#Respectability

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titmouse973

i was mutuals w this person and she hit on me too and it was weird af but i dont like everyone misgendering her in the comments. she uses she

Dr Sarah Taber

SarahTaber_bww

Your family isn't treating you like shit because they're "forced" to by economics.They're doing that because they're a shitty family.Let them have the dignity of their choice, & make your

Puff the Magic Hater

MsKellyMHayes

Talk of prosecuting and investigating people on the basis of ideology broadens, like I told y'all it would.https://twitter.com/tedcruz/status/1302664101567569920 If anyone believes that the author and Cruz are *only* talking about

Drachma Queen

AHizanidis

Ellie here, like many left-wing commentators desperate for respectability in the mainstream, falling prey to an attitude she so succinctly described in another thread. https://twitter.com/elliemaeohagan/status/1322143880679182337 I get it.

Dr. Myhre🏳️‍🌈

SarahEMyhre

On this #EarthDay2021 , I am going to say the uncomfortable things. Climate change is not an opportunity for you to build your brand. Your feelings about climate change may

Hari Ziyad

HariZiyad

This year, I’ve had a number of folk tell me they used to think I was too aggressive toward cops & capitalists & white folks, but now they are starting

Shubhangi Karmakar

Repealist_

Ah yes 'whiff of sexism' from predominantly QTIP/WOC specifically talking about white women's crocodile tears and faux fragilitySpare me 'but not as bad here as America'. I've been verbally, physically,

kat chow

katchow

Arguments like this miss the point. Asian Americans proving their "Americanness" isn't going to stop racism. Respectability politics isn't the solution. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/01/andrew-yang-coronavirus-disc

John Ganz

lionel_trolling

There's also a kind of anti-respectability politics, which views everything that appeals to conventional people as either hopelessly naive and dowdy or thoroughly hypocritical, and sometimes as both Usually this

Jen Richards

SmartAssJen

I’ve mostly bit my lip about Caitlyn for years, in part because I mostly saw her as a sad, harmless old woman, but now she’s out here actively spewing her

Jeet Heer

HeerJeet

1. It is a good passage but I'm not sure that it does the work Douthat wants it to in rebutting the idea that Trumpism is authoritarian. Worth remember what

Remi Ryans 🌻

AnansiRyans

Being restrained by a police officer at 5 y/o because I walked out of a shop with a toy fireman’s hat on by accident. At 6, be forced by my

Dr William Lopez ✊🏽🌈

lopez_wd

while @victoriadreyes & I were postdocs at @UMichNCID & working on our books (which have since come out!), we talked often about how deeply we related to @Lin_Manuel's lyrics in

Shelby Ivey Christie

bronze_bombSHEL

Ive been thinking about what we’ve come to know about dress + protestDuring the civil rights marches we dressed in a polished manner to show/justify our humanity. Fast forward, the

Rhyne Putman

rhyneputman

Serious question bothering me at 3:53 a.m. I enjoy dry wit and revel in light-hearted riposte. I do not, however, appreciate snark. Sometimes I hear Christian brothers excuse snark or

Candice Marie Benbow

CandiceBenbow

#RedLipTheology is grounded in the belief we are whole beings. Our spiritual and sexual selves are not at war with each other. We are whole. We are good creation. #RedLipTheology