Apart from the neo-Nazi fringes, I genuinely do wonder if earnest -- and possibly correct -- claims are made about the European indigeneity of this musical form
I would think metal would not want to be seem as non-problematic. Being problematic is kind of the point.
Except it's obviously different when the Christian Right finds you problematic and when the "unbearable whiteness" folks do.
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Open letter from employees about Believer editor who resigned after accidentally exposing hisgenitals on Zoom, cites "an expectation to divulge personal stories of trauma."
Rather than wokeness run amok, this may be a kind of revolt against wokeness.
Rather than claim that the genital image "traumatized" them, the workers are in fact revolting against an implicit demand that they trade trauma stories for recognition.
"Freedom from the oppressive demand to merchandise one's personal pain" is probably the most important conceivable intervention in today's literary world...
This must have been an extremely fun paragraph to be able to write and publish in the New York Times nytimes.com/2021/05/02/bus…
You really should be able to say “henceforth, we will only endorse one candidate per race...”
Imagine living in such a bubble of oblivious self-regard that you need to learn from your own paper’s media columnist what a debacle that dual endorsement was
Right. Every year 1200 high achieving black and Hispanic NYC students receive fully funded scholarships to elite prep schools. nypost.com/2018/06/09/how…
BK Tech was more than half black and Hispanic as recently as 1991. As the scholarship programs ramped up, the highest achieving black and Hispanic students no longer target the SHSAT as they have a more desirable option.
The resulting “under-representation” is then presented as a scandal. But it’s just other groups with better options leaving certain schools to poor Asian grinds.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield sees “not enough depressed black people” as a problem that has to be fixed. bcbs.com/the-health-of-…
Maybe white people are over diagnosed?
Japan basically had no cultural recognition of depression as an illness...until Eli Lilly hired cultural anthropologists to design culturally targeted marketing interventions to persuade them to recognize it as such....