Share this page!

Enter Twitter Thread URL to Unroll

Needs to be the full URL like: https://twitter.com/threadreaderapp/status/1644127596119195649

How to get URL link on Twitter App

  1. On the Twitter thread, click on or icon on the bottom
  2. Click again on or Share Via icon
  3. Click on Copy Link to Tweet
  4. Paste it above and click "Unroll Thread"!
  5. More info at Twitter Help
Helen Andrews Profile picture
@herandrews
Sep 11 • 3 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
The big "Der Spiegel" feature on South Africa (which is as good as everyone says) marvels at hearing a black South African express nostalgia for apartheid when at least the country worked, etc., but if you look at polling it's not that unusual. spiegel.de/international/…
Image
Asked if life was better under apartheid or the ANC, 50% of black adults over 40 (i.e. who had lived through both) said life was better under the old regime, only 40% better said now, in a survey taken in 2019 in a municipality outside Johannesburg. press.princeton.edu/books/hardcove…
Image
The real easter egg in that piece is the stereotypical German guy whose punctiliousness in matters of finance was much resented by the cadres during the struggle and later in the ministry of fisheries. (LOL "amassed a comprehensive private archive," be more German.)
Image
Image

• • •

Missing some Tweet in this thread? You can try to force a refresh
　

Keep Current with Helen Andrews

Helen Andrews Profile picture

Stay in touch and get notified when new unrolls are available from this author!

Read all threads

This Thread may be Removed Anytime!

PDF

Twitter may remove this content at anytime! Save it as PDF for later use!

Try unrolling a thread yourself!

how to unroll video
  1. Follow @ThreadReaderApp to mention us!

  2. From a Twitter thread mention us with a keyword "unroll"
@threadreaderapp unroll

Practice here first or read more on our help page!

More from @herandrews

Helen Andrews Profile picture
Jul 11
Interesting piece by Timothy Garton Ash on the fall of the Berlin Wall, emphasizing the heroic over the many aspects that were contingent or accidental.
The opening of the Hungarian-Austrian border, which led to the fall of the Berlin Wall, was due to budget cuts. Fence repair was too costly. "Today it would be tempting to say he made the decision thinking in European dimensions, but Németh admits it was all about cost savings."

Hungary opened the border in exchange for a big loan from West Germany, as Timothy Garton Ash notes (left). This left Gorbachev and the East Germans feeling, not unreasonably, that the Hungarians had "betrayed socialism in exchange for money."

Read 5 tweets
Helen Andrews Profile picture
Jun 23
NPR has a big feature on the "Battle of Bamber Bridge," a race riot in the UK during WWII. They depict it as a brave protest against Jim Crow and urge the Army to exonerate the men. Do they have their story straight? npr.org/2023/06/21/118…
On the left, NPR says military police saw Pvt. Eugene Nunn in the wrong uniform and started hassling him. On the right, the official record says the MPs were directed to the pub by officers who said there was trouble there. https://t.co/NZyGQv2wyNtile.loc.gov/storage-servic…


NPR implies resistance to the MPs was a matter of British people and black soldiers rising up against racist police. The definitive article on the incident makes it sound more like a bunch of drunk soldiers didn't want to see their buddy arrested. https://t.co/nnaZNzLDVDjstor.org/stable/44523444


Read 12 tweets
Helen Andrews Profile picture
Jun 21
The lack of original reporting on the right is definitely a problem. You should support any magazine trying to do more of it. At TAC, we have big, splashy reporting in every issue. Some examples you might have missed . . . [THREAD]
In the current issue, this dispatch from the Texas border featuring a guy who posted photos from his ranch on Facebook until he started receiving anonymous phone calls and texts threatening his children. https://t.co/9XWCexRGOjtheamericanconservative.com/a-texas-border…
- a deeply reported inside-baseball look at why the midterm "Red Wave" fell apart:

- an original report from Russia on how Putin is selling the war domestically: https://t.co/4BEeF0BEHa

- a firsthand look at "Long Covid" from a doctor who treats it:… https://t.co/UJ3IWmqO7itheamericanconservative.com/the-red-wave-t…
theamericanconservative.com/russias-quiet-…
twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Read 4 tweets
Helen Andrews Profile picture
May 10
The best thing written about James Baldwin is the essay "Jimmy" by Otto Friedrich (1929-1995), a German-American journalist who knew Baldwin in Paris. Baldwin was the best man at his wedding. The piece is brutal. amazon.com/Grave-Alice-B-…
Apparently the young James Baldwin spent a lot of time talking about his novel but not producing much. He never paid for anything and casually appropriated other people's possessions—like this girl's typewriter. Image
When Friedrich criticized him for never producing anything, Jimmy called him a hack. "Better a hack writer than a nonwriting talker.” Image
Read 8 tweets
Helen Andrews Profile picture
May 9
The book came out today. 🧵 amazon.com/Lost-Sons-Omah… Image
When James Scurlock was shot by Jake Gardner, he had just gotten out of jail for assaulting the 19-year-old mother of his baby. He kicked her in the stomach, punched her in the face, and broke her windshield. amazon.com/Lost-Sons-Omah… Image
The female BLM protester who first tackled Gardner—which put him on the ground, allowing Scurlock to jump him—called Gardner “a white supremacist” to a reporter that night. On what basis? “If some stupid white fucker came to this protest with a gun, that’s what he is to me.” Image
Read 8 tweets
Helen Andrews Profile picture
Mar 19
Sorry, Ross, but this is a very inadequate definition of wokeness, seemingly designed to appeal to Bill Maher types who think trans stuff goes a bit far but are still good liberals in every other respect. Is that kind of anti-wokeness really sufficient? nytimes.com/2023/03/18/opi…
We don't need a column telling nice liberals, "You may not realize it, but your sane opinions make you anti-woke." We need one telling anti-woke liberals, "If your only anti-woke opinion is that trans stuff sometimes goes too far, then you're effectively just woke on time delay."
Just once I'd like to see an anti-woke liberal say: All my life I've been sneering at social conservatives as dumb, but after this trans stuff I went back to see what else they might have been right about, and I changed my mind on (gay marriage, porn, crime, Trump, whatever).
Read 4 tweets

Did Thread Reader help you today?

Support us! We are indie developers!

This site is made by just two indie developers on a laptop doing marketing, support and development! Read more about the story.

Become a Premium Member ($3/month or $30/year) and get exclusive features!

Become Premium

Don't want to be a Premium member but still want to support us?

Make a small donation by buying us coffee ($5) or help with server cost ($10)

Donate via Paypal

Or Donate anonymously using crypto!

Ethereum

0xfe58350B80634f60Fa6Dc149a72b4DFbc17D341E copy

Bitcoin

3ATGMxNzCUFzxpMCHL5sWSt4DVtS8UqXpi copy

Thank you for your support!

Follow Us on Twitter!

Send Email!

:(