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1/ Here is a typical #BaffledImmigrant comment: how come "religious freedom" is magically turned into "mandatory religious practice"?
cleveland.com/open/2019/11/o…
cleveland.com/open/2019/11/o…
2/ If it is a "right to exercise a personal choice" it necessarily means that NO public organization may do anything in that sphere since the law refers to private citizens.
3/ In 2002 I wrote a science education story for a Brazilian science news magazine called Galileu. It was about how "incredible" and "dangerous" it was that there was such a thing as a creationist movement in the USA.
revistagalileu.globo.com/Galileu/0,6993…
revistagalileu.globo.com/Galileu/0,6993…
1/ How pop culture can help expats understand what Americans call "real America" and brace for it.
If you are an expat like me, chances are that you ended up as a #BaffledImmigrant as well.
If you are an expat like me, chances are that you ended up as a #BaffledImmigrant as well.
2/ Curiously, we can read almost daily some essay or new book on the quest for "real America". Are they - the locals - also baffled? No, they are not. They are frustrated, resentful and unhappy with what they see.
3/ American nostalgia is one of the most dangerous trends in the world: it's the longing for an imaginary past of peace and happiness, of white peace and white happiness, that even for white folks, was mostly a promise.
1/ The #KellyanneConway issue.
As everybody else, I read a version of this: "Office of Special Counsel => recommends removal => Kellyane Conway ("Counselor to the President")
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
As everybody else, I read a version of this: "Office of Special Counsel => recommends removal => Kellyane Conway ("Counselor to the President")
politico.com/story/2019/06/…
2/ So, like a well-behaved #BaffledImmigrant, I decided to learn something about the #HatchAct . You know, it might come in handy during a civics test that we, aliens, must take. Here's what I found:
fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act…
fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/R…
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hatch_Act…
3/ The #WhiteHouse responded in outrage, suggesting that the Counsel was out of line, dangerously risking the country's free speech and suggesting that the Special Counsel was the one actually infringing the Hatch Act. So let's see. Oh, yes, this is going to be a mess:
1 / I read @IlhanMN tweet and, in my role of the #BaffledImmigrant, I stopped and asked: "wait: is this even legal? Here in the USA? Because in the "shithole" country where I come from, Brazil, you will lose your license and my be arrested if you do that". So I did some googling.
2/ Apparently, this has been a concern for the mental health community for a while. Take a look at this 2016 issue of the Journal of Medical Regulation:
jmr.fsmb.org/wp-content/upl…
jmr.fsmb.org/wp-content/upl…
3/ In 2011, this repulsive Republican presidential (then) hopeful from Minnesota, Rep. Michele Bachmann, was busted because the couple owned a conversion clinic.
thinkprogress.org/the-high-costs…
thinkprogress.org/the-high-costs…
1 / The #BaffledImmigrant is always a bit over-baffled with the cluelessness concerning things like "socialism", "capitalism", "redistributivism", "privatization" and other basic concepts. Let's start with an experiment. Google "classic socialism books". This is going to show up:
2 / Most of them were written in the late XIXth and early XXth century, when the world and the economy were very different. Most of us, old folks who grew up under dictatorships and were involved in organized action to bring them down read all of them.
bit.ly/2JGtZNB
bit.ly/2JGtZNB
3 / You can download most of them for free in the many online resources available. Below is one. But why would you read that old stuff?
marxists.org/ebooks/
marxists.org/ebooks/
