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Gamergate, with its vicious online harassment and doxing of feminist gamers, provided more grounds for white supremacist recuiting of disaffected young white males worried that women and people of color were taking over “their” game turf. Media coverage at the time tended to focus on questions of free speech rather
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I was reading this article on Medium about Zionism and Western Colonialism and it led me to Orwell’s Burmese Days. Written about Orwell's days in the Imperial Police, it takes place in Upper Burma, during the British Rule in Burma in the 1920s. I’m only a
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www.wired.com/story/why-the-emoji-skin-tone-you-choose-matters/ Like the author assumed, as a white person, I chose yellow, thinking that it would be considered neutral, but really it's code for white apparently. What's interesting is that we (white people) can't opt out of talking about race,
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thinkingautismguide.com/2022/08/supernova-momma-on-positive-parenting-while-black-and-autistic.html
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If being black meant nothing but being oppressed by white people, black liberation would have no meaning. Like if white people weren’t around to be mad at, people into being black would be out of a job. I think there’s something here for the neurodiverse crowd to think
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A must read essay from Lyz’s Dingus of the Week substack, tracing the racism inherent in “Evangelical Family Values”: (“Kegels” were born.) Wait, what? electroshock therapy Don’t be gay, Sparky! The man dubbed “Mr. Marriage” also gave considerable attention to clients’ temperaments. One of his first-generation eugenics colleagues,
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VR: It’s actually kind of a terrifying irony in the sense that Critical Race Theory argues that racism is structured into the law. So, with these laws banning Critical Race theory, they’re explicitly structuring racism into the law by attempting to ban discussions of it. What the Hell
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“These conversations should start where people are, rather than where you want them to be,” he said. “And the last place educational policy should be made — where you decide what teachers should be teaching in the classroom — is in the Legislature.” Whitmire: Alabama lawmaker wants to ban critical race theory,
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The purpose of the meeting was to express, again, why she felt it was important for Truth to be screened and demanding to know why he was ineligible. Izzy was told, “For example, Black people aren’t going to know what a lattice is.” (referring to a specific question on
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Perhaps racism is the reason that these valiant scholarly attempts at whitesplaining away America’s racial toxicity exist in the first place. In any other scientific discipline, the general consensus would adhere to the tried and true methodologies found in every other field of research. Maybe white people genuinely cannot
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It includes, obviously, the reason the first republic and its Constitution, so revered, lasted about as long as the USSR, a mere seventy-four years, before dissolving into the bloodiest conflict of the nineteenth century. For my part, I always considered this a pretty weak foundation on which to erect unconditional
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Take Sherry Turkle’s Life on the Screen, which is interesting, as far as it goes, but limited in scope. If Turkle had looked to W. E. B. DuBois, she might not have had to wait “more than twenty years after meeting the ideas of Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze, and Guattari”