Friday, July 26, 2013

Friday morning roundup

Another opposition leader is assassinated in Tunisia.

The prison population is declining.

Ta-Nehisi Coates makes some excellent points, to which I'll add mine: the stunning lack of self-awareness with which (some) white men justify fear of black men by way of statistics. You guys do realize that by that logic--and it's an even stronger logic--women have every reason to just be afraid of all men. Those guys who chased after the UVA student in the parking lot with no inkling that being chased by random dudes would scare a woman are lucky they didn't get shot.

Shaming people about their weight is officially not helpful.

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