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"content": "\u003cp>Last weekend, Johnson & Johnson announced it would no longer sell skin-lightening products. The company will be axing Neutrogena’s Fine Fairness line and Clean & Clear’s Clear Fairness creams in Asia, the Middle East and India. “Some product names or claims on our dark spot reducer products represent fairness or white as better than your own unique skin tone,” the company said in \u003ca href=\"https://www.reuters.com/article/us-johnson-johnson-whitening/johnson-johnson-drops-skin-whitening-creams-idUSKBN23Q2BZ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement\u003c/a>. “This was never our intention—healthy skin is beautiful skin.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Johnson & Johnson’s commitment to discontinuing these products sets a much-needed precedent for the beauty industry. It comes just weeks after social media users called out Indian celebrities who had created social media posts in support of Black Lives Matter, but also previously endorsed skin-lightening creams. The actresses included \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/maXes_MB/status/1268311171691503617\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Priyanka Chopra\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/aluminiummaiden/status/1267060974810550272\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sonam Kapoor\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/Man_isssh/status/1266963455736786945\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Disha Patani\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/DoctorLFC/status/1267902864606875655\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Kiara Advani\u003c/a>. All of them were advertising the creams of brands that are household names in America—L’Oréal, Ponds and Garnier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nivea—a company that came under fire in 2017 for a British ad campaign that featured the phrase “\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/business/media/nivea-ad-online-uproar-racism.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">White is purity\u003c/a>”—is also a major player when it comes to \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/Nivea-Extra-Whitening-Lotion-200ml/dp/B00HRSRG9G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">skin-lightening products\u003c/a>. As is Unilever, the parent company of Dove—a brand known for pushing a message of inclusivity in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='pop_102572']Unilever has been historically unrepentant about its Fair & Lovely brand and the accompanying marketing campaigns that have often equated romantic and professional success with lighter skin. In 2017, \u003ca href=\"https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/scaachikoul/doves-gaffe-is-part-of-a-history-of-racist-beauty-marketing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a statement\u003c/a> from Unilever defended its stance by saying: “Even-toned and lighter skin remains the most sought-after beauty desire across Asia and parts of Africa and Latin America.” Fair & Lovely remains one of the most commonly available skin-lightening brands in the United States.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the last few weeks, some of these same companies have paid lip service to America’s racial justice movement.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/garnierUSA/status/1267815470192668672\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_Ph89HIWn/\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/LOrealParisUSA/status/1267449907880824832\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(That last post from L’Oréal prompted a response from \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/MunroeBergdorf/status/1267460238678069249\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">model Munroe Bergdorf\u003c/a> who claimed that in 2017, the company “dropped me from a campaign and threw me to the wolves for speaking out about racism and white supremacy.”)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For the beauty industry, promoting and selling lighter skin tones is a multi-billion dollar business—specifically, $8.3 billion in 2018. In 2009, Indian consumers alone spent $432 million in pursuit of lighter skin. And while America does not see the types of mainstream marketing used in other parts of the world, these kinds of products aren’t hard to find in local pharmacies and beauty shops. What’s more, the internet has made available a mind-boggling array of skin-lightening products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A quick Google search sent me almost immediately to an Amazon page unabashedly titled “Skin Bleaching.” And while many of the items on the page are dressed up as dark spot correctors, scar reducers or “brightening” products, there are numerous other creams, serums and supplements that are more brazen about their raison d’être.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13882343\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-800x800.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-800x800.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-160x160.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-768x768.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-1020x1020.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/whitening-1-1920x1920.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While some products are undoubtedly safer than others, America has known for decades that skin-lightening products can be dangerous. In 2010, the \u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/health/16skin.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>New York Times\u003c/em> reported\u003c/a> that: “Dermatologists nationwide are seeing women of Hispanic and African descent, among others, with severe side effects … from the misuse of skin-lightening creams, many with prescription-strength ingredients,” including steroids.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In that same article, one dermatologist, Dr. Eliot F. Battle Jr, stated: “It’s happening more because the internet has been a great source for these patients to get physician-strength or prescription-strength products.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The fight against skin-lightening products has already started in other countries. In 2015, they were \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/07/ivory-coast-bans-potentially-deadly-skin-whitening-creams\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">banned\u003c/a> on the Ivory Coast. In 2019, they were banned in Ghana, Rwanda, South Africa and Sudan. However, despite a Europe-wide ban on skin-lightening products containing dangerous ingredients (such as hydroquinone and mercury), consumers there are still seeking them out.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_13881748']Last year, Britain’s Local Government Association issued \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/health-49851669\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a warning\u003c/a> after seizing thousands of illegal skin-lightening products. Calling hydroquinone “the biological equivalent of paint stripper,” an LGA representative said: “Skin creams containing banned ingredients are very dangerous and could seriously damage your health, scar you for life and even kill you, so they should be avoided at all costs.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While larger companies have the means to more rigorously test their products before they hit the shelves, the social implications of all skin-lightening brands are the same across the board. Not only do they have roots in colonial ideals around beauty and status, Hasan Minaj also recently highlighted the link between such products and racism towards the Black community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In an impassioned \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i_FE78X-qdY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 3 monologue\u003c/a>, speaking specifically of the South Asian community, Minaj said:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>We love Black America on screen, in our living rooms. But if a Black man walks into your living room, or wants to date—God forbid, marry—your daughter? You’d call the cops! Do you know what we call Black people? We call them ‘Kala.’ It means black—not in a good way. If someone in your family is dark skinned, we clown them. We call them ‘Kallu.’ Our Bollywood stars do skin whitening commercials, so we don’t look Black. It is bad to be Black in Desi culture, even though we all wish we were Black. You don’t think that affects how we view Black people?\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>There are signs that skin-lightening fatigue amongst consumers is on the rise. Just this week, \u003ca href=\"https://www.shaadi.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Shaadi\u003c/a>—a dating site popular with the Indian diaspora—\u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/newsbeat-53146969?fbclid=IwAR3KTDTrBaO04-EwxzPaTgRR2TRHbhUyPJ9x_nCDt0e9eCq1RHP_r8iXlbs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">removed a feature\u003c/a> that asked its users to specify the lightness of their skin tone, using descriptors including ‘Fair,’ ‘Wheatish,’ and ‘Dark.’ The decision was made just two weeks after a \u003ca href=\"https://www.change.org/p/shaadi-com-remove-the-colour-filter-from-matrimonial-website?recruiter=1114601771&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=copylink&utm_campaign=share_petition\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">petition\u003c/a> was set up, demanding the change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this moment of trying to exact systemic change at the highest levels, worrying about what the cosmetics industry is doing can seem somewhat inconsequential. But while \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11825103/san-francisco-removes-controversial-christopher-columbus-statue-on-telegraph-hill\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">statues\u003c/a> are being torn down, \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881748/what-should-we-do-with-old-racist-movies-on-streaming-platforms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">old movies\u003c/a> are being reevaluated and \u003ca href=\"https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/23/entertainment/30-rock-episodes-blackface-trnd/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TV shows are being revised\u003c/a>, it would serve American consumers to understand just which companies continue to profit from, and push, beauty ideals that center white supremacy.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>A week before Trump held his controversial campaign rally in Tulsa was when Viviana Dark, a K-pop fan from Wisconsin (who has requested pseudonymity over concerns of online harassment), first heard of plans to “sabotage” the event. Users on TikTok, the exceptionally popular social-video platform, were urging others to reserve tickets to the rally, with no intention of actually going. “You know how a TikTok Challenge happens? It was kind of like that. ‘Everybody go do this!’ And it spread like wildfire,” Dark, 19 years old, tells NPR Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She signed up for two seats, received a confirmation email from the Trump campaign—”I’m counting on my loyal supporters like you”—and never showed up to the rally, which drew just \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881313605/trump-crowd-size-underwhelms-campaign-blames-protesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a few thousand\u003c/a> supporters to the 19,000-seat auditorium on June 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/21/tiktok-kpop-trump-tulsa-rally/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not clear\u003c/a> how much TikTok teens and K-pop fans should be credited for the rally’s disappointing turnout; Trump’s campaign originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/trump-tulsa-rally-coronavirus-calls-for-cancellation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed\u003c/a> it received more than a million requests for tickets. A stage prepared for overflow was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1274481380836114433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">never used\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dark, who supports the girl groups TWICE and GWSN, is no stranger to political activism in coordination with her K-pop community. She has a Twitter group chat with fellow idol fans from all over the world, where they exchange info about stars, petitions and hashtag movements. To “clog up” the platform, she tweeted #WhiteLivesMatter and #KeepAmericaGreat hashtags, coupled with irrelevant fancams of her favorite stars, as a way of diluting the usefulness and relevance of the tags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m Black before I’m a K-pop stan,” she says. “The main point of why we were fighting was for the Black Lives Matter cause, not to get recognized [as K-pop fans].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting recognized they are, as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-04/k-pop-fans-maestros-of-social-media-bring-their-powers-to-bear-on-blacklivesmatter-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maestros of social media\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5851211/kpop-bts-black-lives-matter-social-media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an unexpected ally\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.adobomagazine.com/digital-news/digital-dont-anger-the-k-pop-fans-k-pop-community-invades-racist-hashtags/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unlikely heroes\u003c/a>.” Earlier this month, fans of BTS matched the boy band’s $1 million Black Lives Matter donation in roughly a day. Others are credited with flooding the iWatch Dallas app \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/kpop-trump-tulsa-rally-hashtags-fancams-donations-activism-online-stan-2020-6#in-late-may-some-k-pop-fans-tried-to-stop-fandom-hashtags-from-trending-out-of-respect-for-blacklivesmatter-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with fancams\u003c/a> (and sinking its App Store \u003ca href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iwatch-dallas/id1482321757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranking\u003c/a>), after the Dallas police asked people to report “illegal activity” from the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I’d see the day where K-pop stans are defeating the police,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/blom_dot_com/status/1267252731959554050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read\u003c/a> one tweet that received over 4,000 likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is this so surprising? If you know the people in the K-pop fandom, this [political activism] seems natural,” says Lee Jeeheng, a cultural studies scholar and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/BTS-ARMY-Culture-Lee-Jeeheng-ebook/dp/B083NJNNPR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>BTS and ARMY Culture\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a book analyzing the fandom of the extremely popular group. “K-pop fandom is a digital tribe. Fans have been trained to mobilize quickly. They already have the infrastructure; when someone says, \u003cem>‘Go here!