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Tim Wise

3 years

Thread To understand white denial about American history, consider two photos. First, this pic of Hazel Bryan screaming at Elizabeth Eckford during the integration of Little Rock Central High. The date: September 4, 1957. As for the second photo, follow along...(1)

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Tim Wise

@timjacobwise

5 years

A guy at a Trump rally told a reporter Trump could sprout literal horns & he'd vote for him again. Why? Bc he "doesn't take shit." That is the level of thought among millions: attitude as a substitute for character and leadership. These people can't be saved. Roll over them

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Tim Wise

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These armed militia guys can do their phony soldier cosplay all day in the woods like the shitkickers they are...but when they storm a capitol building (as in MI) & threaten lawmakers it's time to arrest them. They are terrorists. Take their guns. Take their freedom. Lock them up

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Tim Wise

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5 years

1/ If the Dems blow this election it will not be because they were "too far left on policy" or because they "weren't left enough." It will have little to do with policy at all. They are making a mistake caused by traditional consultant theory that does not apply here...

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Tim Wise

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1 year

Anyone who says the killing of Tyre Nichols can’t be about racism because the cops were also Black really doesn’t understand how white supremacy or anti-Blackness work

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Tim Wise

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2 years

Right-wingers insisted that once Elon took over they’d be able to speak their mind. Finally, the MAGA message can be heard! And then as soon as they were “freed” to do this, they started screaming the n-word and bashing Jews. Lesson: hate IS the MAGA message. It always was.

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Tim Wise

@timjacobwise

2 years

1/ As people flee Twitter, or threaten to, in response to Elon’s takeover and the harassment it has already spawned and likely will bc of less content moderation, there are some things I’ve noticed. Please follow this thread and share it. It’s sorta important…

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Tim Wise

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4 years

Tomi Lahren's mad that some protesters are looting in response to the killing of George Floyd. She wants to know how violence helps the movement. She also attacked Colin Kaepernick for taking a knee. So I'm thinking she just doesn't give a shit about cops killing black people

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Tim Wise

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1 year

Ohio officials have now said there is nothing they can do about their state's recently uncovered Nazi homeschooler network. So, in OH you can graduate from HS having been taught actual racism. But you can't graduate having been taught ABOUT racism as a systemic force.

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Tim Wise

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6 years

Let’s be clear: if Mollie Tibbetts had been killed by a white Iowa farm boy fresh off an 8 day meth binge or high on Fentanyl no one would know her name, the President wouldn’t give a shit about her & no one would b calling for a crackdown on corn fed Lutherans from Cedar Falls.

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Tim Wise

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5 years

31/ People who say the Dems should ignore Trump's race baiting because its some genius political strategy calculated to distract us, are idiots. He is no genius. And if you downplay it you NORMALIZE him. If you make this about policy, you NORMALIZE him. He is a racist...

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Tim Wise

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1 year

DeSantis now says FL might ban ALL AP courses, all bc the College Board dared criticize the state's response to AP AfAm Studies. What a petty little child. Notice white folks: this is why racism hurts you too in the end. He'll sacrifice your kids for political points.

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Tim Wise

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4 years

I mean, RBG asked y'all, nicely, to wait...

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Tim Wise

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3 months

Shocking: a kid whose parents both have criminal records ends up being a criminal himself...hard to believe. Must be the culture of white families in America, right? I mean, that's what y'all would say if this was a Black kid Lauren Boebert's son robbed a woman with a brain

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Tim Wise

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5 years

Hey white people who are angry about immigration... just a heads up: there are not enough white folks to keep the economy afloat and support your social security into old age. So you better welcome immigrants who do work you won’t...or else prepare to eat cat food

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Tim Wise

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2 years

When right-wingers spend 50 years preaching that the problems in the Black community are caused by "father absence" and "out of wedlock childbirth" and then rally behind Herschel Walker, you know they were trolling you the whole time

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Tim Wise

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5 years

If you get angrier at brown skinned poor folks receiving minimal public assistance than rich white folks receiving tax subsidies and preferential tax treatment for capital gains, you might be a racist:..

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Tim Wise

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5 years

If you want to know the kind of evil we’re up against with the MAGA cult, please note: they’re on here this morning celebrating the death of Elijah Cummings. These people are ghouls. They must be completely defeated. No making nice. No reaching across the aisle. No mercy.

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Tim Wise

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5 years

So we are to believe: 1. Hillary Clinton managed to have Seth Rich, Vince Foster & Jeffrey Epstein killed; 2. But she can't manage to win Pennsylvania or Michigan; Mmm...k y'all. Qballs gonna Qball...

