Michael H. Jenkins

Among many other domestic terror groups who should be scaring the shit out of us as a nation.

I think the important bit is getting lost in the shuffle over particulars: This research and the conclusion it presents are not original to three Western men from a first-world university. They’ve been discussed and explored at length by the academies of the post-colonial states who are dealing with the aftereffects of their own colonial experiences. This is a Eurocentric/Western-centric move on the part of, frankly, a bunch of privileged and insulated people.

I think you’ve hit it on the head, in that it will be a question of how openly the next administration enables the horrors perpetuated by the Israeli government. What a time to be alive!

That is not true for the Nobel Prize in Economics, which is not one of the five official Nobel Prizes.

Sorry about that, I mistook you for someone else. The Royal Academy of Sciences doesn’t administer the Nobel Prize for Economics, which isn’t one of the five official Nobel Prizes and thus overseen by a complex mix of the Swedish government–including the Academy of Sciences–and the Sveringes Riksbank.

Oh boy, ethnic prejudice: my own academic researched focused on borders and migration in colonial and post-colonial states and I taught US and World History on both the high school and college level. Race, racism, the Atlantic Slave Trade, and colonialism/post-colonialism pervade all of those subjects and were constants throughout my curriculum.

I suspect that post election we’ll see a renewed push into Gaza and the West Bank. This feels a lot like Reagan and the Iran Hostage Crisis.

I’d bet money I don’t have that “halted” means “delayed until after the US election”. But that’s the cynic in me . . .

He’s already invaded Lebanon. I suspect Rafah’s only been spared so they can focus on that.

. . . brought to you by some of the same people behind this little gem: https://www.npr.org/2012/04/20/151047929/racist-cake-episode-cuts-swedes-the-wrong-way

I get what you’re saying but I’ll point out he has our near-unquestioning support now.

Ah, gotcha. Have a good day.

Let me ask you this: why is defending the Nobel committee so important to you?

That’s not what Newton did with the Principia. You can read it for free online to confirm this.

I teach a course on the history of science if you’re interested.

Be a little careful with this one: as far as I know it’s all based on one internal FEMA email. While the email itself is confirmed, the content hasn’t been.

Well no, but what I taught to high school sophomore is–believe it or not–based on the research that academics and specialists have been doing for generations. The same is true for high school science and math teachers, by the way.

Thankfully your attempt to look sophisticated allows me to reiterate my point: this has been heavily researched, documented, and explored for several generations now. It’s only news to people who have had the privilege of ignoring colonialism; many of them are in positions of authority or prestige. I’d recommend taking a look at the work of Franz Fanon or Aimee Cesaire to get a sense of how far back this line of thinking and research goes. Read that and I’ll pass you some more global academic research on the topic.

. . . I used to teach this to high school sophomores in World History. To whom is this news?