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   inquiline (inquiline@assemblag.es)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 05:34:02 JST inquiline

   As Los Angeles burns, the fossil fuel industry is both on the defensive & turning to some particularly ugly rhetorical behavior to escape scrutiny.

   I write about their appropriation of environmental justice advocates' language of civil rights in a brand-new pub:
   https://academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-article/doi/10.1093/ccc/tcae055/7950795?guestAccessKey=98151a17-ab55-4145-91fe-a4671a94229d

   #FossilFuels #Commodon #EnvironmentalJustice

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     inquiline (inquiline@assemblag.es)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 05:34:00 JST inquiline

     in reply to

     • Communication & Media Scholars

     The paper also attempts to popularize(?) the term "slothwashing", which was coined in a Twitter discussion of #California oil lobbyist behavior!

     Out now in Communication, Culture & Critique 🔓🛢️🦥
     #MediaStudies #Petrocultures #EnvHum (?)
     @commodon

     That link ⬆️ is open access right now but I don't know if it's limited in how many clicks, etc. If it's not working & you want to see the paper, lmk!

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     inquiline (inquiline@assemblag.es)'s status on Saturday, 11-Jan-2025 05:34:01 JST inquiline

     in reply to

     "Everyday fossil fascism" perpetrated by oil's proponents includes accusing Californians who want to end #oil drilling of not caring about sloths or the Amazon (while denying that drilling harms Californians, esp racialized ppl); & an "Oil Lives Matter" Facebook group

     The latter is, ofc, a vile twisting of BLM messaging. These patterned appropriations of meaning & language are of a piece with other settler practices claiming resources, land, property.

     Fabian repeated this.