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Richard Stallman's Political Notes

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Exacerbation of inequality

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

When adults need to borrow money from their parents to buy a house, this exacerbates inequality — between those whose parents have that much money and those whose parents don't.

Prosecutor on trial for rigging trial

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

A prosecutor in Texas is on trial for illegally rigging a trial, which caused an innocent man to be executed.

Thug pleads guilty to civil rights charges

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

The thug that killed Walter Scott, shooting him in the back as he was fleeing, has pleaded guilty to federal civil rights charges.

NRA's resistance to gun control

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

How the NRA's resistance to gun control ties in with traditional US racism.

Students from poor families stigmatized

jeudi 11 mai 2017 à 02:00

In many US schools, the staff go out of their way to stigmatize students from poor families. Anyone who would even think of this should not be working with children.

It seems to me that schools are doing the wrong sort of background check on their staff. Contempt for some set of students — whether it is poverty, or an ethnic group — is the biggest danger to the students.