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Tim Wise

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4 years

Asking Sanders to release health records he promised to release is not remotely equal to birtherism. What an ignorant argument, Sanders HAD a heart attack. Obama was NOT born in Kenya. One is true, the other false. The parallel is absurd and diminishes the racism of the latter.

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Tim Wise

@timjacobwise

5 years

22/ First, trying to flip Trump voters is a waste of time. Any of them who regret their vote don't need to be pandered to. They'll do the right thing. Don't focus on them. That said, very few will regret their vote. They cannot accept they voted for a monster or got suckered...

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Tim Wise

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2 years

20/ James Baldwin explained it this way: “If one is continually surviving the worst that life can bring, one eventually ceases to be controlled by a fear of what life can bring; whatever it bring must be borne…” Black people know this. White progressives must learn it.

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Tim Wise

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29/ What the left never understands is: we need to stop approaching elections like the goddamned debate team, and start approaching it like the right does, like the cheerleading squad...

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Tim Wise

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5 years

No Mr. President. The El Paso shooter was not a coward. He's a white racist terrorist. You and your party are the cowards: afraid to call it what it is for fear of offending your cult; for kowtowing to the criminal enterprise known as the NRA and for thinking prayer will stop it

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Tim Wise

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4 years

Just a reminder that if you think Hillary would have been worse than this shit, you are a moron to whom no one should listen, about anything...ever again.

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Tim Wise

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5 years

Black churches getting burned down, Muslims being slaughtered at Mosque, Jews being shot in synagogues. But by all means, white evangelicals, tell us more about the "War On Christmas" and how upsetting it is when they say "Happy Holidays" at Walmart...

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Tim Wise

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5 years

34/ Not to say the House shouldn't impeach over that stuff. They should. But the 2020 candidates must craft a message that is not about that. Trumpism is the threat to America, more than Putin. And Putin didn't birth Trumpism. Conservative White America did...

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Tim Wise

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3 months

Elon continues to suspend parody accounts that make fun of him, but allow accounts with vile racist slurs to remain on the platform. Elon Musk is a white supremacist. Period.

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Tim Wise

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5 years

27/ And what I know for a FACT is that this message--that Trumpism is a threat to everything we care about and love about this country--is what will inspire the Dem base to vote...and THAT is what this election is about...

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Tim Wise

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1 year

The murder rate in Kevin McCarthy’s county is double the murder rate in San Francisco, but please tell me again about how crime is due to liberalism…that one never gets old, or accurate

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Tim Wise

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3 years

1/ I’m not one for ‘told ya so’s but in 1989 when David Duke won the state House seat in Louisiana, some of us said this was an inflection point in American politics. This wasn’t just the logical result of Reaganesque racial dog whistling. It was something different (a thread)...

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Tim Wise

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5 years

You can't have it both ways. You can't attack young folk for being self-absorbed & only concerned about makeup tutorials, celebrities & Instagram likes but also attack Greta Thunberg (and other young people) for giving a shit about the planet by saying they should just "be kids."

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Tim Wise

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4 years

If u still support Biden after he said he would consider a Republican VP, I have no words...this is insanity. It is based on ignorance about what motivates voters and why they voted for Trump. It was NOT for bipartisanship. They will not reward you for this Joe...retire now

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Tim Wise

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5 years

Just a reminder that this white terrorist in El Paso was taken alive after shooting dozens of people, and Tamir Rice was shot dead for playing with a toy gun and shooting nobody. Because America...

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Tim Wise

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2 years

6/ That day was the day I forever understood that Black people are possibly the only thing standing in the way of utter destruction. White folks, even liberal ones, will often fold up their tents and go home when it gets too difficult…

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Tim Wise

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32/ He is a white nationalist. He is an authoritarian. He and his cult are a threat to the future of the nation and world because of their hatreds. His movement betrays the country's promise. THAT is the message that will drive turnout. Not debates over marginal tax rates...

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Tim Wise

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5 years

Republicans who stormed a meeting they had no right to be in (they are not on the committee in question), and brought recording devices (in a meeting with classified info) should be arrested. Every last one of them. If any of us did that we would be. Arrest them now

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Tim Wise

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4 years

Most BLM activism, especially by actual Black folks, has been nonviolent & disciplined. It's white folk who risk fucking this up: burning shit in Portland, breaking windows w/skateboards in MSP, screaming at diners in DC. White folk keep asking 'what can we do?' Yeah, not this.

