John Oliver actually asks some amazing questions of Edward Snowden. He’s a great interviewer.
Certainly as aspect I hadn’t previously considered: the effect on those doing the shaming.
I don’t see this backlash as problematic because I see the issue as no big deal, as some Noah apologists do. I see it as problematic because I see it as too big a deal to be funneled into putting just one guy on trial and giving the rest of the culture a pass—because “scapegoating,” in the classic sense of the term, is all about heaping symbolic abuse on a symbolic target to avoid having to actually change anything about ourselves.
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Just like our celebrities and ourselves, the movements we champion are also problematic. Our feminism is racist, classist and transphobic. Our anti-racism is sexist. Our LGBT rights movement is racist and classist. They are all ableist. Acknowledging this isn’t divisive: ignoring it is.
But oppression isn’t really upheld by virulent bigots, it’s sheltered in the intentions of “good” people like you and me. People too concerned with seeing themselves as good to recognize where they have been bad. It’s time to hold ourselves accountable to the values that shape our movements. Grow up, own up, do better.
Forget Williamsburg; check out the prices for an apartment on Riker’s.
The original X-Files was a terrible show and I couldn’t care less about the reboot. There, I said it.
GitHub was apparently targeted by China’s “Great Cannon,” which is about as bad as it sounds.
If you’ve ever been curious about the history of one of the most popular JavaScript libraries, check out the source of the first version of jQuery, annotated by the creator John Resig. Lot of interesting nuggets in here.
“But… but… censorship!” a thousand angry neckbeards cry in unison.
More fun ways our “unbiased” algorithms are actually quite biased.