\u003c/em>‘ everybody can run towards the target.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"K-pop fans in Central Park on May 15, 2019 in New York.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">K-pop fans in Central Park on May 15, 2019 in New York. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past, fans have \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/magic_breakfast/status/1222920159851094018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donated to a London charity\u003c/a> to fund over 35,000 meals, reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/chilean-government-blames-k-pop-recent-protests-1479151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protested against\u003c/a> the Chilean government in 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hyunsuinseoul/status/1268520597853581312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised awareness\u003c/a> about the need for safer roads in Bangladesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This activism, while not practiced by every K-pop fan, has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.koreaexpose.com/fascinating-world-k-pop-fandom-culture/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long history\u003c/a>. In South Korea, organized music fandoms \u003ca href=\"https://www.reportshop.co.kr/social/102427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">began appearing\u003c/a> in the 1980s and ’90s. Fan philanthropy, now common in Korea beyond pop music, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201812081756208010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has its roots\u003c/a> in the early 2000s. Fans of the “first-generation” idol band Shinhwa, which debuted in 1998 and is still active, are credited with starting the “fan rice” trend in 2007, sending thousands of kilograms of rice to charity. Other fandoms \u003ca href=\"https://www.soompi.com/article/837751wpp/fans-donate-to-deaf-children-for-infinites-hoyas-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have funded\u003c/a> cochlear implants for deaf children and more recently, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wowtv.co.kr/NewsCenter/News/Read?articleId=A202006110079&t=NN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within and across different fandoms, political awareness is shared through loose online networks on Twitter, Instagram, fan cafes, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scholar Lee, a BTS fan, remembers one instance: In 2018, BTS member Jimin wore \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46147777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a shirt\u003c/a> depicting the U.S atomic bombing of Japan, after which fans became embroiled in contentious debates about Western imperialism and Japan’s atrocities during WWII, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/11/13/563838610/comfort-woman-memorial-statues-a-thorn-in-japans-side-now-sit-on-korean-buses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually enslaving women\u003c/a> for its military. Multilingual fans furiously translated on Twitter, including Lee. “Fans from Southeast Asia started talking about their grandmothers who were sexually enslaved,” she recalls. “It was an incredible history lesson. It was a really moving experience. I witnessed diversity and minority representation in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Worldwide, K-pop is being consumed in the name of diversity politics,” \u003ca href=\"http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=202006082139025&code=960802#csidx183f27eda83c4abb96adce82d8be04b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says \u003c/a>Mimyo, the editor-in-chief of \u003ca href=\"http://idology.kr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Idology\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an online magazine specializing in K-pop idol music. “Most K-pop fans are already interested in diversity politics; combine this with K-pop fandom’s culture of collective action. That’s why K-pop’s global fandom is participating actively in social movements like Black Lives Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be a non-Korean K-pop fan is innately political, I dunno why anyone is still surprised that K-pop fans are political,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TamarWrites/status/1274531852829765632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted \u003c/a>Tamar Herman, a K-pop correspondent for \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman and Mimyo’s comments are part of a growing media \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/11/surprised-seeing-k-pop-fans-stand-up-black-lives-matter-you-shouldnt-be/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">narrative\u003c/a> highlighting K-pop fans’ political progressiveness. But the reality is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, there are plenty of fans like Dionne Saville, who don’t really engage in K-pop’s political activities. “K-pop is not at all an inherently political act for me. It’s just excellent music that crosses global boundaries. I enjoy the deeper cultural connection it brings,” Saville, a 47-year-old BTS fan in Yorkshire, U.K., tells NPR Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are more sinister issues. Ironically for a music industry seen as heralding diversity politics, with millions of POC fans worldwide, K-pop creators still face constant accusations of \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/kpop-stans-hashtags-fancams-whitelivesmatter-bts-matchamillion-army-donation-2020-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cultural appropriation\u003c/a> and racism, particularly against Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://popcrush.com/k-pop-scandals-international-blackface-racist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blackface\u003c/a>, though less common now, has brought plenty of A-list idols under fire. Artists also frequently stylize themselves after Black culture, and many cite Black music as a central influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Traditionally, K-pop has not been a space that has validated Black feelings about those choices,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/k-pop-stars-speaking-up-black-lives-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writes\u003c/a> Natasha Mulenga for \u003cem>Teen Vogue\u003c/em>, “despite the impact Blackness has had on an industry that was reported at $5.4 billion … in 2018.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the fandom, plenty of Black fans have voiced concerns about being \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/bts-fandom-needs-to-check-anti-blackness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gaslit\u003c/a> by other fans when bringing up racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels really hard to be a POC in K-pop,” says Dark. “When some fans try to talk about internal racism, or even cultural appropriation, it kind of gets pushed under the bed. People of color are shushed by other K-pop fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why, for Dark, some K-pop fans jumping in online to support the BLM movement feels hollow. “Some people’s gestures of ‘being an ally’ feels performative, like it’s just on a surface level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a K-pop fan causes me lots of drama and issues mentally, because of the racism. But I feel it’s almost worth it to have that connection to the world, to music, to all these different ideas. K-pop helps me learn about the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, many \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/International/pop-stars-part-black-lives-matter-movement/story?id=71131938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K-pop artists have spoken out\u003c/a> on Black Lives Matter—a rare sight, since unlike many of their fans, most artists refrain from making political statements in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.twitter.com/Haekoko\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Haeryun Kang\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a freelance journalist based in Seoul and the creative director of \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/videocusIN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>videocusIN\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>, a media incubator.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>A week before Trump held his controversial campaign rally in Tulsa was when Viviana Dark, a K-pop fan from Wisconsin (who has requested pseudonymity over concerns of online harassment), first heard of plans to “sabotage” the event. Users on TikTok, the exceptionally popular social-video platform, were urging others to reserve tickets to the rally, with no intention of actually going. “You know how a TikTok Challenge happens? It was kind of like that. ‘Everybody go do this!’ And it spread like wildfire,” Dark, 19 years old, tells NPR Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She signed up for two seats, received a confirmation email from the Trump campaign—”I’m counting on my loyal supporters like you”—and never showed up to the rally, which drew just \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/20/881313605/trump-crowd-size-underwhelms-campaign-blames-protesters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a few thousand\u003c/a> supporters to the 19,000-seat auditorium on June 20.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2020/06/21/tiktok-kpop-trump-tulsa-rally/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">not clear\u003c/a> how much TikTok teens and K-pop fans should be credited for the rally’s disappointing turnout; Trump’s campaign originally \u003ca href=\"https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/jun/15/trump-tulsa-rally-coronavirus-calls-for-cancellation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">claimed\u003c/a> it received more than a million requests for tickets. A stage prepared for overflow was \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/daveweigel/status/1274481380836114433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">never used\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Dark, who supports the girl groups TWICE and GWSN, is no stranger to political activism in coordination with her K-pop community. She has a Twitter group chat with fellow idol fans from all over the world, where they exchange info about stars, petitions and hashtag movements. To “clog up” the platform, she tweeted #WhiteLivesMatter and #KeepAmericaGreat hashtags, coupled with irrelevant fancams of her favorite stars, as a way of diluting the usefulness and relevance of the tags.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I’m Black before I’m a K-pop stan,” she says. “The main point of why we were fighting was for the Black Lives Matter cause, not to get recognized [as K-pop fans].”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But getting recognized they are, as “\u003ca href=\"https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-06-04/k-pop-fans-maestros-of-social-media-bring-their-powers-to-bear-on-blacklivesmatter-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">maestros of social media\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://time.com/5851211/kpop-bts-black-lives-matter-social-media/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an unexpected ally\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.adobomagazine.com/digital-news/digital-dont-anger-the-k-pop-fans-k-pop-community-invades-racist-hashtags/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">unlikely heroes\u003c/a>.” Earlier this month, fans of BTS matched the boy band’s $1 million Black Lives Matter donation in roughly a day. Others are credited with flooding the iWatch Dallas app \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/kpop-trump-tulsa-rally-hashtags-fancams-donations-activism-online-stan-2020-6#in-late-may-some-k-pop-fans-tried-to-stop-fandom-hashtags-from-trending-out-of-respect-for-blacklivesmatter-1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">with fancams\u003c/a> (and sinking its App Store \u003ca href=\"https://apps.apple.com/us/app/iwatch-dallas/id1482321757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ranking\u003c/a>), after the Dallas police asked people to report “illegal activity” from the George Floyd and Black Lives Matter protests.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I never thought I’d see the day where K-pop stans are defeating the police,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/blom_dot_com/status/1267252731959554050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read\u003c/a> one tweet that received over 4,000 likes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Why is this so surprising? If you know the people in the K-pop fandom, this [political activism] seems natural,” says Lee Jeeheng, a cultural studies scholar and author of \u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/BTS-ARMY-Culture-Lee-Jeeheng-ebook/dp/B083NJNNPR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>BTS and ARMY Culture\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, a book analyzing the fandom of the extremely popular group. “K-pop fandom is a digital tribe. Fans have been trained to mobilize quickly. They already have the infrastructure; when someone says, \u003cem>‘Go here!\u003c/em>‘ everybody can run towards the target.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882460\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882460\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"K-pop fans in Central Park on May 15, 2019 in New York.