"They speak of “deep-rooted systems of oppression; legacies of hate.” No elaboration required here? (..) No nuance or complexity? Is it obvious that “hate”—as opposed to incompetence, or fear, or cruelty, or poor training, or lack of accountability, or a brutal police culture, or panic, or malfeasance—is what we observed in Minneapolis? We are called upon to “effect change.” Change from what to what, exactly? Evidently, we’re now all charged to promote the policy agenda of the “progressive” wing of American politics. Is this what a university is supposed to be doing?
I must object. This is no reasoned ethical reflection. Rather, it is indoctrination, virtue-signaling, and the transparent currying of favor with our charges. The roster of Brown’s “leaders” who signed this manifesto in lockstep remind me of a Soviet Politburo making some party-line declaration. I can only assume that the point here is to forestall any student protests by declaring the university to be on the Right Side of History.
What I found most alarming, though, is that no voice was given to what one might have thought would be a university’s principal intellectual contribution to the national debate at this critical moment: namely, to affirm the primacy of reason over violence in calibrating our reactions to the supposed “oppression.” Equally troubling were our president’s promises to focus the university’s instructional and research resources on “fighting for social justice” around the world, without any mention of the problematic and ambiguous character of those movements which, over the past two centuries or more, have self-consciously defined themselves in just such terms—from the French and Russian Revolutions through the upheavals of the 1960s."
https://www.city-journal.org/brown-univ
Since 2015, as far back as the Washington Post’s database goes, fatal police shootings of unarmed black people has decreased by 68%.
Since 2015, the number of assailants killed that were reported to be attacking one or more of the officers has stayed relatively flat, floating between 43% and 54%.
Even though the rate at which police officers are attacked in these fatal shootings has stayed flat, the rate at which they kill unarmed black people has decreased.
https://medium.com/@cory.milliken/racia
"The Finnish Puolustusvoimat has just released the #Battlefield 2020 short film about their vision of the present day defensive #battle against an attacker. From a hybrid incursion into all out counter attack. It has full English subtitles."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTmWCbc
Silīcija ieleja itin aši ir atbildējusi uz manām raizēm, ka soc. tīklos atjaunot "tag line" un "bio" tik bieži ir apgrūtinoši:
"New App Automatically Updates Your Profiles With The Latest Virtue Signals"
The tech wizards at Capo Creative are launching a new app that will help users stay abreast of the latest trends in virtue-signaling—it's called Signlr. Algorithms within Signlr analyze virtue signal trends across the Internet and, as soon as a new one is detected, update all your social media to fit the current narrative.
https://babylonbee.com/news/new-app-syn
Lai kaut kā tomēr iekļautos angļu kreiso studentu dzīvē, meitene atkārto tropus par marksismu un sociālismu, bet nespēj līdz galam atteikties no savas izcelsmes un ģimenes vēstures, tāpēc ir spiesta paskaidrot: "Stalin did some things wrong." Labs ieskats kreiso studentu dzīvē un uzskatos.
http://www.mangalmedia.net/english/
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