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This week's thoughts

There are several areas of this week’s topics that affected me. The topic concerning online trolling continued to alarm me. Reading the different ways people troll or the effects of online abuse was jarring. The Time article looked at the people who were doing the attacking or those who experienced online abuse, made me consider if punitive actions should be levied online. I am against censorship, per se, but if people are willing to say things behind the wall of the internet screen which could cause harm or incite violence, I believe that people should be held accountable. Some of the trollers featured in the article, it seemed they mostly wanted to be as controversial as possible or were experiencing some sort of personal turmoil. Their lashing out seemed to give them some level of euphoria, or a feeling of superiority, even if it was at the expense of a person they did not know. Everyone does not need to have the same opinions, but if those views lead to harm or incite violence, the way if someone would say that in person may be considered communicating a threat, doing online should have the same consequences.

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MCO335 QUOTE REVIEW

And many occasions, when I am watching the news, I feel that when they discuss people of colour in any sort of negative way, they tend to show the desperate the poor the lower end of society. While I understand that you must show a picture of what may be currently happening. I do not think it's balance when it shows the contributions that people of colour bring to society regards to where they come from. Sometimes it seems that some journalists forget that showing the positive contributions of a minority group would help gain confidence by a broader audience so that they feel represented.

The quote that resonated with me was from Enemy of the Status Quo. Yascha Mounk

The same phenomenon is in the middle of transforming the media landscape. Until a few years ago, a small elite of writers, editors, producers, and news anchors effectively decided what views were mainstream enough to be given a hearing. This may sound sinister, but it served an important purpose. It allowed the journalistic class to contain false claims and to refuse to publish racist articles. It also meant that critics who rejected polite political discourse had trouble breaking in - YASCHA MOUNK



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The power of the imagery generated from this one photograph can show how and why people feel that there is a difference in how migrants from some countries are treated differently from others.

There is currently a belief that if you are migrating illegally from Cuba, the doors are open and welcoming to the US. However if you are coming from Haiti, Mexico or other Central American countries, you are more restricted.

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A timeline of events leading to the revolution against the French in Haiti

“The silencing of the Haitian Revolution is only a chapter within a narrative of global domination. It is part of the history of the West and it is likely to persist, even in attenuated form, as long as the history of the West is not retold in ways that bring forward the perspective of the world.”

― Michel-Rolph Trouillo

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If you look at the narrative about Haiti on just the surface, you'll think that a lot of the dysfunction is caused just by inadequate leadership. However, if you look deeper at the slave revolution which led to the creation of the first black republic in the western hemisphere, and inspired other nations to get rid of slavery, you will see the punishments imposed by France and enforce by the United States created a foundation of instability impoverishment