Metta World Pete
@petebroderick.bsky.social
Hate rarely kicks the door in. More often it slides into the room, grinning politely, and introduces itself as “common sense.”
The Machinery of Polite Hate
On the whitewashing of bigotry, the punishment of dissent, and the fascism creeping through society.
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September 21, 2025 at 11:27 PM
Hate rarely kicks the door in. More often it slides into the room, grinning politely, and introduces itself as “common sense.”
They’re criminalizing language. They’re erasing the vocabulary of justice. And they’re betting that white folks will fold — quickly, quietly, politely. But we can’t. Read more: dearwhitefriends.substack.com/p/say-the-da...
Say the Damn Words
When the language of justice gets scrubbed from the workplace, it's on us to speak louder in everywhere else.
dearwhitefriends.substack.com
May 8, 2025 at 1:08 PM
They’re criminalizing language. They’re erasing the vocabulary of justice. And they’re betting that white folks will fold — quickly, quietly, politely. But we can’t. Read more: dearwhitefriends.substack.com/p/say-the-da...
We white folks too often crave comfort over truth. We want a feel-good version of unity that doesn’t require us to confront our own complicity, or the brutal realities faced by those in the crosshairs of the systems we generally benefit from. Read more — open.substack.com/pub/dearwhit...
Why Do We Get So Mad When Black People Tell Us the Truth?
What I saw at a protest this weekend explains exactly why I write this column. It's time we stopped prioritizing our feelings over the lived experience of others.
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April 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
We white folks too often crave comfort over truth. We want a feel-good version of unity that doesn’t require us to confront our own complicity, or the brutal realities faced by those in the crosshairs of the systems we generally benefit from. Read more — open.substack.com/pub/dearwhit...
We got here because of us. All of us. White folks — liberal, moderate, progressive, whatever label makes you feel like you’re on the right side of history — we’ve spent a lifetime letting shit slide
They’re Not Even Hiding It Anymore
White silence was never neutral -- it was fuel for the fire they’re now using to burn us all.
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April 17, 2025 at 5:42 PM
We got here because of us. All of us. White folks — liberal, moderate, progressive, whatever label makes you feel like you’re on the right side of history — we’ve spent a lifetime letting shit slide
You want to know why we’ve pulled away? Why we don’t come around anymore? Why we don’t want you near our kids, our Black and brown friends, our LGBTQIA+ family? Why we’re so angry, so unwilling to “agree to disagree,” so done with you? It’s because you should have known. (link in bio)
You Should Have Known
An Open Letter to Those We’ve Cut Off
dearwhitefriends.substack.com
March 30, 2025 at 8:28 PM
You want to know why we’ve pulled away? Why we don’t come around anymore? Why we don’t want you near our kids, our Black and brown friends, our LGBTQIA+ family? Why we’re so angry, so unwilling to “agree to disagree,” so done with you? It’s because you should have known. (link in bio)
Imagine being so scared of “wokeness” — so terrified of the basic idea of empathy — that you actively support efforts to destroy your own kid’s school. Read more:
dearwhitefriends.substack.com/p/imagine-se...
dearwhitefriends.substack.com/p/imagine-se...
Imagine Selling Out Your Own Kids Because of “Woke”
Public Schools Were Designed to Protect White Kids. Now MAGA's Letting Them Burn.
dearwhitefriends.substack.com
March 22, 2025 at 3:30 PM
Imagine being so scared of “wokeness” — so terrified of the basic idea of empathy — that you actively support efforts to destroy your own kid’s school. Read more:
dearwhitefriends.substack.com/p/imagine-se...
dearwhitefriends.substack.com/p/imagine-se...
Racism is built so deeply into the public discourse that most of us can’t even identify it — and that’s by design. Read on Substack — open.substack.com/pub/dearwhit...
You’ve Been Trained to Ignore the Racism Embedded in Public Discourse
Medicare, Medicaid, the ACA, and food assistance didn’t become “wasteful” by accident. You were taught to believe that.
open.substack.com
February 26, 2025 at 3:19 AM
Racism is built so deeply into the public discourse that most of us can’t even identify it — and that’s by design. Read on Substack — open.substack.com/pub/dearwhit...
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I had a talk with someone earlier who very proudly informed me that they read only nonfiction. When I inquired why (dear God why), they simply said "I like my reading to teach me about the world." I laughed.
All the facts in all the books in all the world cannot teach you any of what fiction does.
All the facts in all the books in all the world cannot teach you any of what fiction does.
February 23, 2025 at 7:00 PM
I had a talk with someone earlier who very proudly informed me that they read only nonfiction. When I inquired why (dear God why), they simply said "I like my reading to teach me about the world." I laughed.