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Tim Wise

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5 years

24/ Their support for Trump was never about policy. It was about the bigotry, the fact that he hates who they hate...Second, as for the "undecideds." ...Not many of these but seriously? If you're still undecided at this point about this guy...

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Tim Wise

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7 months

1/ For those who can't understand the "dysfunction" of the House GOP, you don't get it. This isn't dysfunction in the minds of the far-right MAGA members: it's their goal. Discredit government/governing altogether bc they never believed in it really...🧵

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Tim Wise

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2 years

12/ To those white folks worried about Twitter toxicity. Please, AMERICA has been toxic for Black people for hundreds of years. If they can manage to fight on, survive and thrive despite it, you can deal with ugliness in your timeline.

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Tim Wise

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5 years

18/ To flip Duke voters would require that they accept the fact that they had previously voted for a monster, and people are loath to do that. Our goal was not to flip them, but to DRIVE UP TURNOUT among the good folks, many of whom stayed home in 90...

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26/ If anything, I would say crafting an argument that this is an existential crisis for the nation--and making it about Trump's bigotry and who we want to be as a country, would be far more effective in inspiring them to make up their minds...

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Tim Wise

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5 years

If u wanted to remove Clinton bc he lied about blow jobs, or Obama bc you think he's not even an American, but u give Trump a pass bc asking for foreign interference in elections is no biggie, you are a cult member & irredeemable. The goal is not to change you. It is to crush you

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Tim Wise

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3 years

TX is looking to pass a law that would require teachers to discuss historical & political issues or current events by "giving deference to both sides." So I guess they'll present the al-Qaeda perspective on 9/11, right? The Soviet angle on the Cold War? Hitler's take on the Jews?

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Tim Wise

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13/ ...Who said they weren't going 2 vote bc after all Duke's Dem opponent was just a shill for the oil and gas industry, and that was just as bad, blah blah fucking blah...because some lefties can't tell the difference between corporatist assholes and actual literal Nazis...

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Tim Wise

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5 years

When y'all stop making Jesus a white man you can complain about Disney making Ariel black. Thanks.

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Tim Wise

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3 years

Time to arrest Alex Jones. This was a threat against the president elect. It is not protected speech. Arrest him.

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Joe Biden "will be removed one way or another," Alex Jones tells pro-Trump march

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Tim Wise

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1 year

But, ya know, the Black guy is the aggressive one...

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Tim Wise

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3 years

So Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens are pissed about the Juneteenth holiday bc "there's only one independence day!" Meaning, they think independence from England is more meaningful than independence from enslavement & Black people should be satisfied with the former I guess...

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Tim Wise

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4 years

White men bring guns to protests, a) bc they have the privilege to get away w/ it, and b) bc they don't have the courage or fortitude to protest like this...

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5 years

23/ Duke retained 94% of the folks he got the first time out (and got new people too), as Trump likely will. So forget these people--or at least don't wast time tailoring messages to them. And policy plans for affordable college don't mean shit to them, nor health care...

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Tim Wise

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10/ While a distressing number of white progressives talk about how “toxic” it will become (or has already) and how they just can’t be around that. “Is it hard, dear?” Rings in my ears yet again…

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30/ The right knows psychology and we know public policy and sociology...great. The latter does not win elections...

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7/ But Black people cannot, by and large, do this. They have never been able to do this. They have to stay and fight no matter the cost. Now, back to the “Twexodus”…

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Tim Wise

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2/ And by listening to influential pundits in liberal media who also don't get the unique nature of Trumpism, relative to normal political movements & campaigns...this election is NOT going to be won by talking about all your "great plans" for health care, jobs, education, etc..

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9/ Even as Black Twitter catches the most hell, deals with racism, misogynoir, all the things, all the time…they are here, fighting and refusing to concede this ground…

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Tim Wise

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3 years

So while folks are telling us how the Chauvin verdict proves change is here, please note: the Columbus PD killed a 15 yr old girl #MakiyahBryant today. But they didn't even arrest any of the OSU students who were flipping cars and tearing shit up after a damned exhibition game.

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11/ It allowed people to say "well if he's really this racist, white supremacist, why are they talking about all this other stuff?" It actually undermined our ability to paint him as the extremist he was/is. And as a result, the threat he posed was not clear enough to voters...

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Tim Wise

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5 years

Just a reminder that #JohnCrawford was shot dead in a Walmart for standing in an aisle with an air rifle sold at Walmart, and this white terrorist, #PatrickCrusius was taken alive after shooting dozens of people in a Walmart with an assault rifle. Because America...

