Joe Feagin

sociologist, white racism researcher, author, chess player

former American Sociological Association president

[Joe Feagin @JoeFeagin]

and he is correct, sadly

[Drop Site @DropSiteNews]

❓NBC News to Iran’s FM:
“Sir, how can attacking U.S. military bases abroad be justified?”

💬 FM Araghchi:
Because they are attacking us. These US military installations, facilities, bases are being used to attack us. We are under attack. Why don’t you, you know, recognize this this fact? We are under an attack from you. This is obvious. This is a very simple fact. I hope that, I am sure that people would understand that we are not the one who attacked Americans. We are defending ourselves.

[Joe Feagin @JoeFeagin]

November 2016 election is likely reason

[Emoluments Clause @Emolclause]

#BREAKING: Legendary #Maddow: "...you are joining MSNOW's ongoing coverage of the United States having apparently started a war with #Iran...for some reason. Your guess...your personal guess sitting at home watching me right now...is as good as any as to why the president of the United States has just started this war..."😳

[Joe Feagin @JoeFeagin]

idiocracy and autocracy at same time

[Brian Krassenstein @krassenstein]

BREAKING: Newly released clip of Donald Trump partying at Mar-a-Lago, dancing with his wealthy millionaire and billionaire friends within HOURS of the United States beginning an attack on Iran, including killing young children.

Historians will look back on this and wonder how this ever came about.

[Joe Feagin @JoeFeagin]

How Equality Wins: A New Vision for an Inclusive America (Kenji & David Glasgow) ...is that the “old playbook” for DEI is legally and politically more vulnerable now, so equality advocates should adopt strategies that broaden coalitions manifesto arguing that equality work can...

[Joe Feagin @JoeFeagin]

Gripping book by sociologist Dorothy Roberts on her white father's and black mother's pathbreaking but unpublished study of interrracial marriages, including their own: https://t.co/9T3Df7UyuR

[end racism, phd @paul_t_miller]

dems are fuking useless

[Joe Feagin @JoeFeagin]

grounds for impeachment

[Senator Andy Kim @SenatorAndyKim]

President Trump fully acknowledging that this is a “war” and that American lives “may be lost.” All done against our Constitution, against the will of the American people, and without Congress’ approval.

[Mr PitBull Stories @MrPitbull07]

When 740 children were condemned to the sea and the world said “no,” one man said “yes.”

The year was 1942.

In the Arabian Sea, a ship drifted like a floating coffin.
On board were 740 Polish children—orphans, survivors of Soviet labor camps where their parents had died of hunger, disease, and exhaustion. They had escaped through Iran, but the worst still lay ahead: no one wanted them.

Port after port along the Indian coast, the British Empire—the greatest power of the time—shut its doors.

“Not our responsibility. Sail away.”

Food was running out. Medicines were gone. Hope itself had become dangerous.

Twelve-year-old Maria held the hand of her six-year-old brother. She had promised her dying mother she would protect him. But how do you protect someone when the whole world decides he does not deserve to live?

Then the news reached the small palace of Navanagar, in Gujarat.

The ruler was Jam Sahib Digvijay Singhji—a minor prince in a British-dominated empire, with no army, no real control over the ports, and no obligation whatsoever to act.

His advisers told him:

— “Seven hundred and forty children are trapped at sea after the British refused to take them.”

He asked calmly:

— “How many children?”

— “Seven hundred and forty, Your Highness.”

There was a brief silence. Then he said:

— “The British may control my ports.
But they do not control my conscience.
Those children will dock at Navanagar.”

They warned him:

— “If you defy the British…”

— “Then I will face them.”

And he sent the message that saved 740 lives:

“You are welcome here.”

In August 1942, the ship entered the harbor under the merciless summer sun. The children disembarked like shadows—too weak to cry, trained by suffering to expect nothing.

