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Sunday, May 23, 2021

YOU REALLY DON'T SEE WHY? THAT IS SAD.

TO ALL TRUMPIANS AND REPUBLICANS, 

(SEE BELOW)

LET ME ASK THE FOLLOWING? IF THIS WAS YOUR U.S. REP, VOTED INTO OFFICE

BY YOUR COMMUNITY, WOULD YOU REALLY FIND IT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND WHY

BUSINESSES, INVESTORS, AND OTHER COMMUNITIES WOULD NOT WANT TO HAVE A

RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU? 


FURTHER, IF THE LEADER OF YOUR PARTY, (DONALD), WILL NOT CONDEMN HER, OR 

THOSE LIKE HER, EXACTLY WHAT FORM OF GOVERNMENT ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?

ALL  I SEE IS FASCISM, WITH THE "CULT OF THE INDIVIDUAL," AND THE DESTRUCTION

 OF CONSTITUTIONAL PRINCIPLES, AS THE RESULT OF ELECTING "CITIZENS" LIKE

 TRUMP AND GREENE.

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FROM THE ARTICLE: 'Evil lunacy': GOP lawmakers slam Marjorie Taylor Greene's comparing House mask mandate to Holocaust.

WRITTEN BY- ALAN SMITH FOR NBC NEWS.


Republican lawmakers blasted Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., over the weekend for comparing the House's mask mandate to the Holocaust.

The Republicans who criticized Greene were among those who either voted to impeach President Donald Trump this year or, in addition, voted to strip Greene of her committee assignments.

Rep. Liz Cheney, R-Wyo., who was recently ousted from GOP leadership after she continued to refute Trump's electoral falsehoods, lambasted Greene's comparison as "evil lunacy" in a tweet.

Rep. Adam Kinzinger, R-Ill., one of three House Republicans who voted both for Trump's impeachment and to strip Greene of her committee assignments, tweeted that Greene's remarks amount to "Absolute sickness."

And Rep. Peter Meijer, R-Mich., said Sunday on CNN's "State of the Union" that the comments were "beyond reprehensible."

"This is, I don't even have words to describe how disappointing it is to see this hyperbolic speech that frankly amps up and plays into a lot of the antisemitism that we've been seeing in our society today," he said.

In an appearance last week on the podcast "The Water Cooler with David Brody," Greene lamented to a nodding Brody about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to maintain a mask mandate on the House floor because of concerns many GOP members may not be vaccinated.

"This woman is mentally ill," Greene said of Pelosi, D-Calif. "You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens — so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany, and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about."

She was referring to the millions of Jews who were forced to wear a Star of David on their clothes, sent to concentration camps and murdered during World War II. A poll conducted this year showed an increase in antisemitism around the world, as well as a lack of awareness about the Holocaust among adults under 40, 11 percent of whom said they believed it was caused by Jewish people.

CNN survey this month found that fewer than half of House Republicans would say they had been vaccinated, compared to 100 percent of House Democrats. Greene said recently that Pelosi "cannot force" her to be vaccinated.

The American Jewish Congress called on Greene on Twitter to apologize and retract her comments, saying "such comparisons demean the Holocaust & contaminate American political speech." A Change.org petition to have House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., expel her from Congress had attracted almost 25,000 signatures by late Sunday afternoon.

Greene has come under repeated scrutiny for her past promotion of conspiracy theories like QAnon and for having appeared to endorse violence against Pelosi before she sought office. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., condemned her for spreading "loony lies," and the Democratic-controlled House remove her from committees in February in a vote backed by 11 Republicans.


In an appearance last week on the podcast "The Water Cooler with David Brody," Greene lamented to a nodding Brody about House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's decision to maintain a mask mandate on the House floor because of concerns many GOP members may not be vaccinat"This woman is mentally ill," Greene said of Pelosi, D-Calif. "You know, we can look back in a time in history where people were told to wear a gold star and they were definitely treated like second-class citizens — so much so that they were put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany, and this is exactly the type of abuse that Nancy Pelosi is talking about."


Saturday, May 22, 2021

TIME TO ASK THE HARD QUESTIONS. # 1.

 As you read the Article below, ask yourself the following questions:

- Who benefits the most by part of the Republican Party insisting that the

  2020 Presidential Election was rigged against D. Trump?


 - What has caused the split between the two wings of the Republican Party:

   Those who support Trumps claims, and those who deny them?


-  Do you think that the average Trump Supporter believes his claims because of the 

   quality of the evidence, or that their support is based on willful ignorance, or pure 

   self-interest?


 - Trump claimed that both the 2016 and 2018 elections were also fraudulent,

    yet the only solid evidence of fraud was that the 2016 Presidential Election was

    rigged against his opponent Hillary Clinton. This being the 3rd example of unsupported

    claims, Why are the Democrats refusing to use this information?


  More questions in the future.

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Reps. Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor Greene rally in Maricopa County to keep 'big lie' going.

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Thursday, May 20, 2021

AMERICAN PHILOSOPHICAL ASSOCIATION: The spring 2021 APA newsletters are available.

 


American Philosophical Association


Dear DAVID,

We are pleased to announce that the spring 2021 APA Newsletters are now available. The table of contents for each current issue appears below with a link to that particular newsletter. The complete volume is available for download as well.

 

The newsletters contain a wide variety of scholarly material, discussion on relevant and timely topics, book reviews, and much more. We encourage you to check them out and share them with your colleagues and students.

 

If you are interested in contributing to a future issue, please contact the appropriate editor(s).

