#Societies

Ida Bae Wells

nhannahjones

One day after this election is over I am going to write a piece about how Latino is a contrived ethnic category that artificially lumps white Cubans with Black Puerto

Dr. Lemayian Njenga Karugia J. PhD.

johnnjenga

If prostitution is legalised and licensed brothels with condoms established, would the current rampant sexual abuse of very young girls by adult men come to an end in many societies?

Nick Short

PoliticalShort

A quote from an essay by George Orwell that he wrote in 1946 on the Prevention of Literature is spot on for today: 1/From the totalitarian point of view history

Helen Pluckrose

HPluckrose

I have finished @charlesmurray's Human Diversity which gave me considerable food for thought. It causes me some problems as a liberal leftie individualist whose main focus has always been improving

Dhruva Jaishankar

d_jaishankar

The #COVID19 case fatality rates (CFR) - number of deaths as a percentage of confirmed infections - for places affected early on are:Hubei, 6.6% 5.4% 14.3% 10.2% 16.5% 15.2%Contrast

Weird Word Wyrd

TomDI19

I'm bored, let's shit on some Thoraboo bullshitVikings were anyone who raided and pillaged, it is a word that could just as easily be translated to "Pirate" or "Raider". Many

Helen De Cruz

Helenreflects

Doing a thread on my teaching tomorrow--a course on Zhuangzi in conversation with contemporary western philosophy. So stoked! Tomorrow my co-teacher Pauline Lee and I will talk about the importance

Robin Monotti

robinmonotti

Epidemiologists should have said early on: this is a treatable disease, let doctors guide early treatments to save lives, transmission is not the issue with this virus. But they did

Harsh Gupta Madhusudan

harshmadhusudan

For centuries per capita incomes hardly increased but then suddenly over the last couple of centuries (albeit at different times in different places) they exploded.When economies change, societies change. Zero

Dr. Asatar Bair

asatarbair

Communism rests on an idealistic dream: that we can once and for all abolish the exploitation upon which all modern societies have been based. But bourgeois capitalist ideology (like every

Mia Moore 🏳️‍🌈

StopTweetingMia

"You should have stayed a man so you could be an ALLY to women/dismantle toxic masculinity from the inside." is one of the WORST takes and I'm sick of it.I'm

TheDisabilityEnthusiast

twitchyspoonie

Stop seeing doctors as angels who can't be criticized and start recognizing that western medicine is a violent, colonialist, capitalist institution that comes with all the same pitfalls as the

NEFERTITI

firstladyship

1. Yes Northern Nigeria had upper hand (not of their making btw), but they were first in the pecking order of things, had better interactions with the West (Britain in

JD Flynn

jdflynn

Ok, so Enlightenment progressivism is based upon the idea that with time and scientific development, societies increase in civility by ever more broadly understanding and expanding a sphere of human

Jason Warner

jasoncwarner

Weird tweet coming all about social conservatism. I grew up around cults (what a start, I know) and one thing I know a lot about is social progression and social

Antonio Vargas

Sodoplatonist

As promised, I return to masculinism, which @fangedhyparxis mentioned recently. I find this to be a useful movement for thinking about sexuality. Had I encountered this earlier in life, my

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