Tag Archive: twitter

May 24 2013

On Useful and Not-So-Useful Definitions of Racism

Richard Dawkins, whose Twitter feed never fails to amuse, has lately been discussing racism–specifically, against white people: [Here's the link in case you can't see this] [View the story "Richard Dawkins on Racism" on Storify] Dawkins sounds eerily like my high school self here–desperate to stick to his own definitions of things and reject the …

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May 09 2012

Chet Hanks, Victim Blaming, and the "Weakness" of Suicide

Chet Hanks, son of Tom Hanks and a student here at Northwestern, has this to say about victims of bullying: And then, perhaps in response to people who responded to him (including yours truly), Chet tweeted these followups: “I say real shit and I always speak my mind if you don’t like it I could …

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