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Your friendly neighborhood sociologist: What we talk about when we talk about white supremacy
It’s not what it used to be.
Barbarous law, bastardized freedom and death by the state
How we rationalize the breach of human rights.
The anti-Roe movement is rooted in the history of chattel slavery
They are not respecting “life.” They are fearing “race suicide.”
Is the US ‘truly one nation’?
It feels good to think so.
Are Republicans heirs of Lenin?
Not quite, but the comparison is instructive.
The system that allowed Malcolm X’s killers to walk keeps giving white supremacy a free pass
In the decades since the assassination of Malcolm X, it might be comfortable to imagine we have traveled some way down the road of racial justice. But it’s a long road and not an easy one.
Happy Thanksgiving to all!
Hades is a good boy.
The Rittenhouse verdict isn’t a win for self-defense. It’s another example of white men having better rights than the rest of us
American history has plenty examples of whole classes of people that were explicitly excluded from claiming self-defense in court.
Our crisis is one of humility
Pride, shame, hate, violence, fascism — all from the same source.
The Republicans are taking their terror campaign to the next level
The Wisconsin GOP is mad about election officials following the law.