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Weisburg's Racist Comments on Election

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 06:44:50 GMT

clipped by: davboz
clipper's remarks: Author's propaganda tries to turn tables on realities. Despicable barely describes this hateful diatribe. Not in criticizing Reps.,McCain,etc. That's part of the game. I refer to his conclusions. Hopefully we can see through this kind of distortion no matter where we stand politically. If he felt confident in Obama's record he wouldn't need to even go where he does here.
It seems that the concept, the equation, coming clear in this time, as we hopefully progress past true racism and the hurt it does to good people, is that, as blatant, actual racism lessens and becomes ever less an immediately impacting harm , less of a component of thought and feeling in our society, there seems to be, hopefully only temporarily, a corresponding yet negatively driven counter-trend of some sort. which insists that, there be a reverse racism taken for granted in order to prove the non-existence of the old, shameful racism..
Speaking for myself, I had, earlier this year, felt most favorable about

Clip Source: www.slate.com

2008 is a year that favors the generic Democratic candidate over the generic Republican one. Yet Barack Obama, with every natural and structural advantage in the presidential race, is running only neck-and-neck against John McCain, a sub-par Republican nominee with a list of liabilities longer than a Joe Biden monologue. Obama has built a crack political operation, raised record sums, and inspired millions with his eloquence and vision. McCain has struggled with a fractious campaign team, lacks clarity and discipline, and remains a stranger to charisma. Yet at the moment, the two of them appear to be tied. What gives?

Much evidence points to racial prejudice as a factor that could be large enough to cost Obama the election.

If you break the numbers down, the reason Obama isn't ahead right now is that he trails badly among one group, older white voters. He does so for a simple reason: the color of his skin.

Such prejudice usually comes coded in distortions about Obama and his background.

A Theologian Answers the Atheists about God

Sat, 06 Sep 2008 04:48:10 GMT

clipped by: Efrain Alvarado

Clip Source: insidecatholic.com

Father Williams has produced a quick read that manages to point out flaws in simple reasoning and clear errors in the more complex arguments that are often blindsided by the atheist's own prejudice.

The natural sciences grew out of Christian culture. As the sociologist Rodney Stark has so convincingly shown, science was "still-born" in the great civilizations of the ancient world, except in Christian civilizations. Why is it that empirical science and the scientific method did not develop in China (with its sophisticated society), in India (with its philosophical schools), in Arabia (with its advanced mathematics), in Japan . . . or even in ancient Greece or Rome? . . . Science flourished in societies where a Christian mind-set understood nature to be ordered and intelligible, the work of an intelligent Creator. . . . Far from being an obstacle to science, Christian soil was the necessary humus where science took root.

Tags: god, atheism, religion, christianity

Free Speech and the Right to Offend

Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:49:30 GMT

clipped by: abailart

Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

Free speech is indeed precious, but that doesn't mean that we have to defend without qualification every moron who abuses it

Saying that we have a right to offend skips over the question of whether we are right to offend. I have a right to tell random strangers that I think they're ugly, or that they have terrible taste in clothes, but it would be wrong of me to exercise that right,

we don't just utter words, we do things with them, as the Oxford philosopher JL Austin put it. When words belittle or mock, they can reinforce prejudice and hierarchies that have very real effects on people's lives. Mockery of those already on the margins can shore up the very barriers that limit their life chances.

Tags: morons

Scottish minister backs fight against rural homophobia

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 13:16:33 GMT

clipped by: queah

Clip Source: www.pinknews.co.uk

The Minister for Communities and Sport in Scotland has said the country's SNP government is committed to fighting prejudice and discrimination against LGBT people.

Stewart Maxwell MSP made his comments on a visit to Dumfries LGBT Centre last month.

Dumfries and Galloway is the only rural region in Scotland that "visibly tackles issues like homophobia and exclusion," say centre staff.

In government the SNP has supported a new homophobic hate crimes bill but it has been delayed.

Scottish studies have revealed that violence against the gay community is reaching a devastating level.

According to one such report, 36 percent of LGBT people have experienced abuse or violence in the last year, compared to 2.5% of the general population.

