Apologies. This represents a long (but sparse) backlog - with my various travels, I haven't had time to read much.
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"By accepting so few applicants, Finnish teacher colleges accomplish two goals—one practical, one spiritual: First, the policy ensures that teachers-to-be like Stenfors are more likely to have the education, experience, and drive to do their jobs well. Second (and this part matters even more), this selectivity sends a message to everyone in the country that education is important—and that teaching is damn hard to do. Instead of just repeating these claims over and over like Americans, the Finns act like they mean it." Slate
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"Conducted in downtown Portland, the ... study found that twice as many drivers failed to yield for black pedestrians than those who were white. Meanwhile, black pedestrians typically had to wait a third longer for cars to stop for them when they had the legal right of way." Oregon Live
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"To focus on accountability implies that one accepts that there is a verifiable phenomenon to be accountable about, to espouse the fundamental propositions about human trafficking promoted by government, moral entrepreneurs, and the media which cry that trafficking, especially the kind where women sell sex, is the great scourge of our time. To focus on accountability assumes that the dominant narrative is based on reality, and all we have to do is quibble about individual ethics and demand high standards. This is all wrong." Jacobin
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"What is the first thing Ramatlhodi has done with his empty office? He has proposed that the best way to deal with protracted strikes is to ban them. Put less kindly, he has advocated that if poor black people make trouble, their rights should be curtailed. He has done this in the context of the oldest and unhappiest of the industries apartheid bequeathed to us, on behalf of multinational corporations run largely by white people earning multimillion-rand salaries.
If ever there was evidence that Ramatlhodi was talking nonsense when he said that the constitution was for rich white people, this is it. Ramatlhodi is for rich white people and the poor have the constitution to thank for the protection it affords them against him and his ilk." Business Day
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"Visibility was intended as a stopping-off point in a much larger political project to destroy the patriarchal family as the incubator of oppressive gender roles. “Coming out” and Pride were tactics to build that movement, not end-goals in their own right, necessarily. Visibility alone would not lead to liberation.
Today those transitional demands have become not only the constituent, necessary parts of a gay identity, they’ve also erased the further structural criticisms and demands they were intended to further. Visibility and legal rights are what makes up the political demands of contemporary Pride politics (as far as they exist at all). Once you have reached the bar of being out and proud, any further structural or material concerns are a private matter, and unrelated to your sexual identity or politics." Open Democracy
Also, generally, fuck the police.
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"By accepting so few applicants, Finnish teacher colleges accomplish two goals—one practical, one spiritual: First, the policy ensures that teachers-to-be like Stenfors are more likely to have the education, experience, and drive to do their jobs well. Second (and this part matters even more), this selectivity sends a message to everyone in the country that education is important—and that teaching is damn hard to do. Instead of just repeating these claims over and over like Americans, the Finns act like they mean it." Slate
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"Conducted in downtown Portland, the ... study found that twice as many drivers failed to yield for black pedestrians than those who were white. Meanwhile, black pedestrians typically had to wait a third longer for cars to stop for them when they had the legal right of way." Oregon Live
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"To focus on accountability implies that one accepts that there is a verifiable phenomenon to be accountable about, to espouse the fundamental propositions about human trafficking promoted by government, moral entrepreneurs, and the media which cry that trafficking, especially the kind where women sell sex, is the great scourge of our time. To focus on accountability assumes that the dominant narrative is based on reality, and all we have to do is quibble about individual ethics and demand high standards. This is all wrong." Jacobin
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"What is the first thing Ramatlhodi has done with his empty office? He has proposed that the best way to deal with protracted strikes is to ban them. Put less kindly, he has advocated that if poor black people make trouble, their rights should be curtailed. He has done this in the context of the oldest and unhappiest of the industries apartheid bequeathed to us, on behalf of multinational corporations run largely by white people earning multimillion-rand salaries.
If ever there was evidence that Ramatlhodi was talking nonsense when he said that the constitution was for rich white people, this is it. Ramatlhodi is for rich white people and the poor have the constitution to thank for the protection it affords them against him and his ilk." Business Day
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"Visibility was intended as a stopping-off point in a much larger political project to destroy the patriarchal family as the incubator of oppressive gender roles. “Coming out” and Pride were tactics to build that movement, not end-goals in their own right, necessarily. Visibility alone would not lead to liberation.
Today those transitional demands have become not only the constituent, necessary parts of a gay identity, they’ve also erased the further structural criticisms and demands they were intended to further. Visibility and legal rights are what makes up the political demands of contemporary Pride politics (as far as they exist at all). Once you have reached the bar of being out and proud, any further structural or material concerns are a private matter, and unrelated to your sexual identity or politics." Open Democracy
Also, generally, fuck the police.
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