{"id":6544,"date":"2021-04-09T20:33:54","date_gmt":"2021-04-10T04:33:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/?p=6544"},"modified":"2021-04-09T20:33:54","modified_gmt":"2021-04-10T04:33:54","slug":"things-glen-found-interesting-volume-296","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glenandpaula.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2021\/04\/09\/things-glen-found-interesting-volume-296","title":{"rendered":"Things Glen Found Interesting, Volume 296"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

<\/a> On Fri\u00addays I share articles\/resources about broad cul\u00adtur\u00adal, soci\u00adetal and the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal issues. Be sure to see the expla\u00adna\u00adtion and dis\u00adclaimers at the bot\u00adtom. I wel\u00adcome your sug\u00adges\u00adtions. If you read some\u00adthing fas\u00adci\u00adnat\u00ading please pass it my way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is vol\u00adume 296, which is the num\u00adber of par\u00adti\u00adtions<\/a> con\u00adtained in the num\u00adber 30.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Things Glen Found Interesting<\/h3>\n\n\n\n
  1. The Woke Mer\u00adi\u00adtoc\u00adra\u00adcy<\/a> (Blake Smith, Tablet Mag\u00ada\u00adzine): \u201cThe con\u00adtem\u00adpo\u00adrary ide\u00adal, increas\u00ading\u00adly, is no longer some\u00adone so charm\u00ading\u00adly per\u00adson\u00adable that oth\u00aders for\u00adget he is in fact a ruth\u00adless com\u00adpeti\u00adtor, but a per\u00adson who so con\u00advinc\u00ading\u00adly nar\u00adrates her hav\u00ading over\u00adcome some kind of social injus\u00adtice that oth\u00aders for\u00adget she is in fact a ben\u00ade\u00adfi\u00adcia\u00adry of sys\u00adtems of priv\u00adi\u00adlege.\u201d The author is a his\u00adto\u00adry prof at U Chica\u00adgo. This essay is straight fire, and I believe he took an x\u2011ray of some of your souls before he wrote it.<\/li>
  2. Some Prin\u00adci\u00adples & Obser\u00adva\u00adtions About Social Jus\u00adtice Pol\u00adi\u00adtics<\/a> (Fred\u00addie deBoer, Sub\u00adstack): \u201cOnce you have made the pre\u00adven\u00adtion of emo\u00adtion\u00adal harm the cen\u00adtral focus of your pol\u00adi\u00adtics, you will find your\u00adself run\u00adning up against the fact that emo\u00adtion\u00adal harm is a ubiq\u00adui\u00adtous and inerad\u00adi\u00adca\u00adble part of the human expe\u00adri\u00adence, far beyond the abil\u00adi\u00adty of any polit\u00adi\u00adcal move\u00adment to pre\u00advent.\u201d deBoer, one of my two favorite athe\u00adist social\u00adists to read (the oth\u00ader being Steven Brust), brings it with excel\u00adlence in this one. It was hard to find the best excerpt \u2014 there are so many.<\/li>
  3. Kati Kariko Helped Shield the World From the Coro\u00adn\u00adavirus<\/a> (Gina Kola\u00adta, New York Times): \u201cFor her entire career, Dr. Kariko has focused on mes\u00adsen\u00adger RNA, or mRNA \u2014 the genet\u00adic script that car\u00adries DNA instruc\u00adtions to each cell\u2019s pro\u00adtein-mak\u00ading machin\u00adery. She was con\u00advinced mRNA could be used to instruct cells to make their own med\u00adi\u00adcines, includ\u00ading vac\u00adcines. But for many years her career at the Uni\u00adver\u00adsi\u00adty of Penn\u00adsyl\u00adva\u00adnia was frag\u00adile. She migrat\u00aded from lab to lab, rely\u00ading on one senior sci\u00aden\u00adtist after anoth\u00ader to take her in. She nev\u00ader made more than $60,000 a year.\u201d This is a heart\u00adwarm\u00ading sto\u00adry that should also make you very sad \u2014 it illus\u00adtrates how bro\u00adken the aca\u00add\u00ade\u00adm\u00adic sys\u00adtem is and how we came very close to los\u00ading a life\u00adsav\u00ading break\u00adthrough.<\/li>
  4. This should not hap\u00adpen more than once<\/a> (Alexan\u00addra Petri, Wash\u00ading\u00adton Post): \u201cThe moments when peo\u00adple make up their secret minds about what is nor\u00admal and what is accept\u00adable are nev\u00ader big. They are always in pri\u00advate, when no one can see that you have failed the test, when all you were doing was try\u00ading to avoid any dis\u00adcom\u00adfort, be cool, play along. But there is a price. The price is that the Matt Gaet\u00adzes out there will leave the inter\u00adac\u00adtion think\u00ading they have under\u00adstood the world cor\u00adrect\u00adly. That what they are doing is work\u00ading. That this is how the world is. But it is the accu\u00admu\u00adla\u00adtion of these lit\u00adtle assents that make the world this way.\u201d Well-writ\u00adten and true. Also, don\u2019t take nude pho\u00adtos of your\u00adself nor allow oth\u00aders to do so. It is unlike\u00adly you will be hap\u00adpy with the out\u00adcome.<\/li>
  5. A Hea\u00adthen\u2019s East\u00ader<\/a> (Steve Randy Wald\u00adman, Inter\u00adflu\u00adid\u00adi\u00adty): \u201cMy the\u00ado\u00adlog\u00adi\u00adcal sophis\u00adti\u00adca\u00adtion is about can\u00addy-wrap\u00adper lev\u00adel. But for what\u00adev\u00ader it\u2019s worth, I con\u00adsid\u00ader this aspect of Christianity\u2019s found\u00ading myth or event remark\u00adable, and under\u00adem\u00adpha\u00adsized. \u2018For\u00adgive them, Father, they know not what they do,\u2019 rep\u00adre\u00adsents a pro\u00adfound plea from the lips of a man being painful\u00adly mur\u00addered. That a par\u00adent, one with fire and brim\u00adstone read\u00adi\u00adly at hand and a noto\u00adri\u00adous his\u00adto\u00adry of smit\u00ading, would for\u00adgive is per\u00adhaps even more aston\u00adish\u00ading, even more won\u00adder\u00adful.\u201d Rec\u00adom\u00admend\u00aded by a friend of the min\u00adistry.<\/li>
  6. The effects of Black Lives Mat\u00adter protests<\/a> (Jerusalem Dem\u00adsas, Vox): \u201c[The researcher\u2019s] main find\u00ading is a 15 to 20 per\u00adcent reduc\u00adtion in lethal use of force by police offi\u00adcers \u2014 rough\u00adly 300 few\u00ader police homi\u00adcides \u2014 in cen\u00adsus places that saw BLM protests. Campbell\u2019s research also indi\u00adcates that these protests cor\u00adre\u00adlate with a 10 per\u00adcent increase in mur\u00adders in the areas that saw BLM protests. That means from 2014 to 2019, there were some\u00adwhere between 1,000 and 6,000 more homi\u00adcides than would have been expect\u00aded if places with protests were on the same trend as places that did not have protests.\u201d<\/li>
  7. A whole pas\u00adsel of trans-relat\u00aded arti\u00adcles: