I said what I said about the universal appeal of anti-Black racism in the US🤷🏿♂️
This is why you lose.
This is why you have no defense against foreign interference.
This is why all of the other stuff on the other side of the chart, is so easy for them to accomplish.
"At least he hurt Black folk!🤡"
@mekkaokereke
I can't think of a single reason besides bigotry that would make someone look at the mass firing of qualified people based on the (usually misconstrued) results of keyword searches and think "yes, this is a net positive."
And the icing on the cake is how they're like "well the stuff they're doing around trans issues is a teensy bit bad, but not very consequential."
They're ghouls.
@mekkaokereke This is the "positive impact" side of that idiotic DEI grid.
Pretty much says it all.
@mekkaokereke Holy shit.
I will never understand your country.
Me either. And i live here
Fortunately, that's not true. At all.
Black students in the US do not read at a higher level than white students. And yet Black people don't choose these self harmful fashy policies. Black men vote more in favor of the correct option for each of the following questions, than white women. 🙂🙃
* Should women have reproductive rights?
* Should we focus on climate change?
* Should we have universal health care?
* Should men participate more in childcare?
* Should women return to more traditional gender roles?
Not a typo. More Black men support women's reproductive rights than white women. And it's not a religious thing. More Black men attend church weekly than white women.
So it's not intelligence or "reading level." It's acceptance of racism and fascism.
@mekkaokereke @ferricoxide @davidnjoku
Very important insights, against very significant and dangerous assumptions!
@mekkaokereke
I appreciate the fact that you tend to back these statements with proof (links to respected, peer-reviewed studies)
Cos, even as a fellow Black man (tho not American), I find it difficult to overcome the biased image that US mass culture has painted of male African Americans.
Progressive? Surely not. Aren't you all feckless dads, drug dealers, violent, wannabe rappers?
@mekkaokereke @ferricoxide @davidnjoku Tangential observation:
Not being from the USA, the "And it's not a religious thing" really confused me at first.
Because healthcare, climate honesty, opportunity for women, and reproductive rights are issues that, here, get progressive and positive treatment at just about every christian church with attendance.
Urban churches that have swapped to inclusive messaging DO still have attendance. It turns out that 2SLGBTQ+ folks, socially progressive folks, etc. have just as much need for spirituality as conservative straights, and now outnumber in pews as well.
Rural christian church attendance is small and aging. Lots of rural parishes are amalgamating 2-5 churches and selling off the unused ones. It just doesn't make sense to heat a building for fewer than 5 attendees on a Sunday. Maybe that's different in Alberta but I doubt it.
But that's here - Canada. We have laws against hate speech here, no guns, less need for a prosperity gospel just to be able to afford healthcare. So maybe our pastors have a different set of concerns to preach to.
@mekkaokereke @ferricoxide @davidnjoku
I could be wrong, but I interpreted @ferricoxide's post to mean that the quality of education in the United States has been declining in general, not that one group of people have been affected more than another. It is true that reading comprehension and functional literacy in the United States has gone down significantly over the past several decades. In many white families, that means more people trapped in racist and abusive religious information bubbles. Algorithms help prevent people from finding information outside of their information bubbles.
@CorvidCrone @ferricoxide @davidnjoku
The percent of white voters that vote for the candidate perceived to be the most anti-Black, has not changed in 80 years. 80. Years.
There has been no POTUS election in modern history, where the majority of white voters chose the Democratic nominee. And no, the majority of white voters did not vote for Obama. (I don't know why so many people believe that myth.)
White people educated in the '30s, '40s, '50s, '60s, '70s, '80s, '90s, 2000s, and 2010s, don't vote significantly differently from each other.
We keep trying to force fit "educational changes" as a reason for voting for racists. But it's just not true. The racism is remarkably stable and consistent.
@mekkaokereke @CorvidCrone @ferricoxide @davidnjoku
Maaaaan, this it the exact thing being a prodigal son white ass dweeb HS Drop Out. Education doesnt breed ethics and morality and white people stake their entire politics on it.
@mekkaokereke @CorvidCrone @ferricoxide @davidnjoku
It is absolutely ridiculous that white people think that they can indoctrinate cosmopolitan values at least through proxy of knowing trig identities
That most Usians don't is why we remain stuck.
australia imports a lot of really dodgy policy ideas from UK and USA (similar culture/mindset) so US history/ economic history is the latest rabbit hole I’ve been down, trying to understand why people vote for despots, against what seems to be their own self-interest, etc
i suspect the rot set in before 1776 - and USians believe the national narrative that escaping the divine right of kings made a difference… even tho’ anglo/european ideas about land, class/caste, were never questioned. e.g. 13 original colonies already had inequity baked into them before 1776 (including the existence of a class of white consumptibles now known as white trash), but the systems were not rebooted when US was created.
(Kimberly Jones made a similar point during BLM in 2020 video and subsequent book) https://youtu.be/llci8MVh8J4?feature=shared
… the country was never founded on equality, and the people left behind have little hope of catching up
hard to summarise in a single toot, but i think Isabel Wilkerson mentioned the key in her book CASTE — marginalisation is so entrenched that people are not just competing on things like wages, but make decisions based on the desperate need to maintain *relative* status.
another good read … Heather McGhee in THE SUM OF US writes about an idea someone else mentioned here… any abuse by the system is okay so long as it hurts marginalised people more than it hurts me
@mekkaokereke I'm honestly not sure what to be more insulted by, the idea that ‘D.E.I.’ is somehow ‘positive’ (???) or that ‘trans issues’ is some how inconsequential?
At least in the former case they can feign a degree of denial about what's happening, but the latter?
Wowzers, yet again it's racism and misogyny all the way down, and yet again those that should don't care :/
@zbrown @mekkaokereke just to be clear, this graph is showing their opinion on the impact of Trump's actions related to the issues
So they're saying:
Absolutely horrifying.
OK, this is partly poor framing, and partly the problem with averages. They framed it as the limited question.
"Trump moved to enforce his ban on transgender student-athletes in women’s sports, pressuring states to go along while Health Secretary Kennedy issued guidance recognizing only two sexes.”
@mekkaokereke Besides D.E.I. (or better: the dismantling of D.E.I.) being located on the "positive side", apparently it's seen as low impact on the y-axis. So, they want MORE of it?
From a methodological PoV, it doesn't make sense to make a chart like this with n=10. I think even the NYT alone has some more than 10 writers.
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