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"The Cancellation of Socrates,"
Jacques Louis David (1787)
If Socrates was out philosophizing in American society today, he would be cancelled real quick
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He WAS cancelled, actually. Albeit in a more severe way than being slammed on Twitter.
Socrates was put on trial for "corrupting Athenian youth", and after a guilty verdict, willingly drank poison and died.
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Friends have to be honest with friends. True allies of the Palestinian people are not those who shout the most “radical” slogans in NY or London but those who speak the truth bluntly: not having a vision for Israeli Jews has for long doomed the Palestinian national movement. – at Manhattan, NY
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European Expressionist painter Marianne von Werefkin, Police Post, Wilna, 1914 #womensart
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While the SNP rattle their sabres over independence, this is the scene outside a soup kitchen in Glasgow.
The SNP has failed the people of Scotland and have no desire to take the radical action that we need to eradicate poverty and inequality in Scotland.
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My Saturday @TheScotsman column: stop the witch-hunt against women for the *crime* of speaking out about being a woman scotsman.com/news/opinion/co…
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When you get a minute. Not showing off but please have a read bigissue.com/culture/music/d…
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How to combat transphobia in 5 easy steps:
1) Find someone saying sex is binary.
2) Google “why sex is not binary”
3) Locate key words such as: “Stop using phony science to justify transphobia.”
4) Send the transphobe the SciAm blog article.
5) Feel good about yourself.
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Anyone (like me) hearing @Andybebop’s album for the first time? Anyone (like me) knocked sideways as to how ace it is??
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Anyone (like me) hearing @Andybebop’s album for the first time? Anyone (like me) knocked sideways as to how ace it is??
