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Cultural discourse about the Gaza genocide
Cultural discourse about the Gaza genocide: academic, media, platform, and public debate over applying the term genocide to Israel's Gaza war since October 2023, including the IAGS 2025 resolution, ICJ proceedings, media framing studies, and content moderation controversies.
Cultural imperialism
Cultural imperialism, also known as cultural colonization, describes how dominant states impose their culture and media on weaker ones, a theory developed by Herbert Schiller in the 1970s.
Culture jamming
Culture jamming: anti-consumerist activist art that subverts ads and corporate messages via subvertising, détournement, and pranks; linked to Negativland, the BLF, BUGA UP, and Adbusters.
Cyberbullying
Cyberbullying, or online bullying, is repeated harmful behavior using digital technologies on social media, messaging, and gaming platforms. Distinguished from traditional bullying by reach, persistence, and digital evidence; prevalence estimates vary widely with measurement.
Cypherpunk
A cypherpunk is a member of a digital privacy movement, centered on a mailing list founded in 1992, that advocates strong encryption and later influenced Bitcoin and WikiLeaks.
Czech National Revival
The Czech National Revival (Czech: národní obrození) was a cultural movement, roughly from the 1770s to the 1840s or 1850s, in which the modern Czech nation formed within the Habsburg monarchy.
Daisy Bates (activist)
Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (1914–1999), Arkansas civil rights leader, NAACP state president, and co-publisher of the Arkansas State Press, mentored the Little Rock Nine during the 1957 Central High desegregation crisis; honored with a Capitol statue and Daisy Gatson Bates Day.
Dakar–Niger Railway strike
The Dakar–Niger Railway strike, led by Ibrahima Sarr, was a five-month strike by some 20,000 African railway workers across French West Africa that ended in victory in March 1948.
Dan Savage
Dan Savage (born 1964, Chicago) is an American sex-advice columnist, author, and LGBT activist. He created "Savage Love" (The Stranger, 1991), the Savage Lovecast podcast, and co-founded the It Gets Better Project.
Daniel Haqiqatjou
Daniel Haqiqatjou, American Muslim writer born in Houston to Iranian parents, founder of The Muslim Skeptic and Alasna Institute, known for anti-feminist, anti-liberal writings and public debates.
David Hogg
David Hogg (born 2000) is an American gun control activist, Parkland shooting survivor, and March for Our Lives co-founder who later served briefly as DNC vice chair in 2025 and founded Leaders We Deserve.
David Lane (white supremacist)
David Eden Lane (1938-2007) was an American white supremacist terrorist, Order member, and convicted killer of Alan Berg who coined the '14 Words' slogan and the 88 Precepts from prison.
David Myatt
David Myatt is a British former neo-Nazi ideologue who converted to Islam in 1998 as Abdul-Aziz ibn Myatt and later renounced extremism through his Pathei-Mathos philosophy.
Death of Hedviga Golik
Death of Hedviga Golik: Croatian nurse (born 1924, Rijeka) who died alone in her Zagreb attic apartment, found mummified on her bed in May 2008, 35–42 years later; cause undetermined, TV legend false.
Death of Jay Slater
Death of Jay Slater: 19-year-old apprentice bricklayer from Oswaldtwistle who vanished in Tenerife on 17 June 2024 after the NRG festival and was found dead in the Juan López ravine near Masca; a 2025 inquest ruled accidental fall.
Death of Parker Wells
Death of Parker Wells: 11-year-old non-verbal autistic Calgary boy who vanished from a day home July 16, 2026, found dead July 29 in a Deerfoot Trail stormwater pipe; death ruled non-criminal, prompting a 911 dispatch review and Alberta Amber Alert criteria review.
Death of Whitney Houston
Whitney Houston, an American singer, died on February 11, 2012, in Beverly Hills. The cause was ruled accidental drowning, with heart disease and cocaine use as contributing factors.
Deaths of Divine Adili and Rene Baterbonia
Deaths of Divine Adili and Rene Baterbonia: June 8, 2026 drownings of two Ateneo Blue Eagles players, ages 21 and 18, at Dipaculao, Aurora, Philippines, followed by homicide complaints and viral misinformation.
Dehumanization of Jews and Israelis in Palestinian discourse
Dehumanization of Jews and Israelis in Palestinian discourse refers to documented animal comparisons, disease metaphors, and eliminationist language in Palestinian Authority media, Hamas communications, and school materials.
Dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli discourse
Dehumanization of Palestinians in Israeli discourse: documented animalistic and subhuman rhetoric by Israeli officials and media, notably Gallant's 'human animals' and Netanyahu's Amalek references, analyzed by scholars, NGOs, and UN bodies.
Denial of the October 7 attacks
Denial of the October 7 attacks: claims denying or minimizing the 2023 Hamas-led assault (around 1,200 killed, 251 abducted), including staged-image, false flag, and sexual-violence denial narratives documented by ADL, CyberWell, ISD, and NewsGuard.
Denis Kearney
Denis Kearney (c. 1847-1907), Irish-born San Francisco agitator, founded the Workingmen's Party of California in 1877 and led anti-Chinese agitation with the slogan "The Chinese must go!"
Denmark Vesey
Denmark Vesey (c. 1767–1822), also known as Telemaque, was a free Black Charleston carpenter hanged in 1822 for allegedly plotting a large slave insurrection set for Bastille Day; 35 were executed, and historians still dispute whether the plot was real.
DeRay Mckesson
DeRay Mckesson (born 1985, Baltimore) is a civil rights activist, former school administrator, and co-founder of Campaign Zero who rose to prominence during the 2014 Ferguson protests, hosted Pod Save The People, and ran sixth in Baltimore's 2016 mayoral primary.
Development communication
Development communication, or Communication for Development (C4D), is the strategic use of communication technologies and processes to promote social change. Coined by Nora Quebral in the 1970s, it spans diffusion and participatory models used by FAO, the World Bank, UNICEF, and UNESCO.
Deviance (sociology)
Deviance in sociology is the violation of social norms, folkways, mores, or law (Sumner); unlike crime, it depends on social reaction. Main theories: Durkheim's functionalism, Merton's strain, conflict theory, and Becker's labeling theory.
Dexter King
Dexter Scott King (1961-2024), younger son of Martin Luther King Jr. and Coretta Scott King; chaired the King Center, led the King estate's intellectual property, met James Earl Ray, and died of prostate cancer.
Diane Nash
Diane Judith Nash (born 1938, Chicago) is an American civil rights leader, SNCC co-founder, and Nashville sit-in chair who coordinated the 1961 Freedom Rides and co-planned the Selma voting-rights campaign; awarded the 2022 Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Digital blackface
Digital blackface: non-Black people performing Blackness online via reaction GIFs, memes, AAVE, emojis, and video. Term coined by Joshua Lumpkin Green (2006), popularized by Lauren Michele Jackson; extends to TikTok and AI avatars.
Direct action
Direct action: confronting objectionable practices or effecting social change by readily available means such as strikes, boycotts, occupations, and civil disobedience, rather than voting; coined in 1920 labor struggles by William Mellor.