Tag: White people
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The Gender Critical Cult Is Moving Mainstream
The whole Gender Critical movement (TERFs, people who hate trans folks, basically, LGB Alliance, Glinner, JK Rowling, that lot) has been bubbling under toxically for a long time, like QAnon, like Flat Earthers but less benign, anti-vaxxers and the like. But it seems that this very vocal small group of Xtian fundie right-wing linked people…
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Interesting Chords: The Girl From Ipanema
My dad – who was a jazz guitarist in his spare time – has a phrase ‘interesting chords’, like ‘some of those chords are interesting‘ i.e. unusual. He also has a love of Bossa Nova, and introduced me to the phrase ‘plink plink/cling cling jazz’ – I suspect he must’ve heard the Stan Freberg spoof…
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RC 327: A Line In The Sand Part 2: Black Lives Matter
Anti-racism and Black Lives Matter is not just for a week or a month, it’s for a lifetime. The danger is that as this article points out, us white people have a history of dealing with racism and handwringing that actually doesn’t create action. Obfuscating it with their guilt and ‘need to listen/know more’ which…
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White Privilege and Systemic Racism
I’ve been looking for a resource for my white friends to explain how systemic racism and micro-aggressions are different from the big-R ‘Racism’ in their heads. I have struggled to explain that as a group, white people are racist. There is a difference between systemic racism and individual acts – the big-R racists with their…
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Why Do Black People Riot?
OK I’ll admit the slightly clickbaity headline, but it’s a question that has popped up in my social media mostly from white people, quite often middle class. It’s not as bluntly put, but expressed via criticisms and tutting over the looting, rioting and protests over the death of George Floyd. The implicit criticism is ‘why…
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The Best Kept Secret in Podcasting and Radio
No, it isn’t some piece of gear, a clever piece of tech or some pro engineering tip. It’s the humble duvet. The closet/wardrobe. Coats. Pillow forts. Blankets. And the power of our voices. Having something to say. The wonderful anonymity of only being able to hear someone, focus purely on their words and not their…