Aaron Parecki

It's a privilege to learn about
racism instead of experiencing
it your whole life.

How do you want *your* money to be spent??

A certain prestigious research group is getting some airtime for a claim that a sizable percentage of #BlackLivesMatter tweets are from bots. As a computational social scientist who has studied BLM tweets from #OscarGrant to #PhilandoCastile and in between, here's my take:

@Caltech: if you care about Black and Indigenous Techers, remove the names of white supremacists and eugenicists from our buildings. A thread. 1/5

ben & jerry’s might be expensive but at least i can eat it knowing they support the destruction of white supremacy

Over the past few days, I’ve been on many phone calls, emails & group chats with colleagues in national security – mainly white — expressing how hopeless they feel. While I understand the sentiment, let me tell you why I’m also dismayed by this. A thread. 1/x

Don't forget that if you think speaking out in support of #blacklivesmatter is being 'political'.

Then you have to realise that being silent is also 'political'.

IT TOOK ALL 50 STATES, THE AMISH, KPOP STANS, 13 OTHER COUNTRIES, WITCHES, ANONYMOUS, THE LGBT COMMUNITY, CELEBRITIES, STAN TWITTER, PEOPLE OF COLOR, WHITE ALLIES & BATMAN TO GET 2ND DEGREE MURDER AND THE THREE COPS ARRESTED AND WE HAD THE PRESIDENT & MILITARY AGAINST US, MY GOD

It would be great if there were people you could call for help that didn’t bring guns.

I think @robertoblake’s point about striking a balance between uploading, but not publicly promoting is a good balance at this point in time, giving people the option to have that escape without detracting from the collective voice on other platforms.

Could Brooklyn 99 just suddenly and without explanation switch to being about a post office

Obama is showing off with these complete sentences.

Hey @YouTube @ytcreators is there a way to donate monetization of a video go directly to an organization?

Got a message from @YouTube about some actions they want to take to support Black creators. Here's my response to that. @SusanWojcicki what's good?

Yeah I get this too. When we’re discussing “white privilege” we have to define the term. Every time. That’s why I like the thing I’ve seen lately, “white privilege doesn’t mean your life hasn’t been hard. It means skin color wasn’t one of the things making it harder.” Yoink!

It took 10 days and protests in all 50 states for them to announce charges for all 4 police officers that murdered George Floyd

Do not fucking forget that

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/3-cops-charged-george-floyd-death_n_5ed15c7cc5b63f2b5793fa50?ncid=tweetlnkushpmg00000067

Turn b99 into a show about the post office instead don’t explain it just next season everyone’s a postal worker instead of a cop and also donate money to bail funds

Even in my darkest moments in 2016, I didn't picture myself in 2020 casually telling Matt that I'm making dinner from our pandemic rations because I forgot to get groceries before the police curfew.