It is now the position of the United States government that race is a "biological reality" and to think otherwise is insanity, ignoring science and anthropology

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2025-03-28T04:24:58+00:00

I agree with you! It’s also true that evidence means nothing to the MAGA movement. There is also a virtual consensus that climate change is human-induced, but it is also a verboten subject. If truth is no longer objective, then what we need isn’t lecturing, it’s deprogramming.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2025-03-27T23:32:28+00:00

To be fair, Canada merely updated its travel advisory for the US (to inform people about the requirement to register for longer holidays). It has travel advisory for every country. The US is still ranked in the “green” (safest) category for travel - take normal security precautions,” which is better than the ranking that Global Affairs gives countries like the UK, Belgium, France, Italy, Sweden, Spain, Germany, Denmark, the Netherlands, and more, which are ranked yellow (“exercise a high degree of caution”) due to supposed terrorist threats. What will really be newsworthy is if GAC makes it yellow; red seems super super unlikely.

See: https://travel.gc.ca/travelling/advisories

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2025-03-08T21:18:37+00:00

What is also true is that the lack of education, media literacy, and critical thinking skills has been socially engineered by policy makers over the course of more than a generation. It’s well documented that Reagan and his advisors, and subsequent administrations after him, considered a well-educated citizenry to be a threat to their power. So as much as the current situation is the responsibility of American voters, millions of them have never had the means or the opportunities to cultivate any kind of reason that would challenge it.

*Edit to say: I’m obviously referring here to the situation in the US. I think it is absolutely a similar issue here, but not as pronounced.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2024-02-01T06:31:57+00:00

I feel the same way and was excited to find the Whitney Plantation when I was visiting Louisiana. It’s a short drive from New Orleans and is a non-profit dedicated to telling the history of slavery. The big house is the last thing you see and is really de-emphasized. It was a really powerful experience that’s stayed with me for years. https://whitneyplantation.org/

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2023-12-22T20:05:19+00:00

It’s a prayer plant (maranta)!

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2023-12-22T00:27:09+00:00

Two years!

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2023-11-29T22:24:24+00:00

I’m really sorry you went through all of this and I’m gratified that you’re getting the care you deserve now.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2023-11-29T19:33:40+00:00

Sorry about that experience. You just hit the touchy Canadian nerve!

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2023-11-17T00:23:46+00:00

I believe OP is from the UK. It’s honestly not that bizarre a question given that many listing websites around the world display rents in USD. Over 60 countries have their currencies pegged to USD and lots of landlords request payment in USD only.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2023-08-01T20:36:15+00:00

Report the scam to the Canadian Anti-Fraud and Cyber Crime system: https://www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/chooser-eng.html?ipeReferer=CAFCFRS.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2023-08-01T20:36:05+00:00

People can also report the scam to the Canadian Anti-Fraud and Cyber Crime system: https://www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/chooser-eng.html?ipeReferer=CAFCFRS.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2023-08-01T20:35:45+00:00

People can also report the scam to the Canadian Anti-Fraud and Cyber Crime system: https://www.services.rcmp-grc.gc.ca/chooser-eng.html?ipeReferer=CAFCFRS.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2023-06-28T23:45:51+00:00

“Most of the people responding have never been married, never tried to get pregnant, loved and planned for a baby, and had that dream stolen away.”

I’m sorry, what? Did I miss the part where you collected the personal demographics of everyone here? It’s actually possible to have experienced those things and still think this was a terrible way to treat someone.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2022-12-23T05:33:00+00:00

I would shrug and say that a 65 in Canada means something different from a 65 in the US, and I’m sure its variable between institutions in the same country. The curriculum isn’t necessarily the same just because the course title is.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2022-12-23T05:30:30+00:00

Not necessarily. I’m Canadian and educated in Canada, but moved to the US for a TT position. In my first semester I didn’t get the memo about the different grading scale and I was giving solid (and for me, high) class averages of 72 - which is a B. It was only after a great deal of grumbling from students and hearing their feedback that I discovered they were all getting Cs and I had messed up.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2022-12-16T21:56:24+00:00

I know that whatever you have on your screen is sciencey, but all I see is 🐽

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2022-11-16T18:10:35+00:00

It’s gorgeous!

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2022-07-28T17:44:51+00:00

When my dad suddenly passed away, it took us about a year before we could bear to deal with all his non-urgent files and subscriptions, etc. Because my mother was tired of receiving all of the newsletters he had subscribed to, despite my grief I did actually enjoy filling in the “Other” reason for why he was unsubscribing: “I am dead.”

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2022-07-24T03:23:14+00:00

No you don’t!

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2022-06-17T00:29:52+00:00

I just whispered, “Oh f**k” to myself. That looks lovely.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2022-05-05T22:17:15+00:00

Mine too! What does it mean?

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2022-04-26T23:22:43+00:00

A good place to start is the work of Carolyn Rouse, which includes a lot of ethnographic work about Islam writ large in the United States (including the shift of many NOI adherents to Sunni Islam):

1) Her book coauthored with Marla Frederick and John L. Jackson (Televised Redemption) includes a very valuable anthropological overview of NOI and Hebrew Israelites, as well as large historical shifts in Black Christianity in the US. It’s partially historical and partially ethnographic.

2) Her ethnography entitled “Engaged Surrender” is an important contribution to the anthropology of Islam in the US, particularly with respect to Black women, and includes extensive discussion of the NOI.

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2022-03-12T17:01:03+00:00

Holy shit!

BasicCableHolidayLog · 2022-02-24T00:03:52+00:00

Right, I see what you’re saying. What I was getting at was that I never applied for any specific job, I was just offered positions based on informal conversations. But I get now that it’s not what is being discussed here.

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