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What’s Been Found In Hillary’s Emails So Far

The Unexpected Health Benefits of Tetris

Did technology kill the book or give it new life?

How Tea + Sugar Reshaped The British Empire

Fortifying sweet potatoes against blindness

Everyone's Upstairs Neighbors

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Addict amnesty: Police give heroin addicts support, rehab

Puzzle: Are You Smarter Than 52,765 Other New York Times Readers? (No, no I am not.)

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Judge temporarily blocks Alabama abortion clinic regulation

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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Squid That Looks Like a Bee Stung It in the Eyeball (That's eyeball, singular. The other eye looks completely different.)

Bounce, Launch, Splash! The Joy of the Diving Board

Intel, Micron debut 3D XPoint storage technology 1,000x faster than current SSDs

The 6 Cruelest Science Experiments Ever (Were Done on Kids)

What it takes to be a jailhouse lawyer.

Facebook rescinds internship to Harvard student who exposed a privacy flaw in Messenger

The Hidden Bias of Cameras

GPS Trackers In Fake Elephant Tusks Reveal Ivory Smuggling Route

Chasing fair skin, Ivorians ignore whitening cream ban

Forecasters warn that "Godzilla El Nino" could hit U.S.

Spousal abuse: The ‘silent illness’ driving women into homelessness

Dear White America: I know it’s hard, but you have to acknowledge what’s happening in this country

Netanyahu Appoints Opponent Of Palestinian Statehood As UN Envoy

Health of oceans 'declining fast'

New explosions and fire in Tianjin send smoke into the sky

A War Of All Against All

The growing wealth gap that nobody is talking about

Enforcement for white-collar crime hits 20-year low

Euro ministers give blessing to Greek bailout, wooing IMF on debt

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[elenbarathi.livejournal.com]

Dear Minority America (that's every kind of minority, not just those based on skin tone): I know it's hard, but you have to acknowledge what is happening in this country: your use of the word/concept privilege is alienating the hell out of non-members of your minority groups. You're destroying your own causes with this crap, because the truth is that, no, 'White' (or het/cis, nondisabled, whatever) America doesn't have to accept your view of anything, or even listen to it. Every time you drag in this 'privilege' crap, you lose allies - as the Comment section of that article (and many others) clearly illustrates.

'Privilege' is "a right, immunity, or benefit enjoyed only by a person beyond the advantages of most" (http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/privilege). It's not 'privilege' to not be subjected to police harassment and violence, judicial injustice, education and job-opportunity disparity, or any other sort of institutionalized unfair treatment: those are supposed to be the rights of ALL citizens. When black citizens, or gay citizens, or disabled citizens are having their rights as citizens trampled, then that is an assault on citizens' rights, i.e. the rights of ALL of us, not just of some of us.

'Race' is a scientifically invalid concept. It was invalidated half a century ago, but in this century of actual genome sequencing, it's been so conclusively invalidated as to be right up there with the geocentric model. How tragic that in even the richest and 'whitest' of schools, the standards of teaching science are apparently so pathetic that many people graduate from high school without understanding this basic fact - no blame to people from the poorest and 'blackest' that they don't grok it either. .

Meanwhile the 1% sit back, make popcorn and laugh as 'Black Lives Matter' tries to disrupt and discredit the only Presidential candidate who won't sell them down the river in a New York minute if elected. I'm just about to the point of considering that group as similar to the Black Bloc: irrational extremists who don't give a fuck about anyone but themselves, and/or agents provocateurs pretending to be 'radicals' for the purpose of derailing and discrediting the progressive movement.