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The role of re-storying in addressing over-incarceration of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples
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Federal Court of Appeal of Canada remits settlement wine labelling Product of Israel to Food Inspection Agency
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Today a rant about
textbooks. Every year governments spend billions of dollars on public education, teaching students knowledge that was itself created by publicly funded research. Yet each year, university students must pay anew for this information by purchasing high-priced textbooks.
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It needn’t be this way.
Most university textbooks are written by tenured (or tenure-track) professors. These are people who are paid by the public to generate and disseminate knowledge. Professors are expected to write academic articles for free. Why not add textbooks to the list?
Mark Twain once said that “A sense of humor is the one thing no one will admit to not having.” Twain observation came to mind this week when Robin DiAngelo warned that “Comedy is . . . an excuse to get to be racist.” It appears that DiAngelo is moving from “White Fragility” to white comedy. The remarks of the author of the book “White Fragility” were carried on the Wisconsin-based non-profit Mythinformed. DiAngelo singled out “Family Guy” and “The Simpsons” as racist entertainment. For free speech advocates, the comments are concerning given the crackdown in other countries on comedians.
DiAngelo explained how comedy is a dangerous gateway for racism:
LankaWeb – Canada s Genocide & Holocaust against the Natives of Canada no different to Nazi Concentration Camps
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