Posts Tagged “racism”

25 Jan: I Hate Illinois Nazis

See also:

UNESCO: Fight against Racism, Discrimination, and Xenophobia
SPLC: What You Can Do

1 Apr: I Say ‘God-Damn!’

God damn, god damn, god damn.
But not all of them are focused on bor­der con­cerns. If you talk to the Minutemen long enough, the sub­ject of immi­gra­tion inevitably floats to the sur­face.
“I see the nation descend­ing into poverty, philo­soph­i­cally, and part of it is ille­gal immi­gra­tion, a big part of it,” says a twen­tysome­thing young man […]

4 Dec: Living With Unemployment

The advan­tages of inter­net radio con­tinue on.
They, they always try to blame it on the blacks
But it’s really those in power that stab you in the back Newtown Neurotics, Living With Unemployment

13 Oct: The Use of Color

In an ear­lier post, I had noted that I would write some more on a phở­to­graph I had posted to pro­vide a graphic illus­tra­tion of the kinds of regimes that decided on tri­als when it was in the best inter­est of the state, rather than, for exam­ple, the inter­ests of justice.

When you look at the […]

27 Sep: Allen vs. Webb

So I’m lis­ten­ing to an older clip from CNN, and I have to say this. To ask George Allen whether he is Jewish or not is a scum­bag ques­tion. The “he’s just a celebrity” excuse is lam­en­ta­bly lame, and I for one got the impres­sion that Arianna Huffington would just as soon the per­son who […]

18 Sep: Threat Levels

From Wired, via Boing-Boing:

Look closely at the “Green” threat level. Yes, you are read­ing that cor­rectly. As a res­i­dent of America, you are more likely to be shot by a police offi­cer than killed in any type of ter­ror­ist attack. Now fac­tor in the well-documented racial bias in law enforce­ment strate­gies and arrest rates, and […]

20 Aug: Armed Madhouse

Yesterday, I read Greg Palast’s Armed Madhouse. On the one hand, it’s nice to know that I intu­itively under­stood the neo-conservative inva­sion plan and rea­son  —  the so-called “Plan B”  —  well enough to describe it as “glob­al­iza­tion by force” in a paper I wrote for a Political Economy course. It’s also nice to know the vaunted-but-ignored State Department […]

4 Jun: Delinking AmSam

I’ve delinked American Samizdat after a racist post was not only pub­lished, but defended by both the orig­i­nal poster and another con­trib­u­tor to the site. My exact com­ments on the racism are avail­able on the offend­ing AmSam post, for those who are inter­ested. Supposedly the same post got them banned from Daily Kos. I had […]

14 Jan: Finding Spivak

I recently IM’d some­one who sounded inter­est­ing on an unnamed quiz/dating site, and was pleas­antly sur­prised to find some­one who made me feel dumb. Not that feel­ing dumb is good, just that it’s eas­ier to see the next plateau when there’s some­one there wav­ing at you.
Unfortunately, reach­ing that plateau involves track­ing down a par­tic­u­lar essay by […]