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-2048x1152.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/gettyimages-1143982902_wide-902ba8609047c8c705b9b42ce98ec20e0ed89d3e-1-1920x1080.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">K-pop fans in Central Park on May 15, 2019 in New York. \u003ccite>(Drew Angerer/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In the past, fans have \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/magic_breakfast/status/1222920159851094018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donated to a London charity\u003c/a> to fund over 35,000 meals, reportedly \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsweek.com/chilean-government-blames-k-pop-recent-protests-1479151\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">protested against\u003c/a> the Chilean government in 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hyunsuinseoul/status/1268520597853581312\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">raised awareness\u003c/a> about the need for safer roads in Bangladesh.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This activism, while not practiced by every K-pop fan, has a \u003ca href=\"https://www.koreaexpose.com/fascinating-world-k-pop-fandom-culture/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">long history\u003c/a>. In South Korea, organized music fandoms \u003ca href=\"https://www.reportshop.co.kr/social/102427\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">began appearing\u003c/a> in the 1980s and ’90s. Fan philanthropy, now common in Korea beyond pop music, \u003ca href=\"https://www.newsen.com/news_view.php?uid=201812081756208010\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">has its roots\u003c/a> in the early 2000s. Fans of the “first-generation” idol band Shinhwa, which debuted in 1998 and is still active, are credited with starting the “fan rice” trend in 2007, sending thousands of kilograms of rice to charity. Other fandoms \u003ca href=\"https://www.soompi.com/article/837751wpp/fans-donate-to-deaf-children-for-infinites-hoyas-birthday\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">have funded\u003c/a> cochlear implants for deaf children and more recently, \u003ca href=\"http://www.wowtv.co.kr/NewsCenter/News/Read?articleId=A202006110079&t=NN\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">COVID-19 efforts\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within and across different fandoms, political awareness is shared through loose online networks on Twitter, Instagram, fan cafes, etc.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Scholar Lee, a BTS fan, remembers one instance: In 2018, BTS member Jimin wore \u003ca href=\"https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-46147777\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a shirt\u003c/a> depicting the U.S atomic bombing of Japan, after which fans became embroiled in contentious debates about Western imperialism and Japan’s atrocities during WWII, including \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/11/13/563838610/comfort-woman-memorial-statues-a-thorn-in-japans-side-now-sit-on-korean-buses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sexually enslaving women\u003c/a> for its military. Multilingual fans furiously translated on Twitter, including Lee. “Fans from Southeast Asia started talking about their grandmothers who were sexually enslaved,” she recalls. “It was an incredible history lesson. It was a really moving experience. I witnessed diversity and minority representation in action.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Worldwide, K-pop is being consumed in the name of diversity politics,” \u003ca href=\"http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=202006082139025&code=960802#csidx183f27eda83c4abb96adce82d8be04b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">says \u003c/a>Mimyo, the editor-in-chief of \u003ca href=\"http://idology.kr/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Idology\u003c/em>\u003c/a>, an online magazine specializing in K-pop idol music. “Most K-pop fans are already interested in diversity politics; combine this with K-pop fandom’s culture of collective action. That’s why K-pop’s global fandom is participating actively in social movements like Black Lives Matter.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“To be a non-Korean K-pop fan is innately political, I dunno why anyone is still surprised that K-pop fans are political,” \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/TamarWrites/status/1274531852829765632\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted \u003c/a>Tamar Herman, a K-pop correspondent for \u003cem>Billboard\u003c/em>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Herman and Mimyo’s comments are part of a growing media \u003ca href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/06/11/surprised-seeing-k-pop-fans-stand-up-black-lives-matter-you-shouldnt-be/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">narrative\u003c/a> highlighting K-pop fans’ political progressiveness. But the reality is more complicated.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For one, there are plenty of fans like Dionne Saville, who don’t really engage in K-pop’s political activities. “K-pop is not at all an inherently political act for me. It’s just excellent music that crosses global boundaries. I enjoy the deeper cultural connection it brings,” Saville, a 47-year-old BTS fan in Yorkshire, U.K., tells NPR Music.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there are more sinister issues. Ironically for a music industry seen as heralding diversity politics, with millions of POC fans worldwide, K-pop creators still face constant accusations of \u003ca href=\"https://www.insider.com/kpop-stans-hashtags-fancams-whitelivesmatter-bts-matchamillion-army-donation-2020-6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">cultural appropriation\u003c/a> and racism, particularly against Black people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For example, \u003ca href=\"https://popcrush.com/k-pop-scandals-international-blackface-racist/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blackface\u003c/a>, though less common now, has brought plenty of A-list idols under fire. Artists also frequently stylize themselves after Black culture, and many cite Black music as a central influence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Traditionally, K-pop has not been a space that has validated Black feelings about those choices,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/k-pop-stars-speaking-up-black-lives-matter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">writes\u003c/a> Natasha Mulenga for \u003cem>Teen Vogue\u003c/em>, “despite the impact Blackness has had on an industry that was reported at $5.4 billion … in 2018.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Within the fandom, plenty of Black fans have voiced concerns about being \u003ca href=\"https://www.teenvogue.com/story/bts-fandom-needs-to-check-anti-blackness\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">gaslit\u003c/a> by other fans when bringing up racism.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels really hard to be a POC in K-pop,” says Dark. “When some fans try to talk about internal racism, or even cultural appropriation, it kind of gets pushed under the bed. People of color are shushed by other K-pop fans.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s why, for Dark, some K-pop fans jumping in online to support the BLM movement feels hollow. “Some people’s gestures of ‘being an ally’ feels performative, like it’s just on a surface level.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Being a K-pop fan causes me lots of drama and issues mentally, because of the racism. But I feel it’s almost worth it to have that connection to the world, to music, to all these different ideas. K-pop helps me learn about the world.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Meanwhile, many \u003ca href=\"https://abcnews.go.com/International/pop-stars-part-black-lives-matter-movement/story?id=71131938\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">K-pop artists have spoken out\u003c/a> on Black Lives Matter—a rare sight, since unlike many of their fans, most artists refrain from making political statements in public.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Early in \u003cem>Irresistible\u003c/em>, a film directed and written by Jon Stewart, we cut from your basic Washington weasel to what is labeled in a caption as “Rural America,” and under that, “Heartland, USA.” This wry joke suggests that ripping off this meaningless, cynical label slapped on the Wisconsin town we’re about to visit will be the film’s purpose. Unfortunately, “Rural America: Heartland, USA” is how the movie sees the town, too. The town is generic, the people are generic, the movie is generic, and its politics are generic. Given how broadly unobjectionable it is designed to be, it’s a little shocking how transparently it’s laboring to be subversive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary (Steve Carell) is a campaign consultant (interestingly, the film’s official synopsis calls him a \u003ca href=\"https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2006/08/07/the-ic-factor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">“Democrat campaign consultant”\u003c/a>) who worked for Hillary Clinton and is reeling from the 2016 election when we first meet him. If you watched Carell on \u003cem>The Office\u003c/em>, you largely know who Gary is: Think Michael Scott if he’d made his way into political consulting and used his sales skills over there, and also he didn’t have any of the redeeming qualities Michael Scott had.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary comes across a viral video of a Wisconsin veteran and farmer named Jack Hastings (Chris Cooper) giving a speech about principle at a town meeting in Rural America, Heartland USA. Enthralled by Hastings and seeing an opportunity, Gary descends on the town and becomes the leader of Jack’s campaign for mayor, which he wants to use as a proving ground for a more rural-friendly Democratic party in the wake of losses in several midwestern states in 2016.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Naturally, Jack is a reticent and plain-spoken farmer who resists Gary’s big-city, D.C. insider ways, and the film spends a lot of time guffawing at things like Gary telling his staff he wants to be authentic and stripped down for his trip to Wisconsin and needs a regular rental car, not a fancy one—then popping his head back in to ask for a car with Bose speakers in the kind of sequence you can call out from your couch with ease: “He’s going to pop back in and say he wants a champagne bath or something!”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back in Rural America, Heartland USA, Gary and a Republican counterpart of his named Faith (played by Rose Byrne, deserving better as she often does) descend into a caricature of politics in which they’re uninterested in the stakes of the mayoral election; they just are interested in winning.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, it’s hard to blame them, because there are no stakes in the election. There is no indication at any point that there is any disagreement among people in this town about anything. They are, as we will eventually learn, literally unified on every issue. There are no dissenters, there are no policies at stake; they are simple, ideologically interchangeable residents of Rural America, Heartland USA, who all just want to build schools and help each other.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vhaAoSm1NY\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This has always been Stewart’s theory, that if the media and national politicians and campaign finance laws would get out of the way, everyone really is basically the same on the inside. I first heard him articulate it at the Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear on the National Mall in 2010, and it seems that his view of American political life has remained stable for the last 10 years. Which is really an accomplishment, of a sort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, while castigating Beltway insiders for not really caring about the town, Stewart is also not interested in any of the local politics of the town and doesn’t doesn’t even suggest it has any; he’s only interested in Gary and Faith’s attempted manipulation of these simple good (white) people as a simulacrum of D.C. decay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What of the fact that local governments actually have enormous influence on issues like zoning, policing, schools, election security, housing, and all manner of regulations? And what of the fact that bitter local battles have been central to issues of race, the safety of LGBTQ people, the economic security of imperiled communities, and the security of the environment? Battles that have played on genuine enmity between neighbors? That stuff, Stewart posits, doesn’t matter. We’d all be getting along fine without those Beltway insiders and their artificial divides.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In fairness, it may help the town avoid at least some common conflicts about race that the only Black people you ever see are specifically used in jokes about Black people. One appears in a scene where the joke is that he’s not part of a focus-group demographic, he’s the one Black guy. Three Black men in Black Lives Matter shirts later walk up to a Republican voter registration table, and the men working the table sloooooowly pull the pens and clipboards back. (Very funny to those in the mood for casual voter suppression humor!) None of these men speak.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Gary has one Black co-worker whose job it is to side-eye and mutter at her clueless colleagues (who, led by Debra Messing, hold hands and start chanting “si se puede” in a staff meeting) for a few seconds. And we meet a Black woman at a Washington fundraiser who I think has one line, but she is there as part of what appears to be an interracial lesbian couple wearing paired “Stay Woke” shirts who are trying to urbansplain “farm to table” to Jack the decent and wise Wisconsin farmer. They are part of the mockery of insufferable D.C. liberals, you see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps what makes \u003cem>Irresistible \u003c/em>so hard to take at this moment is that it has the swagger of a much smarter movie than it is. It purports to investigate what’s gone wrong in American politics but focuses its idea of good Americans on an all-white town where everyone agrees about everything and nothing matters. Small towns only matter in this story because they are, as a single bloc, being mistreated and manipulated and blown about by Washington. It is in this story, and not in the world, that only Washington matters.