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From Gamergate to “Ghostbusters” to Suicide Squad: The Problem of Fan Entitlement

Aug 9, 2016 | Animals and Animal Rights, Gender and Sexism, Internet Culture, mic, Millennials, Race and Racism

Published: Salon (August 9, 2016)

It’s easy to roll your eyes at the “Suicide Squad” petition. In case you’ve been lucky enough to miss the news, fans of the new movie “Suicide Squad” have created an online movement to shut down aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes for posting predominantly negative reviews of their beloved film.... Read Original Article

The sneaky politics of “Suicide Squad”

Aug 5, 2016 | Arts and Entertainment, Criminal Justice/Prison-Industrial Complex, mic

Published: Salon (August 5, 2016)

[Note: The end of this essay contains spoilers for the ending of “Suicide Squad.”] 

If the critics at RottenTomatoes are to be believed, Suicide Squad is a terrible movie with “a muddled plot, thinly written characters, and choppy directing.” (Salon’s ownAndrew O’Hehir calls it “profoundly second-rate … at every level of conception and execution.”)
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The troubling and counterproductive trend of liberals policing free speech: We cannot silence those we disagree with

Aug 5, 2016 | Civil Liberties, mic, Millennials

Published: Salon (August 5, 2016)

co-authored with Mark Schierbecker

When Donald Trump was asked last November to give his opinion on the student-led protests at the University of Missouri, he called them “disgusting,” adding to Fox Business News that “I think the two people that resigned are weak, ineffective people.

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The biggest danger of a Trump victory in November is not a Trump presidency; it’s what comes next

Aug 5, 2016 | Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), History, mic

Published: Fusion (August 5, 2016)

When Rep. Richard Hanna became the first sitting Republican congressman to endorse Hillary Clinton instead of Donald Trump, he observed that his party had “largely alienated women, Hispanics, the LGBT community, young voters and many others in general.” While this comment wasn’t the focus of his editorial, it spoke to a larger truth about the significance of this presidential election.... Read Original Article

Jill Stein and Donald Trump are both linked to a dangerous anti-vaccine myth that just won’t die

Aug 3, 2016 | Asperger's Syndrome, Conspiracy Theories, Elections, Elections - Presidential (2016), mic, Science and Technology

Published: Quartz (August 3, 2016)

Green Party candidate Jill Stein likes to present herself as a pro-science, more idealistic alternative to Hillary Clinton. Stein has so far managed to stay out of the media maelstrom, but a series of troubling comments are making headlines for all the wrong reasons. One of Stein’s most problematic opinions resurfaced this week when her campaign deleted a tweet in which she claimed there is “no evidence that autism is caused by vaccines.”... Read Original Article