Tag: Anti

Starfield boasts over 1000 planets, which is a lot by any measure. Most of them are barren, bleak expanses punctuated by a couple of close-ish map markers that are just far enough away to be annoying. You can jump from one end of the galaxy to another in a blink of the eye, but traver...

It’s painful to write this because in my mind, the Germany I remember from years ago was always a welcoming place. Of course there were always problems, but I remember Germany as a country where people were actively working to overcome their tragic history of racial supremacy and exclusion. Th...

Kanye West is having a moment. It’s not a good one, but it’s a moment nevertheless. The rapper and designer continues to double down on his antisemitic remarks, and on Tuesday, Adidas joined Balenciaga, and prominent talent agency CAA in cutting ties with him. Meanwhile, just miles from ...

I grew up in New York City. To me, it was a great place to grow up. The fact that my parents were from India didn’t make me a pariah. My own lack of social skills did that. Others of Asian descent didn’t have that problem. By the time I was in high school, I didn’t have that proble...

The Australian government and civil society have expressed their strong disapproval and disgust over the anti-Semitic chants and slogans that were heard at a pro-Palestine rally in Sydney on Sunday, October 10, 2023. Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash The rally, which was hel...

The other day I stepped out of the East Gate of Shinjuku Station to be — quietly, peacefully — confronted by a small group of Japanese and others protesting the war in Gaza. In the 20+ years I have lived in Tokyo, I have only witnessed a few protests — mostly pacifist reactions ...

I have some comments — as an intersectional feminist who went to catholic high school and is still recovering from that. School isn't strictly a “professional setting”. It’s school. No one is being paid to go to high school, it is a publicly funded educational ...

Drones have been seen as a potentially powerful tool in anti-poaching efforts. With drone cameras capable of 30x zoom and thermal imaging, poachers can be located both during the day and at night. Anti-poaching drones relay live video to ground-based conservation teams, often safely miles away, who ...

We have plenty of evidence that anti-LGBTQ thoughts and beliefs directly contribute to behaviors Paul describes as “fruits of the flesh” (Gal. 5:19–26) and that any reasonable person would find problematic. People who regard same-sex relationships as sin often denounce LGBTQ peo...

There has been this growing sentiment recently that the Bollywood film industry is inherently anti-Hindu and is destroying Indian culture. Is this true? Well, the answer is not very straight. Are there movies in Bollywood made with specific propaganda? Yes, why not? We have to understand that a film...

As Brother Rick recently said, “Looking at our people and our situations and circumstances I say we are comatose; alive but barely functioning. We are brainwashed and definitely conditioned to respond to both preprogrammed and new stimuli and messaging by our enemies who forced us to internali...

Several publications named Nancy Meyers’ “The Intern,” starring Anne Hathaway and Robert De Niro, as one of the most “women empowering” films of the year. At first glance, this story, set in a successful startup led by a woman founder and CEO, sounds incredibly empoweri...

I followed these social justice movement statements as closely as I did the atonement by universities in the United Kingdom (UK) and other parts of the Western world. The most notable was the reckoning in New Zealand in relation to Maori decolonial scholar Linda Tuhiwai Smith and more rece...

In the bad old days of anti-trans media discourse one had to get an article past editors, publishers, and a sceptical audience in order to find acceptance. Printing was a relatively slow process, with books being published in the thousands and newspapers being chip wrappers the next day. Even in the...

It’s carnival season in New Orleans again, and many are gearing up to eat their first slice of king cake and attend masquerade balls, lavish events where some in attendance wear masks. Historically, this was done so that the upper bourgeoisie could mingle with those in the lower classes withou...

Our healthcare system is broken. A walk around San Francisco makes that clear. People in psychosis are everywhere — on the bus, on the street corners, huddled up under filthy blankets sleeping in doorways, their dirty, scab-covered feet poking out at passersby. I don’t usually interac...

Justice John Paul Stevens wrote in his Casey dissent, “the [state’s] interest in protecting potential life is not grounded in the Constitution.” US District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has pointed out that the Dobbs decision was based entirely on the Fourteenth Amendment....

“Whitesplaining” is my term for when white people try to explain racism. Not necessarily explaining away racism — they are usually acknowledging its existence and are condemning it — but they are acting as though they understand racism. Yes, it’s like mansplaining. H...

I was recently involved in a meeting to discuss how education and training should rise to the challenges of promoting anti-racist practice. It was encouraging and reassuring to see so many people there, people in positions of influence. However, what was quite disheartening was to find that we were ...

This“ book is a polemic against liberal anti-racism that focuses on individual attitudes rather than institutions.” This is a fascinating well researched and well written book. It raises several important issues. The three of the most important are 1) Structural/Institutional Racism i...

It’s 2021 but racism and discrimination is still very much present around the world and in the UK. There is still so much to learn, in order to change the way we think and act. Many charities are actively striving to encourage change, whether it’s within our societies and communities,...

It’s carnival season in New Orleans again, and many are gearing up to eat their first slice of king cake and attend masquerade balls, lavish events where some in attendance wear masks. Historically, this was done so that the upper bourgeoisie could mingle with those in the lower classes withou...

Bacteria and bacteriophages (bacteria-attacking virus) have been battling each other for giga years now, with the two using multiple interesting mechanisms to fight. When their techniques were discovered, they were a marvel for biologists. But crucially, these discoveries played a role in advancing ...

In your research surrounding cannabis, you may have compared it to other substances. “Cannabis vs. opioids,” “cannabis vs. alcohol,” “Cannabis vs. sleeping pills,” and so on. But what about comparing cannabis to more innocuous substances, like ibuprofen ...

This piece has created a lot of reaction, as you might imagine. Some positive, but mostly negative from what I’ve seen. And I’ve got thoughts, too. I get the point being made in the piece, but I reject the list, because it’s reductive and patronizing and it denies English it&r...