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probablyasocialecologist · 2 months

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Journalist Gary Younge has warned that the narrow range of most British journalists’ backgrounds means it takes “a seismic event” for journalists to take an interest in problems that are for many people everyday realities. Delivering the inaugural Rosemary Hollis Memorial lecture at City University he said “now more than ever we need reporters and commentators who can engage with the sources of discontent and alienation which fuel the assaults on our democratic space. “But instead we have a commentariat, overwhelmingly from the same social class both as each other and the politicians they cover. Their reference points are limited, their comfort zone is narrow. “Much as they may mock millennials for seeking safe spaces, that is entirely where they operate.”

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Noting a finding of the 2019 Sutton Trust and Social Mobility report that suggested journalism has one of the most privileged workforces of any British industry, Younge said that “when the media class is drawn from the same social strata as the political class, the spectrum of views is narrow, and the atmosphere in which they are aired, foetid”. Later in the lecture Younge said there are people for whom journalism “is their life – this is all they’ve ever wanted to do, this is what their parents did, this is what their friends do. To occupy this space means everything to them. “And they shuffle, almost literally, between the media class and the political class. Boris Johnson just got a [job] on GB News. He was a journalist and then prime minister, now he’s going to be a journalist again… George Osborne pauperises a significant section of the population, goes to the Evening Standard, runs a Christmas campaign for food banks.” He added: “It’s a group of people talking to themselves. They used to call broadsheet journalism the internal memos of the middle class, but increasingly it’s the internal memos of the upper class.”

#Gary Younge #journalism #uk politics #class

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ijustkindalikebooks · 7 months

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From Another Day In The Death Of America by Gary Younge.

#booklr #books #bookblr #book #non fiction #another day in the death of america #gary younge #politics #history

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averycanadianfilm · 1 year

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Another way to “forget” is to make sure the historical record has been deliberately altered too, so that future generations will not even have to “forget”. It was only in 2010 that a court case confirmed the existence of more than 1,500 files detailing the British torture of Kenyans during the Mau Mau rebellion, files that had been secretly flown from Kenya to London in 1963 to prevent their discovery.

#UK #Racism #Gary Younge #BLM #Black lives matter #British Racism

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onebluebookworm · 1 year

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Ranking Books I Read in 2022 - 35-31

35. Another Day In the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives - Gary Younge

What I Liked: Utterly painful and haunting. Very novel concept - taking a random day and chronicling all the gun deaths of young people in chronological order, some receiving a lot of attention, some barely receiving a mention in the local paper. Offered some fire quotes about American gun culture. What I Didn’t Like: Some parts could get a little dry and uninteresting. Final thoughts: Not for the faint of heart, but definitely something a lot more people should read to understand how much we give up in order to avoid passing any kind of effective gun control. TW gun violence and discussions of racism.

34. Not That Bad: Dispatches from Rape Culture - Roxane Gay

What I Liked: A wide range of essayists offered new perspectives on this very sensitive subject. Another book full of absolutely fire quotes. What I Didn’t Like: Ally Sheedy’s essay was pretty fucking tone deaf. The essay regarding migrants who’d experienced sexual violence was dry as all hell and mostly just quotes statistics, and that’s not something you really should do when you’re trying to draw attention to a problem like this. Final thoughts: Hard to get through, but ultimately a great resource mostly full of thought-provoking, heartfelt works. TW for sexual violence of all kinds.

33. Monsters in the Closet: Homosexuality and the Horror Film - Harry M. Benshoff

What I Liked: An amazing resource full of very interesting history and analysis. Bulked up my to-watch list. The section on Vincent Price made my entire life because he’s my hero. What I Didn’t Like: Some of the language got a little too academic and would lose me, but that honestly wasn’t very often. Final thoughts: A must-read for queer horror film lovers, that truly codifies why the genre resonates with us so much. TW discussions of homophobia.

32. Just Like Home - Sarah Gailey

What I Liked: Phenomenal language. Intensely creepy atmosphere. Daphne is an amazing villain. What I Didn’t Like: Vera is kind of bland, and we don’t really learn much about her as an adult. James became kind of a mustache twirling baddie and it wasn’t incredibly believable in a book that had such complex characters up to this point. Final thoughts: A little rough around the edges, but still a refreshing take on the haunted house story.

31. Exit, Stage Left: The Snagglepuss Chronicles - Mark Russell

What I Liked: A surprisingly realistic look into life around this time period, you can tell Russell did a lot of research. As crazy as the concept is, these characters actually do make for compelling reading. What I Didn’t Like: The subplot with the chairwoman of the committee kinda fizzled out and died. Final thoughts: As absolutely ridiculous as it sounds to take classic Hanna-Barbara characters and put them in a gritty historical drama about McCarthy America, it’s just sincere enough to work. TW for homophobia and suicide.

