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Tim Wise

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The only real account on here for Tim Wise (well, at least the one who's an anti-racism educator, author, critical race theorist, and Senior Fellow at the African American Policy Forum).

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · Apr 21

Four of my books were banned at the Naval Academy but Mein Kampf and the Bell Curve are still there.

So just to review: racism is ok. Antiracism is not.

This is the entire history of America.

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 14d

Irony: if Charlie Kirk had been speaking in Chicago, L.A., etc., they'd have swept the rooftops and had tighter security. But Utah? Nah...So, the myth of white innocence, which he believed in, got him killed. Fascinating. My latest piece explores this, below...

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The Myth of White Innocence Got Charlie Kirk Killed

If he’d been speaking in Chicago, Los Angeles, or anywhere with lots of people of color, they’d have checked the rooftops

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17d

And finally a piece in which I don't mention Kirk at all, but address one of those issues he was particularly obsessed with and hateful about...trans athletes

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There’s a Revealing Flaw in the Attack on Trans Athletes

And what the transphobes don’t talk about gives the game away

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17d

And another one, offering a theory of the motive behind the killing of Charlie Kirk, which holds that it was only marginally political, and really based more on intense and almost entirely personal passions, disconnected from any larger political project.

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There’s a Simpler Explanation Than Politics for the Killing of Charlie Kirk

Although everyone wants to blame the other side, the real reason may be more personal and frankly even more tragic than that

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17d

Here's a piece responding to one of Kirk's many absurd positions: that testosterone is linked to voting behavior

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Charlie Kirk’s Views on Masculinity and Politics Were Amazingly Ignorant

And despite his death, those ideas live on, and deserve to be utterly repudiated

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17d

Next is, I think, an important piece about the silos people are in, which keep millions of people from knowing what most of us on the left know about Kirk, and why humility about other people's knowledge base is important.

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Many Charlie Kirk Supporters Don’t Realize What He Actually Believed

The scary but true reality of media silos in America

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17d

Next is my piece replying to the notion that Kirk was some kind of Socratic intellect whose penchant for debate was genuine, or that debate itself is a positive way to de-escalate political tension. It's not, but I offer an alternative...

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Charlie Kirk’s “Debate Me, Bro” Act Wasn’t Politics “the Right Way”

Debate isn’t the answer to political violence. But there might be another, better option.

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17d

Then, my piece responding to calls for "toning down the rhetoric" in the wake of Kirk's murder...

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Calls for “Toning Down the Rhetoric” are Incredibly One-Sided

The right wants the left to abide by rules of decorum that they reject daily

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17d

Next, the first piece I wrote after Charlie Kirk's killing. More to follow, in which I respond to his awfulness directly. But the day it happened, I felt it necessary to say this for both moral and practical reasons.

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No, Charlie Kirk’s Ideas Don’t Make It OK to Cheer His Murder

Murder is wrong. Period. And it’s not OK to advocate it, celebrate it, or shrug it off with FAFO memes

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17d

Then here's my piece rebutting a common right-wing talking point, which they use to downplay the extent of racial inequity in earnings and employment...

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Education Doesn’t Close Racial Employment or Earnings Gaps

And no, it’s not because whites and Blacks get degrees in different subjects

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · 17d

Been neglecting to post here lately. But I'm now going to post the essays I've written in the past month in the order I wrote them. Beginning w/this one on how the Labor Department has consistently minimized the extent of racial disparity in unemployment

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Here’s How Government Data Minimizes Racial Inequality

The Labor Department cloaks the real extent of white advantage in America

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Joy-Ann Reid @joyannreid.bsky.social · 18d

ICYMI: we tackled healthcare grifters like RFK Jr and Florida's Dr. Ladapo with Dr. Peter Hotez, the Epstein cover-up with Rep. @robertgarcia.bsky.social and #magacancelculture with @karenattiah.bsky.social @lizzwinstead.bsky.social & @timjacobwise.bsky.social www.youtube.com/live/ULh1UDg...

MAGA Cancel Culture | The Joy Reid Show LIVE!

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · Jun 18

When will we learn that toppling other governments almost always makes things worse? Indeed, had we not overthrown the Iranian government in 1953 and installed a vicious dictator, we never would have ended up with the Mullahs we now insist we must topple. Pay attention.

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · Jun 11

Wow, look at this description of the mayhem in L.A. Man, sure am glad Trump sent in troops! (Oh wait, this isn't re: L.A...it's a description of the white boy riot to protest crackdowns on underage drinking at Washington State University in 1998. Never mind).

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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · May 30

"Well, we are all going to die."

Damn, y'all, I've heard some cruel and bizarre statements from politicians in my lifetime, but Sen. Joni Ernst saying this directly to her constituents during a town hall regarding concerns over cuts to Medicaid is an all-timer. Jesus.

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · May 17

So we've reached the Holocaust denial phase of Elon's racism. Seriously, time for this guy to be financially and reputationally destroyed beyond repair. He is officially the worst person on the planet

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Grok Pivots From 'White Genocide' to Being 'Skeptical' About the Holocaust

Elon Musk's Grok chatbot from xAI is no longer posting about the myth of 'white genocide' in South Africa but has dabbled in Holocaust denial.

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · May 17

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Perfect for studying. #nottowayplantationfire #nottowayplantation #asmr #burnbabyburn #fire

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · May 17

We need a one million percent tariff on Afrikaners. No need to import white racists. We've managed to make tens of millions here

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · May 17

This is a good start, but River Road is long. May the spirits of the enslaved rise and burn all the concentration camps that, like Nottaway, downplay their evil. No more wedding receptions. Either confront the sickness of white supremacy or let it all burn.

Here's hoping that karma is contagious

A picture of the Nottaway plantation house on fire this week

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · May 17

The message from the fire at the Nottoway Slave Labor and Sex Trafficking Camp is simple enough:

If some of y'all keep trying to erase Black history, the ancestors just might burn yours to the ground.

Keep pushing.

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · Apr 21

White Like Me, Colorblind, Between Barack and a Hard Place, and Speaking Treason Fluently

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · Apr 21

Oh look, a white lady who sounds like what cornbread would sound like if it could talk, calls a grown (and older) Black man, "boy." Because of course she did

'There's a gun in there': Republican lawmaker insists cane carried by Democrat 'is a prop' www.rawstory.com/al-green-cane/

'There's a gun in there': Republican lawmaker insists cane carried by Democrat 'is a prop'

Rep. Diana Harshbarger (R-TN) warned that Rep. Al Green (D-TX) could be concealing a gun in his cane after he shook it at President Donald Trump during an address to Congress earlier this year.The Rep...

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · Apr 21

Four of my books were banned at the Naval Academy but Mein Kampf and the Bell Curve are still there.

So just to review: racism is ok. Antiracism is not.

This is the entire history of America.

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · Apr 21

Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, but even worse…

Those who would erase the past are intending to repeat it.

Hands off our history.
Hands off our libraries.
Hands off the NMAAHC.

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · Apr 21

The more Trump's economic policies hurt his voters, the more sadistic he'll become toward folk of color, LGBTQ folk, and anyone he views as insufficiently on his side, bc if he hurts those folks more, the psychological wage of whiteness/straightness will keep his cult together.

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Tim Wise @timjacobwise.bsky.social · Apr 21

Kristi Noem can't protect her purse in a restaurant, but she's supposed to protect the Homeland from terrorism? Mmm-k, sure.

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