Fri November 03, 2017 8:25 am
Fri November 03, 2017 10:57 am
BurtReynolds wrote:https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2017/11/the-surprising-revolt-at-reed/544682/
The Surprising Revolt at the Most Liberal College in the Country
Activists are disrupting lectures to protest "white supremacy," but many students are taking steps to stop them.
Fri November 03, 2017 2:16 pm
Thu November 09, 2017 6:58 am
Thu November 09, 2017 12:50 pm
LoathedVermin72 wrote:And this just went totally unchallenged. What in the holy fuck?
Thu November 09, 2017 2:11 pm
Bi_3 wrote:LoathedVermin72 wrote:And this just went totally unchallenged. What in the holy fuck?
OMG, free speech from minorities! how threatening!
Thu November 09, 2017 2:36 pm
LoathedVermin72 wrote:Bi_3 wrote:LoathedVermin72 wrote:And this just went totally unchallenged. What in the holy fuck?
OMG, free speech from minorities! how threatening!
Wait, what? I just meant that no one seemed to bat an eye over this blatantly racist and regressive BS from supposed liberals.
Thu November 09, 2017 2:37 pm
Wed November 15, 2017 7:02 pm
A CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT ON EQUALITY
BY IBRAM X. KENDI
Kendi is the author of “Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America,” which won the 2016 National Book Award for nonfiction. A professor of history and international relations at American University, he also heads its Antiracist Research and Policy Center.
Equality. That old idyllic portrait on America’s wall of democracy.
Too bad this beautiful portrait never reflected the ugly truth of American inequality — of slavery, concentrated wealth and power, mass poverty, disenfranchisement and incarceration; of sexism, racism, homophobia, elitism and Islamophobia, enduring and pervading. Divisions between groups are being powered by bigotry, ignorance and fear.
But there is a remedy: immediate equality of opportunity, which would go a long way toward eliminating disparities. No more of the liberal march to gradual equality. No more preserving permanent inequality.
The United States has been here before, when few were ready to do the right thing. In 1829, William Lloyd Garrison wrote, “no valid excuse can be given for the continuance of the evil [of slavery] a single hour.” Garrison and other abolitionists endured decades of slaveholders and gradual reformers insisting on the impracticality and impossibility of immediate emancipation.
Today, Americans hail abolitionists and know at least the basics of Abraham Lincoln’s immediate Emancipation Proclamation in 1863. It ultimately saved America’s democracy from being mortally mutilated by the secessionist whips of Confederate slaveholders. But though the Union Army stopped the deadly whips in 1865, the discriminators carried on, continuing to divide “we the people” with bigotry, continuing to devastate democracy in their backward attempts to make America great again.
The United States needed then and needs now an Anti-Bigotry Amendment that would constitutionalize a critical principle: Group inequity is evidence of discrimination. The amendment would make group inequity illegal and ban the incitement of bigotry, as the incitement of anti-Semitism is banned in Germany. Claims that inequity is evidence of a group’s dysfunction or inferiority would be outlawed. The amendment would establish equality as a human right and inequality as anti-American and anti-human.
The Anti-Bigotry Amendment would permanently establish a federal agency that investigates inequities and punishes institutional and individual discriminators. This Department of Equity would repair inequities caused by past discrimination. It would be charged with building a nation of equal opportunity where only the diverse materials of merit pave the roadway toward success. This is the only equitable path toward a healthy U.S. democracy.
Tue November 28, 2017 11:39 am
Tue November 28, 2017 6:08 pm
Tue November 28, 2017 10:30 pm
cutuphalfdead wrote:That looks pretty photoshopped to me. Notice the last P doesn't fold with the paper.
Thu December 07, 2017 2:07 am
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Sat January 06, 2018 11:24 am
Sun January 07, 2018 10:37 pm
Mon January 08, 2018 7:46 am
BurtReynolds wrote:TFW the monster you spent years creating devours you
Tue January 09, 2018 1:15 pm
Abstract
This article explores the way vegan and vegetarian diets have been articulated within neo-liberal post-feminist culture. While these diets have an important role for vegetarian eco-feminists, as signs of resistance against the patriarchal and capitalist exploitative system, in post-feminism they have become sexy and business oriented. This shift is analyzed through the case study of Beyoncé’s involvement with the commercial enterprise “22 days,” a dietary regime that involves the elimination of any animal product for 22 days. Our argument is that while eco-feminists have embraced vegetarian and vegan regimes as ethical and political choices, post-feminism depoliticizes and deradicalizes them. In this way, they become part of an individualistic project that emphasizes empowerment and meritocracy; choice, agency, and responsibilization; and the focus on a healthy, sexy body. Ultimately, the post-feminist articulation of vegan diets promotes a form of “commodity veg*ism,” that is not only devoid of any critical force, but also reproduces existing patterns of discrimination and inequality. We use the term veg*ism to indicate the fluid uptake of vegan and vegetarian diets, whereby the avoidance of animal products relies more on an individual than on ethical and/or political choice.
Thu January 18, 2018 7:45 am