Fleeing Twitter — The “Twexodus” — is About White Liberal Fragility

Black Twitter isn’t running from Elon and the trolls he inspires. They’re staying and fighting. Here’s why it matters

Tim Wise
Momentum
Published in
6 min readNov 5, 2022

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Image: Elon Musk, Flickr, caricature by DonkeyHotey, Creative Commons license, CC by 2.0

If you’re thinking of leaving Twitter because you always thought it sucked but never got around to deleting your account, this doesn’t apply to you.

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Tim Wise
Momentum

Anti-racism educator and author of 9 books, including White Like Me and, most recently, Dispatches from the Race War (City Lights, December 2020)