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DISPATCHES FROM THE CULTURE WARS - NOVEMBER 9, 2021  
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November 9, 2021
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_ The wages of wokeness _

Credit, Dave Whamond

 

* What is Woke Washing?
* Woke Racism
* Texas’s Book Ban List
* The Politics of Jewface
* Eco-Activism
* Affirmative Action and the War on CRT  
* India Walton Was Robbed
* Demisexuality Comes Out
* Dystopian Dorm
* Rebecca Solnit on the Politics of Pleasure

 

 

WHAT IS WOKE WASHING?
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By Laura Pitcher
Teen Vogue

Ethically problematic companies use social movements to increase sales
without addressing how their business is complicit. In the fashion
industry, woke-washing can look like Kendall Jenner’s controversial
Pepsi commercial, co-opting protest movements and not treating the
issue of police brutality in the U.S. with the weight it deserves. 

WOKE RACISM
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By Sean Illing
Vox

For John McWhorter, antiracism functions more like a religion than an
ideology or a political project. And its adherents are obsessed with
“performing” virtue, not for the sake of societal change but
because of the sense of purpose it offers them.

TEXAS’S BOOK BAN LIST [[link removed]]

By Danika Ellis
Book Riot

With the increase of book bans and challenges recently, Texas
Republican State Representative Matt Krause appears to want to
preemptively remove any books that could be challenged for causing
“discomfort.”

THE POLITICS OF “JEWFACE”
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By Rebecca Pierce
Jewish Currents

Sarah Silverman has come out against the casting of non-Jews in Jewish
roles—a stance with a fraught racial history bound up with the
legacy of blackface.

ECO-ACTIVISM

HOW STUDENTS DO IT
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By Jack Armstrong, The State News

LESSONS FROM 1971
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Nilanjana Roy, Financial Times

AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AND THE WAR ON CRT
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By Ebony Slaughter-Johnson
LA Progressive

The legislative entrenchment of affirmative action will be spun by
conservatives as “reverse racism” that hampers the educational
advancement of white children. 

INDIA WALTON WAS ROBBED
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C.M. Lewis and Tyler Walicek
Truthout

Byron Brown, drawing upon the kind of connections that come with two
decades in the mayoralty, was able to gather powerful allies and amass
momentum to overcome the socialist Democratic nominee, ensuring the
continuation of punishing neoliberal austerity in a city marred by
yawning racial and class inequalities.

DEMISEXUALITY COMES OUT
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By Jessica Klein
BBC News 

Some people need to feel an emotional bond before developing
attraction. Many people don't accept this as a sexual orientation —
but demisexuals say that’s misguided.

DYSTOPIAN DORM
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By Whitney Kimball
Gizmodo

It will warehouse up to 4,500 students, 94 percent of whom will sleep
in pods equipped with what appears to be artificial sunlight panels
and bunks wedged into the wall, spending their formative years winding
through eight-bedroom containers. Like rats. 

REBECCA SOLNIT ON THE POLITICS OF PLEASURE
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By Helen Rosner
The New Yorker

“Sometimes the people who try to only care about the great noble
goal make themselves miserable, and then go on to make everyone else
miserable, and don’t really accomplish a great deal,
necessarily.” 

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