February 2012
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Things I learned from TV.
dumbthingswhitepplsay:
All Asians look like John Cho.
Asians know everything. Seriously, everything. And they can probably fly in secret and they just don’t tell us.
If an Asian person tells you to do something, for the love of god, do it. NEVER cross them.
Black people are all hard. Every one. They’re hard as fuck. You can’t break them with a hammer.
Despite being really hard, black people...
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“In sum, Bourdieu would see a harmony between the market needs of elite colleges and the class interests of their clientele. The criteria used in admissions will match the qualities that privileged groups carry with them, and the result of this mutual recognition will be social reproduction disguised as a fair and meritorious academic competition.”
::Joseph A. Soares, The Power of...
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“The claim that taxpayers have a moral right to spend their pre-tax income as they see fit also has considerable rhetorical force. But it, too, collapses under scrutiny. If government couldn’t compel tax payments under penalty of law, there could be no government. With no government, we would have no army. In short order, we would be invaded by some other government’s army and...
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ESPN's response to "Chink In The Armor" Headline
From ESPN Front Row, Feb 19th 2012:
At ESPN we are aware of three offensive and inappropriate comments made on ESPN outlets during our coverage of Jeremy Lin.
Saturday we apologized for two references here. We have since learned of a similar reference Friday on ESPN Radio New York. The incidents were separate and different. We have engaged in a thorough review of all three and have taken the...
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“Was it my own discomfort that drew me to outsiders for my subjects? For my college honors theses and PhD dissertation I chose as my subject Joseph Conrad, a Polish emigre who felt himself an outsider in England…After writing two literary studies on Conrad, I turned to James Joyce, who left his homeland dominated by the Catholic Church and the British Crown to live in exile, and who...
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For Women Under 30, Most Births Occur Outside... →
Third sentence: “Once largely limited to poor women and minorities, motherhood without marriage has settled deeply into middle America.”
Really, NYTimes? Because poor women and minorities were never part of middle America.
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Watchnprmusic:
A classic love story: Boy meets girl, girl’s father sabotages boy’s fire trick. You know the drill.
Watch the new video for Cults’ “You Know What I Mean.”
holy shit Dyl here’s another! thank you NPR.
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Cat Fancy Magazine (cat_fancy) on Twitter →
smokeandsong:
I have literally no idea what’s going on.
dylan. “an endless labyrinth of meows.”
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Diamond Rings—Wait and See
Theme song of my...
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"Thus began one of the weirdest feuds in the... →
motherjones:
Truth in advertising: Your bedtime reading for Monday is Dashka Slater’s #longread on what happened when a biologist discovered that a top-selling herbicide can cause frogs to change gender. (Yes, this was sort of a plot twist in Jurassic Park.)
I LOVE THIS GUY HE IS A GREAT SCIENTIST AND MAN
READ THIS ARTICLE HE WROTE: “Diversifying the biological sciences: past efforts...
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ohstella:
“Persons who are racially and sexually marked within the dominant culture—who are seen as embodying or having the potential to embody deviancy and difference—are in a position of either (1) internalizing cultural norms which dehumanize their existence or (2) consciously battling them.”
::Jacqueline M. Martinez, “La Conciencia De La Mestiza: Intra-And Intersubjective Transformations of...
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January 2012
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To My Old Master →
discoverynews:
In August of 1865, a Colonel P.H. Anderson of Big Spring, Tennessee, wrote to his former slave, Jourdan Anderson, and requested that he come back to work on his farm. Jourdan — who, since being emancipated, had moved to Ohio, found paid work, and was now supporting his family — responded spectacularly by way of the letter seen below (a letter which, according to newspapers at...
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Shit Republican Candidates Say...About Black... →
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