Virtue signalling

This is a problem too many people experience, one which makes their attempts at doing good superficial or hypocritical. I've written about this at https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2019/11/weekend-ramblings-addiction-to-virtue.html.

(efficacy of) nonviolent protests

Trying to define what nonviolence encompasses is a large task (although this, this, and this provides some scope), but I often want to refer to information on the efficacy of nonviolence. For that, I'm going to provide the list below, which I will expand if I ever get time: 

From https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2020/07/post-no-1614-how-large-do-movements.html: 

Erica Chenoweth and Maria J. Stephan have looked at statistical aspects of violent and non-violent campaigns, and found that violent campaigns have ~26% chance of success, but nonviolent campaigns have ~53% chance of success. In their book, “Why Civil Resistance Works” (pub. Amazon), they discuss a number of aspects contributing to this, and one is the size of the campaign, with non-violent campaigns having larger numbers of participants. ... Reports on  this work comment that civil resistance movements that engage at least 3.5% of the population have never failed to topple a dictator 

This has been updated (in particular, evidence showing the 3.5% is a tendency, not a law, has been provided) at: 

“Questions, Answers, and Some Cautionary Updates Regarding the 3.5% Rule”   Erica Chenoweth,   Carr Center,   Discussion Paper,   (northern hemisphere) Spring 2020   https://www.hks.harvard.edu/sites/default/files/2024-05/Erica%20Chenoweth_2020-005.pdf      

• https://nvdatabase.swarthmore.edu/index.php/;

• https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190513-it-only-takes-35-of-people-to-change-the-world; 

• https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2019/02/why-nonviolent-resistance-beats-violent-force-in-effecting-social-political-change/; 

• https://www.globalcitizen.org/en/content/peace-protests-dallas-response/; 

• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/pop-psych/201702/why-non-violent-protests-work; 

• a change by one group from peaceful disruptive to peaceful non-disruptive tactics:   https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/01/extinction-rebellion-announces-move-away-from-disruptive-tactics,   https://thenewdaily.com.au/life/science/environment/2023/01/02/extinction-rebellion-could-shift-tactics/,   https://www.smh.com.au/world/europe/setting-aside-the-superglue-extinction-rebellion-uk-flags-tactical-shift-20230102-p5c9rz.html,   and   https://theconversation.com/extinction-rebellion-uses-tactics-that-toppled-dictators-but-we-live-in-a-liberal-democracy-120602;

• https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/nonviolent-protest; 

• https://www.history.com/news/for-martin-luther-king-jr-nonviolent-protest-never-meant-wait-and-see; and 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nonviolent_resistance&oldid=1149308342.
  

Here is an old post of mine that may also be worth a look: 

• “A media article worth particular focus: “War is not Inevitable, and Social Scientists are Finding Peace Movements more Effective””   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/09/a-media-aticle-worth-particular-focus.html   
  

 

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amathia

See https://www.urbadictionary.com/define.php?term=amathia  

As of 28^thMarch, 2023, that definition was: 

See also: 

• http://www.dailyjedi.com/amathia/;
  

I've invented a non-noun version: amathiac.

transgenocide

See: 

• “Hmm ... TGD (and other) protection in Australia - including in workplaces”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2022/05/hmm-tgd-protection-in-australian.html      and   “A major win for trans+ rights”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-major-win-for-trans-rights.html       

• “Wins for Science and Trans Rights in the EU AND the US”   https://youtu.be/9GGtcANHnCw       

• “Trans Psychiatrist Explains - The Transphobic Pyramid - How Anti-Trans Attitudes Lead To Genocide”   https://youtu.be/-FETInFQBQ4   “Hi! I'm Dr. Jamie (she/they). I'm a medical doctor, psychiatrist, WPATH GEI SOC8 certified member, and gender researcher who specializes in gender affirming care.   In this video, I discuss the transphobic pyramid and how transphobic attitudes lead to genocide.   Reference: “Exposed: The Scale of Transphobia Online”   https://www.brandwatch.com/reports/transphobia/ “Exploring transphobia and pro-trans conversation on social media” ”       

