Tag: privilege
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Privilege: Many Jill Stein Voters Have It, and Many Hillary Clinton Voters Do, Too
As an outspoken supporter of Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein, I often get questions akin to the one Stein was asked at the Green Town Hall on August 17: “Given the way our political system works, effectively you could help Donald Trump like Ralph Nader helped George Bush in…
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The 34justice Political Tool: Ethics, Truth, and a Case Study of Michael Brown and Ferguson
Seating arrangements during the French Revolution gave us the Left-Right political spectrum. During the first National Assembly in 1789, the king’s supporters sat on the right and proponents of revolution on the left. In contemporary American politics, we often consider liberals, who “believe in government action to achieve equal opportunity…
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Financial Incentives and Social Good: Dan Pallotta’s Faulty Assumptions
At the suggestion of WOVIN founder Darius Golkar, I recently watched Dan Pallotta’s TED Talk on the nonprofit sector. Golkar recommended this video to me when I asked him why WOVIN donates only 50% of its profits to charitable causes. Golkar founded WOVIN because clothes we donate to Goodwill, The…
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