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Category: Essays

MLK Is Not Your Magical Negro

In the Kingist myth, MLK was a superhuman; this is more damaging than it sounds.

January 17, 2022January 17, 2022 Christian Coleman Essays

Senators Used to Be Giants. Now They’re Trolls

Senators don’t wear togas anymore. They don’t glide towards the forum clutching six yards of white fabric rimmed in blood-red, but they are inheritors of the Roman legacy. They still […]

January 8, 2022January 11, 2022 Christian Coleman Essays
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Definitive Proof we Aren’t Living in a Matrix

I’ve written before that I believe our existence has a high probability of being a computer simulation, a matrix. I still believe this, in a sense, and I can also […]

December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 Christian Coleman Articles, Essays
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Democrats and Republicans Didn’t Switch Positions on Race

In conventional wisdom, it’s cute and common to say that Democrats and Republicans have switched positions on race. The conventional cuteness says that Democrats were racists until the early 70s […]

December 18, 2021December 21, 2021 Christian Coleman Essays

Was September 11th an Inflection Point? The 5 Different 9/11s: Part 5

We’ve covered many of the ways the events of that day are still impacting us now, but are they enough for it to add up to being an inflection point in human history?

December 11, 2021December 14, 2021 Colter Longshore Essays

The Civil War Was About Slavery. We Brought Receipts.

If the Civil War wasn’t about slavery, somebody should have told the Confederates.

December 7, 2021December 8, 2021 Christian Coleman Essays

This December I’m Celebrating The Matrix

I’ll never recapture the high of watching it for the first time, but this December, I get to go back to the Matrix. All you Reloaded and Revolutions haters can just stay asleep and ignorant in the world The Matrix created.

December 2, 2021November 30, 2021 Christian Coleman Essays

None Dare Call It Racism

Racism is never a popular political strategy in U.S. politics because if it is popular, none dare call it racism.

November 16, 2021November 16, 2021 Christian Coleman Essays

The 5 Different 9/11s Part 4: Holy War

What constitutes a holy war?

November 14, 2021November 16, 2021 Colter Longshore Essays
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3 Obvious Reasons Why The Jedi Order is Nonsense

The Jedi Order as depicted in the Star Wars franchise is an organizational nightmare. It makes less than zero sense. Shall we count the ways?

November 9, 2021November 9, 2021 Christian Coleman Essays

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