Trump Rebukes White Supremacists After Weekend Violence: Here’s What We’re Reading
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Here’s what we’re reading today.
1. Bowing to pressure, Trump rebukes white supremacists in Charlottesville
“President Donald Trump bowed on Monday to overwhelming pressure that he personally condemn white supremacists who incited bloody demonstrations in Charlottesville, Va., over the weekend, labeling their racists views “evil” after two days of equivocal statements.
“‘Racism is evil,’ said Mr. Trump, delivering a statement from the White House at a hastily arranged appearance meant to halt the growing political threat posed by the situation. “And those who cause violence in its name are criminals and thugs, including the K.K.K., neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other hate groups that are repugnant to everything we hold dear as Americans.'”
+1: Unite the Right, the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, explained – Vox
+1: “Every German school child must visit a concentration camp; as essential a part of the curriculum as learning to write or count.” What zero tolerance really looks like – The Economist
2. Nova Scotia ‘one of the worst places’ in Canada to get an abortion, advocates say
“Advocates say Nova Scotia is now one of the most difficult provinces in the country in which to access abortion, with women requiring a referral for a surgical abortion, lengthy wait times for the time-sensitive procedure and no provincial coverage for medical abortions using pills.
“The province also has no private or free-standing abortion clinics located outside of a hospital. Halifax’s Morgentaler clinic, where women had to pay out-of-pocket, closed in 2003.”
3. The alt-right’s rebranding effort has failed
“The paradox of the alt-right in this moment is that just when it had seemed to achieve political legitimacy beyond its wildest dreams, it has also shown it can’t figure out how to bring itself out of the darkest corners of political thought. Some ideas are considered beyond the pale for a reason. Members of the alt-right and people sporting Nazi symbols attend rallies together for a reason.”
+1: Ezra Levant’s Rebel Media distances itself from the Alt-Right – Rebel Media
+1: No, Anonymous did not hack The Daily Stormer – The Outline
4. Is mindfulness meditation a capitalist tool or a path to enlightenment? Yes.
“When companies like Goldman Sachs start offering free meditation training to employees, and salesforce.com puts a meditation room on each floor of a San Francisco office building, it’s a safe bet that heightened appreciation of Buddhist metaphysics isn’t the goal. In fact, mindfulness meditation is often packaged in frankly therapeutic terms: ‘mindfulness-based stress reduction.'”
– Wired
+1: Why we fell for clean eating – The Guardian
5. Julian Assange, a man without a country
“From his tiny sanctum in London, the founder of WikiLeaks has interfered with the world’s most powerful institutions.”