All the facts in all the books in all the world cannot teach you any of what fiction does.
All the facts in all the books in all the world cannot teach you any of what fiction does.
Imagine hating people you’ve never met so much that you cheer on the dismantling of your own democracy just so those people might suffer a little more than you will.
February 22, 2025 at 4:24 PM
Imagine hating people you’ve never met so much that you cheer on the dismantling of your own democracy just so those people might suffer a little more than you will.
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way funnier than the conservatives who hated Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show are the conservatives who thought he was doing the ultimate patriotic ode to America
February 10, 2025 at 5:18 PM
way funnier than the conservatives who hated Kendrick Lamar's Super Bowl halftime show are the conservatives who thought he was doing the ultimate patriotic ode to America
If you’re mad, if it was “boring,” if the halftime show “sucked,” if it “wasn’t music” — it wasn’t for you in the first place.
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If You Didn’t “Get” Kendrick's Show, You Were Never Supposed To
K.Dot Was "Too Black, Too Strong," in the Best Tradition of Musical Protest
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February 10, 2025 at 5:32 PM
If you’re mad, if it was “boring,” if the halftime show “sucked,” if it “wasn’t music” — it wasn’t for you in the first place.
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Trump’s “win” wasn’t much more than an orchestrated stunt. World leaders see right through the bullying and bluster — why can’t so many Americans?
(PRO TIP: Read all the way to the bottom on this one… Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s response to this ridiculous situation is magnificent.)
(PRO TIP: Read all the way to the bottom on this one… Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s response to this ridiculous situation is magnificent.)
Manufacturing a Crisis to Justify a Dehumanizing Spectacle
Colombia Didn’t ‘Cave’ — Trump's Just Feeding a Racist, Xenophobic Narrative
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January 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Trump’s “win” wasn’t much more than an orchestrated stunt. World leaders see right through the bullying and bluster — why can’t so many Americans?
(PRO TIP: Read all the way to the bottom on this one… Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s response to this ridiculous situation is magnificent.)
(PRO TIP: Read all the way to the bottom on this one… Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s response to this ridiculous situation is magnificent.)
Read, subscribe, share, etc… open.substack.com/pub/dearwhit...
Bigots Don’t Learn: Stripping Peoples' Rights has Never Ended Well
From Jim Crow to Japanese internment to anti-Trans bigotry, history shows us exactly who’s on the wrong side—and it’s not the people fighting for their humanity.
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January 21, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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probably worth remembering that most of Trump's executive orders will be symbolic, not-legally-enforceable bullshit and you should:
- follow non-sensationalist sources for analysis
- wait to panic until things shake out a bit
- follow non-sensationalist sources for analysis
- wait to panic until things shake out a bit
January 20, 2025 at 5:52 PM
probably worth remembering that most of Trump's executive orders will be symbolic, not-legally-enforceable bullshit and you should:
- follow non-sensationalist sources for analysis
- wait to panic until things shake out a bit
- follow non-sensationalist sources for analysis
- wait to panic until things shake out a bit
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There are over 50,000 illegal Irish immigrants in the US.
You will never hear abt this, bc they're the right color.
The maj of undoc ppl are those who overstay visas.
Trump's the only POTUS to hire "illegals" to avoid paying US workers a living wage in 2 different centuries.
#Inauguration2025
You will never hear abt this, bc they're the right color.
The maj of undoc ppl are those who overstay visas.
Trump's the only POTUS to hire "illegals" to avoid paying US workers a living wage in 2 different centuries.
#Inauguration2025
January 20, 2025 at 6:22 PM
There are over 50,000 illegal Irish immigrants in the US.
You will never hear abt this, bc they're the right color.
The maj of undoc ppl are those who overstay visas.
Trump's the only POTUS to hire "illegals" to avoid paying US workers a living wage in 2 different centuries.
#Inauguration2025
You will never hear abt this, bc they're the right color.
The maj of undoc ppl are those who overstay visas.
Trump's the only POTUS to hire "illegals" to avoid paying US workers a living wage in 2 different centuries.
#Inauguration2025
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As @premthakker.bsky.social just said to me on Slack, this Trump second speech, unscripted, to the overflow hall of supporters, ranting about Pelosi, Milley, and Cheney is the REAL speech. It's the REAL him. A petty, paranoid, insecure man, obsessed with grievances and his 'enemies.'
January 20, 2025 at 6:36 PM
As @premthakker.bsky.social just said to me on Slack, this Trump second speech, unscripted, to the overflow hall of supporters, ranting about Pelosi, Milley, and Cheney is the REAL speech. It's the REAL him. A petty, paranoid, insecure man, obsessed with grievances and his 'enemies.'