Which fact you select to put in the headline colors the tone of the whole piece. The truth is: the definition is not uniform, the reporting is not close to comprehensive, the overall numbers are so low that what amounts to statistical noise can be made to seem large
The first year these figures were collected nationally, headlines blared throughout the nation that "hate crimes are increasing"
The classifications are subjective and based on what the local beat cop decides to put on a report. The standards are drastically different from precinct to precinct. The figures are determined by department policy and investment.
The laws were put in place by politicians pandering to specific constituencies. The demand to add new protected categories is always increasing as a form of political pandering.
The actual number of hate crimes in America is surely some multiple of what is reported. It is a miniscule fraction of the overall crime in America. The year to year increase or decrease is essentially unknowable given the mechanisms we have to measure it.
The report that cobbles together an arbitary number of departments reporting based on an arbitrary set of criteria means nothing; the reporting that is done on it compounds that meaninglessness. The figures are then cherrypicked to maximize engagement through fear.
NYU Law Professor James Jacobs surveyed the absurdity of hate crime reporting back in the year 2000 and absolutely nothing has improved since then amazon.ca/Hate-Crimes-Cr…
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NYC teachers union passes "Black Lives Matter at School" resolution calling for, among many other things, "disrupting the Western-prescribed nuclear family."
Calling it an act of liberation from Western oppression is what's (relatively) new.
Stating that collective care should happen "to the extent that mothers, parents and children are comfortable" is a curious touch.
The recently introduced framework for the "Culturally Sustaining-Responsive Education" that the resolution affirms seeks a transformation of the way students are taught with a heavy emphasis on "power and privilege," and "decentering dominant ideologies" nysed.gov/common/nysed/f…
Odd to juxtapose these two poll findings against one another. I think the difference in wording -- "legitimately" -- accounts for the difference, and suggests that it's more of a "not my President" phenomenon at work.
The contrast suggests that the typical Trump voter sees the expansion of mail-in voting as inherently illegitimate at the macro-level, without necessarily glomming on to "stolen election" conspiracy theories
It's self-evident that universal mail-in voting diminishes election security relative to in person voting by some significant margin
There is no single term for all the academic discourses that define themselves in opposition to "Eurocentric cisheteropatriarchy". Thus, the need for a shorthand -- "Successor Ideology" -- to encompass all of it. link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Nor a term for the transition of such discourses from a largely self-referential body of texts to a series of real social movements situated in the professions seeking to "dismantle Eurocentric structures" in schools and hospitals and corporations
It will be a few years before your nurses have been trained to cease "privileging certain forms of evidence and ways of knowing" in favor of those that "dismantle Eurocentric structures" -- but it will happen, and the results will be noticeable.
Hmm, just noticed I am blocked by Kara Swisher, probably because I asked when the point by point rebuttal to Balaji’s thread criticizing the Recode piece mocking SV VC’s bizarre obsession with Covid that she promised would be published...
Anyway, say what you want about Facebook, none of the specific stories cited here are false
These are just aggregations by right wing sites of process stories published by mainstream outlets
Tucker basically says: so there's a few cases of fraud, but probably not on a scale to change the outcome
He of course surrounds this with a lot of grievance about those trying to silence those who doubt the election, but basically calls for litigating and recounting with little doubt it will ultimately affirm the result
I believe the technique is called “pacing and leading”