Will Shetterly's Blog, page 13

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2019: If you're tempted to donate to some of the obscure candidates, just send that money to me. I also don't have the slightest chance of winning.

I've been thinking about why there are Warren supporters who despise Sanders. My current theory is it's because her manners and accent are like those of the elite, while his working-class background can be heard in every word he speaks.

2018: When

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2019: Popper's paradox of tolerance (loved by liberal censors and, oddly, #antifa) amounts to "to protect the human right of free speech, we must oppose it". It's the logic of the US officer during Vietnam who said, "It became necessary to destroy the town to save it."

Today's reason for #basicincome: End violence caused by economic despair, which includes suicides, murders, and muggings.

2018:

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2019: It's good that respect is given rather than deserved, because those who do not give respect do not deserve respect, yet they should be respected anyway.

Hierarchists think respect goes upward from the lesser to the greater. Egalitarians know it goes outward to everyone.

2018: When someone says, "Everyone is X", you can only be sure that that person is X.

2017: Whenever someone becomes

Three Things People Miss in King’s Birmingham Jail Letter

Three Things People Miss in King’s Birmingham Jail Letter

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Race is about Your Life, Not Your Looks; or How I Avoided the Pocahontas Mistake

Race is about Your Life, Not Your Looks; or How I Avoided the Pocahontas Mistake

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2018: Does anyone deserve to be called bad? There are broken people. They didn't choose to break.

2017: Reminder: Death threats are how the internet says, "I beg to differ."

2014: Conquerors always blame the conquered for resisting.

Internet politics: People who don't have the power to support something fight with people who don't have the power to oppose it.

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2019: I could support censorship if I believed there was a person who could not be corrupted by the power to silence us.

Free speech includes the right to refute ideologies we despise. I will never give up that right.

I would love to know how many Germans during the Weimar Republic thought there should be more censorship, and regretted that when Hitler gave them what they asked for.

I will

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2019: Hollywoodspeak 101:
Based on a true story: Mostly bullshit
Inspired by a true story: Totally bullshit

I often agree with Marcus Aurelius, I often think he left out something. For example:
"When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love." —Marcus Aurelius
That's sweet, but he left out "to be emperor".

2018:

The Red Mask, the first black masked hero?

Visit The Red Mask, the first black masked hero — and why I’m writing a story inspired by him to learn more about The Adventures of the Red Mask.



The following art is from Out Of This World: Early Black Comic Book Heroes: The Red Mask, The Comics of Syndicated Features: Adventures of the Red Mask, and Facebook's comic strip appreciation group, where Stefan Wood posted black and white scans

The Red Spectre, a post punk pulp story, begins on Medium

A weekly serial begins on Medium, inspired in part by the Red Mask, the first black masked hero in comics.

The Red Spectre, Ch. 1. The Islander

Interesting fact: In 1936, several weekly newspapers in Alabama carried this strip with its black hero and its white recurring villain.