I used to work in social services and a large number of our kids came in through juvenile justice with solely a charge of resisting arrest. Literally the only charge was resisting arrest. We complained repeatedly about the obvious Kafkaesque absurdity (among a million other problems), but nothing ever happened. This…
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I’m responding to this with all sincerity because I think it’s really important.
Anti-suffragists claimed to be feminists too, that didn’t make it so then, and it doesn’t make it so now.
Seriously. It’s amazing how they manage it literally every time. The logic is always the same, whether it’s representation (complaining that representation doesn’t matter and also they’re sick of having to see the 10% of media not celebrating white dudes’ stories), so-called “safe spaces” (because with all the…
Steve King is one of the worst human beings imaginable. Watch his editorializing when he chaired a subcommittee hearing on the treatment of Latin Americans of Japanese descent during WWII in 2009. Somehow he makes it about how white Christians are obviously definitely the most mistreated demographic in the history of…
Yes. In fact,as I worked in social services, I was in nearly every housing project in the city I lived in at one time or another. And in fact, I was in a number of apartments that cost much less than $300 (I know because my job required me to take detailed monthly expenses from my clients). I’m not claiming that…
If you substituted the word “Black” for every “White” in this post it would sound, rightly, incredibly racist.
I’m not really sure what this has to do with anything. In fact, I think it rather speaks to my point. There are subprime mortgages, they still exist and not everyone who has one ultimately loses their home (which isn’t to say they’re not exploitative. Obviously they are, extremely so.). Also, very few people want to…
That but also Tul needle point.
Again, this is absolutely a reasonable price and even above market value in some neighborhoods in the city I grew up in.
It sounds like you probably live on a coast. (*I’m not denying Strayer’s mere broke-ness, but rather your full stop).
He’s alive today, so we judge him by today’s standards. That’s absolutely how it works; that’s how the law works, and it’s how society works.
It’s mind-blowing to me how many people pretend criminal court is the be all, end all of being held responsible. Child protection (in most states a civil proceeding) uses the same standard of “preponderance of evidence” (again most states) to remove children and terminate parental rights, which quite frankly is a…
I think this is a false equivalency on a number of levels. Firstly, a medical doctor makes unsupervised decisions that either make or allow the patient to die. A bad course doesn’t have the consequences a bad heart surgery does.
I’m really second-guessing some key career decisions myself.
This political trend right now that is propagating the notion that legislatures should have the final say over the academic work done at colleges and universities is absolutely, nightmare-inducingly chilling.
Clearly responding to anyone who begins with a “fuck off” is a dubious idea at best but nonetheless.
Not surprised about the deletion, to be honest. It’s too bad, really, because I spend a fair amount of time thinking about this very question and yet still am no closer to knowing where I stand. Absolutely I think racism/sexism/classism/homophobia etc should and must be critiqued, but reasonably and in a way that…