All Things Rhapsodical

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Fact check: Turns out violence is not always wrong and it can solve some problems

Fact check: Turns out violence is not always wrong and it can solve some problems

Trigger warning: still more discussion of something we were all sick of 4 days ago

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Apr 04, 2022
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So everybody’s wound up about Will Smith’s slap. I guess I’ll just go ahead and pile on then…

I promise, I had no intention to say a word about this.

Then I saw that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, one of my childhood sports idols who has a Substack I look at with some frequency, wrote there about it, chastising Smith for his anti-feminist macho and for giving cred…

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