I want to be as brave as Ruha Benjamin when I grow up

Thanks to everyone who listened to & shared the short clip from the 2024 Spelman Founders Day address. In case you'd like to hear the full 15min talk, here's a captioned version. The spicy section that's circulating is towards the end: bit.ly/RuhaSpelmanTalk

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On the TikTok ban, the danger of abandoning defense of speech to extremists, & how the liberal tendency to assume a just state 'outside the scope of this paper' leads to confused law/policy that can exacerbate the problems platforms pose.

lpeproject.org/blog/social-me…

What a sad and shameful statistic for humankind

“This is the biggest cohort of pediatric amputees in history”

newyorker.com/news/dispatch/…

1/ I’m an Israeli academic. My community is too silent about the ongoing war in Gaza. Here is how I see things based on reading hundreds of articles and watching thousands of videos and images about the war. This tweet chain contains my conclusions as a sort of executive summary.

This is both terrifying and deeply, deeply stupid.

How many massacres of starving Palestinians are necessary for an outcry? How many strewn bodies of Palestinians denied access to water, hygiene, & food before a single head of state describes Israel’s killing campaign as “barbaric”?

50 Palestinians massacred in Gaza City #Gaza

How many more flour massacres should Israel commit before this carnage stops?

U.N. investigation finds an Israeli tank violated international law when it fired two 120 mm rounds at a group of 'clearly identifiable journalists' & killed our colleague, Issam Abdallah.

reuters.com/world/middle-e…

In four months Israel killed more children than in four years of wars worldwide.

When car companies share people's driving behavior with insurance companies, including when they speed, brake too hard or accelerate rapidly.

And the majority of drivers have no idea this is happening, until they see big hikes in their insurance quotes
nytimes.com/2024/03/11/tec…

Signal finally supports usernames 🔥

Claim yours soon. This is a huge win.

It only took 5 months and 20,000+ deaths for the US to call for a ceasefire?

Despicable.

A “chaotic incident” is one way to label the IDF deliberately opening fire into hundreds and hundreds of starving people waiting for food. It’s mass murder.

“Chaotic incident”?

The word you’re looking for here, CNN, is massacre.

there are genuinely no words to describe this level of evil