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rhube: How media clearly reflects the sexism and the racism we cannot see in ourselves. sophiamcdougall: carnivaloftherandom: saathi1013: bana05: letthetruthlaugh-blog: I wanted my first-year film students to understand what happens to a story when actual human beings inhabit your characters, and the way they can inspire storytelling. And I wanted to teach them how to…
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unionmetrics: austinkleon: Ways of Seeing Instagram Isn’t it striking that the most-typical and most-maligned genres of Instagram imagery happen to correspond to the primary genres of Western secular art? All that #foodporn is still-life; all those #selfies, self-portraits. All those vacation vistas are #landscape; art-historically speaking, #beachday pics evoke the hoariest cliché of middle-class leisure…
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We can debate about the details. Should civilian blue-collar workers be able to support their families on a single income so that one parent can stay home with the kids? Is it right to raise taxes if you want public school classrooms with 15 kids per teacher instead of 30? Regardless of where you come…
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do you know how the whole thing with 4chan started? I’m still rather confused
rhube: yakfrost: It’s a big misconception that “most of Tumblr brought this on themselves!! wahhhh” What really happened is this – /pol/, the politics section of 4chan, posted a fake 4chan raid on /b/, the random section of 4chan, which was this /pol/ was basically trolling /b/, and in fact /pol/ actually despises tumblr politics,…