A Practical Radical Politics
How can we navigate the tension between practicality and radicalism in political activism? Professor Robert Jensen discusses.
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The ‘Look at the expansive BLM Manifesto’ comeback
Now at this point, many of the individuals who flatter themselves that they’re extremely smart with this response that should make most of us with a smattering of common sense roll our eyes heavenwards, crash back in with a Wikipedia quote about Black Lives Matter as an organization, with their mission statement, goals etc as […]
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The Incredible Racism of Some Responses to Black Lives Matter
Some of the responses to Black Lives Matter are worth analysing, not for the sake of their arguments but for what they reveal about those who make them.
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In Which They Blame ‘Media Portrayal’
The outrage of the protestors is not due to the media 'manufacturing' instances, it's the expected reaction when such horrendous instances come to light.
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The ‘I’m not racist because I listen to / read Coleman Hughes’ disclaimer
Coleman Hughes is an undergraduate in Philosophy at Columbia, currently a leading voice and commentator on all issues pertaining to black people and the struggle against racism in America. To hear the number of times and the number of people he’s been cited by, you’d think he was a veteran scholar of racism and racial […]
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The ‘Police aren’t racist they shoot non-black people for no reason as well’ response
It is hard to know where to begin with the thinking behind this argument. Arguably, as more and more empirical research about police brutality, police behaviour and police shootings comes to light, there is some doubt as to whether there is a statistically larger proportion of black people being shot and killed rather than white […]
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The ‘But black-on-black crime’ argument
Responding to a struggle against state sponsored violence with a retort about interpersonal violence is nothing but a clear attempt to derail a conversation
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The Impact of Socioeconomic Conditions on US Police Violence Cannot Be Ignored
Deprivation, violent crime, gun culture and hypermasculinity could do more to explain the violence of US police officers than racism, the evidence suggests.
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How to Have (a) Sex: The Appropriation of Cultural Practices to Fit Postmodernism
The claim that indigenous cultures didn't understand the difference between male and female is pure sleight-of-hand on the part of postmodern 'thinkers'.
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The Race War Recipe: Far-Right Accelerationism
In the murky background of current American events, something deeply unnerving is taking place. The far right is seeking to instigate a race war.
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