I would have thought that would make it easier to teach them to write like a lawyer.
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A Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego-themed song for Rio is mandatory.
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I tried to flip that phrase to a different race, just to see what it would look like. As a white American, I tried to think of who might be a “credit to my race” and came up woefully short. Bill McKibben, I guess🤷🏻♀️
Tina Fey?
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Race traitors like Jane Elliott seem more apt.
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Oh, right, I was totally doing it wrong. I was projecting my own values onto them, instead of thinking what others would see as values in us. That makes the original phrase that much ickier.
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On the other hand they perform a service which benefits the poster by making their Twitter thread more accessible to readers. Nothing stopping the original author from re-formatting the whole shebang and posting it somewhere themselves. In my view they’re not so much monetising the original words but their own processing of them.
“I edited your words now I get to sell them.”
That doesn’t sound like theft to you?
“But they only reformatted it, it was just sitting there anyway…”
Still theft.
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