“That Conversation about Race” category archive
American Stasi, Republican Thought Police Dept. 0
Deport them if they dare to disagree.
In these Trumpled times, it seems that’s the new American way.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Angela Wilson looks at the placement of proposed AI data centers and hears a rhyme. Here’s a bit from her parsing of the poesy:
“Black communities face the highest impact from AI and data centers because they’re already disproportionately impacted by climate change, which is driven by CO2 emitted in part by the energy production involved in running data centers,” according to the Climate Justice Alliance.
Follow the link. It gets verse.
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*Mark Twain.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Apparently, the Trump maladministration plans to inensify its ethnic cleansing war against immigrants who are not from white people from South Africa.
(Broken tag fixed.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years,
American Stasi Dept.
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Personally, I can’t argue with her, because she is quite correct:
More at the link.
American Stasi 0
Rebecca Watson offers a theory as to the targets of ICE’s recruiting process.
Or you can read the transcript.
Artificial? Yes. Intelligent? Not So Much. 0
Still rising again after all these years? At the Psychology Today website, psychology professor Glenn Geher reports that “AI-related technology has been shown to include implicit racist messaging.”
Follow the link for the evidence.
Republican Thought Police 0
When you cut through the Trumpian gobbledygook quoted in this report, it becomes clear that the Trump maladministration wants the Smithsonian Institution to promote partisan propaganda, rather than nurture knowledge.
The Unwelcome Mat 0
Once again, the Trump maladministration exercises its freedom of repress.
Suffer the Children 0
We are again reminded that that is a Republican family value.
Republican Thought Police 0
The Trump maladministration seems to believe that, if we don’t talk about America’s originial sin of chattel slavery, then, by jimiminy, it really couldn’t have been all that bad.
Afterthought:
It’s all about whitewashing–you will pardon the expression–the racism.
They claim that they don’t wan’t to discuss things that make America look bad.
What they mean is that they don’t want to discuss things that make white American racists look bad.
American Stasi 0
Grung_e_Gene, who happens to work in law enforcement, ain’t buying the Trump maladministration’s attempt to justify lynchings extra-judicial killings by ICE. Here’s a bit from his post:
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Farron reports on a federal judge who called out the Trump maladministration’s overt racism.
Stray Thought 0
As I read this piece by the Rude One (warning: rudeness), I couldn’t help but remember that one of the primary motives for promoting racism (and indeed hatred and bigotry in general) is to keep the working classes divided and unable to unite against their oppressors.
Republican Thought Police 0
Ring of Fire’s Josh Gay discusses a Trump-appointed judge’s ruling against Florida Man’s attempt to control what college professors teach.