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The same people who stormed the capitol are the same people who gleefully support police violence against Black and Brown people.

The same people who terrorize churches and synagogues.

The flags I saw at most often at the assault on the capitol?

Trump Flag
BlueLivesMatter Flag
Confederate Flag

This is not a coincidence.

This is literally how it works.

America's racism was leveraged to minimize and dismiss white violence.

The police stood shoulder to shoulder with this mob of violent supremacists up until the moment that they turned on them.

America made police into gods.

Those gods conferred their blessing onto white terrorism, not realizing that fascism is fickle.

White supremacists seduced America into defending their views, making space for them, shielding them from accountability and elevating them into positions of power.

Racism is how the Capitol got stormed.

Anti-Black hatred is the foundation upon which the attack was built.
Thread of some posts about diversity & inclusion I've written over the years. I still stand behind these.

(I'm resharing bc a few folks are suggesting Jeremy's CoC experience āž”ļø partially our fault for promoting diversity, we should change our values, etc. Nope!)

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Math & CS have been my focus since high school/the late 90s, yet the sexism & toxicity of the tech industry drove me to quit. I’m not alone. 40% of women working in tech leave. (2015)

https://t.co/NGNSxnnAdt 2/

Superficial, showy efforts at diversity-washing are more harmful than doing nothing at all. Research studies confirm this (2015)

https://t.co/1t6T4LKqiA 3/

The primary reason women leave the tech industry is because they are treated unfairly, underpaid, less likely to be fast-tracked, and not given a fair chance to advance. (2016)

https://t.co/NkVc5Yseo9 4/

Diversity Crisis in AI, 2016 (written the week we publicly launched fast ai, this has been a core value from the start): https://t.co/hejGQTHGwU

Diversity Crisis in AI, 2017 edition: https://t.co/Owwt8C14yh 5/
šŸ‘‰šŸ¾But I see that we are, to a great extent, producing a self-collapsing Christianity, insofar as our converts are told that the only important thing to do is to win more converts. It’s like getting the people into the armed forces, and they ask what they are supposed to do. 1/


Oh well, you are supposed to recruit.ā€ Then they recruit more and more people, and set them also to recruiting still other people. Some day someone says, ā€œAren’t we supposed to be fighting a war?ā€ ā€œOh yeah, there’s a war.ā€ ... 2/

Church Mission-which is absolutely basic & absolutely valid-is to extend the faith & transform people into reliable people of integrity. Kingdom Mission is when the church stops thinking abt itself & its members & pursues God’s will in this world, not just pursues more members.3/

In his book Church Shift, Sunday Adelaja, the pastor of the largest church in Europe, says that when members do things like help in the nursery and direct traffic on Sunday, that’s not mission. It’s church housekeeping. šŸ‘€ 4/

The church exists to extend the glory of God & His will in society whether or not it makes advances in church membership. Many are leaving the church today because what secular people are doing is more exciting, more relevant, concrete, & may seem to be more Biblically valid. 5/