Tag: racism
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Crissle West on Sarah Silverman's Blackface
“Yes, I can absolutely call you racist for that. You understand the history behind it and you did it anyway. That is racist.”
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Chris Hedges on the Rise of American Fascism
College-educated elites, on behalf of corporations, carried out the savage neoliberal assault on the working poor. Now they are being made to pay.
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The Ugly Side of Populism
What the Left gets wrong about populism.
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Anti-Vaxers and Racists Obsession with Purity
From a discussion about this video of a parent saying they don’t care if anybody else’s kids get sick: “There is a strange and terrifying human obsession with “purity,” and it manifests itself in so many different forms: For the anti-vaccination brigade, it’s the delusion that an immune system free of “toxins” will recognize and […]
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How The Civil Rights Act Shaped Modern American Politics
“No other factor since WWII affects us more.”
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Let’s Ruin Video Games
“Guns that shoot kisses!”
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This Is The Police State
“My rights aren’t niceties too delicate for the real world. ”
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The Cicero Race Riot of 1951
In 1951, 4000 white protesters attacked a building a black couple was going to move into.
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Racism, History and The Confederate Flag
“Symbols come prepackaged with the history that created them.”
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"He Went to Stanford"
“He can’t be a ‘thug’ because he went to Stanford. But his Stanford-ness isn’t what magically makes him not a thug.”