RationalWiki:What is going on in the blogosphere?/April 2018

April 2018[edit]

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South Korean president states that Donald Trump should win the Nobel Peace Prize.

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Scott Adams stating his political views

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Upcoming election in Karnataka state of India faces challenges of rising Hindu radicalization and religious identity politics employed by Modi's BJP.

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There's been a significant shift in the way transgender issues are treated in the last decade, with major corporations offering help and services to transitioning employees – but there's still so much to be done to ensure their equality.

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At the Fed, the scene being set for financial disaster

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The New York Times needs to stop calling all trans people "gay".

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Kanye West, famous rapper and black man, labelled "alt-right darling" by the Washington Post.

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'Raw hatred': why the 'incel' movement targets and terrorises women

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David Futrelle on the Toronto van attack and incels.

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This St. George's day we should take Englishness back from the bigots.

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The difference between “echo chamber” and “epistemic bubble” and how can we escape them.

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The Guardian — Sexual addiction, desire and dopamine hits

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Whose Story (and Country) Is This?. No, white small-town working-class Protestants are not the only "real" Americans - and the prioritization they demand (and which they are all too often given) is just representative of a broader trend of white male centering and entitlement.

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Why parents are losing custody of trans and gender non-conforming kids

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"It is clearly misguided to assume that by listening to intersectionals, we are listening to women, people of color, LGBTs and the disabled. We are, in fact, listening to a minority ideological view dominated by people from an economically privileged class who have had a university education in the social sciences and/or the necessary leisure time and education to study intersectionality, critical race theory, queer theory and critical analyses of ableism."

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Susie Meister, a former contestant on Road Rules who was sought out as a potential hire by conservative media outlets (including Fox News and Breitbart.com), discusses the similarities between reality TV and conservative media in how they operate.

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How France solved its own opioid epidemic in the '90s.

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How Focus on the Family got the IRS to call it a church.

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David Silverman has been fired from his position of chairman of American Atheists because of accusations of sexual assault and financial conflicts.

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Facebook says its ‘voter button’ is good for turnout. But should the tech giant be nudging us at all?

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Movie review of God's Not Dead 3. To the surprise of no one, it's garbage.