Word: destructionism
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In Oklahoma, the discussion about apologies and reparations relates to a more recent tragedy: the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921. Oklahomans are asking how their riot happened and what they should do now. Debate over reparations for the Tulsa riot centers around the city government’s culpability in...
The case for reparations in Tulsa is particularly strong because of the deputies’ responsibility for much of the riot’s destruction. As the Oklahoma Supreme Court acknowledged in a long-forgotten insurance case, after the Greenwood residents were arrested, some of the deputies set fire to...
McConnell accepted defeat and warned his colleagues what the new world might look like. "This is mutual assured destruction of the political parties," he said. "There won't be one penny less spent on politics it just won't be spent by the parties." Instead, he predicted, there would be...
I once knew a man who was a heroic drunk. He left mess and destruction in his wake - broken glasses, smashed furniture, bounced checks, bitter and exhausted wives. His motto, which he stole from the British classicist Benjamin Jowett, was a line he would slur grandly to the barroom after...
While they wrestled the crippled plane, the crew had a familiar drill to follow: the "classified destruction plan," which assigns each crew member a sensitive part of the plane to demolish. Some of the steps - erasing computer hard drives that recorded the day's mission - were manageable even if the...