There are many good points in this piece, some of them positive, some negative…
240,000,000 Indians use Facebook.
And while Mark Zuckerberg’s bank account contains 10,000,000 times more money than the average Indian’s, his Facebook account works more or less identically.
Quick and cheap distribution goes both ways — it creates financial inequality and experience equality. You can’t pay for a better Facebook experience.
via How Technology Ends Inequality – Entrepreneur First – Medium
Manne posits that sexism and misogyny are distinct from one another. “Misogyny is law enforcement; sexism is justificatory,” Manne argues. “Sexism wears a lab coat; misogyny goes on witch hunts […] Sexism is bookish; misogyny is combative,” she writes later in the book. Sexism is not the “cudgel” of misogyny, instead, it’s a set of beliefs that work to naturalize the existing order.
via Philosopher Kate Manne on ‘Himpathy,’ Donald Trump, and Rethinking the Logic of Misogyny
“We told them the women in your community do not feel accepted,” Ruhii says. “You haven’t opened the doors for us.”
“Right,” said Barber, “but how do I legislate intolerance out of people?”
via How Transphobic Anti-LGBTQ Groups Hijacked a Small Town’s Fight for Equality
An interesting look at the work of people standing up for social and civil equality in countries where human rights are threatened or challenged.
via The women who risk their lives for others’ rights – BBC News
An interesting perspective on what it is like for people to be ‘fat’, and that makes them feel within society. To me this is an example of discrimination in the area of social equality.
Tendayi Achiume, the UN’s special rapporteur on racism and xenophobia, said that hate crimes had risen starkly since the EU referendum in 2016 and that anti-migrant and anti-foreigner rhetoric had become “normalised” even among high-ranking civil servants.
