The Conversation U.S.Nov 4, 2023

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From September:
Largely forgotten until now, between 1933 and 1945 hundreds and hundreds of Jewish women and men performed individual acts of resistance in Nazi Germany.

Jews of all ages destroyed Nazi symbols, protested in public, disobeyed Nazi laws and defended themselves against insults and physical attacks.

Pictured: Lizi Rosenfeld, a Jewish woman, sits on a park bench bearing a sign that reads, ‘Only for Aryans,’ in August 1938 in Vienna ⬇️

https://theconversation.com/how-individual-ordinary-jews-fought-nazi-persecution-a-new-view-of-history-210337
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How individual, ordinary Jews fought Nazi persecution − a new view of history

Finding the stories of individual Jews who fought the Nazis publicly and at great peril helped a scholar see history differently: that Jews were not passive. Instead, they actively fought the Nazis.

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This #FourthofJuly weekend:
Stop using #nationalism and #patriotism as synonyms.

🇺🇸 Patriotism encompasses devotion to the country as a whole – including all the people who live within it.

🇺🇸 Nationalism refers to devotion to only one group or people over others.
https://theconversation.com/what-is-the-difference-between-nationalism-and-patriotism-208170

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A 1950 poster shows Superman – a refugee from another planet and a character created by two Jewish immigrants to the U.S. – teaching this lesson to school kids. #USPolitics

What is the difference between nationalism and patriotism?

Nationalism and patriotism are sometimes treated as synonyms, but they have very different meanings.

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From last November:
Y'all listening?

Y'all as a second-person plural pronoun is not just “the quintessential Southern pronoun.” A linguist has found uses going back to 1631 in England, hundreds of years before the more recent usages cited by the Oxford English Dictionary.

And its inclusiveness is also gaining new respect, you hear?

https://theconversation.com/yall-that-most-southern-of-southernisms-is-going-mainstream-and-its-about-time-193265

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‘Y'all,’ that most Southern of Southernisms, is going mainstream – and it’s about time

The use of ‘y'all’ has often been seen as vulgar, low-class and uncultured. That’s starting to change.

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Charles Henry Turner was a pioneer in entomology - and he couldn't get a job in higher ed, so he taught high school biology.

"Across his distinguished 33-year career, Turner authored 71 papers and was the first African American to have his research published in the prestigious journal Science."

His simple but elegant experiments in public parks revolutionized understanding of bees.

https://theconversation.com/charles-henry-turner-the-little-known-black-high-school-science-teacher-who-revolutionized-the-study-of-insect-behavior-in-the-early-20th-century-184030

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Charles Henry Turner: The little-known Black high school science teacher who revolutionized the study of insect behavior in the early 20th century

The son of a formerly enslaved mother, Charles Henry Turner was the first to discover that bees and other insects have the ability to modify their behavior based on experience.

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Show threadThe Conversation U.S.Nov 4, 2023
Full disclosure: our Mastodoniversary was yesterday, but I had a really busy day at work and forgot.
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Nah. Will stick with ‘youse’
Show threadQRSS_TestNov 4, 2023
@TheConversationUS Please, never say “all y’all.” It’s highly redundant.
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@QRSS_Test Y'all are right!
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And it is 10 million times better than yinz.
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West coast born and raised, when I was stationed in S. Carolina "y'all" is one word I kept as it makes so much sense [to me].

Then, in Texas, I heard "all y'all". That's a fun one 😁

Show threadWord of Mouth Nov 5, 2023
@TheConversationUS I agree. My family is very patriotic, and both sides were colonists. My mom's into genealogy heheh. I'm related somehow to a couple of important personages like John and John Q. Adams.

But that means we're revolutionaries. We always have to remain revolutionary. That's America's secret. That's how we roll. Literally. We revolve. We amend, because we're a nation of laws, not of men.

Another of my relatives wrote "The Education of Henry Adams" during the fin de siecle, and described a cyclical philosophy of history. He called them the "Virgin" and the "Dynamo", and he predicted that the oscillation would increase, until it reached a fever pitch. He didn't predict dates. He just mused.
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No. "Dulce est et decore, pro patria mori!"
This sentence is clear. It is a reference to landowners, that is a ruling class.
Nationalism and patriotism are the same: legitimation of the politics of the ruling class.

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