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Ahmed Ali

@DrAhmednurAli

4 years

It's a privilege to learn about racism instead of experiencing it your whole life.

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Ahmed Ali

@DrAhmednurAli

3 years

Funny how people can separate Tom Brady’s politics from his game, but struggle to do the same when it comes to Kaepernick.

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You can never ban abortion, you can only ban safe abortions. Read that again.

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Simone Biles and Naomi Osaka don't owe you anything. Read that again.

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I wish more folks understood that people don't fake anxiety and depression. They fake being okay.

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If Black children are old enough to experience racism, other children are old enough to learn about racism and how to be an antiracist.

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You can never ban abortion, you can only ban safe abortions. Read that again.

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Ahmed Ali

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Bullying successful women is a coping mechanism for a lot of mediocre men.

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Anyone who thinks poor folks don't know how to budget, fundamentally doesn't understand how poverty works.

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2 years

Homelessness is the consequence of a society that sees housing as an investment, instead of a human right.

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Ahmed Ali

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3 years

Please understand, no one latches themselves to a plane knowing they will fall to their deaths unless the sky is safer than the land.

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Friendly reminder, that we are all closer to being climate refugees than billionaires.

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Morocco's Sofiane Boufal celebrating with his mother is EVERYTHING.

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Ahmed Ali

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It must be nice to never need a landmark case to acknowledge your human rights.

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I wish more people deeply understood that being able-bodied is temporary.

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I SUCCESSFULLY DEFENDED MY DISSERTATION!!!! I'M A DOCTOR, Y'ALL!!!

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2 years

It's shameful how we remove some kids from homes & put them into the foster care system b/c their parents can't afford to provide for them, but then pay strangers to provide for those kids instead of supporting the parents. Punishing those struggling with poverty makes no sense.

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Ahmed Ali

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2 years

What’s “mild” for one person can be a death sentence for another. Our discussions of Omicron are steeped in ableism.

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Your periodic reminder that charity will never solve what public policy was meant to address. The generosity of strangers is not a substitute for good public policy.

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2 years

It's “essential workers” when they need you, but “low skilled workers” when you need them.

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Are they "developing" countries or are they healing from your exploitation?

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Ahmed Ali

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Please understand that the main cause of homelessness is evictions, not drug use.

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Ahmed Ali

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1 year

If capitalism could "solve" poverty, it would have already. Rather it creates, sustains, and criminalizes poverty.

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1 year

Imagine someone told you in 2005 that Kanye West would go from saying “George Bush doesn't care about Black people” to "I like Hitler" in 2022. You would have laughed in their face.

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What I'll always remember is how PM Jacinda Ardern's leadership lead to New Zealand banning assault rifles and military-style semi-automatic weapons in just SIX days after the Christchurch mosque attacks. No greater example of what going beyond thoughts and prayers looks like.

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Ahmed Ali

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2 years

You can (and should), unapologetically advocate for the Ukrainian people’s safety and peace AND you can call out the hypocrisy and racism on full display with the comparisons to other conflicts. They are not mutually exclusive. Let your sense of humanity be on full display.

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Refugees should not have to look like you to see their humanity.

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“Vaccine passports” are just immunization records which we all have and have had to provide at some point in our lives, so stop being melodramatic.

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Ahmed Ali

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3 years

As Canadians, we shouldn't be smug. What's happening in the US Capital could easily happen in Ottawa. White supremacy and white supremacists call Canada home too.

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If only we hated homelessness instead of hating homeless people.

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The new CDC guidelines are meant to protect capitalism, not people.

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It feels like "living with COVID" has turned into seeing how many times folks can get COVID before getting Long COVID.

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Confederate flags in Canada have NOTHING to do with history and EVERYTHING to do with hate.

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A teacher being removed from an elementary classroom for wearing a hijab should make *every single* Canadian angry, not just Muslim Canadians.

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3 years

Netflix better hire Meghan to play herself on The Crown. #HarryandMeghanonOprah

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3 years

Today is a good day to remember residential schools existed in Canada in 1996. History is not so distant.

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I hate how society humanizes billionaires, but vilifies the poor and unhoused.

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This quote by Arundhati Roy lives rent-free in my head: “There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.”

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Ahmed Ali

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3 years

This election could have been an email. #Elxn44 #CanadaElection2021

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When you win, you’re English. When you lose, you’re Black. Saka doesn’t deserve this.

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Scotland becomes the first country to make access to free period products a legal right. Now this is a step towards tackling period poverty.

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I hate how society is willing to try anything and everything under the sun to address homelessness, except providing homes for the unhoused.

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Ahmed Ali

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4 years

Toronto, Wallahi, I hope you never change 😂😂😂

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Ahmed Ali

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If this wasn't about power and control, America would be a nation that protects, supports, and invests in children. They would be leaders in every indicator of health, especially maternal health, instead of being the metric used to measure many policy failures.

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Ahmed Ali

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4 years

Every day in 2020

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Ahmed Ali

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Can’t help but think of the children in #Ukraine . Adults declare war, but children are always the victims.

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Terry Fox was immunocompromised. The juxtaposition of this fact with his statue being desecrated is heartbreaking.

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You're worried about the inconvenience of wearing a mask, while people who are immunocompromised are worried about dying from COVID. It's not the same thing.

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Being a racist makes you a racist. Not drugs. Not low blood sugar. Not mental health issues. Not having a horrible day.

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If Black children are old enough to experience racism, then other children are old enough to learn about critical race theory.

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We fund what we value. We police what we don't.

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I will never get over how Jeff Bezos went to space while Amazon employees are using GoFundMe as healthcare.

