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Helen Andrews

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Jan 20

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Interesting piece on the lawyer for the Scottsboro Boys, who, apparently, in his earlier career as a New York defense attorney, won acquittals for many clearly guilty people including Al Capone. But the article repeats some common misconceptions about the Scottsboro case itself.

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It is usually said the Alabama jury convicted the nine solely on the word of Victoria Price, who claimed she was hoboing on a freight train with Ruby Bates when a dozen black boys climbed in from another train car, threw some white boys out of the moving gondola, and raped them.

But the prosecution had more than that. Multiple eyewitnesses along the train route saw the fight in the gondola car. One farmer saw the ejected white boys walking down the track, faces bloody. Another saw into the gondola for a second just as a black figure threw a woman down.

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Helen Andrews

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Jan 16

Not many people know that if Congress had not passed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Chief Justice Earl Warren was prepared to step in with a Supreme Court decision that would have accomplished much the same thing. A thread from Boomers. 1/7

The cases Bell v. Maryland and Barr v. City of Columbia involved sit-in protests at private lunch counters and hinged on whether the owners’ actions in removing the protesters were unconstitutional under the 14th Amendment as they would have been if it had been gov't property./2

Chief Justice Warren thought so. He believed the public/private distinction collapsed the moment the owner called the police. “To say that the policy is merely ‘private’ ignores the fact that without the State it could not survive,” he wrote in an unreleased draft opinion./3

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Helen Andrews

@herandrews

Dec 26, 2023

Hilarious account of a Western-sponsored training seminar for NGO workers in Serbia. The trainers really did not like it when one man stepped up during the team-building exercise to coordinate the tasks. They kept badgering the group to feel bad about not being more egalitarian.

“Was there someone that felt … suppressed? Somebody that did not feel like an individual?”

“No, we did not feel like that.”

One of the team-building tasks was to cover one person in toilet paper.

“Nobody was frustrated? Uncomfortable? You, Vesna, you were wrapped with paper because they said you were the shortest … was it ok?”

“Yes, I found it normal so we use less paper and it would be faster.”

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Helen Andrews

@herandrews

Dec 19, 2023

We had an amazing 2023 at @amconmag. As an editor, I'm always looking for pieces that couldn't be published anywhere else. TAC has a unique mission and a special contribution to make. Lots of articles this year hit the mark—here are a few examples: /THREAD

10. @JuliusKrein's review of Sam Gregg genuinely advanced the debate over “market fundamentalism” and the New Right. The last third of the piece is a sweeping retelling of a century of economic history, which made a lot of pieces fall into place for me: theamericanconservative.com/the-last-gasp-…

@JuliusKrein 9. BLM and antifa took over a slice of Seattle and declared it an “autonomous zone” called CHAZ. Within days a teenager was murdered. Nobody cared. Jonathan Ireland wrote this indignant essay about it: theamericanconservative.com/a-murder-in-ch…

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Helen Andrews

@herandrews

Dec 17, 2023

My takeaway from this book, Animal Welfare in China, is that the stereotype ("If it has four legs and is not a chair…") is basically true, and Americans who oppose animal cruelty should realize what a big cultural gulf exists here. amazon.com/Animal-Welfare…

"Dogs and cats are often victimised out of sheer malice. A college student microwaved a live puppy following an argument with his girlfriend. A man in Weihai, Shandong drove for miles dragging his dog behind his car… A Changsha policeman beat a golden retriever to death in broad daylight on the last day of 2017."

Dogs are stolen off the street to be eaten, because raising dogs for meat is not cost-effective.

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Helen Andrews

@herandrews

Dec 14, 2023

In her piece on surrogacy, @carmel_writes notes that international adoption has practically disappeared. My first thought was: oh, Third World babies are languishing unchosen because American parents are opting for designer surrogate babies instead. But that's actually wrong./1

What really happened is that international adoptions became a racket, so sending countries banned it. Scandals involving "child laundering," kidnapping, baby selling, etc., in Guatemala, Cambodia, Liberia, Nepal, and elsewhere led to crackdowns. /2

In other words, we ran a real world experiment from ~1995 to ~2005 that proved that, when selling babies becomes lucrative, Third World entrepreneurs will fill that demand and their methods will sometimes be repugnant./3

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