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Every now and then I like to check in to see if Splitsider is any less shitty. Don’t worry, it remains shitty.
Full disclosure: A good friend once wrote an article for Splitsider that I didn’t think was shitty.
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Every now and then I like to check in to see if Splitsider is any less shitty. Don’t worry, it remains shitty.
Full disclosure: A good friend once wrote an article for Splitsider that I didn’t think was shitty.
If you’re gonna call Pro-Choicers “Pro-Abortion”, then you’re also gonna have to call us “Pro-Adoption” and “Pro-Parenthood”. Because we don’t care which option you choose, as long as it’s your decision.
See, the thing about being pro-choice, is we…
Yeah, I’m totally down with this, but I’d like to state for the record that I’m completely comfortable being called pro-abortion, in the same way I’m comfortable being called pro-appendectomy. It’s not right for everybody but I’ll gladly say that I am for this amazing medical procedure that saves lives. Let’s never cede any ground to anti-choicers: Abortion is a good thing.
(Source: stfueverything)
— Hi! Actually, these ideas are super toxic! Women are human beings and not possessions.
— John Krasinski sounds really stupid in this interview.
Please note up front that I am not Palestinian, or Arab, or Muslim. I am an American Jew. So any list I draw up with this title is doomed to be incomplete, because there are a lot of facets of the Palestinian experience that I just don’t see.
HOWEVER.
I’ve seen a shocking amount of orientalist…
“People who are poor and oppressed, on the whole, engage in more violence and subscribe to more extremist forms of religions—regardless of what religions they practice, because the real problem isn’t the religion, it’s the poverty and oppression.”
Just to nitpick in this otherwise excellent post: We have a tendency to see the way oppressed people behave as violent in a way we don’t see capitalism, hegemony, and political power as violent. I get this, and I appreciate that this post understands the roots of that kind of violence, but rhetorically I’d like us to move away from it. Oppression is violence. Capitalism is violence. If you use a ballot measure, or a vote, or a dollar to fuck someone up, that’s violence. Using police to quell protests is violence. Even if we think of violence as value-neutral, as just a tool to be used on the side of right or wrong (I don’t feel this way, but…), sitting in an office wearing a tie and signing a piece of legislation that takes away rights like health care, or someone’s home, or the right to move freely from one town to the next is an act of violence. So when we turn on the TV (I’m for a moment going to talk about my experience in America, even though this post was originally about Israel, because most of this blog’s readership is in America) and see that someone poor robbed a convenience store, we must not forget the acts of violence committed by rich people, constantly, that give the poor no options.
(via amaliadahlia)
— I am obsessed with this 1992 article about Jim Jarmusch. Sorry for being a self-parody?
— Stephen Tobolowsky accidentally just straight-up explained good storytelling on his blog.
— http://jacobinmag.com/2012/09/the-liberals-and-the-teachers-an-examination-on-the-merits/
It always sucks to know one of your facebook friends is stupid and one of HIS friends is stupider.
What’s the difference?
sorry if i’m missing something but what else do you need?
If any of you understand this thing I tweeted please let me know because we should be friends.
Good thing I passed, b.
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