Oil cooling: Deep fried, or deep energy savings?

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Enthusiasts have been using extreme cooling solutions for years, including water cooling loops, full submersion oil, and Peltier coolers. These setups have allowed DIY builders to run heavily overclocked systems without cooking their hardware, but have generally been been too esoteric to appeal to the enterprise world

Demand for data centers to pack more hardware into the same amount of space has increased the electrical and monetary cost for air cooling to the point that it is prohibitively expensive. This situation has encouraged some companies to explore alternatives, such as full submersion oil cooling and water cooling.

By fully submerging the hardware, oil is better able to affect the transfer of heat from the components and out of the facility. Much like the home-built “aquarium PCs,” oil-cooled servers also have a pump to circulate the oil and a radiator to cool it down before it’s returned to the system. In that respect it is similar to watercooling — just without using water-blocks. Like water, oil has a higher specific heat capacity than air, meaning it can absorb more heat for a given volume of coolant.

Where oil-cooled servers differ from home setups is in the scale, as data centers require massive radiators and heat exchange cooling stages. These systems use oils that are specially engineered dielectric fluids that do not conduct electricity, and in the case of Hardcore Computer’s Core Coolant oil it features “1,350 times greater heat rejection capacity by volume than air.” 3M’s Fluorinert is another popular choice for liquid cooling as it is many times more efficient than air.

Some companies such as Green Revolution Computing allow companies to overhaul their existing blade servers and then submerge them vertically in a large container of oil. The oil would then be circulated by a pump through a radiator located outside of the building. Boston, another oil cooling company, also offers pre-configured, hot-swappable micro blade servers running two Xeon 5600 CPUs that can slide into server racks. They utilize a series of pipes on the rear of the rack to pump oil through each blade where the internal hardware is cooled by oil. In either case, oil cooling the servers enables the data centers to pack more hardware into the same amount of space.

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Nowhere in this article does it list the corrosion risk of water. Even distilled water has a tendency to dissolved chemicals in the air, such as oxygen for example, and ruin your equipment through oxidation.

Some oils, on the other hand can be made to be very inert. The oil can be in direct contact with the circuitry and cool more safely and efficiently.

Agreed, submerging servers in distilled water would be a bad idea ;). As far as I understand, distilled water would be okay at first, but after a matter of days or more, the distilled water would start to pull ions away from the metal in the hardware and wreak all sorts of havoc.

Anonymous

From what I’ve read, distilled water is almost non-conductive, and doesn’t promote rust – until it has other chemicals/ions dissolved in it. (For the benefit of others who may be reading the comments)

I was initially thinking of just what it would dissolved from the air (IE oxygen) but admittedly, I have no idea what it would do with the variety of elements it would be exposed to on a computer motherboard. It sounds disastrous.

Just dunk that sucker in a vat of circulating oil and forget about it.

unfortunately cooking oil isn’t very good at cooling relative to the more expensive/specialty stuff, and I think mineral oil would make some gross tasting fries :P So I’m envisioning using a small radiator hooked up to a few server racks and using it as an outdoor grill for steak instead lol! hehe jk

I ran bi-distilled water in my PC for a few years. Had it spray out all over my motherboard, ram and front bay DVD and molex when a hard disk waterblock tube disconnected in my hand (it was a crap design waterblock – not like the new ones). The computer didn’t even crash or restart. These days I use Thermochill EC6 which is made from vegetables. Electrically inert even after many many months and I don’t have to worry about pond life growing in the tubes.

On the other hand I know people who used Feser UV coolant that when leaked out destroyed a motherboard immediately even with a small leak. Feser UV is 10 x more electrically conductive than straight bi-distilled water.

timverry

O wow, I would have been panicking had that happened to me! I do have a watercooling loop in my system now and in the back of my mind I’m always worried something is going to happen ;)

Anonymous

Remember kids, don’t submerge your spinning hard drive in mineral oil. Classic rookie mistake. The armature head needs to float above the platters on a cushion of air generated by the turbulence of the spinning platters, and there’s a hole in the hard drive with an air filter to equalize the air pressure as the drive heats up.

