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The Racist Anti-Asian President Who Locked Kids in Concentration Camps
Mary Matsuda Gruenewald was only sixteen when the government forced her family to leave their home and be interned into a concentration camp. She was only one of tens of thousands of children legally living in America (many of them citizens) who had to endure this treatment because of the decision of a sitting U.S.…
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Information Revolution In the Age of Data
The word “data” has been slowly moving farther away from its philosophical origins and has become more entwined with technology. In today’s high-tech, information-at-your-fingertips world, data has become a commodity more precious than black gold. Governments and big corporations all over the world are more likely to make decisions based on numbers, analytics, and algorithms…
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Native Erasure: CNN Labels Native American Voters as “Something Else”
Just by Googling “Native American vote 2020,” it becomes obvious that the erasure of the Indigenous populations of America is still underway. CNN had a graphic that labeled Natives “Something Else.” The irony of the graphic is that they clearly labeled Asian voters, who are at 3 percent, and neglected to do the same for…
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Would Socrates and Jesus Be No-Platformed If They Were Alive Today?
I recently read Teresa M. Bejan’s “The Two Clashing Meanings of ‘Free Speech.’” She raises some good questions about the First Amendment, free speech, Facebook and Twitter, and no-platforming. She also makes mention of Diogenes the Cynic, a Greek Philosopher who told Alexander the Great to “get out of his light” and apparently “lived in…
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Belau Bekiis (Wake up Palau) 