#Culture

Not enuf is written a/b the copout & racism that has dominated much of urban planning theory re: high-opp hoodsIssue is nuanced but not if one understands the goal must
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We need to talk about how Harry Potter has harmed East Asian cultures (a thread)https://twitter.com/ign/status/1353938483291811841 Nagini, who has been portrayed throughout most of the series as a snake, was retconned
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What is ‘outrage marketing’? I don’t even know if it’s the right term, but I’m sure some advertising executive has a snappy catchy term for this guaranteed way to get
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I can confirm this, I’m out of school now & I specialize in wounds & wound care. Had Sam called 911, EMTs could have freed Dean from the post the
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Riots aren't spontaneous--especially the ones taking place this year. They require money & organizational infrastructure.But White people aren't allowed to have organizations devoted specifically to our interests. We're not
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Some truth here, but also an overestimation of the benefits likely to accrue from striving for respectability. https://twitter.com/Robin_C_Douglas/status/1334929195399573510 I think that Hutton doesn't sufficiently recognize the extent
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A Thread of Strange Marriage culture you won't believe still exist..#1 Once a year, Swazi young women celebrate their virginity, honor their Queen with a two day display of pageantry
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"Americans deserve to know not just what happened in the Capitol coup, but who was complicit, why it wasn't stopped in advance. They need to know the full context of
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Wonder how this will affect income inequality and agglomeration effects in large rentier cities like Toronto. https://twitter.com/StandingHannah/status/1274309774830641152 Basic model: the primary industry in these cities is rent-seeking vi
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IMO, as a 11 year classroom teacher now online, students have a kind of freedom to chat or speak without much judgment online. Today, we talked about lunch bc someone
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When talking about Taiwanese literature, it's usually imagined as a more ideologically free space, compared to Mainland literature. That impression and the literature written during the Cold War were the
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So, I'm caught up on the Conspirituality Podcast, and it's time to share information about something that's been on my mind for a while—the strong overlap between the wellness world
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A THREAD on: media coverage on Muslims, France and the questions we aren’t asking enough.Today’s episode of NYT’s The Daily about Islam/France/ Laïcite was incredibly unsettling. 1/ This is a
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I feel like going on a bit of a thought-wander, and I'm partly inspired by this article, which is quite good. I want to disentangle opinion, arguments, facts, and interpretations.https://theconversation.com/no-youre-not-entitled-to-your
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I just had a meeting with three cutting-edge Indigenous researchers who are going to be starting labs. We talked strategy, what I wish I knew when I started, and their
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Video from a real DEI training at work where it is implied that people answer 4 to "2+2" because we've been conditioned to do so. The point raised next is
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