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Hi Chris, thanks for stopping by. The only big downside I see about maintaining them is when it dr comes to replacing faulty hardware, any insight on how that process would work? Or would you guys just let that blade drip dry out and swap in a backup blade? :)

Anonymous

Swap.
I think the likes of IBM and HP are no longer required for most server applications, cheap commodity computing in the data center is the way forward. Google and Facebook already do this, why not the other 500…

I. B. Halliwell

Well, it looks like PC type computers are finally catching up to the 1980’s . . . OK, maybe that isn’t fair, but Cray Research, Inc came out with a submerged computer in the 1980s!! Yeah, 30 years ago! I worked for almost 10 years for Cray and I’ll say the Cray 2 was an awesome system for the times.

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An air raid on a detention centre in Tripoli that killed and wounded scores of migrants and refugees has intensified calls for a change in policy in the central Mediterranean as thousands of people remain trapped in such facilities amid intense fighting on the outskirts of Libya’s capital.

Officials said Tuesday’s attack on the centre in Tripoli’s eastern suburb of Tajura killed more than 50 people, including children, and wounded over 130.

The UN’s special envoy to Libya, Ghassan Salame, said the attack “could clearly constitute a war crime”, while the UN’s refugee agency (UNHCR) and the International Organization for Migration (IOM) called for an investigation.

Sonal Marwah, advocacy manager for Doctors Without Borders (known by their French initials MSF) Libya and SAR mission, told Al Jazeera that many of the 600 migrants and refugees at the centre had remained at the same location, arranging mattresses outside the cells for fears of further attacks.

The UN-recognised Government of National Accord (GNA) in Tripoli blamed forces loyal to renegade military commander Khalifa Haftar, who, in early April, launched an offensive to take control of Tripoli.

Haftar’s self-declared Libyan National Army (LNA) denied responsibility. Earlier this week, it had announced its intention to start bombing targets in Tripoli after “traditional means” of war had been exhausted.

Dire conditions

An estimated 6,000 people are being held throughout the country in camps run by Libya’s Department for Combating Illegal Migration (DCIM). Almost half of those are held in and around Tripoli, according to UNHCR and the IOM. Thousands more are believed to be held in camps run by militias.

The dire conditions in the detention centres have further deteriorated since the fighting began, with detainees reporting being starved, abused and beaten.

In May, the women’s section of the Tajoura detention centre was hit by shrapnel, narrowly missing an infant. In April, migrants and refugees were relocated from the Qasr bin Ghashir detention centre near Tripoli to another centre after armed men stormed the facility leaving several dead and wounded.

Marwah said Haftar’s military operation marked “the third time in seven months that armed clashes have erupted” in Tripoli.

“European governments cannot pretend that Libya is a place of safety, where very vulnerable refugees and migrants rescued at sea can be disembarked,” she added. “This is not something new. The UN has repeatedly said that Libya is not a safe place for disembarkation.”

Human-rights and humanitarian groups have stepped up their calls for the centres to be shut in the aftermath of the attack, with Interior Minister Fathi Bashagha tweeting on Thursday afternoon that the GNA was discussing such a move.

Brought back to Libya

Libya is one of the main departure points for refugees and migrants who try the treacherous crossing across the Mediterranean Sea in their bid to escape conflict, hardship and prosecution. But many are “pulled back “to Libya by the country’s coastguard, in a scheme supported by the EU under a two-year-old deal.

UNHCR figures show that more than 1,300 people were intercepted by the Libyan coastguard in June and taken back to detention centres across the country – 458 disembarked in Tripoli while more than 200 ended up in Tajoura.

Since the start of the year, nearly 3,700 migrants have been intercepted by the Libyan coastguard and forcibly returned to camps in Libya.

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“We bring them back but we don’t do much to improve the conditions of those who are [in detention], and we don’t offer any places to evacuate vulnerable people out of Libya,” said Matteo Villa, a migration research fellow at Italian Institute for International Political Studies (ISPI).

In a statement on Wednesday, EU diplomatic chief Federica Mogherini, enlargement commissioner Johannes Hahn and migration commissioner Dimitris Avramopoulos said those responsible for the attack “should be held to account”.

“Our position on Libya’s system of detaining migrants is clear: this system has to end and migration needs to be managed in full compliance with international standards, including when it comes to human rights.”

‘EU not assuming responsibility’

Since the UNHCR began evacuating people in need of international protection from Libya in late 2017, fewer than 4,000 have departed, mostly to Niger. Some 710 were resettled in Italy and 269 to an emergency transit centre in Romania.

Earlier this week, the Italian parliament renewed its funding commitment for the EU-funded mission that aids the work of the Libyan coastguard, in a move that began under Italy’s previous centre-left government in 2017.

