#RACISM

Globally, black people have a propensity to always want to include everyone even when it’s at our own detriment. The most perpetually dehumanized people in every caste system is also
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Cultural progress isn’t linear. It’s definitely not inevitable. And once achieved, it is precarious at best. Progress needs to be tended to, diligently, like a garden. Otherwise it’s guaranteed to
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A thread on #racism in the Criminal Justice System:After learning of the tragic killing of #GeorgeFloyd in the US it can be possible to feel like incidents such as that
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IRL arguments today"we should keep the confederate statue to remember history""ok but does it have to go by the courthouse""yes because the courthouse is where we remember history""perfect, so let's
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.@MountAllison suspends a prof for racism, even tho no one is even pretending that they've identified any actual racist statementall they can pin on her is that she doesn't think
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this is why i have never felt that south asian campus orgs represent me or speak for me. you are all spending too much time focusing on "hinduphobia" as a
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+ racism is living in a town where people cross the road because they're scared of you. where people drive past you in their cars and look confused to see
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Academics: a whole bunch of our institutions are about to invoke the work of scholars in departments born of struggle, departments that these same institutions have tried for decades to
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Slavery -> abolition -> civil war -> post/reconstruction -> Jim Crow -> Civil Rights movement -> Southern Strategy & realignment -> Lee Atwater austerity racism -> Obama election -> 2009
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The use of the term "Woke" for anything that concerns social or racial justice is a marker of a few things at this moment in political discourse. One, it's a
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It’s frightening how many people think racism isn’t present in the UK. It shows the disgusting privilege + the lack of education of people, but also how desensitised they are
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Why haven’t we cancelled racist Britney Spears: a thread. #BlackLivesMatter Here you can see blatantly and clearly impersonating a slave with her blaccent. Next up we have Britney Spears
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It's ridiculous that in my country, there's still racism by some who cant see past a simple difference as color.#BlackLivesMatter .It's simple. Treat others how you want to be treated.
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Racism is a spectrum not binary.Racism in the Five Eyes Nations (USA, UK, NZ, AUS, CAD) is based on white supremacy. Other nonwhite countries are xenophobic. Every white person in
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It IS racist when y’all recruit minoritized people to these ivory towers (for the optics) and then don’t create an environment for them to be successful (unless, of course, they
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Bitch, why the New York Times went and spilled all of Amy Cooper's tea like this?https://www.nytimes.com/2020/06/14/nyregion/central-park-amy-cooper-christian-racism.html I have read the NYT more in the past week than I have in
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