Racism
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TW: Racism - Libertarian Party's Racist Statements Against ex-Politician
newsone.com ‘Picking Crops’: Nina Turner Accuses New Hampshire Libertarian Party Of ‘Racist’ Tweet About HerA demand for free insulin from Nina Turner prompted the New Hampshire Libertarian Party to suggest she should be an enslaved person “picking crops” in a metaphor gone horribly wrong.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/1028956
> For a group advocating freedom.... This what freedom is to them.... That's really messed up.
- marxistsociology.org Does urban development have a race?
Like other fields of study, sociology, specifically urban sociology, has been concerned with inequality across neighborhoods, cities and other scales of geography. The name of the subfield itself invokes some consideration of cities and urbanization processes as points of critical inquiry. Yet, in e...
Tl;dr: Yes.
But I still suggest going through this; maybe bookmark and read later. It's short too.
- www.bbc.com US Supreme Court blocks child slavery lawsuit against chocolate firms
In their lawsuit, a group of men say they were forced to work on cocoa firms in Ivory Coast.
Happy Juneteenth?
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Racism on r/worldnews - Thousands of Hungarians protest in Budapest over new Chinese campus in university.
cross-posted from: https://lemmygrad.ml/post/25581
> The comments are so awful, I really fear for the chinese diaspora in europe.
- bc.ctvnews.ca Hate crimes up 97% overall in Vancouver last year, anti-Asian hate crimes up 717%
A report to be presented to Vancouver's police board on Thursday reiterates what officers warned the public earlier in 2020: hate crime incidents have increased in the city.
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/c/racism has been created (documenting racism and race-related issues)
I feel that this community is long overdue (not really attacking anyone, just feel that we need a place to put articles and writings documenting this problem).
I hope no one misconstrues the title "racism", but we're on a communist Internet community so I think it's fine. 😅
Anyways, I've certainly been the target of racism in the past so I certainly hope that this proves useful to others that have also dealt with this problem personally (or to those that want to help out, of course).
- www.peoplesworld.org Surge of Anti-Asian hate crimes spurs communities to action
OAKLAND, Calif.—As the start of the Lunar New Year approached last week, concern was growing over a surge in hate crimes being experienced by Asian Americans in the San Francisco Bay Area, including several victims who were over 60 years of age.
The shout-out to Joe Biden aside, I'm glad that there's some at least some focus being put on the Asian diaspora and what they have to go through in the United States right now. Let's try to shine a light on this as much as we can, yeah? Anyway, let's hope that people affected by this can get through it safe and sound, though I think it'll be a long time before we see an end to this problem given the political climate and the New Cold War.