#backlivesmatter — Public Fediverse posts

Social media has become a major driver of social change, by facilitating the formation of online social movements. Automatically understanding the perspectives driving the movement and the voices opposing it, is a challenging task as annotated data is difficult to obtain. We propose a weakly supervised graph-based approach that explicitly models perspectives in #BackLivesMatter-related tweets. Our proposed approach utilizes a social-linguistic representation of the data. We convert the text to a graph by breaking it into structured elements and connect it with the social network of authors, then structured prediction is done over the elements for identifying perspectives. Our approach uses a small seed set of labeled examples. We experiment with large language models for generating artificial training examples, compare them to manual annotation, and find that it achieves comparable performance. We perform quantitative and qualitative analyses using a human-annotated test set. Our model outperforms multitask baselines by a large margin, successfully characterizing the perspectives supporting and opposing #BLM.
[https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.07155v1]

🤔 . This is a fact going back to slavery.

Touré.
Many Black people struggle with internalized racism. Almost all white people have internalized racism, they're just not struggling with it. They don't even know it's in them.

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🤔 . Everyone is waiting on this sista. I am all about some Fani 🤩 .

D.A. Fani Willis to decide on Georgia election probe charges in summer

Willis has been investigating whether Trump and his allies broke any laws as they tried to overturn his narrow election loss to Democrat Joe Biden in Georgia

🔗 : https://thegrio.com/2023/04/25/d-a-fani-willis-to-decide-on-georgia-election-probe-charges-in-summer/

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#Trump

🤔 . Love the Grio. Toure is right on point.

OPINION: Despite concerns about his age and lack of charisma, President #Biden gives #Democrats the best chance at retaining the White House.

✍🏿
@Toure 🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/Toure

🔗 : https://thegrio.com/2023/04/25/joe-biden-is-running-again-and-this-is-a-good-thing/

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🤔 😆 A titan of the civil rights movement. Rest in Power.

Harry Belafonte has died at age 96 : NPR

🔗 : https://www.npr.org/2023/04/25/516446742/harry-belafonte-dead

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🤔 😆 #President #Biden went full in on #DarkBrandon. I just bought this t-shirt.

🔗 : https://shop.joebiden.com/dark-tshirt/

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🤔 . I am endorsing #Biden. 😆 . I like Biden. It's Biden or fascism. The choice is an easy one.

Let’s! Finish! The! Job!

🔗 : https://joebiden.com/

I’m ready for 4 more years with Joe. President Biden along with Vice President Harris have gotten more done than any President in my lifetime.

Let’s go! #BidenHarris2024

🤔 🙄 🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1650801827728986112

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🤔 . I am not surprise. My doctor is a person of color and I can tell you it makes me much more comfortable about the care I am receiving.

Study Finds African Americans Live Longer in Counties with More Black Doctors

🔗 : https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/20/headlines/study_finds_african_americans_live_longer_in_counties_with_more_black_doctors

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🤔 🙄 . This is the fruit of #FoxNews misinformation campaign: #Death

The 84-year-old #white man accused of shooting #RalphYarl in the head for ringing the wrong doorbell “spent considerable time at home in a living room chair, watching conservative news programs at high volume,” one of his relatives told The New York Times.

🔗 : https://shorturl.at/betvI

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🤔 😆 🙄 😆 .

Passengers behaving badly but does he have a point?

🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1648493597963227136

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#Airplane

🤔 🙄 😆

"Now I don't want to hear Fox News calling ANYONE else fake news ever again...and I don't blame Jake Tapper for laughing about it." Stephen A.

🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/stephenasmith/status/1649061154851889159

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Happy #420 A fire a blaze.

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🤔 🙄 . Free Young Thug.

They want to prosecute Black rappers lives and music. But in real time arch criminal #Trump is walking around free having committed more grevious crimes than in Young Thug's case.

"Make it make sense to me." --Pusha T.

Young Slime Life trial still searches for a jury

🔗 : https://www.axios.com/local/atlanta/2023/04/18/young-thug-trial-ysl-atlanta?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=editorial

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🤔 🙄 . Imagine being upset because you can't brutualize and lynch Black people with impunity anymore or kill journalists.

Where is the humanity? These are horrible people.

#FBI investigating GOP #Oklahoma officials caught on tape talking about #LYNCHING #Black people, murdering newspaper reporters

🔗 : https://heartlandsignal.com/2023/04/17/fbi-investigating-gop-okla-officials-caught-on-tape-talking-about-lynching-black-people-murdering-newspaper-reporters

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#RalphYarl
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🤔 🙄 . Tell me why this right wing idealogue still on the #SCOTUS after all this exposed corruption? This is why the public confidence in the Court is at an all time low.

He is also embarrassment to #Black People.

The #ClarenceThomas Scandal Is About More Than Corruption

🔗 : https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/18/clarence-thomas-scandal-corruption-00092335

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🤔 . This young man. The future is bright.

