“That Conversation about Race” category archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Seton Hall law professor Lori A. Nessel is distressed and dismayed by the Trump maladministration’s policies of mean for the saek of to immigrants. Here’s a tiny bit of her article:
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority that was fabricated to justify excuse it continue to exact their toll. (Warning: Language.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom discusses the current gerrymandering struggle going on in Texas. (Warning: Short commercial at about the two minute mark.)
American Stasi 0
Mary Trump sounds a warning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Apparently, the Trump maladministration wants “those people’ to remember their place and stay in it.
Courting Disaster 0
Thom discusses the Trump maladministration’s attack on an impartial federal judiciary and the impllications thereof.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
It would appear that, when you give sadists power, sadism is the logical outcome.
Republican Family Values 0
Yet more evidence that mean for the sake of mean is a Republican family value.
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Ring of Fire looks at some of the latest racist and bigoted antics out of Florida.
American Stasi 0
Mary Trump, Donald Trump’s niece, discusses the Trump maladministration’s campaign against brown people immigrants.
Republican Family Values 0
Per an article by Mario Nicolais at The Colorado Sun, it would appear that lying about one’s family is a Republican family value.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a longer article about some of the ways in which J. D. Vance tries to twist history, Yastreblyansky makes a telling observation: that, in attacking birthright citizenship, today’s Republican party, AKA the Party of the New Secesh, echoes the arguments of pre-civil war slaveholders.
Get Me Rewrite! 0
The Trump maladministration has rewritten Lady Liberty’s poem.
It now reads
- “Give me your tired, your poor,
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.
Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me,
And I will charge them a fee.”
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At the Austin Statesman, Hannah Strong hears a rhyme echoing across the sea from eight decades ago. She refers to the movie The Zone of Interest, which IMDB describes as
and asks
I commend her article to your attention.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Family Values . . . 0
. . . have never been anything other than a sounding brass and a tinkling cymbal signifying not much of anything but a talking point.
Republican Thought Police 0
El Reg reports that the Republican thought police are now trying to ban “woke” AI*. Here are a couple of snippets (emphasis added); follow the link to put them in context.
(snip)
“In the LLM world, attempts to ‘un-wokeify’ LLMs have literally produced an AI that named itself MechaHitler,” he said. “This isn’t just a problem in how LLMs are constructed – it’s actually a problem in how humans have constructed ‘truth’ and ideology, and it’s not one that AI is going to fix.”
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*That is, AI that doesn’t reflect and perpetuate their racism, bigotry, and prejudices.
Karen Karen-Like 0
How dare these kids play basketball on a basketball court where they have a perfect right to play basketball? Karen wants to know.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Michael in Norfolk is not sanguine. A snippet; follow the link for the rest.