What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Our Year: 1 Out of 530,000
When it comes to the past year, we’ve all lost something -- or someone. Time with friends and family. A job. A loved one. But when we think about the 530,000 people in the U.S. who died because of COVID-19, the magnitude makes it hard to see the individuals. Today, we remember one loss, out of many.
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NBN Book of the Day - M. Fakhry Davids, “Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference” (Red Globe, 2011)
What makes racist feelings and ideas objectionable? In his book Internal Racism: A Psychoanalytic Approach to Race and Difference (Red Globe, 2011), M. Fakhry Davids, a member of the British Psychoanalytical Society, argues that racism, like the impulse to destroy or act on hatred, is an ineluctable part of us all. Borrowing, but also augmenting the work of his fellow neo-Kleinians (particularly John Steiner and Herbert Rosenfeld) on “psychic retreats” and “defensive organizations”, he names the “internal racist organization” as a normal part of the mind, deeming it a non-pathological component of psychic structure.
Davids' thinking has a decidedly hopeful tinge. If accepted, it promises to help open up the kinds of conversations clinically and otherwise that can be had about racist feelings. After all, if they are average and expectable, they are human. And what is accepted as human can potentially be talked through and about, which promises to constrain harmful action.
What I love about Davids' thinking is that in updating a psychoanalytic model of mind that accounts for racism, he wipes political correctness and the super ego off the table. By placing the “internal racist organization” as an equal player inside of us, alongside the Oedipal, the ego and the id, it becomes something that you just can’t wish away.
That said, if we accept his argument, we do find ourselves contending with the age old problem of the drives, or the paranoid schizoid, wherein managing ourselves in relation to the lure of destructiveness (of which racist feelings play their part) is a life long project. The hope is that if we can come to accept racist thinking as a response to overwhelming and primitive anxieties, (rather than a moral failing), we can see it as a warning sign that internally we are askew. Following Davids, racism can never be expunged (as seems to be the neoliberal fantasy) from the self. In fact, and truly this is the last word, it follows us to the grave.
Tracy D. Morgan: Psychoanalyst, LCSW-R, M.Phil., Editor, New Books in Psychoanalysis.
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Short Wave - What Earth Looked Like 3.2 Billion Years Ago
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Land of the Giants - A Military Contract Tests Google’s Open Culture
One of Google’s long points of pride was its open, collaborative, and transparent company culture. But many Googlers feel like that's slipping away. Over our next two episodes, we’ll tell the story of a breakdown of trust inside Google — between management and employees. Starting with a covert contract Google made with the Department of Defense.
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The NewsWorthy - AstraZeneca on Hold, New Riot Charges & Tinder Background Checks- Tuesday, March 16th, 2021
The news to know for Tuesday, March 16th, 2021!
We have updates about:
- why some major European nations are pausing the use of the AstraZeneca vaccine
- the FBI's new findings about the Christmas Day bombing in Nashville
- how Tinder could help you run a background check before going on a date
- history-making nominations for this year's Oscars
Those stories and more in just 10 minutes!
Head to www.theNewsWorthy.com or see sources below to read more about any of the stories mentioned today.
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Sources:
Countries Pause AstraZeneca Vaccine: NY Times, AP, Reuters, USA Today
All Mississippi Adults are Vaccine-Eligible: Axios, NY Times, MS Health Department
COVID-19 Vaccine Ad Blitz: Stat News, CNN, Axios
Facebook Launches Vaccine Finder: USA Today, Cnet, Facebook
Rioters Charged with Assaulting Officer: Politico, WaPo, FOX News, DOJ
FBI Report on Christmas Day Bomber: Nashville Tennessean, AP, WSJ, CBS News, FBI
Fewer Americans Try to Quit Smoking: WaPo, USA Today, NA Quitline Consortium
Tinder to Run Background Checks: The Verge, Fox Business, Tinder, Garbo
Vatican Gay Marriage Judgement: NPR, BBC, AP, Vatican
Oscar Nominees Announced: Variety, USA Today, NY Times
Drake Dominates Billboard Charts: Billboard, NY Times, Forbes
What A Day - Vax on Pause
Italy, Germany, France and several other countries in Europe are halting use of Astrazeneca’s coronavirus vaccine amid concerns over side effects in handful of people. The company is defending the drug while authorities assess the situation further.
Derek Chauvin’s defense lawyers have requested to postpone and relocate his trial following news of a $27 million settlement for the killing of George Floyd.
And in headlines: Protests against sexual violence in Australia, Google’s goes to court over incognito mode, and hundreds of Spring Break-ers arrested in Miami Beach.
Show Links:
"Hints of strategy and new revelations in first week of Derek Chauvin murder trial"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/03/15/derek-chauvin-trial-strategy/
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The Daily Signal - Pompeo Cites Top Foreign Policy Achievements of Trump Presidency
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo played a role in some of the biggest foreign policy accomplishments of the Trump administration.
He joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss the impact of the Abraham Accords—pacts involving the normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, and Sudan—and the moving of the U.S. Embassy in Israel to Jerusalem.
He also weighs in on the increasing threat of the Chinese Communist Party in the Biden administration, as well as the phenomenon of all of the isms that are part of American society today, such as multiculturalism.
"When I hear people start to talk about different groups and different subcultures—and they want to divide, and they want to create tension, and they want to cause problems—it saddens me because I know it will diminish all of us," Pompeo said.
"And so, whether it's these ideas that the progressive movement now has, that they refer to as being 'woke,' they undermine the central understanding that our Founders had about who we are and also my Christian understanding of how it is that the Bible asks us to treat each of our neighbors."
We also cover these stories:
- Two men, Julian Elie Khater and George Pierre Tanios, are charged with assaulting since-deceased U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick and two other officers with a chemical spray during the Jan. 6 breaching of the Capitol.
- Sen. Ted Cruz writes a letter to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin after a since-deleted tweet on an official military Twitter account attacked Fox News host Tucker Carlson.
- Eric Nelson, the attorney for Derek Chauvin, the former Minneapolis police officer charged in the death of George Floyd, says he wants to “delay Chauvin's criminal trial and move the venue in the wake of a $27 million civil settlement between Minneapolis and George Floyd's family,” according to CNN.
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The Stack Overflow Podcast - Taking a risk and moving to a new team
Ian is Brooklyn bred a tech junkie, NBA stats nerd, hip hop connoisseur, and co-creator of GameFlo and Ujima Now. He graduated from Brown University and was a teaching fellow at FullStack Academy before coming to Stack Overflow. You can find him on Twitter and Github.
Kyle Pollard graduated from the University of Northern British Columbia and worked as a computer technician and programmer for the City of Prince George in Canada. You can find him on Github, Twitter, and his website.
Our lifeboat this week goes to Max Pevsner, who answered a question, but cautioned against taking his advice: Don't reuse cell in UITableView
Opening Arguments - OA473: In Praise of John Roberts and Joe Manchin?!
You read that right, and no it's not opposite day! At least... I don't think it is. Anyway, Manchin has said some things about the filibuster that are incredibly encouraging! We've got the full breakdown and a mini filibuster dive for you. Then in our main segment, Andrew breaks down a decision in which Roberts dissented from the entire court... and in Andrew's opinion, he has it right!
Links: Brookings.edu, "The History of the Filibuster,", 19-968 Uzuegbunam v. Preczewski