“That Conversation about Race” category archive
“Snowflakes” 0
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch has little patience with those who would deny history and the teaching thereof.
A Culture of Cry Babies 0
Noam Shpancer looks at dis coarse discourse and concludes that Americans need to grow the heck up.
The Crack Down Cracks Apart 0
Johns Hopkins University professors Susan Sherman and Saba Rouhani examine research that shows that “zero tolerance” policing not only doesn’t reduce crime, it can actually exacerbate it.
Follow the link for their evidence.
The Victim 0
PoliticalProf parses the perfidy.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At the Des Moines Register, Marty Ryan writes of the current movement among some, mostly on the right, to ban books that tell truths which challenge the prejudices of make said book-banners feel uncomfortable. Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
President Ronald Reagan’s attorney general, Edwin Meese, established the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography in 1986. It was commonly known as The Meese Commission. At the end, the commission issued a bulky two-volume report, much of it consisting of detailed narrations of the plots of pornographic movies dutifully set down by FBI agents who’d been assigned to view them – at taxpayers’ expense, of course.” Not one of those FBI agents turned into a sexual predator. However, the commissioners believed dysfunctional predators who had testified to the commission that “Porn made me do it.” It was laughable. More laughable was the fact that former Attorney General John Ashcroft had blue drapes made to cover the bare breasts of Lady Justice.
Gutting Out the Vote 0
Thom and Greg Palast take an in-depth look at efforts to protect the right to vote.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles M. Blow discusses how Virginia’s governor-elect Youngkin won the election by playing the oldest card in the American deck.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of the Las Vegas Sun, considers a piece by the Smithsonian Institute’s Jon Grinspan and suggests that it should be required reading. Here’s a bit of Greenspun’s article:
Strategization 0
PoliticalProf sums it up.