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9/ I say "sadly" because doing that normalized Duke as a regular candidate. Attacking his generic character or bill paying habits (or even discussing his inadequate plans for job creation, etc) treated him like a normal candidate. But he was/is a NAZI...

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Tim Wise

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@JacobAWohl Hey dumbass, that's not how it works. She was born in the U.S., thus she is a citizen, thus she is eligible...go to law school, or just learn to use Google perhaps...

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28/ I'm not saying the Dems don't need policy ideas, but focusing on wonky, look-how-much-I've-thought about-this stuff is not going to move the needle in 2020...

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21/ When it was over, Duke had gotten 65k more votes than in 90, but his white share went to 55 (from 60) and overall to 39 (from 44) because the anti-Duke turnout swamped him...So what does this have to do with 2020 and Trump? Do I really need to explain it?...

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Tim Wise

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5 years

3/ And the reasons are several...Let me begin by saying that I have experience confronting the kind of phenomenon we see in Trumpism, and far more than most. Any of us who were involved in the fight against David Duke in LA in 90/91 know what this is and how it must be fought...

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Tim Wise

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9 months

Let’s be clear. Black folks defending another Black man from the racist fuckery of white men is not criminality. It’s justice. It’s standing their ground. It’s vicarious defense of others. Fuck around and find out.

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This video shows how the whole Alabama ferry brawl started. Brother man was doing his job telling these folks to move their boat so the ferry could dock. Privileged ass white people refused to move and then jumped him

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19/ And that is what happened. The concerted effort of the anti-Duke forces (not just us), challenging Duke's "politics of prejudice," and making the election about what kind of state we wanted to be, drove turnout through the roof...

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Tim Wise

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5 years

If you think lying about oral sex in the White House is more impeachable than asking another country to dig up dirt on your possible election opponent's son (and threatening to hold up aid $$ unless they do), you are beyond help. And you would gladly welcome a Trump dictatorship

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15/ In the Governor's race we dispensed w/ all that bullshit. We talked about Duke's ongoing Nazism and the moral/practical evil of his racist appeals. We discussed how that moral evil would have real world consequences (driving tourists and business away, rightly so, from LA)..

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10/ And none of his voters were voting 4 him bc of jobs, or tax policy or support for term limits, etc. And none were going to turn on him over late tax payments, Vietnam, etc. Indeed throwing that stuff out there & downplaying the elephant in the room (racism) seemed desperate..

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1/ The fact that people buy The Charlottesville Lie BS -- which claims Trump wasn't talking about Nazis when he said there were good people on both sides -- is evidence that the right is nothing but liars & apologists now...Unite the Right was ENTIRELY white nationalist...

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It's almost as if when they screamed "blue lives matter" they only meant "when you're beating or shooting black people," not like, in general or something...

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1/ I love how folk are posting fake voter reg info for the Dayton shooter Connor Betts, showing he's a Democrat...it shows him voting all the way back to '06, which would have been when he was 11...some people are 2 stupid to drive the internet. We don't know his politics yet...

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Tim Wise

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If the reason a bill isn't "bipartisan" is because no one in your party will vote for it, whose fault is that? Basically, the GOP thinks bipartisanship means watering things down to what THEY would have passed if THEY had won the election They didn't. Sit down.

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I love it when folks say the South is so patriotic. They typically mean white conservatives of course. But historically white conservatives have been the LEAST patriotic group. Don't believe me? A quick thread.

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Exactly correct. The media refuses to admit it but the MAGA faithful are mean, vengeful people. Not decent, misunderstood, and "left behind" people, but folks who are not decent. And we would do well to be clear on this so others know the threat they pose

Trump Wants Revenge—And So Does His Base

Many of his voters can’t accept what’s happened over the past several years, and they blame other Americans.

www.theatlantic.com

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Just in case anyone was confused, when Trump supporters say they "Back the Blue" they just meant when they are beating or shooting Black people...

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13/ And please know none of this is meant to romanticize suffering or the strength often born of it. It is simply to say that when you’ve been wading thru the shit for hundreds of years, you learn how to wade through it. It’s the only choice you have…

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8/ I can’t say it scientifically. Not even sure how to prove it quantitatively. But I can say that after much careful observation, the people threatening to jump ship (and from what I know those who have) have been overwhelmingly white…

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5/ At this point the Black woman who had previously spoken reached out, touched her leg, and with a cutting snark too brilliant for the white woman to get it, said, “Is it hard, dear?” The white woman cried more and insisted it was, yes…

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4/ So before explaining what the Dems are doing wrong right now, a little history...In 1990, white supremacist David Duke ran for U.S. Senate in LA, and in 1991 for Governor. He lost both times but both times he won the majority of the white vote (60 and 55% respectively)...

