Read #QuinnNorton about #whiteness:
"The great thing about the divide-and-conquer of creating white-skin #privilege is that you don’t have to give people thusly bought off anything more, and American power structures didn’t. In places with black #slavery, the whites suffered terribly.

"There is a simple truth to American history for the majority of people who have ever been American: the worse the black experience, the worse everyone else’s experience, including whites. Driving down (or eliminating) black #wages, while always agreeable to whites, drove white pay lower than their European counterparts for most of our history."

https://medium.com/message/how-white-people-got-made-6eeb076ade42 #history #learning #learn #sociology #reputation #agnotology #racism #raceMaking #America #USA #TheSouth #labor #exploitation #capitalism

"People have a strange vision of me. I’m going to set a few things straight real quick.

I was an anarchist pacifist two years ago, I was an anarchist pacifist two months ago, I’m an anarchist pacifist right now, and I probably will be one until I go to my grave.

[...] I will love you, and I will not be cool about it. I will never, ever, ever settle for your unjust and hateful world."

https://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?p=901

#QuinnNorton #NYT #ideologicalpurity #silencing #circularfiringsquad

@HerraBRE #QuinnNorton is one of my favorite living writers and I would dearly love to see her in the fediverse. I posted a couple things from her after that NYT incident; see the hashtag. FWIW, one piece she wrote was responsible for a major shift in how I interact online, including not trolling the ignorant for funsies any more.</offtopic> @LeoKnepper @Ashrand

"In 2018 so far, the New York Times hired and fired me, and I’ve been scheduled for extensive spinal surgery in three days with good odds of fixing the disabling condition I’ve lived with for more then 12 years. It’s been a complicated few weeks."

#QuinnNorton
A Few Things That Are True About Me

https://www.quinnnorton.com/said/?p=895

I like myself a lot better when I'm not in the mood to roast the shit out of somebody online. I'm rarely in that mood these days and I'm far less likely to act on it when I am. Things are improving!

This piece by #QuinnNorton, one of my favorite essayists, was a step on that path. https://medium.com/message/ahimsa-online-ef09b9c072