How you can intervene when witnessing racist assaults

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So. In Gentlemen's Blood: A History of Dueling, Barbara Holland discusses Pushkin. At length. And reports some of his (not particularly emotionally stable) mother's racist language about his appearance. Which. All right, that tells us a lot about her internalized racism and self hatred which tells us a lot about the (emotionally abusive) childhood ( Read more... )

And man, has it been a week. My baby cousin broke her arm, the family's been full of stress, Dad has not been doing all that great, I've been near constantly on edge, the internet has been wobbly, I feel guilty for all the emotional crashing I've been doing - just constant, it feels like - it's likely going to frost or come close this weekend, so ( Read more... )

...Is that you can finally understand and articulate what really made you furious in the first place.

In the case of William Saleteen's articles for Slate, it's his blithe presumption that his audience is exclusively white. It's all through his text - anyone who isn't white is an object of discussion, not a possible engager in discussion ( Read more... )

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.......This is a link to an article claiming that there are 'IQ differences' between 'races' that have a 'genetic basis'. The next one claims it's going to investigate evidence that no such thing exists but instead concludes that it probably does.

I just got done reading Joseph L. Graves Jr.'s book The Emperor's New Clothes: Biological ( Read more... )

You know what is not okay? Telling people pointing out an injustice that they are too angry, and that they must 'moderate their tone' to be taken seriously. This is not okay. You only ever do it to people lacking relative power in a situation - a customer reaming out a clerk because the store doesn't have the specific book he wanted is never told ( Read more... )