Journalist – Historian – Speaker
Friends, we’ve been hacked. Giggling GOP student groups have hacked the free speech pieties of my generation. It’s murky ahead. But recognize we’ve been hacked. — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) March 7, 2017 In the ensuing debates about platforms and protests, which will be extremely complex and often uncomfortable, forcing us to choose between abstract …
Berkeley is claiming that they have to remove a lot of online videos because captioning them all would be too expensive. To which I say: Please build accessibility into everything you do. Deaf people, in fact, have the right to learn. And please don’t blame disabled people when your lack of foresight means you’re in …
Below you will find a letter from the president of Middlebury on the recent protests around the presence of Charles Murray. My basic take is that giggling GOP student groups have hacked the free-speech pieties of my generation. Those pieties were based on a pre-internet information culture, and perhaps still hold true, but they should …
The dad of an autistic man founded a carwash for his son to work at, and has employed lots of other autistic people. NBC did a feature in their “Inspiring America” series. No autistic person is quoted in the story. Instead, we get this: The repetition involved in the work is actually perfect for those …
Every week, at least one person with disabilities is murdered by their caregivers. Working with a small team, including – The Ruderman Foundation, researcher Kathleen Seidel, Vilissa Thompson, Timotheus Gordon Jr., and Zoe Gross with Autistic Self Advocacy Network – I led a study of 5 years of media coverage of the murder of disabled …
Later today the Ruderman Foundation will publish a white paper on media coverage of the killing of people with disabilities by their parents and other caregivers. I read hundreds of articles and analyzed the ways in which they too often exacerbate stigma, even as a disabled person lies slain. The document consists of my media …
I’m not okay with #disability hate being confused with #science https://t.co/fgVSHyi3WC @Lollardfish @stevesilberman @RoseUnwin — Louise Kinross (@LouiseKinross) February 28, 2017 Thanks to Louise for alerting me to the Journal of Practical Ethics doing a glossy Q&A with Peter Singer. Singer is a bigot. Philosophy embraces him as a titan of the field, letting his ableism …
PLEASE RT: Go to @RegulationsGov to tell @usedgov & @BetsyDeVosED to keep collecting CIVIL RIGHTS DATA. By 2/28.https://t.co/gyjqdUIkMp pic.twitter.com/QQ3aezkbt7 — David M. Perry (@Lollardfish) February 26, 2017 The U.S. Department of Education collects and publicizes vitally important data on civil rights in U.S. Schools. It fuels both policy and journalism. Without good data, we can’t …
Americans have always been willing to put on uniforms and perform unspeakable acts. The Trail of Tears, those who hunted down slaves, internment, participation in lynching, ignoring lynching, policing minority communities, etc. Americans have always been willing. Hannah Arendt’s “banality of evil” is a useful way to consider these acts of evil, but we can’t …
Columnists keep wanting to distance us moderns from Trump, but he’s as modern as it gets. GUEST POST by Eric Weiskott In an interview for The Guardian last week, philosopher Daniel Dennett was asked whether “deep thinking” is what’s needed in the current political climate. He responded: Yes. From everybody. The real danger that’s facing us …