Ugh “honor killings”. So here’s the problem with how the right uses that term. It’s entirely racialized.
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The reactionary right has a long tradition of using liberal principles and institutions to create access for themselves—and then turning around and slamming the door on everybody else. They’ve done this with everything from their political takeover of legislatures across the country, to the little games they play with…
I have thoughts.
No one who furthers the detriment of the human race with straight lies for personal gain deserves anything from feminism, or from anybody.
One successful foray ended on the guest bed of a high school friend’s parents, with a girl who resembled a chunkier Reese Witherspoon drunkenly masticating my neck and cheeks. It had taken some time to reach this point—”Do most Harvard guys take so long to get what they want?” she had asked, pushing her tongue into my…
In the case of Freidman and Brooks, a small but but powerful group of rich people who want to be told comforting fairy tales about how they are the modern super heroes and meaningful political engagement isn’t really necessary to solve the world’s problems.
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yeah this is a pretty egregious mistake. no one should forget 9/11.
I think good op-ed writers can serve an important purpose. I also don’t think Nolan lumps in columnists with reporters at any point.
The This American Life two-part series on school integration was probably one of the most enlightening an informative things I’ve come across on this topic. It’s really worth a listen. https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/562/the-problem-we-all-live-with
I feel like this is among the most important and poignant takeaways from all this:
One major mistake aid agencies made was talk about an “unprecedented global refugee crisis”. Rather than cause countries like the US to spring into action, it fueled the very xenophobia that helped the likes of Trump get elected. The refugee issue is something the international community can readily handle, if they…
We can’t train workers because our schools have been cut to the bone.
Time for another donation to the ACLU.
It’s an overinclusive measure that uses a xenophobic action to stoke racism. It’s like the travel ban. Yes, the travel ban is not explicitly a ban on Muslims because it also includes Christians from those seven countries, but the animus behind the ban is obviously anti-Islam.
“he normalized himself. He doesn’t need the favor anymore”
And clubbishness and laziness.
Irrespective of everything else, I’m tired of this “it was a good speech” nonsense. It was a crap speech. It was boring. There was no flow. It was disjointed. There was no overriding narrative arc. It was objectively worse than any major speech given by George W. Bush.
If you worked for Reagan, you’re practically a surrogate of God himself in the eyes of Republicans.