A school has removed To Kill a Mockingbird from classes because it uses the word "nigger".

I agree with the writer that discussing the substance of racism should not mean avoiding old books for terminology we now reject.

It is ironic that the criticisms include "white saviour complex, since the book actually shows the limits of white saviours. The protagonist tries to be a white saviour but fails to save the black man from being falsely convicted. Whereupon that man tried to escape from prison, and was killed. On hearing that, someone says (I paraphrase from lack of memory), "He got tired of waiting for us to give him justice, so he decided to get his own justice."

An anonymous Hollywood actress says that Harvey Weinstein is like many men in positions of power in the movie business.

Reese Witherspoon concurs.

So did Carrie Fisher.

I am unable to understand what these men feel about women. I can understand wishing for intimacy and sweetness with a lovely woman. I can't understand the contempt that these men display towards the women they want to have sex with.

The London transit system has banned Palestinian ads in a way that seems suspiciously politicized.

The capture of Raqqa killed over a thousand civilians.

I don't know whether it was feasible to capture Raqqa with fewer civilian casualties.

Israeli soldiers attacked a Palestinian school, wounding ten children.

Palestinian teenagers report being arrested by Israel and tortured. One was released under a form of house arrest that turns his house into hell for his whole family.