Category: Social Sciences
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The Western Gender Binary
This page is going to become a list of links to articles about the ideas of Judith Butler, and some feminist texts. History: I was intending to do a reading group for Gender Trouble, but this seems to not…
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An Argument for the Abolition of the Electoral College
Why does a candidate sometimes win the popular vote, but lose the Electoral College vote? There are some misconceptions floating around about this. I’ll note them in parentheses in my explanation below: The people’s votes do not directly choose…
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Comparing “Uncle Tom” and the “Model Minority” Stereotype
This was written by Bing Chat. I asked it to compare the two, and format it as a table. That specific prompt, to form it as a table, caused ChatGPT to find more parallel comparisons than it found without…
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Turn out for #JusticeForRoques May 1
It’s one day after the hearing, and I’m still mad. The arraignment is on May 1. Show up. The organization I’m with, PANA, is preparing a statement, but I’ll share my online links below. Before that, I will share…
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Wong Kim Ark in Smithsonian
Smithsonian Magazine has a good article about Wong Kim Ark, who fought to assure birthright citizenship for all Americans. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-fight-for-birthright-citizenship-reshaped-asian-american-families-180981866/
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Chat GPT recommends some books, writes some stories
I used ChatGPT to do some research, and then have it write some offensive stories. what are some scholars who have used Fanon to explore asian American oppression? While Frantz Fanon’s work primarily focuses on the experiences of Black…
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ChatGPT: Marx on Quality and Quantity
I’ve been using chatgpt a lot. Today, I asked it “what does marx mean by quality and quantity and the relation between them”, and it produced a brief essay that clarified things for me.
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Recommending Feminism
I made a tiktok that recommended feminism to a commenter, on a thread about Asian American men. Not wanting to just ad lib this topic, I decided to to a quick review of the material, and started down a…
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What are Lateral Violence and Vertical Violence?
These two terms came up during the discussions about the Monterey Park shooting. It was also raised in the murder of Tyre Nichols, and the mass shooting in Half Moon Bay. The following definitions are from the Canadian Race…