Feb. 14th, 2018

Drifting

Feb. 14th, 2018 01:20 pm
dreamer_easy: (*writing)
Cut 2000 words from my original story - it's much improved - and sent it off to Lightspeed.
dreamer_easy: (*ZOMG!!)
Finally found a breakdown of exit polls from the 2016 US election by gender, race, and age, as opposed to breakdowns of Trump or Clinton voters by gender etc. An analysis of why 63% of white women who recently voted in Alabama chose Roy Moore may help explain why 52% of white women who voted chose Trump. (Is it worth trying to entice those white women, and other Trump voters? This op-ed argues no. Moore was defeated by Black voters.)

That election prompted The Nation to reprint Toni Morrison's call to arms, No Place for Self-Pity, No Room for Fear.

Soon after the election, a staffer told the Washington Post: This is what it's like answering all those phone calls to Congress.

What I knew about Haiti could have fit into a thimble. Then Trump called it a "shithole", prompting this explanation of Haiti's history and in particular the US's treatment of the country, and coincidentally I watched an episode of Anthony Bourdain's travel show No Reservations about it. I guess now my knowledge could fit into a shot glass.

Also in shithole-related news: this article on how Africa's resources, especially slaves, are the basis of the West's wealth and power.

The legendary Snopes has 6 Quick Ways to Spot Fake News.

Here's Richard Hofstadter's influential 1964 article The Paranoid Style in American Politics.

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