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So Trump, who always speaks for longer than planned or expected and never cuts a speech short -- literally never -- just gave up after 18 minutes speaking to a whopping crowd of 400 Candace Owens bots on the WH lawn. He's still sick. Tired. Weak. No Stamina. Sad...

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25/ Then there is almost no way to know what would get you to make up your mind...I doubt it's a plan to deal with Wall Street though, or infrastructure, or tax policy...

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17/ Now, did this flip any of Duke's 1990 voters? Nah, not really. Indeed he got 65k MORE votes in the Governor's race than the Senate race. But it was never about flipping them. We knew that would be almost impossible...

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11/ And yes, I know that women face more than I do as a man. Rape threats are an entirely different thing. I get it. But, um, yeah, so Black women face that every day. They aren’t bailing the same way…

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For Matthew McConaughey to compare liberal reaction to Trump's win in 16 and Trump voters' reaction now is absurd. We didn't question whether he'd won, only the legitimacy of the electoral college as an institution. Trumpkins reject facts themselves and spin conspiracy bullshit.

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14/ But when you haven’t had to (a privilege) it’s easy to take your toys and go home, so to speak. I think the white folks who DON’T do this tend to be those of us whose consciousness was formed by the Black freedom struggle…

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20/ 28,000+ registered on one day alone, between the initial election and runoff (which Duke made bc of the state's open primary system), with tens of thousands more overall: most of them, anti-Duke folks...

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15/ because when THAT was your entry point for social awareness you learn that justice is a long game, and you might well never see it. Better than you have come and gone without seeing it. But you have to take your place in the long line of those willing to die for it…

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16/ Because it was wrong, and it was not who we wanted to be, and it was not who were were. We were better than that and needed to show the rest of the country that...

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Rick Santorum says armed patrons in Walmart could have stopped attack - yeah bc what we need in a chaotic situation is even more people shooting and cops not knowing who the bad guy is. Idiot...

‘Soft targets’: Rick Santorum suggests unarmed Walmart shoppers were at fault in mass shooting

Conservative CNN contributor Rick Santorum suggested on Sunday that Walmart shoppers in El Paso could have avoided being shot if they had been carrying guns.During a CNN segment on the mass shootings...

www.rawstory.com

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6/ ...after all, that WAS the issue--it was a moral struggle against racism--we had mainstream Democratic consultants who warned us against focusing too much on it. They said that "played into Duke's hands" and allowed him to set the agenda....

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12/ And this didn't just allow him to get votes he might not have gotten otherwise; it also depressed turnout among people who almost certainly disliked him but didn't think he could win or would be all that big a deal if he did. In fact I recall convos with "liberals"...

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Only in MAGA land would people compare the Covington Catholic boys to Greta Thunberg. The latter campaigns to save the planet, while the former do tomahawk chops and wear MAGA hats and hire PR firms to save their own asses. Your side's activists suck, truly...

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1/ Thankfully the shooting at the Walmart in Baton Rouge is not an active shooter situation or attempted mass murder, but it IS evidence of how ridiculous it is to let folks just roll around w/guns on their hips: two assholes, both armed, pulling on each other bc they can...

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5/ I was one of the staffers of the main anti-Duke PAC at the time & ultimately became Assistant Director. In 90, even though our Director Lance Hill, myself & a few of our founders wanted to focus on Duke's bigotry, ties to extremists and appeals to white racial resentment...

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33/ Or how we are going to fund schools...And anyone who says we should ignore the race baiting to talk more about Mueller and Russia is an even bigger fool...that's like talking about Duke and late tax payments or other corruptions...it might all be true but is not the point...

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8/ Or Duke avoiding service in Vietnam, or Duke writing a sex manual under a female pseudonym (yeah he did that)...although Lance held firm that we needed to talk mostly about racism, we did end up talking about some of that other stuff too, sadly...

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7/ So sure, we could discuss his ties to Nazis & such, but we shouldn't make a big deal out of his contemporary racist appeals, per se, bc "lots of voters agree" with those appeals...they even encouraged us to talk about utterly superfluous shit like Duke paying his taxes late..

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