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NinaIllingworth April 3, 2021November 5, 2022 African Americans, American racism, anticapitalism, capitalism, capitalism is racism, Charles Mills, class and race, colonialism, critical race theory, Du Bois, Emerican Johnson, FA1, film sessions, identity politics, intersectionality, JA5, left wing theory, left wing Youtube, Marxist analysis, Media Madness, MP6, News, Nina Illingworth, NonCompete, Offsite Writing, Peggy McIntosh, power dynamics, racialization, Racism, Reviews, Robin DiAngelo, Sara Ahmed, settler colonialism, social hierarchies, Social Justice, Sociology, ST2, systemic analysis, Theory, Tom Nicholas, Video, What The Theory, white as default, white supremacy, white supremacy and capitalism are a pair, whiteness, whiteness is invisible to many white people

Film Sessions: Digging Up Roots on Media Madness

Our Film Sessions feature is back; Nina looks at the concept of “whiteness” with a little help from What the Theory’s Tom Nicholas, over on Media Madness.

Can't You Read Social Justice socialism Theory

NinaIllingworth December 24, 2020November 5, 2022 analysis, anti-racism, antifa, Assata Shakur, Bernie Sanders, Black Lives Matter, BLM, Can't You Read, class, class war, coalition building, critical race theory, democratic socialism, Denise DaSilva, diverse coalitions, Dr Martin Luther King Jr, Emma Goldman, Essays, FA1, identity politics, JA5, James Baldwin, labor class, leftism, Malcolm X, marginalized leftists, Michelle Alexander, MLK, MP6, Nell Irvin Painter, neofeudalism, neoliberal identity politics, neoliberal multiculturalism, neoliberalism, non white leftists, Offsite Writing, Op-Ed, Opinion, organizing, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Social Justice, Socialism, ST2, The Black Panthers, the Invention of the White Race, the labor class left, the Sanders left, Theodore Allen, Theory, WD7, weaponized identity politics, WEB Du Bois, whiteness

Essay: On Whiteness, Identity Politics & the Pig Empire Left (Link)

A longer, heavily sourced essay about why vast portions of the labor class left need to get over their reactionary ideas about what identity politics actually means; before history and shifting demographics leave them behind.

Blog media News Police State

NinaIllingworth July 22, 2016November 17, 2022 85 civilians bombed, accidental bombing, bathroom bill, bribery, Business Insider, Charles Kinsey, Civil Rights, Dallas PD, Dan Savage, Department of Justice, Donald Trump, drone, Fantastic Lies, fascism, Florida AG, Fraud, free speech, Hillary Clinton, identity politics, Imperialism, John F. O’Donnell, Josh Barro, Lee Camp, LGBTQ rights, lies we tell ourselves, Media, Micah Johnson, Milo, Milo Yiannopoulos, NBA, neoliberal multiculturalism, neoliberalism, News, Nina Illingworth, North Carolina, Observations from Outside the Death Star, OODS, Op-Ed, Pam Bondi, police shooting, police state, police violence, policing, Racism, Rec Reads, Recommended Reading, Redacted Tonight, robot, Six Things I Think, social media, Syria, TADMZ, Tales from the American DMZ, targeted bombing, Ten Things I Think, Terms of Service, The Clinton Foundation, Twitter, twitter ban, violent policing

Ten Things I Think about the News – July 22nd

Nina takes a rapid-fire look at ten things in the News she hasn’t had time to discuss in more detail.

Blog Humor Social Media Take Downs

NinaIllingworth June 15, 2016December 30, 2020 @SmoothKobra, anti-blackness, AstroTurf, blog, blogger, Correct the Record, David Brock, drone, hack, harassment, Hillary Clinton, identity politics, Jacobin, Lee Fang, liar, liberal arts students, liberals, Marcus Johnson, Medium, Meme, message crafting, neoliberal, neoliberal identity politics, neoliberalism, Nina Illingworth, Oberlin College, online harassment, Peter Daou, privilege, Racism, racist, Sady Doyle, shill, smear job, Smooth Kobra, social media, The Intercept, Twitter, Wall of Shame, weaponized identity politics, Weird Twitter

The Adventures of Smooth Kobra

Nina finds herself on an unsavory adventure observing the most fetid parts of neoliberal twitter – with guest star Marcus “SmoothKobra” Johnson.