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Yesterday: Among the neo-nazi X accounts revealed by Texas Observer are a 35-year-old vice president at JP Morgan Chase and a worker at the Naval Surface Warfare Center in Indian Head, Maryland. https://www.texasobserver.org/revealed-operators-neo-nazi-x-accounts/
#politics #USpol #extremism #racism #antisemitism #SocialMedia #ElonMusk #news
đź‘€ 404 Media: CEO Attempted to Navigate Anti-LGBT Hate Incident By Telling Employees His Mentor Was a KKK Member
https://www.404media.co/ceo-attempted-to-navigate-anti-lgbt-hate-incident-by-telling-employees-his-mentor-was-a-kkk-member/ #racism
Anyone who feels the need to put down groups or people who are more vulnerable than themselves is not someone to admire.
#PowerDifferentials #AbuseOfPower #Politics #LGBTQIA #LGBTQ #Women #Racism #ActuallyAutistic
“Carlyle’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.”
—Prof Alan Riach on the Victorian values of Thomas Carlyle & his contemporaries
5/6
#Scottish #Victorian #literature #history #19thCentury #slavery #racism
Thomas Carlyle: historian, writer, racist
“His writings show a strong personal conviction and concern for socioeconomic inequalities […] However, Carlyle’s humanitarian concerns only extended to the white working classes and his opinions of people of colour and views on slavery were shockingly expressed…”
4/6
https://glasgowmuseumsslavery.co.uk/2020/11/18/thomas-carlyle-historian-writer-racist/
#Scottish #Victorian #literature #history #19thCentury #slavery #racism
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!
Currently on BBC Sounds: FINDING SEAGLASS, by Hannah Lavery
Writer & Edinburgh Makar Hannah Lavery offers a deeply moving, poetic exploration of loving & losing her father, & an unvarnished insight into how it feels to grow up, & raise children, '“mixed-race” in Scotland – belonging yet not belonging
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001nghn
#Scottish #literature #drama #radio #audiodrama #colonialism #racism
More of this please.
Tiera Tanksley published a paper pushing back on the 'only low AI literacy students fear AI' narrative that we are starting to see / hear. She worked with Black highschoolers focusing on data ethics.
"That is, they went from "I'm terrified of AI becoming sentient and killing us" to "I no longer think AI is sentient, but I'm very concerned that these technologies are doing irreparable harm to people and to the environment."
Paper: https://www.tieratanksley.com/_files/ugd/eda377_77c1dbe2a48a4ed199bd8101d5eac40e.pdf
Content warning Transphobic, racist cranks are at it again
In the context of the current UK Supreme Court case and the various fedi toots about transphobic cranks:
Well, they're at it again.
Of course these self proclaimed 'feminists' are back on their misogynoir kick (remember kids, bigotry always comes in a multi-flavour multi-pack).
This time it's the usual suspects harassing an African cis woman footballer for not being 'feminine' enough.
Feminism? Of course not.
ngl, Blueky is kind of wearing me out with the fucking Kamala and #GenocideJoe fanclub on there.
Meanwhile, yet more innocent civilians are torn apart by US and European munitions.
I mean, I've known this since I immigrated to England but to see how little brown people's lives matter, to see how sub-human we are to the West is still difficult.
#Racism #Genocide #FreePalestine #WhyIsYourBandCalledWhiteTown
Greater Manchester police issue a dispersal order then throw people onto random trains to other parts of the country.
Only problem was some of the people were only 13 years old, didn't know where they were going and apparently were selected as being part of the traveller community.
There are issues about child endangerment and discrimination against certain ethnic groups. I'm very uncomfortable about this story.
this that i just wrote bears repeating:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/113476542540461872
Toni Morrison described #racism as the twin hydra of #fascism. they are different faces of the same monster.
if Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. worked his speeches in a way to soften the blow of telling folks, yeah USA IS FASCIST; folks like Malcolm X, Angela Davis, Fred Hamptom never held back.
so the Civil Rights Movement remains to this day the most relevant American #antifascist movement ever.
THE CRM IS OUR #ANTIFA ROADMAP
