#Refusal

Whenever these "whites faking Blackness" stories surface, like Jessica Krug or Dolezal, it's striking how each one is treated as *fascinating* -- like we need magazine profiles to understand each
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Here's an object lesson in how NOT to reconcile conflicting ideas.You don't pretend you never held the other belief. You explain why your current stance mitigates or overrides your previously
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- I've just had an editor refuse to publish a piece of writing they invited me to submit & I think it's fair to call it censorship. Pls read because
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oh i don't know, maybechanging our history to fit their ideologydropping important and necessary history to either silence a group or again fit their ideologyerase definitions of labels just so
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Many years ago, after watching the movie Aligarh, I began a wild goose chase to find the book of poetry by the movie's protagonist: Professor Ramchandra Siras.⁣A Thread. Siras' poetry
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Spent some time this week surveying Connecticut's current COVID testing system.It's made it clear to me how disastrous Trump's refusal to build a national testing plan has been - even
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Boarding schools as an entire concept should be done away with but until then let those kids have phones. I don't understand how ya'll can sit and act like schools
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Again and again, @jonathanvswan challenged Trump to show basic humanity about the mounting toll on his watch, and to take responsibility for it.Trump failed this most basic of tests.That's the
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A PROPOSAL FOR EFFECTIVE PEACEFUL CIVIL DISOBEDIENCEA Thread in response to this morning's latest newsAs we have been tiptoeing toward the unimaginable, we have tried protest (which has shown its
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it's really telling that many "hopeful" adoptive parents give up so quickly upon hearing all this stuff, but ppl think it's scaring them away. nah, they just proved that they
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"Oh, I see you're complaining about Nero fiddling while Rome burns again. Pretty ironic that you found time to complain about this *as Rome burns*."--Very Smart People in 59 AD,
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anyone currently shocked by the fact that the politicians in power recant and reverse the views they held when they were in opposition (and vice versa) has simply not paid
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Like many of you I spent much of yesterday on here. I have read the EHRC report in full and the reaction to it. I confess that I had expected
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Echoes of 2010: the Democratic Party in 2021 has the chance to fundamentally reshape the country in its image. 2010 should be a lesson and a warning. In 2008 a
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An old thread, but more relevant than ever:Whenever abortion comes up, I have a question I've been asking for 12 years now of the "Life begins at Conception" crowd. In
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THREAD: Gov* Kemp announced that some businesses will reopen Friday. Meanwhile, Georgia ranks 43rd in testing and has the 14th highest infection rate in the US, overwhelming rural hospitals already
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