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Saturday, September 14, 2019
A quick place-holder post:
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I liked Chris Hayes's podcast with William Barber, and had never heard the story about Frederick Douglas and Sojourner Truth:
https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/building-a-movement-with-rev-dr-william-barber-ii/id1382983397?i=1000444575849
First Google result for "Is God Dead, Frederick?":
http://larryslibrary.blogspot.com/2017/01/is-god-dead-frederick.html
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On Kashmir, things that I have read that seem to me good:
https://tlaib.house.gov/media/press-releases/rep-tlaib-statement-situation-jammu-and-kashmir
https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/india-ias-officer-resigns-from-service-cites-kashmir-restrictions-1.66002532
https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/india/another-indian-administrative-service-officer-resigns-citing-ethical-reasons-1.1567766579096
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/days-after-resigning-ias-officer-says-restrictions-wont-help-convince-people-of-kashmir/article29257523.ece
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/ias-officer-kannan-gopinathan-on-allegations-against-him/article29394764.ece
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/bjp-takes-jibe-at-ias-officers-who-recently-quit-accuses-them-of-sharing-cozy-relationship-with-left/articleshow/71035227.cms
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/08/jammu-kashmir-narendra-modi-bjp-india-pakistan-article-370
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/kashmir-occupation-india-srinagar-narendra-modi
https://jacobinmag.com/2019/09/kashmir-curfew-occupation-article-370-diary-narendra-modi
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/08/22/i-am-kashmiri-pandit-india-must-stop-weaponizing-pain-our-past/
The comments to Trisal's op-ed are worth reading, in my opinion.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/08/26/i-arrived-kashmir-indias-crackdown-began-it-was-terrifying/
https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/spotlight/kashmirtheforgottenconflict/2011/07/201176134818984961.html
https://www.brookings.edu/events/the-kashmir-dispute-making-borders-irrelevant/
https://www.rediff.com/news/1999/dec/08blood.htm
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Two essays by Paul Gagnon, in the December 1995 Atlantic Monthly:
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1995/12/what-should-children-learn/376491/
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Timothy Burke's 2008 essay:
https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2008/01/04/competency-as-a-cultural-value/
I like everything about Burke's essay except the title. I don't think the quality Burke is describing is "competency". Anti-fatalism, or anti-resentment, maybe.
The essay has excellent comments, one comment by hestal in particular which I liked:
https://blogs.swarthmore.edu/burke/blog/2008/01/04/competency-as-a-cultural-value/#comment-4806
". . .I live in a rural area that has never permitted blacks to live or even stay overnight, but there are a few immigrants from Mexico and the number is growing.
Lawrence E. Harrison, on page 55 of “The Central Liberal Truth” compares a "Progress-Prone Culture" with a "Progress-Resistant Culture". As one might expect many of the comparisons are opposites. Mr. Harrison points out that there are two rules for deciding which category a particular culture belongs in:
(1) Does the culture encourage the belief that people can influence their destinies?
(2) Does the culture promote the Golden Rule? . . ."
I seem to recall reading a piece by Adam Serwer, where he lists many of the golden rule violations of the past three years, but can't find it online.
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http://www.mahotaculture.com/en/lee-sok-lian/personal-mastery/item/we-can-discover-true-happiness-at-work-2.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbi_ben_Ezra
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