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s also so utterly toothless as satire, because there’s nothing in it that challenges anyone’s ideas about anything. Who is going to find this provocative? The people who love Beltway insiders? SuperPAC stans? The thesis of the film is that people in the United States have been convinced that they have legitimate policy divisions by a cynical and manipulative media. We only think we have serious disagreements because the pundits are focused on artificial right-left divide, Stewart lectures through a character’s mouth at one point. He probably believes it; there are certainly those who can afford to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s worth noting the “It’s just comedy! It’s not trying to teach anybody anything!” line that has been Jon Stewart’s explanation for every flaw in the impassioned civic arguments he’s been making since he took over \u003cem>The Daily Show \u003c/em>in 1999. But—and you won’t believe me when I tell you this—the closing image of \u003cem>Irresistible\u003c/em> is someone telling Jon Stewart how he got something exactly right and the two of them having a good laugh about how right he is. People who are just making little comedies don’t need to make special featurettes where they’re told that they’re right.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The funny thing is this: You know who’s really going to love this movie? People who go to D.C. political fundraising dinners, who will say, “Ha ha, that’s \u003cem>so\u003c/em> true, we \u003cem>are \u003c/em>like that,” and then they will keep doing exactly what they’re doing. They’ll also lament the fact that Jon Stewart ever left \u003cem>The Daily Show\u003c/em> and handed the reins to Trevor Noah, because they really miss Jon (who they call Jon), and they’re pretty sure he’d have had a \u003cem>lot \u003c/em>to say that’s relevant to our current political moment. Unfortunately, if he does, it won’t be in this movie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=%27Irresistible%27+Chooses+An+Inopportune+Moment+To+Get+Glib+About+Politics&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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I first heard him articulate it at the Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear on the National Mall in 2010, and it seems that his view of American political life has remained stable for the last 10 years. Which is really an accomplishment, of a sort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ironically, while castigating Beltway insiders for not really caring about the town, Stewart is also not interested in any of the local politics of the town and doesn’t doesn’t even suggest it has any; he’s only interested in Gary and Faith’s attempted manipulation of these simple good (white) people as a simulacrum of D.C. decay.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>What of the fact that local governments actually have enormous influence on issues like zoning, policing, schools, election security, housing, and all manner of regulations? And what of the fact that bitter local battles have been central to issues of race, the safety of LGBTQ people, the economic security of imperiled communities, and the security of the environment? 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And we meet a Black woman at a Washington fundraiser who I think has one line, but she is there as part of what appears to be an interracial lesbian couple wearing paired “Stay Woke” shirts who are trying to urbansplain “farm to table” to Jack the decent and wise Wisconsin farmer. They are part of the mockery of insufferable D.C. liberals, you see.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Perhaps what makes \u003cem>Irresistible \u003c/em>so hard to take at this moment is that it has the swagger of a much smarter movie than it is. It purports to investigate what’s gone wrong in American politics but focuses its idea of good Americans on an all-white town where everyone agrees about everything and nothing matters. Small towns only matter in this story because they are, as a single bloc, being mistreated and manipulated and blown about by Washington. 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We see how the world makes people do desperate things for understandable reasons. The game doesn’t glorify violence—instead, it shows you the awful effects of violence on survivors. But that isn’t apparent until the top-secret second half of the game, when the waterworks really start flowing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Ellie is now one of the main playable characters. She’s 19, and noticeably different from the bubbly 14-year-old she was in the previous game. Like everybody else in this universe, Ellie has been traumatized by her experiences, and they have hardened her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882214\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882214\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/screen_tlou2_teaser_05_1480799632_wide-63166899ac03afdd0ccb96305053d3c09849def6-800x450.png\" alt=\"At the start of Part II, Ellie has found a kind of peace—she enjoys playing guitar, corny jokes and crushing on girls. Naturally it doesn't last.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">At the start of Part II, Ellie has found a kind of peace—she enjoys playing guitar, corny jokes and crushing on girls. 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And she really loves her friends, her crush Dina, and Joel, despite their newly tense relationship.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She also thinks it’s odd to be in a quarantine zone without hearing constant gunfire and explosions—and talks about the first time she killed somebody like she’s talking about the first time she drank a beer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since this is still \u003cem>The Last of Us\u003c/em>, you know the new normal will be ripped away pretty fast. And when that happens, Ellie heads for Seattle to get revenge. That’s right: Revenge. Ellie started as a person willing to sacrifice her life to save the world. But loss has turned her into kind of a heartless monster, willing to sacrifice others for her own goals.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And since this is still \u003cem>The Last of Us\u003c/em>, you’ll be admiring the gorgeous, expansive world—full of puzzles, challenges and things to explore—as Ellie travels through it on her awful mission.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13882215\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13882215\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/2510225ee9c2f1317175.94897258-tloupii_review_screenshot_06_wide-2899990ac0c81d3e4230507e729537d56c8fd114-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"The world of 'Part II' is even bigger, lusher and more engaging than the first game.\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The world of ‘Part II’ is even bigger, lusher and more engaging than the first game. \u003ccite>(Sony Entertainment/Naughty Dog)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Part II \u003c/em>makes you deeply aware of the consequences of your actions. 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"content": "\u003cp>In 1860s Germany, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Heinrich_Ulrichs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Karl Heinrich Ulrichs\u003c/a> urged other gay people to publicly reveal their sexual orientation. In 1914, \u003ca href=\"https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Homosexuality_of_Men_and_Women.html?id=iDhWtiLsIMwC\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Magnus Hirschfeld wrote\u003c/a> of the revolutionary potential of respected gay women and men coming out en masse. By the late 1960s, coming out was treated with the utmost importance within the gay rights movement. And in 1977, Gay Bob arrived.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It was the same year that Harvey Milk became the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. And while Milk was urging his friends and community to \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/how-harvey-milks-challeng_b_5960258\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">come out of the closet\u003c/a>, the “World’s First Gay Doll” was doing the exact same thing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13880946\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 420px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13880946\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/gay-bob-doll-4.jpg\" alt=\"An original ad for the Gay Bob doll.\" width=\"420\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/gay-bob-doll-4.jpg 420w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/gay-bob-doll-4-160x244.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 420px) 100vw, 420px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">An original ad for the Gay Bob doll.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Designed to look like a combination of Paul Newman and Robert Redford and packed into his own cardboard closet, Gay Bob was the brainchild of former advertising executive Harvey Rosenberg. The New Yorker used $10,000 of his own money to launch the doll and had it made in Hong Kong after American \u003ca href=\"https://hornet.com/stories/gay-bob-doll/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">manufacturers refused\u003c/a> to make Bob’s groin anatomically correct.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosenberg wanted Gay Bob to normalize the coming out process, while also acting as a fun accessory for those who were already out and proud. In \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z6jPlHMlxU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an interview\u003c/a> to promote Gay Bob, Rosenberg once said, “Bob’s perfect for an executive’s desk, dash board ornament, the attache case, the bathtub rim, a health club gym bag.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Despite Gay Bob having a realistic penis, the snazzy fashion catalog contained in the doll’s packaging was distinctly child-friendly:\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>Hi boys, girls and grownups, I’m Gay Bob, the world’s first gay doll. I bet you are wondering why I come packed in a closet. ‘Coming out of the closet’ is an expression which means that you admit the truth about yourself and are no longer ashamed of what you are… Gay people are no different than straight people. If everyone came out of their closets, there wouldn’t be so many angry, frustrated, frightened people… It’s not easy to be honest about what you are, in fact it takes a great deal of courage. But remember, if Gay Bob has the courage to come out of his closet, so can you!\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>Despite his optimistic message, conservative groups of the era viewed Gay Bob as a threat to family values. Edward Rowe, the executive director of Protect America’s Children, was quoted in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.newspapers.com/clip/32186037/gays-and-dolls-a-piece-about-the-gay/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">1978 issue of the \u003cem>Pittsburgh Post-Gazette\u003c/em>\u003c/a> describing Gay Bob as “another evidence of the desperation the homosexual campaign has reached in its effort to put homosexual lifestyle, which is a death style, across to the American people. I can only hope that the children who are given these Gay Bob dolls will not comprehend the meaning and intent of the campaign.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Attempts to get the doll into department stores were largely a failure, so Rosenberg primarily sold Gay Bob via mail order ads in gay magazines. One doll cost $19.50, including shipping and handling, and it was $35 for a pair. Two thousand people snapped up their own Gay Bobs in the first two months of the doll being available, and Bob was later stocked in San Francisco and New York boutiques.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In addition to winning \u003cem>Esquire’\u003c/em>s “\u003ca href=\"https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/doll-gay-bob-harvey-rosenberg-inc/7AH5W5xCmLdaPg?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dubious Achievement Award\u003c/a>” in 1978, Gay Bob got his very own storyline in Frank Zappa’s 9-minute ode to sexual experimentation, “\u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-u-0e4Gn2BU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Sy Borg\u003c/a>.” In the song, a robotic voice tells a human man: “I share this apartment with a modified Gay Bob doll. He goes all the way! Ever try oral sex with a miniature rubberized homo-replica?” And then later: “This is him. Your wish is his command. He likes you. He wants to kiss you always. Just tell him what you want.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Today, Gay Bob is simply an amusing quirk on the timeline of LGBTQ+ history. But he remains in demand as a collector’s item, fetching \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebay.com/itm/1977-GAY-BOB-OUT-THE-CLOSET-13-DOLL-never-pulled-from-box/293550344513?hash=item4458f6c941:g:gHwAAOSwrENemg4G\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">upwards of $200\u003c/a> on auction websites. At the time he was made, tongue-in-cheek though he was, Bob was meant to increase the visibility of gay people everywhere. “We had something to learn from the gay movement, just like we did from the Black civil rights movement and the women’s movement,” \u003ca href=\"https://www.babiafi.co.uk/2015/07/gay-bob.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Harvey Rosenberg once said\u003c/a>. “And that is having the courage to stand up and say ‘I have a right to be what I am.’”\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>Remember back in March when \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13877066/imagine-and-all-the-other-ways-celebrities-are-making-lockdown-worse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wonder Woman got a pile of celebrities together\u003c/a> to fix COVID-19 by singing “Imagine”? And it was impossible to imagine anything more cringeworthy? Well, hang onto your pants everyone, because an even more insufferable celebrity montage just came along.