(ANTIMEDIA) Have you ever stopped to consider that the photos, videos, or memes you’re currently laughing at might have been uploaded to the internet without the consent of the person involved? Have you ever considered how that person would feel, waking up one morning to see themselves plastered all over the internet—not as a hero or celebrity, but as a joke?
Have you considered how you would feel?
Many people remember their parents pulling their thumbs out of their mouths when they were children for fear they’d be made fun of, have a speech impediment, or wind up with buck teeth. There’s even stuff you can buy to put on kids’ fingers to make them taste bitter.
Now, maybe your aversion to thumb-sucking and nail-biting stems from a fear of germs. I get it; I’m a germaphobe, too.
by Gaius PubliusThis is a tale of three videos. As you know, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar wrote an op-ed recently in which he discussed Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Here's part of what he said (my occasional emphasis):
Coach Randy is Randy Nathan, president of Project NextGen and author of Bullying In Sports: A Guide To Identifying The Injuries We Don't See. Randy agreed to write a guest post for us today that gets right down into the roots of what bullying is all about. And he doesn't stop there.The “Garden” State of New Jersey is known for many wonderful things.
Leading management consultants, top government officials and prominent financial journalists are proposing, what they dub, “labor reforms” as the solution for double-digit unemployment and underemployment, economic stagnation and the decline of capital investments.
“Labor Reform” as the Concentration of Power and Profits
First of all, the term “labor reform” is just a euphemism for labor regression, the reversal of laws and practices that workers and employees secured through decades of struggle against employers.
Update: See Karen DeCoster, Back to the Bullying Topic, and Mike Masnick, Rethinking Bullying: Kids Don’t See It As Bullying. From a series of posts on LewRockwell.com a few years back: Toward a Theory of Bullying Posted by Stephan Kinsella on September 30, 2003 11:48 AM Okay, that’s too grandiose a title. But as I […]
