Category: Public Policy
You’re being canceled
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At a conceptual level, the difference is clear. Criticism marshals evidence and arguments in a rational effort to persuade. Canceling, by contrast, seeks to organize and manipulate the social or media environment in order to isolate, deplatform or intimidate ideological opponents. It is about shaping the information battlefield, not seeking truth; and its intent — or at least its predictable outcome — is to coerce conformity and reduce the scope for forms of criticism that are not sanctioned by the prevailing consensus of some local majority.
Wall of moms lullaby
These are the radical anarchists that Republicans say we need to fear.
— David Hogg (text vote to 954-954) (@davidhogg111) July 22, 2020
Moms protecting peaceful protesters from the secret police singing “hands up please don’t shoot me” as a lullaby
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Why we’re talking about voting rights
Fear (canceled)
Attacks on NGOs
Attacks on NGOs worldwide (1971-2015). The Global Terrorism Database includes systematic data on domestic as well as transnational and international terrorist incidents. DATASOURCE: Global Terrorism Database. WIDGET: factgraphs.org
My abridged Green New Deal
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If you’re serious about climate change—really serious—then your plan cannot demand very much sacrifice from people. Maybe none, in fact.