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Charlotte’s SouthPark neighborhood is poised to get a new tax district that would amount to an additional 4 cents per $100 of property valuation. In other business news, Vietnamese carmaker VinFast is opening a manufacturing site in North Carolina, and a restaurant owner is suing a local reporter and former employees.
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If you were on the blogging platform Tumblr in the mid to late 2010s, social justice blogs like This Is White Privilege and Your Fave Is Problematic were inescapable. They introduced a generation to concepts like microaggressions and colorblind racism and the fallibility of celebrities but in bite-sized digestible nuggets that, in hindsight, seemed tailor-made to go viral. Now even the creators of these Tumblrs will admit that the blogs were also ground zero for a sort of oversimplified self-righteousness that’s still reverberating today. In a recent New York Times op-ed, the founder of You...