Category: Social Sciences
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2010s Gentrification, Protests, Boyle Heights, Arts District
Recently found photos about Boyle Heights and Arts District gentrification, and added them to this old post, also about the same topic.
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Beating the Oligarchy
Ideas for moving forward. This is my current thinking, and I reserve the right to change it, completely, as I learn more.
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Erasing Race and Gender at the Naval Academy; Inventing Black and White; Erasing History at the National Archives
Update – the US Naval Academy released a list of books they pulled from the shelves because of this Trumpist anti-DEI purge. Here is that list. This is what the Trumpists fear: the truth about our country, about racial…
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Nationalist Right-Wing anti-Imperialism, Curry, Kare, Colonization
How Japanese curry (kare) intersected with a right wing anti-Western, anti-imperialist movement.
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The KKK of the 1920s, and Fascism
This is a revised and updated repost of an older post about US support for Nazis during the 1930s. Now it’s a closely related post about the rise of the 1920s KKK. This post needs some rewriting, and more…
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Do All Asian American Political Orgs Look the Same? (Bing AI confuses two organizations)
Searching for “asian american advocacy fund”, with the intent of looking for The Asian American Advocacy Fund, which is an organization in Georgia that activates AAPI voters, brought up references to The Asian American Foundation, aka TAAF, a recent…
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Political Nerdmaxing: Q: Why Are Asians so Right Wing?
A: We aren’t right wing. We actually vote more for Democratic Party candidates than every other group, except for African Americans.
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Explanation of Anti-Asian Racist Content
I was reading Asians With Attitudes and they had this racist post up, all mad. They didn’t link to it, so I found it: It’s lowbrow racism, but people think it’s funny, so they repost it, but added an…
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ChatGPT: compare and contrast the different forms of slavery in the different regions
While slavery existed in various regions across the globe, there were differences in the forms and practices of slavery in different areas. It’s important to note that the institution of slavery was diverse, and variations existed within regions and…