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Hello, gentrified farm & food media.
Get your shit together. Clean up your house.
There are thousands of BIPOC and working-class activists doing the real work of building viable, accessible, long-term food systems.
And y'all prefer to work with actual crackpots over them.
This isn't an isolated event. Joel Salatin has been completely candid about his white supremacy, and the food movement kept platforming him for years. Here's just one journalist talking about how he did so despite Black women repeatedly asking him not
Baker Creek kept platforming very special militant white dude Cliven Bundy until their own customers boycotted them out of
In today's food & justice world: Latine meat plant workers are one of, if not the hardest-hit demographic in the pandemic.
Indigenous communities are scrambling to vaccinate older tribe members to keep their languages from going extinct.
More than 1 in 750 Indigenous & Black Americans have already died from COVID.
https://t.co/yFq67WLZxL
And your response to this horror is… horse around with a dude who makes movies about how it's fake? And tries to overturn free and fair elections?
*That's* what you've got?
Get your shit together. Clean up your house.
There are thousands of BIPOC and working-class activists doing the real work of building viable, accessible, long-term food systems.
And y'all prefer to work with actual crackpots over them.
Just your reminder that Mikki Willis - a COVID conspiracy theorist who was photographed storming the U.S. Capitol - was on the advisory board for @kissthegroundoc until like five minutes ago.
— SOMETHING ELSE. (@SylvanaquaFarms) January 11, 2021
This isn't an isolated event. Joel Salatin has been completely candid about his white supremacy, and the food movement kept platforming him for years. Here's just one journalist talking about how he did so despite Black women repeatedly asking him not
Baker Creek kept platforming very special militant white dude Cliven Bundy until their own customers boycotted them out of
In today's food & justice world: Latine meat plant workers are one of, if not the hardest-hit demographic in the pandemic.
Indigenous communities are scrambling to vaccinate older tribe members to keep their languages from going extinct.
More than 1 in 750 Indigenous & Black Americans have already died from COVID.
https://t.co/yFq67WLZxL
And your response to this horror is… horse around with a dude who makes movies about how it's fake? And tries to overturn free and fair elections?
*That's* what you've got?
AWW ❤️ It was the start of a beautiful friendship.
If you see someone cool having a horrible time on the internet, reach out. It's a time when someone's whole world is crumbling, and the real goal isn't just harassment. It's isolation; cutting people off.
Melinda's experience is also a great example of the "Don't scream" principle.
e.g. If somebody's kidnapping you & trying to hustle you into a car and they say "Don't scream," why are they saying that? It's bc they need silence to get away with the crime.
So you should yell.
It's funny. They'll tell you exactly how to beat them, if you listen.
If you have a moment, read through the thread & screenshots of all the threatening emails.
Notice anything odd? They're not so much threats, as they are orders. Do this! Don't do that!
Let's lay aside the sheer windbag-itude of issuing orders, in full seriousness, to strangers on LinkedIn when you can't even spell properly
There's a reason lots of people's response to Melinda speaking harsh truths about white-dominated rural areas
was to issue orders to STOP.
And orders to "make it right" by groveling on platforms where even more angry white nationalists would discover her.
If you see someone cool having a horrible time on the internet, reach out. It's a time when someone's whole world is crumbling, and the real goal isn't just harassment. It's isolation; cutting people off.
And out of those kinds of letters I met a young woman named @SarahTaber_bww who had a lot to say about ag tech and asked me if I thought she should.
— Melinda Byerley (@MJB_SF) January 7, 2021
Fortunately for all of us she ignored my advice. Her friendship and wisdom would not be in my life without this experience. \U0001f496\U0001f4aa\U0001f3fb pic.twitter.com/bYfNXJRiMw
Melinda's experience is also a great example of the "Don't scream" principle.
e.g. If somebody's kidnapping you & trying to hustle you into a car and they say "Don't scream," why are they saying that? It's bc they need silence to get away with the crime.
So you should yell.
It's funny. They'll tell you exactly how to beat them, if you listen.
If you have a moment, read through the thread & screenshots of all the threatening emails.
Notice anything odd? They're not so much threats, as they are orders. Do this! Don't do that!
Let's lay aside the sheer windbag-itude of issuing orders, in full seriousness, to strangers on LinkedIn when you can't even spell properly
There's a reason lots of people's response to Melinda speaking harsh truths about white-dominated rural areas
was to issue orders to STOP.
And orders to "make it right" by groveling on platforms where even more angry white nationalists would discover her.