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This sign was in the Women’s March in March 2018.

Thanks to Jeannie Cool for the find!

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I checked, and yes, it was posted by a real person (unsurprisingly, in Hillbilly Elegy country) and not a bot. A look through that person’s profile suggests that even for U.S. citizens, there’d be a significant number for whom he wouldn’t shed a tear if they were killed overseas. Their posts aren’t “we want a seperate white ethnostate” extreme, but they are along the line of “Alex Jones / Prager U” crazy.

The Facebook poster isn’t the only one pushing the “not a citizen” message to downplay the tragedy. Unsurprisingly again, so is Trump.

The Boston Globe does a good job explaining why we should care about the Khashoggi case:

Finding out the truth about the disappearance of Jamal Khashoggi in Istanbul and responding to it properly might seem to have little to do with the average American. Here’s why one diplomatic expert says the situation matters a lot.

Khashoggi was a legal permanent resident of the United States, Nicholas Burns said. “He’s a green card holder. He’s like lots of our relatives who first came to America who were in transition to become a citizen,” Burns said.

“We have an obligation to every American citizen, and we certainly have an obligation to green card holders to protect and defend them,” said Burns, a former career diplomat who worked in Democratic and Republican administrations.

As a green card holder married to a U.S. citizen, I have to wonder: how many people think the same way of me? I also have to ask a question that I asked in friendlier times: Will Americans ever consider me to be one of them?

…and unfortunately, a lot of people — not just Pat Robertson — will be all right with that.

Again, let me remind you:

Once upon a time, an American flag meant “I stand for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.” Now it means “I’m going to post something ignorant on social media.”
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Women of color are underrepresented in the business world, news media, higher education, film and TV, elected offices, science and STEM, but to the LinkedIn commenter above, the real injustice is that “there is not 1 white” in the video for the Obama Foundation’s Global Girls Alliance.

I am reminded of this aphorism:

Conservatism is the fear that somewhere, somehow, someone you think is your inferior is being treated as your equal.

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Here’s the full promo video for the Global Girls Alliance:

The term “distress of the privileged” comes from this insightful article in The Weekly Sift.

And finally, Bill Doherty of the group Better Angels (who are trying to make the U.S. a little less polarized) explains why victimhood is attractive to white men, religions, and other majority groups:

Yes, I’m in Florida, but far from Hurricane Matthew. See this post for more details.

The images from the Florida panhandle are coming in, and they’re frightening. Hurricane Michael is now a category 4 storm (meaning winds in excess of 150 mph / 250 km/h) and it could be devastating. To my friends in those parts, stay safe!

I’ve had friends and family checking in on me, and this part is for their benefit. I’m in Tampa, a good distance away from the storm, and all we’ve got are clouds and some wind. Here’s a photo of me just outside the office:

We’re probably going to get some rain — it hasn’t fallen here yet — and some gusts of wind, but it shouldn’t get any worse than that in the Tampa area.

I plan to stay indoors, but this is Florida, and I know that there’s at least one guy who’ll probably head right into the storm zone, put on some Slayer, and headbang against the hurricane: