This: The #CancelColbert supporters have a very valid point in arguing that radical action and racial outrage should not require that people of colour temper our actions and reactions to appear more acceptable to the mainstream, particularly when this is in conjunction with needing to silence valid expressions of racial
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bastard.logic: Obligatory ZOMG CONCERNED!!1 #CancelColbert Post
Jamilah King breaks down #CancelColbert: What’s important to understand here is that Park’s aim wasn’t necessarily to get The Colbert Show kicked off the air. Instead, it was to, as point out that satire isn’t always the best activism. “Well-intentioned racial humor doesn’t actually do anything to end racism or the
Continue readingbastard.logic: Obligatory ZOMG CONCERNED!!1 #CancelColbert Post
Jamilah King breaks down #CancelColbert: What’s important to understand here is that Park’s aim wasn’t necessarily to get The Colbert Show kicked off the air. Instead, it was to, as point out that satire isn’t always the best activism. “Well-intentioned racial humor doesn’t actually do anything to end racism or the
Continue readingbastard.logic: Freedom and Responsibility (Phil Robertson Edition)
Via Bob Mann: Gay people, more often than not, throw the baby out with the bath water when it comes to religion. But we have a good reason. We’ve been scarred. Religion has damaged us. And I try to share with them the light I have seen in the Episcopal
Continue readingbastard.logic: Freedom and Responsibility (Phil Robertson Edition)
Via Bob Mann: Gay people, more often than not, throw the baby out with the bath water when it comes to religion. But we have a good reason. We’ve been scarred. Religion has damaged us. And I try to share with them the light I have seen in the Episcopal
Continue readingbastard.logic: Monday Metal: Satan – Life Sentence
Despite a precocious childhood obsession with all things heavy in the 80s, I somehow missed the original incarnation of NWOBHM OG’s Satan the first time ’round (though vaguely recall Pariah). Their ripping 2013 comeback LP Life Sentence (featuring the classic Court in the Act line-up) totally cold-cocked me with its timeless, taut intensity, nimble dual
Continue readingbastard.logic: Monday Metal: Satan – Life Sentence
Despite a precocious childhood obsession with all things heavy in the 80s, I somehow missed the original incarnation of NWOBHM OG’s Satan the first time ’round (though vaguely recall Pariah). Their ripping 2013 comeback LP Life Sentence (featuring the classic Court in the Act line-up) totally cold-cocked me with its timeless, taut intensity, nimble dual
Continue readingbastard.logic: Cinerama – ‘I Wake Up Screaming’ (AUDIO)
Check out ‘I Wake Up Screaming’ by Cinerama, the first single in ten years (!) from David Gedge and co.: Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue readingbastard.logic: Cinerama – ‘I Wake Up Screaming’ (AUDIO)
Check out ‘I Wake Up Screaming’ by Cinerama, the first single in ten years (!) from David Gedge and co.: Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue readingbastard.logic: Fucking Up Young (Aging Hipster Rewind)
While your’s truly managed to make it out for The Dirty Nil at Fanshawe College last night (an effervescent performance, bee tee dubya), I neglected to take any pics. Which is a shame, considering all the half-ironic cock-rock posing that went down (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Oh,
Continue readingbastard.logic: Fucking Up Young (Aging Hipster Rewind)
While your’s truly managed to make it out for The Dirty Nil at Fanshawe College last night (an effervescent performance, bee tee dubya), I neglected to take any pics. Which is a shame, considering all the half-ironic cock-rock posing that went down (not that there’s anything wrong with that). Oh,
Continue readingbastard.logic: Around the Internets: Monday Jump-Off
Must-reading to keep you occupied while US legislators play Hot Potato with an extremely fragile global economy (because Teabaggers won’t be dissed by the Negro-in-Chief, natch): Plutocrats at Work: How Big Philanthropy Undermines Democracy (h/t Diane Ravitch) Warning bells: Is US shutdown a brewing African-American revolt? (h/t) Do Racial Issues
Continue readingbastard.logic: Around the Internets: Monday Jump-Off
Must-reading to keep you occupied while US legislators play Hot Potato with an extremely fragile global economy (because Teabaggers won’t be dissed by the Negro-in-Chief, natch): Plutocrats at Work: How Big Philanthropy Undermines Democracy (h/t Diane Ravitch) Warning bells: Is US shutdown a brewing African-American revolt? (h/t) Do Racial Issues
Continue readingbastard.logic: More Collateral Damage From USia’s Wars
Rest assured that the ongoing US government shutdown (or slimdown, if one prefers the wingnut parlance) won’t stop the prescription opiates overmedicated veterans are now hooked on post Iraq/Afghanistan from flowing like wine. PS – it’s not just opiates. Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue readingbastard.logic: More Collateral Damage From USia’s Wars
Rest assured that the ongoing US government shutdown (or slimdown, if one prefers the wingnut parlance) won’t stop the prescription opiates overmedicated veterans are now hooked on post Iraq/Afghanistan from flowing like wine. PS – it’s not just opiates. Filed under: Uncategorized
Continue readingbastard.logic: Abdul Haji: Hero. Muslim. BAMF.
“I don’t feel like a hero at all. That girl who ran towards me is brave. That’s bravery.” ‘Hero’ is indeed an extraordinarily over/misused word these days. But despite his insistence to the contrary, Westgate Mall rescuer Abdul Haji deserves — no, embodies — the title. LAMF. Not only because
Continue readingbastard.logic: Abdul Haji: Hero. Muslim. BAMF.
“I don’t feel like a hero at all. That girl who ran towards me is brave. That’s bravery.” ‘Hero’ is indeed an extraordinarily over/misused word these days. But despite his insistence to the contrary, Westgate Mall rescuer Abdul Haji deserves — no, embodies — the title. LAMF. Not only because
Continue readingbastard.logic: So Who Are They Assigning Down The Hall Anyway?
I’m not exactly keen to join in on the collective online WTFery re: heterosexual manly-man Canadian author and occasional University of Toronto lecturer David Gilmour’s steadfast refusal to allow girl germs and POC cooties to infect the pristine, middle-aged white male sterility of his syllabus. There have already been ample
Continue readingbastard.logic: So Who Are They Assigning Down The Hall Anyway?
I’m not exactly keen to join in on the collective online WTFery re: heterosexual manly-man Canadian author and sessional University of Toronto lecturer David Gilmour’s steadfast refusal to allow girl germs and POC cooties to infect the pristine, middle-aged white male sterility of his syllabus. There have already been ample
Continue readingbastard.logic: A strange and bitter crop, indeed.
Quite possibly the most unfortunate lynching metaphor ever (or so far this week, anyhow — bear in mind, it’s only Tuesday): The uproar over bonuses “was intended to stir public anger, to get everybody out there with their pitchforks and their hangman nooses, and all that — sort of like
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