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Down Under Bigotry

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:21:23 GMT

clipped by: AtlLiberal
clipper's remarks: At first I thought this must be a parody piece but then I read that it was written by the vice-chancellor of the Australian Catholic University.

A simple substitution of just about any minority in the place of atheists reveals the blatant prejudice and bigotry shown by this fine Christian.

Clip Source: www.smh.com.au

A plague of atheists has descended, and Catholics are the target

Attacking Christians is not really clever, witty or funny.

FROM time immemorial, this world has been troubled by plagues. From bogong moths in Canberra to frogs in biblical Egypt, unwelcome and unlovely creatures have the awkward habit of turning up in bulk.

Just now, we are facing one of our largest and least appealing infestations. Somewhat in advance of summer's blowflies, we are beset by atheists. Worse, they are not traditional atheists. These tended to be quiet blokes called Algie with ancillary interests in nudist ceramics, who were perfectly happy as long as you pretended to accept a pamphlet in Flinders Lane.

PC as a tired cliche

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:06:37 GMT

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Clip Source: www.kaichang.net

Underlying every complaint of "PC" is the absurd notion that members of dominant mainstream society have been victimized by an arbitrarily hypersensitive prohibition against linguistic and cultural constructions that are considered historical manifestations of bigotry. It's no coincidence that "PC"-snivelers are for the most part white men who are essentially saying, "Who the hell do these marginalized groups think they are to tell me how I should or shouldn't portray them? I'm not going to say 'mentally challenged' when it's my right to say 'retard', goshdarnit there's only so much abuse I'll take!"

Free speech is the straw man of choice for intellectual bums of all stripes too fragile and vacuous for critical engagement. Calling someone who says or does bigoted things "a bigot" isn't censorious, it's descriptively accurate, like calling a bad movie "a bad movie", even if the bigot didn't intend to come off as bigoted and the movie didn't intend to come off as bad.

Exposing the Colour of Prejudice

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 04:14:03 GMT

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clipper's remarks: John Howard Griffin was a remarkable man. As a Texan teenager who found himself in France at the outbreak of World War II, he helped to smuggle Jewish children to safety and freedom.

He then served with distinction in the US Air Force in the Pacific. And then, after the war - when illness struck him blind for 10 years while he was still relatively young - he became a prolific writer.

It was after his sight returned that he hit upon the idea of Black Like Me, the work which is his most important legacy.

The whole business of racial impersonation might make us feel vaguely uncomfortable now, but in 1959 a black writer simply could not have found an audience for such a graphic portrayal of African-American grievance.
Griffin's grim adventures as a black man in a white man's world are worth reading. They remain a set text for many American high school children.

Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

How much does the colour of our skin make us who we are, and shape the way the world sees us?

The answer to that question may seem obvious now after decades of slow and uneven progress towards racial equality and enlightenment.

Griffin exposed the discrimination prevalent in the Deep South

It would have seemed very different 50 years ago to the white Texan writer John Howard Griffin, when he embarked on one of the most remarkable one-man social and psychological experiments in history.

Griffin was the white man who fooled hundreds of Americans into believing he was a black man as he travelled through Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia - and who felt at first hand the bigotry that meant.

When he toured the South lecturing to white audiences about his experiences as a black man, he was threatened, intimidated and, on at least one occasion, seriously beaten.

In the American Deep South in 1959, to be black was to be despised - to be treated as something less than human.

Exposing the colour of prejudice

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 18:00:10 GMT

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Clip Source: news.bbc.co.uk

Exposing the colour of prejudice

How much does the colour of our skin make us who we are, and shape the way the world sees us?

It would have seemed very different 50 years ago to the white Texan writer John Howard Griffin, when he embarked on one of the most remarkable one-man social and psychological experiments in history.

In later life, the six-week venture - described in his book Black Like Me - was to expose him to the hatred and violence that underpinned that bigotry, too.

When he toured the South lecturing to white audiences about his experiences as a black man, he was threatened, intimidated and, on at least one occasion, seriously beaten.

