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Tranquilo
Jellis1snv
Since people talking about Lenin & Leninism I think I'll do a quick thread There's a lot of misconceptions around "Leninist" theory so I'll deal with a few. 1. The
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Rami Ismail (رامي)
tha_rami
Very excited that despite the growing Islamophobia & xenophobia we're back in 2006 where a wealthy English man pretends to a be a clueless asshole with exaggeratedly offensive cultural views
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Museum Detox
museum_detox
Silence is an act of violence. If organisations cannot publicly declare that #BlackLivesMatter , they are complicit. Each have a responsibility to the Black community who visit, who are employed
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Pseudoerasmus
pseudoerasmus
Another Indonesia-related ephemera:I’ve wondered for decades! why Pinochet has been so much more reviled than Suharto in the popular imagination when Suharto was so much more lethal ?! There’s even
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Qiao Collective
qiaocollective
Slurs like “Chinazi” & “Xitler” are part of an anticommunist tendency of WWII revisionism. The West likes to portray itself as the great Nazi-slayers. In reality, the Soviets played the
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Guanyi Yang
GuanyiYang
I literally just finished Economics of Discrimination for my labor class, and I changed how I teach this (and the entire labor econ) dramatically this year, after so disturbed by
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Chisomo Kalinga, PhD
MissChisomo
This tweet deserved to go viral. The gentrification of decolonisation was inevitable. Northern scholars, determined to secure funding from it, had to change the parameters to do so. To paraphrase
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Emily G (not a newspaper)
EmilyGorcenski
Came back to say all tankies are abusers, who are more interested in partnering with Nazis than any sort of restorative justice, and regularly call for the murder or imprisonment
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Francesca has registered to vote
FrancescaHumi
Thread:Most ppl know of the poem, "The White Man's Burden," the ultimate anthem for colonialism. But not everyone realises it was written by Kipling, author of the Jungle Book. And
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Robert Boughen
BoughenRobert
A little late again to the party, but really inspired (if that is the right word) by @o_rutazibwa's take on International Development, that "the entire notion of aid is obscene—and
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Nancy Van Styvendale
NVanStyvendale
#IndigenousPrisonWriting Day 2: Patricia Monture-Angus's "Considering Colonialism & Oppression" (1999) astutely critiques "reform," "resistance," and "healing" as responses to the settler colo
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Ethan Wolf
ewolf_7
Thread: I have seen a number of disturbing posts recently about how Jews should renounce their Zionism due to its oppression of other people. I am perturbed by that. Here
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Kennedy Gochenour
KennedyCLST6
#CLST6 For this #CYO3 on #Identity I listened to an Arch&Anth podcast interview with Dr. Justin Dunnavant. Dr. Dunnavant is a postdoctoral fellow at Vanderbilt University who specializes in African
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Sacha Coward
sacha_coward
What even is a dragon?!You didn’t ask, but I’m making a thread about it anyway:This will be a thread about folklore, culture, the way we make categories and lump things
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Spectrum Politics
SpectrumPol
Our voters have agreed that we should remove the Queen as Head of state of The Bahamas. Though, interestingly enough, almost 40% of voters didn't know enough. Here's a thread
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Samantha Marie Nock
sammymarie
there's been a new rhetoric around the pandemic regarding younger people being hospitalized now, and that is why we should be caring about the variants/following protocols/not mouth breathing on strangers
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