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Asking vulnerable people to remove themselves from society and “stay home” because you don't want to wear a mask is peak privilege.

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Every interview, every article & every quote that is some variation of “Ukraines don’t deserve this b/c this isn’t Africa/Middle East”, is a glaring reminder that some of you truly believe that Black/Brown people naturally deserve war, famine, & violence. No one deserves that.

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Ahmed Ali

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Never having to worry that your children will be the victim of a hate crime is a privilege.

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It's weird how our health care system doesn't consider "eyes" and "teeth" to be part of the body.

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Blaming Ontarians for doing what you ✨allowed✨ them to do is next level gaslighting.

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Please don’t tell me we can’t afford to address homelessness when y’all trying to literally colonize Mars.

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Ottawa once shut down a kid's lemonade stand over a permit, but adults can build a tiny home across from City Hall to protest. Noted.

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Imagine if the people who called themselves pro-life tried to stop mass shootings as hard as they try to stop abortions.

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It's funny how people will argue wearing a mask will traumatize kids, as if the poverty they never cared about wasn't doing that already.

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While we turn the clocks ahead an hour, today’s a good day for racists, antisemitics, homophobes and xenophobes to move their clocks up 150 years to catch up.

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That's the definition of racism actually.

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This is pure joy ❤️

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You think schools can't be strict when it comes to public health? Try bringing a peanut butter sandwich into a cafeteria.

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You can have a job and be homeless. We need to stop equating being homeless with a lack of effort. It's a failure of policy, not a failure of people.

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I will never accept the excuse that "we don't have enough resources" to eradicate poverty when billionaires are trying to colonize space. We lack the will, not the resources.

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The CDC recommends not being poor.

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The same doctors you’re trusting to treat you AFTER you get COVID, are telling you to get vaccinated BEFORE you get COVID. Read that again.

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“Take Back Canada" and "Make America Great Again" are two sides of the same coin of white supremacy.

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Friendly reminder: If Black children are old enough to experience racism, other children are old enough to learn about racism and how to be an antiracist. #BlackHistoryMonth

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A pandemic doesn't end just because rich countries feel safe enough to go to brunch.

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Having a job is often not enough in a system that requires homelessness and poverty to function.

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There's nothing “pro-life” about forcing people to give birth against their will.

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We need 24/7 vaccine clinics now. We need 24/7 vaccine clinics now. We need 24/7 vaccine clinics now. We need 24/7 vaccine clinics now. We need 24/7 vaccine clinics now.

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You will never agree about everything with anyone, but we should note who agrees with Nazis.

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It's wild how defunding the police is "radical", but defunding education, healthcare, and community programs is the "realistic" approach to helping folks. The truth is we fund what we value and police what we don't.

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It’s staggering how much our economy depends on women’s free labour. It’s undervalued, overlooked, and unjust. It’s their unpaid care work that’s the backbone of our economy, not billionaires.

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Interesting how the same people that are praising Tim Tebow for his values outside of football, see Colin Kaepernick's values as a distraction.

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A young boy lost his entire family because one Islamophobe decided to murder his entire family with a car, while they went out for a family walk. If this targeted attack isn't treated as a terrorist attack, we have no hope in Canada.

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Can't help but think about this picture of the homeless encampment evictions, as I see a video of police giving hugs to truckers who have blocked the US - Canada border. Violence is a policy choice that has nothing to do with training and everything to do with the "who".

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It makes no sense to say education workers are too important to allow them to strike, but not valuable enough to pay a living wage. The hypocrisy is a policy choice.

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Please understand that your individual choices are not enough to address the climate crisis. No amount of paper straws and biking to work will fix the devastation of decades of unfettered capitalism except systemic changes.

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Saying "learning to live with COVID" while offering no protections is just saying that we don't care who dies.

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If you're mad about flight cancellations, wait until you hear about surgeries being cancelled due to our COVID response.

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The people casually overlooking Elon Musk comparing Trudeau to Hitler, are the same people who casually overlooked the Confederate flags and swastikas in Ottawa.

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There's nothing more un-Canadian than trying to privatize our universal public healthcare system.

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Racism has grown men debating the nuances of how a mermaid is portrayed like it's their ancestor.

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Ontario schools require ALL children who attend primary or secondary school to be immunized against: • diphtheria • tetanus • polio • measles • mumps • rubella • meningitis • whooping cough • chickenpox Mandating the COVID vaccine isn't radical, it's essential.

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Oprah is all of us right now. #HarryandMeghanonOprah

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On the eve of the Quebec mosque shooting anniversary, with calls to act against hate, we have Confederate flags in our nation's capital. It's a gut check for not only Muslim Canadians, but all Canadians.

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You are not fed up with the pandemic more than healthcare workers are. Trust me.

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Please understand that pointing to the lack of police violence against the convoy protesters is not a call for violence. It's pointing out that the absence of police violence is possible and should be expected when protesting, especially for Black and Indigenous communities.

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Would you mind if vaccines were provided 24/7, even if it meant you might have to get your vaccine at 3 am? I wouldn't and I think most Ontarians wouldn't mind either. Anytime. Any place. RT if you support 24/7 vaccinations. Trying to prove a point.

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Our education system failed every Canadian by not teaching Indigenous history in a meaningful, complete way. True reconciliation means acknowledging genocide.

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It’s Family Day weekend in Canada, but that doesn’t mean take your children to face riot police.

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This blew up. I don't have a anything to plug but want to say: You never know who around you is immunocompromised. Please get vaccinated to protect them and yourself. We’ve lost too many loved ones to this virus. Peace and love ❤️

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Therapy should be free.

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