‘It’s race, class and gender collectively’: Why the Atlanta killings aren’t nearly one factor
Here’s what Christine Liwag Dixon, a Filipino American author and musician, thought about after she heard that clip. She considered how she was as soon as supplied cash for a “happy-ending therapeutic massage,” although she just isn’t a therapeutic massage therapist and by no means has been. She considered all the boys who’ve advised her they’re “into Asian girls” and anticipated her to take it as a praise. She thought concerning the time she went exterior to name an Uber whereas her husband paid a restaurant invoice and a gaggle of males cornered her, one in all them chanting “Me love you very long time” whereas standing so shut she might really feel his breath on her neck.
She considered how most Asian American girls most likely have an analogous library of terrifying experiences. “To be hypersexualized,” she mentioned in an interview. “To be handled as an object of sexual want.”
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Biden and Harris to go to Georgia, a battleground that paved means for agenda
However the White Home’s plan to advertise the Covid reduction package deal took a somber flip after a rampage right here this week killed eight individuals, together with six girls of Asian descent. White Home officers ended up canceling a deliberate night rally supposed to assist clarify the advantages of the regulation.
The President and vp are as a substitute set to fulfill with Asian American leaders. Nonetheless, the White Home has stopped wanting calling the shootings a hate crime, regardless of calls to take action.
Whereas in Atlanta, Biden and Harris are additionally scheduled to go to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention, assembly with specialists on the identical day that the administration says it can hit its aim of administering 100 million doses of the coronavirus vaccine.
“We will beat this,” Biden mentioned Thursday. “We’re means forward of schedule, however we now have an extended approach to go.”
Amanda Carpenter/Bulwark:
Kevin McCarthy, Fetch
He now says he didn’t attempt to overturn the 2020 election. He’s an excellent boy! He’ll submit and play good for stomach rubs.
Perhaps he’ll be sorting by baggage of Starbursts to pick solely the colours that Trump likes—pink and red—to position in a particular jar and ferry to Trump. Gone is any reminiscence of the expletive-filled shouting match he had with Trump the day of the insurrection. Ol buddy, ol’ pal Kevin didn’t actually imply it when he mentioned Trump bore duty for the assaults that day. As a result of he shortly decided “we all” do, and flew down to Florida to make nice with Trump. He needed to make an apology to his hooman. Why? As a result of McCarthy wants Trump’s assist in 2022.
See, McCarthy is an effective boy. He’ll play fetch. For whoever may give him a deal with at any specific second in time. Trump, donors—whoever. Simply throw him a bone.
Woof.
WaPo:
Greater than 4 in 10 health-care employees haven’t been vaccinated, Publish-KFF ballot finds
Vaccination charges are significantly low amongst health-care employees who’re Black, these in lower-paying jobs comparable to dwelling well being aides and people with much less training. Partisan politics additionally play a task, with extra Democrats saying they’ve been vaccinated and Republicans extra more likely to specific uncertainty or considerations concerning the vaccines.
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Can Litigation Assist Deradicalize Proper-Wing Media?
The appropriate-wing media and its extremist media personalities have established a foothold and gained the eye of tens of millions. These tens of millions have now grown accustomed to sensationalized content material untethered from the reality—typically on the expense of people. The one technique of breaking the cycle is accountability. Civil penalties, fairly than governmental restrictions on First Modification rights, could possibly be a significant approach to take what are basically money-making ventures and demand reality from them, instill rigor of their reporting, and uphold accountability. Like a tabloid being sued and paying extreme penalties, media firms and right-wing media personalities will declare that what’s at stake is freedom of speech. However defamation just isn’t coated by the First Modification, so that is, by definition, not true. And the beneficiant requirements in defamation regulation for functions of defending the press provide a real protected haven for good-faith actors even once they err. Placing firms in concern of the true prices in civil damages for slander, libel, and false claims that may cumulatively incite violence and that may individually hurt precise human beings ought to have a restraining impact on their conduct.
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I’M NOT HERE TO FIX EVANGELICALS, BUT TO SHOW THEM WHO THEY ARE: AN INTERVIEW WITH THE AUTHOR OF ‘WHITE EVANGELICAL RACISM’
or readers of RD, Anthea Butler scarcely wants an introduction. Since 2009, shortly after RD’s launch, Anthea has contributed nicely over 100 items on subjects as wide-ranging as the sexual abuse crisis in the Catholic Church and the Politics of African-American Hair, to Ronnie Dio and Dominionism. A professor of Non secular Research and Africana Research on the College of Pennsylvania, Butler, whose common Twitter feed is a must-read, is a public mental in one of the best sense of the time period. She can be a part of an rising cohort of students, many with in depth private expertise in evangelical subculture, who’ve refused to whitewash the authoritarian nature of evangelicalism, a observe that pervades most scholarly and common writing on the subject.
If requested to suggest solely two current books on conservative, largely white evangelicals, I’d suggest Kristin Kobes du Mez’s Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Religion and Fractured a Nation, for its unflinching take a look at evangelicals’ particular inflections of poisonous masculinity over the previous couple of many years, and Butler’s White Evangelical Racism: The Politics of Morality in America, for its likewise unflinching publicity of the systemic and generally overt racism that pervades evangelical communities and establishments. Each books are completely grounded in historic experience, however each additionally often enterprise into normative, even theological, discourse, which is sensible—each authors are addressing individuals they know nicely, and who allow them to down.
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Trump Supporters Flip On Him Over COVID-19 Vaccine In Uncomfortable CNN Phase
One Trump voter slammed him as “a liberal New Yorker” when requested concerning the coronavirus shot.
In Boise Metropolis, Tuchman entered a diner and requested if anybody within the room was prepared for the shot. In a county the place 92 % voted for former President Donald Trump in November, Tuchman’s question was met with silence. Not even Trump’s endorsement of the vaccine made a distinction.
“Trump is a liberal New Yorker,” one Trump voter declared. “Why would we hearken to him both?”
One other diner flat-out mentioned “no” when requested if Trump’s endorsement would get him to take the vaccine.
Different diners rejected each science and authorities. Tuchman discovered a lot the identical angle elsewhere in the neighborhood.
