“For myself, I want no advantage over my fellow man, and if he is weaker than I, all the more is it my duty to help him.” —Eugene V. Debs
Wednesday, September 30, 2020
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Friday, September 11, 2020
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Wednesday, September 9, 2020
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Tuesday, September 8, 2020
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2019: Walter Mosley Exits ‘Star Trek: Discovery’ Writers’ Room After N-Word Complaint “I couldn’t use that word in common parlance, even to express an experience I lived through.” I sympathize. When I was a boy, racists called me niggerlover. Am I supposed to say "N-word lover" now? They were not saying that I loved the "n-word".
2018: If you mock things as vanilla, you're kink-shaming people who like popular things.
People who blame individuals for systemic problems—for not driving more fuel-efficient cars, for not eating organic food—are always bragging about their virtue and often bragging about their money.
2017: Your identity does not make you an expert on anything but yourself, and you may be completely wrong about that.
2016: Remember to question the sites that you trust, because they're the ones that will be most successful in lying to you.
Monday, September 7, 2020
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When people talk about white accents being privileged, they invariably mean the upper class version of those accents. There's no white trash accent privilege or chav accent privilege.
"An armed society is a polite society." -Robert Heinlein
This is why the US is the politest country, and Yemen is the second politest (Some sources say Serbia is second. Maybe Yemen and Serbia should have a shoot out for the title.)
Many people on the left and right refuse to credit discomfiting news until it's announced on a site that's part of their echo chamber.
Saturday, September 5, 2020
What riot apologists leave out when they quote King
“A riot is the language of the unheard.” —Martin Luther King
They leave out this part of the same speech:
“Riots are socially destructive and self-defeating.” — Martin Luther King
King was explaining the cause of riots, not condoning them.
Tuesday, September 1, 2020
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#WorkingClassTriviaForFans
Appropriation theorists never talk about appropriating from the working class. For example, in the oldest stories, Robin Hood is not a nobleman. He was "a violent yeoman who steals from the dishonest and helps those whom he pleases".
https://www.library.rochester.edu/robbins/robin-hood-chandler
Fred Hampton of the Black Panthers rejected the tactics of black bloc Antifa
The first two minutes show the Weather Underground, aka the Weathermen faction of SDS, rioting during the Days of Rage of 1969. At the end is this:
"We believe that the Weatherman action is anarchistic, opportunistic, individualistic. It's chauvinistic, it's Custeristic. And that's the bad part about it. It's Custeristic in that its leaders take people into situations where the people can be massacred--and they call that a revolution. It's nothing but child's play, it's folly. We think these people may be sincere but they're misguided. They're muddle heads and they're scatterbrains." —Fred Hampton of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense
Note that this is before the Weathermen split off from SDS and began setting bombs.