Thomas Chatterton Williams @thomaschattwill Twitter profile

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

10 months

I’m back in the gym doing drills I haven’t done in 25 years. All I want to do is Uncle Toni / Richard Williams up one of my kids 🤣

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

3 years

I'm a 40-year-old American descendent of slaves. The year is 2021, and I have been "free" my entire life.

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3 years

When they say that the 4th of July is about American freedom, remember this: the freedom they’re referring to is for white people. This land is stolen land and Black people still aren’t free.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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We have spent the past few years debating how oppressive the U.S. is. These images of Afghans clinging to a U.S. plane and falling from the sky are a damn sobering reminder that while there are no utopias, we'd better appreciate the society we were lucky enough to be born into.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

Mike Pence and his coronavirus emergency team praying for a solution. We are so screwed.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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5 years

Just learned if you phrase the question: Should convicts be ALLOWED to study for the GED and pursue a college education? most Americans will respond: No If you say: Should convicts be FORCED to study for the GED and pursue a college education? most Americans will respond: Yes

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

This has to be one of the best tweets of all time now:

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

2 years

Mind blowing to watch activists tell this woman “this is not the time” to mention that the man shot by police had been *shooting into her apartment* where her kids were.

Deevon Rahming

@DeevonRahming

2 years

Things boiled over during Saturday’s rally and march for Tekle Sundberg, when the 24 year old woman who says he was shooting into her apt. showed up voicing her frustration with those gathering in front of her building on Sundberg’s behalf. @kare11 * video contains profanity *

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

I don’t know who needs to hear this but

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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1 year

What if, stay with me, these five men were actually agents responsible for their own reprehensible actions and not merely hapless puppets being manipulated by the invisible hand of inescapable and omnipotent white supremacy?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

The privilege I grew up with is that my parents really gave a damn, and that is worth more than money.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

You racialize a stranger. Publicly disrespect their entire career. Receive backlash. Refuse to apologize, dig in deeper and paint yourself as the victim in a gratuitous pile-on you started. Then the coup de grace? You solicit donations from strangers to finance your self-care 😵‍💫

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

I reject Donald Trump’s America, and I reject whoever would replace it with this.

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4 years

Here are more protestors on the streets of DC demanding a woman raise her fist against “white supremacy.” They are actually proud of this shaming and bullying. They promote it as a job well done 😂

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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1 year

Idris Elba, welcome to the Intellectual Dark Web

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

I don’t know how to say this because I’m so frustrated: A lot of voices on the left were talking romantically for months, all damn summer, about the righteous virtues of property destruction and “mostly peaceful protest.” This was playing with fire.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

When, exactly, did the artistic/intellectual/media culture shift from "I strongly disagree with your view" to "you should not be able to work"?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

Colin Kaepernick is a joke, wow

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

There really is no side to be on but the side that is consistently against mob justice, chaos and violence.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

Twitter parsing whether Arabs are really Caucasians was inevitable in retrospect.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

4 years

He went in. This should be going viral.

MRCTV

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4 years

MUST SEE: Democratic state Rep. John Deberry Jr. delivers an incredibly powerful speech on race in America.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

We are creating a society that is totally aggrieved at the very same time it is totally unforgiving.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

2 years

Words are not violence. Violence is violence. That distinction must never be downplayed or forgotten, even on behalf of a group we deem oppressed. Maximum solidarity with Salman Rushdie and may he recover fully and fast.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

What kind of society are we trying to achieve? This is the absolute worst way to accept victory and guarantees the continuation of the very animosity you claim to abhor.

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4 years

If you’re a Trumper I hope the pain and anxiety you feel now is excruciating. You voted against America and for a cult leader who has no redeeming or admirable qualities. He’s a cretin who cares nothing about this country and you don’t either. You deserve all the pain and more.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

Ascribing moral judgements to individuals on the basis of physical attributes and ancestral lineage is indefensible, no matter how sophisticated or seemingly high-minded the rationale.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

4 years

I think many people misunderstand the purpose of an open letter. When you sign such a document, you are endorsing the ideas articulated in that letter––not every idea held by every co-signatory at every stage of life. People can have differences in one area and agree in another.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

4 years

I lost my wedding ring swimming in the finger-shrinking cold Atlantic at high tide. Hoping against hope, I went back out several hours later at low tide, searched in all the rocks, and actually found that thing. I’ll take this as a metaphor for the matrimonial project in general.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

If you care about the open society, it’s hard to think of many threats to it more serious than the restriction of access to books—even disagreeable ones. What appears to be happening at eBay and Amazon is seriously alarming.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

I wrote about how sad it is to see the inept handling of COVID-19 in the U.S. from Europe, where the response was serious not polarized. Life in France feels normal again, with one exception this summer: No tourists from hotspots like Russia—or America.

