Joshua BentonOverený účet

@jbenton

Senior writer + founder of at . I write about (a) digital journalism, (b) southern history, mostly. Proud Cajun. Takes mine, not Harvard's.

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    3. 1. 2017

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  2. pred 10 hodinami

    do not, repeat DO NOT expect this text to be fly outside of the book

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    12. 10.

    First we need journalists and their organizations to say it outright: we are pro-democracy, pro-voting, pro-truth, pro-science. Then carry that reasoning forward to show that it has consequences for what journalists do, like putting people on TV who regularly misinform.

    Odpovedáte používateľom @mlcalderone @VanityFair
    For Big Journalism to take the threat to democracy seriously, it has to break out of business as usual. Putting people who always lie on TV is business as usual. I don't see how inviting them to lie about future plans helps in the slightest. More likely, it adds to the harm.
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    12. 10.

    I’m trying to figure out when rape, maiming, child sex trafficking and genocide were acceptable moral standards.

    “Holding historical figures to modern standards of morality is a method of antihistorical political control—much like the pseudohistory I grew up being taught in the Soviet Union.”
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    pred 21 hodinami

    Dear : Do you think the smallpox vaccine mandate or the polio vaccine mandate for schools should be eliminated first? Or perhaps the whooping cough vaccine mandate? My cousin’s friend says that is overrated. Ohio can be the whooping cough capital of the world.

    Ohio should ban all vaccine mandates.
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  6. pred 20 hodinami

    God forbid

    “If we do not challenge critical race theory, young Mississippians will grow up indoctrinated to believe that America’s material achievements have been gained through exploitation."
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    11. 10.

    The report’s cover photo is of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.

    Analysis: Conservative group’s report on critical race theory aims to sway policymakers (from )
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  8. pred 20 hodinami

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    1/n - In honor of the final day of banned books week, lets take a look at the history of banning, challenging and censoring social studies textbooks in the US. 🧵
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  9. pred 20 hodinami

    Watching The Good Place, Brooklyn 99, and Better Call Saul over a period of pandemic months has given me some very confused ideas about who really is

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  10. pred 22 hodinami

    I dunno, man. I've been studying this period for a long time, but I keep finding new ways to be surprised how much "history" from that era is just mythmaking. /end

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  11. pred 22 hodinami

    By 1891, he was bragging that his "comfortable fortune" was "amassed by his own unaided efforts, not having inherited a dollar of property, and constantly having to help others less fortunate than himself in their business undertakings." Sure, dude.

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  12. pred 22 hodinami

    That same year, at 27, he was named to the board of a new insurance company with most of the richest sugar planters in the region. (These names probably mean nothing to you, but there's a future U.S. Senator, gubernatorial candidates, and other sugar plutocrats here.)

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  13. pred 22 hodinami

    What a smart entrepreneur, having his multimillionaire father buy him one of the largest sugar plantations in the state!

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  14. pred 22 hodinami

    Here are father and son, deigning to let a few white men sharecrop their land along with the "colored labor." Did you notice that 9 months ago, it was daddy Ernèst who had spent $90K on that plantation? Well, now it's listed as belonging to son Jules, who was 27 at the time.

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  15. pred 22 hodinami

    Did young Jules really have "few financial resources to begin a career in sugar planting"? Well, in 1877, his dad bought a sugar plantation for $90,000 — the equivalent of about $2.2 million today. He paid half of it in cash at closing.

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  16. pred 22 hodinami

    (Also, congrats to 23-year-old Jules for, in 1873, "recogniz[ing] the possibilities of owning and leasing lands that could be turned into sugar-cane-producing properties." It's not as if that'd been the entire foundation of the local economy for more than half a century by then.)

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  17. pred 22 hodinami

    You see, during Jules' lifetime, "America changed drastically." I wonder what those changes were! But luckily the Burguières family could move past no longer being allowed to own human beings "by adapting, experimenting, and perservering through difficult times."

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  18. pred 22 hodinami

    The company emphasizes that Eugène's son Jules bought sugar plantations "through sheriff's sales and auctions" but glides over the whole inheriting-them-from-his-slaveowner-dad thing.

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  19. pred 22 hodinami

    You won't be surprised to learn Eugène bought his first sugar plantations in 1853 and enslaved at least 16 people by 1860.

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  20. pred 22 hodinami

    I love looking at how Louisiana family businesses that date back to antebellum days tell their history. Like the J.M. Burguières Co. It "all began with Eugene Denis Burguières," who emigrated to Louisiana in 1831. But their history starts in 1873? (1/x)

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    12. 10.

    Here is my response to Alito, who demands to be seen as apolitical while acting politically, who demands civil discourse while he smears his critics, and who describes the press as sensational for rejecting his mischaracterizations of verifiable facts.

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