Bumper sticker caught earlier this week that’s been making the rounds on Twitter and Facebook: Actually, this thing’s been around for awhile: Maddowblog caught a similar thing last year. Not much to add, except #puke
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Right’s war on women, er girls, reaches new lows with this lovely cartoon
The closer it gets to November, the more emboldened they come. But this poster from far-right blog Protein Wisdom is OK because a woman drew it and it’s satire. Yeah right. Remember when the right was so upset over Playboy’s admittedly sexist accounting of the top conservative women? Not so
Continue readingMarch Madness: South Mississippi band chants "Where’s your green card?" to Hispanic opponent
Wow. The racism from the right, especially from those in the south, is accelerating exponentially as the November elections come closer.
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Stop the Condo Development on the Musqueam Burial Site
What kind of racist government issues a permit for a condo developer to bulldoze a Musqueum burial site? BC’s government. I visited c̓əsnaʔəm, the 1338 SW Marine Drive site this morning and had a chance to talk with some of the demonstrators. I learned a number of important points in
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: What’s the Matter With Mississippi?
This short film by Alexandra Pelosi asks some regular folks in Mississippi why the poorest state in America is also the most conservative:
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Politics, Re-Spun on The Rational on Co-op Radio, March 12 Lineup
Politics, Re-Spun is on The Rational on Coop Radio on Monday, March 12, 2012 from 6pm to 7pm with an intriguing lineup! Listen live online or at 102.7fm in the Vancouver area. Here’s the lineup: 1. Dylan Penner will talk with Stephen Elliott-Buckley about the Canadian Boat for Gaza: why,
Continue readingMike Lester presents the south’s take on Obama and Sandra Fluke
From Georgia’s Rome News Tribune. Yeah, let that sink in. You’ve got the African-American President is a 70′s pimp angle, the Sandra Fluke is a whore angle, the “evil light-skinned brother” angle, the white girl subservient to the black man angle, a complete misrepresentation of Ms. Fluke’s statements to boot
Continue readingDead Wild Roses: Tim Wise on Racism
A great Gumbo story oh, and an interesting lecture to boot. Oh and epic quote of the day – “Responsibility is what you take because of who you are.” Filed under: Ethics, Racism Tagged: Racism, Tim Wise, White Privilege
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Federal Judge E-mails Racist Joke About Obama
When it comes to racist, this rings all the bells: “A little boy said to his mother; ‘Mommy, how come I’m black and you’re white?’ His mother replied, ‘Don’t even go there Barack! From what I can remember about that party, you’re lucky you don’t bark!‘ US District Judge Richard
Continue readingCebullshit. Of course it’s because he’s black.
So-called free speech warriors would like you to stop referring to them as ‘racists’. In fact, they demand it. Just because they send emails among one another that depict the first African American president in racist and offensive terms unlike any other president before Obama doesn’t make them bigots. Even
Continue readingPolitics, Re-Spun: Undermining Solidarity in the Balkans: Reviewing Boris Malagursky’s “The Weight of Chains”
Reviewed by Konstantin Kilibarda Independent Vancouver-based filmmaker Boris Malagursky’s The Weight of Chains is the latest in a long line of misguided attempts to give an ‘alternative’ account to the wars in the former Yugoslavia during the 1990s. This review seeks to directly address some of the more flawed accounts
Continue readingCanada creeps toward becoming a closed society
Nick Fillmore asks a question the regina mom has been grappling with for years: “Is Stephen Harper displaying fascist-like tendencies?” Ever since Naomi Wolf published “Ten Steps To Close Down an Open Society” at the Huffington Post in April, 2007, an essay has been brewing on trm‘s computer. (Yes, trm
Continue reading"Chink In The Armor": ESPN headline about end of winning streak for Jeremy Lin
Racism in American media? Never! Just ask Pat Buchanan. Or Pete Hoekstra. What makes this all the more egregious is that ESPN has used this exact headline before in relation to Chinese people.
Continue readingNorthern Insights / Perceptivity: Global TV featured infamous hate monger speaking for a phantom group
REPLAY, from August 2010, worth reading again to consider if the situation has improved or degraded in the last 18 months. The most effective critic of news media in British Columbia’s today is Harvey Oberfeld. He has particular qualifications since he spent his career in print and broadcast journalism. Indeed,
Continue readingThis is my SOS to the world
A tiny community called out to world. And the world answered. Foreign aid arrived in Canada courtesy environmental organizations which, if you’ll remember, dear Reader, are “radical groups” with “radical agendas” trying to “derail” the Northern Gateway Pipeline project. Our radical agenda, backed by independent science, demands acknowledgement that the
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: “Obock Obama”
Wearing a matching sweater vest, Foster Friess, the billionaire investor backing Rick “Man on Dog” Santorum’s frothy campaign to be Theocrat-in-Chief of the Free World, introduces his pet candidate at CPAC 2012: After opening with a mildly amusing joke at the expense of Mitt Romney, Friess goes on to observe
Continue readingWillful Ignorance
As the HarperCon delegation of Ministers and big biz boyz prepared to take off for China, the wise Yinka Dene Nation through whose lands the Northern Gateway pipeline is proposed to go, were busy writing letters. They sent one to the Government of China loaded with examples describing how Aboriginal
Continue readingMichigan senatorial candidate Pete Hoekstra’s "yellow girl"
Former Republican Rep. Pete Hoekstra sees nothing wrong with his video depicting an Asian-American woman talking broken English in the manner of say how 30’s movies depicted Chinese people. You know, with plenty of racist overtones. But this is the 21st century and to see an ad with a stereotypical
Continue readingWTF? A Poem?
WTF? A bunch of racist sexist homophobic nutbarsGOP nazis spreading shit like this is somehow okay in the land of the free, home of the brave? Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act (PRENDA) pretends to prevent race-based abortions, steals from the civil rights … Continue reading →
Continue readingArizona governor Jan Brewer scoffs at accusations of racism. Arizona senator Cecil Ash wants holiday for white people.
All I can say is that Arizona must have a lot of white people. A lot of old, rich white people. How else could the governor get up in the face of the first black American president by wagging her finger up his nose and claim afterwards that she “felt a
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