a quote from Andrea Long Chu's review of Thomas Chatteron Williams' new slopfest of a book: This is one legacy of 2020: the privatization of social justice. When writers like Williams speak of social justice today, theya re referring almost exclusively to the management of large companies, elite schools, and nonprofits backed by the wealthy. And why? Because critics of social justice tend to inhabit the exact professional milieu where social justice has been most thoroughly integrated with the endless pursuit of profit. It does not occur to Williams to ask why a Fortune 100 company would solicit a lecture from Thomas Chatteron Williams, a Black public intellectual who, just like kendi, tells people how to feel about race for a living. The social-justice warriors whom Williams most despises are not looters or rioters. They are people he encounters in the literary magazines he admires, the conferences he is invited to, and among his students and colleagues at Bard College; many of them are Obama Democrats whom he once regarded as comrades in the post-racial project. Liberal intellectuals like Williams have thus experienced the rise of DEI less as a generalized threat to the democratic oder and more like a personal betrayal by the institutions that they had, until recently, believed it was their job to defend. What they fear most is that liberals like them have been seudced by illiberal habits of thought. In other words, the greatest danger is not he barbarians at the gate; it's the barbarians safely behind it.

this andrea long chu paragraph sent me into outer space: www.vulture.com/article/post...

Black folks—and *actually* anti-racist non-Black people—should avoid the Atlanta Eagle / @atlantaeagle.bsky.social. Reasons in the screen shots below.

Why did you delete this comment of mine on your IG post, then shut off comments on that post?

...........these people are absolute losers

France is moving far too fast against Marine Le Pen.

by Merrick Garland

Photograph by Anthony Barboza of Kamoinge, the world’s longest running non-profit photography collective. 70s photograph of 2 men outside of shops with large signage. They’re both wearing hats, shades, long coats and dark suits with designer shoes. Very stylish.

“How the ’70s radicalised the landscape of photography” www.huckmag.com/article/70s-...

it has been wild to me over the past few years to see zionist jews OF ALL PEOPLE saying that it's only logical and reasonable for a people displaced from their homeland should sever their cultural and political connection from it

Mnangagwa doesn’t have the same energy for lip service to Palestine as Mugabe’s performances of revolutionary discourse. This diplomatic move would effectively be full normalization. No more state investment in the patriotic histories of struggle (though compensating whites would’ve told you that).

Israel-Gaza war: Why is Africa divided on supporting Palestine? Israel has made deep inroads into a continent traditionally sympathetic to Palestine. But its gains have limits too.

Superficially, the African Union has called for an end to normalization with and prosecution of Israel because of its genocidal violence in Gaza and withdrew observer status AT THE SAME TIME that too many of these states maintain strategic relations with Israel

www.aljazeera.com/amp/features...

It supported Rhodesian and apartheid South African militaries with both tactics and weaponry, further alienating it from the continent because of support for liberation struggles AND decolonization era solidarities with the Palestinian struggle.

I was writing abt Israel’s pariah statecraft during Nigerian Civil War in its support for the Federal Republic *and* Biafra. After its alienation of African & the Middle Eastern states after the 6-Day War — Biafra War began a month after Israel attacked Egypt — it pivoted towards apartheid regimes.

what's their training split?

come outside Chuck we just wanna talk

Columbia University notice of sanctions including expulsions

Columbia continues to destroy itself in the malign and stupid effort to hang on to Zionist and federal money (which it doesn't really need).

Today's slaughter includes the expulsion of the president of the grad worker union. A day before bargaining is due to begin.

I do NOT suggest NON-Black people learn AAVE. White—and other non-Black—queer folks are free to develop their own.

Not sure if you were confused, but that isn’t Jeffries—it’s Hakeem Jefferson (a poli sci prof).

Oh, lol! @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social is a gem, and has (mostly jokingly) written about being mistakes for Jeffries 😭

2/2: As a result, the feeling—and the reality—is that Drake’s in an insincere outsider to hip-hop who’s mined the genre for $$. Hence “colonizer.”

1/2: That’s NOT a reference to Drake’s Jewishness though! It’s a reference to his extractive relationship to hip-hop & its roots: hood (think: Compton; Drake’s not from the hood); poor(er) & working-class (≠ Drake’s pedigree); and very Black (Drake has tended to distance himself from his Blackness).

Hard cider >>>>> beer ;)

Didn’t Microsoft downsize or entirely eliminate a DEI team this past fall? And Apple CEO Tim Cook both attended AND gave $1milllion to Trump’s inauguration.

The hatred that I have for that man and his lack of intelligence / insight / and substance of any kind, is so strong.

Also, #AddToBlackSky I guess

Again sending around this starter pack courtesy of @viewfromargus.bsky.social

go.bsky.app/3h6n3YC

Followed you on Twitter, and while we didn’t really know each other there, I def learned from you there and appreciate you. 🙏🏽 So, hello over here!