This essay exactly. The president of wash u demanding that Richard Spencer be allowed to speak now having students and faculty arrested for speaking. It gives the lie so clearly.
"A strange paradox: in his freshman year, my former student ... was required by Martin to read a book insisting that free society tolerates Nazi protests. A year after [he] graduated, Martin had him arrested for pro-Palestinian protest."
These contradictory standards display what activists call “the Palestine exception.”
I regularly need to remind myself of Ursula K. Le Guin: “We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”
Also up there: watching The Others (2001) at an outdoor screening on a summer evening, and nearly everyone -- including me -- screamed and jumped about six inches out of our chairs at that one jump scare.
Tie between marathoning all three Lord of the Rings movies at a friend's house with a joyous group of fellow nerds, and watching Moonstruck on a big screen outdoors on Lincoln Center Plaza. We all cheered when it got to the scene set where we were sitting.
A woman on Facebook was asking what she can do to show support for queer and trans people while married to a staunch Republican, and did not like it when I suggested a divorce
Read this whole thread. But also, the $100mil gift to the U of C is exactly why I think public goods like education shouldn’t be left to the whims of the very wealthy.
Oh no. Not Maggie Smith. 😢
Your moment of wonder for today.
hadn't come across this theory about why so many myths about the pleiades mention there being seven sisters when only six are visible: because the root story may be 100,000 years old theconversation.com/the-worlds-o...
Cultures around the world call the Pleiades constellation ‘seven sisters’, even though we can only see six stars today. But things looked quite different 100,000 years ago
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Eric Adams asking if he can still defund the libraries in jail