AMERICA'S IGNORANCE ON RACE

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:59:25 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: Sad, but let us hope that those who still hold on to their xenophobia and complete unfounded fears of anyone who looks different from themselves. Will, at long last, get so fed up with the status quo of the almighty greed and corporate powerbrokers, who use any tool to hold on to their powers. Consequently, making them realize that they are just pawns to the GREED GODS This "awakening" will end the long reign of power by those who only care about themselves. I can only dream.thinkingblue

PS: this (utter stupidity) was a comment on one of my blogs...

obama bin biden this might be silly but if you put Obama and Biden you come up with the name of osama bin laden ... come on .. how close is that name.. this is not good news for US to have osama bin binden as the people in charge.. i dont think this is an accindent .. you know this kind of scares me alot to see that name...

WHAT STUPID HORSESHIT!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QM4NxHGb6iI (VIDEO)

Clip Source: www.thethinkingblue.com

AMERICA'S IGNORANCE ON RACE

EXCERPTED FROM PM CARPENTER

The (Newsweek) new poll suggests white voters continue to be a challenge for Obama

We are still living in the DARK AGES as far as ignorance amongst the American populous. I don't know when it will change, if ever. When I got a job as a civil service employee, in the 60's, working for The Clerk of Quarter Sessions, I had a DOOFUS (click) boyfriend tell me, not to take the job because I would be outnumbered by blacks and maybe even wind up with a black boss.

At that time, I had a friend who was a civil service employee tell me, "it's a good opportunity, don't pass it up". So I took the job and found out... HOLY JUMPING JUPITER, BATMAN, dark skin or light skin, people are all the same. Some are ASSHOLES and some are quite rational.

Well here I am, almost two generations down the road and prejudice is quite ensconced "STILL" in the American psyche.

thinkingblue

utter stupidity

was a comment on one of my blogs

Tags: politics, election, 2008, bigotry

Mrs. Conservative

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 10:43:12 GMT

clipped by: sillysam
clipper's remarks: So what we will see in the next days and weeks--what we have already seen in the hours after her nomination--is an effort by all the powers of the old liberalism, both in the Democratic party and the mainstream media, to exorcise this spectre. They will ridicule her and patronize her. They will distort her words and caricature her biography. They will appeal, sometimes explicitly, to anti-small town and anti-religious prejudice. All of this will be in the cause of trying to prevent the American people from arriving at their own judgment of Sarah Palin.

Clip Source: www.weeklystandard.com

A spectre is haunting the liberal elites of New York and Washington--the spectre of a young, attractive, unapologetic conservatism, rising out of the American countryside, free of the taint (fair or unfair) of the Bush administration and the recent Republican Congress, able to invigorate a McCain administration and to govern beyond it.

That spectre has a name--Sarah Palin, the 44-year-old governor of Alaska chosen by John McCain on Friday to be his running mate. There she is: a working woman who's a proud wife and mother; a traditionalist in important matters who's broken through all kinds of barriers; a reformer who's a Republican; a challenger of a corrupt good-old-boy establishment who's a conservative; a successful woman whose life is unapologetically grounded in religious belief; a lady who's a leader.

3 in 10 Americans Admit to Race Bias

Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:42:08 GMT

clipped by: deusdiabolus

Clip Source: www.washingtonpost.com

As Sen. Barack Obama opens his campaign as the first African American on a major party presidential ticket, nearly half of all Americans say race relations in the country are in bad shape and three in 10 acknowledge feelings of racial prejudice, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

More than six in 10 African Americans now rate race relations as "not so good" or "poor," while 53 percent of whites hold more positive views. Opinions are also divided along racial lines, though less so, on whether blacks face discrimination. There is more similarity on feelings of personal racial prejudice: Thirty percent of whites and 34 percent of blacks admit such sentiments.

Tags: polls, race

Foxnews: Stupid or sexist; which?

Mon, 18 Aug 2008 15:09:20 GMT

clipped by: boniface
clipper's remarks: A tart is defined as:

1. A prostitute.
2. A woman considered to be sexually promiscuous.

So how do a couple of women that have been together for many years qualify as "tarts." It's the old prejudice: lesbian = promiscuous. What idiots!

