Facebook contributed to genocide

Abstract: Facebook contributed to a genocide in Myanmar. Scholars, reporters, and United Nations investigators agree that the social media giant played a role in an explosion of ethnic conflict in 2017 that led to the death and displacement of hundreds of thousands Rohingya Muslims in Northern Myanmar.

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I ain’t got time for feminism lite

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radical_feminism

Know the difference between liberal feminism and radical feminism. Radical as in – root (think mathematically). Females are a class of people and must organize as such. Liberal feminism works within the framework of patriarchy and, therefore, will never achieve complete liberation for women. Liberal feminism also focuses on the individual, which conveniently aligns with American exceptionalism and capitalism.

Being female isn’t something you wear. It isn’t a feeling. It’s the material realty that has been used to oppress the People of Women.

Radfems are politically homeless. We don’t align with liberal feminism and we don’t align with the red hat conservatives. And so I’m a silent and solitary practitioner.

a parking lot in Seattle

God put a call in my life at an airport, in parking lot, in Seattle. He said, “I’m calling you to holiness.” And I said, “But, Lord, aren’t I holy? I mean, but, people have told me I’m holy. I must be holy.”

But there wasn’t any answer.

Naw, I wasn’t holy. I was serving myself.

I was serving myself…

I was serving myself…

I was serving myself…

Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive

The subjunctive allows us look into the future and to see multiple, highly nuanced possibilities with just a little sprinkling of could’s, would’s or might’s. Similarly, it allows us to look into the past, and to imagine what didn’t happen, but could have happened. The subjunctive is the most powerful mood. It’s like a time-space dream machine that can conjure alternate realities with just the idea of could have or should have. But within this idea of should have is a Pandora’s box of hope and regret.

Phuc Tran