Rolling 2017 Thread on Race

my friends!

let us witness a man who went on tv to do a bullshit segment and wound up speaking the truth

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/08/16/fox-news-invited-a-conservative-and-a-liberal-to-debate-confederate-statues-they-both-ripped-trump/

https://foucault.info/doc/documents/parrhesia/foucault-dt1-wordparrhesia-en-html

In the Greek conception of parrhesia, however, there does not seem to be a problem about the acquisition of the truth since such truth-having is guaranteed by the possession of certain moral qualities:when someone has certain moral qualities, then that is the proof that he has access to truth—and vice-versa. The "parrhesiastic game" presupposes that the parrhesiastes is someone who has the moral qualities which are required, first, to know the truth, and secondly, to convey such truth to others.

If there is a kind of "proof" of the sincerity of the parrhesiastes, it is his courage. The fact that a speaker says something dangerous — different from what the majority believes— is a strong indication that he is a parrhesiastes.

To summarize the foregoing, parrhesia is a kind of verbal activity where the speaker has a specific relation to truth through frankness, a certain relationship to his own life through danger, a certain type of relation to himself or other people through criticism (self-criticism or criticism of other people), and a specific relation to moral law through freedom and duty. More precisely, parrhesia is a verbal activity in which a speaker expresses his personal relationship to truth, and risks his life because he recognizes truth-telling as a duty to improve or help other people (as well as himself). In parrhesia, the speaker uses his freedom and chooses frankness instead of persuasion, truth instead of falsehood or silence, the risk of death instead of life and security, criticism instead of flattery, and moral duty instead of self-interest and moral apathy.

sounds like rap music tbh

yeah i'm certain i've read some academic paper or other that goes for that line

what the fuck @CNN pic.twitter.com/b9F6rcmXTa

— Aeth Sbramson (@thetomzone) August 17, 2017

I don't see that this has been posted

https://sojo.net/articles/our-white-friends-desiring-be-allies

Up near the State House on Boston Common the anti-fascist gathering is growing massive. A handful of Trumpists completely drowned out atm

:)

It's a sea of anti fascist humanity out on the common . The nazis etc are literally holed up on the bandstand, separated by barricades and cops. You can't hear them at all over the crowd. Not sure they 're even speechifying at this point

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/boston-free-speech-rally-white-supremacists-counter-protesters-outnumbered-10-to-1-a7902526.html?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter

George Wallace‏
@MrGeorgeWallace

BREAKING: New England patriots win, 40,000 to 133. #Boston

http://www.angryasianman.com/images/angry/timothydluhos01.jpg

Toe Stubs Self

long, devastatingly sad piece on 'the making of dylann roof': https://www.gq.com/story/dylann-roof-making-of-an-american-terrorist

Exceptional

I have neither the strength nor desire to read that.

classic behavior on display here. KKK leader makes deeply appalling violent racist statements aloud to a reporter, then claims that neither he nor his wife are racist or condone violence

after threatening to "burn" her, he adds Barker denied that he led a hate group. Both he and his wife said they “don’t hate anyone,” were “not racist” and do not condone violence.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/21/kkk-leader-threatens-to-burn-latina-journalist-the-first-black-person-on-his-property/?hpid=hp_hp-morning-mix_mm-univision%3Ahomepage%2Fstory&utm_term=.7e98b525c665

https://news.vice.com/story/arizona-gop-uses-margaret-cho-sitcom-pic-to-represent-asian-americans

http://www.knoxnews.com/story/news/2017/08/26/white-supremacist-forum-site-stormfront-seized-domain-hosts/604902001/

That should at least throw them into a temporary limbo. But they won't roll over and die. They'll just infect some other server eventually.

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/new-hampshire-police-refuse-to-discuss-apparent-lynching-of-8-year-old-biracial-boy/amp/

this fucking country

Not Guilty verdict for Stockley murder of Anthony Lamar Smith
http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/15/us/jason-stockley-officer-shooting-verdict/index.html

this fucking country

― this iphone speaks many languages (DJP), Monday, September 11, 2017 2:53 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Got friends in St Louis sending updates, schools and after school activities are cancelled and people are being told to stay home. Could get nasty tonight in St Louis.

downtown is already barricaded, no cars allowed.

Forceful, pained statement from @RepMikeButler in response to #jasonstockley not guilty verdict https://t.co/QAljzNwVPd pic.twitter.com/nZkLDfDgFJ

— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) September 15, 2017

Ex-ilxors are on the scene, too

"I don't know where else to put this so I'm putting it here"

I am sort of surprised nobody has attempted to copyright / trademark "wypipo" yet. It just seems like a candidate for a terrible startup name (cf "Bodega" which we as a nation all shit on last week)

*squashes sudden desire to create a business plan for a rideshare app called Wypipo*

ICYMI: Don't identify extremely!

https://splinternews.com/the-fbi-is-now-labeling-something-called-black-identity-1819227623

*hides skateboard*

Living in this country often feels like constantly getting kicked in the balls.

I think this World Series incident is worth a crossover from sportsland.

https://www.sbnation.com/2017/10/28/16563112/yuli-gurriel-yu-darvish-racist-gesture-world-series-game-3-response

It's complicated by the fact that Gurriel is Cuban, and acc to many white guys online "doesn't understand our culture." It overlooks the fact that he played in Japan for awhile.

This may blow up further today depending on whether there's a suspension or not.

lol this isn’t even a little bit complicated IMO

i meant purely in terms of the shitshow that will ensue

too bad gurriel doesn't play for cleveland

already whiteguy sports fans weighing in with "hey he was raised under communist oppression" and "he doesn't know what racism is"

i sort of doubt anyone whose opinion is worth hearing has said anything like that

luckily no one else is allowed to say things

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/sports/football/nfl-anthem-lockhart.html

turns out "lifelong democratic operatives" include guys like this

anyone have any recommendations for reading on the history of race & racism in the UK? an overview focused on the domestic situation rather than empire would be ideal

I saw this book on the weekend, and it looks good:

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/51gYGyHeo8L._SX331_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

that looks good but there's no way I'll get through 650 pages of it

A post-Halloween reminder that the real monsters are regular people:

http://www.courant.com/breaking-news/hc-br-west-hartford-student-arrest-20171101-story.html

To follow up on my previous post, I started cataloging all of the reported instances of Halloween blackface in a Facebook post:

https://www.facebook.com/djperry1973/posts/10159617382005038

Jesus that's depressing

Re: Trump and Economic insecurity....https://t.co/11AMCWJGpq pic.twitter.com/YBc1RS7ERV

— Ta-Nehisi Coates (@tanehisicoates) November 8, 2017

Gotta hand it to racists. They are prolific when it comes to making up unfunny acronyms.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/08/us/air-force-academy-racist.html

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