Disrupting the Blame Game for Good

All week, my plan for today was to write a tame, encouraging piece about overcoming othering, based on a great new video from the Frameworks Institute. 

But this morning, as I was driving to pick up my daughter, I had this very cool podcast on about attention span from a historian’s perspective, and I was replaying in my head some comments I gave yesterday for an upcoming news article about our recent homeless enumeration report. I decided I wanted to get back to my ranting roots for an essay on the long history of using drugs and drug laws to other and criminalize groups who are politically inconvenient. 

LFG.

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