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2024-09-08 19:29:05 UTC

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Yup.
European friends often say, quite correctly "We have racist people in Europe too. Quite a few actually!" and that is true. Individually, there's not much difference. 🤷🏿‍♂️
But systemically? The US has racist systems at such a scale and level of horror, that they have no equal in Europe, or anywhere on earth. Civil asset forfeiture is one of those systems. $68 billion stolen between 2000 and 2019. Most victims are poor and Black.

2024-09-08 05:10:24 UTC

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🤦🏿‍♂️ I'm about to block you, because you're the worst kind of wrong: loud and wrong.
I'm talking specifically about police in the US pulling Black people over and having the legal right to take their money without a criminal charge. Not other forms of asset forfeiture that existed before that, even in the United States, as part of RICO.
🤔You're either intentionally trolling, or you really are going off half-cocked in my mentions about a topic you know nothing about.

2024-09-08 04:02:02 UTC

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Civil asset forfeiture in particular has been going on since Biden started it. Let me be super clear:
There was no such thing as civil asset forfeiture before Biden invented it. Then he invented it, and passed legislation making this theft by cop possible. Now we have it, and it's terrible.
But yes, it's been going on for decades. Because Biden is old as dirt. And he's been passing legislation like this, that's genocidally harmful for Black people for most of his political career.

2024-09-08 02:45:53 UTC

Big props to Jeremy Saulnier who wrote and directed Rebel Ridge. Recommend.
The film covers so much of what is wrong with US policing, in an action packed drama movie. It also covers the evil and racism in the system vs the individual. I don't think a cop calls a Black person the N-Word once in the whole movie.
*Civil asset forfeiture
*Cash bail and prison violence
*Why Black folk don't give statements
*The power of sheriffs in small towns
*Violence of the war on drugs
https://youtu.be/gF3gZicntIw?si=rn_1NYGSB1zUS8Im

2024-09-05 14:58:58 UTC

It's September 5th!
Hey US people, please remember to check your voter registration every *5th* between now and November!
✅ July 5th
✅ August 5th
✅ September 5th
⬜ October 5th
⬜ November 5th
Check your voter registration for free online here:
https://voteamerica.org
You can also request your mail in ballot, so that you don't have to stand in line for hours or miss work on voting day.
Why check every month? Because some of y'all have been de-registered.😮
Re-register!

2024-08-29 14:11:54 UTC

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Yep. @npub19r2…cahj nails this perfectly.
Which is why we see a few things:
1) Black people that work to reduce racism in the real world in the US, really dislike this movie.
2) Nazis that do the US racism, feel that this movie helps them recruit.
3) White people that don't know how to reduce racism, remain convinced that this movie reduces racism. Because they don't listen to the Black people in "1," and remain absolutely convinced that they know best how to reduce racism.
🤷🏿‍♂️

2024-08-29 10:37:30 UTC

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To agree or disagree with my take, you would need to say something about the depiction of Black people in the movie. Like either:
A) I think the depictions of Black people in the movie were fine
Or
B) I understand why a lot of Black people, especially those that have lived in Southern California and experienced LA racism first hand 🙋🏿‍♂️, had a huge problem with the movie.

2024-08-29 10:35:03 UTC

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Fascinating: my critique is 100% around the portrayal of Black people in the movie. I didn't even mention the portrayal of Edward Norton or any other white character, other than to say that his motivations were relatable given the false and disparaging depiction of Black folk in the movie. My take centered Black folk.
But you read it as how relatable Edward Norton's character should be, and if he should be relatable, or clownish or a monsters. Your take centered him.

2024-08-29 03:50:21 UTC

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The reality is that the portrayals of Black people in that movie were trash.
The total number of times in US history that a Black student has shown up to a school with a gun and shot a white student, are astronomically low. That's not a thing that happens. It's a thing that racist 2A gun nuts pretend happens.
The portrayal of Black people as violent, stupid, or hapless, is a big problem.
I hated that movie, and was not surprised that it recruited more nazis.
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2024-08-29 03:47:22 UTC

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American History X is a terrible film if its objective is to speak against racism. If I were a young white man and I watched American History X, and I believed its portrayals of Black folk? I'd feel more justified in my racism.
Black people murdered his dad, a hard working fireman. Then tried to steal his stuff. Then murdered his brother in school. But we're not supposed to be racist because it's wrong. We're not supposed to be strong in a cruel world. That messaging doesn't work.
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2024-08-28 21:32:50 UTC

🤔 Fascists love Star Wars. Even though the whole point of Star Wars is that fascists suck, and that the universe would be better without them.
🤔 Billionaires love Star Trek. Even though the whole point of Star Trek is that billionaires suck, and that the universe would be better off without them, and that once we get universal basic income and solve SF homelessness, and end the very concept of billionaire, humanity will usher in a real age of technological advancement.

2024-08-27 11:01:30 UTC

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Good luck convincing them that French police probably just typed some numbers into a police system:
1) If this private jet tail number lands in France, detain all passengers.
2) If this passport number attempts entry into France, detain it.
Is it elite OSINT? Or is it sexism?
I'm not saying post your location everywhere. I'm saying that French airport police don't need to follow a billionaire's girlfriend on social media to know when he lands in France. He didn't know he would be arrested.

