"If the case is not put on hold, 'InfoWars will have been acquired by its ideological nemesis and destroyed,' Jones' lawyers wrote."

I'm reading "Alex Jones asks Supreme Court to block massive defamation judgment/Jones says the court must act immediately to prevent his site, InfoWars, where he has spread conspiracy theories, from being handed over to the satirical news site The Onion" (NBC News).

Didn't Jones successfully fend off The Onion already? "The Onion failed in a previous attempt to acquire InfoWars via a bankruptcy auction, but Jones' lawyer said a new attempt is underway in Texas state court."

Side question #1: Is it "underway" or "under way"? Here's a column on that highly refined subject:

"This is my home!"/"I had a home in Palestine too."

I'm watching the video at "'Please leave!' A Jewish UC Berkeley dean confronts pro-Palestinian activist at his home" (L.A. Times).

The headline says "his home," but it is the home of the law school dean Erwin Chemerinsky and his wife Catherine Fisk, who is a law professor. It is their home, and is Fisk who physically engages with the person the headline calls a "pro-Palestinian activist." The "activist" is a law student, one of a large group of law students who were assembled — outdoors — for a dinner. The activist student — Malak Afaneh — is female, which may explain why it was Fisk who took the lead in attempting to oust the student from the premises. It's a very disturbing video, with the student standing her ground and calmly claiming a First Amendment right, and Fisk staunchly asserting "This is my home." 

 

Management move.

In one of the greatest management moves of all time, Basecamp's CEO persuaded all of his most grindingly annoying employees to resign at once. .https://t.co/BUUhnfU691

— Scott Adams (@ScottAdamsSays) May 1, 2021

ADDED: Madtownguy writes: 

I followed a rabbit trail from the post on Basecamp by way of Scott Adams' tweet. Aside from the NYT article, I found this on Medium. The "Pyramid of Hate" is an infographic promoted by the Anti-Defamation League to show how microaggressions can build a foundation for genocide.

I see some similarities between that diagram and one promoted last year on social media about so-called 'critical thinking.' There's a write-up of materials, including that infographic, here. There used to be a link to the actual document but it's not apparent in my searches, so it may have served its purpose and been memory holed. What struck me about the document is that the first question it asked was "Who does it benefit?" Knowing it was shared by a relative who is strongly partisan, I wondered if the point was to automatically exclude any information that would help the user's political opponents.

Then I found an article that promoted the intersectionality of critical thinking and critical theory. From the article:

"States call for critical thinking embedded within the curriculum, but to what extent does that encompass critical theory elements? Can you integrate critical theory into school curricula without embedding critical thinking? I think not. Critical theory conceptualizations forces one to look outside one’s paradigm and question societal norms and look beyond the veil that has been drawn to see the reality of injustice amongst many that live in our communities, societies, and the world."

I'm amazed that the writer is so willing to question societal norms but apparently unwilling to question her own biases. That's why I see this type of infographic as a tool for propaganda.