Colleen Murphy
Prof. Law, Philosophy & Politics and @wggpIllinois Director @Illinois_Alma| #TransitionalJustice #risk #disasters #ethics
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Grassroots loyalists think this Brexit deal is a sell-out. That’s why tensions are running so high | Henry Patterson
Among working-class Northern Irish unionists there is little support for the plan the DUP was forced to reject
Colleen Murphy
"While Irish nationalists saw Brexit as a fundamental violation of the Good Friday agreement, now the large majority of working-class unionists who voted for Brexit will not be happy with a deal that hives off Northern Ireland from the rest of the UK."
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Study: Racism shortens lives and hurts health of blacks by promoting genes that lead to inflammation and illness
Negative social attitudes, such as racism and discrimination, damage the health of those who are targeted by triggering a cascade of aberrant biological responses, including abnormal gene activity. It is not surprising that reports documenting...
Colleen Murphy
Study: Racism shortens lives and hurts health of blacks by promoting genes that lead to inflammation and illness phys.org/news/2019-10-r… via @physorg_com
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Johnson defeated: It's now a guerrilla war to stop his Brexit deal
Eye-wateringly tight vote stops government in its tracks over Brexit - but tees up brutal battle come in days ahead.
Philosophers' Favorite Twitter Feeds
The 300 feeds followed most in common by philosophers.
Collage of Philosophers' Favorite Twitter Feeds
Avatars of the 300 feeds followed most in common by philosophers.
Unprecedented flooding affects thousands of locals, refugees in South Sudan
Unprecedented heavy flooding in South Sudan’s Maban County has affected nearly 200,000 people, including refugees and host population.
‘We thought each child’s death would change things, but life went on – 50 years of killing children’
Former president Mary McAleese’s powerful speech to launch Children of the Troubles
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‘We thought each child’s death would change things, but life went on – 50 years of killing children’
irishtimes.com/culture/books/… via @IrishTimesBooks
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Never-Before-Seen Trump Tax Documents Show Major Inconsistencies
The president’s businesses made themselves appear more profitable to lenders and less profitable to tax officials. One expert calls the differing numbers “versions of fraud.”
How Myanmar Covered Up Ethnic Cleansing
Officials insist the persecution of Rohingya Muslims never happened. Our correspondent visited Rakhine State and found a different story.
100 years ago today, the British cabinet began work on partitioning Ireland
The Government of Ireland Bill did not try to solve the Irish question, just the Ulster question
Gender Differences in Twitter Use and Influence Among Health Policy and Health Services Researchers
This study describes gender differences in Twitter use and influence among health services researchers who attended AcademyHealth’s 2018 Annual Research Meeting.
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London friends: 3 weeks from today, November 4, I will be in town to discuss "On principled compromises" @Aristotweets.
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How Italians Became ‘White’
Vicious bigotry, reluctant acceptance: an American story.
Breached or protected? The ‘principle’ of consent in Northern Ireland and the UK government’s Brexit proposals
The UK government published a policy paper this week that attempts to counter unionist concerns about the Withdrawal Agreement and its potential impact on Northern Ireland’s place in the Unit…
For black shooting victims, sometimes anger (not forgiveness) is the best response
The pressure for blacks to forgive is tied to racist tropes, history that disregards justice
Colleen Murphy
Highly recommend this by @ProfYolonda on why anger can be an apt moral response to wrongdoing & "The pressure for black people to be esp. forgiving..cannot be disentangled from a racist history that has generally met black demands for justice w/ violence."
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Affirmative Action as Transitional Justice by Yuvraj Joshi :: SSRN
What role does affirmative action play in transitioning toward a more just society? The two literatures best equipped to answer this question — transitional jus
Northern Ireland depends on the EU’s fluid borders for survival
The prospect of a Brexit deal has foundered on the issue of the Northern Ireland border. Duncan Morrow (Ulster University) explains why the delicate relationship between Ireland and its dysfunction…