So in Rupert’s world, if you are famous and popular enough to make oodles of money for people like him, then you should be allowed to punch people and everybody else should just shrug and move on.
ethics & philosophy
ideals, breaches, disappointments and inspirations
Media Circus: Fraser Condolence Motions Edition
I missed out on a memorial post for Malcolm Fraser over the weekend, so here is a Media Circus to focus on his achievements.
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Our Unconsciousness regarding Privilege and Bias
This is stuff regular readers likely already know, but it’s nice to have links to stuff for others. Two recent op-eds from the NYT discuss how decision makers in a wide range of gatekeeper roles are more likely to make discretionary accommodations for some people than others while not noticing that this is what they’re doing:
Friday Hoyden: Gillian Triggs
Gillian Triggs has proved herself so far above the pitiful scrabblings of the shrivelled souls who want her to stop saying that we shouldn’t subject children to institutional abuse that she has forced them to reveal themselves for what they are.
The Soft Tyranny of Low Expectations: boys shamed for empathising with female protagonists
A female author notes how schools keep deciding that boys won’t want to hear her speak about writing, while also deciding that whenever a male author visits the same school that girls will be just as interested in that author as the boys.
Media Circus: Metadata Edition
NB: updated 2015/02/23 with links (below) re Abbott’s counter-terrorism czar announcement
I agree with LDP Senator David Leyonhjelm on something!
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Media Circus: #JeSuisCharlie Edition
I want to be stalwart in solidarity with the French as they resolutely stand against terrorism aimed at the heart of their multicultural democracy, and by extension, our multicultural democracy as well. How to best do that in this swirl of emotion following these murders while refusing to fall into the polarising trap that the terrorists have set for us? I don’t have any easy answers.
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When a “no entries were found” search result is a relief
Pseudonymous author Avicenna Last of the blog “A Million Gods” at FreeThought Blogs (FTB) has been discovered to be a serial plagiarist, and removed from the FTB network as a result. I did a search to check on whether I’d ever referenced one of his posts here on Hoyden, in case I needed to triple-check it for proper source attribution.
Like many others, I am sad and disappointed and angry about this.
Media Circus: Best/Worst of The Year Edition
The lists are appearing.
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We need a new Christmas Carol story
Scrooge’s failing is in being disconnected from the people around him. The failure of today’s Scrooges is the belief that connecting with the people around them is enough.
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