Tag: race
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Start with the paper trail, because the paper trail doesn’t care about your politics. The people who owned plantations in Jamaica and the people who financed railways in Lancashire were often not two different groups. They were the same families, keeping two sets of books, moving capital from one to the other as the political…
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Or: How we spent a billion dollars teaching people not to say the wrong thing while the empire just kept empire-ing You ever notice how every corporation, university, and government agency now has a DEI department? Diversity, Equity, Inclusion. Sounds great. Feels great. Costs a fortune. And yet, nothing really changes. The same people stay…
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Or: How a 17th-century labor dispute created the culture war you’re losing your mind over You ever notice how the loudest people on Twitter have absolutely no idea what they’re talking about? Two hundred forty characters of pure, distilled confidence, and not a single fact to back it up. Especially when it comes to race.…