February 2012
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stfuconservatives:
“But then, the truth was never really the point. Thin women don’t tell their fat friends ‘You’re not fat’ because they’re confused about the dictionary definition of the word, or their eyes are broken, or they were raised on planets where size 24 is the average for women. They don’t say it because it’s the truth. They say it because fat does not mean just fat in this culture....
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macfoto:
5 Reasons You Should Never Agree to a Police Search (Even if You Have Nothing to Hide)
1. It’s your constitutional right.
The 4th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects us against unreasonable searches and seizures. Unless police have strong evidence (probable cause) to believe you’re involved in criminal activity, they need your permission to perform a search of you or your...
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“Ramarley Graham, 18, was shot and killed by a NYPD officer yesterday. It’s the...”
– NYPD Officers Shoot and Kill Three Black Men in One Week
…and nobody cares. It’s just another day. I wish I could say I was surprised at how many people are justifying the killings in the comment section. Disgusting.
(via racismschool)
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“[W]e use the term ‘Indian peoples’ or ‘American Indian’ peoples rather than...”
– Paula D. McClain and Joseph Stewart Jr., Can We All Get Along?: Racial and Ethnic Minorities in American Politics
I admit to being guilty of using the term “Native American” because I thought it was the preferred nomenclature of American Indians, while being partially unaware of its white...
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Thomas Paine was not a capitalist
sageoflogic:
anticapitalist:
Here are some quotes from Agrarian Justice:
It is a position not to be controverted that the earth, in its natural, cultivated state was, and ever would have continued to be, the common property of the human race. In that state every man would have been born to property. He would have been a joint life proprietor with rest in the property of the soil, and in all...
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“Beinart, a prominent liberal journalist, is right to invert the treacherous...”
– Roger Cohen, The Dilemmas of Israeli Power (via mohandasgandhi)
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reagan-was-a-horrible-president:
The ‘biblical view’ that’s younger than the Happy Meal
propaganda-for-life:
In 1979, McDonald’s introduced the Happy Meal.
Sometime after that, it was decided that the Bible teaches that human life begins at conception.
Ask any American evangelical, today, what the Bible says about abortion and they will insist that this is what it says. (Many don’t...
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“He [Rick Santorum] is a staunch opponent of abortion, even in the case of rape....”
– John Oliver on Rick Santorum, The Bugle 183 (via sixpencesoulcake)
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“In the US, abortion is framed as a deeply moral and highly emotional issue. In...”
– via Feministing, “A new script for talking about abortion”
(thanks to keepyourboehneroutofmyuterus for sending this to me!)
Amazing. This describes the stigma around those who get abortions SO well. My decision was not a hard one. It wasn’t gut-wrenching or emotional for me in any way.
I am...
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Pat Buchanan was fired from MSNBC, and he blames... →
anticapitalist:
In a lengthy screed published to his personal website, Buchanan tore into his former employer of 10 years for what he called “an undeniable victory for the blacklisters,” in which the former Nixon aide calls out MSNBC for caving to organizations like the African-American advocacy group Color of Change, LGBT advocates with Human Rights Campaign, Jewish advocates at The...
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Mary-land!
Maryland House Approves Same-Sex Marriage
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Cop spends weeks to trick an 18-year-old into... →
More fun from the self-loathing society: This American Life had a show about how young female undercover cops infiltrated a high school and flirted with boys to entrap them into selling pot, so they could charge them with felonies and destroy their lives at an early age.
Last year in three high schools in Florida, several undercover police officers posed as students. The undercover cops went to...
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“The thing is, feminists did not appropriate the term nazi to identify...”
– dez-ray
(via mohandasgandhi)
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djmmirage:
buckthefutcher:
imagine if adele and taylor swift dated then broke up
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what you said: boys will be boys. they're dumb. ignore them.
what you meant: men have a birthright to act the way they do because they are better than you, so shut up.
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“In 1973, after Roe v. Wade, abortion became legal but had to be performed in a...”
– Physician, Washington State, via The Only Moral Abortion is my Abortion (via seriouslyamerica)
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“It’s not that Chris Brown is categorically unforgivable. It’s more that he’s no...”
– VICE on Cord’s Chris Brown post.
(via thenoobyorker)
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“There has always been racism. But it developed as a leading principle of thought...”
– Noam Chomsky (via noam-chomsky)
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Rolling Stone publishes damning 84-page report... →
fearandwar:
aheram:
Holy shit. If you want, download the full report here.
The Armed Forces Journal article is a good summary if you don’t want to read the whole report. It’s in the link.
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U.S. History: Eugenics
iwillnotshavemyvagina:
I learned this yesterday. I should have learned this 15 years ago. We were too busy Colombusing and Giving Thanks, though.
Borst, Joan M. “2.” Social Work and Health Care: Policy, Practice, and Professionalism. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2010. 37-39. Print.
Between the 1500’s and the 1900’s, an estimated 95% of the Native American population died (as a direct result...
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“If you are a white woman and you want to call yourself a feminist, you must...”
– ladyatheist (via mamaatheist)
BOOM.
(via getsnarly)
Always, always THIS.
(via thisfan)
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“You know I was married for 23 years to the love of my life, and he died six...”
– Washington State Representative MAUREEN WALSH, Republican, on why she voted to legalize marriage equality in her state.
Dear New Jersey governor Chris Christie and others in the Republican Party who continue to demonize those who want marriage equality: this is what courage, and not cowardice,...
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