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Tag Archives: society
Personal Integrity as Mental Illness
“Acts of personal integrity are seen as suspicious veiled acts of self-interest at best, and signs of mental illness at worst.”
How Denying Black Soldiers FHA Loans Denied Black Families Post-War Prosperity
“America had a chance to fully bring the black community into the fold with every other ethnic group but instead we dropped the ball big time, leaving a lasting schism in our society.”
Stay in the Popemobile
“You can’t start talking like this and not piss off some crazy powerful people.”
Frames, Feminism and Men’s Rights Advocates
“The MRA view men’s and women’s rights as being in opposition to each other, while mainstream feminists see gender equality as a net good to everyone.”
Too Many Laywers Correlates to Societal Collapse
Peter Turchin correlates a glut of lawyers with the end of civilization.
Peforming Ethnicity
“It’s just one of those things that you, as a person of color, have to do to survive in a culture that tends to be a little hostile to your existence.”
Here’s What The Police Will Do
Commenter on Metafilter: “Here is what the police will do: Whatever they want, whenever they want, however they want to. They are tiny gods, moving among us, deciding who gets shot today and who merely gets hauled away. Any attempt to assert your rights will result in you either being arrested (because you HAVE done […]
Why We Need Sean Hannity
“But the public doesn’t care about this stuff, right? So how do you get Joe America to talk about it in his living room? You give him a little hit of testosterone. Getting to the next step required substituting emotional response for intellectual response. Reality TV, chat boards, talk radio…there were dozens of new vehicles to […]
A Transwoman Learns How (Some) Men Relate to Women
“One night I was talking to a guy on chat, and he kind of threw out this really sexual thing to me. It took me by surprise and I basically said what the fuck? And then he got rude. He called me a bitch and said I was rejecting him all of a sudden, and […]