Oh, my clumsy voice. Oh, my clumsy heart.

Here's the point of everything I have been trying to tell you...

May 19, 2013 10:48 pm
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1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”

2. White terrorists are “troubled loners.” Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.

3. Doing a study on the danger of white terrorists at the Department of Homeland Security will get you sidelined by angry white Congressmen. Doing studies on other kinds of terrorists is a guaranteed promotion.

4. The family of a white terrorist is interviewed, weeping as they wonder where he went wrong. The families of other terrorists are almost never interviewed.

5. White terrorists are part of a “fringe.” Other terrorists are apparently mainstream.

6. White terrorists are random events, like tornadoes. Other terrorists are long-running conspiracies.

7. White terrorists are never called “white.” But other terrorists are given ethnic affiliations.

8. Nobody thinks white terrorists are typical of white people. But other terrorists are considered paragons of their societies.

9. White terrorists are alcoholics, addicts or mentally ill. Other terrorists are apparently clean-living and perfectly sane.

10. There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control won’t stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other terrorists.

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Juan Cole, 08/09/2012

Juan Cole actually wrote this 4 days after a white terrorist, yes, terrorist, murdered 6 and injured 4 people at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin. The terrorist who committed said crime spoke of an impending “racial holy war” beforehand and was a member of white supremacist/neo-Nazi hate groups.

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May 18, 2013 2:38 pm
Here’s the point of everything I’ve been trying to tell you….

Here’s the point of everything I’ve been trying to tell you….

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May 17, 2013 11:49 am
"You mean the generation that paid three times as much for college to enter a job market with triple the unemployment isn’t interested in purchasing the assets of the generation who just blew an enormous housing bubble and kept it from popping through quantitative easing and out-and-out federal support? Curious."

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When comments are better than the article, Atlantic edition (“The Cheapest Generation: Why Millennials arent’ buying cars or houses, and what that means for the economy”)

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May 12, 2013 11:13 pm
"If there is a God, He will have to beg my forgiveness."

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A phrase that was carved on the walls of a concentration camp cell during WWII by a Jewish prisoner (via beautilation)

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10:58 pm
"Wearing a hijab isn’t inherently liberating – but neither is baring one’s breasts. What is liberating is being able to choose either of these things. It’s pretty ludicrous to think that oppression is somehow proportional to how covered or uncovered someone’s body is. Both sides of this argument present a shallow understanding of women’s empowerment, which only drowns out the substantive challenges facing all women – issues that cannot be encapsulated in a debate about a piece of fabric."

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Sara Yasin, Is the Hijab Worth Fighting Over?

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April 14, 2013 7:28 pm

mrchristian1982:

This house is directly across from Westboro Baptist Church, the notorious hate group. You know the one, with all the ”GOD HATES FAGS!” protest signs. The guys that protest the funerals of children, soldiers and celebrities. Yeah, those guys.

This house was bought a few months ago and turned into a LGBT rights group’s HQ. WBC had no idea… until today… when the group “came out” and painted the outside of the home with gay pride flag colors. Right. Across. The. Street. 

Now, WBC has to look at that house. Every day. Every. Day. Rock on!

Troll level: Activist

You can read the full story here. 

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April 5, 2013 5:18 pm
pushinghoopswithsticks: This doesn’t have to be true forever, it’s up to us to change prevailing attitudes and make fellow human beings feel welcome and accepted. You need not personally approve of the spectrum of human sexual orientation, but is not within your rights to decide the degree and value of another person’s humanity. It is, however, your duty to ensure they live lives of dignity, free of fear.  Sources: here and here [via]

pushinghoopswithsticks:

This doesn’t have to be true forever, it’s up to us to change prevailing attitudes and make fellow human beings feel welcome and accepted. You need not personally approve of the spectrum of human sexual orientation, but is not within your rights to decide the degree and value of another person’s humanity. It is, however, your duty to ensure they live lives of dignity, free of fear.  Sources: here and here [via]

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April 4, 2013 5:35 pm

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March 13, 2013 11:41 am
Black people, who make up 22% of the poor, receive 14% of government benefits. White people, who make up 42% of the poor, receive 69% of government benefits.

notesonascandal:

theraceproblem:

racismschool:

Just so we’re all clear on what we just read. Black people make up 22% of the poor but only 14% of the government benefits. Meaning, 8% of poor Black people are not taking government benefits when they need them.

While, white people make up 42% of the poor but receive 69% of the government benefits. Meaning, there are white people who are classified as middle class who are receiving government benefits. 

…but welfare queens and stuff.

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