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Paying for aid

mercredi 31 mai 2023 à 11:02

Disabled Britons now have to pay for aid in daily life, and it costs more than most can afford.

It sounds like the US.

1937 Memorial Day Massacre

mercredi 31 mai 2023 à 11:02

Researching the 1937 Memorial Day Massacre, in which Chicago thugs murdered striking steel workers.

Racial censorship

mercredi 31 mai 2023 à 11:02

Racial censorship, first applied to censor white authors, has been stretched to censors all racial groups -- the bizarre idea that "You can only write about people in your own group."

It's valid to complain about stories told by an author writing about people in a subculture perse does not know, works that are based mainly on stereotypes. You can make the claim that a work is of that sort; sometimes it is true. If people challenge it, you can defend it.

However, erecting a racial system of prohibitions is worse than the disease, and also won't cure it.

In a multiracial and multicultural society, that racial censorship rule would allow no fiction whatsoever. Unless the characters live in a ghetto together, no one author could write all of them.

Farming

mardi 30 mai 2023 à 10:17

George Monbiot refutes the absurd vision of returning to a preindustrial style of agriculture. It could not possibly feed the people who live our cities today, and didn't feed most people adequately when it was the norm.

He suggests that we produce food more efficiently using one-celled life. That might be adequate when we get really good of engineering it to resemble the diverse foods we eat today -- at which point it will be another name for culturing meat without growing entire animals.

Having fewer babies is a crucial part of addressing the difficulty of feeding the human population of the 22nd century, supposing we prevent the gruesome gigadeaths that climate breakdown threatens in this century.

Secret war in Cambodia

mardi 30 mai 2023 à 10:17

*Survivors of Kissinger’s Secret War in Cambodia Reveal Unreported Mass Killings [carried out by US forces].

Those are in addition to many attacks that were acknowledged.