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Dr. Johnathan Flowers wants to see academia fall.

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Right, so. Let me talk about the disciplinary implications of Singer's statement here: @Helenreflects has a good meditation on this at the Philosopher's Cocoon, linked below. I largely agree with

Some thoughts from Harold Finch regarding following the rules:"I was talking about my rules. I have lived by those rules for so long, believed in them for so long, believed

Voting won’t end fascism or somehow change the fact that America is the outcome of a history of genocidal white supremacy. Voting can slow the circulation of the ideologies that

Regarding the CRT ban: one of the things (among many) that scares the shit out of me about it is the ways that it also imperils a lot of STS

Okay, so. What I ended up doing is setting a time every day when I would no longer be doing work. For me, it’s around 5pm which is about the

Buried in this story are some really important points about the intersection of disability and race and the failure of institutional accommodations in the midst of the pandemic. (1/n)https://www.propublica.org/article/a-teenager-didnt-do-he

I think "white talk" is a kind of defensive response, and works as a term for those responses that fall under it. That said, my problem is with the framing

Academics: a whole bunch of our institutions are about to invoke the work of scholars in departments born of struggle, departments that these same institutions have tried for decades to

I'm going to answer, but I hate these questions. As King states: "There is probably no way, even eliminating violence, for Negroes to obtain their rights without upsetting the equanimity

Folks keep talking about MLK's position on riots as if he treated rioting and non-violent protest as an either/or proposition. MLK chose non-violent protest because he believed it to be

Y’all have @Wolven to blame for this thread. First: Tom is relying on a Japanese understanding that humans who aren’t moved by the world (nasakenaishi) aren’t really human, so his

I’ve been reading a lot of fiction that deals with the “wages of immortality.” You know, the whole existential malaise and weltsmerz (sp) that comes with living forever. Most fiction