Clip Source: www.foxnews.com

Pop Tarts: Stars Send Well-Wishes to Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi

LOS ANGELES — After many years together, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi finally tied the knot on Saturday.

Indigenous People

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:15:26 GMT

clipped by: MetisCougar
clipper's remarks: The brand, Indian was placed upon us by the Spanish and has carried on since that time.

This alone clouds our heritage.

Cougar

Clip Source: webmail.canada.com

"There are many people who could claim and learn from their Indian ancestry, but because of the fear their parents and grandparents knew, because of past and present prejudice against Indian people, that part of their heritage is clouded or denied."

--Joseph Bruchac, ABENAKI

Books To Read This Weekend

Fri, 31 Aug 2007 16:48:39 GMT

clipped by: Bookyards

Clip Source: bookyards.blogspot.com

The following are books that were made into screenplays for major motion pictures, and they can be freely downloaded from rapidshare. Enjoy.

Catch 22 by Joseph Heller

To Kill A Mockingbird by Lee Harper

Love Story by Erich Segal

Jurassic Park by Michael Chrichton

The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

Bridges Of Madison County by Robert James Waller

Forrest Gump by Winston Groom

Fight Club by Chuck Palahnuik

The Client by James Grisham

The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale

Gone With The Wind by Margaret Mitchell

The Thorn Birds by Colleen McCullough

For more books to read, go to BookYards,
or go to its blog for more modern books.

Tags: books made into screenplays, free books

Religion Begets Prejudice

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 22:45:57 GMT

clipped by: arifsali
clipper's remarks: ....
Today it is from this same part of America, the most overtly religious part, that most of the hostility toward equality in the pursuit of justice for gay and lesbian people comes. The question that should be asked is: What is there about religion in general and Christianity in particular that continues to fuel the prejudices of our day?

Clip Source: newsweek.washingtonpost.com

Far from my religion tempering my prejudices, racial prejudice was actually instilled in me by my evangelical Christian church. I grew up in North Carolina in what we call the Bible Belt. My church taught me that segregation was the will of God and quoted the Bible to prove it. It taught me that men were by nature superior to woman and quoted the Bible to prove it. It taught me that it was o.k. to hate other religions, and especially the Jews, and quoted the Bible to prove it. It taught me that homosexual persons were either mentally sick or morally depraved and, of course, quoted the Bible to prove it. So the idea that being religious might make one less prejudiced is a fantasy. It appears to make people more prejudiced, or at the least, not to confront their prejudices.

Tags: religion

self- fulfilling perception

Fri, 08 Aug 2008 14:22:03 GMT

clipped by: balthazarus
clipper's remarks: "This shows that a person's level of sensitivity to being stereotyped -- their expectation that a person will behave prejudicially towards them -- may distort their perception of reality."

Zooming out from the specification of the article, i think it points to the inevitability of seeing what one is "programmed" to see. where is the way out?

Clip Source: www.sciencedaily.com

Expecting To Be Treated With Prejudice May Be Self-fulfilling Prophecy, Study Suggests

Expecting to be treated with prejudice may be part of a self-fulfilling prophecy, according to new research led by a University of Toronto psychologist.

The groundbreaking study was done using a series of computer-animated male and female faces expressing a range of looks, from rejection to acceptance.

Researchers created a slide show where the expressions on the animated faces morphed from looks of rejection to looks of acceptance, and study participants were asked to identify the point at which the expressions changed.

female participants who identified themselves as stigma-conscious saw expressions of contempt for a half-second longer on the men's animated faces than they did on the women's faces

it's very possible that the women who are vigilant for rejection are in fact more likely to objectively experience prejudice in everyday life

Tags: psychology, prejudice

It's Too Hot For Them Dawgs

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:00:08 GMT

clipped by: debbyski
clipper's remarks: "One might observe that when it comes to important issues like human rights in Tibet, Chinese leaders don’t seem to care what the rest of the world thinks, yet when it comes to dietary niceties, they kowtow to the most irrational foreign prejudice."