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s the I Take Responsibility pledge, and it looks like this:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=121&v=ZhbydhzQUzU\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That’s right! Having not learned any lessons from the public annihilation of “Imagine” on Twitter, celebrities I thought were cool yesterday are now getting together to solve racism by dramatically reading words off cue cards. (We can see your eyes moving, Debra Messing and Stanley Tucci!)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I had hoped that Sarah Paulson, Justin Theroux, Kristen Bell and Julianne Moore were far too sensible and self-aware to indulge in this kind of performative nonsense, but here we are.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In all fairness, if you manage to sit through the clip long enough to get the name of the website, \u003ca href=\"https://itakeresponsibility.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">itakeresponsibility.org\u003c/a> does have some useful resources. There are links to donate to \u003ca href=\"https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The Bail Project\u003c/a>, as well as the families of \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/i-run-with-maud\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Ahmaud Arbery\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">George Floyd\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.gofundme.com/f/9v4q2-justice-for-breonna-taylor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Breonna Taylor\u003c/a>. (Though Breonna’s name is spelled wrong at one point. Ugh.) And there are links to police reform campaigns, \u003ca href=\"https://8cantwait.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">#8 Cant Wait\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.joincampaignzero.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Campaign Zero\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.reclaimtheblock.org/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Reclaim the Block\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Crucially, however, you’re not allowed to look at any information on the website or get to the “Donate” button until you’ve ticked these boxes:\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13881807\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.58.03-AM-800x412.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"412\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.58.03-AM-800x412.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.58.03-AM-160x82.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.58.03-AM-768x395.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.58.03-AM-1020x525.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.58.03-AM.png 1176w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13881808\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.57.40-AM-800x377.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.57.40-AM-800x377.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.57.40-AM-160x75.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.57.40-AM-768x362.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.57.40-AM-1020x480.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/06/Screen-Shot-2020-06-11-at-10.57.40-AM.png 1174w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And if you go back to the website more than once, you have to tick those stupid boxes to “Get Started” every single time.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Raising money for good causes and asking people to hold themselves personally accountable for racism are both excellent things to do. Obviously. But surely enough has happened in the last few weeks to know all of this without having to sit through chest-clutching dramatic readings from well-meaning celebrities. [aside postid='arts_13877066']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Being told that Black people “are our friends and family” and “shopping in a store should not be a death sentence”—like we didn’t previously know those things—is beyond facile. I for one would have preferred a video in which these celebs discussed concrete plans for being useful to the struggle moving forward. But I’d also have settled for one in which they publicly declared how much money they’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13881199/5-ways-to-show-up-for-racial-justice-today\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">donating\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>As of Friday, 15 of the top 20 bestselling books on Amazon were about race or racism. Earlier this week, \u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> was number one on Apple Podcasts—which, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GeeDee215/status/1268000245214035974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as host Gene Demby said\u003c/a>, is “dope,” but unfortunately occurred under “soul-crushing circumstances.” And \u003cem>The Help \u003c/em>is trending on Netflix (ahem, a film that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/08/18/139755308/the-help-draws-audiences-and-ire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drew immediate ire\u003c/a> upon release).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re in the middle of one of those awfully predictable news cycles—a video of police killing a black person goes viral, protests ensue and broader America suddenly realizes \u003cem>we need to talk about race. \u003c/em>Of course, while \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/this-week-has-happened-before.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this week has happened before,\u003c/a> it’s also happening on a much larger scale than ever before, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2020/06/03/map-protests-wake-george-floyds-death/5310149002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demonstrations in all 50 states.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help people be better allies, lists of antiracist books, films and podcasts are being published in droves. There’s never a bad time to learn, but such a list can become erroneously prescriptive, a balm to centuries-old lacerations that cut deeper than the individual reader. \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/anti-racist-reading-lists-what-are-they-for.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As Lauren Michele Jackson wrote for \u003cem>Vulture,\u003c/em> \u003c/a>“The word [anti-racism] and its nominal equivalent, “anti-racist,” suggests something of a vanity project, where the goal is no longer to learn more about race, power, and capital, but to spring closer to the enlightened order of the antiracist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, with that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of books, films and podcasts about systemic racism, acknowledging that they are just books, films and podcasts. You’ll find research on how racism permeates everything from the criminal justice system to health care. We hope you spend some time with these resources (and that you listen to \u003cem>Code Switch—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/03/26/820991385/the-very-best-of-code-switch-in-8-episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here’s a list of episodes\u003c/a> to get you started). Information is power—you decide what you do with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Books\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/10/10/why-are-all-the-black-kids-sitting-together-in-the-cafeteria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Beverly Daniel Tatum\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This classic text on the psychology of racism was re-released with new content in 2017, 20 years after its original publication. By providing straight talk on self-segregation and inequality in schools, Tatum shows the importance—and possibility—of cross-racial dialogues starting young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://uncpress.org/book/9781469653662/race-for-profit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in History, \u003cem>Race for Profit \u003c/em>chronicles how the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 failed to stop racist, exploitative mortgage lending practices. Since the policy was supposed to be a balm to the 1960s uprisings—much like the ones we’re seeing now—it serves as a reminder to remain vigilant when policymakers promise change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/27/745925045/book-a-terrible-thing-to-waste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Harriet A. Washington\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From lead poisoning to toxic waste, Americans of color are disproportionately harmed by environmental hazards. This is detrimental to physical health—air pollution is linked with higher COVID-19 death rates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/air-pollution-linked-with-higher-covid-19-death-rates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Harvard researchers.\u003c/a> But Washington also argues that environmental racism is causing cognitive decline in communities of color. A deconstruction of IQ and an indictment of EPA rollbacks, \u003cem>A Terrible Thing To Waste\u003c/em> is a stirring read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Elizabeth Hinton\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The origins of mass incarceration—which disproportionately puts black people behind bars—are often pinned on Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. But Hinton argues the carceral state was erected “by a consensus of liberals and conservatives who privileged punitive responses to urban problems as a reaction to the civil rights movement.” The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act, part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society plan, led to today’s police militarization. This account of history poses relevant questions for today’s land of the free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/586392678/automating-inequality-how-high-tech-tools-profile-police-and-punish-the-poor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Virginia Eubanks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algorithms are made by humans, so they are susceptible to human biases. From deciding which neighborhoods get policed to who gets welfare benefits, discrimination has gone digital. By scrutinizing statistical models and telling personal stories, Eubanks shows that machines do not correct racist systems—they only shift blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/868390203/the-end-of-policing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The End of Policing\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Alex S. Vitale\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of high-profile cases of police brutality, the same ideas for reform are trotted out—implicit bias training, body cameras, police-community dialogues. But Vitale argues that this fails to get to the root of the problem—policing itself. While calls to abolish the police are often met with skepticism, academics and activists have long-discussed alternatives to addressing homelessness, domestic disputes and substance abuse. \u003ca href=\"https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A free ebook\u003c/a> of \u003cem>The End of Policing\u003c/em> is available now. (And you can read \u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> editor extraordinaire Leah Donnella’s conversation with Vitale \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/03/457251670/how-much-do-we-need-the-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nyrb.com/products/blackballed?variant=1094927969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Darryl Pinckney\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As young Americans take to the streets to say black lives matter, they’re often told to vote. While voting is important, it’s also important to remember how black political representation has been chipped away by voter ID laws, gerrymandering and felon disenfranchisement. \u003cem>Blackballed \u003c/em>addresses the struggle for voting rights and for racial equality more broadly, drawing on Pinckney’s own experiences and writings of civil rights leaders to create a complicated picture of black political identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/358318685/dog-whistle-politics-how-coded-racial-appeals-have-reinvented-racism-and-wrecked\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Ian Haney López\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Entitlement mentality.” “Quotas.” “Welfare queens.” From Barry Goldwater to Bill Clinton to the Tea Party, politicians have relied on racially coded language to win over white voters and decimate social programs. \u003cem>Dog Whistle Politics \u003c/em>makes the case that not only does this strategy endanger people of color, but it also hinders economic mobility for all Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ugapress.org/book/9780820354750/medical-bondage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Deirdre Cooper Owens\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundational knowledge of American gynecology relied on the exploitation of enslaved black women’s bodies. In \u003cem>Medical Bondage,\u003c/em> Cooper Owens centers the stories of black women that have been overshadowed by the “discoveries” of white male doctors who experimented on them. Baseless theories about black inferiority and higher pain tolerance \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/113/16/4296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still permeate medical schools today\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/body-and-soul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Alondra Nelson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Panther Party is most remembered for its militant action, but health care was also a major pillar of its activism. The People’s Free Medical Clinics tested for hypertension and assisted with housing and employment. Its outreach also brought attention to rampant discrimination within mainstream medicine. Nelson writes that the Black Panther Party understood health as a human right, echoing today’s fight for universal health care. You can \u003ca href=\"https://manifold.umn.edu/read/body-and-soul/section/afa172a4-8eaa-4413-a403-ec76794217e6\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">read \u003cem>Body and Soul\u003c/em> online for free.