Do Americans Understand How Badly They’re Doing?

In France, where I live, the virus is under control. I can hardly believe the news coming out of the United States.

www.theatlantic.com

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

3 years

If you can't deal with living in a society that commemorates its own founders, warts and all, through statuary and other means, you really should consider expatriating to another society of your choosing, which you'd either hold in higher regard or at least feel less invested in.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

4 months

A lot of people were quick to dismiss this as baseless, but copy-pasting from Wikipedia is worse than what Gay did:

Katherine Long

@ByKLong

4 months

I sent these receipts, and dozens more, to @BillAckman earlier today, hopping they would help him do the research he said he had no time to do before blasting us here.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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7 months

The tweet below is from a professor at Yale, and the context is babies being beheaded. Think about what happened to Erika Cristakis and @NAChristakis at Yale for simply suggesting college students should be able to reason through their own *Halloween costume* choices.

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@ZareenaGrewal

7 months

Settlers are not civilians. This is not hard.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

4 years

This man has well over 1 million followers. @twitter does this violate any of your rules at all?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

2 years

A couple years ago when my best friend told me he was profiling a comedian running for president in Ukraine for the New Yorker, I kind laughed at the idea. Jokes on me—Zelensky is the most physically courageous and inspiring national leader of this era.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

3 years

Kyle Rittenhouse shot white people.

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@GregoryMcKelvey

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Employers, consider giving your Black employees a day or two off after the Rittenhouse verdict. Regardless of the outcome, it’s going to be hard for Black people to work and it isn’t fair to expect them to.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

Two things that are true at the same time: 1) I am deeply, deeply angered by and critical and suspicious of American police. 2) You could not pay me to live in a town or city or municipality that actually succeeded in abolishing its police force.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

I have a lot of more sophisticated reasons to reject the new orthodoxy—i.e., that all white people are inherently racist—but it’s really just very simple for me: My mother is not a racist. And she never has been. No amount of new propaganda could ever make me lose sight of this.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

2 years

This from @mtaibbi really struck me

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

4 years

Is that racist or antiracist?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

3 years

This old line from Stefan Zweig seems tailor-made for AOC's Met Gala message: "Every gesture of resistance which is void of either risk or impact is nothing but a cry for recognition."

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

As a young black kid with no family connections or intergenerational wealth, I had a father who instilled the value of study. I can look you in the eye and say that standardized testing changed the course of my life. Measuring how hard someone is willing to study *does matter.*

Randi Weingarten 🇺🇦🇺🇸💪🏿👩‍🎓🟣

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Standardized testing doesn’t help kids learn, and it doesn’t help teachers teach. We need to measure what matters. #TEACH21

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

What in the WORLD is “Black+”?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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2 years

This is as terrifying as Get Out.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

How have these tweets still not been deleted?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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7 months

It's particularly disturbing to me to see some BLM chapters cheerlead the slaughter of Jewish civilians, including children. Jews have historically been among the first to march with blacks and to this day Jews are consistently among the most receptive audiences for antiracism.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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1 year

Elite-level gaslighting

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@asymmetricinfo

1 year

Marveling at the seamless transition from "Shadowbanning is ultra-MAGA paranoia" to "LOL of course they were de-amplifying the hard right, who thought this was news?"

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

“If we are not careful, our colleges will produce … close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists” —Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

Essentially child abuse. Hard to imagine anything a genuine white racist could say that would be *more* damaging to the self-image and academic development of a young black child than this:

Mythinformed

@MythinformedMKE

3 years

A New York k-12 educator suggests black students DO NOT think analytically. She states this is why “education is not working for students of color” in the US. This was part of an “anti-racist” discussion between NY educators. Critical Race Theory/ “anti-racism” is neo-racism.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

2021 challenge: say no to stuff like this. Say no to reflexive tribalism. If a company, product or service is good, it’s good. Be kind to people you meet and judge people by their actions not abstract categorizations they have no control over.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

This so deeply insulting and indicative of how belittling the racial conversation in America is becoming. The National Museum of African American History & Culture (with an assist from Robin DiAngelo!) defines as "white culture" -Work Ethic -Intact family -Rational thinking 1/

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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2 years

I will say this until I die: the SATs saved me from being stuck in mediocre schools

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@coldxman

2 years

It's fucking racist to say that black people can't be expected to take the SAT/ACT the same way a white or Asian kid can. The tests are not "racially biased." I resent and reject this completely.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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7 months

decolonization discourse is really showing its ass right now

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

These are incredible

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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1 year

This is at Harvard!?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

We are clearly experiencing a crisis of leadership at all levels of society—political, cultural, intellectual, moral, spiritual. Many other problems are symptomatic of this.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

Probability that this will be extravagantly abused? 💯 percent

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@Yelp

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Now, when a business gains attention for reports of racist conduct, Yelp will place a new Business Accused of Racist Behavior Alert on their Yelp page to inform users, along with a link to a news article where they can learn more.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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1 year

The degree to which Manhattan air is now just saturated with the aroma of marijuana is frankly absurd.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

My black father from the segregated south is the single most punctual person I have ever known.

