January, 2022 archive
A Notion of Immigrants 0
Apparently, law professor Amy Wax wants to bring back the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882.
Afterthought:
The United States’s immigration restrictions are a history of racism writ in law.
“Those Who Forget Ignore History . . . .”
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At the Bangor Daily News, professor Ian Mette argues forcefully that America needs to take its blinders off and teach the history it has rather than the history it wishes it had. A nugget (emphasis added):
We continue to see attacks on people who give voice to the historically marginalized, including groups based on identities such as racial, ethnic, cultural, religious, and sexual identity/orientation, just to name a few. And we often fail to acknowledge that our country’s economy was founded on the enslavement of people to propel itself into a global powerhouse in just a few short generations . . . .
Vaccine Nation 0
With friends like these . . . .
“Somebody decided that testing positive for COVID is something they can hide,” Lauren said. “The only way we found out is that the person owned up after Nana got sick.”
Lauren says she doesn’t want to reveal her grandmother’s friend’s identity out of respect for their privacy. But she wants you to know what happened as you make decisions.
Though her grandma was vaccinated, as a blood cancer survivor, her immune system was weak. She caught COVID-19, was hospitalized, ventilated, and died on Dec. 21, right before Christmas.
We are a society of selfish.
“What You Don’t Know Can’t Hurt Us” 0
Will Bunch explores Republicans’ war on public education. A snippet:
Follow the link for his reasoning.
The Disinformation Superhighway 0
I think I have noted before that I regularly turn off “autoplay” in Youtube because I don’t want Youtube’s algorithm making choices for me, and Youtube turns it back on when I’m not looking.
And around and around we go.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
There was recently a letter to the editor of my local rag arguing that guns don’t kill people, people kill people.
Funny how gun nuts always leave out the key modifier.
It’s people with guns that kill people.
Sure, people with knives and bricks and baseball bats and even corkscrews kill people too, but not nearly so many people, nor so quickly.
Facebook Frolics, Vaccine Nation Dept. 0
Flocks of falsehoods furthered by fibbing frolickers.
And, once again, “social” media magnifies the malicious.
An Exercise in Futility 0
Robert K. Vischer imagines that one can speak rationally to those who have abandoned rationality.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Christopher Dale is less than optimistic, and I fear he has reason.
Supply Change 0
Sam and his crew talks with professor Laleh Khalili about the global supply chain backups.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
Usher in the New Year with politeness.