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Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS3) RETRO is $5/month or (through Halloween only) just $40/year. It’s a Top 10 History substack with well over 100 articles—across ten sections—and only a year in, it’s growing fast. Many thanks to the thousands of RETRO subscribers! Check it out below: https://t.co/LAl0j0nyN7 — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS2) My problem with how HOTD:S1 ended bears no connection whatsoever to my problem with LOTR:TROP. My problem with the latter was, uh... just about everything *except* the casting, which I thought was fine. More at RETRO’s “TV & Film” section, here (🔐): https://t.co/gUUdt4TEQS — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS) I’ve been watching the showrunner commentary after every episode, which I think surprises my wife (who has no interest in it). But I’m glad I did, because what Ryan Condal said after the season finale caused me to realize one big way HOTD could go off the rails in Season 2. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@JD_Meadows Whoa! I did not notice that. You know this is not my IG feed, though, right? This was a video that came up while I was *tooling around* IG. Do not know the creator. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(🔐) NEW at RETRO: Bothsidesism Invades Westeros: An Incredible First Season of House of the Dragon Ends with a Wet Fart This comes from a big fan of Season 1—and its source material. But the complaint I have is one I haven’t seen anyone else write about. https://t.co/XyYTc4FX0y — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
A brief pop-in on my Instagram algorithm IG: [@]seth.abramson https://t.co/048JboU1VD — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
A brief pop-in on my Instagram algorithm (click to enlarge) IG: [@]seth.abramson https://t.co/NyAH4hY1zz — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS6) What a fascinating coincidence, looking back at the first tweet in this thread! https://t.co/8oIcxBYqD3 — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS5) How about more? One of these pictures is Val Demings, the Democratic Senate candidate in Florida. The other 3 images are from a Republican attack ad seeking to appeal to Florida racists to aid Republican and Trump lackey Marco Rubio. Can you *possibly* guess which is which? https://t.co/1WhDUb3Zhc — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS4) I’m weirded out by those who excuse Politico by saying they “simply” decided to use a black-and-white image of Abrams. You do see, of course, that her clothing is fully colorized, and it’s only her skin and hair—in the whole image—that has been artificially darkened, right? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS3) As a reader notes, it’s very interesting to compare the skin-tone alterations Time made to OJ to make Americans more afraid of him. The “before” (real) and “after” (racist) tones match up near-perfectly in the two cases. See for yourself how unethical media outlets do this: https://t.co/HLZ9gglA8y — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@Appalatcha That this comes from a right-wing media outlet that’s owned by an even more right-wing corporation—one with a long history of unethical conduct—and that the only non-colorized element in the cover photo was Abrams makes clear that this was no accident. Politico knows its history. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@Appalatcha ... by colorizing the entire graphic *except* for Abrams, which resulted in her skin looking uncommonly and unnaturally dark just two weeks before a national election in a Southern state where race is again at the forefront of the political debate and the GOP is courting racists. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@Appalatcha This has been going on for decades and no one in publishing is unaware of it. There have been so many instances of the Republican Party either colorizing nonwhites to darken their skin or using black-and-white photos in inappropriate situations. Here, Politico gave up the game... — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@Appalatcha Then you don’t know the history. The infamous OJ and Horton incidents “merely” involved Time and the GOP—respectively—using dark black-and-white photos attached to content alleging misconduct. Politico colorized everything but used dark black-and-white for Abrams, for a hitpiece. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @SethAbramson: L: Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ skin color. R: Abrams’ skin color in the cover image of the new @Polit… — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS2) I’ve worked at and for so many publications, and *all* of them were extremely sensitive—because of America’s ugly history of racism—to how non-white politicians were covered, especially close to an election. The colorization gambit below—Politico on the right—makes me sick. https://t.co/cqNBMkrgTi — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
@AndrewKerrNC The racists are not going to sleep with you, Andrew. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(PS) FYI: *This* is Stacey Abrams, @politico. You “OJ’ed” her skin in your recent hit-piece, and you damn well know it. You should be ashamed of yourselves. https://t.co/XNLp9hRJLb — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
People will vote or won’t. I can and do *aggressively encourage* people to vote, but I know I’ve no sway with prospective voters in Georgia or anywhere else. So I’ll simply say that I hope Georgia Democrats continue voting like we’re in a national emergency, because we sure are. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
I already did a thread on Mr. Walker being the most unqualified candidate ever put forward by a major American political party in the modern era of U.S. politics (see below). But his nomination also shows what/how the Georgia GOP thinks about Black people. https://t.co/eXJwkz0YU3 — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
(🧵) 25 REASONS NO ONE SHOULD EVER VOTE FOR HERSCHEL WALKER (R-GA) This thread has everything Georgia voters need t… https://t.co/O1j6vuZKN6
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
But there’s another twist here—and I want to be delicate about it. The fact that Georgia Republicans thought someone like Herschel Walker a) would appeal to Black voters, and b) would be a perfect puppet for white D.C. elites is as racist a major-party maneuver as I’ve ever seen. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
Georgia is ground zero for the Trumpist insurrection. It was in, 2020 and it is right now. Voter suppression in Georgia is at Jim Crow levels. I’m glad Abrams spent millions fighting it—and glad she found a lawyer and law firm she trusts. So it *should* be Abrams 52-44 right now. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
Early voting numbers in Georgia *are* quite high (I’ve tweeted about this). But when you see—and I mean literally see, as in the first tweet in this thread—the implicit and explicit racism in the coverage of Abrams, it makes you feel like there *should* be a Blue Wave in Georgia. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
It’ll be an uphill battle for Abrams to win. But given that Georgia seeks to systematically take the right of Black Americans to vote in a way we haven’t seen since the 12-hour voting lines of majority-minority Cleveland districts in 2004, turnout for Abrams *should* be sky-high. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
Media reports suggest Abrams hasn’t been able to galvanize the support of Black voters as anticipated. Meanwhile, suburban whites continue to back Kemp’s zombie-like drawl and general ineffectiveness because he still bends a knee to insurrectionist Trump. https://t.co/FXAwSI6oOu — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
There’s no scandal here. Were Stacey Abrams a white man named—just spitballing—“Donald Trump,” this situation wouldn’t breach his Top 1000 scandals. But Abrams is held to a different standard for reasons that... well, I think the Politico cover image makes it all very clear, yes? — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
I’ve read the Politico hit-piece on Abrams, who’s currently down 52-44 in the “poll of polls.” The sum and substance of it is that she may have overpaid a law firm that handled a major election case for her and that she chose to work with a law firm run by someone she knows well. — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
L: Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams’ skin color. R: Abrams’ skin color in the cover image of the new @Politico hit-piece on her. Foreign Policy reports Politico owner Axel Springer SE “has a decades-long record of bending journalistic ethics for right-wing causes.” https://t.co/VvrqHCzOoz — PolitiTweet.org
Seth Abramson @SethAbramson
RT @kylegriffin1: Saturday's early vote total in Georgia was up 159% from the 2018 midterms and even surpassed 2020 by 20%, according to th… — PolitiTweet.org