The Maharaja was waiting for them on the dock. Dressed in white, he knelt to meet the children at eye level and, through interpreters, spoke words they had not heard since their parents died:

— “You are no longer orphans.
You are my children now.
I am your Bapu—your father.”

And he did not build a refugee camp.
He built a home.

In Balachadi, he created a small Poland on Indian soil: Polish teachers, food that tasted of memory, childhood songs, classrooms, gardens, and a Christmas tree beneath the tropical sky.

— “Suffering tries to erase you,” he told them.
“But your language, your culture, your traditions are sacred.
Here, they will live.”

For four years, while the world burned in war, those children lived not as refugees—but as family.

He visited them, remembered their names, celebrated birthdays, comforted those who wept for parents who would never return. He paid for doctors, teachers, clothing, and food from his own fortune.

When the war ended and the time came to leave, many wept. Balachadi was the only true home they had ever known.

Today, those children have become doctors, teachers, parents, and grandparents. In Poland, squares and schools bear the name Jam Sahib Digvijay Singhji. He received the country’s highest honors.

But his true monument is not made of stone.

It is 740 lives.

And they still tell their grandchildren the story of an Indian king who, when the entire world closed its doors, looked at suffering and said:

“They are my children now.”

[Ntukirate ⚒️ @menyibyawe0]

Pure natural beauty 🥰

[Joe Feagin @JoeFeagin]

But he isnt't white, too?

[Rania Khalek @RaniaKhalek]

Marco Rubio declares war on non-white peoples worldwide:

Rubio's Munich speech affirmed white Christian supremacy, linking America's racist founding to Europe's imperial past and evangelical expansionism today

https://t.co/RwBFRDClcO

By Joseph Massad

[Joe Feagin @JoeFeagin]

Is he the dumbest and most felonious president ever?

[Acyn @Acyn]

Trump: Probably never been a year like this for a president, for a country. We’ve had tremendous success. The economy is coming back

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Abolish ICE

[end racism, phd @paul_t_miller]

a great deal of white people are irreparably soft and fragile, like mike

[The Tennessee Holler @TheTNHoller]

“Where is your warrant?? There are kids in here.”

The reverse angle from inside of the obscene show of force for no reason as Trump goons kick in a door in Minnesota with guns drawn.

[end racism, phd @paul_t_miller]

if true, this is an astonishing act of cowardice

[Annie @AnnieForTruth]

ICE are not police and did not have the authority, simple as that. Renee Cook was not an illegal immigrant or harboring an illegal immigrant. She was a U.S. citizen.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

Donald Trump says that the ICE agent who murdered Renee in cold blood was "violently, wilfully and viciously run over"

As the mayor of Minneapolis points out, this is a lie.

[Joe Feagin @JoeFeagin]

more autocracy

[Dr Terry Simpson @drterrysimpson]

Science doesn’t ask you to “trust experts.”
It asks you to trust evidence that survives challenge.
The scientific establishment isn’t a priesthood — it’s a process: hypothesis → data → replication → correction.
Tyranny is demanding belief without evidence.
Science does the opposite: it earns authority by being willing to be wrong.
What authoritarians and grifters hate isn’t “experts.”
It’s consensus, because consensus means their pet theory lost.
Saying “don’t trust experts” while selectively trusting fringe doctors, anecdotes, and YouTube personalities isn’t skepticism — it’s epistemic shopping.
Democracy depends on informed citizens.
Science supplies the information by testing reality.
When evidence changes, science changes.
When facts don’t cooperate, demagogues change the definition of science.

Data beats dogma. Every time.

[Rick Wilson @TheRickWilson]

There will be a day, someday soon, where the men who built this machine to murder and oppress American citizens will face justice.

Whether it happens in a courtroom is the only matter in dispute.

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

Distinguished Columbia Univ. Prof. Jeff Sachs on Pres. Trump:

“We've never had a foul-mouthed president who views himself as above the constitution, above the domestic law, who dismisses any idea of international law and who thinks that he reigns over the world."