Last week, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said that 27,834 migrants and refugees had entered Europe by sea this year through May 1, roughly a 35 per cent drop from the 42,274 arriving during the same period in 2018.

According to the IOM, 597 people have died this year in the three main Mediterranean Sea routes, or about half the 1,189 deaths confirmed during the same period in 2018.

“The Mediterranean has basically been a desert in the past few months,” said Veronica Alfonsi, the coordinator of the Italian office of the Spanish NGO Proactiva Open Arms.

The NGO recently returned at sea, risking hefty fines of between 300,000 to 900,000 euros ($338,000 – 1,014,000) from the Spanish government.

“We’re at sea knowing all too well that this is not a solution,” she added. “What’s missing is the EU and European states assuming responsibility.”


How to Plant Your Yard to Attract Songbirds

The mantra to remember whenever you’re trying to attract native wildlife is diversity attracts diversity. That means you need to offer a diversity of native habitats and food sources.

Selecting native plants that provide the highest quality food for our feathered guests. We’ll also be sure to suggest plants best suited for suburban yards of Northern Virginia. With those two criteria in mind let’s jump right to that plant list.

The second all-important principal to keep at your side when landscaping for wildlife is plant for all seasons, and that’s how our plant list will be structured. Most native plant fruits can be separated into 3 basic categories. Add a few spring-flowering, pollen and nectar rich blooms that attract insects for birds to feed on in March and April and you have a four season, five-star songbird buffet.

Spring - - - Insect-attracting Blooms for Hungry Migrants

Oaks, Hickories, Elms and Willows are best at attracting insects for famished spring warblers, but you may not have room for these large trees in your yard. If not, try one of these yard-sized shrubs:

Common, Speckled or Brookside Alder

Highbush Blueberry

Summer - - - Sugar-filled fruits for over-worked parents

Red Mulberry and Black Cherry are absolute magnets for summer birds and should be preserved whenever possible. But again, maybe they are too big for your yard? Try these easy-fit, fruit-filled shrubs:

Highbush Blueberry (on two lists – you must use this plant!)

Serviceberry

Common Elderberry

Fall - - - Fat-heavy fruits to fuel long-distance autumnal flights

It’s getting cold and birds have miles to fly, sometime countries to cross. Give them fatty fruits to get them there. Black Gum/Tupelo and Sassafras are two of the best – if they’re too big, any of the following will fill the bill:

Most of these fruits aren’t on bird’s list of favorites. They eat them when the sugary and fatty fruits are all gone. They may not be yummy, but they’re how birds survive into spring.

American Holly

Winterberry Holly

Inkberry Holly

Eastern Red Cedar

Winged, Staghorn or Smooth Sumac

Arrowwod Viburnum

So which ones should you plant?

Choose 1 or 2 species from each season list and if possible, plant at least 3 individuals of each plant you choose. And it’s OK to clump them and make a hedgerow rather than spreading them out. If small space is a big issue, go for 1 Alder, 3 Highbush Blueberry, 3 Silky Dogwood, 3 Inkberry and 1 Eastern Red Cedar.

If you can squeeze in one more plant, try an Elderberry, Serviceberry or Pagoda Dogwood.

Good luck and remember, no pesticides! You don’t want to poison the meal.


