RUMORS Making or Breaking News 1/15/2013

Rumors are nearly as old as

human history, but with

the rise of the Internet,

they have become

ubiquitous.

 

--Cass R. Sunstein,
On Rumors:
How Falsehoods Spread,
Why We Believe Them,
What Can Be Done
  

 

 

Michele Westfall Carl is always trying to stir something up.

 

Don Grushkin I seriously doubt that most of these statements as cited by Carl here are what Tommy Horejes actually said.

 

 

Hate crime can be understood

as a means of sustaining boundaries

between Us and Them, especially

when "they" step out of line,

cross sacred boundaries,

or forget their place.

 

--Barbara Perry,
Silent Victims:
Hate Crimes Against
Native Americans

 

 

Carl Schroeder I am deaf, born that way, born to deaf parents in The Netherlands, and, mostly importantly, born into gebarentaal (signed language, literally translated with a past perfect verb tense).  When I turned 10 years old, my parents made a new home in the United States where I underwent multiple language changes, from gebarentaal to American Sign Language (ASL) and from Dutch to English, which were no easy feat.  I shall never forget my line, sacred boundaries, and place.

 

 

Suddenly, we...became
uncomfortably conscious

of a divide between us.

 

--Ron Takaki,

A Different Mirror:

The Making of

Multicultural America