The Whitewashing of Akira
I can’t say I’m particularly looking forward to this, though as a geek I’m duty-bound to watch. Apparently Akira is being given the live-action Hollywood treatment. Say it ain’t so! I’m not much of a...
View ArticlePat Robertson: “Is mac and cheese a black thing?”
No, Pat. It’s usually yellow-orange. Depending on what kind of cheese you use, it might even come out completely white. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyF8__fR8PQ I apparently missed this with all the...
View ArticleStudy: Poor thinking skills and conservatism/racism/homophobia strongly...
Via Jezebel, sometimes science isn’t just good for improving humanity’s lot in this universe, or improving (or drastically reducing) our overall life expectancy as a species. Sometimes science is also...
View ArticleInvisible Children #Kony2012 filmmaker detained for masturbating in public
No idea whether he was on something or had a nervous breakdown or what, but apparently this is, um, a bit out of character for Jason Russell. The San Diego police department has taken him to a medical...
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Rush Limbaugh, the racist prop comic, sans funny
“Oh, what’s he done this time?” you ask, with a mix of impatience and exasperation. “Compared the President of the United States to a ‘biracial’ Oreo cookie,” I reply without hesitation....
View ArticleCanada’s bill C-31 would make us an isolationist country
Seems times are tough all over. The US just passed in the House a bill that effectively repeals the 4th Amendment, and as usual any time some really terrible bit of freedom-abrogating law is passed in...
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Empathy, thy name is Trayvon Martin shooting gallery target
I wonder if this is a cynical ploy to steal money from those racist scumbags who also happen to be gun enthusiasts, or if this was designed by one of those racist scumbag gun enthusiasts. Oh, I suppose...
View ArticleDear racist, misogynist, homophobic trolls: THANK YOU!
Clever Pie has crafted what could be the ultimate love song to the most useless and hate-filled parts of the internet. Also known as, “its general populace”. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uz2jbCJXkpA...
View ArticleAshley Miller loses her father
If you haven’t already seen this post by Ashley Miller, you probably should. Especially if you’re under some misapprehension that we’re in a post-racial society just because Obama got 51% of the vote....
View ArticleSeeing things from a God’s eye view
I think I might have burned myself out on blogging a bit, doing the live blogging for WiS — I keep finding other things to do instead of writing things that really need to be said. Bah. The cure for...
View ArticleRemember Zimmerman on FOX News? Remember Marissa Alexander? Remember Ralph Wald?
Edit: Though I got Marissa Alexander’s name right in the post, I somehow screwed up and had “Marissa Thomas” in the post title (where did THAT come from??). I’m changing the display title, but as I...
View Article#FtBCON: Atheism Is Not Enough panel
As proven by the deep rifts that exist within movement atheism, a common acknowledgement that there is no god is often not enough ground on which to build a coherent, lasting community. Social justice...
View ArticleConspiracy theories about Zimmerman’s car crash rescue
I don’t know if you’ve seen these, but they’re setting off all sorts of wishful-thinking and conspiracy theory alarms on my bullshit detection kit. Four days after being declared not guilty of murder...
View ArticleCraig Cobb’s got a little black in him
If you’ve never heard of him, this guy’s a real piece of work. White supremacist and leader of the so-called “Creative Movement”, Craig Cobb was born and raised in Boston. He grew disenchanted with...
View ArticleCrommunist imagines Macklemore and Tim Wise as a buddy cop story
Absolutely brilliant. What an inspiring story of overcoming adversity in the face of anti-white bigotry! (ELMORE and WISER sit at a dimly-lit bar, drinks in front of them. Music by Kenny G plays in the...
View ArticleMasculinism
Someone challenged Aron Ra to explain feminism to him via a Youtube video, begging every single one of the seven questions. Aron Ra gave laudable answers, though PZ Myers pointed out some errors and...
View ArticleBrief thoughts on Charlie Hebdo and freedom of speech
Satire depends heavily on the cultural context in which it was made. Charlie Hebdo is certainly a leftist rag, and certainly satire, and certainly understood as such within France’s cultural context....
View Article(Guest Post) Words of mass destruction: the weaponization of ‘free speech’
A guest post by Robert Fendt. Please address comments appropriately. :) (Note: this text deals with harassment, sexism, misogyny, racism and transphobia. Readers’ discretion is advised.) Dear reader:...
View ArticleThe bad logic of “Good People Can’t Be Sexists”
One of the things that makes me averse to getting into deep conversation lately about morality and about people’s sexist and racist behaviour is that we appear to be hard-wired to think the whole...
View ArticleConstructing an understanding of social constructs
Throughout the discussions on gender that have been sweeping through our circles of late, there’s been one particularly maddening dichotomy in thought that’s been thrown into sharp relief for me — that...
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