#Racism

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"Steve Bannon condemns Elon Musk as ‘racist’ and ‘truly evil’"

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/12/steve-bannon-calls-elon-musk-racist

'Arguing that Musk’s “sole objective is to become a trillionaire” and calling him a proponent of “techno-feudalism on a global scale”, Bannon said. “His aggregation of wealth, and then – through wealth – power: that’s what he’s focused on.”'

Analysis: "Eugenics Isn’t Dead—It’s Thriving in Tech"

Early-20thC eugenics ran a pseudoscientific campaign to prevent entry to the US of what it called “inferior” immigrants & to "push certain groups —especially disabled, non-white, & otherwise marginalized people—out of the gene pool."

Musk amplifies users who promote the lie that Europeans are biologically superior to other ethnicities.

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2025/01/eugenics-isnt-dead-its-thriving-in-tech/

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Most Americans have no idea that the United States is quite literally the only country in the developed world that doesn’t define as an absolute right for all of its citizens. That’s it. We’re the only one left.

Progressives have been fighting for universal healthcare for well over a century. But and have always come first in the American model.

It started with the leader of saying that if we didn’t have healthcare for all, Black people would die and ”solve the race problem”, and continues with CEOs making billions by letting Americans die.

For All would save American families thousands every year immediately and do away with the 500,000+ annual bankruptcies in this country that happen only because somebody in the family got sick. But it would kill the billions every week in profits of the half-dozen corporate giants …

Content warning Politics & mention of racism

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 can’t even. I can’t accept that it was just ignorance that led to this unacceptable and offensive act towards a vulnerable elder.

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

Here’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. 🤯 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