{"id":35636,"date":"2019-02-16T17:27:34","date_gmt":"2019-02-17T01:27:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=35636"},"modified":"2019-02-16T17:27:34","modified_gmt":"2019-02-17T01:27:34","slug":"everyday-erinyes-157","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2019\/02\/16\/everyday-erinyes-157\/","title":{"rendered":"Everyday Erinyes #157"},"content":{"rendered":"

Experts in autocracies have pointed out that it is, unfortunately, easy to slip into normalizing the tyrant, hence it is important to hang on to outrage. These incidents which seem to call for the efforts of the Greek Furies (Erinyes) to come and deal with them will, I hope, help with that. As a reminder, though no one really knows how many there were supposed to be, the three names we have are Alecto<\/span><\/strong>, Megaera<\/span><\/strong>, and Tisiphone<\/span><\/strong>. These roughly translate as “unceasing,” “grudging,” and “vengeful destruction.”<\/p>\n

It’s still Black History Month. Going on the theory that Black History Month should help people learn, not just about Black History, but also about aspects of white racism which may well never have occurred to them. Now, I could write about this until the cows come home, but I’m just a white broad. I would rather let people of color speak for themselves. So I’ve looked up a bunch of videos, four of which I’m embedding, and the rest linking to. None of them is over five minutes, and most considerably less, so I could embed more without monopolizing your day (or month). But I figure that, if I link some instead, the sidebars on the YouTube sites may lead you to other videos which, depending on your own experiences, may turn out to be even more educational. Sneaky, amirite?\"\"<\/p>\n

I’ll start with this video on things white people do and say without (probably) intending to be racist in the least, but which need to stop. (At least one also needs to stop for disabled people, but that’s another story.)
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