The Model Minority Myth bolsters the idea that Asians experience less hate & prejudice because $$. And explains lack of empathy with our struggles.
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Tag: Politics
Purity Politics and Being All Things to All Peoples
I am tired of purity politics. I’m tired of American political parties demanding homogeneity from their members. I’m tired of being only Democrat or
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The Un-Civil States of America
I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the death of civil society and what it means to sound right in the course of attempting
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The Significance in Populism, Jihadism and Communism
Why do individuals turn to extreme solutions in their quest for a life of significance? There is a current running through right-wing populism which
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Taking President-elect Trump Seriously
I heard an interesting quote the other day, Donald Trump’s supporters took the man seriously but didn’t take his words seriously. Trump’s opponents took
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Political Parties aren’t Religions
One of the issues I have with the political debates in this country is the misguided notion that political parties’ philosophies are monolithic. They
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Can we talk foreign policy now?
… Or Ya know, Governatoring! Donald Trump is the President-elect of the United States of America. Yesterday, I wrote that I disagreed with Hillary
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At Least Hillary Clinton isn’t Donald Trump
Or … She Ain’t That Muchuva Jagoff I’m not all that broken up about Hillary Clinton getting my vote for President on Election Day.
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Louisianans Should Impeach Bobby Jindal
Holy effing eff. The mathematical gymnastics needed by Bobby Jindal just to keep his No Taxes pledge to Grover Norquist’s Americans for Tax Reform
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The Politics of… Srsly No One Care About Clinton’s Announcement Speech
Kevin Drum on Hillary Clinton’s lovely but completely ineffectual and unimplementable announcement speech: As near as I can tell, Americans seem to vote for
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