Tags: race, blacks, whites, john howard griffin, america, racism, black like me, bigotry

Radical Islamist to Lead Unprecedented March

Sat, 24 Oct 2009 21:44:08 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mr Griffin also hailed the development, saying, "this move by the Pak.. I mean the radical Islamists demonstrates that the BNP is now the right choice for Britain's idiots. We stand now as a mainstream Party, offering the opportunity of quality multicultural unfairness to all Britain's morons.

As part of the move the BNP's Constitution is to be reviewed to bring it more in line with the teachings of radical Islam. References to 'ragheads' and other potentially Islamic slights are to be removed, with greater emphasis placed instead on the disempowerment of woman. However, both men said they were in agreement that any bits about being Jewish could stay in place.

Reports that the cleric intends to stand for Parliament remain unconfirmed.

Clip Source: www.thespoof.com

Radical Islamist to Lead Unprecedented March

A radical cleric is to lead 5000 extremists in an unprecedented march across London, it was announced today.

The cleric, known best for his calls for Shari'ah Law and the death penalty for failure to possess a prayer mat, will lead his followers from the Houses of Parliament to the British Nazi National Party HQ at The Mosley Correction Club, W1, at which point all 5000 will join the British National Party in a mass signing witnessed by BNP leader Nick Griffin.

The announcement follows the British Nazi Party's decision to open their membership process to non-white races, as long as the applicant can show a demonstrable history of racism.

The cleric said, "this is a great day for bigots across the UK, insh'Allah. The joining of racist politics with racist religion proves that narrow-mindedness and bigotry is not limited by colour or belief, rather by a united and shared stupidity."

Tags: radical islamist to lead unprecedented march, satire, bnp

William Hague under pressure from US over Conservative allies in Europe

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 07:58:03 GMT

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Clip Source: www.guardian.co.uk

William Hague under pressure from US over Conservative allies in Europe

Clinton urged to condemn party's links with Polish and Latvian right-wingers

those outside Europe had the "right to raise moral questions", chiefly because the new grouping in Europe "legitimises extremism, bigotry, Holocaust denial and Holocaust revisionism

questioned the decision of the former Polish president Aleksander Kwasniewski to apologise for the 1941 Jedwabne massacre of at least 300 Jews. Kaminski has condemned the massacre, but indicated it was wrong to expect Poles to apologise until Jews apologised for alleged involvement with the Communists

described as "wrong and outrageous" Kaminski's views on the pogrom and his allegation that Jews were guilty of "mass collaboration". Foxman was equally scathing about the Tories' Latvian partner, the For Fatherland and Freedom party: "Their celebration of the Waffen SS shows where their moral failure lies

Tags: william hague, torries, conservative, europe, right-wingers, holocaust, waffen ss

Miller Time

Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:14:30 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Sure, the last Beer Summit was an empty political gesture, something Obama was forced into after he stepped in it.* This one could actually be meaningful, if everyone behaves, sincerely tries to become a better person … which is asking a lot, I know. Likelihood of it happening? Zip. But maybe the White House Press Corps, which initiated the last Beer Summit, could try to prompt this one. By asking the president about it, like they did last time. Checking Google news, not seeing that has happened.

* Boston Herald, take a bow. Fired the twin rockets of Sgt. Crowley’s distinctly unracist past and his position as a police academy racial profiling instructor that blew up that race thing in Gates’ and Obama’s faces. I remember watching Gates on CNN that afternoon, and the president at his press conference that night, thinking, “Have a good time, guys. Rockets impact in the a.m.” If Skip had just returned our calls …

Clip Source: www.julescrittenden.com

Moving description of gross injustice and a wholesome expression of American values in the Wall Street Journal. It’s Rush Limbaugh, about the slanderous attacks and discriminatory treatment he faced when he tried to exercise his right as an American to engage in a lawful business venture.

Ha! Life imitiates mockery. Sharpton threatens to sue Limbaugh.

