What do you call a Jewish Uber driver in Texas who takes women to clinics, 
because an upstander accepts danger and difficulty?

An Uber-mensch.


> On Sep 18, 2021, at 2:20 AM, Steve Smith <sasm...@swcp.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> More mob justice:
>> 
>> US rightwing group targets academics with Professor Watchlist 
>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fwww.theguardian.com%2feducation%2f2021%2fsep%2f17%2fturning-point-usa-professor-watchlist&c=E,1,miq5rO3fImgOymXC9vDCVrtvmJneWtPFoCQS6bYK6nwxon3gkbrfCOHTq0XiRE3Sy5KnnET1iXU4J7WNGpDFt8YeKyCIMJxIojA4qr73rYk44TPWbop9bZs,&typo=1
> 
> Just now reading a biography of Thoreau and learning a little more about
> the Transcendentalists and Utopians of that stripe makes me realize that
> this was also the era of Abolitionism and the Fugitive Slave Law which
> makes the TX Abortion shenanigans seem very tame.  Discussions about
> abolitionism often started with absurdisms such as trying to decide
> *when* it was OK to "own another human being" without the inverted
> perspective of "when is it ok, as a human being, to be owned"?
> 
> I chatted with a good friend this week, in CA after Newsom was absolved
> (or more to the point, Elder was rejected?) and he used the phrase "now
> that Texas has legalized hunting women from helicopters" and I nearly
> fell into NST's famed "Giggles" over the dark twistedness of it all (not
> to mention the oblique Palin reference).
> 
> I share Glen's multi-valence about being on the list being a badge of
> honor, yet also having real consequences.   I haven't seen any stories
> coming out of TX yet where individuals (say an Uber driver) have
> deliberately provoked an Anti-Choicer by say... claiming on social media
> that he/she had just driven a woman to an abortion clinic and asking 
> them to "bring it on".   Can only ONE person bring a lawsuit per
> incident?  What is the modern day Gibson/Sterling/Stephenson equivalent
> of Ambulance-Chasers???   Uber-stalkers I suppose?
> 
>> 
>> And because the Guardian doesn't seem to link directly to it:
>> https://linkprotect.cudasvc.com/url?a=https%3a%2f%2fprofessorwatchlist.org%2f&c=E,1,CN6uubvqiBZOZ48aFda2mtxMvH1uuHSpCH9dYyz3owF4ICWAQ-X9M8K83QrzyxLvSoGP_tAFEWYpVspowq-BeNJuKIAEivs5yjzmvdMHAg,,&typo=1
>> 
>> Is this different from doxxing nazis? It would be a badge of honor to be on 
>> that list, I think. But their violence isn't merely implied.
>> 
>> On 9/16/21 6:09 AM, Roger Critchlow wrote:
>>> The Chronicle of Higher Education noticed that there have been two massive 
>>> cancellation protests against fraternities where sexual assaults were 
>>> reported in the past few months, in Kansas and Nebraska.  Is group 
>>> cancellation better/worse than individual cancellation?   Are students at 
>>> Kansas and Nebraska really liberal lynch mobs out to destroy the glorious 
>>> traditions of greek life?
>>> 
>>> https://www.chronicle.com/article/at-kansas-another-confrontational-protest-against-greek-life
>>>  
>>> <https://www.chronicle.com/article/at-kansas-another-confrontational-protest-against-greek-life>
>>> 
>>> They also incidentally brought up recent research on trigger warnings, a 
>>> crowd sourced clinical intervention for PTSD dating to the 1970's and a 
>>> long time tough-guy bug-a-boo.  
>>> 
>>> https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-data-is-in-trigger-warnings-dont-work 
>>> <https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-data-is-in-trigger-warnings-dont-work>
>> 
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