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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS – NOVEMBER 19, 2024  
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November 19, 2024
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_ Making sense of the new hell _

Dave Whamond, Cagle Cartoons

 

* Making Sense
* The Free Speech Challenge
* Shawn Fain on the Election
* Walking Away From Trans Rights
* Empty Quads and Busy Counselling Centers
* Why Dystopian Fiction is Hot
* Native American Solutions to Tyranny
* Hatred Comes Out in Columbus OH
* Target: Educational Speech
* Diddy Case Sparks a New #MeToo

MAKING SENSE
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By Frieda Afary
New Politics

To mainstream pundits, it was rising inflation, economic hardships and
Democrats being too “woke”, and not closing the border to
undocumented immigrants. For leftists and left liberal pundits, it
was abandoning the working class and paying too much attention to
gender, identity and wokeness. Both views have some glaring
contradictions.

THE FREE SPEECH CHALLENGE
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By Nan Levinson
TomDispatch

Efforts to stifle expression of all sorts keep popping up like
Whac-A-Mole on steroids. It can be hard to tell if Trump means what he
says or can even say what he means, but you can bet that, with an
enemies list that makes Nixon look like a piker, he intends to try
to hobble the press in multiple ways. 

SHAWN FAIN ON THE ELECTION
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By Julia Conley
Common Dreams

Fain urged union members to get involved in “political action on
every level of government, in every state, in every sector has an
impact on every contract, every organizing drive, and every standard
we win as a union,” while Bernie Sanders implored the Democratic
Party to urgently “determine which side it is on in the great
economic struggle of our times.”

WALKING AWAY FROM TRANS RIGHTS
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By Joanna Wuest
Jacobin

Democratic Party leaders and their donors bear responsibility for the
increasingly widespread view of trans rights as incompatible with a
politics that benefits the many, not the few.

EMPTY QUADS AND BUSY COUNSELLING CENTERS
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By Bea Oyster and Allegra Kirkland
Teen Vogue

_Teen Vogue_ dispatched student photojournalists in the swing states
of Michigan, Nevada, and Pennsylvania — all of which ultimately went
to Trump — to document how their peers were responding to the 2024
election results. What struck them most was the lack of protests. 

WHY DYSTOPIAN FICTION IS HOT
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By Erika Tulfo
CNN

Margaret Atwood’s “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a novel set in a
totalitarian society, has shot to the top of Amazon’s bestselling
books list following Donald Trump’s reelection. It saw a whopping
6,866% surge in sales, according to Amazon figures, skyrocketing in
just one day to third place from its previous ranking at 209. 

NATIVE AMERICAN SOLUTIONS TO TYRANNY
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By Kathleen DuVal
The Conversation

When the founders of the United States designed the Constitution, they
designed checks and balances to guard against the accumulation of
power they had found when studying ancient Greece and Rome. But there
were others in North America who had also seen the dangers of certain
types of government and had designed their own checks and balances:
the Native Americans.

HATRED COMES OUT IN COLUMBUS OH
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The Week

The people of the United States were shocked on Sunday when users from
Columbus released videos of a neo-Nazi march in the city. Men dressed
in black and wearing masks took out a parade in broad daylight, using
a microphone to chant and shout abuses at people of colour. Social
media users saw the men proudly carrying black flags with red swastika
symbols. 

TARGET: EDUCATIONAL SPEECH
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By Eleanor J. Bader
The Progressive

A recently released report from PEN America, titled America’s
Censored Classrooms 2024, tells a grim story about the right’s
ongoing legislative attacks on inclusive public education. The steep
rise in the number of book bans during the 2023-2024 academic
year, and educational gag orders to limit what topics K-12 teachers
can teach has now spread to public colleges and universities. 

DIDDY CASE SPARKS A NEW #METOO
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By Njera Perkins and Taiyler S. Mitchell
Huffpost

Conceived in 2018, The Female Composer Safety League is an
organization that advocates against the sexual abuse and harassment of
women in the music industry. A report from FCSL — along with
survivor-led advocacy collectives like Lift Our Voices, Representation
Project and Punk Rock Therapist — detailed decades of sexual abuse
accusations leveled against artists and executives. 

* 2024 Elections
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* Donald Trump
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* Free Speech
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* Shawn Fain
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* Bernie Sanders
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* trans rights
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* college campuses
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* dystopian novels
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* Native Americans
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* democracy
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* the handmaid's tale
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* neo-nazism
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* Columbus OH
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* higher education
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* book bans
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* repression
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* sexual assualt
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* Diddy
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* Gender Violence
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