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Punched Out
Assuming I did not botch the task, by the time this posts I will have been dead via suicide for several hours. Nope, that’s not a setup to a joke.[1] Why would someone who is healthy, employed, has every outside … Continue reading
Kerfuffle, Human Rights Data Stylee
A post yesterday at openGlobalRights has generated frustration and ire among several of us who work in the data production (and analysis) salt mines. Lawrence Sáez, a political economist at U London’s SOAS, opined thusly under the headline “Human rights … Continue reading
Seasons Greetings, Bureaucracy Stylee
When I receive something like the e-card below I generally wonder–and I use that word literally–what it is like to not feel insulted; what it is like to not want to lash out and demand some respect for myself, for … Continue reading
Public Notice to all Levels of Government in the United States
I, hereby publicly declare my Muslim and Arab/Berber heritage.[1] My surname, Moore, was the 16th most common surname in the United States in the 2000 census, and our lineage traces back to one of three surname sources: (1) the people … Continue reading
A Hot Take on Human Rights & Backlash
This is something I teach my undergraduate students in my human rights course: there is nothing about the radical notion of universal human dignity and rights that is “natural” to homo sapiens. It is an argument. Nothing more. And … Continue reading
“Gracious” v “Sore” Election Losers, US Stylee
My friend, and former colleague at UC, Riverside, Shaun Bowler has a post over at Vox that discusses the important role of concession speeches by losing politicians that affirm the legitimacy of the process. Adam Przeworski famously put the issue … Continue reading
Meet Rape Culture: Progress and the Long Road Ahead
That Donald Trump is the perfect spokesperson to spread awareness that rape culture has been a part of the human experience since recorded history is not terribly surprising. Indeed, the only positive thing I can take from his successful run … Continue reading
Fiske & the Mutual Admiration Society
I have often wished we could simplify our social status signalling to the dog greeting technique. Start with your prior belief about your station in the hierarchy, and wag your tail / stand still / or shrink your posture accordingly; … Continue reading
File Drawer Exchange on Twitter
This happened on Twitter today, and I think it will make a useful prompt for discussion in seminar later this seminar, so I am recording it here. Justin Esarey then weighed in with 13 posts explaining why he disagrees … Continue reading
“Don’t Trust the Refugees!” 1980s Peru, Stylee
It will come as no surprise to many that Donald Trump’s beating of the fear drum vis-a-vis Arab and Muslim migrants and refugees is a tried and true narrative among politicians who oversee police regimes . In 1982, during Peru’s … Continue reading
Will Opines 