quantum_solanum

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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
this is also already happening. "If you Tweeted about BLM protests last yr, there's a good chance your Tweets were forwarded to the LAPD. Even if you don't live in LA." https://twitter.com/ShotOn35mm&#x2F
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
Identity politics IS a demand for equality, based on the recognition that certain groups experience inequality in ways specific to them. For example, Black women are 3-4 times as likely to die from pregnancy related complications and twice
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
right yeah, "convicted criminals," never mind the virulent racism and classism of the US legal system.
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
> "[white] identity was expanded to be inclusive in order to build social cohesion. That was a good thing.." Social cohesion largely as a means of sharpening anti-Blackness and of labor control, particularly during and after th
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
edit made, I hope that is more palatable.
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
I certainly don't mean to imply that misogyny (which those kind of attitudes are a specific expression of) begins in the workplace. It's just where I currently am in life and where it has been most apparent to me in the past sever
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
not a single comment in here addressing two of the most important points brought up by the OP. the redditors managed to do it constructively. while gender and racial politics are clearly orthogonal to the concerns of the average HN poster,
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Walter Lasecki (UoM CS Professor) resigns amid sexual harassment allegations(michigandaily.com)
1 points by quantum_solanum 5y ago|0 comments
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
Simple: be rich and white
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
> Another key element was to open a process to convert squatted land into legal property. Many times formal land ownership was not conforming to lived reality, and some legal title nobody was interested in any longer was blocking legali
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by quantum_solanum 5y ago
the genocide of indigenous people in the US is ongoing to this day. as mentioned by other commenters, the Indonesian genocide of '65-'66 was enthusiastically supported (watch The Act of Killing), along with numerous examples in La