay, a

Melanie ᐰ

Melanie_K982

Let's talk about the other side of self-dx: when you do all your homework & come to the conclusion that you are NOT (fill in the blank).There seems to be

Sizwe sikaMusi

SizweLo

A story goes that the ANC was looking for the head of its Department of Economic Planning. Nelson Mandela asked if anyone was an economist—Trevor Manuel raised his hand. It

Mustafa Farooq

mfarooq45

1. (Thread) Today's thread is about Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS).It's about how @csiscanada has continued its practice of lying to the courts, and by proxy, to Canadians. This is

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AnyBodyCanFly

Thread - Long Term InvestingMyths, Facts, Experiences, Observations, Lessons, Future Myth~Long term investing is buy quality business & hold foreverExperience ~Any business can evolve better with time or die down

Asha Rangappa

AshaRangappa_

THREAD. The idea that some (but not all!) Indians are really "white" is not new. Unfortunately, this claim has a very ugly history of and association with -- wait for

Alexander McKay

ARmckay82

There's a very interesting interview with Adolph Reed on the latest Matt Taibi podcast for Rolling Stone. Reed reflects in that interview that he saw the "video of 1968" playing

Imran

imranklgl

We can agree upon the fact that google doesn't care about publisher. I would like to get some clarification regarding the ads that is showing up now. Why these ads

Sammy Reid

SammyReidFI

A commonly-held belief that I don’t believe is true (or at least is way less true than we think it is):“Hitters actually PREFER that pitchers use foreign substances, bc it

Cuan Ó Seireadáin

Cuanbos

Never understood the weird vitriol against Peig. It’s a self-perpetuating myth, a caricature mindlessly regurgitated in many instances by people who never studied her and know feck all about her

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malinablue

I see MSNBC pundits are talking about the Cassandra Effect in discussing those who warned about the pandemic before it happened, but were ignored.Interesting bit about the myth of Cassandra

Boyd van Dijk

boyd_vandijk

I’ve great sympathy for Ohlin’s politics, but I am not convinced by his instrumentalization of history.https://twitter.com/pilabuda/status/1198230884769566721 The notion that WWII “led nations [drafters of Geneva 1949]...to draw sharp distinctions be

The People's Oracle

PeoplesOracle

I’m thinking about the beginnings of america as a self-determined America. It’s myth of fairy tale likeliness...First, many left their native country escaping religious persecution. They rejected the authority of

Carter 🌹

Carter__cat

THREAD:I know I posted this earlier, but I think it bears repeating: white southern slaveholding women literally thought their slaves were being lured away from their plantations by Union soldiers.

Lee Jones

DrLeeJones

A thread on my @ChathamHouse research report coauthored with @ShaharHameiri:"Debunking the Myth of ‘Debt-trap Diplomacy’: How Recipient Countries Shape China’s Belt and Road Initiative."It contains detailed case studies of #