June 2012
16 posts
#602
deliciouskaek:
thisiswhiteprivilege:
White privilege is thinking black boys need to go to jail for making a white woman cry.
(see end of this post here)
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yeah, i did reblog because so many parts of that were personal
but that part didn’t sit right with me. suspension/expulsion from school and/or from the bus would have been quite enough.
Wow….they set...
Esoterica: Words we don't get to use →
bankuei:
Context is everything
Let’s take the word, “bitch”.
What happens when a woman says it to another woman? What happens when they say it as a compliment? What happens when they say it as an insult? What is the usual context for those cases?
When a man says it to a woman, what is the…
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Ms. Blaspheming Bitch: NYCLU: Stop-and-Frisk... →
bad-dominicana:
jalwhite:
The NYPD’s stop-and-frisk practices raise serious concerns over racial profiling, illegal stops and privacy rights. The Department’s own reports on its stop-and-frisk activity confirm what many people in communities of color across the city have long known:…
Yet Bloomberg and the NYC Police cronies tell the people “stop and frisk” works, and that...
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Freethinking Foxhole Series: Purpose
In my prior post, I gave my reasons as to why Pascal’s Wager, a go-to philosophical concept used to rationalize why one should believe in god, is a faulty concept and explained how it crumbles, even under the mildest of scrutiny. There was another statement said during that exchange that stuck with me, and I want to talk about now.
the essential question every human encounters thru life is...
Freethinking Foxhole: Pascal's Wager & Twitter...
*Edited as of 6/7/2012.
A recent tweet exchange with a Muslim cat on Twitter has sorta spurred me to create this entry. I ran across a tweet from this person, who said that the “funny thing about Atheism is that for as much as their *beliefs* are rooted in reason and logic. They are quite…ignorant.” When I asked him for evidence to support such a baseless and biased claim, he...
