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In the face of an unprecedented rise in social isolation due to the coronavirus crisis, millennials and Gen Z'ers have come up with innovative solutions to help stave off loneliness. Will it be enough?
It is perfectly feasible to provide resources that help reduce the loneliness of those suffering from opioid addiction while respecting social distancing mandates. The solution lies in expanding empirically proven harm reduction strategies that ensure that all individuals who use drugs do so safely and responsibly.
Institutional racism poses a serious danger to the health and safety of Black people. But the crowded and chaotic character of these protests poses a similarly lethal threat to the lives of immunosuppressed Americans.
A Harvard Open Data Project offers compelling evidence that BLM protests decrease police violence against Black individuals as well as the population at large.
The capitalist state harms human life, brutalizes communities, and reinforces oppressive hierarchies — forms of violence that make property damage pale in comparison.
Combating systemic racism appears to boil down to a couple taps of the thumb: Instagramming a black square or re-Tweeting a Malcolm X quote. As companies that profit directly from White supremacy hide behind posting vague platitudes lamenting racism, social media activity threatens to conceal true attitudes and inaction under the impression of engagement.
In a distinctly ironic and deeply tragic parallelism, despotic regimes are instrumentalising George Floyd’s death to hold a mirror to a Janus-faced America – an America whose avowed principles of justice and liberty have fallen afoul of their victims both abroad and at home.
