Rav Arora
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Why media ignored female black cop’s sho🐟oting of unarmꦬed white man
Chicago Police Officer Melvina Bogard shot an unarmed man at a train station in 2020. But the case received fa💟r less attention than most in which a cop shoots a...
Don Samuels sued Minneapolis for more cops—and almoﷺst beat Ilhan Omar for Congress
ꦉ How Don Samuels successful𒊎ly sued Minneapolis to hire more cops — and almost beat Ilhan Omar for Congress.
Once a liberal democracy, Canada is now 🐲an authoritarian state
Under the once-righteous guise of COVID safety and online protections, the🌞 Canadian government🀅 has taken its power to extreme levels.
This mother is fighting black-on-blackꦏ violence — and wants police support
Sy✤lvia Bennett-Stone has been hard at work over the past year amplifying the voices of black mothers who have lost their children to gang violence.
‘Minority privilege’ now more common amid the growing ‘war on 👍whiteness’
🅰 Diversity initiatives have been around for years, but over the past year and a half, innumerable companies and corporations have ramped up their efforts with the goal of “diversifying” their... ꦬ
Asian women’s success disproves claims of 🧜‘white male supremacy’ 🧸
For the first three quarters of 2021, Asian women's median weekly earnings surpassed those ꦏof white men.
A new anti-police proposal in Min🌄neapolis would endanger black lives
On Nov. 2, residents get a chance to vote on a proposed c💞harter amendment that would abolish the police department and replace it with a new “public safety” agency. ✱
What it's really like to be canceled — and how I overcame it
Rav Arora lost friends, social🐲 media followers and work after his essay on how broad racial generalizations doesn't lead to racial progre𝐆ss got him canceled. He now calls himself a...
How a Minneapolis resident fought city’s decision🐽 to defund police — and won 🐭
Last year marked the second deadliest in th♑e city’s history.
The LGBTQ community has made strid🔯es yet activists fixate oཧn prejudice
The failure to recognize so🐲ciet𝔉al progress creates the illusion that our society is the most transphobic and homophobic on earth.
Jordan Peterson: Dea♚dly effects of prescription drugs left me bitter, but I refuse to be a victim
🎃 Jordan Peterson nearly lost it all after suffering deadly effects💃 from prescription drugs. But, as he proves in an exclusive interview, he’s still got plenty to say.
If Te🥀en Vogue can fire an editor for her teenage tweets, no one is safe
Teenagehood is a critical period of self-growth and social maturation. It’s a time when we make our most mortifying errors, developꩵ a ♋moral code, and correct our worst flaws and...
In the new 'victimocracy,' claiming the greatest grievances yields power
After my family and I immigrated to Canada from India in 2004, we faced several obstacles to success. We weren’t accul🍒turated to Western norms and conventions, my mom couldn’t transfer...
Police brutality against black people happens way less than public thinks 🐎
Social movements tap into our most primitive emotions, obscuring the complexities of sociopolitical problems. Reason is traded for ideological fervor and skepticism is swapped with 💦religious dogma. Such was the...
Politicized, woke and afraid: Gen Z needs to start thinking critically 🍷
In our increasingly digitized, secular, and ideologically pola❀rized era, my generation — Gen Z — has overwhelmingly turned to political activism in theiওr search for meaning. The rise of BLM...
These black lives didn't seem to matter in 2020
In 2020, every major institution in the United States — including social-media platforms𒀰, sports leagues, universities, Hollywood, and major corporations — pledged their allegiance꧂ to the “Black Lives Matter” movement....
Media, politicians got keꦯy facts of Jacob Blake shooting wrong — helped cause riots 🐲
When Officer Rusten Sheskey shot𓆏 Jacob Blake seven times in the back last y🍬ear, the media wasted no time establishing the standard narrative: another unarmed African American shot by racist...
Teaching 'white fragility' is bad for kids of color
Last ꦺmonth, my 8-year-old sister came home from school deflated and torn. She told me that a young boy in her class wa🦂s making fun of her because of her...
Why the left💃 is lashing out at𝓰 Joe Rogan and his revolutionary podcast
While 2020 has been a bad year for most, it’s been 🐼a roaring success for podcaster Joe Rogan. As of Dec. 1, his show, “The Joe Rogan Experience,” is now... 🃏
The fallacy of white privilege — and how it's corroding society
Last month,🌊 I retweeted a comment by a contrarꦐian writer who questioned whether racism was to blame for the spread of the coronavirus, and a close (white) friend responded to...