Remember that the Catholic church practised slavery in Ireland until the last Magdalene laundry was shut down in 1996. It boggles the mind that this institution or anyone associated with it is accorded moral authority on any topic whatsoever, let alone "human trafficking".
"A previously unpublished 2012 HSE report on Bessborough, which examined the institution’s own records, show a system of “institutionalisation and human trafficking”, where “women and babies were considered little more than a commodity for trade amongst religious orders”"
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Useful
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Great piece on male privilege by someone who has been read as both a woman and as a man.
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"Development politics generally happens along a city's gentrifying fringe. The places where land prices are high enough to make new projects worthwhile, but where incumbent residents are politically weak enough that at least some projects get approved. That tends to distract attention from the areas where the deadweight loss of zoning restrictions is actually highest, the very affluent areas where new building is essentially inconceivable." Matt Yglesias
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Really good piece on how attempts to crack down on "abuse" of prescription drugs can really harm a lot of people.
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Wowzers, I wasn't even aware of this history
"Canadian governments and churches pursued a policy of “cultural genocide” against the country’s aboriginal people throughout the 20th century, according to an investigation into a long-suppressed history that saw 150,000 Native, or First Nations, children forcibly removed from their families and incarcerated in residential schools rife with abuse."
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A history of the massacres committed against Indonesian Communist Party members in the mid-60s, with the full support and assistance of Western powers (some of which went so far as to provide names of activists to be targeted for murder).
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Keynes was once described as an “iron copulating machine”. What an epigraph.
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"My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my life was worth less than that of a fetus that was going to die anyway. My husband had told them exactly what my regular doctor said, and the ER doctor had already warned us what would have to happen. Yet none of this mattered when confronted by the idea that no one needs an abortion. You shouldn’t need to know the details of why a woman aborts to trust her to make the best decision for herself. I don’t regret my abortion, but I would also never use my situation to suggest that the only time another woman should have the procedure is when her life is at stake. After my family found out I’d had an abortion, I got a phone call from a cousin who felt the need to tell me I was wrong to have interfered with God’s plan. And in that moment I understood exactly what kind of people judge a woman’s reproductive choices." Salon
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"The implication of this usage ["identity politics"] is that somehow an identity is something only women or African-Americans or perhaps LGBT people have. White men just have ideas about politics that spring from a realm of pure reason, with concerns that are by definition universal." Vox
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"The public debt-to-GDP ratio was very considerably larger in Britain in every year for two decades, from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, than it has been at any time since the crisis of 2008. And yet there was no panic then (when Britain was confidently establishing the welfare state), in contrast to the confused anxiety, not to mention the orchestrated fear, that seems to run down the spine of the terrorised British today, making austerity look like a fitting response." New Statesman
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"The head of Sweden’s anti-trafficking unit told a journalist last year, “of course the law has negative consequences for women in prostitution, but that’s also some of the effect that we want to achieve with the law.”
How, then, is the law sold as “feminist?”
Partly because, while sex workers may be focused on our own safety, people who don’t sell sex have a lot of feelings about more abstract concepts —the idea of what “message” the law sends, for example, or an interest in indulging feelings of disgust regarding men who pay for sex. That distorts the debate." New Republic
"A previously unpublished 2012 HSE report on Bessborough, which examined the institution’s own records, show a system of “institutionalisation and human trafficking”, where “women and babies were considered little more than a commodity for trade amongst religious orders”"
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Useful
>>><<<
Great piece on male privilege by someone who has been read as both a woman and as a man.
>>><<<
"Development politics generally happens along a city's gentrifying fringe. The places where land prices are high enough to make new projects worthwhile, but where incumbent residents are politically weak enough that at least some projects get approved. That tends to distract attention from the areas where the deadweight loss of zoning restrictions is actually highest, the very affluent areas where new building is essentially inconceivable." Matt Yglesias
>>><<<
Really good piece on how attempts to crack down on "abuse" of prescription drugs can really harm a lot of people.
>>><<<
Wowzers, I wasn't even aware of this history
"Canadian governments and churches pursued a policy of “cultural genocide” against the country’s aboriginal people throughout the 20th century, according to an investigation into a long-suppressed history that saw 150,000 Native, or First Nations, children forcibly removed from their families and incarcerated in residential schools rife with abuse."
>>><<<
A history of the massacres committed against Indonesian Communist Party members in the mid-60s, with the full support and assistance of Western powers (some of which went so far as to provide names of activists to be targeted for murder).
>>><<<
Keynes was once described as an “iron copulating machine”. What an epigraph.
>>><<<
"My two kids at home almost lost their mother because someone decided that my life was worth less than that of a fetus that was going to die anyway. My husband had told them exactly what my regular doctor said, and the ER doctor had already warned us what would have to happen. Yet none of this mattered when confronted by the idea that no one needs an abortion. You shouldn’t need to know the details of why a woman aborts to trust her to make the best decision for herself. I don’t regret my abortion, but I would also never use my situation to suggest that the only time another woman should have the procedure is when her life is at stake. After my family found out I’d had an abortion, I got a phone call from a cousin who felt the need to tell me I was wrong to have interfered with God’s plan. And in that moment I understood exactly what kind of people judge a woman’s reproductive choices." Salon
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"The implication of this usage ["identity politics"] is that somehow an identity is something only women or African-Americans or perhaps LGBT people have. White men just have ideas about politics that spring from a realm of pure reason, with concerns that are by definition universal." Vox
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"The public debt-to-GDP ratio was very considerably larger in Britain in every year for two decades, from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s, than it has been at any time since the crisis of 2008. And yet there was no panic then (when Britain was confidently establishing the welfare state), in contrast to the confused anxiety, not to mention the orchestrated fear, that seems to run down the spine of the terrorised British today, making austerity look like a fitting response." New Statesman
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"The head of Sweden’s anti-trafficking unit told a journalist last year, “of course the law has negative consequences for women in prostitution, but that’s also some of the effect that we want to achieve with the law.”
How, then, is the law sold as “feminist?”
Partly because, while sex workers may be focused on our own safety, people who don’t sell sex have a lot of feelings about more abstract concepts —the idea of what “message” the law sends, for example, or an interest in indulging feelings of disgust regarding men who pay for sex. That distorts the debate." New Republic
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