Tens of millions of Americans, most of them men, tune in to sports talk radio. Is sports talk a haven for old-school guy talk, including misogyny and gay-bashing? For the final episode in our series…
Two families, both making big investments of time and money to involve their kids in sports. But the investments they’re able to make are very different. In Part 5 of “Contested,” our series on sports,…
Tal Ben-Artzi didn’t worry about being an out bisexual athlete at Penn State. Maybe she would have if she’d known the school’s history. How much have times changed? In Part 4 of “Contested,” our series…
Two small towns, one in Idaho, the other in Upstate New York, try to decide whether to change the nickname of their high school sports teams: The Redskins. Photo: Emblem in the main foyer at…
More from suburban St. Louis, post-Ferguson, on the popular notion that sports unites communities. Can the camaraderie of a team sport make race and class status “disappear” for the kids involved or their parents? Scene…
Can a winning baseball team bring St. Louis together post-Ferguson? John Biewen investigates in the inaugural episode of Scene On Radio, a new podcast of audio stories from the Center for Documentary Studies…
There they go again. @amywestervelt
You mean a win for humans living on this planet, right?
Thanks, @Fly_Sistah. There's some willful not-knowing going on too, of course, but yeah. Lot of people don't know or haven't let it register.
Reupping this since people really seem not to know: White Affirmative Action https://www.sceneonradio.org/episode-44-white-affirmative-action-seeing-white-part-13/ @SceneOnRadio https://twitter.com/Fly_Sistah/status/998319073758007297
"The source for author Jordan Peterson’s recent claim that climate change cannot be modeled was a climate science denier who received money from a libertarian think tank funded by oil companies."
In the US, 70% of people are worried about climate change but only 8% are activated. Sowing uncertainty is a technique that's been used for decades to keep that gap as big as possible: "if we aren't 100% sure, best to wait." Here's the most recent example. https://www.desmog.com/2022/01/28/jordan-petersons-climate-expert-is-science-denier-funded-by-oil-backed-think-tank/
We're clear about this, right? The people banning books and accurate teaching about history and racism are not naive, not "overprotective" of kids' tender sensibilities about violence, language, etc. Assuring them that "kids can handle it" is beside the point. They know that. 1/2
