@ec_xander @RadioFreeTom Fantasyland: How America Went Haywire by @KBAndersen is a great history of how our countrymen have often been at the far edge of the bell curve in irrationality. Ironically, for us being an Enlightenment-inspired project...
@kayaoakes A Series of Unfortunate Events Netflix series is fantastic. Follows the books but twist them a bit to work with the screen. It's based on Lemony Snicket's series, so with his ilk of gothy-ness and irony. Very clever. @Unfortunate
@kayaoakes The Ring (Japanese version, original) is so creepy with a very Japanese kind of scariness. The American remake is also scary with a more American/jump scare vibe (I prefer the Japanese)
@nhannahjones What the wisest and best parent wants for his own child, that must the community want for all its children. Anything less is unlovely; acted upon, it destroys our democracy. John Dewey, 1907
@CatholicDems I went to Catholic school 12 yrs. Loved Catholicism. Not the dogma tho. Fell away because I didn't want to be a hypocrite or "cherry-picker." Glad I found @CatholicDems. Gives me hope I can find a church home someday. And these beautiful traditions and meanings can be preserved
@esglaude I've read some enslaved people's memoirs (My Bondage and My Freedom, 12 Years A Slave, etc). I can't get the images out of my mind. "Cracking a whip" was the least of it BY FAR. The hubris in this ignorant teacher's voice is sickening. Clearly he didn't read anything
@PadreInAtlanta@americamag Thank you! Repentance is the word missing in these pushes for national "healing." We cannot be channels for peace without mercy, and there has been so little mercy for the suffering. A festering wound cannot heal
@BoneScarbrough@mrsbieler@JoyAnnReid When I have that "not all white people" reflex, I take it as a sign I still have deeper work to do. It's gotten better with education, reflection, and action, but still happens. I trust Black Americans to know history better than I, and that they've always had some white allies
@NinjetteTheReal@michaelharriot @Imthissexyinrl I think it's @Isabelwilkerson's Caste that notes that even the Nazis, in studying the US for inspiration on how to organize society, couldn't take it as far as US policies against Black Americans. They thought it was too brutal....
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