Media Bits and Bytes – May 14, 2024
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TikTok, AI, iPad and Black Twitter
TikTok, AI, iPad and Black Twitter
TikTok, AI, iPad and Black Twitter
First Things First: The Truth About Fredric March
The Progressive
The old Hollywood actor and civil rights champion’s reputation has been tarnished by accusations of hate and racism. This calls for some sifting and winnowing.
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Cate Blanchett Is Better Than Ever in Cancel-Culture Parable ‘Tár’
Jezebel
Conversations about cancel culture so often frame things in extreme terms for the sake of catching those Substack subscriptions and Twitter likes; they tell people exactly how to be outraged. But Field conducts discourse like a symphony.
Dispatches From the Culture Wars – September 13, 2022
Portside
“Latinx” may be necessary. But does it fit in the Spanish language?
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Yascha Mounk’s Misguided War on Wokeness
The New Republic
“The Great Experiment” flatters liberal readers that by expressing their distaste for cancel culture, they have become diverse democracy’s most gallant defenders.
21 Fallacies Feeding ‘Cancel Culture’ and Holding Back the Contemporary U.S. Left
CounterPunch
We might grasp cancel culture as an expression of punitive thinking within our own social movements, whereby the purge of individuals symbolically substitutes for the collective structural and cultural transformations that liberation requires.
Media Bits and Bytes – April 5, 2022
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Media and the organizing wave, women and war coverage, and much more
Dispatches From the Culture Wars - February 15, 2022
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How one fascist group operates, and how David Rovics got cancelled
Dispatches From the Culture Wars - August 31, 2021
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GOP dogs and their tried and tested tricks for 2022, and more culture clash capers
Dispatches From the Culture Wars - May 11, 2021
Portside
Who's getting canceled? The disabled, critical race theory, and more reports from the cultural front
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