2024-08-27 10:56:42 UTC

Whenever a rapper gets shot, there's a reflexive instinct among Black manosphere incels to try to blame whatever woman he was with when he got shot🤷🏿‍♂️
"She posted locations to Instagram minutes before he got shot! Careless!"🤡
The woman then faces hate and death threats for weeks or months, until it's discovered that the shooters found the rapper a different way.
Anyway, a bunch of white dudes have convinced themselves that French police found Pavel Durov through his date's Instagram posts.
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2024-07-27 19:11:47 UTC

@npub1nau…d9fd is one of the people that I'm bringing with me to my convo with @npub1zu5…pytj .
Context:
https://dair-community.social/@KimCrayton1/112854600825016604
* She should not have to experience this
* It should be easier for admins at DAIR, and across the whole Fediverse, to prevent this
The content that drew the harassment was simul-posted on Mastodon, BlueSky, Twitter, and other social networks. Only Mastodon drew this level of racist replies. I need you all to believe Black folk when we say that Mastodon *is* the nazi bar.

2024-07-13 17:38:14 UTC

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Black Panther also touches on the conflict by referencing a real historical event where Nigerian slaves observed how their slave ship was being sailed, and launched an ambitious plan to kill their slavers, and sail the ship back to Africa. They were able to kill their captors and take the ship, but couldn't figure out how to sail it. Rather than face recapture and enslavement, they chose mass suicide by jumping into the ocean tied down by weights.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nG5Tn49nPlg
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2024-07-13 17:31:54 UTC

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The conflict between two schools of thought around adopting western education vs traditional African and Islamic scholarship, is hinted at in the Hollywood movie Black Panther.
M'Baku rejects modern technology and borg-like learning and scientific advancement at all costs, in favor of tribal knowledge, harmony with nature. He has a thick Igbo accent, and uses Igbo body language and idioms.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bDWJ2Xk1BOI
5/N

2024-07-13 17:24:01 UTC

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Even before the arrival of the British, many African tribes, including those in present day Nigeria had a strong focus on education. The only difference, was the type of education.
1) Middle Eastern, traditional education. Math, Science, Agriculture,
2) Tribal education, oral traditions passed down from ancestors
3) Borg like acquisition of all knowledge through contact and trade with others.
One of the earliest slaves in the US was Omar Ibn Said, a Fulani scholar.
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2024-07-13 17:10:10 UTC

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The Igbo and Yoruba groups embraced colonialism as much as the Nigerian spirit can allow. That means they basically said, "These Europeans whupped us pretty good with that scientific method thing of theirs! There's a science behind everything. We know stuff that they don't know... but they know stuff that we don't know. We should learn the stuff that they know, and one day, kick them out. Basically, their education system is pretty good, even if they are amoral and cruel"
3/N

2024-07-13 17:04:49 UTC

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Britain colonized, as they do, and created Nigeria combining ~300 minor tribes, ~30 bigger tribes, and ~3 main tribes. The biggest are: Igbo, Yoruba, and Hausa/Fulani.
The North of Nigeria touches the Sahara. The South is close to the equator. Think of Nigeria as transitioning between 2 climate zones: The North, which is like California/Arizona weather, and the South, which is Florida / Georgia weather.
Much of Nigeria's oil deposits are under Igbo + Delta land.
2/N
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2024-07-13 16:48:17 UTC

[@david_megginson](https://mstdn.ca/@david_megginson ) Quick thread on why all these things are connected:
1) So many Black folk in tech are Nigerian
2) ChatGPT uses the word "delve" a lot
3) So many of the top 100 Scrabble players are Nigerian
4) So many Black doctors in the US are Nigerian
5) Why the most murderous terrorist organization in the world is not Al-Qaeda or ISIS, but one in Nigeria 😬
African history y'all didn't ask for, but are going to get anyway.
Like most messed up stories, this starts with the British...
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2024-06-17 16:51:09 UTC

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I rarely drink at work events or conferences, *because* I'm in a position of privilege and influence, and so people shadow me. They drink as much as I drink.
I've tested this! I can affect how much beer is left over at the end of an event, just by whether or not I drink.🤯
5/N

2024-06-17 16:50:45 UTC

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So the question is not "alcohol or no alcohol?" It's "How do you want other people to feel at the conference? How do you ensure that everyone is having a good time?"
I'll take a conference with a strong code of conduct committee and a whiskey tasting session, over dry and unsafe.
4/N

2024-06-17 16:49:53 UTC

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And for those of you that went to college with me and saw me throw people out of parties... relax. I don't mean physically throw people out of tech conferences.
I mean "Politely ask them to leave, and write up why in our notes, so that they are not invited back."
3/N

2024-06-17 16:49:07 UTC

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I serve on the code of conduct committee for several of the tech conferences that I attend. If you get drunk and try to treat a tech conference like Tinder, then I'm one of the people that will throw you out.
There are whole entire apps for hooking up. Don't be messy.
2/N

2024-06-17 16:48:56 UTC

I rarely drink at conferences. I rarely drink at work events.
I can have a drink or two and still have fun. But some conference attendees don't know how to act, and don't keep their hands to themselves when they get drunk. This makes conferences more risky to attend for women.
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