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Prof Talk: Is Facebook a Global Threat?

Vanessa Revilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQ4QCC1gIo In today's Prof Talk, UVA Professor Siva Vaidhyanathan explains how Facebook has become a global threat to democracy. It's not just babies and dog pictures out there. Watch to find out why social media,...

Prof Talk: Why You Shouldn’t Have Meme-ified “This Is America”

Quinn Chu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dLuwqR2uG8g In this episode of "Prof Talk," Media Studies professor William Little tackles what's wrong with co-opting racial messages in music videos and films.

Prof Talk: “Liberals, You’re Not as Smart as You Think”

Vanessa Revilla

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dccf2GmLRQQ Gerard Alexander, the author of "Liberals, You're Not as Smart as You Think," spoke to WUVA about his disregard for cultural appropriation, and the problem with calling conservatives "racist."

Milo Yiannopoulos Lecture at Berkeley Cancelled

Parissa Joukar

Milo Yiannopoulos Lecture at Berkeley Cancelled Milo Yiannopoulos of Breitbart News is currently on a nationwide tour of college campuses (which he calls ‘hotbeds’ for ‘bad ideas’ like progressive social justice, feminism, and the...

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Jalen Russell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ka1rv9bkCcQ&feature=youtu.be

International Students Voice Opinions on Polarizing Domestic Events

Haidyn Prendergast

The racially charged events of the summer have been analyzed one hundred times over at this point in the school year. Students, professors, locals and many others who were involved in the Unite the...

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