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"White culture is obsessed with 'mechanical time' — clock time — and punishes students for lateness. This, he said, is but one example of how whiteness undercuts Black kids."

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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You have one single life on this earth, and you're going to be indoctrinated into an all-consuming, quasi-religious belief that the *only* thing that determines your happiness and prosperity is the random lottery of the arbitrary color grouping you've been assigned at birth?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

For a descendant of slave owners, it would make much more sense to say, “I’m ashamed of my ancestors’ *actions*.” Otherwise, it’s like Hannah Arendt said: When all are guilty no one is.

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"I'm ashamed for my ancestors' race."

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

If you find yourself reaching for arguments about “multiracial whiteness” to explain why there are non-white people who think and act differently than you’d expect them to, you should at least *consider* the possibility that race can’t explain everything

Opinion | To understand Trump’s support, we must think in terms of multiracial Whiteness

The attraction of Trump for Latino voters is the promise of multiracial whiteness.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

2 years

Stop it

Dr Ellie Murray, ScD

@EpiEllie

2 years

Idea 10: If your gathering has a meal, consider having people plan to bring the food home rather than eating all together. Eating requires unmasking & unmasking means more chance of transmission. Alternative: have different households eat in different rooms at the gathering.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

A point that bears periodic repeating: many of the loudest voices on Twitter are unwell.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

2 years

Always amazed and touched by the sheer friendliness of strangers in the American south.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

3 years

I hate to break this to you, but right this very moment a “white” person (YOU) is arguing with a “black” person (ME) about when it’s okay to use that term!

kirstenpowers.substack.com

@KirstenPowers

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@thomaschattwill ok not sure why you are trying to change the subject. Feels like whataboutism which i don't entertain. my tweet was about white ppl who argue with Black ppl about when it's ok to use the N-word

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

2 years

Vaccination status should never become an identity.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

Unreal

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This woman is a professor at Syracuse University

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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1 year

Two almost identical shootings. Right next to each other on the NYT today. The latter was even fatal, but there was no racial angle to apply, both the victim and the trigger-happy elderly shooter were white. Hence the fatality gets lower billing, much smaller headline, no photo.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

It gives me no joy to say this because I miss the US and wish it were a place to return to, but what Hayes describes is not at all what anyone feels right now in Europe—where life post-Covid has basically returned to normal because government just isn’t completely dysfunctional.

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I'm curious if other people have had something in them break the last few weeks, where you realize "normal," or even a rough approximation of it is gone for a good long while. We've always known that at some level but I feel it intensely and viscerally right now.

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4 years

Do not let people pressure you into feeling like the progressive thing to do is to judge other people by their ancestry and skin.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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Derrick Bell is not literally being taught in grade schools, but CRT praxis has undeniably altered the way that many children are being taught and parents have noticed. This is not hard.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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It seems sensible to me to be opposed to both wanton violence by police against civilians and mindless rioting and looting as a response to it. So many seem to feel that renouncing one means implicitly condoning the other. But we don’t have to pick sides. We can reject all of it.

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3 years

She is inadvertently on to something

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3 years

I don't see how you can come to any other conclusion than that Rufo really acquits himself well here.

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“What do you like about being White?” I asked this question to anti- Critical Race Theory advocate Christopher Rufo. He stated that Whiteness was always only painted as negative, so I asked him to offer something different. Peep his response:

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It’s a really complicated ethical dilemma, but ultimately I’m afraid Trump has been made into a digital martyr for free speech and this will produce many, many negative consequences going forward.

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When fighting oppression becomes your identity/raison d'être, recognition (let alone acceptance or celebration) of progress must feel like an existential threat.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

3 years

For people coming to this tweet from others who have twisted it: the point is not to excuse the appalling scenes in Washington today, which I’ve already condemned. The point is to say that violence, lawlessness, destruction has to be categorically rejected, period.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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One of the less remarked upon features of recent years throughout institutional culture—corporations, NGOs, universities, museums, publications—is that basically no one is willing to accept simply being a junior member of the hierarchy anymore. The proverbial intern arrives at

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MUST WATCH FOOTAGE: This is UCLA's Provost, Darnell Hunt, trying to negotiate with the UCLA Encampment Activists. They effectively lecture him and when he tries to briefly clarify something, they get mad at him, so he decides to leave. The Encampment Occupiers laugh at this

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"I don’t know anyone who lives in a “community of color.” I know lots of white and Black and brown people and they all live in ... neighborhoods."

