Professor Timothy Longman, with a purview in political science and international relations, posted on social media speaking about the importance of language studies, from personal experience, and about the widespread demand that the Department of Education reinstate the Title VI program.
Tag: genocide
Pope Leo XIV throws down the gauntlet against AI hype.
At his first “working meeting”, the pope outlined his priorities to include defending “human dignity” against the threat of AI, citing the dehumanizing effects of the industrial revolution.
Politicians are frightened into silence about violence that could be prevented by speaking up against the violence.
Republican politicians might be bullied into silence more than Democrats, but when the massacres start, tyrannical genocidaires do tend to go after moderates among their own first.
The cult of anti-woke.
I realize this is funny. But there’s a dark risk to the mechanism of this type of social contagion.
Harming disabled people was always part of the project.
I’m really concerned because a lot of people I talk to, or see posting in forums or on social media, seem to not realize that disabled people are being targeted by anti-DEI and anti-woke policy. I keep seeing people saying things like that they’re stopping funding for disability services at schools and such because “transition” […]
Multiple motivations behind atrocities.
“She labels those who killed ‘joiners’, because they were motivated not primarily by a desire to kill Tutsi but by a desire to be fully part of the group that was taking part in the killing (Fujii, 2009).”
Gaslighting & manufacturing normal to minimize concerns is not the right direction to go in.
The coverage of threats by the media and the statements from community leaders are an exercise in elite panic, and that’s certainly not what we need.
Hinting atrocities.
I just keep racking up instances where I see things going on in the US that are eerily familiar to things I’ve read about Rwanda. Seems problematic.
Public comment to CDC HICPAC committee August 2023 by Chloe
I don’t want to be forced into exposure to multiple infections when I need to seek healthcare. I almost died from infection twice in my life because of inadequate investment in healthcare in 2 different countries.