#Understanding

Today, I thought of something I'm going to apply to any discourse I am involved in: Violence begets Violence. All the rights we fight for were taken from us, violently,
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People defend policing because it’s a pillar of white supremacy and they are emotionally, psychologically and/or financially invested in preserving it. There are Black people who are invested in preserving
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1 - Man made plagues? The 400 yrs have been over in other parts of the Americas & Caribbean for a while already. I know we in the US say
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@jacobsgoldin and I have a new working paper that looks at which children benefit from the Child Tax Credit and which do not.Ungated version here: http://papers.nber.org/tmp/63325-w27940.pdfA thread on some of
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let's talk about my king of redemption arcs, prince zuko. my interpretation of zuko's big 3 are the following: aries sun, sagittarius moon, capricorn ascendant. aries sun: we all know
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lrt that's why i got so pissed off about the 2ha tl drama omfg. i'm a native speaker (sort of hksdf) but even with so many years of learning chinese
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Many of you have contempt for people like @samharrisorg and @richarddawkins but their accomplishment 10 years ago is worth understanding, and over time they have shown they lack a certain
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sealions: i bet you've never heard of SOCRATES, snowflakeme, a diogenes fan: this you? BEHOLD, A MANSPLAINER maieutics is actually a very effective *teaching* method, which is how socrates used
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We are so quick to discredit anyone who has an opposing viewpoint and quick to share every post of someone who shares our views. Why does everything have to be
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Do Japanese gay men read BL? What do they think of women who read BL? A thread, summarizing an article. The chief editor Ryu-san of Barazoku, a gay specialized magazine,
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I was musing on a long walk with the dogs today. What is it that makes “equity” an uncomfortable concept compared to “equality”? I see “equality” a lot in profiles
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I understand the dangers of a pandemic well enough to see why avoiding public places and crowds is important right now, but I don’t see how policing anyone is of
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So this Murtad (ex Muslim) is TRIGGERED about the fact that Muhammad (pbuh) is what comes up on google when us search up "the greatest man to ever live" so
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Every time I see a post about killing pedophiles, I always think of St Moses the Black, who refused to judge the sins of a fellow monk because he saw
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Since its Bisexual month or whatever, some thoughts :) I've become much more comfortable with using Bisexual as a label vs. Queer (both are fine, really) but through the years,
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reminder: i don't care if you use tone indicators, i care about being forced and bullied into using them. not using tone indicators does not make you an ableist and
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