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Films\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80091741\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>13th\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.S. imprisons more people than any other country in the world, and \u003ca href=\"https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2019/04/30/shrinking-gap-between-number-of-blacks-and-whites-in-prison/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a third of U.S. prisoners are black.\u003c/a> In this infuriating documentary, director Ava DuVernay argues that mass incarceration, Jim Crow and slavery are “the three major racialized systems of control adopted in the United States to date.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Not-Your-Negro/dp/B01MR52U7T\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>I Am Not Your Negro\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Narrated by the words of James Baldwin with the voice of Samuel L. Jackson, \u003cem>I Am Not Your Negro\u003c/em> connects the Civil Rights Movement to Black Lives Matter. Although Baldwin died nearly 30 years before the film’s release, his observations about racial conflict are as incisive today as they were when he made them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hulu.com/movie/whose-streets-3e8f4b7a-75d4-4484-9843-e665b60e2758\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Whose Streets?\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The 2014 killing of 18-year-old Michael Brown by police in Ferguson, Mo. was one of the deaths that sparked the Black Lives Matter movement. Frustrated by media coverage of unrest in Ferguson, co-directors Sabaah Folayan and Damon Davis documented how locals felt about police in riot gear filling their neighborhoods with tear gas. As one resident says, “They don’t tell you the fact that the police showed up to a peaceful candlelight vigil… and boxed them in, and forced them onto a QuikTrip lot.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80184131\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>LA 92\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>LA 92 \u003c/em>is about the Los Angeles riots that occurred in response to the police beating of Rodney King. The film is entirely comprised of archival footage—no talking heads needed. It’s chilling to watch the unrest of nearly 30 years ago, as young people still take to the streets and shout, “No justice, no peace.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.netflix.com/title/80198423\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Teach Us All\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over 60 years after Brown v. Board of Education, American schools are still segregated. \u003cem>Teach Us All \u003c/em>explains why that is—school choice, residential segregation, biased admissions processes—and talks to advocates working for change. Interspersing interviews from two Little Rock Nine members, the documentary asks how far we’ve really come.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.pbs.org/show/black-america-mlk-and-still-i-rise/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Black America Since MLK: And Still I Rise\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In this two-part series, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. chronicles the last 50 years of black history through a personal lens. Released days after the 2016 election, some themes of the documentary took on a deeper meaning amid Donald Trump’s win. “Think of the civil rights movement to the present as a second Reconstruction—a 50-year Reconstruction—that ended last night,” Gates said \u003ca href=\"https://www.salon.com/test2/2016/11/12/henry-louis-gates-on-trump-that-election-clearly-represented-a-backlash-against-the-progress-black-people-have-made-since-1965/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">in an interview with\u003cem> Salon.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Podcasts\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/floodlines/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Floodlines\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> from \u003cem>The Atlantic\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An audio documentary about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, \u003cem>Floodlines \u003c/em>is told from the perspective of four New Orleanians still living with the consequences of governmental neglect. As COVID-19 disproportionately infects and kills Americans of color, the story feels especially relevant. “As a person of color, you always have it in the back of your mind that the government really doesn’t care about you,” said self-described Katrina overcomer Alice Craft-Kerney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/23/podcasts/1619-podcast.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>1619\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> from \u003cem>The New York Times \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In August of 1619, a ship carrying more than 20 enslaved Africans arrived in the English colony of Virginia. America was not yet America, but this was the moment it began.” Hosted by recent Pulitzer Prize winner Nikole Hannah-Jones, the\u003cem> 1619 \u003c/em>audio series chronicles how black people have been central to building American democracy, music, wealth and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://aapf.org/podcast\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Intersectionality Matters! \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>from \u003cem>The African American Policy Forum\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hosted by Kimberlé Crenshaw, a leading critical race theorist who coined the term “intersectionality,” this podcast brings the academic term to life. Each episode brings together lively political organizers, journalists and writers. \u003ca href=\"https://soundcloud.com/intersectionality-matters/15-pt-6-under-the-blacklight-covid-in-confinement\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">This recent episode\u003c/a> on COVID-19 in prisons and other areas of confinement is a must-listen.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510333/throughline\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Throughline \u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a>from\u003cem> NPR\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Every week at \u003cem>Throughline, \u003c/em>our pals Rund Abdelfatah and Ramtin Arablouei “go back in time to understand the present.” To understand the history of systemic racism in America, we recommend “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/06/03/869046127/american-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">American Police\u003c/a>,” “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/08/14/751126384/mass-incarceration\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mass Incarceration\u003c/a>” and “\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/24/744884767/milliken-v-bradley\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Milliken v. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>As of Friday, 15 of the top 20 bestselling books on Amazon were about race or racism. Earlier this week, \u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> was number one on Apple Podcasts—which, \u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/GeeDee215/status/1268000245214035974\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">as host Gene Demby said\u003c/a>, is “dope,” but unfortunately occurred under “soul-crushing circumstances.” And \u003cem>The Help \u003c/em>is trending on Netflix (ahem, a film that \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2011/08/18/139755308/the-help-draws-audiences-and-ire\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">drew immediate ire\u003c/a> upon release).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We’re in the middle of one of those awfully predictable news cycles—a video of police killing a black person goes viral, protests ensue and broader America suddenly realizes \u003cem>we need to talk about race. \u003c/em>Of course, while \u003ca href=\"https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2020/05/this-week-has-happened-before.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">this week has happened before,\u003c/a> it’s also happening on a much larger scale than ever before, with \u003ca href=\"https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2020/06/03/map-protests-wake-george-floyds-death/5310149002/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">demonstrations in all 50 states.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To help people be better allies, lists of antiracist books, films and podcasts are being published in droves. There’s never a bad time to learn, but such a list can become erroneously prescriptive, a balm to centuries-old lacerations that cut deeper than the individual reader. \u003ca href=\"https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/anti-racist-reading-lists-what-are-they-for.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">As Lauren Michele Jackson wrote for \u003cem>Vulture,\u003c/em> \u003c/a>“The word [anti-racism] and its nominal equivalent, “anti-racist,” suggests something of a vanity project, where the goal is no longer to learn more about race, power, and capital, but to spring closer to the enlightened order of the antiracist.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So, with that in mind, we’ve compiled a list of books, films and podcasts about systemic racism, acknowledging that they are just books, films and podcasts. You’ll find research on how racism permeates everything from the criminal justice system to health care. We hope you spend some time with these resources (and that you listen to \u003cem>Code Switch—\u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/03/26/820991385/the-very-best-of-code-switch-in-8-episodes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here’s a list of episodes\u003c/a> to get you started). Information is power—you decide what you do with it.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>\u003cstrong>Books\u003c/strong>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.mprnews.org/story/2017/10/10/why-are-all-the-black-kids-sitting-together-in-the-cafeteria\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Beverly Daniel Tatum\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This classic text on the psychology of racism was re-released with new content in 2017, 20 years after its original publication. By providing straight talk on self-segregation and inequality in schools, Tatum shows the importance—and possibility—of cross-racial dialogues starting young.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://uncpress.org/book/9781469653662/race-for-profit/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Race for Profit: How Banks and the Real Estate Industry Undermined Black Homeownership\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in History, \u003cem>Race for Profit \u003c/em>chronicles how the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968 failed to stop racist, exploitative mortgage lending practices. Since the policy was supposed to be a balm to the 1960s uprisings—much like the ones we’re seeing now—it serves as a reminder to remain vigilant when policymakers promise change.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2019/07/27/745925045/book-a-terrible-thing-to-waste\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and its Assault on the American Mind\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Harriet A. Washington\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From lead poisoning to toxic waste, Americans of color are disproportionately harmed by environmental hazards. This is detrimental to physical health—air pollution is linked with higher COVID-19 death rates, \u003ca href=\"https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/air-pollution-linked-with-higher-covid-19-death-rates/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to Harvard researchers.\u003c/a> But Washington also argues that environmental racism is causing cognitive decline in communities of color. A deconstruction of IQ and an indictment of EPA rollbacks, \u003cem>A Terrible Thing To Waste\u003c/em> is a stirring read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?isbn=9780674979826\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in America\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Elizabeth Hinton\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The origins of mass incarceration—which disproportionately puts black people behind bars—are often pinned on Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon. But Hinton argues the carceral state was erected “by a consensus of liberals and conservatives who privileged punitive responses to urban problems as a reaction to the civil rights movement.” The 1965 Law Enforcement Assistance Act, part of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society plan, led to today’s police militarization. This account of history poses relevant questions for today’s land of the free.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/586392678/automating-inequality-how-high-tech-tools-profile-police-and-punish-the-poor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police and Punish the Poor\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Virginia Eubanks\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Algorithms are made by humans, so they are susceptible to human biases. From deciding which neighborhoods get policed to who gets welfare benefits, discrimination has gone digital. By scrutinizing statistical models and telling personal stories, Eubanks shows that machines do not correct racist systems—they only shift blame.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/868390203/the-end-of-policing\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>The End of Policing\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Alex S. Vitale\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the wake of high-profile cases of police brutality, the same ideas for reform are trotted out—implicit bias training, body cameras, police-community dialogues. But Vitale argues that this fails to get to the root of the problem—policing itself. While calls to abolish the police are often met with skepticism, academics and activists have long-discussed alternatives to addressing homelessness, domestic disputes and substance abuse. \u003ca href=\"https://www.versobooks.com/books/2817\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">A free ebook\u003c/a> of \u003cem>The End of Policing\u003c/em> is available now. (And you can read \u003cem>Code Switch\u003c/em> editor extraordinaire Leah Donnella’s conversation with Vitale \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2020/06/03/457251670/how-much-do-we-need-the-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here.