#Discourse

definitely not 4 cats in a trench coat

nighthawkms

Anyway... One thing I've taken away from fandom discourse over the years is that we tend to eat our own and hold each other to standards of perfection, burning out

Wootmaster 🦓

woot_master

My comment on the sampling discourse currently going about. If your work is so transformative as to turn a music sample into a brand new piece you can absolutely claim

The Irish Atheist

Irish_Atheist

Serious question: Is hiring a domestic worker to clean your house semi-regularly inherently classist and exploitative?More so than hiring a babysitter to watch your kids?I’ve heard a lot of leftist

The Mountain Goats

mountain_goats

giving notice that the text for my next sermon is Isaiah 9:6 and the corny marquee line in front of the church is gonna be something like "CMD + F

GD

Thegandharv25

Aren't we witnessing a pattern where the minority classes are the ones who are appeased to win elections? 7 decades and fact remains the same??! So the political discourse of

Kumi Iman BAE BAE

baexploitation

afropessimism harnesses the power of black depression to create...more depression. it also flattens most other styles of black political discourse as naive discourses of “hope”. this ignores the deeper more

Dana Schwartz

DanaSchwartzzz

I think one of the problems with discourse about "cancel culture" is that phrase encompasses so much that people are often talking about different things. Internet pile-ons are a real

It's still Root

rootsworks

Not gonna quote tweet LRT but I kinda suspect that needing to be mad about inconsequential fandom bullshit that is a small enough "problem" to wrap their heads around is

zae

ItsZaeOk

a white girl with bantu knots looks silly. why lie? no one is gatekeeping blackness by laughing at adele. a white woman was the butt of a joke for like

Noam Blum 🦉

neontaster

Imagine a line on a chalkboard. At one end it says "hey, sometimes you mix up your gun and your taser in the heat of the moment" and on the

Caitlin Rivers, PhD

cmyeaton

There is a print in a colleague’s office at @JHSPH_CHS commemorating the eradication of smallpox. It’s signed Never Again! I want us to say that about pandemics. And mean it.

Graeme Archer

graemearcher

Is this the logic? A certain vociferous group comprised of diehard Remainers and tribal Leftists invent tropes about Conservatives that have no bearing in fact: "They hate foreigners. They hate

soma

FinalBossFemme

This just comes down to the same old "your private kink somehow hurts people" logic coming from people too young to have learned a healthy way to address feelings of

Facing History

facinghistory

Before #Debates2020 began, many hoped for a sound policy discussion. What we saw instead was a distressing abandonment of accepted norms & expectations. Follow this thread for 6 resources

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PewkaPew

My politics are always too complicated to share in the Twitter discourse but i will say i do believe in rehabilitation, education, therapy and change - to some degree. Continued;

Firas Alkhateeb

khateeb88

The same people who shove woke ideology down everyone's throat insisting that minority communities get monopolies over certain discourse are often the same people who entirely ignore Muslim voices unless