racism
Treatment by race, the words that excuse it, and what standing against it asks of people.
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Noah Smith quoted
Economics writer; author of the Noahpinion newsletter
Their wordsAs I wrote in a post two years ago — still one of my most popular posts of all time — land acknowledgements don’t just recognize Indigenous people. They are a way of fundamentally delegitimizing the United States — of declaring that this is a country that has no right to exist. And beyond that, land acknowledgements implicitly advance a theory of collective racial ownership of territory that is morally indistinguishable from the worst blood-and-soil nationalism of the racist far Right.
- 8 days earlier
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Richard Stallman quoted
Founder of the Free Software Movement and the GNU Project
Their wordsRacism today: when a white person faces accusations of wrongdoing, the accusation is against per alone. When a black person faces accusations, racists use that to cast aspersions against blacks in general.
↗Urgent: Raise the Wage Actstallman.org 12th of 10 in this piece
- 3 months earlier
- SG
Scott Greenfield quoted
New York criminal defence lawyer, in practice since 1982
Their wordsEverything isn’t racist, but if this isn’t, then Alito failed miserably to make the case.
↗SCOTUS Whitewashes Otherwise Racist Decisionblog.simplejustice.us 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 9 months earlier
- DH
David Heinemeier Hansson quoted
Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals
Our readingA country is primarily for its native people
Their wordsThere's absolutely nothing racist or xenophobic in saying that Denmark is primarily a country for the Danes, Britain primarily a united kingdom for the Brits, and Japan primarily a set of islands for the Japanese
- 22 months earlier
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Lant Pritchett quoted
Development economist
Our readingWanting to preserve a national culture is a legitimate human impulse and not in itself a racist one.
Their wordsValuing traditions, culture and history is simply a legitimate part of the human experience, and there is nothing wrong with preserving that.
↗Lant Pritchett, economist: ‘Negativity around migration is the last breath of a moribund system’english.elpais.com 4th of 8 in this piece
- 3 years earlier
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Tom Preston-Werner quoted
Programmer and entrepreneur
Their wordsThese are just three of the names on the list of thousands of Black men and women who lost their lives to the systemic racism that is woven into the fabric of this country.
↗Committing $250k this Year to Racial Justice Effortstom.preston-werner.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Tom Preston-Werner quoted
Their wordsIt will take a monumental anti-racist movement to change the underlying conditions that allow racism in the United States to flourish.
↗Committing $250k this Year to Racial Justice Effortstom.preston-werner.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
- RI
Rihanna quoted
Barbadian singer and businesswoman (Robyn Rihanna Fenty)…
Their wordswe can only fix this world together. We can’t do it divided. I cannot emphasize that enough. We can’t let the de-sensitivity seep in. The, “If it’s your problem, then it’s not mine; It’s a woman’s problem; It’s a black people problem; It’s a poor people problem.”
↗Rihanna’s NAACP Image Awards President’s Award acceptance speech, 22 February 2020, as printed in full by Variety (“Rihanna Pleads for Equality at NAACP Image Awards: ‘Tell Your Friends to Pull Up’”, 22 February 2020)variety.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Rihanna quoted
Our readingPeople with friends of other races should show up when injustice hits those friends’ communities
Their wordsI mean, how many of us in this room have colleagues and partners and friends from other races, sexes, religions? Show of hands. Well, they want to break bread with you, right? They like you? Well, then this is their problem, too. So when we’re marching and protesting and posting about the Michael Brown juniors and Atatiana Jeffersons of the World, tell your friends to pull up.
↗Rihanna’s NAACP Image Awards President’s Award acceptance speech, 22 February 2020, as printed in full by Variety (“Rihanna Pleads for Equality at NAACP Image Awards: ‘Tell Your Friends to Pull Up’”, 22 February 2020)variety.com 2nd of 2 in this piece
- 4 months earlier
- RI
Rihanna quoted
Their wordsPeople are being murdered by war weapons that they legally purchase. This is just not normal. That should never, ever be normal. And the fact that it’s classified as something different because of the color of their skin? It’s a slap in the face. It’s completely racist.
↗“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)vogue.com 3rd of 6 in this piece
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Rihanna quoted
Our readingPresident Trump would not have called the same attack by an Arab man a mental-health problem
Their wordsPut an Arab man with that same weapon in that same Walmart and there is no way that Trump would sit there and address it publicly as a mental health problem.
↗“Rihanna Talks Fenty, That Long-Awaited Album, and President Trump”, interview by Abby Aguirre, Vogue (November 2019 cover story, published online 9 October 2019)vogue.com 4th of 6 in this piece
- 7 months earlier
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Taylor Swift quoted
American singer-songwriter (born 1989) who released…
Their wordsInvoking racism and provoking fear through thinly veiled messaging is not what I want from our leaders, and I realized that it actually is my responsibility to use my influence against that disgusting rhetoric.
↗30 Things I Learned Before Turning 30 (essay by Taylor Swift, ELLE, 6 March 2019)elle.com 4th of 4 in this piece
- 14 months earlier
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Emma Watson quoted
English actor, Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter films…
Our readingA white feminist does better to ask how she has benefited from being white than to resent the label
Their wordsIt would have been more useful to spend the time asking myself questions like: What are the ways I have benefited from being white? In what ways do I support and uphold a system that is structurally racist? How do my race, class and gender affect my perspective?
↗First Book of 2018! Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge (her letter to Our Shared Shelf, Goodreads, 31 December 2017)goodreads.com 2nd of 2 in this piece