why the politics of scorn are so successful at driving lasting tribes and how this plays out from here
Historical Figures Cut From Military Websites While Others Are Restored Following #DEI #Ban
Some pages about figures like #JackieRobinson the #TuskegeeAirmen the Navajo #CodeTalkers and Desert Storm-era Gen. #ColinPowell have been restored following public #outrage But many remain down and have not been restored.
#ColumbiaUniversity Bent Over Backward to Appease #RightWing, #ProIsrael Attacks — And #Trump Still Cut #FederalFunding
Instead of #outrage, the school’s interim president responded to the cuts by vowing to continue its misguided crackdown.
by Natasha Lennard, March 8 2025
"Columbia University could hardly have been more draconian in the last year and a half since students began speaking out against Israel’s assault on #Gaza.
In early November 2023, four months before the Columbia #GazaSolidarity encampment even began, the university banned its chapters of #StudentsForJusticeInPalestine and #JewishVoiceForPeace. A few hundred students from the groups had had the audacity to walk out from classes and hold a “die-in” protest on campus — some of the most widely celebrated nonviolent protest tactics available.
"The crackdown was just getting started.
Since then, the university has ordered police raids on campus three times, leading to the arrests of over 100 students. Last week, the school expelled four students, three from #BarnardCollege one from Columbia. Many dozens of students have faced discipline and suspensions for participating in pro-Palestine protests and speech.
"Professors have been slandered before Congress, censured, removed from positions, and reportedly pushed into retirement over their support for Palestine and criticism of Israel. The campus has been essentially locked down for almost a year.
"Again and again, Columbia has shown a willingness to throw #students, #faculty, #FreeSpeech, and academic freedom under the bus in acquiescence to a #RightWing, #ProIsrael narrative that treats support for Palestinians as an affront to Jewish safety.
"For all Columbia’s #appeasement, President Donald Trump’s Federal Task Force to Combat Antisemitism announced last week that it would cancel $400 million in #FederalGrants and contracts to the university.
"'Columbia has worked overtime to appease,' wrote Layla, a student at Columbia’s School of Social Work, who asked to withhold her last name having faced doxxing attacks and harassment from Zionist groups. 'Students are miserable. Campus is a #panopticon. And their funding was still cut.'
"The Trump administration can be expected to use its perverted conception of antisemitism to further its explicit plans to decimate, #corporatize, and #ReWhiten #HigherEducation. The shame here lies with university leaderships — at Columbia and schools nationwide — that have failed to stand up for their purported missions of #CriticalThinking and #AcademicFreedom. Instead, they have put some of their most vulnerable community members, particularly international students and students of color, at risk.
"There is no appeasing a political force like the #TrumpianRight, intent on a program of destruction. And there is no appeasing a nationalist #Zionist worldview that, defying reason, sees #antisemitism in every call for #Palestinian freedom. Columbia is proof of the failure of caving in; the administration has offered up a platter of repression for more than a year and is still slated to lose $400 million."
Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2025/03/08/columbia-trump-funding-gaza-israel/
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/jrNva
#Fascism #Appeasement #FreePalestine #Gaza #RightToProtest #Censorship #Fascism #ICE #ACAB #Authoritarianism #USPol #FreeSpeech
I've realised that the #IAmNotATaboo resources page needn't only be about #ELT or #Education resources.
After having read @ellenjones.bsky.social #Outrage, that's now on the resources page, too. And I'll be adding other activism books shortly too.
https://iamnotataboo.com/books/outrage/
Last night I finished reading 'Outrage' by Ellen Jones.
And just now, I've submitted a five-star review on Amazon: here it is:
Ellen Jones writes in a very easy-to-read manner; whether she's recalling her own experience or galvanising the reader to take action to help support LGBTQIA+ rights. It is, indeed, full of outrage, but also full of suggestions of what the reader can do to show allyship to the community. I haven't read a better book that clearly sets out the inequalities and discrimination facing the community.
If you're not part of the community, this is a perfect book to see what barriers face us and different aspects of our identity. For those who are part of the community but not yet encouraged to support ALL of the community, this book is for you. For those who are part of the community and fully support all members of our community, this book will simply reinforce your resolve and probably teach you things you didn't know you needed to know. There were aspects of the book that I didn't know I needed to know. And if you're unsure if you should read this book – just read the introduction, and if that doesn't encourage you to do something, then I don't know what will.
Huge congratulations to Ellen on what is a very much needed book.
#LGBTQIA #LGBTIQA #Reading #Outrage #Bookstodon
We need to tap into our moral #outrage, exercise our #conscience, stand up & protest #democracide and #fascism in whatever ways we can, connecting to the spiritual warrior in us and contribute to advancing human nature. https://dailymeditationswithmatthewfox.org/2025/02/19/when-presidents-celebrated-the-advancement-of-human-nature/
2/n is in indignation. How not to work for the #outrage economy of #socialmedia?
In non-fictional texts about socially relevant topics, it is incredibly difficult to maintain distance these days. It is too convenient to reproduce the almost meme-like agitation. This guarantees masses of readers from #doomScrolling. It spreads what the evil guys want: Fear, paralysis, helplessness.
A good text must state the #facts, but open a window. A view of what could be different. A look at the people who
Liz Hoffman: "In recent weeks, #Musk has essentially done a #hostile #takeover of the US #government. He has brute-forced his way in by ignoring the #rules and #weaponizing his #assets — #money, #influence, #outrage, and the ear of the most #powerful man in the world." #dpge #maga #democracy #corruption #fascism #despot #oligarchy #billionaires #economy #finance #trade #economy #deportation #housing #food #construction
Oh. My. Goodness.
I’ve only read the introduction to Ellen Jones’ Outrage - but, what an introduction.
This is going to be a hell of a book. And I urge everyone to buy it, read it and act upon it.
Congratulations to @ellenjones.bsky.social
#LGBTQIA
#Outrage
#Bookstodon
Also relevant.
"I think people really have to figure out, “How can I be aware and experience outrage while also grounding myself in local communities?” Because I think local community politics is how you can build a kind of feeling of safety and understanding among a group, like, “Oh, actually, there are concrete things I can do, or we can do, to organize and think about how we challenge the status quo we disagree with.”"
The Enduring, Invisible Power of Blond
Tressie McMillan Cottom (2023)
"When people have outsize emotional reactions to benign inquiries about their self-evident beliefs, it is often an indicator that status is doing invisible work."
Archive: https://archive.ph/Ris6t
Good and relevant article on how go avoid burnout in difficult times. There are many things to be outraged about, make sure to take care of yourself and the people around you too.
@BrambleBearWhuffling I personally haven't used a lot of filters, I follow some poli activists and don't want to lose their content. I mostly manage by muting boosts. It's the folks with mixed content are the hardest for me: lovely bird cool science thing SOCIAL HORROR have you seen my knitting.
So honestly, really just need some self awareness and an #outrage tag or something. 
Yer cozy side-feed is nice and cozy though, no worries. Rage away on yer other channel, I can manage that. :)
We have long known that anger is an addiction. We can see it in our opposition. How do we manage it in ourselves?
#Anger #Addiction #Outrage #react
https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/culture-shrink/201508/angers-allure-are-you-addicted-anger
Outrage is addictive. Keep an eye on it. Outrage as an addiction substitutes itself for real action, real community, real progress.
#Politics #outrage #action #community
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