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Kaliane Bradley - The Ministry of Time

Alternate near-future, drawing subtly upon our likely real near future. The heart of the book is the narrator's relationships with other people and her own inner life. One factor takes it into science fiction territory, and as with all the best SF, the implications of that one factor are imaginatively threaded throughout the unfolding plot.

Excellent "food for thought", if somewhat on the melancholy side. And some tip top turns of phrase!

Content warning Mention of racism

I canā€™t even. I canā€™t accept that it was just ignorance that led to this unacceptable and offensive act towards a vulnerable elder.

ā€œAlberta Health Services says it has taken a number of steps to better train staff, after a Pasqua First Nation man'sĀ braids were cut off and thrown away while he was in an Edmonton hospital.ā€

Hereā€™s the Canadian Press story via CBC.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton/family-speaks-out-after-pasqua-first-nation-man-s-braids-cut-off-in-edmonton-hospital-1.7406996?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Nothing to see here, just an 18th century Pennsylvanian Quaker man born with dwarfism who ran away to sea in his youth, learned of the horrors of slavery, and became a radical abolitionist and eventually a cave dwelling, gender conscious vegetarian animal rights activist too. šŸ¤Æ This is why kids don't get into history; people like the "Quaker comet," as Benjamin Lay became known, get written out.

Dude would have been a hell of a follow on Mastodon.


https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-18th-century-quaker-dwarf-who-challenged-slavery-meat-eating-and-racism

"It's a cruel juxtaposition. The system that produced a behemoth health insurance company that haphazardly denies thousands of healthcare claims is the same that brought a homeless man with schizophrenia and depression to bounce between subway cars"

Two 26-Year-Olds: One Killed a Homeless Man, Another is Suspected of Killing a Healthcare CEO
https://zeteo.com/p/26-year-olds-one-killed-homeless-man-unitedhealthcare-ceo-suspect?publication_id=2325511&post_id=152866384&isFreemail=true&r=96cfk&triedRedirect=true

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ā€œCarlyleā€™s endorsement of human sympathy in his description of poor women preparing the family meal in small cottages and his conviction that his work should somehow be for them, demonstrate humility and faith. Yet he would come to approve slavery, militarism and dictatorship.ā€

ā€”Prof Alan Riach on the Victorian values of Thomas Carlyle & his contemporaries

5/6

https://www.thenational.scot/news/15709239.profile-victorian-values-and-restless-spirits-in-the-sage-of-ecclefechan-thomas-carlyle-and-his-contemporaries/

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Thomas Carlyle: historian, writer, racist

ā€œHis writings show a strong personal conviction and concern for socioeconomic inequalities [ā€¦] However, Carlyleā€™s humanitarian concerns only extended to the white working classes and his opinions of people of colour and views on slavery were shockingly expressedā€¦ā€

4/6

https://glasgowmuseumsslavery.co.uk/2020/11/18/thomas-carlyle-historian-writer-racist/

The Far Right is now using the language of racism to silence anti-racist campaigners in Europe.

Perhaps the key to this story, is that while the white establishment seeks often detailed evidence to show the Right is being racist, a fabricated & distorted case by the far right against a black academic was relatively swiftly acted upon....

This really is the world of looking-glass politics.... which we're also going to be seeing a lot more of in the UK!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/03/how-has-the-french-far-right-managed-to-cancel-a-black-anti-racism-scholar-for-racism