Too many Americans are convinced that the only way to experience the high of national pride is to disregard all the evidence of racial inequity.
—Walter Rhein
Too many Americans are convinced that the only way to experience the high of national pride is to disregard all the evidence of racial inequity.
—Walter Rhein
Elon Musk says a left-wing political party in South Africa is promoting white genocide for singing apartheid-era song “Kill the Boer.” He’s echoing a far-right conspiracy.
“That Musk weighed in … through the hysteria of [far-right provocateur Benny] Johnson, who erroneously, though tellingly, labeled Malema’s EFF as ‘South Africa’s Black party’, is revealing. The specter of ‘white genocide’ is a long-standing trope among US white nationalists.”
A Texas A&M Regent says "McElroy’s hiring would derail the “purpose” outlined for the journalism program: “to get high-quality Aggie journalists with conservative values into the market.”
Tell me again how liberals are controlling university values? /s
💛 “The Groveland Four: Omitted from Florida’s Black History Guidelines”
Much has been made about the new Florida’s State Academic Guidelines for Black history, for good reason: They ignore critical portions of Black history.
—William Spivey
#OTD
Heute vor 90 Jahren wurde das "Gesetz zur Verhütung erbkranken Nachwuchses" verabschiedet. Auf #Zeitgeschichte-online erinnern Mathias Schmidt und Saskia Wilhelmy von der #RWTHAachen an diesen Beginn der Umsetzung des medizinischen und biopolitischen NS-Programms sowie dessen Kontinuitäten und Folgen: https://zeitgeschichte-online.de/node/67338
I really hope the #fediverse doesn't pre-emptively defederate and/or block #Threads from joining the fun when it finally enables #ActivityPub features.
Getting a mainstream audience onboarded will surely stress systems, but it will also spur growth and innovation to deal with the new scale.