Last weekend’s reading ended with a list of really intelligent people talking about Redditor Violentacrez and the scary world that is /r/creepshots. I’m starting this weekend’s reading with more great insight on the same:
- On Ruining Violentacrez’ Life.
- The Tyranny of Anonmymity, Reddit, and the Future of Your Body Online.
- Power on the Internet.
- “Cultural Scavengers”: Violentacrez, Reddit, and Trolls.
- Free Speech and Power.
- A Critical Look at Trolling Subculture and How We Talk About It.
And some links on other topics:
- #Kony2005.
- Diversity Against Justice.
- Incremental Extremism: on the GOP Abortion Stance.
- Is America Recovering from a Recession or a Financial Crisis?
- A Post-Debate Piece, that ends with a look at who an undecided voter is.
- Mitt, Assault Weapons, and Single Parents.
- Them’s That Got Shall Have: Criminalizing Parents Who Steal Free Education:
At the heart of this issue is how we fund our public schools. As education advocate Diane Ravitch has said, a child’s educational outcomes can be predicted based on her zip code. With few exceptions, the generational nature of wealth transfer means where we live is a direct reflection of how we were born. Wealthier neighborhoods generate more property taxes, which, in turn, can provide greater resources for their public schools. Few of those wealthy parents would advocate for legally barring poor, brown children from attending their schools. But, hardening the border between districts does exactly that: it legally sanctions poor, brown kids from attending those schools. That it also makes inequality a bureaucratic act that distances well-meaning wealthy parents from the dirty act of exclusion is just a bonus.
- Forging North-South (Neck)Ties.
- Hait to Join the African Union – Why Not?
- On Anti-Bullying Campaigns, LGBT Youth of Color Suicide, and Why I Never Supported Spirit Day.
- Out of the Ashes of Dead Trees, on Newsweek.
- A Map of the World whose legend includes everything from “savage” to “enlightened.”
- Omaha Schoolgirl Dresses as a Different Historical Figure Each Day:
This is how Stella Ehrhart, age 8, decides what to wear for school. She opens her closet. She opens her book, “100 Most Important Women of the 20th Century.” And she opens her mind.
Voilà, she is Billie Holiday, in a black dress with a red tissue-paper flower tucked into her strawberry-blond hair. Behold, she is Grace Kelly in pink satin lace on her wedding day. Poof, she is Burmese opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, wearing a hat her aunt got her in Vietnam.
The Dundee Elementary School third-grader comes to school dressed as a different historical figure or character — Every. Single. Day. And she’s done that since the second day of second grade, when this all started.
Scott Ross 