lollardfish

Wed, 15:44: ICYMI - Yesterday police in St. Louis killed an African-American man with psychiatric disabilities. I have questions. http://t.co/WD9Kw44crd
Wed, 16:09: RT @LibyaLiberty: If you think Muslims aren't condemning ISIS, it's not because Muslims aren't condemning ISIS. It's because you're not lis…
Wed, 18:19: RT @scholasticahq: "#Adjunctification has spoiled dream for over 70% of #professoriate" @jhrees http://t.co/JjPFJtz8y6 f/t @Lollardfish #hi…
Wed, 19:04: Right now @DIANAZOGA is talking about the officers involved in yesterday's shooting of a psychiatrically disabled African-American man.
Wed, 19:05: RT @DearSplenda: And if anything, "in control" is white supremacy, policing, surveillance. So. It's out of control. Whose control?
Wed, 19:06: RT @DIANAZOGA: The man who was shot is 25 years old. Police ID him as Kajieme Powell. City says family reported he recently moved to area …
Wed, 19:30: New post - "The Stakes" - Parents of kids with disabilities must focus on policing because we rely on them so much. http://t.co/nWLYKbn87S
Wed, 19:48: Saying this again - If you demand a mentally ill man to choose between not being mentally ill or getting shot, he's getting shot.
Wed, 19:53: @TheTakeaway you might find this @ajam piece on the big context interesting. It's an intersectional analysis. http://t.co/wDYUBSCOLX
Wed, 20:13: Yes. I am watching Richard Dawkins' timeline. No, I have nothing to say yet. He's basically trolling us.

Wed, 20:49: RT @fkwang: Alice Wong to Chronicle Disability History http://t.co/YXEpaeVcxk @NBCNews @nbcasianamerica @storycorps @sfdirewolf #disability…
Wed, 21:56: No, the Pope didn't call for a crusade - My latest for @cnn - http://t.co/kfuyyb0I7A
Wed, 21:57: @prof_gabriele RT @Lollardfish: No, the Pope didn't call for a crusade - My latest for @cnn - http://t.co/kfuyyb0I7A
Wed, 22:09: I am a journalist and history. I write a/b the "cult of compliance" to help us see #BeyondFerguson - for @ajam - http://t.co/wDYUBSCOLX
Wed, 22:12: I love it when tweets with typos get RT'd. Then I feel I shouldn't delete. #twitterproblems
Wed, 22:16: RT @prof_gabriele: See @Lollardfish on Francis I & "crusade" (featuring a quote from me) http://t.co/OKp4HPmiRe
Wed, 22:44: Big win of the day: Getting St. Augustine's "De Doctrina Christiana" time on http://t.co/2F0J59SO3S http://t.co/5Msoe7Hnuy
Wed, 23:57: RT @ZerlinaMaxwell: nope he didn't RT @aquababie: @ZerlinaMaxwell He never did walk up to the cruiser like they said. Jesus... http://t.co…
Thu, 00:04: There is nothing surprising about Dawkins' statement today. He is trolling you. We do not have to feed him. Don't even "@" him.
Thu, 00:05: Dawkins' entire mode is about taking a philosophical position and applying it to something that will generate an emotional response.

Thu, 00:05: And it works. 1000 disability writers send out op-ed pitches. His name generates press. Seriously. Dawkins trolling us.
Thu, 00:10: I have now watched the police kill #KajiemePowell on video. My questions remain as follows. 1/n
Thu, 00:11: 1) Did the officers know they were responding to a mental health call? 2) Did they have CIT training or something similar? 2/n
Thu, 00:12: 3) Do we now know #KajiemePowell 's diagnosis, if any? 3/n
Thu, 00:15: The only way to save #KajiemePowell was NOT to put him in a situation where he needed to be neurotypical in order to survive. 4/n
Thu, 00:17: I am not ok with police entering a scene in which it is knowable that the man will respond in an atypical way, so they'll have to shoot. 5/n
Thu, 00:18: And no, I am not ignoring that #KajiemePowell was a black man killed by the police. If he were white and erratic, he'd be likely alive. 6/n
Thu, 00:19: But maybe not. Police in San Jose shot a woman with a power drill b/c they thought it was a gun. She, too, mentally ill. 7/n
Thu, 00:19: For me, it leads back to the cult of compliance as our intersectional way of saying that the problem starts when we demand compliance. 8/n
Thu, 00:20: In the meantime, #KajiemePowell is dead. And b/c he didn't stop when told to stop, the police officers are exonerated. 9/9

Thu, 00:35: This is a day I wish I were a journalist who could just go to St. Louis and learn about #KajiemePowell His life. His friends. His family.
Thu, 00:43: RT @JuddLegum: New video of second fatal police shooting near Ferguson appears to differ substantially from official police account http://…
Thu, 01:08: So in Phoenix, police killed a 50-year-old woman with a hammer for "threatening." The language there is very similar to #KajiemePowell
Thu, 01:17: I am aware of four people with mental illness shot by police in the last two weeks. Two knives, one drill, one hammer. AZ, CA, CA, and MO.
Thu, 01:37: RT @Blackamazon: She WENT there to be self centered and disrespectful which is her right . Protesters still were peaceful she STILL gets pr…
Thu, 01:37: RT @Blackamazon: racist white womanhood is able to be racist, incendiary and purposefully disrespectful and STILL get hegemonic protection
Thu, 01:37: RT @stevesilberman: State of the Union 2014: Congressmen who voted to cut funding for ALS research take ALS "ice bucket challenge" http://t…
Thu, 01:38: Interesting piece. #Ferguson and Asian-Americans. The problem of black criminality vs the model minority. http://t.co/e6gUzwjbQU
Thu, 01:44: RT @hystericalblkns: ACLU: Nebraska law enforcement 'grossly misused' Tasers http://t.co/kOLV4CBFk8 & 547 taser deaths http://t.co/4cmPojUV…
Thu, 01:50: The four people I am writing about are in addition to #EzellFord - which is a separate case, as he wasn't armed.

Thu, 03:07: Disability advocates irritated at Dawkins - Read @AmandaMarcotte on his trolling of feminists. http://t.co/1oqYJBhuVP This is his mode 1/n
Thu, 03:08: In the piece, @AmandaMarcotte - "Dawkins picked rape not bc trying to clarify a principle, but bc he is needling his feminist critics ." 2/n
Thu, 03:08: Now he picks Down syndrome. He knows we will show our beautiful children and say, "these lives are worth it!" And they are. 3/n
Thu, 03:09: But really, fighting Dawkins isn't where the battle is. He's trolling us. It's a distraction. 4/4.
Thu, 03:48: Is there video or a transcript of #stlpd chief Dotson's actual remarks about #KajiemePowell ? I can only find reported versions of it.
Thu, 03:59: Ok, I found that transcript here. http://t.co/SAM1iohphj - I am trying to write a piece here, but watching this video is hard each time.
Thu, 04:05: Kajieme Powell had mental illness. The police don't even need to smear him, as that fact will serve as explanation enough for most people.
Thu, 05:13: RT @doctorow: Child arrested after writing story about shooting a dinosaur http://t.co/ZP0kH3itX7 http://t.co/Cv5z1vR4OJ
Thu, 05:33: RT @patrick_sharkey: 4 equally shocking cases of black men being killed by police over the past 2 months: http://t.co/eWI0tQAczW
Thu, 11:58: RT @thenation: How to undo the policies that have led to the police violence in #Ferguson: http://t.co/n3pGx0JqQE http://t.co/kmqUdhQdbd

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