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conulyCapturing East Harlem in the 80s
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A white mother went to Alabama to fight for civil rights. The Klan killed her for it.
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The China-India row that spells disaster for flood victims
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‘Will They Take Me, Too?’
The caravan of mothers looking for their lost children
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Rooftop roads: The ancient town where roofs are public spaces
A Very Brief History of Chamber Pots (Video)
The French apprentices thriving on medieval roots
Muslim foster parents: ‘We'd never had a Christmas tree - it made them so happy’
Leafy Neckdowns: Cornstarch, Water & Leaves Reshape Unsafe Intersection.
Black Farmers Are Sowing The Seeds Of Health And Empowerment
The Economics of Jane Austen
Estonia, the Digital Republic
The choir that can never sing together (Video)
Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking
Why Your Brain Hates Other People
Navajo Nation sues Wells Fargo in fake-account scandal
The California fires were at my door. I had 20 minutes to pack. Here’s what I took.
After California's most destructive fire season, a debate over where to rebuild homes
The final GOP tax bill is complete. Here’s what is in it.
Why Democrats failed to tank tax reform
Republicans Have Lost Touch With Blue America
Word ban at CDC includes 'vulnerable,' 'fetus,' 'transgender'
The FCC Is Blocking a Law Enforcement Investigation Into Net Neutrality Comment Fraud
Everyone's missing the other part of the net neutrality debate — Big Tech is poised to become even more powerful
Why America's drinking water crisis goes beyond Flint (Video)
There are a lot of ways to turn retail jobs into living-wage careers — profit-hungry companies just aren’t doing them.
A white mother went to Alabama to fight for civil rights. The Klan killed her for it.
‘A different dimension of loss’: inside the great insect die-off
Major media players start commission for sexual misconduct
Not Just Toxic Masculinity: Income Inequality Also Drives Sexual Abuse in the Workplace
Will Women In Low-Wage Jobs Get Their #MeToo Moment?
The China-India row that spells disaster for flood victims
As migrants flee for Canada, fears are rising over the perils of frigid illegal crossings
‘Will They Take Me, Too?’
The caravan of mothers looking for their lost children
Four dead, hundreds wounded as protests over Jerusalem hit second week
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Date: 2017-12-18 09:44 am (UTC)Got a 404 error in Firefox, and a 503 error in Chrome.
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Date: 2017-12-18 09:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-18 10:15 am (UTC)I don't even *try* to follow links to the NY Times and Washington Post anymore.
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Date: 2017-12-18 10:37 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-18 04:34 pm (UTC)I read the NYT through a link from my library which gives me 25 hours of access each time I sign in. Your local library might have a similar arrangement?
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Date: 2017-12-18 05:50 pm (UTC)But they like you to turn off your adblocker, so....
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Date: 2017-12-18 08:31 pm (UTC)I don't mind turning off my adblocker for actual content. I put it on to block flashing ads on websites because they're a migraine-trigger.
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Date: 2017-12-18 06:45 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-18 11:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-18 05:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-12-26 07:11 am (UTC)I'm struck by what a good example this topic is of a really unfortunate trend in social-psychological research, to pretend the entire domain of psychological reasons doesn't exist and never examine phenomena in light of psychological explanations.
I could make – have made, essentially – an argument that what they consistently describe as it if were automatic and unthinking is a skill, and is used because people are motivated to do so. When categorizing people as out-group means it becomes socially licit to kill them and take their stuff, then there's a motive, which can be conscious or unconscious, to promulgate classification schemes that profit oneself. The fact we have apparatus in our heads to do this makes it no more innate than language.
I blame white supremacism. This whole line of so-called science seems like a way of manufacturing "scientific" excuses for colonialism. "Oh, gee, we couldn't help conquering and enslaving and exterminating you, it's just human nature. All humans do it. Everybody's prejudiced. Oh, sure, prejudice is bad, but only people who transcend their human natures – saints, really – can do it, and it's just not reasonable to expect of ordinary Joes."