“I mourned with her because she shouldn't have to be worried about her child going to school...and she shouldn’t live in a state where the only response that the legislature can provide is ‘we need to have more armed people at the schools.’” - @Justinjpearson

🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1645103862326476801

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Hillary #Clinton like…. #Politics #News #BlackFedi #BlackLivesMatter #Black #Trump #TrumpIndictment #BlackMastodon 
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🤔 . Dope Shit.

#Nina Simone singing "Young, Gifted and Black" on Sesame Street in 1972

🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1641394393738272768

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🤔 🙄 . WTF is up with men that hit women.

Army Edits Jonathan Majors Out of New Ad Campaign
Could this be the first sign of the Creed III star's career decline?

🔗 : https://www.theroot.com/army-pulls-jonathan-majors-from-new-ad-campaign-1850282314

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#DomesticViolence

🤔 🙄 .

I will never live in any state that doesn't have gun control and I will not let my son or daughter go to colleage or live there either. This is my son, Solomon Nesta.

#Politics
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#republicans🤡
#democrat
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🤔 . The race of been hanging all over this impending #Trump #Indictment. There are real racist overtunes to the his and the #GOP retortic.

Will This Black Man Be Donald Trump's Downfall?

Trump claimed he will be arrested Tuesday, following an investigation by Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg Jr.

🔗 : https://www.theroot.com/will-this-black-man-be-donald-trumps-downfall-1850244331?utm_source=theroot_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-03-21

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🤔 🙄 . It just infuriating.After all the hell that has been perpetuated by White Supremacy, now White people are being discriminated against? Laughable.

Led by Trump, GOP increasingly casts White people as racism’s victims

https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/06/politics/supreme-court-vacancy-white-grievance/index.html

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🤔 . White grievance. It's laughable. Poor White man. 🙄 .

"I don't want to paint with a broad brush...but when I hear privileged white men talking about the weaponization of the law, they don't know what they're talking about." --John Ridley on how some in GOP are reacting to a possible Trump indictment

🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1638201739085074433

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🤔 🙄 . Hummm.

#Ja #Morant: "The gun wasn't mine. It's not who I am. I don't condone any type of violence, but I take full responsibility for my actions. I've made a bad mistake."

Ja Morant: "It's free to see how hollows feel 🙂"
🔗 : https://fadeawayworld.net/nba-media/ja-morant-sent-a-terrible-deleted-tweet-after-a-fan-called-him-p-y-whipped-its-free-to-see-how-hollows-feel

(h/t @ClutchPointsApp)

🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1636135620681818112

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#Guncontrol
#Gunviolence
#NBA
#Grizzlies

🤔 🙄 . Scary times.

More incidents of white supremacist propaganda were reported in 2022 than in any other year recorded by the Anti-Defamation League, the advocacy group said in a report last week. More on our #ReidOutBlog

🔗 : https://www.msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-blog/white-supremacist-propaganda-adl-report-rcna74756

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#Fox

🤔 🙄 😆 . #FACTS 💯 #TuckerCarlson 😆. We need Black folks to explain #Jan6.

"Hey Tucker, if you have to punch a cop on the way in, you're not sightseeing." - Marlon Wayans on The Daily Show.

🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1633290318870384640

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🤔 Tucker Carlson is the most dangerous man in America.

I liked Ken Burns connected the banning of Critical Race Theory, books with Tucker Carlson propagandizing Jan6th as part of the same fascist, white supremacist. anti-democratic beast that attempts to rewrite history in real time of distant and not so distant past

🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/CNNThisMorning/status/1633117519664881677

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🤔 🙄 😬 More stuff coming out about Ja Morant🤡. A two games suspension has turned into indefinitely.

Per ESPN: Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins: No timetable for Ja Morant'🤡 s return to Grizzlies
🔗 : https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35795099/no-table-ja-morant-return-grizzlies?linkId=204160982

This motherfucker 🤡 is about to throw 200mil away that's not including the Nike shoe and Powerade deals worth millions.

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🤔 🙄 This take on Chris Rock.

Opinion: Chris Rock showed why you never slap a comedian

@CNN🔗 : https://www.cnn.com/2023/03/05/opinions/chris-rock-oscars-slap-netflix-special-obeidallah

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🤔 . Do you think #Chris #Rock was punching down at Black women? I know what I think about curious about the opinion on #Mastodon.

I will say that I am glad he murdered #Will #Smith (Bitch ass) and his wife #Jada [She was all smiles when Smith slapped Rock] - 🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1632770381726580736

#Meghan #Markel & race card -
🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1632433458612936705

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🤔 . One last Ja Morant🤡 .

NFL players on Ja Morant:

(Via @Raw__Room)

"That man really put himself in the trenches." 😆 🤡

🐦 🔗 : https://twitter.com/i/status/1632110092802834432

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