Posts Tagged ‘disparate impact’

Tim Wise at Indiana University School of Law: Racism and the Law: The Inadequacy of Color-Blind Jurisprudence

April 27, 2016, filed under Audio & Video; No Comments.
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My February 2015 presentation at Indiana University School of Law, in which I discuss race, racism, and the inadequacy of modern “color-blind” jurisprudence when it comes to addressing institutional racial bias and discrimination. This is one of two presentations at IU during that Feb. visit, the second of which (to the larger campus and community) […]

Sadism With a Smirk: Conservatism, Ex-Offenders, and the Lust for Vengeance

June 15, 2013, filed under Essay Archive; No Comments.
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After careful consideration, it’s hard not to conclude that at some level, ultra-conservatives are simply sadists with better P.R. Why else, after all, would anyone endorse the kinds of cold-hearted, impractical — even socially destructive — policies idealized by such persons, unless they were simply nursing a cruelty jones, concerned solely with inflicting pain for […]