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"What’s missing, though, is the fighting spirit. What’s missing is an understanding of history as a never-ending contest, whose virtues must be won and whose horrors must be confronted every single day."
— Maximillian Alvarez, 2016: A Liberal Odyssey -- A challenging essay about the danger of progressives fetishising an inevitably liberal, progressive future in the same way that Trump et al fetishise the imaginary Great America of the past.

In lighter Trump news, the First Lady was at some Olympic event or other when a Kpop idol (SHINee's Choi Minho) took away the spotlight.

How to call your representatives when you have social anxiety


Skin-whitening uptake sparks concern among Australian dermatologists (ABC, 26 April 2017) IIUC, there's a historical preference for lighter skin in Asian cultures, but there's also a desire to look more "Western" - along with the risk of dodgy whitening products harming peoples' health.

The Heart of Whiteness: Ijeoma Oluo Interviews Rachel Dolezal, the White Woman Who Identifies as Black
(The Stranger, 17 April 2017) This is about a lot more than one woman's outrageous behaviour.

NSW government rejects findings of independent review into scripture in schools (SMH, 11 April 2017) They sat on the review for a year and a half, then declined to follow its recommendations - count the students actually taking scripture, let students who aren't taking it use the time to do classwork, and include the option to study ethics instead of religion.

Slavery claims as seasonal workers from Vanuatu paid nothing for months' work (SMH, 27 March 2017)

Section 18C: What racial vilification complaints have been upheld, dismissed by a judge? (ABC, 21 March 2017)

How to overcome bias (Mind Hacks, 17 February 2017) The "consider the opposite" strategy for overcoming confirmation bias.

Do-Gooder Derogation: Disparaging Morally Motivated Minorities to Defuse Anticipated Reproach (Social, Psychological, and Personality Science 3(2) 2011). "As predicted, participants rated vegetarians less positively after imagining their moral judgment of meat eaters. These studies empirically document the backlash reported by moral minorities and trace it back to resentment by the mainstream against feeling morally judged." This would explain the sheer quantity of stuff Snopes has had to debunk about NFL players in the US protesting police brutality. ISTG people will say absolutely anything to avoid having to take those protests seriously.




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