RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/April 2017

April 2017
Sorry, College Kids, There’s No Such Thing As Hate Speech Arbital contributor and former MIRI intern arrested on suspicion of attempted murder. Vox defends proportional representation as a solution to America's gerrymandering troubles. Anita Sarkeesian wraps up Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. An editor of scientific writing receives a solicitation for papers from a dubious urology journal, goes all out with a theme borrowed from an episode of the TV show Seinfeld, gets published in the journal, and skips out on the $799 fee. Harvard Business School and the Propagation of Immoral Profit Strategies A hard-to-buy read: Salon states the alt-right didn't start out as racist. (Part 2; Part 3.) The nerve of these guys! Sean and Melissa Morton, convicted felons, bid to raise $10,000 on Indiegogo My strange journey into transhumanism. Don't be fooled by his otherwise progressive policies, Justin Trudeau is paralleling Trump's environmental goals to Drill Baby Drill. Various opinions about the Indian state Maharashtra's recommendation of making prenatal sex determination mandatory to prevent. Quoting Patton Oswalt on Gamergate opponents jailed: "the 'male feminist ally turns out to be a creeper/harasser" is the 'family values politician turns out to be gay' for millenials". Rise of "beg-packers": shameless Western backpackers begging money for travelling around Asia.  The ecological disaster that is Trump’s border wall: a visual guide  The red-blue divide persists even when people order science books from Amazon.  Is it foolish for a woman to cycle alone across the Middle East?