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Links June 2021
Jun. 21st, 2021 12:16 pm(So many more to come, I hope, in this posting. Quite a backup in my bookmarks; some date back to the 2016 US election.)
'Australia's slave trade': The growing drive to uncover secret history of Australian South Sea Islanders (ABC, December 2017)
'They call us Australians': Vanuatu descendants of Indigenous Australians search for long lost family (ABC, May 2018)
Republicans less likely to be critical about Obamacare when thinking of their own medical needs (Medical Xpress, March 2017). What interests me here is not so much "Republicans selfish / stupid / bad" as the researchers' conclusions: "Government and officials assume that giving the public impartial information about public services can help people make accurate judgements about how they are performing. This research shows that this is not the case..."
When carers kill (ABC, June 2018) A troubling look at the narrative around the murder of disabled people.
Forgotten Korean Victims (WISE International, 1993). "Japan is the only officially recognized country to have been subject to bombings with nuclear weapons. However, the victims of those bombings were not just the Japanese. There were some Allied Forces who were prisoners of war in both cities at the time, along with many Chinese and Koreans from Japanese-occupied countries who were also victims. In fact, nearly 10 percent of the total victims were immigrant Koreans."
The Anger of the White Male Lie (Ijeoma Oluo, March 2018). I had also bookmarked This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson. (The Nation, December 2016), which comes from a completely different angle but arrives at many of the same points. (But were white working-class men as significant in 2016 as these items suggest? In 2020?)
States pushing abortion bans have higher infant mortality rates (NBC, May 2019). I suppose one way to interpret this is that those states are keeping their citizens poor and sick, and need a emotional issue to distract from that.
'Australia's slave trade': The growing drive to uncover secret history of Australian South Sea Islanders (ABC, December 2017)
'They call us Australians': Vanuatu descendants of Indigenous Australians search for long lost family (ABC, May 2018)
Republicans less likely to be critical about Obamacare when thinking of their own medical needs (Medical Xpress, March 2017). What interests me here is not so much "Republicans selfish / stupid / bad" as the researchers' conclusions: "Government and officials assume that giving the public impartial information about public services can help people make accurate judgements about how they are performing. This research shows that this is not the case..."
When carers kill (ABC, June 2018) A troubling look at the narrative around the murder of disabled people.
Forgotten Korean Victims (WISE International, 1993). "Japan is the only officially recognized country to have been subject to bombings with nuclear weapons. However, the victims of those bombings were not just the Japanese. There were some Allied Forces who were prisoners of war in both cities at the time, along with many Chinese and Koreans from Japanese-occupied countries who were also victims. In fact, nearly 10 percent of the total victims were immigrant Koreans."
The Anger of the White Male Lie (Ijeoma Oluo, March 2018). I had also bookmarked This Political Theorist Predicted the Rise of Trumpism. His Name Was Hunter S. Thompson. (The Nation, December 2016), which comes from a completely different angle but arrives at many of the same points. (But were white working-class men as significant in 2016 as these items suggest? In 2020?)
States pushing abortion bans have higher infant mortality rates (NBC, May 2019). I suppose one way to interpret this is that those states are keeping their citizens poor and sick, and need a emotional issue to distract from that.
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