oh god this dolphin lady have you seen this
In 1987, beloved children’s author Beverly Cleary was frozen in carbonite and installed in Multnomah County Library. pic.twitter.com/XinuoS7ePU
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Anti-racists and racists collide:
A young white guy in a shiny suit and sunglasses appears to be leading the Australia First contingent. “Abolish multiculturalism!” he yells through his megaphone.
“So you’re cool with Greek-Australians?” I ask.
“Absolutely,” the guy says, pulling the megaphone from his lips. “Greek-Australians. European-Australians, in general.”
“So Italians are okay?”
“Yeah, they’re okay.”
“But back in the 1940s, wouldn’t your equivalent have been against Greek-Australians because they were the ‘wogs’ who were coming here as immigrants and ruining white Australia?”
He shrugs his shoulders, apathetic. “What was going on in the 1940s … we weren’t around in the 1940s, so we can’t really comment about what we would have done back then.”
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NO:
CORD JEFFERSON on “the racism beat” is brilliant, obviously, he always is:
After a while you may want to respond to every request for a take on the day’s newest racist incident with nothing but a list of corresponding, pre-drafted truths, like a call-center script for talking to bigots. Having written thousands of words about white people who have slurred the president over the past six years, you begin to feel as if the only appropriate way to respond to new cases—the only way you can do it without losing your mind—is with a single line of text reading, “Black people are normal people deserving of the same respect afforded to anyone else, but they often aren’t given that respect due to the machinations of white supremacy.”
you can always come stay in my house in utah, she says wistfully
Damian Lewis in FULL HENRY VIII for Wolf Hall!
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