Conventionally, the preparation of mineral oil-derived lubricant base oils required drilling of crude oil which is buried underground. From a global environmental point of view, to prepare mineral oil-derived lubricant base oils in such a manner is to add carbon buried underground to the surface circulation system of the earth. Used mineral oil-derived lubricant base oils may be removed by burning or discarded as liquid. During the course of burning, CO2 is added to the surface circulation system which would otherwise not have been. When discarded as liquid, since mineral oil-derived lubricant base oils possess a very low biodegradability of about 10 to about 30% (based on the CEC analysis method), more serious problems are posed. The remainder (i.e. the portion not biodegraded) of the mineral oil-derived lubricant base oils may be absorbed into the ecosystem in the surface circulation system to cause a variety of problems. In addition, from a macroscopic point of view, the problem of serious environmental pollutants, such as sulfur (S), nitrogen (N), heavy metals, etc. present in the crude oil drilled to produce mineral oil-derived lubricant base oils, being included in the surface circulation system and causing troubles cannot be ignored.
In contrast, the problem of adding carbon in the form of CO2 to the surface circulation system does not occur in the case of biomass-derived lubricant base oils, because biomass comes from animals or plants which are already present in the surface circulation system, which is to say that carbon already being circulated in the surface circulation system is utilized in this case. Since the biomass-derived lubricant base oils inherently have a biodegradability of at least about 70% or more and exhibit a biodegradability of nearly 100%, there is little negative impact posed on the ecosystem from burning or discharging into the nature the biomass fat-derived lubricant base oils which are discarded after use. Of course, toxic substances such as S, N, heavy metals, aromatics, etc. are not present throughout the preparation process.
Therefore, in order to overcome the above-described problems which the mineral oil-derived lubricant base oils have, preparation technology for a biomass-derived lubricant base oil has been proposed as a way to make an ecofriendly lubricating oil which has high biodegradability and is free of toxic substances (S, N, aromatics, heavy metals).
In addition, a lubricating oil is a physical mixture of about 80% of a base oil and about 20% of additives. As the substance which most prominently determines lubrication properties—such as viscosity, a viscosity index, a low-temperature fluidity, etc.—of a lubricating oil, a base oil has a hydrocarbon chain structure and can determine major lubrication properties by its structural regularity, molecular weight, etc. However, a lubricating oil may require alterations in the lubrication properties by small extents depending on the application, and, when the lubricating oil does not meet certain standards of lubrication properties, additives may be used to supplement any insufficient lubrication properties. Examples of such additives include a detergent, a dispersant, an antioxidant, a corrosion inhibitor, a viscosity index improver, a pour point depressant, etc. However, most of such additives include aromatic substances, etc. and thus have problems of being poorly miscible with base oils each of which makes up about 80% of a lubricating oil.
An alkyl naphthalene is introduced to the conventional lubricant base oil for improving a low-temperature fluidity and facilitating a mixing of the lubricant base oil with additives. However, alkyl naphthalenes are substances prepared as a result of bonding between alkyl groups and aromatic compounds and thus have problems of having a low biodegradability.
Therefore, the development of a lubricant base oil—which is highly biodegradable and also able to inhibit the production of additional CO2 greenhouse gas and thus is ecofriendly, while also retaining the merits as a dispersant and advantages of an improved low-temperature fluidity, all of which the conventional lubricant base oils have—is immediately required.


Take Extra Caution on the Roads After "Springing Forward"

I’m Brian Ricci, a
car crash lawyer in Greenville, NC. The lost hour of sleep when we "spring forward"
can cause more difficulties than arriving late to church on Sunday morning.
Residents of Greenville, and the greater Pitt County area, need to be
aware of the greater risks of driving in the week following the start
of Daylight Savings Time. Those most at risk for increased accidents,
teenagers and older folks, are advised to get additional rest once DST
begins, and for the entire week following. Research has shown that getting
four to five hours of sleep can also lead to impaired driving, and causes
the same level of impairment as driving under the influence of alcohol.
Additionally, when we drive tired, it becomes easier to be distracted.
Keep safety in mind after turning clocks forward and get some extra sleep
to avoid a car crash or other accident.

It has been reported in Greenville, NC, and elsewhere, that research has
proven crashes increase during the days immediately following the beginning
of Daylight Savings. For at least a week after turning our clocks ahead
one hour, drivers in Pitt County need to exercise extra caution both in
their own driving and their awareness of other drivers. Do not rely upon
caffeine or other stimulants to maintain alertness while driving, instead,
get more rest and get some extra sleep.

Safe drivers are alert and aware of the other cars on the road, they exercise
caution, follow all traffic laws, and maintain the speed limit always.
Excessive tiredness can cause even the safest of drivers to make mistakes
and use poor judgment. A temporary lapse in judgment is enough to change
your life forever. Extra rest will help you to maintain the necessary
alertness that you need to be a safe driver, and will help you to be aware
of the other drivers on the road who may be sleep deprived and driving
in an unsafe manner. Conscientious drivers know not to get behind the
wheel if they are not feeling completely awake and alert.

Planning ahead and getting the necessary amount of sleep to function well
is easy to do, and very much worth the effort. Safe driving is something
to strive for every day of the year, here in Greenville, or wherever you
may travel. Following the advice of local officials by getting some extra
rest will help to keep our Greenville roads safe and free from accidents.
Daylight Savings Time does have many benefits, especially with light extending
later into the evenings, giving us the opportunity to enjoy the beautiful
outdoors and spend time with friends and family in the natural wonder
of Pitt County.

