December 2011
25 posts
“Globalization – the handmaiden of Cheap at All Costs – is celebrated as a...”
– The Walmartization of America Redux: How the Relentless Drive for Cheap Stuff Undermines Our Economy, Bankrupts Our Soul, and Pillages the Planet (via azspot)
Victoria’s Secret Revealed in Child Picking... →
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via kari-shma)
Updates from Wukan, the fishing village staging... →
For the first time on record, the Chinese Communist party has lost all control, with the population of 20,000 in this southern fishing village now in open revolt.” So begins Telegraph correspondent Malcolm Moore’s report of what he has personally witnessed in the fishing village of Wukan, Guangdong over the past few days. Enraged over government land grabs, villagers have now overrun local...
socialistexan:
Personal story about how, please excuse my language, fucking corrupt the U.S. military is
mohandasgandhi:
I have a number of stories that I could potentially share with you but I’m only comfortable with sharing one, which is, perhaps, the least outrageous of the bunch. I don’t like getting too personal on this blog for a number of rather obvious reasons but I find this to be...
“My wife and I are thinking of adopting and shockingly found in Texas, the cost...”
– The price of babies, by color | Chris Blattman (via abbyjean)
BUT OMG RACISM DOESN’T EXIST!
(via nessfraserloves)
That is seriously disturbing.
(via ladyatheist)
BUT GUISE. SUPPLY AND DEMAND. the market CHOSE those values. Let the invisible hand do its work!!!11!1!!
(via anticapitalist)
“Please understand and accept our confirmation that the inappropriate, and...”
– Chick-Fil-A’s response to this post about a racist cashier who named two Asian customers “Ching” and “Chong” (via fascinasians)
tldr: we just dont like gays but the asians are cool
(via weexist-weresist)
zing
dear cracker ass white people who hate immigrants
weexist-weresist:
THERE IS NOTHING
YOU HAVE DONE
TO DESERVE CITIZENSHIP
WALTZING OUT OF YOUR MAMA’S WOMB ONTO AMERICAN SOIL DOES NOT MEAN YOU ARE DESERVING OF JACK SHIT
LOOK AT THE PERSON TO YOUR LEFT WHO IS A CITIZEN
THERE IS NO REASON WHY YOU BITCH ABOUT THIS PERSON DESERVING MORE ACCESS TO JOBS, OPPORTUNITIES, RESOURCES, AND RIGHTS THAN THE IMMIGRANT WHO HAS BUSTED THEIR ASS FOR DECADES...
hyungbythechimneywithcare:
Western legal tradition regarding rape has roots that are not all that different from those we condemn in places such as Afghanistan.
watanafghanistan:
A reader’s comment posted online in response to Friday’s New York Times article about Gulnaz’s pardon is typical. After expressing disbelief at the subjugation of women in “most of the Muslim world and large parts...
also tbqh if you want to talk about the oppression...
weexist-weresist:
like shit even if you do believe muslim women are universally oppressed then you should talk about bigger issues than something like they cant show their fucking faces
>the misogyny of traditional patriarchial muslim cultures expressed as nation-state policies (saudi arabia, women not being able to get divorced in some countries, etc)
>the misogyny of sharia (sorry i...
Racism in Brazil
thejoty:
Racism in Brazil has been a major issue ever since the colonial era and the slave era imposed by Portuguese settlers. A research published in 2011, indicates that 63.7% of the Brazilians consider that the race interferes in the quality of life of the citizens. For the majority of the 15 thousand interviewed, the difference between the white people’s life and the nonwhite’s one is...
Georgia Refuses To Reunite Children With Family... →
prolongedeyecontact:
A custody fight in Georgia is illustrating the biases of a foster care system that some say routinely subverts the parental rights of undocumented and non-English speaking mothers and fathers:
Ovidio and Domitina Mendez’s lost their five children to foster care when the Georgia Department of Family and Children Services arrived at their home claimed the kids were...
Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage →
Paris’s most talked-about exhibition of the winter opened on Tuesday with shock and soul-searching over the history of colonial subjects used in human zoos, circuses and stage shows, which flourished until as late as 1958. Human Zoos: The Invention of the Savage, curated by former French international footballer turned anti-racism campaigner Lilian Thuram, traces the history of a practice which...
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“Once you’ve been to Cambodia, you’ll never stop wanting to beat Henry Kissinger...”
– Anthony Bourdain, in a great non-food moment (via americathon)
weexist-weresist:
atomicsocialist:
Apparently my friends brother is not allowed to join Naval Intelligence because he’s a Nicaraguan. Even though he’s a born US Citizen, because he’s Nicaraguan he’s not allowed any sort of classified clearance. So now they placed him as a medic and he’s gonna be with Marines in Afghanistan. Reagan continues to screw over my friends even though he’s been eaten...