#Respectability

May 9th #HelpFolksLive2021 thread. Something's *always* due & food is *always* needed. Some things are *getting* better (for some people) but they aren't better yet. *Now* is when folks need
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At times, the country music industry’s disinterest in expanding its listeners racially in the past has confounded me. Wouldn’t u expect a business try to sell its products to anyone
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Bit odd seeing white feminists & LGBTQ ppl boost Divest rhetoric on here in the name of "listening to Black women", without bothering to check if these ppl support white
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As much I appreciate older woman comics giving out advice to younger women about needing to vet bookers or not dating in the scene, I don’t think the answer is
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April 29th #HelpFolksLive2021 thread. Something's *always* due & food is *always* needed. Some things are *getting* better (for some people) but they aren't better yet. *Now* is when folks need
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April 11th #HelpFolksLive2021 thread. Something's *always* due. & food is always needed. Some things are *getting* better (for some people) but they aren't better yet. *Now* is when folks need
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April 23rd #HelpFolksLive2021 thread. Something's *always* due & food is *always* needed. Some things are *getting* better (for some people) but they aren't better yet. *Now* is when folks need
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THREAD: As a black disabled person, I stopped believing in respectability politics a long time ago when I became a wheelchair user. COVID-19 affirmed my beliefs. If I catch coronavirus,
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Lately I've been thinking a lot about Jiang Cheng becoming Chief Cultivator. I know that Nie Huaisang is a popular choice, but he just doesn't strike me as someone whose
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I agree 1000% and try to shut up n listen. I was constantly told from a young age that I was the promising Black hope of the future cuz everyone
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Ad people who only talk about ad shit are absolutely tiring to me. I know I shouldn't talk lmao but sometimes I want to talk about non trendy, regular people
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Reading Cynical Theories to "better understand" pomo or CRT, or whatever b/c the original sources are "ideologically suspect" is among the laziest most intellectually dishonest things I can think of
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He should but he never will. He’ll never publicly interact with the Black left because his whole act would be shown for what it is. He has to pretend to
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Last night was a metaphor for what every woman of color experiences. No matter what accolades, credentials, experience a woman of color achieves, this society (in particular white men &
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The idea that Jerome Adams could not say something that is a terrific insult to people of color because he is Black belies the power of internalized racism. Look at
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Sighhhhhhhhhhhhhttps://twitter.com/simuliu/status/1385711299523342338 So this is exactly why I found the show so rocky and iffy. I wasn’t a fan of how they were portraying the flag smashers as radical terrorists and
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