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What Has Become of Social Justice

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Controversial opinion: I want to hear way less about racial & gender diversity in elected government. Since 2001, the number of POC in Congress has grown every term — except for a brief, minor dip in 2009. Overall, we’ve gone from 63 POC in Congress to 137 POC. Same thing with women in Congress — in that same time frame, we’ve gone from 62 Congresswomen to 128. These statistical trends also hold for LGBT in Congress. And while I’ve been giving national examples, these statistics hold for state and local governments as well in a very general, broad sense. In … Continue reading What Has Become of Social Justice

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4 Thoughts about the Congressional Sit-in

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(1) To echo what other Leftists have been saying, yeah, the proposed bill that congressional Democrats are disrupting congress for would be ineffective and racist. For more: The Democrats Are Boldly Fighting For a Bad, Stupid Bill. (2) Obviously I have no insight into what actually goes on in the head of a congressional Democrat, but I can imagine this narrative (the narrative that I think most people are projecting whether they articulate it or not): working hard to get elected, feeling like you gotta make a difference, feeling like you gotta make the world a better place, feeling like congressional … Continue reading 4 Thoughts about the Congressional Sit-in