5LL #236 - Racial Capitalism, Gay Liberation, Engineers, Identity, Self-Defense

A Framework to Help Us Understand the World
Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò, Hammer & Hope
Out of a common history emerged racism, capitalism, and the whole world. This offers us a clue on how to change it.
Gay Liberation Failed
Scott Branson, The Baffler
Fundamental to the banishing from what Hocquenghem called the “republic of sex” is an underlying concept of individuality, property, and control that plays out in the figure of the child.
The Engineer’s Predicament
Ben Tarnoff, The Drift
It might surprise you to learn that a non-negligible number of the people who write software for a living are socialists.
Identity Politics vs. Identity Office Politics
Adam Kotsko, Itself
The shift from real identity politics to neoliberal identity office politics is a shift from a complex lived reality to a counter in a game, which exists primarily to avoid lawsuits.
Who Is Allowed to Defend Themselves?
Sohum Pal, Lux
A new history shows the elite origins of self-defense.
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