\u003c/a>)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.nyrb.com/products/blackballed?variant=1094927969\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Blackballed: The Black Vote and U.S. Democracy\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Darryl Pinckney\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As young Americans take to the streets to say black lives matter, they’re often told to vote. While voting is important, it’s also important to remember how black political representation has been chipped away by voter ID laws, gerrymandering and felon disenfranchisement. \u003cem>Blackballed \u003c/em>addresses the struggle for voting rights and for racial equality more broadly, drawing on Pinckney’s own experiences and writings of civil rights leaders to create a complicated picture of black political identity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/books/titles/358318685/dog-whistle-politics-how-coded-racial-appeals-have-reinvented-racism-and-wrecked\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Ian Haney López\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Entitlement mentality.” “Quotas.” “Welfare queens.” From Barry Goldwater to Bill Clinton to the Tea Party, politicians have relied on racially coded language to win over white voters and decimate social programs. \u003cem>Dog Whistle Politics \u003c/em>makes the case that not only does this strategy endanger people of color, but it also hinders economic mobility for all Americans.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://ugapress.org/book/9780820354750/medical-bondage/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Medical Bondage: Race, Gender, and the Origins of American Gynecology\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Deirdre Cooper Owens\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The foundational knowledge of American gynecology relied on the exploitation of enslaved black women’s bodies. In \u003cem>Medical Bondage,\u003c/em> Cooper Owens centers the stories of black women that have been overshadowed by the “discoveries” of white male doctors who experimented on them. Baseless theories about black inferiority and higher pain tolerance \u003ca href=\"https://www.pnas.org/content/113/16/4296\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">still permeate medical schools today\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://manifold.umn.edu/projects/body-and-soul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/a> by Alondra Nelson\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Black Panther Party is most remembered for its militant action, but health care was also a major pillar of its activism. The People’s Free Medical Clinics tested for hypertension and assisted with housing and employment. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>Note: This review discusses, and the show contains, scenes depicting, and stories about, sexual assault. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first episode of the HBO series \u003cem>I May Destroy You\u003c/em>, Arabella has other things going on before she’s sexually assaulted. She’s trying to meet a book deadline, and she’s worried she can’t, and in the great tradition of writers doing everything else when they can’t write, she steps out for a drink. When she next comes to, she realizes she was drugged and assaulted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But before that, she has friends, she has family, she’s struggling with her path from social media breakout star to author, and she’s navigating a long-distance relationship with a man she met in Italy, where she meant to be writing but then didn’t, quite. Played by creator Michaela Coel, also the writer and star of \u003cem>Chewing Gum\u003c/em>, she’s not a character constructed to be traumatized; she’s a character, full stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>I May Destroy You \u003c/em>is about sexual violence and consent; those themes come up over and over in different stories that change characters in different ways. But it avoids the flatness that would come from drama as a didactic explainer. Arabella’s is a story that widens out to show how being assaulted affects her sex life, her relationships with her friends and her family, her career, her aspirations, and her health. It documents the police investigation without centering it. This is not a whodunit, even though Arabella’s drive to understand what happened propels some of the plot.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Coel doesn’t just star in the series. She wrote these 12 episodes herself. She co-directed much of the season with Sam Miller, who’s worked on \u003cem>Luther \u003c/em>and on episodes of everything from \u003cem>Luke Cage \u003c/em>to \u003cem>American Crime\u003c/em>. She’s a producer and the star. Her face is the series’ indelible image. And she based the story of Arabella’s assault on \u003ca href=\"https://www.essence.com/entertainment/michaela-coel-hbo-i-may-destroy-you/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a night in her own life\u003c/a>. It is, transparently, the most personal of projects.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>You see that personal passion-project quality not only in the writing, but in the way Coel and Miller manage the visual language. The wardrobe and hair and knockabout style of filming conversations among friends are unobtrusive and casual in many stretches of the story, which build to those moments when they are emphatically not. This is not a twitchy, self-conscious style that draws attention to itself for no reason; it’s a reservation of visual emphasis for the places where it belongs. Arabella changes her hair, or she puts on a Halloween costume, and the air around her changes, too. It doesn’t look or sound like any other story. With that said, it also makes excellent use some of the best techniques that have emerged in recent television, including episodes that pause the narrative to pay attention to a different point of view, or a different point in time, to enrich the main story thread.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early going, \u003cem>I May Destroy You \u003c/em>can feel disorienting, because its upending of conventional crime and trauma story structures is so thorough. If you went in not knowing it was a story about sexual assault, you could watch most of the first episode as a day-in-the-life pilot for a quirky half-hour about a wandering millennial, about the publishing industry, about dating apps, and about social media in general. But this is the wisdom of the writing, at its core: This is how you demonstrate that Arabella existed in full before she was assaulted. She \u003cem>already \u003c/em>had a story unfolding, and a life that a series about her could have followed. She wasn’t simply suspended in air, waiting for something narratively important to happen to her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And just as she had a story already, Arabella had a personality already, and Coel resolutely draws her as a woman who is both traumatized and flawed. The rounded character she would have been in that quirky half-hour about the millennial and the book contract, she still is. She can be insensitive and mean, and she can be just as unaware of other people’s experiences and needs as they are of hers. Arabella and her friends—best friend Terry (Weruche Opia), friends Kwame (Paapa Essiedu) and Simon (Ami Ameen), dreamy Italian boyfriend Biagio (Marouane Zotti)—exist in a web of connections in which they hurt and are hurt, sometimes right and sometimes not. They both buoy and disappoint each other, making \u003cem>I May Destroy You \u003c/em>an outstanding examination of friendship as much as anything.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It sometimes helps, when encouraging people to try out an unconventionally structured show, to provide a hint that the overall shape of the story will satisfy. Let’s say only this: After 12 episodes, there is a gut-punch brilliance to how Arabella’s story is brought to a close that it would be wildly unfair to spoil. But know that Coel concludes in a way that’s both formally clever—that feels too slight, but it’s true—and dramatically satisfying. It is the holy grail of a certain kind of drama to find an ending that seems, in retrospect, both surprising and inevitable. And it’s very hard to get that right, but she got there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It’s significant that HBO (together with the BBC) has produced this show at all, particularly given its \u003ca href=\"https://www.huffpost.com/entry/hbo-diversity_n_4899679\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">dismal record\u003c/a> when it comes to the diversity of voices that get to make the highly personal, idiosyncratic dramas that have built the brand. (And it’s worth emphasizing, perhaps, that despite being a half-hour show from a woman whose last big project was very funny, this is a drama series.) But it’s equally encouraging, if your eye is on what television networks are supporting, that the show is so particular, and that it comes from a voice that’s so fresh, and that it leads with a frankness that a lot of conventional “gritty” drama series cannot match.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And ultimately, this is a chance to watch a brilliant lead performance. It’s tricky to call an actor mesmerizing, for fear of making her power seem magical rather than the result of craft. But Coel here is magnetic and memorable, for sure, and you won’t be able to take your eyes off her.\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. 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"content": "\u003cp>A young boy runs across a white sandy beach. A huge truck burns at the side of the highway. Cherry blossoms bloom. Military personnel brandish automatic weapons in the back of a jeep. A monkey sits on a wall and admires the view.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Welcome to \u003ca href=\"https://9-eyes.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">9-Eyes\u003c/a>, a blog by artist \u003ca href=\"https://jonrafman.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jon Rafman\u003c/a> that collects screenshots from Google Street View and presents them without context or analysis.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881006 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_924f7cb353d97b1bcd060a4b96663b10_6207f015_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881008 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_7fa9a52df868c83413d2a16b84d305a4_3b696778_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881005 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_1de5dda6806649bec1f4168408c9d395_cabc9666_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because these shots are captured by equipment that doesn’t look like a traditional camera or camcorder (the multi-lens devices are most often mounted to the roofs of cars), the people caught on the other side of the lens remain, for the most part, entirely unselfconscious and uninterrupted. The resulting images provide an unfiltered view of humanity that is as perplexing and disturbing as it is captivating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881088 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881089 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881087 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this collection can’t help but appeal to the inner voyeur in all of us, 9-Eyes also shines a starker light on the privacy issues associated with Google Maps’ Street View feature. Men are caught urinating, sex workers are immortalized in various states of undress and young children are often completely alone, or getting up to no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Google does blur out faces and license plates (and even does additional \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/streetview/policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blurring by request\u003c/a>), you can’t help but wonder how many people know their likeness has been captured in this way. 9-Eyes effectively demonstrates the enormous gulf in behavior between those unaware of the cameras, and those who recognize the strange contraption filming them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881094 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881095 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13881093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://jonrafman.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rafman\u003c/a>’s other work, the artist explores spatial realities in the post-internet world. 9-Eyes began as a Tumblr back in 2008—the year after Google Maps launched Street View. In 2016, New Documents published \u003ca href=\"https://new-documents.org/books/jon-rafman-nine-eyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a collection\u003c/a> of the site’s images, contextualizing them within the history of photography and surveillance. These days, Rafman’s site undergoes only sporadic updates, the most recent of which started in March and stopped a couple of weeks ago. But for those unfamiliar with the archive, 9-Eyes’ back catalog can provide hours of vicarious, enthralling experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafman frequently uses digital technology to illustrate how modern tools alienate humanity from itself. Fittingly, the rare moments of calm and beauty on 9-Eyes are almost always devoid of people. Rural locations act as a relief from the concrete chaos that dominates much of the collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once human beings are removed from the picture, a sense of peace emerges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881092 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881098 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13881099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://impakt.nl/events/screening/co-opting-entities/disasters-under-the-sun/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rafman said\u003c/a> of his work: “What concerns me is the general sense of entrapment and isolation felt by many as social and political life becomes increasingly abstracted and experience dematerialized.” In the age of COVID-19, as people around the world have become more isolated and more reliant on technology, Rafman’s concepts have taken on additional depth and power.