#ranking books 2022 #another day in the death of america #gary younge #not that bad #roxane gay #monsters in the closet #harry m. benshoff #just like home #sarah gailey #exit stage left: the snagglepuss chronicles #mark russell

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ademella · 2 years

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currently reading

#books #summer reading #gun violence #america #another day in the death of america #murder #homicide #gary younge #book cover

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radiance1 · 5 months

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Vlad (Pheonix): Just giving you a heads up, when it becomes known that you are dating me. You will have to fight through my 6 abominable exes, as well as Gary.

Constantine: Why is the 7th one called Gary.

Vlad: Because that is his name...?

Constantine: No, I mean why is he differentiated from the others?

Vlad: Ah. Because Gary is not my ex, he's just Gary.

Constantine: Then why is he-

Vlad: He likes card games, the others are most likely to try and kill you.

Constantine: Noted.

#dc x dp #dp x dc #dpxdc #dcxdp #dp x dc crossover #dc x dp crossover #You may be wondering #“How does Vlad have 6 exes?”#Well you see young whippersnapper #He's lived a while #So he got around #Only managed to bag 6 people his whole life though #Mosly because of his high standards but still #Gary is just.... Gary.#Vlad played card games with him once and suddenly is declared his friend #Like Gary would fistfight someone for him (Which is what happened to the previous 6 exes so he's the big boss)#(Gary has been deprived of someone playing card games with him so he grabbed onto Vlad first chance he got)#(Vlad cannot get rid of him)#(They also gossip together quite frequently and Vlad brings over treats for said gossip over games)

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honeyspawn · 4 months

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Black Friday characters according to my friend who has never seen Black Friday (but has seen tgwdlm)

inspired by this post

#the slurpee incident of '08 #starkid #black friday #tom houston #lex foster #hannah foster #becky barnes #linda monroe #wilbur cross #ethan green #frank pricely #gary goldstein #sherman young #howard goodman #xander lee

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fictionalheroine · 5 months

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The shopping day from hell

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riveramorylunar · 1 year

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God she's so fucking hot!!!!

#Charlize Theron #Lorraine Broughton #Furiosa #Elaine Markinson #Queen Ravenna #Andy #Cipher #Leonora Lesso #Mavis Gary #Atomic Blonde #Mad Max #Gringo #Snow White and The Huntsman #The Old Guard #FastFive #The School For Good And Evil #Young Adult

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inkymkk · 14 days

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I had a vision..

Also this was kinda a redraw.. The first au was actually Gousato..

#gary oak #ash ketchum #palletshipping #pokemon #shigesato #i love gary oak #gary x ash #anipoke #pokeani #gary pokemon #pokemon mlb au #i love miraculous ladybug au's #theyre so FUN #also catnoir fits Gary shokingly well #a flirty teasy young and handsome boy whos actually sweet?#woah!!!#miraculous ladybug #i might be crazy about this au for a little while #it fits way to well i dont like it /j

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probablyasocialecologist · 1 year

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Britain struggles to see itself as so many others see it. It has studiously eschewed an honest, accurate reckoning with what it has done, where it has been, and what that means for what it is and where we are. Indeed our determined avoidance of this history tells us almost as much about who we are as the history itself. “The essential characteristic of a nation is that all its individuals must have many things in common,” wrote the 19th-century French scholar Ernest Renan. “And must have forgotten many things as well.”

But is this really mere forgetfulness? Or something more deliberate? This is not the accidental, absent-minded misplacement of a fact. The transatlantic trade in human beings for profit doesn’t slip one’s mind, momentarily, like an elusive name or date. A nation does not forget centuries of slavery as a person might forget an umbrella. The nation sets about the task with great prejudice. After all, there are a good many things that predated this particular racial journey, from 1066 to the Wars of the Roses, that we do remember well.

Even the British empire – for all that its history has been contested and concealed – is far more visible in our cultural memory than slavery. The late Black British novelist Andrea Levy, whose most celebrated work, Small Island, is an exploration of the lived experience of empire during the second world war, once told me that she had avoided writing about slavery for most of her career, largely because she feared she would not find an audience.

“I want my books to be read,” she said, “but people don’t want to engage with [slavery]. There are lots who do – but there are many who will say that it was a very long time ago, and a lot who just don’t want you to mention it because it will make them feel bad. It’s painful, both for Black and white people. But it’s 300 years. You can’t just ignore it.” (Her final novel, The Long Song, was set on a plantation in Jamaica.)

