#Rhetoric

The truth is, what happened to #AmaudArbery was a heinous crime & there is ZERO justification for what happened to him. Those two men should be locked up for LIFE!
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Explaining what I meant when I called the "homeless yt ppl" tweet queerphobic and ableist. And by the term "race reductionism." ThreadLet's say there's this trans girl. At age 18,
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Good morning!We don’t typically do a lot of language policing, so to speak, but the verbal distinction between police officers and “civilians” is unfortunate and should be avoided. In theory,
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New: In the final weeks before the election, senior DHS and ICE officials have launched a highly unusual publicity blitz - coincidentally in battleground states - using their platform to
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Thread:When the evangelical elite talk about "persuasion" in the public sphere, they usually assume the following ethos:1) Punch Right; thoughtfully engage Left. 2) Ascribe good faith to the Left (despite
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1/7. I've been discussing Marxism as a heretical offshoot of Xianity, which has become a false religion for millions. But it is having a big influence on the church today.
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Ava DuVernay (Filmmaker, Director, and Producer of the documentary, 13TH, on Netflix) has some things to say about the Biden/Harris ticket:“There is no debate anymore. There’s no room for it
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It's Town Hall Fact-Check Time!Here are 6 sources with "high" to "very high" factualness ratings that checked statements made during the two town halls last night.Getting down to the truth
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【THREAD】There's been a lot of discussion on here about a thread taking a very rosy view of Abe's legacy. As a counterpoint, here is, with the author's permission, a recent
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"why does cotton ceiling rhetoric mainly focus on lesbians and gay men and not straight people? why aren't straight people told that they need to 'unlearn their transphobic genital preferences'?"
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The annual report by @CommissionerHR also reflects the human rights of refugees, asylum seekers and migrants in 2019. Some specific concerns from the foreword: 1/7https://twitter.com/CommissionerHR/status/1252508561105616896 "Despite the decreas
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In light of Harvey Weinstein's life being "ruined," I have more to say on this rhetoric around rape allegations "ruining lives." And to do that, I want to use the
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Good afternoon folks,I’m here in Niagara-on-the-Lake for an animal rights activist protest and a counter protest involving town residents. Both protests are scheduled for 12:30pm and will take place in
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THREAD. On the rhetoric we've seen - or not seen - from China & India during the ongoing boundary tensions.Bottom line: thus far, both govts have largely been restrained in
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In 2016, indigenous people's groups marched to the United States embassy in the Philippines to protest the imperialist-directed militarization, development aggression and landgrabbing in their ancestral lands.The Philippine police prote
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The greatest mistake Muslim Brotherhood made was believing that their success in the immediate aftermath of the Arab Spring was because of their own endeavours as a group, rather than
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