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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS - MAY 11, 2021  
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_ Who's getting canceled? The disabled, critical race theory, and
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Schoolchildren in San Francisco confront the manager of a supermarket
where one of their classmates was accused of shoplifting. Credit,
Harvey Milk Civil Rights Academy via Facebook

 

* Cancel Culture and Woke Capitalism
* Sweden’s Radical Comics Community
* Hollywood’s Disability Stereotypes
* Black Students Shake Up Lacrosse
* Podcast: #MeToo, 2021
* Robo-taxis or Public Transportation?
* The War On Critical Race Theory
* A Social Conservative Tanks in London Election
* Questioning Militarism
* Leave Those Kids Alone

CANCEL CULTURE AND WOKE CAPITALISM
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By Helen Lewis
The Atlantic

The best way to see the firings, outings, and online denunciations
grouped together as “cancel culture” is not through a social lens,
but an economic one.

VIDEO: SWEDEN’S RADICAL COMICS COMMUNITY
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By Rad Dox
Roar

Over the past 15 years, a new genre of comics has developed in Sweden.
Some of the works are neatly drawn autobiographies, others
cut-and-paste, satirical collages. But what’s unique is that the
genre is dominated by women, feminist and politically radical. This is
the story of a cultural movement.

New Doc Exposes Hollywood’s Disability Stereotypes
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By Colleen Morrissey
Reader

As Hollywood’s discriminatory practices are coming under increased
scrutiny,_ Code of the Freaks_ gives much-needed voice to the myriad
ways disabled people's lives are directly affected by recurring themes
in mainstream movies.

BLACK STUDENTS SHAKE UP LACROSSE
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By Jeff Burtka
The Guardian

Although lacrosse is a Native American game, its participants are
primarily white. Then the Cass Tech girls team from Detroit stepped
up.

PODCAST: #METOO, 2021
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By Dorothy Wickenden, Alexandra Schwartz and Jane Mayer
The New Yorker

Two books by Blake Bailey were taken out of print, after accusations
that Bailey has had a long history of sexual misconduct and assault.
The case has helped bring the struggle against sexual misconduct back
into the cultural spotlight. 

ROBO-TAXIS OR PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION?
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By Jacob Silverman
The New Republic

Lyft and Uber’s autonomous vehicle hype has far outstripped
progress. Let’s put our hopes, and our money, elsewhere.

THE WAR ON CRITICAL RACE THEORY
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By David Theo Goldberg
Boston Review

CRT functions for the right today primarily as an empty signifier for
any talk of race and racism at all, a catch-all specter lumping
together any suggestion that racial inequities in the United States
are anything but fair outcomes, the result of choices made by equally
positioned individuals in a free society. 

A SOCIAL CONSERVATIVE TANKS IN LONDON ELECTION
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By Simon Childs
Vice

Despite favourable coverage in the right-wing press, Laurence Fox lost
his £10,000 deposit and received fewer votes than a YouTuber who
pledged to reduce the price of Freddo candy bars.

QUESTIONING MILITARISM
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By Marianne Williamson
Newsweek

In no area has the wool been pulled over the eyes of the modern
American than in the area of our perpetual war machine. Our military
budget, almost twice the size of the military expenditures of every
other country on Earth, is treated as though to question it is to
suggest that our safety and security do not matter.

LEAVE THOSE KIDS ALONE
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By Joe Kukura
Broke-Ass Stuart

Two security guards and supermarket staff accused 11-year-old
Ja’Mari Oliver of stealing the sandwich and detained the Black
youngster. A large crowd of students from his public school left the
school grounds to go confront the store management.

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