March 2012
atane:
We’ve seen this movie before…
mybutbeautiful:
Before Patrick Dorismond’s body was cold, the Giuliani administration launched an obscene campaign to vilify the dead security guard and all but portray him as someone who had a police bullet coming to him. Having little to work with, Giuliani ordered Police Commissioner Safir to unseal a juvenile record on the man, disclosing that he had...
Disgrasian: Where The Killing Of A Fictional...
admiralmackbar:
Where The Killing Of A Fictional Black Child Exposes How We Feel About The Killing Of A Real Black Child
MARCH 26TH, 2012 | 0 COMMENTS | POSTED BY JEN
I saw The Hunger Games Friday afternoon, and it was good. Just good. But the part that got to me, of course, was when Rue was killed. When it happened, the first thing I thought was, She is Trayvon Martin. She was a child. She...
Nine Things That Happen When You Film Police... →
anticapitalist:
1. You’re exercising your right to film police. You do have the right to film cops. This right is codified in the Constitution under the First Amendment. In the past year, New England’s highest Federal court ruled that filming cops is protected by the First Amendment. You don’t need any special reason for doing so. You don’t need permission from any bureaucrat. You don’t...
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TSA Freaks Out, Gets Longtime Critic Bruce... →
wilwheaton:
TechDirt:
He didn’t get sick or have something better to do. Hell, he didn’t even miss a flight. Instead, according to Schneier, the TSA itself had him removed from the panel:
On Friday, at the request of the TSA, I was removed from the witness list. The excuse was that I am involved in a lawsuit against the TSA, trying to get them to suspend their full-body scanner program. But...
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“Male fantasies, male fantasies, is everything run by male fantasies? Up on a...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Robber Bride
(via terrorinthecourtroom)
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“Oppressors always expect the oppressed to extend to them the understanding so...”
– Audre Lorde, ‘Sexism: An American Disease in Blackface’, in Sister/Outsider, p. 63. (via feministquotes)
jesus christ i never realized how many of the...
jhameia:
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rakalak:
i mean, there’s dante basco and mako—-
WHOA, JUST GOT THAT— mako in legend of korra is named after the voice actor who played uncle iroh until he passed? omgggg
but all the other main characters (or most of them? i think?) are white. according to imdb.
i… okay.
i know, right? that’s the one thing i struggle with the very very most. is that...
Is there really yet another argument about not...
zurik:
Okay, kids.
• Being a broke college student does not give you the right to not tip. If you’re going out to eat, the tip should be included in what you expect to pay. Don’t have money to tip? You don’t have money to eat out. • That’s a seriously entitled attitude to have, for real. I’m supposed to give you the same service I give a table that tips 20%? What a joke! NO. I will come to...
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