Category: Sexism
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Pity the sad legacy of Barack Obama “Bernie Sanders gallantly tried to generate a leftwing populism but he was crushed by Clinton and Obama in the unfair Democratic party primaries. So now we find ourselves entering a neofascist era: a neoliberal economy on steroids, a reactionary repressive attitude toward domestic “aliens”, a militaristic cabinet eager…
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The Burning Fire
Society’s Embers After spending a week in Big Bend National Park and witnessing the night’s sky in it’s purest form, I feel refreshed and humbled again by the beauty of nature. Now I find myself plugged back into the “so-called” real world. The vicious attack (and video) in Chicago has been replayed ad nauseum throughout…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Chinese Middle Class in Uproar Over Alleged Police Brutality The signatories of at least two online petitions organized through university alumni networks are infuriated by the Beijing prosecutors’ decision last Friday to drop charges against five police over the death of Lei Yang, a 29-year old graduate of prestigious Renmin University, in police custody…
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The Black Atheist Experience
The Age of Reason When I turned twenty years old, I had an epiphany. I had reached the age of reason and realized I was an atheist. It took me many years to get to the point of even writing something like this on a public forum. Being an atheist in America isn’t well-received by…
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The Hate that Hate Made: The Rise of Trump and the New Era
Hate and Fear Overcomes November 9, 2016, was the capstone on an already unbelievable year of total fuckery. Prince died, Muhammad Ali died, Harambe got shot, Bowie died, the Cleveland Cavilers bested one of the best teams in NBA history to win the NBA Title, the Chicago Cubs won the “freaking” World Series, and America…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump picks South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be US ambassador to UN “President-elect Donald Trump has picked South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley to be the US ambassador to the United Nations, the transition team announced Wednesday.” #Trump#NikkiHaley#TrumpTransition#UN ‘It’s a crime to be young and pretty’: girls flee predatory Central America gangs “Increasing numbers of…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Donald Trump is moving to the White House, and liberals put him there “A month ago I tried to write a column proposing mean nicknames for president-elect Donald Trump, on the basis that it would be funny to turn the tables on him for the cruel diminutives he applied to others. I couldn’t pull it…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
How Half Of America Lost Its F**king Mind The rural folk with the Trump signs in their yards say their way of life is dying, and you smirk and say what they really mean is that blacks and gays are finally getting equal rights and they hate it. But I’m telling you, they…
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The Week in Stories Around the Globe
Trump’s Alpha Male Fantasy “One of the reasons why Trump leads in the polls among men is that there is still an admiration for alpha males in this culture. As I’ve written before, it is this patriarchal notion of dominance that undergirds not only sexism, but racism and most of the other “isms” that continue to…
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American Idiocracy
Dumb it Down? The infamous and incredible comedian George Carlin once said: “Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that.” He was talking about his fellow American citizens. T.V. host, comedian, and lizard man, Bill Maher often comments on the average American’s level of intelligence or…
Evolving Folks Project 