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

On this site, if you’re not on the extremes, you lose whenever you engage provocation. The hard left and right can say anything without cost. Moderates have to ignore or respond carefully, with a hand tied behind the back. It’s like playing a video game on a much tougher setting.

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This is straight-up tragic. The “anti-racism” sweeping institutions still ends up rendering black people as somehow different, other, unable to meet even basic standards. Ralph Ellison weeps. “Rutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional grammar”

Rutgers English Department to deemphasize traditional grammar ‘in solidarity with Black Lives...

Also pledges to decolonize the writing center.

www.thecollegefix.com

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

My sense is that Chimamanda Adichie has attained a very rare status that is flatly uncancellable. That she exists in such a secure space makes it so important that she does not merely retreat but speaks up. And when she does, man, it's like Reason herself descending into battle.

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If @netflix sets the example of refusing to cave, that could potentially have significant ramifications, showing other companies that it really is possible to weather censorious backlash. (Chappelle has 97 percent approval from audiences)

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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3 years

I understand the ways in which MLK’s famous quote about looking to “a day when people will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character” has been cynically deployed to avoid difficult racial reckoning. But still, this feels like serious regress:

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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This is legitimately anti-intellectual and far worse and more damning than I expected: “Our reverence for the truth might be a distraction getting in the way of finding common ground & getting things done.”

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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1 year

Twitter is an an amazing prism because you can watch fringe epistemologies congeal into orthodoxy in real time. A view that still strikes most as an enormous stretch—that white supremacist racism explains bad actions of non-whites even where no whites are present—is one example.

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3 years

Honestly, what do you imagine it is actually like to be non-white? No one ever told me my society "viewed me as trash."

Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦

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I say, if you want to ban CRT, you need to come up with another way of credibly telling minority kids that their society doesn't view them as trash.

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It would simply never occur to me to think, let alone argue, that if I didn’t do well on a test it was the test’s fault and not mine. Even more inconceivable that this could be an argument that many other people would come to find compelling.

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But I was assured that "cancel culture" doesn't exist

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Chappelle also claimed the situation has affected his upcoming documentary, saying, “They began disinviting me from these film festivals. And now, today, not a film company, not a movie studio, not a film festival, nobody will touch this film."

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

This is despicable

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This person won a GOP primary yesterday.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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2 years

This thread is astonishing. Is this real? How can the NYT advertise itself through the rhetorical vehicle of separating JK Rowling from her own artistic creation/ intellectual property?

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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4 years

This is racism, plain and simple. I don’t think she realizes it, but it is. Feeling like your identity insulates you from ever being in the wrong leads to enormous moral blind spots.

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@Halalcoholism

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Love to see a young couple in love and enjoying each other’s company and project all of my unresolved racial hangups onto it

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

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This would have been my choice:

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

3 years

A good rule of thumb might be: No matter what you’re currently going through, don’t compare your plight to that of the victims of the Holocaust or the enslaved.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

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Still thinking about this Lin-Manuel Miranda apology. The highest goal of art can’t be representation, just as the highest goal of thinking can’t be activism. There has to remain a place for ambivalence, singularity and ambiguity.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

3 years

Speech is not violence. Violence is violence. Insisting on that distinction seems like a hill worth dying on.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

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The hard left––not liberals, to be clear––is fundamentally childlike insofar as it fuels itself and its fury on a vision of some future state of purity that can by necessity never be achieved. The very foundation of adulthood is the acceptance of compromise and imperfection.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

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What can you even say anymore? We wrote a letter about this back in July so that hopefully this wouldn’t happen to you.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

3 years

This type of real-world racism is deeply harmful, tangible and quantifiable. It should be where energy and attention is focused.

Julian Glover

@JulianGABC7

3 years

ICYMI: The Austin family sunk $400,000 into renovating their home, but were stunned when they barely gained any value during the appraisal process. When they had a white woman pose as the homeowner, that all changed—by half a million dollars. Full story:

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

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There needs to be a huge global push toward nuclear power. It is madness what we are doing.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

4 years

every day i'm more convinced that the real binary is less left vs. right than the universal vs. the identitarian (present on both the left and the right). we need new vocabulary and new coalitions.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

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Completely apolitical post just to share an extraordinary house I saw today.

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Thomas Chatterton Williams

@thomaschattwill

3 years

What is there to “review” about statues of Abraham Lincoln? If there can’t be statues of Lincoln we’re essentially saying there can’t be statues at all. He saved our country and died for it. What has anyone else done?

The New York Times

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A Chicago commission listed five statues of Abraham Lincoln among dozens of monuments that it said should be reviewed by the public, as part of a project started in the wake of last year’s protests against racism and police violence.

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