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How 4chan’s toxic culture helped radicalize Buffalo shooting suspect
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Just weeks after 4chan motivated a quadruple shooting in Washington, the racist and conspiracy-oriented online message board probably inspired the killings of 10 at a grocery store in a predominantly Black neighborhoo...
Alleged racial abuse from Super Rugby crowd overshadows upcoming Culture Round
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Wellington Hurricanes loose forward Du’Plessis Kirifi complained of alleged racial abuse from the crowd at Sydney’s Leichhardt Oval during Saturday’s Super Rugby clash against the New South Wales Waratahs. The 25-year...
These destructive, vindictive civil service cuts are part of Johnson’s culture wars
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The vast majority of the UK’s 475,000-odd civil servants are sick of political psychodrama, and don’t care exactly when Boris Johnson decides to scuttle off into the gilded obscurity of the panel comedy shows, neolibe...
Een om na te kyk: Ethel Cain
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Hayden Anhedönia’s Ethel Cain alter ego came about as an escape from a particularly tortured teenhood. Raised in a strict and oppressive Southern Baptist community in Florida, and then at 16 coming out as gay, and lat...
Cancel culture? My play was shut down by rightwing activists before it even opened
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I am the producer and co-creator of a piece of theatre that was cancelled before it had even been seen. It started like this: a group of people online began to call for the show to be shut down. It gained some tractio...
Corporate America buckles down for culture war on Roe v Wade
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After a supreme court decision that overturns Roe v Wade was leaked and signaled the impending end of federal constitutional protection for abortions, a trickle of companies have slowly started to announce policies th...
Een om na te kyk: Deyaz
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There aren’t many successful new groups these days. Just one of this year’s 40 bestselling albums is by a band formed in the past decade: rap collective D-Block Europe’s Home Alone 2. Perhaps we don’t need bands any m...
Eta Aquariids meteor shower 2022: how and when to watch it in Australia
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Star gazers across Australia are in for a treat in the early hours of Saturday with the Eta Aquariid – one of the best meteor showers in the southern hemisphere – due to optimal viewing conditions. Named after Eta Aq...