#Rhetoric

Can we talk about #POWER instead of "violence," please? #Violence is a broad label that gets thrown around in the #HongKongprotest context, and it's basically meaningless. When people say they
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(1/5) There is this rhetoric going around in legal as well as non-legal circles all over the world that China should pay for the COVID-19 pandemic. In the past few
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So... this morning, during a Clubhouse panel discussion about global economic divergence, a (Mainland Chinese) audience member made the argument that semi-colonization by European powers was a good thing for
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TODAY is the beginning of the National Week of Mourning for people we have lost to COVID-19, and of our Signs, Shrines, Collages and a Mixtape: A Remote COVID Vigil
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I have deleted two unsent tweet threads because I don't want to get crushed but I will say a lot of you fellow lgbt+ folk have really fucking terrible lgbt+
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// transmisogynya warning thread on aberrantsabbath on tiktok because he continuously preaches terf rhetoric and has a large following despite many trans women telling him his language is transmisogynistic sabbaths
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A THREAD#1A prime example of the highly problematic media coverage on #Ethiopia by news, human rights & activist orgs is 2 Instagram posts made by @IndigenousPpls this past July.You can
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Long ass thread Thread: Progressive Vs Centrist and racism in the Democratic Party. we all know the Republican Party is full of racist goons. Unless you’re a republican, you’re not
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"The #IdentityMatrix: platform regulation of online threats to expression in #Africa": interrogates identity-driven hate, language discrimination, misinformation/harassment, esp. against women.https://globalvoices.org/specialcover
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Because most people seem to skip the most important points when I write ‘sa Ghàidhlig about the so-called sad state of our language, I'm going to stress the following points,
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Thread: I have had a quote attributed to Oscar Wilde running through my head all day, "patriotism is the virtue of the vicious". With Labour's recent moves it seems both
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At the risk of breaching lockdown etiquette, I feel it would be remiss not to mention that the stats on #Covid19 infections, hospital admissions and deaths have been stable or
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purity culture is a direct result of cultivated identity by social media and it's important to recognize why arguments grounded in "fact" and "logic" aren't working to persuade. every time
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【僕のとりとめ】reread it again (ch 8) and look at this. Rihito says “I’ve always...” Not only does the speech bubble cross into the panel of the hand looming above us—signalling that
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You know what's interesting? I see the exact same real people in the comments on a lot of mutuals' social media, saying exactly the same racist rhetoric like "those thugs"
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We are trying to do this -- teaming up with another family & hiring a full-time teacher for all 4 kids. We went with "Elementary Teacher for At-Home Learning" in
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