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injury, please call me anytime at
(252) 752-7785 or
(888) 484-6881. Let’s go over the details of your accident case over the phone
and see how best to proceed.

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- New pldd command for listing DLLs loaded by a process.

- New API: scandirat.

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- Fixed problem where background Cygwin processes kept the windows
  console window from exiting.

- Change the way remote shares mapped to drive letters are recognized
  when creating the cygdrive directory.  If Windows claims the drive
  is unavailable, don't show it in the cygdrive directory listing.

- Lower the stack pressure in some Cygwin calls by reducing the buffer
  space allocated on the stack.

- Raise default stacksize of pthreads from 512K to 1 Meg.  It can still
  be changed using the pthread_attr_setstacksize call.

- process.h header has been moved back from /usr/include/cygwin to
  /usr/include.

- Make <sys/wait.h> header C++ clean.


1. Technical Field
The present disclosure relates to lenses and, particularly, to a wide-angle image lens module having a long flange back distance (FBD).
2. Description of Related Art
Lens modules with long FBD have the advantage of being adaptable to many camera systems and allow the use of other optical elements such as filters. On the other hand, wide-angle image lens modules allow more of a scene to be captured in a single image. However, present wide-angle lens modules do not come with long FBD.
Therefore, it is desirable to provide an image lens module that can overcome the above-mentioned limitations.


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Maine’s Farm Dinners

Since the farm-to-table renaissance began at Helen and Scott Nearing’s Harborside farm 60-plus years ago, Maine’s roots in the movement have only grown deeper. Meanwhile, the distance between the farm and the table has grown shorter. Some of the best food you’ll find is served right on the farm. Call it farm field-to-farm table. Or just field-to-table. Although they differ in ambience, the four Maine farm dinners below all share a common mission: strengthening the local food system by serving the freshest, most delicious food possible.

Wolfe’s Neck Farm in Freeport, Maine is a working organic farm that welcomes you to meet the animals, hike the grounds and even camp out along the coast. Their farm-to-table dinners benefit the farm’s Teen Ag Program, educating the next generation of farmers and farm advocates while growing more than 12,000 pounds of fresh produce for local food banks. These rustic dinners—think pig roasts and harvest bounty—are top-notch culinary events due to their partnership with Chef Masa Miyake and Miyake Farm and Restaurants. The dinners are held roughly once a month in late summer and early fall, but tickets sell out well ahead of time.

The Well is actually a restaurant located right on Jordan’s Farm, next to their produce stand. Chef Jason Williams opened The Well in 2010 and only has to walk a few yards for many of his ingredients. The restaurant’s menu changes daily, depending on what's in season, but Williams offers family-style dinners, a five-course tasting menu and delicious desserts like his house-made donut with blueberry compote and creme anglaise. The atmosphere is casual, drinks are BYO, payment is cash only, and no reservations are needed. The Well at Jordan’s Farm is open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday.

Pineland Farms is a working dairy farm that doubles as an outdoor activity center all year long. On Wednesdays from late June through early October, the farm hosts convivial Graze Dinners. These family-style dinners—with themes like Lamb & Lager and Autumn’s Bounty—feature live local music, craft beers, “farm-fresh” cocktails and, of course, food raised, nurtured and harvested from Pineland and the surrounding area.

Located on Penobscot Bay’s North Haven Island, the restaurant at Nebo Lodge prides itself on serving up a seasonal menu of island-grown meat, fish and produce. Much of this bounty comes directly from Turner Farm, just three miles away. Every Thursday from July through mid-September, Nebo Lodge hosts five-course feasts at the Turner Farm barn, where you can enjoy a glass of wine or one of Maine's craft beers before sitting down to dinner as the sun sets over the fields. They’ve also recently added Saturday night lobster bakes and Tuesday evening cooking classes taught by the island’s chefs, gardeners and foragers.

We are a single family owned and operated restaurant with 3 locations in Maine. Our Searsport location, the original, has been opened since 2000. Followed by our Newport location in 2006 and finally our last location in Hampden opened in 2009.


