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What Normalization Means – The New Yorker
Normalization isn’t just a matter of human-interest stories and a faith in checks and balances. What we think of as normal shapes our field of vision; it tells a story of the world and its possibilities. Racism, sexism, and the… Continue reading
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Research links racial resentment with gun ownership
The first step in our analysis was to understand the individual characteristics and political alliances and beliefs that are associated with gun ownership. To do this, we examined data from the 2012 American National Election Studies survey. Using a model… Continue reading
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More clickbait about Clinton
Not really sure how the Trumpistas can keep yelling that the media is bending over backwards to elect Clinton at all costs when every paper and news channel, even “friendly” and “supportive” ones like the WaPo keep creating these clickbait… Continue reading
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Lost in Translation: More from a Stranger in Academia
Another great reflection The Becoming Radical on the “loving struggle” to educate via critical pedagogy… Decade four and round two in academia—this time at the university level where, one might assume, things would be easier. First, a flashback. I am… Continue reading
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Becoming Other: Foucault, Deleuze, and the Political Nature of Thought | Learning Philosophy of Change
In this paper–linked after the jump–Giorgio Bertini employs the notion of the ‘thought of the outside’ as developed by Michel Foucault, in order to defend the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze against the criticisms of ‘elitism,’ ‘aristocratism,’ and ‘political indifference’–famously leveled by Alain… Continue reading
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Trump supporters are not the wretched of the earth
It’s about race, culture, and identity — not economics. …The press has gotten extremely comfortable with describing a Trump electorate that simply doesn’t exist. Cottle describes his supporters as “white voters living on the edges of the economy.” This is,… Continue reading
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Leonard Cohen’s New Album is Streaming, And It’s Wonderful — Flavorwire
Thank you NPR! The venerable public broadcaster is streaming Leonard Cohen’s You Want It Darker as part of its First Listen program, and you can hear it below. You should probably stop whatever you’re doing and listen. The album is,… Continue reading
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It’s come to this: 2016 is the Rape Election – The Washington Post
It would be nice if this election could contain zero people who sexually assault. Source: It’s come to this: 2016 is the Rape Election – The Washington Post Continue reading
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Hacked WikiLeaks show nothing we don’t already know
I’m really not sure what the purpose of these emails leaks is supposed to be. They are not showing anything that most voters don’t already know. In fact, I would almost go far so far as to say the WikiLeaks… Continue reading
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