"The Gauteng conference confirms that becoming middle class does not make black people here less impatient for racial change — if anything, it makes them less happy because they expected their skills and assets to free them from race prejudice and they feel they haven’t. And so one unheard message from the conference is that the growth of a black middle class does not make our racial divide go away — on the contrary, it sharpens it." Business Day
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Group that politicians want to 'help' overwhelmingly rejects the proposed 'help'. Politicians will no doubt press on, demonstrating exactly how little they cared about said group's actual interests and opinions in the first place...
"A Department of Justice commissioned survey has found that only 2% of women and men working in the local sex industry are in favour of the so-called “Swedish model”, which targets consumers rather than workers in the sex trade." Guardian
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This says it all, really.
"In Cape Town, the DA-led municipality unequivocally condemns the mass appropriation of land by the poor and the ANC quietly supports them. In contrast, in Durban, the ANC-led municipality responds harshly to any occupation, whereas the DA condemns the actions of the city as brutal and illegal." M&G
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This is something y'all need to see. Carceral feminist cat
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Relatedly and more seriously...
"Casting policing and prisons as the solution to domestic violence both justifies increases to police and prison budgets and diverts attention from the cuts to programs that enable survivors to escape, such as shelters, public housing, and welfare. And finally, positioning police and prisons as the principal antidote discourages seeking other responses, including community interventions and long-term organizing." Jacobin
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I'm looking for insightful opinions about Eastern Europe. My instinctive sympathies lie with the anti-Russian camp, as articulated here, but then these are complicated by the presence of far-right elements in the recent Ukrainian revolution (though I've never heard any satisfactory reply to the question of exactly how influential they are). Add to this the fact that everyone involved is still hashing out disputes that go back to WW2 (or before), and I don't know what to think! Slate
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"Careerism has its own moralism, serving as an anesthetic against competing moral claims. Particularly in the United States, where ambition is a civic duty and worldly success a prerequisite of citizenship, enlightened anglers of their own interest can easily be convinced that they are doing not only the smart thing, but also the right thing." Jacobin
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"Officers said they were further relieved after discovering the man had a petty theft charge on his record, ensuring they were 100 percent off the hook." The Onion
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This is what "anti-trafficking" means in reality. Women being arrested, held against their will and often subjected to forced labour. The irony is that Westerners who are so concerned about "exploitation" in the sex industry end up forcing women into the far more exploitative garment industry (and then buying the resulting cheap clothes).
[TW: for police violence] Vice
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[TW: assault, whorephobia]
This happens to actual sex workers every day, and we never hear about it. Because they're quite rightly scared to report it to the police, or because it was the police who did it, or because the newspapers don't care to publish stories about "unworthy" victims. Just saying.
"A Kenilworth swimming school owner and well-known cyclist was arrested this week after he allegedly beat up a middle-aged domestic worker in broad daylight – without the two ever having met or even exchanged a single word – then excused his behaviour by saying he had believed she was a prostitute." IOL
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Group that politicians want to 'help' overwhelmingly rejects the proposed 'help'. Politicians will no doubt press on, demonstrating exactly how little they cared about said group's actual interests and opinions in the first place...
"A Department of Justice commissioned survey has found that only 2% of women and men working in the local sex industry are in favour of the so-called “Swedish model”, which targets consumers rather than workers in the sex trade." Guardian
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This says it all, really.
"In Cape Town, the DA-led municipality unequivocally condemns the mass appropriation of land by the poor and the ANC quietly supports them. In contrast, in Durban, the ANC-led municipality responds harshly to any occupation, whereas the DA condemns the actions of the city as brutal and illegal." M&G
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This is something y'all need to see. Carceral feminist cat
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Relatedly and more seriously...
"Casting policing and prisons as the solution to domestic violence both justifies increases to police and prison budgets and diverts attention from the cuts to programs that enable survivors to escape, such as shelters, public housing, and welfare. And finally, positioning police and prisons as the principal antidote discourages seeking other responses, including community interventions and long-term organizing." Jacobin
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I'm looking for insightful opinions about Eastern Europe. My instinctive sympathies lie with the anti-Russian camp, as articulated here, but then these are complicated by the presence of far-right elements in the recent Ukrainian revolution (though I've never heard any satisfactory reply to the question of exactly how influential they are). Add to this the fact that everyone involved is still hashing out disputes that go back to WW2 (or before), and I don't know what to think! Slate
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"Careerism has its own moralism, serving as an anesthetic against competing moral claims. Particularly in the United States, where ambition is a civic duty and worldly success a prerequisite of citizenship, enlightened anglers of their own interest can easily be convinced that they are doing not only the smart thing, but also the right thing." Jacobin
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"Officers said they were further relieved after discovering the man had a petty theft charge on his record, ensuring they were 100 percent off the hook." The Onion
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This is what "anti-trafficking" means in reality. Women being arrested, held against their will and often subjected to forced labour. The irony is that Westerners who are so concerned about "exploitation" in the sex industry end up forcing women into the far more exploitative garment industry (and then buying the resulting cheap clothes).
[TW: for police violence] Vice
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[TW: assault, whorephobia]
This happens to actual sex workers every day, and we never hear about it. Because they're quite rightly scared to report it to the police, or because it was the police who did it, or because the newspapers don't care to publish stories about "unworthy" victims. Just saying.
"A Kenilworth swimming school owner and well-known cyclist was arrested this week after he allegedly beat up a middle-aged domestic worker in broad daylight – without the two ever having met or even exchanged a single word – then excused his behaviour by saying he had believed she was a prostitute." IOL
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Really fascinating video showing the position of the Milky Way within a larger galactic "supercluster" Nature
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