What RFK said here is true, but I think it might be useful to ask why certain people want to prevent our society from moving forward. I would suggest that this is the notion of fear. If you look at …
Tag: racism
The U.S. Midterms
If Republicans can convince voters that they and only they can curb inflation, get tough on crime, and prevent immigrants from stealing their jobs, it seems possible that they’ll emerge victorious in the midterms. But on the other issues that …
Morgan Freeman on Racism
It’s natural for people who have greatly improved their financial condition to believe that everything they touch turns to gold. As shown here, Morgan Freeman is one of them. He claims that wealth and genetics have nothing to do with …
Radical Teachers and Journalists?
The level of ignorance it takes to make the statement at left is hard to calculate. Racism wouldn’t exist without journalists and teachers? How stupid do you have to be to believe that? U.S. history includes 300 years of enslaving …
Inaction and Regret
Abolitionist and author Harriet Beecher Stowe left us with this: “The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.” Of course this applies to our private lives, where we may regret not saying something …
Tagged with: cruelty, environmental decay, indifference to human suffering, racism, rejection of science
How Misogyny Has So Grossly Disfigured The United States
I thought readers might be interested in a conversation between senior energy analyst and political activist Glenn Doty and me on the subject of the meme here, which is captioned, “From Iceland to Taiwan and from Germany to New Zealand, …
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What We Can Learn from a Ranking of the Nifty Fifty
As shown in the graphic below, a very long conversation could be had about the well-being of the people in each of the 50 U.S. states. Maybe what it shows is that, for the most part, the states are composites of …
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“The Dark Side of American Conservatism Has Taken Over”–But What Does This Mean?
Here’s an interesting discussion of the “dark side of American conservatism.” Referring to the “dark side” implies that there is a bright side, but at this point it’s unclear exactly what that might mean.
