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Category Archives: Discrimination
Alex Jones
Alex Jones and his Infowars website have been removed and banned from YouTube, Facebook, Apple, and Spotify among the most popular social media platforms. As of this moment, Twitter claims to be reviewing CNN claims that Jones and Infowars violate … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, immigration, Musings
Tagged 9/11, Alex Jones, Facebook, First Amendment, free speech, hate speech, Jonathan Rauch, Safe zones, Sandy Hook, Stephen Miller, trigger warnings, Twitter, YouTube
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Improving Intercultural Understanding
My friend Yael Luttwak, a film maker, undertook a brilliant project in Palestine (now comprising Israel, the West Bank and the Gaza Strip) in 2007 to improve relations between Jewish Israeli and Palestinian women. In her own words she “filmed … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Palestine
Tagged black power, Gaza, integration, Israel, Israeli women, Palestine, Palestinian women, race relations, University of Tennessee, West Bank
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The Wedding Cake
Americans harbor many conflicting views on many subjects. Our right to freely express them is guaranteed in the American Constitution’s First Amendment. It is precisely this right that has enabled the LGBT community to convince an ever-growing number of our … Continue reading
Do we really need Free Speech?
James Damore was fired by Google for a memo he posted at work giving his views on why there are so few women at his workplace. Basically, he argued, fewer women are interested in math and science than men and … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination, Uncategorized
Tagged free speech, google, Harvard, James Damore, Larry Summers, math, repression, Science, women
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Science, Discrimination, and Larry Summers
It is clear that Harvard President Larry Summers has hit a nerve, yet again. It is far less clear why reactions have been so strong and often so disappointing to those of us who believe in science. Let us know … Continue reading
Posted in Discrimination
Tagged Discrimination, free speech, google, James Damore, Larry Summers, women
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