As Levy intimated, it is not that we cannot “remember” slavery, or even Britain’s role. We are not so deluded as to believe it didn’t happen. The recollection does not elude us any more than the corpse of a victim eludes the murderer. It’s just that we would also like to bury it and hope it is never found, while we work on our alibi.

The principal issue here is not facts or a lack of knowledge. The most salient facts about slavery and colonialism are not seriously in dispute. What we conventionally call “forgetting”, or even “amnesia”, is really nothing of the sort. Nations are not individuals; they do not suffer from memory loss as they age. This is not a medical condition, but a political one: the wilful and selective process of sifting and filtering to find the memories that fit the narrative you are committed to, and excising, negating and delegitimising those that contradict it.

This is how nations construct their own histories. They are made more than they are “remembered”.

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Today people will say “we won the war”, even if they didn’t fight and even if they weren’t born. They will say “we won the World Cup”, even if they didn’t play or weren’t born. Nobody takes the “we” literally. It signifies a collective identity that can span centuries and experiences. But when you mention slavery or colonialism, the same people will say: “I am not responsible. I wasn’t alive. I wasn’t there.” The collective, historical British identity that people would otherwise embody in moments of victory and national pride becomes suddenly and urgently estranged and elusive when it comes to less flattering periods in our history. This contradiction is clearly unsustainable.

#british empire #history #colonialism #slavery #gary younge

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averycanadianfilm · 1 year

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#Gary Younge #BLM #Black Lives Matter #UK Racism #British Racism

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onebluebookworm · 2 years

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July 2022 Book Club Picks

The Tale of Despereaux by Kate DiCamillo: This is a story about a mouse, one Despereaux Tilling, in love with music, stories, and a beautiful, kindly princess. This is also a story about a rat, one Roscuro, a loathed, wicked creature who was born in the darkness, but craves light more than anything, and is willing to do anything to get it. It’s also the story of a serving girl, one Miggory Sow, clumsy, slow, and with an impossible dream. These three characters are about to embark on a journey that will lead them down into a horrible dungeon, up into a glittering castle, and, ultimately, into each other's lives. What happens then? As Kate DiCamillo would say: Reader, it is your destiny to find out.

Sir Philip’s Folly by Marion Chesney: Arabella Carruthers is beautiful and intelligent, a prize for any man to whisk away during London’s famed Season. There’s only one problem - Arabella’s incredibly vain and recently widowed mother, who is intent on snatching a new husband for herself, forcing Arabella to masquerade as a child to make herself appear younger. But when the Carruthers decide to patronize the famed Poor Relation, Arabella meets the curious staff of the hotel, who are dealing with a problem of their own - Mrs. Mary Budge, vulgar, lazy, and the latest paramour of Sir Philip Somerville. Banding together with Arabella and the handsome Lord Denby, the staff rally to not only rid themselves of the odious Mrs. Budge and teach Sir Philip a lesson, but perhaps strike a love match for the sweet and friendly Arabella in the process.

Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by Gary Younge: November 23, 2013 - an ordinary late autumn day in the United States of America. On this ordinary day, ten children - ages 9 to 19, spanning race, location, and socioeconomic backgrounds - are shot dead. Hour by hour, they fall at sleepovers, in hallways, on the streets, even on their own doorsteps. Some of the cases are highly publicized. Others barely warrant a mention in the local paper. But each case happened, just like they happen an average of seven times a day in the USA. This isn’t a book about gun control. This book doesn’t set out to answer why these shootings happened. It instead is an attempt to put a face on the human collateral damage that the USA’s rampant gun culture has wrought.

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry: Meet the Younger family, a black family living in Chicago. The Youngers dream of a better life - a better paying job for a eldest son Walter, a proper home for matriarch Lena, a future for younger daughter Beneatha. And that dream seems to be becoming reality when Lena’s late husband’s life insurance money finally arrives, and she puts a down payment on a new house in an all-white neighborhood. But Walter’s shortsightedness, along with the prejudices of the world around them, threaten to tear down the family’s dreams before they can even begin to realize them.

The Way of the Househusband by Kouske Oono: Once, he was the Immortal Dragon, the most feared Yakuza Japan had ever seen. Now, he’s Tatsu, loving househusband. But old habits die hard, and as he navigates the world of culinary arts, homemaking, neighborhood associations, and community activism, Tatsu’s old life keeps cropping up in unexpected ways...and it’s not always necessarily a bad thing.

#book club #july 2022 #the tale of despereaux #kate dicamillo #sir philip's folly #marion chesney #another day in the death of america #gary younge #a raisin in the sun #lorraine hansberry #the way of the house husband #kouske oono

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bellytheaxolotl · 2 days

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