Analysis of the latest ISIS video you haven’t seen anywhere else in the media. They only showed the scary parts at the end — that’s exactly what ISIS wanted. This sheds an entirely new perspective. Incredible.
12 Years a Slave’s Reminder: Slaves Didn’t Win Freedom by Being Manly
12 Years a Slave though, doesn’t present masculinity as a solution to slavery, and as a result it’s able to think about and care about women as people rather than as accessories or MacGuffins.
The Ideas Behind the March
The stereotype of the day held that a large gathering of determined black marchers would inevitably turn violent and unruly. But the whole point of this philosophy is that you defeat your opponents with superior self-discipline. These days, protesters from the Tea Party to Occupy Wall Street like to be fully demonstrative, expressing their rage or whatever. But the early-1960s civil rights tactics demanded relentless self-control, the ability to step into fear without ever striking out, to remain calm and deliberate in extreme circumstances, to exercise emotional discipline.