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Louis Römer
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🇨🇼🇳🇱🇺🇲 | he/him | PhD | anthropologist @vassar.bsky.social | opinions mine | retweet & like≠endorsements |
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If your mailer addressing Black folks is making me think of a KKK poster you messed up
poster asking black people to scan a qr code, share their personal info, to “stop the DSA” and asking us to beware of socialists kkk poster telling Black people beware of communists and to report “communists” who believe in social equality to the KKK
November 6, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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You cannot have a Democracy if only one major political party is anti-authoritarian, until that problem is fixed—forget about having a “vital center”
November 5, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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Another paper showing that a lot of what statistically lies at the "center" looks like this:
picture of guy wearing MAGA for Mamdani t-shirt and hat
November 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Tbf to the content of the article, I think this is the point that Lander was trying to make.
the anguish over Mamdani’s candidacy – the anguish that Cosgrove is attempting to redirect to fear – is not really about him. It is a reflection of an American Jewish population in crisis, scarred by the intracommunal psychodramas that have raged since 7 October and contending with what it means to associate with a state that has fallen so far down the world’s moral ladder. “It plays out like the Jewish education of Zohran Mamdani,” said one person involved in efforts to broker his outreach events, describing the displays of grievance often directed his way. By many accounts, Mamdani has listened patiently. “He’s become a vehicle for our tensions and conflicts,” said Lander. “It’s fair to ask him, as the person is going to be our mayor, to reflect that he’s going to represent everyone, even people who he strongly disagrees with, on some important issues. It’s not fair to ask him to heal our collective wounds and traumas.”
November 1, 2025 at 9:09 PM
lromeranth.bsky.social
I mean this bit, ironically, represents the dynamic very well. Why talk about the working class as if they are these fragile, emotionally unstable people with hurt feelings.
October 25, 2025 at 12:54 PM
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We are still doing this meme in 2025
tuba girl meme making fun at the fake parrhesia of people with large platforms trying to pretend they are speaking truth to power for clout
October 22, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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/chaser
October 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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Shot/
October 5, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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In America, you can step out of your private jet to attend the January 6th Capitol insurrection, but with the right aesthetic self-presentation and/or lack of a college diploma, you get to self-identify as “working-class”:
Stepping out of her private jet to attend the January 6th Capitol insurrection in 2021, Texas real estate broker Jenna Ryan is emblematic of the subject Donald Trump portrays as sympathetic in his speeches. Ryan, an entrepreneur, broker, and radio host, claimed that she and the other Trump supporters present were ‘working-class people,’ and decried the ‘communist takeover’ that Democratic governance represented
October 2, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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How did "free speech" become a cudgel to silence dissent? My latest in @bostonreview.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ri...
In past rounds of moral panics on campus, when “cancel culture” and “trigger warnings” were still the threats du jour, pundits and social media outrage peddlers converged to frame campus protests at large as threats to “free speech.” Responding to the steady churn of outrage-bait framing protesting students as “snowflakes” and “crybullies,” state legislatures across the country passed a flurry of “campus free speech” bills drafted by right-wing think tanks, which expanded the range of anti-protest measures available to college administrators. To be sure, boycotts and deplatforming protests were useful props in these efforts. Still, what made it possible to inflate deplatforming incidents into threats that required expansion of repressive state power was the failure to question a securitized vision of liberty that, since Bush’s “they hate our freedoms” speech, has become increasingly dominant.
September 15, 2025 at 1:25 PM