"The politicians who received IEDs were never in real danger b/c someone checks their mail" is the shittiest take by the shittiest people — who clearly don't give a fuck about the threat to the people who check their mail; people they're obliged to hire b/c of threats like this.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) October 24, 2018
Some of us have been criticizing right-wing eliminationist rhetoric for as long as conservatives have been normalizing it from the fringes (i.e. decades). And we have routinely been dismissed as oversensitive, hysterics, language police, the PC brigade, SJWs, snowflakes, etc.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) October 24, 2018
Let us at long last stop playing this obscene game in which those of us who urgently raise alarms about how language and culture work are dismissed as *too sensitive* about othering and eliminationist rhetoric, and get real about how the right wing isn't sensitive *enough*.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) October 24, 2018
This shit doesn't happen in a vacuum and it's time for conservatives to pull up their own goddamn bootstraps and get to work doing the hard business of self-reflection. This is one problem the invisible hand of the market can't fix for them—unless, perhaps, it's holding a mirror.
— Melissa McEwan (@Shakestweetz) October 24, 2018
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