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The Creation of a Black Cyberculture w/ André Brock

Tech Won't Save Us

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Is Respectability a Component of Respectability?

In the book, i make the pithy claim that rachetry and racism are the components of respectability. I don't want to say it's necessary, but its one response couched in survival terms on what we need to do in order not to be subjected to terroristic nature of whiteness. The idea f social media in particular, but anything that is not a microso teams orzoom or emal, is deemed inappropriate behavior because it does not advance the productivity and efficiency aims of american techni culture of labor capitalism. So i mean in its most extreme form, not black respectability.

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