- I hesitate to jump into this, but I think this is a useful illustration of the distinction between activists and academics. Is this historically accurate? Is this helpful right this minute to the people putting their bodies on the line on the streets of Minneapolis? Two very different Qs.
- I very much disagree with @whstancil.bsky.social on this - how are you going to oppose ICE and the Trump administration if you don't understand that this *is* indeed who you are as a nation and that what we're seeing today is the culmination of a long history of American violence? 1/
