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In the New Yorker...
Front-Ranger:
Has anyone read "The Limits of Liberalism" in the Sept. 20th issue? I'm debating with myself whether to tackle that one.
serious crayons:
I haven't read it, but I'll probably give it a shot. There's so much conversation about CRT lately -- the term has become a fake boogeyman scare tactic among conservatives. But frankly, I'm not even sure what it is myself. Must have to do with systemic racism, but I don't know what beyond that.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 29, 2021, 12:01:22 pm ---Has anyone read "The Limits of Liberalism" in the Sept. 20th issue? I'm debating with myself whether to tackle that one.
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--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 29, 2021, 01:25:34 pm ---I haven't read it, but I'll probably give it a shot. There's so much conversation about CRT lately -- the term has become a fake boogeyman scare tactic among conservatives. But frankly, I'm not even sure what it is myself. Must have to do with systemic racism, but I don't know what beyond that.
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I read it. I recognized the name Derek Bell, though I couldn't have said from where. I found it worthwhile for the history of how we got to where we are, and for the demonstration of how every advance in Equality is met with pushback (which we already knew)e--and how an important figure in the Civil Rights Movement came to understand that. I remember a question I've wondered about myself: Are children better off being taken by bus to a distant school to obtain racial diversity, or better off left in a neighborhood school, even if the school is effectively segregated?
Jeff Wrangler:
In the September 27 Annals of Medicine article, it is said of the woman who contracted coronavirus that "her social-media updates went viral."
Can I get a rim shot, please?
Really TNY? You let something like that go through?
(Yes, I'm perfectly aware of the use of viral in the context of social media posts, but ... really?)
I may actually write to TNY about this. They've probably heard from other people already, but it will make me feel better to write them.
serious crayons:
I'm not sure I understand. Were they in the same sentence or paragraph, so it sounded clumsy and/or insensitive because TNY wasn't acknowledging? I'm not sure there are any synonyms for social-media viral unless it's "read by millions" or something like that. No one-word term, is there?
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