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Senior Policy Analyst, author of Power, Patronage and International Norms: A Grand Masquerade
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"...countries that are more accepting of LGBTQ people tend to be stronger democracies, meaning they are more likely to hold free and fair elections, maintain checks and balances, and respect civil liberties" More excellent work from the indomitable Ari Shaw.

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"If we don’t allow our learners time and space to contend with a cacophony of ideas in thinking labs...our democracy is in peril." How material is taught matters as much as its content. Every text is a set of questions, not answers, and teachers should be taught then trusted to treat them as such.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Fight fascism on the beaches and in your hearts. Hatred may be all around us, but it does not need to change us.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

What a lazy analysis. Dominant conceptualizations of "the nation" do not require geographical boundedness, a language distinct from outsiders', formal institutionalization, pre-colonial status, or racial distinctiveness. Never mind that the Red River Métis meet several of these unnecessary criteria.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

The tariffs are a major threat. The rise of fascist hate in our country is a much, much greater threat. As Canadians, we survive mere hardship like this morning's -40C wind chill. But one cannot wrap up warm against ideological evisceration.

submitted 20 days ago • 0 comments

...(3) the necessity of a strong father-leader to lead the people, and (4) a strong tendency for the first three tenets to co-produce virulent ethnic nationalism. I would then go through symptoms of a pre-genocidal society. This was 5+ years ago. The signs were apparent for at least 10. (2/2)

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When I taught fascism as a political theory, I identified its core tenets as beliefs in (1) a "natural," inborn hierarchy of persons with the dominant group just being *better* than the subordinate, (2) violence as a crucial means of enforcing that hierarchy at home and abroad... (1/2)

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