Jeremy Hunt mistakes his Chinese wife's nationality

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

What Netanyahu Doesn't Know About History

Note: "anti-Semitism", not "anti-Judaism".

The difference is significant. Anti-Semitism was part of the Race Theory, which claimed to be an exact science and was at the time at the height of its world-wide popularity.

This was not just an ideological fad, an invention of demagogues. It was a branch of science that was assumed to be as objective as, say, mathematics or geography. The basic assumption was that every race of human being, like every breed of horses or dogs, has specific characteristics, good and bad. [...] According to the German race theory, there is a master race, the Aryan, which originated in India and from which the Germans are descended, and there are inferior races, the "Semites" and "Slavs" for example. According to the race theorists, this is not a matter of opinion. It is solid scientific fact, a fact that cannot be changed.

Mississippi Statutory Segregation: Apartheid
Ahed Tamimi and Her Mother are Freed from Jail

One might say that Ahed and her siblings are honor graduates of the Bassem/Nariman Folk School, just as Rosa Parks was a graduate of The Highlander Folk School [SIC]. The common curriculum has to do with courageous persistence in the pursuit of justice. Moreover, our delegation was to discover that Rosa Parks is a revered figure in the Israeli Knesset -- well, at least in the modest conference room allocated to Arab members.

*memorable quote of a correspondent among the CA Cohort of Petty Landlords

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How should we define racism?
the candidate avoided German epistemology of the period

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Meet Karl and William Menniger, prairie authoritarians and authoritative analysts of "passive-aggressive personality disorder" (US- and UK-Eng. idiom, lip service).

[pp 4-5]The first official document about the disorder is a single Technical Bulletin issued by the U.S. War Department just as the Second World War was coming to an end. In 1945, Colonel William Menninger voiced concern about soldiers who were shirking duty by willful incompetence. They were not openly defiant, he conceded, but expressed their aggressiveness "by passive measures, such as pouting, stubbornness, procrastination, inefficiency, and passive obstructionism." Menninger saw their behavior as an "immaturity" and a reaction to "routine military stress" (Bulletin TB M.D. 203, dated October 19, 1945, as cited in Malinow, 1981, p. 123).
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Having logged the quirks of servicemen, however, psychiatrists soon began applying the same charges virtually unaltered to civilians. As it readied the first edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders for publication in 1952, the APA simply copied the relevant phrases from the military memo and gave them diagnostic codes. Indeed, it adopted the same practice for a large number of behaviors and ailments, making the temporary frustration of the U.S. War Department a basis for establishing lasting pathologies in the population at large.

Next Week: B. F. Skinner

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

Yes, You Can Catch Insanity
untreated strep and the fake mind-body dichotomy

Diversity is the key to economic and political evolution.

"Now they don't have a bloody choice ..."

A united Ireland women's hockey team plays the final against favorite The Netherlands. The Irish team has played a stunning tournament, well done team!

My phone has a headache... Thank you so much for all the support! We're going for gold 💪🏽💚🇮🇪🏆 #HWC2018

— Chloe Watkins (@Clowatkins) August 4, 2018

@hookhockey We'll be dancing on the streets of Dublin for the @irewomenhockey team!  I'm thrilled to throw a civic reception for our #hwc2018 finalists in Cityhall on Monday evening.  

SHARE & get the crowd there.#greenmachine

— Lord Mayor of Dublin (@LordMayorDublin) August 4, 2018

'Sapere aude'