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Because these shots are captured by equipment that doesn’t look like a traditional camera or camcorder (the multi-lens devices are most often mounted to the roofs of cars), the people caught on the other side of the lens remain, for the most part, entirely unselfconscious and uninterrupted. The resulting images provide an unfiltered view of humanity that is as perplexing and disturbing as it is captivating.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881088 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_b3a97c000580fd991384779f1cd0f053_02570407_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881089 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_e825dacd72b00651e18e52ac0d084a86_be626666_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881087 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_832d89f34d4797ec74945058d6b93e1e_cf56f85b_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While this collection can’t help but appeal to the inner voyeur in all of us, 9-Eyes also shines a starker light on the privacy issues associated with Google Maps’ Street View feature. Men are caught urinating, sex workers are immortalized in various states of undress and young children are often completely alone, or getting up to no good.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though Google does blur out faces and license plates (and even does additional \u003ca href=\"https://www.google.com/streetview/policy/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">blurring by request\u003c/a>), you can’t help but wonder how many people know their likeness has been captured in this way. 9-Eyes effectively demonstrates the enormous gulf in behavior between those unaware of the cameras, and those who recognize the strange contraption filming them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881094 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0d81280527bc689d2540e1ddcbae4064_17078921_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881095 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a9d98e466b283e28bbeb4227b22fb5fc_72dcdacd_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13881093\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-800x500.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-800x500.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-160x100.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-768x480.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280-1020x638.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_d98ccc75980c8a3a809f2ae59eb6522e_10a18d4c_1280.png 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In \u003ca href=\"https://jonrafman.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rafman\u003c/a>’s other work, the artist explores spatial realities in the post-internet world. 9-Eyes began as a Tumblr back in 2008—the year after Google Maps launched Street View. In 2016, New Documents published \u003ca href=\"https://new-documents.org/books/jon-rafman-nine-eyes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a collection\u003c/a> of the site’s images, contextualizing them within the history of photography and surveillance. These days, Rafman’s site undergoes only sporadic updates, the most recent of which started in March and stopped a couple of weeks ago. But for those unfamiliar with the archive, 9-Eyes’ back catalog can provide hours of vicarious, enthralling experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rafman frequently uses digital technology to illustrate how modern tools alienate humanity from itself. Fittingly, the rare moments of calm and beauty on 9-Eyes are almost always devoid of people. Rural locations act as a relief from the concrete chaos that dominates much of the collection.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Once human beings are removed from the picture, a sense of peace emerges.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881092 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_a7cb6de582cedd9ab2d39bfa9e7a582e_c9359c87_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13881098 aligncenter\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-800x450.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-800x450.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-160x90.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-768x432.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280-1020x574.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_70162d46f40345b6a4993d3a6b7bc494_9cdbd48a_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13881099\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-800x500.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-800x500.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-160x100.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-768x480.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280-1020x638.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2020/05/tumblr_0ce21a5552a56dca6d1b28a1a355238d_26330001_1280.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2019, \u003ca href=\"https://impakt.nl/events/screening/co-opting-entities/disasters-under-the-sun/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Rafman said\u003c/a> of his work: “What concerns me is the general sense of entrapment and isolation felt by many as social and political life becomes increasingly abstracted and experience dematerialized.” In the age of COVID-19, as people around the world have become more isolated and more reliant on technology, Rafman’s concepts have taken on additional depth and power.\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Performing on a Facebook livestream, \u003ca href=\"https://salmahindy.com/#bookings\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Salma Hindy\u003c/a> began her stand-up routine by giving a shout-out to everyone in the audience who was following the guidelines to keep the coronavirus at bay, such as washing hands regularly, covering one’s face and keeping a respectful distance from others. Though, as a Muslim, she found these habits a tad familiar.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“You call it coronavirus, I call it sharia law!” said Hindy, referring to the set of principles Muslims abide by.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Canadian Muslim comedian was one of 40 performers taking part in The Socially Distant Eid Comedy Night, an event hosted by the \u003ca href=\"https://www.concordiaforum.com/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Concordia Forum\u003c/a>, a networking organization for Muslim influencers and changemakers. The goal was to give Muslims around the world some comic relief as they do the unprecedented: celebrate Ramadan and Eid in isolation at home, with fewer family members and friends than usual because of the coronavirus pandemic.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>A holy month typically observed by attending daily prayers at the mosque and dinner parties to break the dawn-to-dusk fast, Ramadan was indeed a different sight to behold this year, as was Eid al-Fitr, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The stand-up comedians come from different occupations and backgrounds, including award-winning performers based in South Africa and the U.K. Their show was livestreamed on May 24, Eid day for many countries. The event is available to watch on the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/concordiaforum/?__tn__=%2CdkC-R&eid=ARCqt3KEHGEKaw7FRo-sqPzKj3QfNTfMoUHQ6Hkg-P1cLWt65CNB5nH3I56zn9IUYL3rZSAjwTRigrUR&hc_ref=ARRl52J61Hm2bDDO4NhoPXSkGbdTE0R419Cft1BhE39ijf6TLF0qAwyMNaUCi-jQsUA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Concordia Forum’s Facebook page\u003c/a> until Wednesday at 5 p.m. ET.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Muddassar Ahmed, organizer of the event and chair of the Concordia Forum, put together the comedy special during the week leading up to the holiday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For the hour or two that people tune in I hope it lifts people’s spirits and helps them take their mind off things,” says Ahmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Each comedian did a 3-minute set, poking fun at themselves and making jokes about Muslim stereotypes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hindy’s act revolved around dealing with the coronavirus as a Muslim daughter of immigrants. She mentioned the new degree a lot of parents seem to have gained during the pandemic—a PhD from WhatsApp University.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t5Vk87bckY&feature=emb_logo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“In WhatsApp University, absolutely no fact-checking is allowed,” said Hindy, referring to the habit of some Muslim parents to forward myths and unproven coronavirus cures on WhatsApp, a social messaging app especially popular among immigrants as well as in many countries around the world.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Yaaseen Barnes, a South African \u003ca href=\"http://yaaseenbarnes.co.za/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">stand-up comedian\u003c/a> and one of several hosts for the evening, found some pros in celebrating Eid under quarantine. He joked that he no longer had to deal with the issue of praying next to someone who occasionally releases smelly burps of the food they just ate at \u003cem>iftar\u003c/em>, the meal to break the daily fast.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“This is why [Zoom] is great, because you don’t need to be in the burp,” said Barnes, who is known as the “king of one-liners” by the stand-up community in South Africa.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvnC08ozOg4&feature=emb_logo\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Barnes was delighted to take part in the event and described it as a combination of what he loves: making others laugh and helping people. He hoped he could create a sense of community for those celebrating without family.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Maybe we can give you something to laugh about and make everyone feel a little bit at home,” said Barnes.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And it wasn’t the only virtual event on the holy month calendar. Imam \u003ca href=\"https://wagner.nyu.edu/community/faculty/suhaib-webb\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Suhaib Webb\u003c/a>, a resident scholar at the Islamic Center at New York University, says that throughout Ramadan, the internet was chock-full of more spiritual-oriented events and gatherings than anyone could attend—a way of keeping the communal spirit alive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>ICNYU held virtual events for both \u003cem>iftar\u003c/em> and \u003cem>suhoor\u003c/em>, the meal before the fast, as well as online lectures about the blessings of Ramadan. Webb believes that, despite the lack of in-person interaction, the online events actually gave people more options to participate in the community aspect of Ramadan and Eid.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It’s ironic because, though we’re limited in our physical engagement due to the pandemic, we are unlimited in the [virtual] events and things we can participate in,” says Webb, referring to the countries that restricted physical gatherings.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The virtual comedy show indeed brought many people across nations together, with an estimated 5,000 people tuning in, according to Ahmed, throughout the two-hour event. The social media responses were overwhelming positive, with one writer calling the show “top-tier comedy.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And even though I was covering this event as a reporter for NPR, I couldn’t help but agree. I’m a Muslim American, and the jokes and online community generated by the comedy special—while no match for the traditional in-person events—gave us back a little bit of the Eid feeling we were missing this year.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hafsaquraishi_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u003cem>Hafsa Quraishi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> is a Muslim American reporter who focuses on business, politics and issues affecting Muslim Americans.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cdiv class=\"fullattribution\">\u003cem>Copyright 2020 NPR. To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=Muslim+Comics+Gather+Over+Zoom+To+Celebrate+Eid+With+Jokes+And+Joy&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/em>\u003c/div>\n\n",
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I discovered I only really had fun when my brother and I were on the same team, and friendly fire was turned off. I noticed that random civilian casualties made me feel sick. I questioned why lady avatars were scantily clad while dude avatars often weren’t. And I loved getting to sight-see. [aside postid='arts_13879036']\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sightseeing is why \u003cem>Minecraft\u003c/em> has had such an impact. Right now, my life’s parameters are my bedroom, my ambitions are the size of 80 bedrooms, and my \u003cem>Minecraft\u003c/em> realm is the size of a zillion bedrooms. The game offers endless virtual space to roam when real-life space feels like a rare commodity. And relocation is the literal click of a button. When I tire of the mines, I try the mountains. When I’m done with the mountains, I go to the jungle. And when I’ve had it with the jungle, I hop in a boat that I made with oak from the jungle and find a new island to inhabit. Then I can do it all over again. 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I’m surprised it’s still out there somewhere.” \u003ccite>(Brendan Smialowski/AFP via Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>If the maverick billionaire provokes a scandal, as \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/2020/04/29/848093173/teslas-elon-musk-rants-again-calls-lockdowns-forcible-imprisonment-and-fascist\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">he is wont to do\u003c/a>, her phone blows up with a torrent of messages. (Full disclosure: I reached out to Musk during one of those controversies, when he \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/05/09/853313775/elon-musk-says-tesla-suing-california-county-moving-headquarters-out-of-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">threatened to sue the California county that is home to Tesla’s \u003c/a>manufacturing plant over its coronavirus-related restrictions. 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