• “Post No. 3,047 - An updated Red Flag alert by the Lemkin Institute on the USA’s transgenocide”   https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2025/03/post-no-3047-updated-red-flag-alert-by.html      
  

• “The contempt of transphobes towards the human species   [Content Warning: discussion of life-threatening hatred and bigotry]”    https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/06/the-contempt-of-transphobes-towards.html     
  

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/02/a-transgenocide-is-underway.html - and see also  “Statement on the Genocidal Nature of the Gender Critical Movement’s Ideology and Practice”    https://www.lemkininstitute.com/statements-new-page/statement-on-the-genocidal-nature-of-the-gender-critical-movement%E2%80%99s-ideology-and-practice; 

• https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Transgender_genocide&oldid=1177362195; 

• https://theconversation.com/historians-are-learning-more-about-how-the-nazis-targeted-trans-people-205622; 

• “Why TERFs shouldn’t be Witches - Starhawk Maiden Mother Crone Ecofascism White Feminism JK Rowling”   https://youtu.be/tKHdon3HSys   This has outstanding analysis - including historical , social, human rights, and political. The following are also relevant to this:  
  
• “Why so many Witches are TERFs? - The Transmisogynoir of JK Rowling against Imane Khelif”   https://youtu.be/aniVXrBYnHA    
• “The Transphobes are Coming for All of Us”   https://youtu.be/woREx-DJeRE    
  

• “Oppression breeds resistance: The revolutionary fight for trans liberation”   https://socialism.com/fso-article/oppression-breeds-resistance-the-revolutionary-fight-for-trans-liberation/        

• “A major win for trans rights”   https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2024/08/a-major-win-for-trans-rights.html      

• “A Massive Study of 16,000 Participants in 23 Countries Finds People Are More Prejudiced Against Trans Women Than Trans Men”   https://drdevonprice.substack.com/p/a-massive-study-of-16000-participants   “Are we ready to take transmisogyny seriously yet??”   A powerful, excellent analysis of a transphobic investigation - which nevertheless has some redeeming value      

• note Timothy Snyder's comment “In the Russo-Ukrainian war, an much smaller apolitical mixed-gender army, the Ukrainian one, has held back a much larger, politicized, patriarchal, anti-woke, anti-gay, and anti-transsexual army, the Russian one” (also of interest is “Women have fought and killed men in combat throughout history, as customs and technology permitted.  It is a modern prejudice to deny this.  ... our source on Sparta, Herodotus, reminds us that the greatest warriors of the age, famously undefeated by Persia, were the Scythians.  And the Scythians did have female warriors, cavalry armed with recursive bows.  Custom and technology permitted them to fight, and they did.  Judging by the archaeological finds in today's southern Ukraine, about one in five Scythian warriors was female.  It took a while for archaeologists to realize this, because of the male-ego-preserving prejudice that all warriors are male.  It was only the DNA evidence -- nature, as it were -- that forced the conclusion that was in fact obvious from the female skeletal remains.”) 

 

transmisia (a suggested replacement for transphobia)

Suggested here: as phobia means fear of, whereas what is generally being dealt with is hate of, the more accurate term is transmisia. 

PS - hasn't taken off, so I'll keep this post but remove the reference from my Introduction and Index post 

(the) aspiration paradox

A voting problem. 

See: 

• https://politicalmusingsofkayleen.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-aspiration-paradox.html 
• https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/03/attraction-to-elitism.html 
  

Also, this post includes the following:  

• “That’s the problem with the American Dream - it makes everyone concerned for the day they’re gonna be rich.” Character President Bartlett, TV series “The West Wing“, Season 3, Episode 4 – Ways and Means (at 38:57).

 

attraction to elitism

See: 

• https://gnwmythr.blogspot.com/2023/03/post-no-2385-few-rambling-thoughts.html; 
• https://gnwmythrsglossary.blogspot.com/2023/03/the-aspiration-paradox.html.