There is only one real issue that needs addressed after this election, and that is the question of whether we as a nation will find our moral center, embrace our strength through diversity, step outside of our echo chambers, and commit to democracy, truth, and the pursuit of the common good. I have been reading Breitbart.com every day since last Sunday, and it horrifies me. I think likely in the same way that Salon.com horrifies me (less so because it's an echo chamber, but as a journalism student, it's still quite horrific).
We need to stop spinning, sound biting, and drowning in punditry. It's yellow journalism gone dayglo. We need information, not spin. We need facts and science and social sciences and conversations. Here are the conversations, mostly blogs, that I've enjoyed the most. If you don't like them, take this quiz.
Voted for Trump? I have only one plea.
"Here’s what I am saying: You’ve said all along that you disagree with the ‘inelegant’ things Trump says about all kinds of groups of people. You’ve agreed that his statements about women are abhorrent. You say you like him because he gets stuff done, not because of the way he speaks. And I believe to my core that you agree that all people should be treated with decency. So, now you get to prove it. It’s actually so simple: Demand that it end. Demand that he finally, vociferously reject the KKK and other white supremacist groups. Every single time he or his surrogates says something over-generalized about any group of people — “all Black people live in inner cities and their lives are hell”; “all/most/many refugees/immigrants/Muslims/whatever are dangerous”; “that woman is only a 7” — hold him to the highest standard you have. Contact him and tell him, “I support you, I voted for you, and I demand that you stop saying these things.”5 Ways to Disrupt Racism
"Intersectionality. The concept of Intersectionality recognizes that people can be privileged in some ways and definitely not privileged in others. There are many different types of privilege, not just skin color privilege, that impact the way people can move through the world or are discriminated against. These are all things you are born into, not things you earned, that afford you opportunities others may not have.
And listen, recognizing Privilege doesn't mean suffering guilt or shame for your lot in life. Nobody's saying that Straight White Middle Class Able-Bodied Males are all a bunch of assholes who don't work hard for what they have. Recognizing Privilege simply means being aware that some people have to work much harder just to experience the things you take for granted (if they ever can experience them at all.)"
When You're Accustomed to Privilege, Equality Feels Like Oppression
I'm a Costal Elite from the Midwest: The Real Bubble is Rural America
How Half of America Lost Its F**king Mind
The Origins of "Privilege"
"But what I believe is that EVERYBODY has a combination of unearned advantage and unearned disadvantage in life. Whiteness is just one of the many variables that one can look at, starting with, for example, one’s place in the birth order, or your body type, or your athletic abilities, or your relationship to written and spoken words, or your parents’ places of origin, or your parents’ relationship to education and to English, or what is projected onto your religious or ethnic background. We’re all put ahead and behind by the circumstances of our birth. We all have a combination of both. And it changes minute by minute, depending on where we are, who we’re seeing, or what we’re required to do." [emphasis mine]The Cinemax Theory of Racism
You voted for racism. Accept that fact, and then let's make steps together to eradicate it. You can't kill an enemy you can't see. We see it. Save the party of Lincoln.
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