victorerikray.bsky.social
Sociologist, UIowa Associate Professor and author of On Critical Race Theory. Vice-President Elect, American Sociological Association. BIGS Racial Equity Fellow at Harvard Business School.
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No one who has even a cursory understanding of Barstool would ever think it or Dave Portnoy was liberal.
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Everyone i know who works in news and actually gives a damn is absolutely enraged at how poorly legacy news outlets are in meeting this moment. Instead of stating plainly what the goal is they used bullshit framing like this one
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And the silence on this from folks who made careers supposedly crusading for free speech (but actually promoting right-wing idiocy) is equally disgusting.
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The phrase "criminal illegals" should be the "weapons of mass destruction" of the 2020s. You said there were millions of them — where are they? Why are you deporting moms and dads, these hard-working people I know in my neighborhood?
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Sociopathic behavior.
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Rubber pellets are meant to be ricocheted off the ground. When fired directly at people’s faces, they aren’t “less lethal.”
The press is abusing this term & it’s failing to address the fact that cops are incorrectly handling crowd control weapons to intentionally cause physical injury.
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And yes, the 2020 protests were overwhelmingly peaceful: 93% had zero calls for violence or property destruction (link below).
Trump’s propaganda machine characterized them as violent anyway, so people shrugged when his feds began *disappearing protesters in vans* acleddata.com/2020/09/03/d...
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an American journalist once chastised me for answering a question about Facebook honestly when I was on a panel at some event and I was just like… this is what I think I don’t hide it and I don’t think anyone would be better off if I did ?? ?