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“If you’re writing from the point of view of somebody who isn’t you, it’s just as well to pass that beneath the eyes of somebody more like that person.” “In our age, we no longer think ...
by Aashirs nani
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on Thu Apr 04, 2024 at 05:00 PM PDT
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Here is a worthwhile viewing for fans of history, political science and democracy. Tyranny of the Minority: How American Democracy Came to the Breaking Point Presented by Steven Levitsky of Harvard University at the Watson Institute for International...
by greenandblue
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on Sat May 27, 2023 at 11:14 AM PDT
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The original designers of the US government had some good ideas. (NO, NOT SLAVERY! SHEESH!) Many of them involved putting safeguards on government power, the “checks and balances” concept.| Thus we have a federal government with power divided between...
by DBowman
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on Sat Sep 10, 2022 at 02:31 PM PDT
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When a 31-year-old Muslim man was shot to death in his car, little to no information was shared online. It seems like the issue wasn’t important enough for many to cover until an uproar on social media demanded justice for Adil Dghoughi. Dghoughi, an...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Feb 09, 2022 at 11:00 AM PST
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Last year, minority advocates representing multiple backgrounds called for people to partake in the 2020 census. Many of them feared that if undercounted, minorities would lose or miss out on funding.
by Aysha Qamar
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on Wed Nov 03, 2021 at 06:33 AM PDT
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A Texas man was finally arrested and charged with murder Friday after walking free for more than a week after killing a person of color. Eleven days after shooting and killing Adil Dghoughi, an unarmed Moroccan citizen living in the country, in an...
by Aysha Qamar
155 comments
on Wed Oct 27, 2021 at 06:12 AM PDT
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Moroccan man gets lost, white Texan shoots him dead. After delayed arrest, he's out on bail in hours A Google search of Adil Dghoughi’s name will offer you little to no information about his death. Hardly any media outlets have covered it. Dghoughi, an unarmed Moroccan citizen living in the U.S., was shot and killed by a Texas resident in an...
by Aysha Qamar
315 comments
on Tue Oct 19, 2021 at 10:50 AM PDT
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The United States is already experiencing the biggest constitutional crisis since the Civil War, but most of us won’t acknowledge or confront it. We may be heading into another Civil War that will take place by 2022 or 2024 at the latest if our...
by cultureanimal
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on Sat Sep 25, 2021 at 01:48 AM PDT
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Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!"- Emma Lazarus, “The New Colossus.” When I...
by cabaretic
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on Mon Mar 15, 2021 at 02:54 PM PDT
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I feel safe again...finally�
I am gay and Jewish and every day that he was in office I lived in fear.
He was so unpredictable I never knew if he would round up blacks, muslims, gays or jews.
by CameronProf
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on Wed Jan 20, 2021 at 02:33 AM PST
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Remember: once in the booth, no one sees your ballot. How to get there safely? Take advice from Michonne…. Blend, baby, blend. In the danger zone, shuffle and mumble as the zombies do, even cover yourself with their garb. My college son is...
by KKwriter
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on Mon Nov 02, 2020 at 12:55 PM PST
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Strange ? for tonight Are you a minority that met a person who had never met a person of your group? I had a flashback tonight to a situation I had earlier in life, thus the question. I have heard stories from other Jewish folks, African American friends, etc. that met someone in college. for example, who had never met someone from their group before...
by CameronProf
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on Sun Oct 04, 2020 at 07:21 PM PDT
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It seems Disney is willing to go to no end to increase profits. First, the company came under fire for ignoring social distancing measures and hosting a grand fireworks celebration prior to closing, then the company reopened amid the pandemic, warning...
by Aysha Qamar
120 comments
on Sun Sep 13, 2020 at 09:37 AM PDT
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A man from Florida has been arrested and charged with a felony count of assault after attacking a 65-year-old Jewish man in New York City. The assault has been labeled a hate crime because the alleged assailant, 28-year-old Steven Jorge, was said to...
by Aysha Qamar
176 comments
on Thu Dec 26, 2019 at 10:34 AM PST
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The U.S. House of Representatives has passed a bill calling for official action and harsher response to be taken against China over its treatment of Uyghurs and other Muslim minorities. While it still awaits approval from the U.S. Senate, the Uyghur...
by Aysha Qamar
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on Fri Dec 06, 2019 at 06:33 AM PST
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GOP legislators won’t represent rural minorities, so big city and rural dems are! It’s a nice fall Saturday in Worthington, a majority-minority Minnesota meatpacking town. Despite the nice weather outside, the church cafeteria is full of local minority...
by SassyDemocrat
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on Sat Nov 02, 2019 at 12:43 PM PDT
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I know that some people really enjoy Twain, others do not. But he has said, what I think, are some valuable quotes. In fact one of his lesser quoted quotes is one in which I think we all should live by: Being gay and Jewish I do not often find myself...
by BFSkinner
168 comments
on Fri Aug 16, 2019 at 06:25 PM PDT
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Alison McIntosh learned early that life is a little easier with help from friends. Her first professional job reinforced that notion. And now, as a University of Pittsburgh graduate student, she is asking her co-workers to embrace collectivism.
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by Leo W Gerard
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on Fri Apr 12, 2019 at 08:12 AM PDT
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Will they never learn? All I see in so many GOP articles are “how we need to win back the voters.” Not, “how can we do a better job.”
“Being in the minority is a chance to think big picture and be visionary and make sure we are drawing the...
by friedbones
11 comments
on Sat Dec 29, 2018 at 08:33 AM PST
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Minnesota 7th Congressional District Democratic Farmer-Labor Party Outreach Officers update, 8/8/18: Mapping diversity to improve campaign effectiveness
This week I want to share some useful websites for accessing census demographic data. Most of...
by dyna
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on Sun Sep 09, 2018 at 06:19 PM PDT
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