Q:

Kafka optimal retention and deletion policy

I am fairly new to kafka so forgive me if this question is trivial. I have a very simple setup for purposes of timing tests as follows:
Machine A -> writes to topic 1 (Broker) -> Machine B reads from topic 1
Machine B -> writes message just read to topic 2 (Broker) -> Machine A reads from topic 2
Now I am sending messages of roughly 1400 bytes in an infinite loop filling up the space on my small broker very quickly. I'm experimenting with setting different values for log.retention.ms, log.retention.bytes, log.segment.bytes and log.segment.delete.delay.ms. First I set all of the values to the minimum allowed, but it seemed this degraded performance, then I set them to the maximum my broker could take before being completely full, but again the performance degrades when a deletion occurs. Is there a best practice for setting these values to get the absolute minimum delay?
Thanks for the help!

A:

Apache Kafka uses Log data structure to manage its messages. Log data structure is basically an ordered set of Segments whereas a Segment is a collection of messages. Apache Kafka provides retention at Segment level instead of at Message level. Hence, Kafka keeps on removing Segments from its end as these violate retention policies.
Apache Kafka provides us with the following retention policies -

Time Based Retention

Under this policy, we configure the maximum time a Segment (hence messages) can live for. Once a Segment has spanned configured retention time, it is marked for deletion or compaction depending on configured cleanup policy. Default retention time for Segments is 7 days.
Here are the parameters (in decreasing order of priority) that you can set in your Kafka broker properties file:
Configures retention time in milliseconds

log.retention.ms=1680000

Used if log.retention.ms is not set

log.retention.minutes=1680

Used if log.retention.minutes is not set

log.retention.hours=168

Size based Retention

In this policy, we configure the maximum size of a Log data structure for a Topic partition. Once Log size reaches this size, it starts removing Segments from its end. This policy is not popular as this does not provide good visibility about message expiry. However it can come handy in a scenario where we need to control the size of a Log due to limited disk space.
Here are the parameters that you can set in your Kafka broker properties file:
Configures maximum size of a Log

log.retention.bytes=104857600

So according to your use case you should configure log.retention.bytes so that your disk should not get full.


This video explains the difference between being “non-racist” and “anti-racist”

Many White folks congratulate themselves for not being racist. YouTube star Franchesca Ramsey made a funny but cringe-worthy video about “not racist White people” that gets right to the heart of this conversation. But, this video published at The Guardian, featuring 2015 Man Booker Prize winning Jamaican writer Marlon James, explains why this mentality is so harmful.

In essence, James explains that not being racist doesn’t actually prevent racial violence. He says that you can be non-racist from your own bed without ever doing anything to prevent the murders and other atrocities committed against racial minorities. So, isn’t it time we expect more than non-racism?

Watch the full video and read the transcript below:

Here is a complete transcript of the video:

“Several months ago in response to Ferguson, Baltimore, the killings of Freddie Gray and Tamir Rice, my friend Caitlyn put up a Facebook post breaking down the difference between non-racism and anti-racism. Most of us are non-racist. Because racism is looked upon as some moral lapse, we feel quite self-assured by simply not being racist. ‘I’m not a bigot. I don’t sing that ’N’ word when my favorite rap jam comes on. I didn’t vote for that guy. I’m not burning any crosses. I’m not a skinhead.’ ‘I don’t. I won’t. I’m not. I’ve never. I can’t.’ What you end up with is an entire moral stance, an entire code for living your life and dealing with all the injustice in the world by not doing a damn thing. That’s the great thing about “non-”: you can put it off by simply rolling over in your bed and going to sleep. So why are you sitting at home and watching things unfold on TV instead of doing something about it? Because you’re a non-racist, not an anti-racist. Now, do this for me: take the “c” out of racist and replace it with a “p”. ‘I’m not a rapist. I’m not friends with any rapist. I didn’t buy that rapist’s last album.’ All these things that you’re not doing. Meanwhile, people are still getting raped, and black boys are being killed. It’s not enough that you don’t do these things. Your going to bed with a clear conscience is not going to stop college students from getting assaulted. You thinking climate change is terrible is not going to stop climate change. You being so assured that you’re not anti-Black, anti-Muslim, won’t stop the next hate crime. And it’s wonderful that you recognize how brave gay people are when they’re facing persecution. But they aren’t the ones who need to be brave. We need to get active. We need to hold people accountable. We need to accept that what hurts one of us hurts all of us. And we need to stop thinking that injustice going on in the world isn’t to an extent our fault. We need to stop being “non-” and start being “anti-”.

Photo credit: The Guardian video screenshot