Divide and Conquer? Trump Fails to Split Gays, Muslims After Orlando Terror (yamazaj.com) I’ve gotten in the habit of drafting these blogs on Friday nights, while one of my favourite public radio shows is playing, and then revising what I wrote over the weekend before posting it on Monday. A couple of Fridays ago I drafted a long blog about a bombing at a Target restroom in Illinois that had just happened a couple of days earlier. Writing about that was kind of risky, because at the…

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Ohio Lawmaker Says He’s Looking Into The Need For A Bill To Ban Gender Neutral Bathrooms (wvxu.org) Online petition to boycott Target over bathroom policy tops 900,000 signatures (Cleveland Plain Dealer) If compromise was ever a virtue in American politics, there’s no denying that it’s taken a beating over the past few years, especially among right-wingers. A lot of factors played a part in the galvanization of the Tea Party movement, but many people point to the role of right-wing media, both new and old,…

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North Carolina governor signs controversial transgender bill (CNN.com) Young children have a tendency to use slurs and other disparaging words without really knowing what they mean. Often times when you hear a child say X slur, you can ask that child “What does X mean?” and quickly find out that they have no idea. The only thing they know for sure is that X is an other, and of course that means X is deserving of scorn and ridicule. I was no different when I…

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An Open Letter to Caitlyn Jenner (Huffington Post) Rachel Dolezal: ‘I identify as black’ (USA Today) Black Lives Matter activist Shaun King addresses race reports (CNN.com) For all that Maury Povich’s daytime talk show career may be defined by the phrases “You are the father” and “You’re not the father,” perhaps the most iconic video inspired by his use of DNA testing on talk shows was of a white supremacist in North Dakota who came on a British talk show. The DNA testing that usually results in…

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