Tag: racism
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Trump, Autocracy, and Racist Lackeys
How many degrees of separation can we find between the Trump Administration and real live steaming-shit Nazi scum? Just one, it turns out, and you’ve seen him on TV. In a series of interviews and public statements eerily reminiscent of those old shouting-Hitler ragefests from Nazi Pep Rallys in the 1930s, Donald Trump’s “Senior” Advisor…
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I’m More Patriotic Than You…
…And I can prove by being the biggest asshole I can be to Olympic Gymnast Gabby Douglas, a young woman I never met, barely heard about, and haven’t thought of since her spectacular performances in the London Olympic Games of 2012. In case you’re living under a rock–and if so, I envy you–you at least…
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The Black Swallow of Death
I know, you’ve missed me–I’ve been buried in real-world work again–but I’m swimming towards the surface. In the meantime, here’s a transcript, with some additions, from a Facebook post that’s making the rounds–a story too fascinating, exciting, and (sadly) unsurprising to not share with you. Do you know who this is a photo of? Chances…
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Wednesday Words of Wisdom: W.E.B. Du Bois
One of the great writers and thinkers in the American legacy, the powerful and wonderfully controversial, W.E.B. Du Bois stands tall, his work growing in stature and significance as time passes, in the way certain monoliths seem not to dwindle in the the distance but rather to assert themselves by virtue of scale and prominence…
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There Can Be Only One–My First Meme
Choose your flag. Choose your cliche. Choose your side. There can be only one. Either you’re in, or you’re out.You’re either for us, or against us. Don’t like it? Get out.
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Sedition
Sedition A revolt or an incitement to revolt against established authority, usually in the form of Treason or Defamation against government. Sedition is the crime of revolting or inciting revolt against government. However, because of the broad protection of free speech under the First Amendment, prosecutions for sedition are rare. Nevertheless, sedition remains a crime…
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I Hate This Fucking Thing
Symbols. I should respond to them with a clearer head. I’m a smart guy, I know some things, like the way symbols work to galvanize allies and adversaries in their causes. Especially flags. Especially in this country. A few days ago I posted about the inanity of both flag-burning and opposing flag burning, and I…
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Tunesday: 1988 Revolution Music–N.W.A.
I’ve gone full cliche, recently dropping the “music didn’t used to suck” on one of my kids the other day, after seeing some lame-ass pseudo-country kiddie pop band on the teevee, a wretched clump of excrement called Florida Georgia Line. We got a good laugh at these bozos, but oh, man…before I knew it I…
Old Road Apples 