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14 votes
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Sociology’s race problem: Urban ethnographers do more harm than good in speaking for Black communities. They see only suffering, not diversity or joy.
19 votes -
Northern Sámi, a language spoken in the Arctic, has more than 300 words for snow and a special word for "frightened reindeer" – can it survive in a warmer world?
19 votes -
What is India's "uniform civil code" and why does it anger Muslims?
17 votes -
Queen Margrethe II is the first Danish monarch to abdicate in 900 years – but it is just a sign of the times
17 votes -
A man plagiarized my work: Women, money, and the nation
19 votes -
How Denmark destroyed Greenland: Brief history of Denmark's colonialism in Greenland
17 votes -
Settler colonialism is not just a historic evil but a modern-day one
11 votes -
The Silk Road: Eight goods traded along the ancient network
7 votes -
Are there any Black people in Japan? (2015)
9 votes -
Pope in Marseille: Migration must be addressed with humanity, solidarity
3 votes -
War against the children
13 votes -
North American bison slaughter left lasting impact on Indigenous peoples
31 votes -
The post-WWI migrations that built Yugoslavia and Türkiye have left a painful legacy
13 votes -
True size of a Spartan army - The real source of its strength
9 votes -
The history behind Orkney's vote to ‘join Norway’
9 votes -
Quran burning and requests to approve the destruction of more holy books have left Sweden torn between its commitment to free speech and its respect for religious minorities
18 votes -
The great convergence in global equality
15 votes -
The spy whose tapes rocked Spanish society
5 votes -
Sweden set up a eugenics plan, grounded in the science of racial biology, between 1934 and 1976 – between 20,000 and 33,000 Swedes were forced to be sterilised
12 votes -
Ukrainians boost resilience and spread laughs with wartime memes
4 votes -
In the oppression olympics, don’t go for the gold
13 votes -
How Gloria Steinem lent Wonder Woman a helping hand
5 votes -
What's so wrong about sexbots?
11 votes -
A documentary on the Men's Rights movement
The recent post on why men are ignoring help and falling behind made me think of this documentary. Don't know who here might be interested, but it's certainly a lot to think about. There's a...
The recent post on why men are ignoring help and falling behind made me think of this documentary. Don't know who here might be interested, but it's certainly a lot to think about.
There's a documentary exploring the Mens Rights movement. It's far from perfect, but I think it definitely has some good points. Firstly, I'd recommend watching Cassie Jaye's (the creator of the doc) TEDx Talk about open-mindedness and listening (~15 Mins): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WMuzhQXJoY
Then there's the documentary itself (~2 hours): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7MkSpJk5tM
Cassie Jaye has posted a lot of the unedited and full interviews to her channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL7HeX2SUI9v84DMIawkSBzLRANIc9RQ7t
6 votes -
'You are more powerful than you think.' Why one man says it's too soon to write off democracy in America
9 votes -
Citizen future: Why we need a new story of self and society
4 votes -
40% of Americans believe in creationism
33 votes -
Mechanization and monoculture
6 votes -
The Internet Is Not What You Think It Is: A history, a philosophy, a warning
9 votes -
Epistemology of the Internet — and of traditional media
6 votes -
In Nyaya philosophy only some debates are worth having
8 votes -
Our need to get drunk in company may be innate
4 votes -
Murder coffee
3 votes -
The little-known Albert Einstein: An ardent defender of black Americans against racism
10 votes -
Billionaires see VR as a way to avoid radical social change
14 votes -
Amid a crackdown on ‘separatism’, how do French Muslims feel?
6 votes -
The next decade could be even worse: A historian believes he has discovered iron laws that predict the rise and fall of societies. He has bad news.
24 votes -
In 100 years' time, what do you think society will look back on and view with distaste?
Inspired by this comment, and thinking about how we today look back on (for example) segregation, or the treatment of homosexuals through the last 100 years. In the year 2120 what do you think...
Inspired by this comment, and thinking about how we today look back on (for example) segregation, or the treatment of homosexuals through the last 100 years.
In the year 2120 what do you think human society will look back on and be disgusted to think about?The big one for me I think will be the treatment of animals, and not just battery farming, but straight up growing them for slaughter: food, clothes, lab-testing, etc. With the nascent industry of 3d-printed/lab-grown meats gaining traction, as well as vegan and vegetarianism on the rise through much of the West, it's not hard to imagine our great-grandchildren being horrified at the thought of their ancestors raising animals just to kill them.
31 votes -
Celebrations of Progress - A look at some major celebrations of historical achievements, and thoughts about why it seems like nothing similar has happened recently
4 votes -
Samfundssind – A word buried in the history books helped Danes mobilise during the pandemic, flattening the curve and lifting community spirit
9 votes -
The Bronze Age Collapse (approximately 1200 BCE)
7 votes -
When proof is not enough: Throughout history, evidence of racism has failed to effect change
11 votes -
The great 5G conspiracy - Part of a series on conspiracy thinking in America
6 votes -
When did France stop having peasants?
8 votes -
Denmark marks Schleswig reunification – 100 years since the people in the region of Schleswig voted either to remain with Germany or to join Denmark
6 votes -
Mysterious disappearance of Greenland's medieval Norse society in the 15th century came after walruses were hunted almost to extinction, researchers have said
4 votes -
"Cymru am byth!" – How speaking Welsh became cool
12 votes -
Moral circle expansion: How humanity’s idea of who deserves moral concern has grown — and will keep growing
9 votes -
There’s a vanishing resource we’re not talking about - humans are losing our cultural diversity even faster than we’re destroying the planet
27 votes