Oscars So Very Proportionate
I’m still hopeful that this racial bigotry built on lies and deceit will end this year. A few tired skin-tone hacks though will hang on until the bitter end I’m sure.
I’m still hopeful that this racial bigotry built on lies and deceit will end this year. A few tired skin-tone hacks though will hang on until the bitter end I’m sure.
Bigotry is bigotry. The time, the place, the person – it remains the same. It’s never “different”. It is, and alway will be, a human condition.
It’s all a con. But there are many people personally invested in the con. Therefore the con will continue in the absence of a sustained will to truth.
Martyrs knew that what they said in the name of Jesus Christ could cause them harm. Even without a call to Jesus, people need to accept the potential of personal harm once again.
Appease the mob or objective justice? You can’t have both so choose.
It seems that almost every day we hear some comment or action that insulted or offended someone that has been either dealt with using the criminal code (as in most of Europe) or within an increasingly intolerant court of public opinion, as in North America. It seems also that every day the old media go through…
The lengths to which Eric Holder will go to for some things, and retreat from for others, certainly shines a light on his preferences. Because that’s what they are in essence, preferences. For example he had no preference for videotaped evidence of voter intimidation [see here], but he does prefer to monitor the aesthetic credentials…
For the first time an English Premier League club [see here] has banned, indefinitely, a customer (fan) from its games. Everton FC assert that in their opinion tweets made by this fan were homophobic and racist. The unnamed fan (deleted Twitter handle @WhereAreYeEFC) may be allowed back but this is unclear. Social media suggests that…
There now exists in the United Kingdon a law, a speech crime law, that treats different citizens in an inequitable manner. The inequity derives from accidental human characteristics such as skin tone and religion, for example, that the law itself purportedly holds to be equal. I’ll just draw on two different media stories to highlight where this…
From revolteseneurope, an interesting 1964 documentary piece. Slavery has been purportedly outlawed in the Arabian peninsula and Gulf states. However, if you are paid almost nothing, treated inhumanely and live in squalor, isn’t it the same thing? http://www.spyghana.com/arab-slave-traders-supporting-democracy-in-syria/