William Lucas

Medical Anthropologist | recent PhD/MPH grad from #USF | #anthrotwitter | Assistant Professor at CSUDH Anthropology check me out @partialperspect

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@ContraPoints Acknowledging that silence is complicity and violence in certain contexts doesn’t mean it promotes loudness. It’s a statement that indicates that “even those most silent can, via their silence, promote violence.” Not that loudness is preferable.

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@elonmusk People forget that Jordan Peterson gained fame from what bill C16 (it’s been years, is that right?) could hypothetically do. Not for what it actually did. When you try to anticipate the crime with your own punishment, you develop some problems.

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@elonmusk Wrong. It was a hypothetical problem that was easily quelled. Because it wasn’t ever an actual problem. In academia, we’ve always known the most problematic of wokey-ness was a loud minority with little influence. But the right successfully made it a boogeyman.

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@deonteleologist Liberals have been unhinged since Trump won. The number of people saying, “I don’t care if Trump turns Gaza into a parking lot” is disgusting. I get needing to express emotions, but this is not okay at all.

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@joerogan highly recommend you invite Jason De Leon, the author of Soldiers and Kings, on your show! It’s about the border issue, and the world of human smuggling. It’s crazy good, super readable, and I think you’d have an amazing convo with Jason! He’s super cool.

[Agustín Fuentes @Anthrofuentes]

"a deeper understanding of the relationship between
phenotypic plasticity, culture and genetic architecture, which constrain the mechanisms by which human biology adapts to the environment." https://t.co/qRCQeaZ4dI

[TheCynicalSyndicalist @CynicSyndicalis]

The reality of the situation is there exists no symmetry between Israel and Palestine the former is a cruel and unconscionable oppressive state armed to its teeth with the latest advance technology for warfare, a standing military that’s buttressed by Empire while

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@lastpositivist @CamdenHutchison This made me laugh. Cause uh. YES. The “we” slip in is always instructive. 😂

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@Metal_Crow @Anthrofuentes @ScienceMagazine Not exactly. Sociobiology wants to see how human behavior is shaped by evolutionary processes and rationales. Biocultural wants to see how they co-constitute one another—our biologies shaped culture and culture shaped biologies.

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@benshapiro The knee-jerk, “it’s not our fault though,” is pretty gross. It’s also how you’re telling on yourself. Justifying the unjustifiable. Let’s rephrase it: “our bombs kill babies, but Hamas made us react.” You sound like an abusive husband. “You made me hit you.”

[Andrew Feinstein @andrewfeinstein]

Tony Blair’s sister-in-law is more accurate & honest on Palestine in two minutes than he has been his whole life

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@deonteleologist No…..

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

We’ve reached a tipping point where Israel’s cruel domination of Palestinians cannot go without saying. Public opinions, perceptions have shifted where that is no longer acceptable. This is surreal.

[Naila @BrownNaila]

"I’m personally a Holocaust survivor as an infant, I barely survived. My grandparents were killed in Aushwitz and most of my extended family were killed. I became a Zionist; this dream of the Jewish people resurrected in their historical homeland and the barbed wire of Aushwitz being replaced by the boundaries of a Jewish state with a powerful army…and then I found out that it wasn’t exactly like that, that in order to make this Jewish dream a reality we had to visit a nightmare on the local population.

There’s no way you could have ever created a Jewish state without oppressing and expelling the local population. Jewish Israeli historians have shown without a doubt that the expulsion of Palestinians was persistent, pervasive, cruel, murderous and with deliberate intent - that’s what’s called the 'Nakba' in Arabic; the 'disaster' or the 'catastrophe'. There’s a law that you cannot deny the Holocaust, but in Israel you’re not allowed to mention the Nakba, even though it’s at the very basis of the foundation of Israel.

I visited the Occupied Territories (West Bank) during the first intifada. I cried every day for two weeks at what I saw; the brutality of the occupation, the petty harassment, the murderousness of it, the cutting down of Palestinian olive groves, the denial of water rights, the humiliations...and this went on, and now it’s much worse than it was then.

It’s the longest ethnic cleansing operation in the 20th and 21st century. I could land in Tel Aviv tomorrow and demand citizenship but my Palestinian friend in Vancouver, who was born in Jerusalem, can’t even visit!

So then you have these miserable people packed into this, horrible…people call it an 'outdoor prison', which is what it is. You don’t have to support Hamas policies to stand up for Palestinian rights, that’s a complete falsity. You think the worse thing you can say about Hamas, multiply it by a thousand times, and it still will not meet the Israeli repression and killing and dispossession of Palestinians.

And 'anybody who criticises Israel is an anti-Semite' is simply an egregious attempt to intimidate good non-Jews who are willing to stand up for what is true."

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@benshapiro @AOC But is a genocide happening though? Can you guys at least ask that basic question? Or is it that you’re staunchly pro-Israel because… you know… your facts are determined by your feelings.

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@daisyldixon Feels familiar. I’m always at least a little hungry. When you find out why pls share with the rest of us. 😂

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@daisyldixon Adonis, Ulysses, Zeus, Zorba… your options are legit endless. 😅

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@daisyldixon That adds to its beauty. Especially after entering a new relationship with a whole slew of linguistic intricacies that integrate and expand on our vocabularies. I see all of my past relationships vaguely present—she does too. And the new language integrates it all. Beautiful. :)

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@elonmusk @JamesEsses How is asserting sensitivity about a thing never before considered a slur (and may not, out of context, even be a word) considered honorable and appropriate for a platform attempting to center free speech? Fact is, ideology permeates all of this.

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@sciam This comment section is just people expecting a fight. That’s Twitter in a nut shell. Check this: “while animal gametes can be described as binary (of two distinct kinds), the physiological systems, behaviors and individuals that produce them are not.”

[William Lucas @WLucasAnthro]

@dtpowis !!