Let us serve you, but don’t bring us down

What just happened on archive.org today, as best we know:

https://blog.archive.org/2023/05/29/let-us-serve-you-but-dont-bring-us-down/

Despite all its promises of equality and due process under law, America has always had its scapegoats.

I didn’t know it at the time, but when I was a child my entire community became scapegoats. The attack by Imperial Japan upon Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941—a “day that will live in infamy”—made most Americans look upon anyone with a Japanese name or face as the enemy.

May is AANHPI Heritage Month, so I want to take a moment to zero in on the history that led Asian minorities in the U.S. to come together as a group and demand America fulfill its promise of justice and equality: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/scapegoats-aahpi-george-takei-essay

@accretionist @nuncio @georgetakei

“Woke” means you’re not ASLEEP to injustice.

(That applies both to the original meaning, of African-Americans staying “woke” to pervasive racism, and the later meaning of working towards greater social justice.)

The right likes to claim that the left is taken over by a “woke mind virus.” But they fail to look in the mirror at their own obsessive attacks on anything in our broader culture that they perceive as tinged with ”wokeness.”

Whether it’s corporations, movies, or beer, the right sees U.S. culture slipping away from them. This attack on “woke” is their sad attempt to cling to a world they feel should rightly be theirs.

But in so doing, often they can’t even agree on what is “woke” and what is “anti-woke.” Or what the terms even mean.

Today in #TheBigPicture, we try to understand conservatives’ growing infatuation with the term and how it developed from merely a word to a representation of the party's severe disconnect from reality. Read more here: https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/right-wing-anti-woke-agenda

Libraries help give the bigger picture:

"Over the past three years, for instance, Fox News anchors and guests spotlighted crime 79 percent more often than those on MSNBC and twice as much as voices on CNN, according to a Washington Post analysis 0f closed captioning provided by the GDELT AI Television Explorer and the Internet Archive."

Thank you @internetarchive

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/30/americans-gun-violence-strangers-crime/