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Harrisburg PA. Credit, Dan Gleiter

 

* Against Kids’ Sports 
* Mikey’s League: Disability and Sports
* High School Teammates Break the Hate
* Boxing Match Gets Political
* Sexism in Women’s Sports
* Anti-Vaxxers: “We’re ‘Purebloods’”
* Occupy Wall Street Made Me a Socialist
* A School Board Win For White Power
* Remembering Two Intellectual Giants
* Anti-Porn Evangelicals Blame It On the Jews

AGAINST KIDS’ [[link removed]]
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By Anne Helen Petersen
Substack

The professionalization of children’s sports has transformed and
degraded the desire to play, the desire to be part of something, even
just the desire to _move_ into class-siloed, life-swallowing
regimentation.

MIKEY’S LEAGUE: DISABILITY AND SPORTS
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By Hannah Bronkema
Cronkite News

Through a shared vision of accessibility and inclusivity in sports,
childhood friends Karl Bender and Scott Freeman formed Mikey’s
League with a powerful objective: to challenge the limits placed on
the disabled community and allow them to inspire and teach others.

HIGH SCHOOL TEAMMATES BREAK THE HATE
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By Khalia Patterson
KQAD

Rock Island High School students brought flags from different
countries to Tuesday night’s soccer game to support a student
athlete after a racial bias incident. Previously, Gabriel Albarran was
wearing a Mexican flag to celebrate Mexican Independence Day when
getting on a bus to a game when the driver told him to take off the
flag and to go back to his country.

BOXING MATCH GETS POLITICAL
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By Tom Sanders
LAD-bible

Michele Broili was defeated in Trieste in a battle for the
super-featherweight title by his opponent Hassan Nourdine, a battle
that reignited a long-running debate in Italy about the public display
of Nazi and fascist symbols.

SEXISM IN WOMEN’S SPORTS
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By Mouhamad Ration
CBC Radio

The International Olympic Committee has indicated it aims to make
the international event more inclusive. Prior to Tokyo 2020, the IOC
released new guidelines to ensure gender-equal, fair and inclusive
representation at the Olympics. But the increase in the number of
women athletes should not be the be-all and end-all of a discussion
on gender equality.

ANTI-VAXXERS: “WE’RE ‘PUREBLOODS’”
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By Sabine Joseph
Daily Dot

“The #unvaccinated have started calling themselves #pureblood.
They’re so desperate to be persecuted, they’re ready to align
themselves with Nazis.”

OCCUPY WALL STREET MADE ME A SOCIALIST
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By Alex N. Press
Jacobin

When I first heard about Occupy Wall Street, I thought it was goofy,
even absurd. Maybe it was. But I joined its encampments anyway. Like
countless others, it was the first time radical politics ever reached
me.

A SCHOOL BOARD WIN FOR WHITE POWER
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By Karen Attiah
The Washington Post

Stetson Clark, a former school board candidate, called for school
principal James Whitfield’s firing over supposedly “extreme
views” on race. Clark accused Whitfield of promoting critical race
theory — a loaded charge here in Texas right now — and the
supposed “conspiracy theory” of systemic racism.

REMEMBERING TWO INTELLECTUAL GIANTS
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By Walter Hudson
Diverse

Dr. Albert J. Raboteau and Dr. Charles Mills made their mark on the
academy and brought a cutting-edge approach to their scholarship.

ANTI-PORN EVANGELICALS BLAME IT ON THE JEWS
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By Mira Fox
Forward

It’s easy to bundle the moral beliefs against pornography with moral
arguments against certain identities, elevating more pernicious
antisemtic or anti-LGBTQ beliefs alongside the easier-to-swallow
anti-trafficking campaign. 

 

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