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Six tweets about birthism......VERY GOOD...
Lee in Iowa ?@Lee_in_Iowa 7m7 minutes ago
Lee in Iowa Retweeted Jared Yates Sexton
Great thread:
Jared Yates Sexton ?@JYSexton 11m11 minutes ago
It is important, not just for this election, but for posterity and future generations, that people understand the truth about birtherism 1/
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Jared Yates Sexton ?@JYSexton 10m10 minutes ago
It has to be established that birtherism, which Trump championed, was a way to criticize Obama's race without being "racist." 2/
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?@JYSexton
That questioning, that denial of racism while racist, is what has given Trump his base and his political power 3/
11:09 AM - 16 Sep 2016
Jared Yates Sexton ?@JYSexton 9m9 minutes ago
As the Alt-Right now flaunts, this whole "movement" is simply racism with new dressing and "intellectual" roots. It is still racism 4/
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Jared Yates Sexton ?@JYSexton 8m8 minutes ago
Trump's success is a response to first African-American president and multiculturalism, birtherism was the bridge into mainstream 5/
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Jared Yates Sexton ?@JYSexton 7m7 minutes ago
Now he's shedding it like a cocoon, a husk he doesn't need anymore. Alt-Right is sliding right into everyday life without consequence 6/6
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