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Y’all think these are dance moves when they really are tactical maneuvers for when they are deployed to suppress us. But keep thinking it’s cute to watch how deftly robots dance.
“There’s thinking in and around the administration that the politics are a lot better if the Israelis go first and alone and the Iranians retaliate against us, and give us more reason to take action,” said one of the people familiar with discussions. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...
I agree that rights are politicized in this country. I’m saying it is not politics for a person to desire equality.
These are “low enrollment” majors but the classes are regularly at capacity. They changed the funding structure a few years ago here, switching the allocation from course enrollments to majors then blamed these departments for a structural, top-down change. This is entirely a political choice.
This is bigotry, pure and simple.
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Yes. All politics are identity politics. But wanting to be treated with equality is not politics.
It’s not “identity politics” to not want to be denied equality or mistreated because of your identity. In case anyone was wondering.
John Gai carried his sick father to a nearby clinic in a wheelbarrow, but he died from cholera on the way.
Gai then pushed the wheelbarrow for hours through the camp to take him to the cemetery: “Nobody should have to carry a dead body among the living.”
I did not conflate. I said the motivations are the same, just different tactics. I agree the two are not inconsistent. That was my point.
Did you even read the words in the post, or nah?
I literally say Chinese Americans in the post and you also missed the entire point of the thread in your attempt to rush to call what I wrote racist. Think harder.
Most Asian Americans, when polled, have been in support of affirmative action.
He…has not been.
Except the original concept of affirmative action was not diversity. It was repairing the harm specifically done to Black Americans.
Inferior?
There’s a particular history when it comes to Black Americans/Chinese Americans being seen as permanent outsiders unable due to culture and phenotype to ever be assimilated into this country. There are shared histories but because most Chinese Americans came to the US post 1960s, no shared memory.
Divide and conquer is not just a trite truism. Solidarity is the only tool to save multicultural democracy and too many groups are unfortunately now learning this the hard way.
I want us to understand this in the context of these same people killed affirmative action using Chinese-American plaintiffs because they said helping Black people was discriminatory against Asian Americans and anti-merit. Once again: it was never about that. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Perdue banning all Chinese students just for national origin. No other reason. The Harper's Letter crowd must be crafting a humdinger of a new letter over this one.
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. @nhannahjones.bsky.social: "...the race traitor label evokes an inspiring and hopeful lineage: white people who are willing to give up the protection whiteness offers to stand for justice with those who are fewer in number and have far less power."
I was really troubled by this Atlantic piece. It was presented as reporting, but it seems more accurate to describe it as speculative fiction based on reporting. It seems like a bizarre choice for a journalistic institution to make. www.niemanlab.org/2026/02/the-...
As I outlined at @nhannahjones.bsky.social democracy summit and elsewhere since, there are 3 kinds of right wing billionaires dialed in on education:
Luttig: It doesn’t matter what the Supreme Court does from this point forward. For two years, the Supreme Court has authorized the absolute lawlessness and unconstitutional activity of this president.
Trump posting a meme depicting Black people as apes was totally about economic anxiety, y’all.
We can trace efforts to delegitimize and nullify Black votes stretching back to Reconstruction and yet we are to pretend he somehow picked these particular cities to target base solely on political party and suppose it’s just coincidence that these are heavily Black cities. Ok.
Watching commentators still refusing to see the white nationalism of this administration and arguingTrump is targeting Atlanta, Philadelphia and Detroit because they are blue cities is just, it’s got to be intentional at this point. There are a ton of blue cities. These are majority Black cities.
* US Companies Announce Most Job Cuts for Any January Since 2009
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One more comment on the Post debacle: this hurts journalism broadly. Good journalists will go do something else. The rest will be fighting for fewer jobs and everyone will earn less. Fewer people will take up the career. The damage done is to the ecosystem, as well as the paper.
I think you understand that ICE is Trump’s own paramilitary force that is going to be used, as it is already, for far more than immigration enforcement.
