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It is a commonly held belief that people of color or poor people have not actually earned health care, housing, access to equitably funded public education, and so forth. To the contrary, the attainment of these things, the argument goes, is a function of effort, or intelligence, or decision-making--all things that these groups supposedly lack.
— Jan 23, 2019 01:20PM
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P. Kirby
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The dominant culture--that is, white people--suppressed the notion of a white terrorist [Dylann Roof] because it is impossible to conceive of whiteness as evil, a space decidedly reserved for black and brown people.
— Jan 25, 2019 01:25PM
P. Kirby
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His [Trump's] rise is a case study in what happens when the media is controlled by those who have rarely, if ever, been victims of racism, xenophobia, misogyny, and white supremacy; his ideas weren't personally dangerous to them, and so they gave him a platform.
— Jan 25, 2019 01:21PM
P. Kirby
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It highlights the choice we face as American people: do we accept that some things are true regardless of how they make us feel, or do we accept that there can be multiple truths--"alternative facts" with no bearing on reality whatsoever?
— Jan 25, 2019 01:15PM
P. Kirby
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His [Trump's] delivery of intentional disinformation preys on his opponents' steadfast commitment to the moral high ground even if it leads to their destruction; the public's belief in a basic level of integrity; the collective lack of knowledge about governmental minutiae; and the latent racism that still undergirds so much of society.
— Jan 25, 2019 01:13PM
P. Kirby
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The actions that have historically been markers of racism have changed. [...] The absence of enslavement and lynching does not signal the presence of equality and justice.
— Jan 25, 2019 01:10PM
P. Kirby
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The false distance of history aims to deceive us into believing that the trauma of racism and injustice is in our past. It plays on our desire for a memory of the past that makes sense and feels good. The false distance of history provides the vehicle for monuments celebrating traitors who rebelled in order to preserve the institution of slavery to be left standing.
— Jan 25, 2019 01:05PM
P. Kirby
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For so long the police controlled the narrative. They were the only ones who were regarded as telling the story from a position of credibility. But in this moment, their control over information is slipping, revealing an unchecked institution that is inherently incapable of policing itself and providing the set of service to the community that the community needs and desires.
— Jan 23, 2019 01:37PM
P. Kirby
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...in Baton Rouge it's impossible to call in a complaint of a police officer; they must be completed either online or by mail, they cannot be anonymous, and they can be dismissed for a host of factors within ten days, at the discretion of Internal Affairs. This isn't accountability.
— Jan 23, 2019 01:34PM
P. Kirby
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And it turns out these policies matter, a lot. [police] Departments that had the most restrictive use of force policies were 72 percent less likely to kill people than those with the least restrictive policies.
— Jan 23, 2019 01:33PM
P. Kirby
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We found that police kill twelve hundred people each year in America, meaning one in every three people killed by a stranger in this country is killed by a police officer.
— Jan 23, 2019 01:29PM
