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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsHow the Jim Crow internet is pushing back against Black Lives Matter
From my scholarship on visual culture, most recently on the visual tactics of political protest, it is clear that this marks a transition that I call the rise of the Jim Crow internet. Its not all of the internet, of course, but a self-referential, wide-ranging and increasingly influential slice of it, from Breitbart to Blue Lives Matter and all over Twitter.
Visible on cable TV, Google searches, Twitter and other social media, the Jim Crow internet is challenging the way race in general and police violence in particular are understood, pushing back against the gains made by Black Lives Matter.
Who wins this struggle over cultural and political meaning may determine our political future.
https://theconversation.com/how-the-jim-crow-internet-is-pushing-back-against-black-lives-matter-65934
underthematrix
(5,811 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(49,113 posts)nolabels
(13,133 posts)The jest of the article is about people who surf the net and congregate to websites according to the way they want view and BELIEVE things are.
Actually the title seems quite apt, but in kind of a reverse way it could apply to us folk who might call ourselves the Left.
We are all kind of turning into those proverbial ostriches, we hide our heads in the screen and only see what we want to see.
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,113 posts)nolabels
(13,133 posts)I was not very good at school and never was much of a reader but still i always liked to hear people have or had to say about almost anything they had on their mind
Evidence Rebuts Chomsky's Theory of Language Learning
Much of Noam Chomskys revolution in linguisticsincluding its account of the way we learn languagesis being overturned
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-chomsky-s-theory-of-language-learning/
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,113 posts)I'm tutoring English to three adult Syrian refugees, and it is interesting to see how they all make the same classes of mistakes but have different approaches to learning.
nolabels
(13,133 posts)He has been in the country about thirteen years and also has what seems like inborn skills of breaking down language to get to the crux to what someone is talking about. Syntax, punctuation and all the other skills with proper usage might sometimes get pushed out of the way if it gets in the way of someone wanting to convey a message (see tRump). Without a king or other supreme force to stop them then schooling would be the only force left to keep english in current form, intact. And tell me again why republicans would want to target schools, learning environments and science in an effort to get things to run their way?
Why Donald Trump's broken English is actually his secret weapon
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=4&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwiFspDDvavPAhVO42MKHWiPB5wQFggwMAM&url=http%3A%2F%2Ftheweek.com%2Farticles%2F608702%2Fwhy-donald-trumps-broken-english-actually-secret-weapon&usg=AFQjCNFX_bsoVfI-8MgAaRDaMSfXsqvqrw&sig2=z9RMqDrH5zpj4AM4lB0FBg
dembotoz
(16,874 posts)oberliner
(58,724 posts)The internet is actually the anti-thesis of Jim Crow.
Never has it been so easy for so many to share their opinions anonymously (or not) with others around the world with almost no barriers whatsoever.
And one can do so without disclosing one's race or any other personal details.
SecularMotion
(7,981 posts)harrose
(380 posts)Let 'em stand on street corners and yell to their hearts content to exercise their free speech.,
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