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[Sizwe SikaMusi @SizweLo]

bell hooks said that White people will meet a Black person who completely challenges every racial stereotype that they have, but rather than giving up the stereotypes, they create a special category for that person and say, things like “Well, you’re not like other Black people”, instead of saying, “My ideas of Black people were too narrow”.

This is called “subtyping” and it leads to the survival of negative stereotypes because the new category individual who’s supposedly “not like the others” is mentally isolated from the group.

What this shows is that bigotry is all about protecting an existing hierarchy and it doesn’t matter much whether a person is exposed to other people or not. Which is why meeting intelligent, kind, accomplished, or complex Black people does not dismantle prejudice if someone is emotionally invested in keeping the stereotype intact.

Exposure to facts and figures doesn’t change the situation either. Someone can know the statistics on crime, education, poverty, or discrimination and still keep racial stereotypes because the stereotype preserves a sense of superiority and avoids confronting historical responsibility.

This is part of why bell hooks further argued that racism is emotional and ideological more than just purely ignorant, which is then why facts by themselves usually do not overcome a worldview that a person is motivated to preserve.

[The Green Dragon Tavern @greendragonhq]

Congratulations to Tennessee for eliminating its only Democratic district.

Why emulate Massachusetts when you can remain a bottom-feeding state dependent on federal aid and welfare while ranking near the bottom in nearly every measurable category?

[Maybeitshows @maybeitshows]

@aakashgupta They make light timers. At 6 am the power is provided to a dim light or nightlight; at 7 am power is disengaged. The fact that MZ felt he needed to invent a brand new thing says a lot about him.

[Borzou Daragahi 🖊🗒 @borzou]

“They said we hate your freedom. But your freedom is our dream. We read your constitution. We know what those words mean.”

“We love Americans,” says poignant new Iran Lego video that reaches out to ordinary Americans

[Maybeitshows @maybeitshows]

Weija drunk rather

[Maybeitshows @maybeitshows]

Weijan Jiang drunk?

[Maybeitshows @maybeitshows]

@Elonech2 Right?

[Furkan Gözükara @FurkanGozukara]

LMAO whoever made this is a genius 😭🤣😂

[Ronan Farrow @RonanFarrow]

(🧵1/11) For the past year and a half, I've been investigating OpenAI and Sam Altman for @NewYorker. With my coauthor @andrewmarantz, I reviewed never-before-disclosed internal memos, obtained 200+ pages of documents related to a close colleague, including extensive private notes, and interviewed more than 100 people.

OpenAI was founded on the premise that A.I. could be the most dangerous invention in human history—and that its C.E.O. would need to be a person of uncommon integrity. We lay out the most detailed account yet of why Altman was ousted out by board members and executives who came to believe he lacked that integrity, and ask: were they right to allege that he couldn't be trusted?

A thread on some of of our findings:

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@nypost

[Soleil @soleiljolina]

Weirded out by homes with no pets. Like where is your creature

[Maybeitshows @maybeitshows]

@luxemiaa Is it a conflict of interest?

[All The Right Movies @ATRightMovies]

AFRICAN GAZE was an exhibition showcasing the weird and wonderful art form that is the Ghanaian movie poster. Here are some of the best...

1/25 - Mrs Doubtfire

[The Baltimore Banner @BaltimoreBanner]

BREAKING: The nearly six-month search for Tristan King came to an end Friday morning in Baltimore’s Curtis Bay neighborhood, according to his family’s attorney and several people familiar with his case.

The United States Marshals Service found the 9-year-old boy at a run-down house on Filbert Street, not two miles from where he first went missing last September.
https://t.co/o3ibsYgzaX

[Sal the Agorist @SallyMayweather]

Politicians in 1996: “I tried pot but I did not inhale.”

Politicians in 2026: “I fucked a child but I did not eat it.”

[Clarence Thomas the Tank Engine @TheRealJChubby]

This is the most cop shit I've ever heard.

[Occupy Democrats @OccupyDemocrats]

BREAKING: Anti-DEI purge IMPLODES as DOGE bro admits Holocaust survivors documentary was canceled for being about women.

A stunning deposition is exposing just how reckless the government’s anti-DEI crackdown has become.

A young staffer working for the Trump administration’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency — tasked with canceling federal grants under new anti-DEI rules — admitted under oath that he couldn’t even explain what “DEI” means, despite using the policy to terminate funding.

During questioning, the employee repeatedly insisted his understanding of diversity, equity, and inclusion was “exactly what was written in the executive order.”

There was just one problem. When asked what the executive order actually said… he couldn’t remember.

Pressed again and again by a lawyer to explain his understanding of DEI, the staffer kept repeating the same circular answer: that DEI meant whatever was written in the executive order he couldn’t recall.

Then came the jaw-dropping moment.

The lawyer asked why a government grant for a documentary about female Holocaust survivors had been canceled under the anti-DEI policy.

The staffer’s answer? Because the documentary focused on women.

According to the employee, telling the stories of women who survived the Holocaust was “inherently discriminatory” because it centered on a “gender-based story.”

When asked to clarify, he doubled down — claiming that amplifying “marginalized voices” of Jewish women made the project DEI.

In other words, a film about women who endured one of history’s worst atrocities was apparently considered too “diverse” to receive funding.

The deposition transcript shows the staffer struggling to defend the decision while his attorney repeatedly interrupted with objections as the questioning exposed the logic behind the cancellations.

And the exchange is now raising serious questions about how many grants were cut using the same shaky reasoning.

Because if the people enforcing anti-DEI rules can’t even define the policy they’re using — yet still feel empowered to cancel projects about Holocaust survivors — it reveals something deeply disturbing about how these decisions are being made.

Ideology first. Facts later.

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@defuqisthis @TBInvestigation I came to the comment section to see if anyone was also thinking 27 wft, thank you

[Terrible Pics @TerriblePic]

@nonregemesse Doja Cat defends the art of ballet & opera following Timothée Chalamet’s recent comments.

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Funny. If Bernie's wealth tax was in effect in 1999, Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Washington Post, would be worth $61 billion instead of $234 billion, no teacher would make less than $60,000 & homelessness would be abolished.

Oh & Bezos could still afford his $500 million yacht.