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rising_moon17 karma

Journalism is like a 4th branch of government and I see it as our civic duty to support and protect your work, but how can we best do that when news institutions crumble from the inside and face what I feel may be unprecedented political pressure from the outside? In addition to subscribing to news organizations we wish to support, what other steps do you think we can take in this new age of news to support quality, independent, critical journalism?

rising_moon14 karma

I'd love to see some screenshots of your builds.

rising_moon5 karma

Exactly. So many people in this thread misunderstand and are trying to engage this protest as a purely national political issue, when, because these tribes are sovereign they don't need to engage in discussions about alternatives in order to defend their rights by opposing this pipeline.

I think the discussion about alternatives is a good discussion, but from my understanding this is not what this protest is about. It's about tribal rights. The pipeline wouldn't go through any tribal land, but it would intersect some sacred lands, the Cheyenne River, for example, which is the only source of water for one reservation.

You have to also understand that what the American people have agreed upon as legal and as land rights is not the same way that many tribal people recognize land rights. To many tribal people, the whole system has to be taken into account and it becomes much more useful to think about watersheds instead of arbitrary political boundaries.

You have to think about this kind of like you would an international relations situation - it's not really a domestic issue in the same way that we think about most domestic issues, because these are not just voters, they're more like diplomats.

rising_moon4 karma

As someone who's seen many attempts at producing/teaching Othello as a race play, I'm interested why you chose to teach Othello (a play which I don't believe has much to do with race) instead of Merchant of Venice?