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[davids]

Very interesting read about what the multi-racial and multi-ethnic nature of Hawaii can teach us about building a colour blind society.

Opinion | Want to Be Less Racist? Move to Hawaii - The New York Times

That was really great. I almost didn't read it because I though, "Well duh. That's obvious." But the writer dove deep, and pulled in a lot of history, sociology, anthropology and personal experiences to weave a complex and very interesting story.

Thanks!

[guido]

The Declaration Heard Around the World | The New Yorker

[Dallas Tex]

Minority Women Are Winning the Jobs Race in a Record Economic Expansion - The New York Times

[htwoopup]

I wish my friends who are so called "right wing" would read this so we could have a normal philosophical discussion.

I also like that it reminded me that my 7th grade Latin teacher and track coach (he was the biggest influence in my life and later became admissions director at West Point and 180 degrees is not far enough apart to describe his views and mine) said the difference between us is not what we both want as the end result but in how we envision getting there...

This article troubles me because I wonder how we have a conversation about the means to the end.

The global crisis in conservatism - Politics

[jclay]

A Complete Psychological Analysis of Trump's Support | Psychology Today

[theflashunc]

What If Life Did Not Originate on Earth? | The New Yorker

[ericpmoss]

You've heard me bitch about cars, car culture, and how it could have been different, if not for big business influence in legislatures top-to-bottom. Here's more along those lines. Americans Shouldn’t Have to Drive, but the Law Insists on It

[thollandpe]

Mind boggling. That even six years after an unimaginable tragedy, these parents have to endure the relentless harassment of wingnuts and conspiracy theorists. Where are we and what are we doing?

First, they lost their children. Then the conspiracy theories started. Now, the parents of Newtown are fighting back.

TH

[vertical_doug]

‘State capture’: the corruption investigation that has shaken South Africa | News | The Guardian

[ericpmoss]

Something a bit happier.

[caleb]

One of the great questions of our time has been answered. Where are all the Bob Ross paintings?

[jerk]

Why Pegoretti? — Summer Cycles

i guess it's kinda illuminating...

[joosttx]

It’s kinda good writing without the kinda. Thanks for sharing!

Why Pegoretti? — Summer Cycles

i guess it's kinda illuminating...

[BBB]

Why Pegoretti? — Summer Cycles

i guess it's kinda illuminating...

Nicely written!

[J_B]

Car Crashes Aren't Always Unavoidable - The Atlantic

EDIT: Saw that user @ericpmoss already shared this link above.

[thollandpe]

A catalog of warning signs. “America has not been here before.”

What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
If multiracial democracy cannot be defended in America, it will not be defended elsewhere.
By Adam Serwer

TH

[monadnocky]

A catalog of warning signs. “America has not been here before.”

What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
If multiracial democracy cannot be defended in America, it will not be defended elsewhere.
By Adam Serwer

TH

Now that is a piece of writing. Wow.

[Dallas Tex]

A catalog of warning signs. “America has not been here before.”

What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
If multiracial democracy cannot be defended in America, it will not be defended elsewhere.
By Adam Serwer

TH

A bit weak on both the ‘illuminating’ and ‘journalism’ parts.

Seems more like a campaign speech from someone at the DNC.

[caleb]

A catalog of warning signs. “America has not been here before.”

What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever
If multiracial democracy cannot be defended in America, it will not be defended elsewhere.
By Adam Serwer

TH

I'm broadly sympathetic with the idea that we're currently on a bad track, but the conclusion that we've just suddenly come to a cliff we can't recall seems inaccurate. Both George Will and David Brooks have in the past couple days suggested that there's something newly existential at stake too, so Serwer has prominent company.

I'm thinking of this section from the Serwer article:

White nationalism was a formal or informal governing doctrine of the United States until 1965, or for most of its existence as a country. Racist demagogues, from Andrew Johnson to Woodrow Wilson, have occupied the White House. Trump has predecessors, such as Calvin Coolidge, who imposed racist immigration restrictions designed to preserve a white demographic majority. Prior presidents, such as Richard Nixon, have exploited racial division for political gain. But we have never seen an American president make a U.S. representative, a refugee, an American citizen, a woman of color, and a religious minority an object of hate for the political masses, in a deliberate attempt to turn the country against his fellow Americans who share any of those traits. Trump is assailing the moral foundations of the multiracial democracy Americans have struggled to bring into existence since 1965, and unless Trumpism is defeated, that fragile project will fail.

It's not wrong per se, but dividing American history into pre- and post-65 worlds gives us amnesia. America from 1776 to 1965 saw both the construction and rejection of numerous racial hierarchies: white/slave, white/native, white/black, white/Chinese, white/Irish, and white/Japanese, to name a few. The particulars have changed, but the intergenerational American project has absolutely been here before and emerged stronger. We might even say that the emergence and rejection of racial hierarchies is an essential part of that American experience.

[guido]

We might even say that the emergence and rejection of racial hierarchies is an essential part of that American experience.

It would be so very nice to think so. But we are not doing real well on the rejection part right now.