I have been a victim of similar campaigns. Groups with no respect in the field and no real standing but with very official sounding names can make accusations that all of a sudden seem legitimate or at least sow doubt. This is how propaganda works. This is what we’re seeing now.
A group called the “National Association of Scholars” called for my Pulitzer to be revoked. It’s an anti-diversity, right-wing group, but because of its name many people thought it had legitimacy in making the demand. The Pulitzers did not. But the propaganda took hold.
This was not the only such campaign. The F*deral*st did oppo research on me. Mainstream media largely resisted coverage. But the efforts to take down prominent Black writers, intellectuals and politicos is only going to intensify. We are in for some dark times.
@nhannahjones @threadreaderapp please unroll. Thanks.
@nhannahjones Our "Black intellectuals", academia, entertainers & athletes to come back home. Stop tellin the masses they need to pull themselves up. Stop shamin people who don't vote. Stop waving the American flag. Stop supporting our oppressor's system of capitalism. Dark times have 1/n
@nhannahjones That’s what my daughter said is mentally affecting her now. Her belief that we are in for some dark times for our people and how we will be able to pull through.
@nhannahjones come back home so we can band together. Come back home so we can build OUR future instead of building for the white savages who murder our children in the streets. I love and support you, Sis, but at some point we have to sever the relationship with our captors to be free. 4/4
@nhannahjones Coding The Federalist is bizarre.
@nhannahjones all she had to do was not copy someone else’s work.
The problem is your ideas, not your skin color. Many disagree with your ideas, and yet support your ability to say them. What you want is blind acceptance to your ideas rather than to defend them. If your ideas are argued against you just call the opponent a racist. That form of argument can’t earn respect. And no one cares about your skin color or gender.