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On May 29, President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda signed one of the world’s stringent anti-LGBTQ legislations, that restricts LGBTQ rights and introduces harsher penalties for certain types of homosexual acts. While the new legislation enjoys support from a significant portion of the population in this East African nation, it has faced widespread condemnation from rights … Continued

In Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Laura Connelly explore how anti-racist scholar-activists navigate the challenges and leverage the opportunities of the university in pursuit of social justice. Illuminating the complicated, often uncomfortable position of the scholar-activist, this book is a valuable resource for anti-racist struggle both inside and outside academia, writes Camila Andrade. This blogpost originally appeared on LSE Review of Books. If you … Continued

− von David Hörmann "Alternative für Deutschland. Die neue Anti-Euro-Partei" (von Petersdorff 2013a) – "Neue AfD punktet mit Anti-Asyl-Kurs" (Weiland 2015). Zwischen diesen beiden Überschriften liegen nur etwas mehr als zwei Jahre. Doch wie konnte sich eine junge Partei innerhalb dieser kurzen Zeit so in ihrer Grundausrichtung verändern? Und wie...

Biden has committed to spreading and promoting DEI throughout the government and government-funded agencies. His administration can't take a harsh stance against campus anti-Semitism because it is, in significant part, an operational manifestation of the ideology that his administration is promoting.
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Last week's awful speech set me on edge immediately.  The first words about handouts were a signal, but the thing that confirmed that the talk would be awful was Maisonneuve invocation of "woke."  Whenever I hear anyone tossing around that word contemptuously, I immediately code that person as not worth listening to.  Why?To be clear, woke refers to folks who have become aware of the historical legacies of discrimination and the present-day implications.  That's pretty much it, that woke people understand that there is and has been significant discrimination.   That's it.  To be anti-woke, which many folks on the right are now so proud of, means denying that discrimination happened and/or it has made an impact on today.  Of course, it is more complicated than that--it can mean being opposed to the measures used to address the remedial efforts aimed at reducing discrimination and compensating for its impact.  The classic case of this maybe opposing affirmative action as it may be seen as unfair to white men, and the opponents usually say that such measures are unfair as it means that those who are more meritorious are being denied opportunities due to the sins of their fathers.  There is a lot built into that including the notion that today's procedures would be otherwise focused entirely on merit if not for considerations of race, ethnicity, gender, etc.The reality of today's politics is that when one loudly proclaims that one is anti-woke, one is doing one of two things (or both):a) one is signaling to one's white, male, "Christian" supporters that one is with them, an enthusiastic supporter of some past status quo (real or imagined) where the woke folks were kept in their place;  folks, including myself, refer to this as vice-signaling.  b) one is actually one of these folks who are actually an enthusiastic supporter of some past reality (fake or real) where the uppity folks knew better and that one could discriminate, harass and do more without being called out for it.I tend to think Ted Cruz, for instance, is in the first category--that he does not really believe anything but wants power and signals being anti-woke to appeal to his racist, homophobic, xenophobic, misogynist supporters.  That does not make these folks better even if they don't believe in the hate they are inciting--it makes them just as bad as the genuine article as they are inciting and providing comfort for them.  Vice signaling is dangerous and awful and should be called out.Is this cancellation?  No, free speech means one has the right to engage in vice-signaling, but it also means that others have the right to call it out for what it is.  Maisonneuve got more than just a right to speak last week--he got to have a platform to do it.  And he abused it.  And I have the right to call him out as does everyone else who considers his speech to be awful, intolerant, and retrograde.    

The market has created a lot of dog-free housing for a reason. A bill from Assemblymember Matt Haney would destroy it.

Die Mobilisierung von Affekten ist ein Kennzeichen neoliberaler Steuerung und Regierung. In vielen gesellschaftlichen Bereichen führte dies zu einem affektiven "Exzess" – Angst vor Überforderung, vor...

Critics have misunderstood the complexity behind Viktor Orbán's narrative of railing against 'Brussels'.

This article first appeared in French at Le Grand Continent "In foreign relations," Walter Lippmann famously wrote, "a nation must maintain its objectives and its power in equilibrium, its purposes within its means and its means equal to its purposes." When nations fail to balance international commitments and national capabilities, Lippmann added, they "will follow … Continued

Taliban-led governance in Afghanistan faces several critical weaknesses, the least not being the lack of a recognisable constitution. Absent other forms of legitimising institutions, regime survival will increasingly rely on force and violence.

In Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism, Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Laura Connelly explore how anti-racist scholar-activists navigate the challenges and leverage the opportunities of the university in pursuit of social justice. Illuminating the complicated, often uncomfortable position of the scholar-activist, this book is a valuable resource for anti-racist struggle both inside and outside academia, writes Camila Andrade. Anti-Racist Scholar-Activism. Remi Joseph-Salisbury and Laura Connelly. Manchester University Press. … Continued

1992 bekam die Fat Acceptance/Fat Positivity-Bewegung so etwas wie einen offiziellen Aktions­tag, den Internationalen Anti-Diät-Tag. Aus­gerufen hatte ihn die britische Autorin Mary Evans Young, die zwei ausschlaggebende Gründe für ihre Idee zu diesem Tag nannte: Zum einen sah sie im Fernsehen, wie eine junge Frau schon zum dritten Mal eine Magen­verkleinerungs­operation durchführen ließ, weil sie... Weiterlesen →

When political commentators talk about polarization, they often mean a partisan ideological divide: the left vs the right, republicans vs democrats, progressives vs conservatives. But what if there is a different dichotomy driving our political disagreements that is orthogonal to ideological differences?

That's what University of Miami political scientist Joseph Uscinski argues in a recent paper, "American Politics in Two Dimensions: Partisan and Ideological Identities versus Anti-Establishment Orientations. Using two national surveys from 2019 and 2020, he shows that anti-establishment and anti-elite sentiments may be more of a driving force in our politics than partisan ideology.

Another week another tedious attack on "wokery" in the New York Times. This is by the conservative David Brooks, but I've seen it endorsed by "class-struggle" anti-wokists. Anyway, Brooks helpfully lists the characteristics of wokery in bullet-points, enabling some immediate commentary: "We shouldn't emphasize what unites all human beings; we should emphasize what divides us." […]

From 31 January to 1 February 2017, MPs debated the European Union (Notification of Withdrawal) Bill on whether to trigger Brexit – the Article 50 notice. MPs overwhelmingly backed the bill, supported by the Labour leadership under Jeremy Corbyn, by 498 votes FOR, to 114 AGAINST. Ken Clarke was one of the 114 MPs. He […]
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