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reminder: when black transfems do activism, calling them "hostile" & "violent" are, for all intents & purposes anti-black slurs. not even dog whistles. just straight up slurs. that pattern is old and we know you just wanna call us Sapphire caricatures or an ABW.

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kazvt 🙈

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19 Aug

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angry_b... it wasn't a coincidence in the 60s when the fbi under hoover, southern politicians & the mainstream press called civil rights organisers "hostile" "violent", "agitators", "communists" wasn't a coincidence in the 70s when the same institutions kept saying that-

en.wikipedia.orgAngry black woman - Wikipedia

kazvt 🙈

@kazvt.com

19 Aug

about black power groups & the panthers. or the 80s, when the reagan administration & major media framed black communities through the crack epidemic & "urban chaos" or the 90s, when bipartisan "tough on crime" politics (including the clinton era consensus & "superpredator" rhetoric) & coverage-

kazvt 🙈

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19 Aug

of the LA riots did it again. in the 2000s the language got more coded "crime", "gangs", but media & law enforcement still reached for the same tools to eradicate us, especially during moments like katrina coverage in the 2010s, after ferguson & baltimore, conservatives & a liberals & democrats-

kazvt 🙈

@kazvt.com

19 Aug

drew lines between "peaceful protest" & "riots" & used "destruction" as a label to distance themselves from the more disruptive parts of the movement (black people). & in 2020, the same pattern again: liberals, republikkkrats & mainstream media condemned "rioting" & "looting", affirmed the right-