Meanwhile, at the Royal Society ...The Royal Society is reconsidering whether to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship after the billionaire made an inflammatory speech at an anti-immigration rally in London
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Meanwhile, at the Royal Society ...
The Royal Society is reconsidering whether to revoke Elon Musk’s fellowship after the billionaire made an inflammatory speech at an anti-immigration rally in London.
On 14 September, Musk spoke at the rally initiated by far-right campaigner Tommy Robinson, dialling in on video to tell thousands of attendees that “violence is coming to you” and “you either fight back or you die”.
Having previously resisted calls to kick Musk out of the Royal Society, its president Adrian Smith has now written to fellows to say its governing council will discuss the matter at a meeting on 1 October.
In the letter, seen by Research Professional News, Smith says he was sure many fellows “will share my concern at the events of the last week and the growing tendency to resort to the language of violence in pursuit of political programmes that are founded upon narratives of division and simplistic stereotypes of political opponents—including, unfortunately, an address to the recent London rally from a fellow of the Royal Society”.
Smith adds that, in his lifetime, core values of “tolerance, courtesy, respect for others, and freedom of speech” have been taken for granted. “It is no accident that human understanding and science have also flourished to an extraordinary extent in this period. Threats to these values are now real.”
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@bkuhn I went to elementary school in Texas and I think it was just called "The Civil War". Maybe just the schools I went to!
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@evan Yeah, I agree. My impression growing up (again, very Maryland- (maybe Baltimore)-specific) was that "War Between the States" was a shibboleth to communicate that you're the kind of person who would *RATHER* be saying "The War of Northern Aggression", but know that's not socially acceptable anymore.
IOW, "the War Between the States" was my childhood's "All Lives Matter".
Great point re: pre-war political units, I'll respond more fully on that because I too think that's fascinating.
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@bkuhn Maybe a better name that would better describe the cause and the illegitimacy of one side would be "The Slaveholders' Rebellion".
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@bkuhn I think the biggest strike against it is that it was a term used during Jim Crow in the South, and so it's tainted with that association.
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@bkuhn I also don't think "The War Between the States" covers up the cause of the war, slavery, more than "The Civil War".
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@bkuhn it's interesting that this is the term. I actually think there's some merit to calling it "The War Between the States". I can't think of another "civil war" where the belligerents were divided on pre-war subnational units. The English Civil War, Spanish Civil War, Chinese Civil War and Russian Civil War were all between political factions, sometimes more than two, intermingled throughout the country. Association with a particular territory was mostly temporary based on military conquest.
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Lettera esclusiva di due mogli di cittadini italiani imprigionati in Venezuela. Come Trentini
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@mlinksva that's the one!
