Illusions of the opposition to Defunding the police
Release Date: 07/28/2021
American COVID Policy- Eugenics with a Sticker
Finding the Warmth of Our Sun
The implication and action of leaving "high risk" populations to fend for themselves is a policy of eugenics. We are disposable, and with 40% of the country having at least one chronic illness, that makes 40% of us disposable as a "drag on the nation" to some, and a sacrifice to capitalism for others.
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The Bright Ages: Interview with Author David Perry
Finding the Warmth of Our Sun
Matthew is joined by co-author David M. Perry of the Bright Ages where they discuss the book, how it peels back the layers of Medieval Europe to expose not a dark or backward age, but one with diversity, culture, and more. They explore how we can see our modern age within it, with all the mess that comes with being human- the highs and lows.
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24 arrested in Georgia for enslaving immigrant farmers, and the Coup had a power point
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24 arrested in Georgia for enslaving immigrant farmers, and the Coup had a power point
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, and Jim Crow's legacy
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Kyle Rittenhouse, the killing of Ahmaud Arbery, and Jim Crow's legacy
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Cops in MMSD: using a stick over community is a colonial mentality
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The mentality of those who believe putting cops in schools will end the fights at East High school, is a mentality that using a stick is how you keep order, especially among Black and Brown populations. It is a colonial mentality. It also is one that doesn't understand the dynamics of our society, of behavior, the threat of violence through police may create order but it won't create safety; many times not the former either. What does this tell us about these people? How can we understand our social dynamics and what can be done?
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MMSD fights and community alternatives to police, with another "cops keep lying"
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In the face of fights at Madison schools, it seems white parents are calling for cops in schools. But another district, which at the surface level seems to have had a worse fighting problem, solved this through community and community alternatives. Affluent white parents should do the same, or at least commit the resources to do so. What are they scared of? And then to wrap up, a couple of high profile examples of police lying, again, and one of them is within Madison.
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Searching for Black Confederates
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"Searching for Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth" by Historian Kevin Levin, is a thorough documentation and presentation of how Black, camp slaves, served as a central part of the army of Southern succession. But did not serve as soldiers, were not seen as soldiers, and the debate to allow them to be soldiers or not betrayed the project of the Confederacy- that the subjection of Black people to slavery, with White masters, was the God ordained order of things.
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White Genocide Nazi-Conspiracy Theory goes mainstream GOP
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White genocide and the Great Replacement Theory, are conspiracy theories with Nazi and anti-Semitic roots. GOP reps, conservative news, and more have fully embraced these ideas, ideas that argue for genocide for all non-white people. It is becoming a normal idea for the GOP voting population too. What are these ideas and theories and where did they come from?
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Cops in the news & Mandela faces dog-whistle journalism
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This week, Matthew highlights a few stories about police and corrupt behavior around the country and Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes was just the target of dog-whistle journalism.
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The bad process of 'They Came Before Columbus'
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"They Came Before Columbus" is a popular enough book that claims Africans came to the Americas and played a significant role in shaping Indigenous Histories. The book, and research, uses a bad process of sorting through history, misaligned times, leaps of faith, misquotes, and more than what I actually cover. For those of us who have lost a lot of our history, it can be easy to fall into more fantastical views of the past, oversized importance. But this is bad history, and it is also a duplication of a process that has erased the histories of people across the globe,...
info_outlineDefund the police has become a rallying cry, while "very smart people" have said and reported that people don't support defund, that it is a bad slogan, and that it hurts Democrats. Some of this is wrong, some of this is the wrong way to think about it. And most of it isn't engaging in police, defund, and our justice system in good faith. Let's talk this stuff through, and follow the evidence, especially on how polling can give us the wrong information depending upon how we ask the questions.