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

THOSE who hope to taste dog meat when they visit Beijing for this summer’s Olympics may be disappointed. The Beijing Catering Trade Association has ordered all 112 designated Olympic restaurants to take dog off the menu, and has strongly advised other establishments to stop serving it until September.

The order is not likely to bother many residents. Though dogs have been raised for food in China for thousands of years, you have to hunt around to find the meat on modern menus.

Dog eating, in any case, tends to be a seasonal pursuit.

Marco Polo noted with distaste that the Chinese liked eating snake and dog; modern Western journalists just love to get their teeth into a juicy story about some revolting delicacy like the assorted animal penises served at the Guolizhuang restaurant in Beijing.

For a Westerner, eating it can feel a little strange, but is it morally different from eating, say, pork?

Barack Obama is Mr Darcy --Maureen Dowd

Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:27:07 GMT

clipped by: readforpleasure
clipper's remarks: Dowd reports that some women won't vote for Obama because he's skinny, some because he seems haughty. That's no sillier than voting for him because he resembles Jane Austen's most popular hero, Mr Darcy. I'm not wild about the train of thought that says women vote based on fictional heroes. However, it may be an uncomfortable truth, and not only about women. Much of voter opinion is based on looks, style, and media hype--not content.

I do give Dowd credit for making an unusual analogy. The "Pride & Prejudice" title fits the current politics in some ways, and Dowd correctly points out that the success of the Austen novel rests of changing the views of *both* sides.

Clip Source: www.nytimes.com

Obama bears a distinct resemblance to the most cherished hero in chick-lit history. The senator is a modern incarnation of the clever, haughty, reserved and fastidious Mr. Darcy.

The master of Pemberley “had yet to learn to be laught at,” and this sometimes caused “a deeper shade of hauteur” to “overspread his features.”

If Obama is Mr. Darcy, with “his pride, his abominable pride,” then America is Elizabeth Bennet, spirited, playful, democratic, financially strained, and caught up in certain prejudices. (McCain must be cast as Wickham, the rival for Elizabeth’s affections, the engaging military scamp who casts false aspersions on Darcy’s character.)

Can America

move past its biases to figure out if Obama’s supposed conceit is really just the protective shield and defense mechanism of someone who grew up half white and half black, a perpetual outsider

Can Miss Bennet teach Mr. Darcy to let down his guard, be more sportive, and laugh at himself?

Tags: rfp, politics

Dr. Zack Overlooked as Anthrax Suspect

Mon, 04 Aug 2008 07:22:20 GMT

clipped by: blueridge
clipper's remarks: This article is worth reading in its entirety. While dated 2002, it may have well been written yesterday, substituting the "suicided" suspect for what back then was Hatfill. The facts are relevant and suggestive.

Dr. Zack seems to fit the profile of motive, means, and opportunity (access), upon reading, then the now deceased. He is also a dual Israeli citizen with an obvious prejudice and gripe against Arabs, even if American citizens with whom he worked. Do not miss the anonymous letter to the FBI that called his Arab co-worker a "bioterrorist", which the FBI considered a hoax after investigation, and how close that sounds to the Anthrax hoax letters that said "Allah is great".

Clip Source: www.washington-report.org

While Media Spotlights One Anthrax Suspect, Another Is Too Hot to Touch

Before the investigation of Dr. Hatfill captured national headlines, another insider scientist had come under FBI scrutiny without much media fanfare. It was easy to miss the few stories published in January 2002 about Lt. Col. Philip Zack, who, like Hatfill, also had access to a well-equipped laboratory with lax security. Zack, moreover, actually worked with military-grade anthrax at Fort Detrick.

Dr. Zack left Fort Detrick in December 1991 amid allegations of unprofessional conduct. The Jewish scientist and others were accused of harassing their co-worker, Dr. Ayaad Assaad, until the Egyptian-born American scientist quit

Inexplicably, the national press ignored these documented unauthorized visits to a top-secret government lab embroiled in the anthrax attacks. Did journalists fear being labeled anti-Semitic for casting suspicions on a Jewish scientist?

She is convinced that the FBI knows who sent the anthrax letters

Tags: anthrax, dr. zack, bioterrorism, 9/11