#voxsplaining

[michaelkpate]

"Late-breaking sexism": why younger women aren’t excited about electing a woman…

TL;DR - The World is actually a terrible place for women (only 3% of Hedge Fund Managers are women) but many young women are too stupid to realize it.

#Voxsplaining

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/17/11024092/clinton-albright-steinem

[michaelkpate]

The most radical thing the Black Panthers did was give kids free breakfast

According to this article http://ouleft.sp-mesolite.tilted.net/?page_id=1304 this article from 1978 http://colemantruth.net/kate8.pdf shaped public perception of the Black Panthers.

However, it also points out that Newton didn't launch the Breakfast program until after he decided that there was "little support for Armed Insurrection in the Black Community" and changed strategy.

And from the first article:

> As the Black Panthers drew young blacks to their revolutionary program, the Party became the strongest link between the domestic Black Liberation Struggle and global opponents of American imperialism. The North Vietnamese — at war with the United States — sent letters home to the families of American prisoners of war (POWs) through the Black Panther Party and discussed releasing POWs in exchange for the release of Panthers from U.S. jails. Cuba offered political asylum to Black Panthers and began developing a military training ground for them. Algeria — then the center of Pan-Africanism and a world hub of anti-imperialism that hosted embassies for most postcolonial governments and independence movements — granted the Panthers national diplomatic status and an embassy building of their own, where the Panthers headquartered their International Section under the leadership of Eldridge and Kathleen Cleaver. But by the time of Newton’s trip to China, the Black Panther Party had begun to unravel. In the early 1970s, the Party rapidly declined. By mid-1972, it was basically a local Oakland community organization once again.

Apparently most of the membership weren't really that interested in what they were doing and left.

#Voxsplaining

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/14/10981986/black-panthers-breakfast-beyonce

[michaelkpate]

The rise of Donald Trump is a terrifying moment in American politics

Ezra Klein on Fear

In 2008, Ezra Klein told us we no longer had to fear because the Messiah had arrived.

> And that was his great strength. He robbed fear of its ability to work through quiet insinuation. He forced America to confront its own subconscious. Obama actually is black. His middle name actually is "Hussein." He actually does know William Ayers. He actually was married by Jeremiah Wright. He actually had lived in Indonesia. These were not smears, though they were often used as such. They were facts. And this election was fundamentally about what happened when fear collided with fact. - http://prospect.org/article/most-unlikely-president

And now

> This, more than his ideology, is why Trump genuinely scares me. There are places where I think his instincts are an improvement on the Republican field. He seems more dovish than neoconservatives like Marco Rubio, and less dismissive of the social safety net than libertarians like Rand Paul. But those candidates are checked by institutions and incentives that hold no sway over Trump; his temperament is so immature, his narcissism so clear, his political base so unique, his reactions so strange, that I honestly have no idea what he would do — or what he wouldn't do.

#Voxsplaining

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/10/10956978/donald-trump-terrifying

[michaelkpate]

The great money-in-politics myth

Just how little does the Vox staff think of Americans?

> There are many, many reasons why the US isn't a social democracy yet. It has to do with corporate influence, yes, but also the structure of our government, the views of our citizens, Congress's bias toward rural areas, and our long history of white supremacy.

Not as serious but Larry Lessig is not happy with the way his arguments got Strawmanned https://medium.com/equal-citizens/the-yglesias-kludge-25ddfeb66a06#.dpklsylq8

#Voxsplaining

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/9/10941690/campaign-finance-left

[michaelkpate]

I have a tattoo on my lower back. Stop calling it a "tramp stamp."

The thing is, other people can call it whatever they like.

#Voxsplaining

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/3/10887622/lower-back-tattoo-tramp-stamp

[michaelkpate]

This awful Morning Joe clip shows how not to talk about Hillary Clinton

If you have an opinion about Hillary Clinton that is less than positive, Vox would prefer you shut the hell up.

> Anderson added that Clinton's delivery, along with the perception that she often changes her positions, makes voters think to themselves, "I don't believe what she's saying." But, she added, "Say what you will about Bernie Sanders, he believes what he's saying." (Not "voters believe what he's saying." He believes what he's saying.)

#Voxsplaining

http://www.vox.com/2016/2/3/10909354/morning-joe-hillary-clinton-shouts-bob-woodward

[michaelkpate]

The Hillary Clinton top-secret email controversy, explained

> According to a statement by the State Department, "These documents were not marked classified at the time they were sent."

Because the markings had been removed. Fisher is so determined to defend her he is making himself look more stupid than normal.

> @Vox may not care that @Max_Fisher got it wrong. They like it, I think. - https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/693555162384826371

#Voxsplaining

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/29/10873106/hillary-clinton-email-top-secret?utm_campaign=max_fisher&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter

[michaelkpate]

How big a deal was Congress extending the renewable energy tax credits? A very…

Vox explains the awesomeness of Crony Capitalism

#Voxsplaining

http://www.vox.com/2016/1/27/10849564/renewable-energy-tax-credits-big-deal