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How Magical Negroes and Mary Sues reveal the shortcomings of identitarian criticism

Identitarians will complain about aMary Sueor aMagical Negroand fail to see how the terms obscure the underlying truths: A Mary Sue is a female wish fulfillment character. For people who think primarily in terms of gender, her male counterpart is the Marty Stu or Gary Stu. The original Mary Sue was a character from Star Trek fanfic who got to do everything a heterosexual female Star Trek fan

Adolph Reed explains how race politics is a class politics

InFrom Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much, Reed says: ...race politics is not an alternative to class politics; it is a class politics, the politics of the left-wing of neoliberalism. It is the expression and active agency of a political order and moral economy in which capitalist market forces are treated as unassailable nature. An integral element of that moral economy

Adolph Reed on Jenner, Dolezal, and identitarianism

I failed to blog this when it came out, for which I apologize. As usual with Reed, the whole thing is worth reading, but I'll just give you this bit ofFrom Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much: But the more serious charge is the moral one, that, as Michelle Garcia puts it, "It’s pretty clear: Dolezal has lied." But here too, it’s not clear what’s so clear. Is the point

My experiences with Obamacare and Universal Health Care

One of the stupider things I've done in my life was failing to get Canadian citizenship when I was young. For a couple of years, I had landed immigrant status through my family, who moved to Canada when I was seventeen. I went to college in the US and decided to stay there because I really liked Emma and Minneapolis. During my time in Canada, I had some experience with its health care system,

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Martin Luther King on the creation of Jim Crow

"Racial segregation as a way of life did not come about as a natural result of hatred between the races immediately after the Civil War. There were no laws segregating the races then. And as the noted historian, C. Vann Woodward, in his book, The Strange Career of Jim Crow, clearly points out, the segregation of the races was really a political stratagem employed by the emerging Bourbon interests

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Yes, Timothy McVeigh and Anders Breivik were Christian terrorists

FromIs Anders Breivik a 'Christian' terrorist?: Anders Breivik: "I consider myself to be 100 percent Christian." FromAn Accurate Look at Timothy McVeigh's Beliefs: McVeigh: I was raised Catholic. I was confirmed Catholic (received the sacrament of confirmation). Through my military years, I sort of lost touch with the religion. I never really picked it up, however I do maintain core

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