 

All the best,

 

Erin Shepherd

Publications and Communications Coordinator

 

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APA Newsletters, Spring 2021

APA Newsletter on Hispanic/Latino Issues in Philosophy

From the Editor

Lori Gallegos

 

Call for Submissions

 

Articles

2020 APA Essay Prize in Latin American Thought: “Which Secular Grounds? The Atheism of Liberation Philosophy,” Rafael Vizcaíno

 

2020 Essay Prize Honorable Mention: “Radical Pluralism and the Hispanic Identity,” Mariana Gómez

 

“Shifting the Geography of Revolution: Mestizo Nationalism, Pan-Arab Independence, and Feminist Philosophy through the Writings of Vera Yamuni Tabush,” Andrea Pitts

 

“Gloria Anzaldúa, Hybrid History, and American Philosophy,” Tadd Ruetenik

 

Author Bios

 

APA Newsletter on Native American and Indigenous Philosophy

From the Managing Editor

Agnes B. Curry

 

Submission Guidelines and Information

 

Articles

“Cultural Infusion in the Pandemic: Creek Symbology,” Deidra Suwanee Dees

 

“The Roles of Land and Stories in Relational Pedagogy for Indigenous Resurgence,” Alex-Andrei Ungurenasu

 

Course Syllabus

“PHL 156: Introduction to Indigenous Philosophy: Native American Resistance Movements,” Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner

 

APA Newsletter on Philosophy and the Black Experience

From the Editor

Dwayne Tunstall

 

Submission Guidelines and Information

 

Footnotes to History

Hubert Harrison (1883–1927)

 

Article

“COVID-19, Capitalism, and Death: How and Why Black Lives Matter,” John H. McClendon III

 

Book Reviews

“A Welcome Leftward Turn to Marxism: Ferguson on the Philosophy of African American Studies,” Reviewed by John H. McClendon III

 

“The Disposable Man—Grotesque White Fantasies of Black Male Death in George Yancy’s Backlash,” Reviewed by Adebayo Oluwayomi

 

Author Bios

 

APA Newsletter on Teaching Philosophy

Letter from the Editors

Tziporah Kasachkoff and Eugene Kelly

 

Submission Guidelines

 

Articles

“Teaching Some Philosophical Problems through Computer Science,” Daniel Lim and Jiaxin Wu

 

“Schematics for the Syllogism: An Alternative to Venn,” Wallace A. Murphree

 

Poems on Teaching During the Pandemic

“The Prof Selects Her Social Distancing,” Felicia Nimue Ackerman

 

“The Joy of Zoom Teaching,” Felicia Nimue Ackerman

 

Addresses of Contributors

 

APA Newsletter on Asian and Asian American Philosophers and Philosophies

Special Issue on Buddhist Philosophy: Book Symposium on Why I Am Not a Buddhist by Evan Thompson

 

From the Editors

“Editors’ Introduction: Buddhist Modernism and Its Discontents,” A. Minh Nguyen and Yarran Hominh

 

Articles

“Précis of Why I Am Not a Buddhist,” Evan Thompson

 

“On Pursuing the Dialogue Between Buddhism and Science in Ways That Distort Neither,” Christian Coseru

 

“On Being a Good Friend to Buddhist Philosophy,” Bronwyn Finnegan

 

“Buddhism after Buddhist Modernism: Comments on Evan Thompson’s Why I Am Not a Buddhist,” Jonardon Ganeri

 

“Throwing Out the Buddha with the Offering Water: Comments on Evan Thompson’s Why I Am Not a Buddhist,” Jay L. Garfield

 

“Free to Be You and Me: Cosmopolitanism, Pluralism, and Buddhist Modernism,” Laura P. Guerrero

 

“Some Questions for Friends of Buddhism,” Sonam Kachru

 

“Thompson Is Not a Buddhist, But What about the Rest of Us?,” Constance Kassor

 

“Deconstructing Buddhist Modernism Without Postmodern Orientalism?,” Abraham Velez de Cea

 

“Buddhist Modernism: Let’s Be Suspicious But Not Because It Lacks Faith,” Louise Williams

 

“Replies to Critics,” Evan Thompson

 

Submission Guidelines and Information

 

APA Newsletter on Feminism and Philosophy

Guest Editor’s Introduction

“Outsiders Within: Reflections on Being a First-Generation and/or Low-Income Philosopher,” Arianna Falbo and Heather Stewart

 

About the Newsletter

 

Submission Guidelines

 

Essays

“Flourishing in the Academy: Complicity and Compromise,” Jennifer M. Morton

 

“Ethical Narratives and Oppositional Consciousness,” John D. Proios

 

“What It’s Like to Grow Up Poor, but Fall in Love with Philosophy: A Notice to the Profession in Case It Forgot,” Elvira Basevich

 

“Knowing What to Order at the Conference Dinner,” Ian James Kidd

 

“Epistemic Shame as a First-Generation Scholar,” Lucia Munguia

 

“Marginal Disclosures: Sisterhood, Standpoint, Community and Thriving,” Ashley Lamarre and Zinhle ka’Nobuhlaluse

 

“Confessions of a Working-Class Student,” Kayla Aceves

 

“Abolition University: Mobilizing Black Feminist Philosophy to Transform Institutions of Higher Education into “Vehicles of Decarceration” that Affirm the Lives of First-Generation Students,” Brady Heiner

 

“Supporting First-Generation Philosophers at Every Level,” Bailie Peterson

 

Book Reviews

Margaret McLaren: Women’s Activism, Feminism, and Social Justice, Reviewed by Nancy J. Hirschmann

 

Éléonore Lépinard: Feminist Trouble: Intersectional Politics in Post-Secular Times, Reviewed by Joan Eleanor O’Bryan

 

Kate Manne: Entitled: How Male Privilege Hurts Women, Reviewed by Vanessa Wills

 

Laura Roberts: Irigaray and Politics A Critical Introduction, Reviewed by Fulden Ä°brahimhakkıoÄŸlu

 

Contributors

 

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