A more constructive way of addressing it might be for the post-racial president to invite Rush, the NFL commissioner and owners, and the revs Sharpton and Jackson, to backyard beers. Maybe Rahm Emanuel, too. Not just to try to end the scourge of foul racism as demonstrated by the likes of Sharpton, Jackson, and Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates, but also to try to bring to an end to, or at least moderate some of the most vile and divisive partisanship currently distressing our nation. The White House would be a good place to start, seeing as that is where a lot of it is coming from.

Tags: beer, bigotry, media, obama

What's Wrong In Washington?

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 21:48:17 GMT

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clipper's remarks: How on earth do people like this get into office?!

Clip Source: news.aol.com

A Kansas legislator reposted his "RedNeck Rap" video criticizing President Barack Obama on YouTube on Friday after adding an introduction responding to critics who assailed it as racist

Otto, who represents an eastern Kansas district and lives in LeRoy, about 75 miles south of Topeka, posted the video on YouTube last month, but it came down Thursday after a fellow legislator called it as "disturbing" and suggested it was evidence of bigotry.

Otto said his adult daughters took the video down, using his passwords, because they didn't like him being called a racist.

Earlier this year, he poked fun at then-Gov. Kathleen Sebelius' impending departure for Obama's Cabinet with a parody of a country song that ended with the chorus, "You picked a fine time to leave us, Kathleen."

Clip Source: www.youtube.com

Kan. Lawmaker Reposts 'Anti-Obama Rap'

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How do these idiots get elected?

This guy is actually a Representative in Kansas

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Tags: politics

Second Thoughts

Sat, 17 Oct 2009 11:20:25 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far too long to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to crap all over Barack's big day. Did I -- and others on the left -- do the same?

We are weary, weary of war.

Obama is moving too slow for most of us -- but he needs to know we are with him and we stand beside him as he attempts to turn eight years of sheer madness around. Who could do that in nine months? Superman? Thor? Mitch McConnell?

Instead of waiting to see what the president is going to do, we all need to be pro-active and push the agenda that we want to see enacted. [D]on't abandon the best hope we've had in our lifetime for change.

Now for the tasks ahead. We need you [Obama] to do all that you promised to do. We need it. The world needs it.

Fred (that's Norwegian for "Peace")

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-O7PnvVgQvA

Clip Source: www.morungexpress.com

at precisely 11:00pm ET on November 4, 2008, Barack Obama won the Nobel Peace Prize.

And the 66 million people who voted for him won it, too. By the time he took the stage at midnight ET in the Grant Park Historic Hippie Battlefield in downtown Chicago, billions of people around the globe were already breathing a huge sigh of relief. It was as if, in that instant, one man did bring the promise of peace to the world

Never before had the election of one man made every other nation feel like they had won, too. When you've got billions of people ready, willing and able to join a cause like this, well, a prize in Oslo is the least that you deserve.

I think the Nobel committee, in awarding Obama the prize, was also rewarding the fact that something profound had happened in a nation that was founded on racial genocide, built on racist slavery, and held back for a hundred-plus years by vestiges of hateful bigotry

the Nobel committee was tipping its hat to all of us

It was time for change.

Forget About Gay Marriage...Apparently, We Still Haven't Settled Inter-racial Marriage

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 16:29:42 GMT

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clipper's remarks: On the marriage front, the actions of the judiciary this past week were a mixed bag. In San Francisco, U.S. Dist. Judge Vaughn Walker refused to dismiss a challenge by marriage rights proponents to California's Prop 8, which limits marriage in the state to a union between a man and a woman.

This came as welcome news to California's marriage law proponents whose state law challenges to Prop. 8 proved unsuccessful before the California Supreme Court.

Ironically, on the very page where this story was reported online, a link appeared, stating that an interracial couple was denied a marriage license in LA. Both articles are worth reading, but the article about the LA case contains quotes by the judge who denied the marriage license.

These quotes are shocking in their narrow-mindedness and reek of the same bigotry that the U.S. Supreme Court supposedly put to rest when it outlawed bans against interracial marriage in Loving v. Virginia.

I am dismayed by the ability of the

Clip Source: www.sfgate.com

(10-14) 14:09 PDT SAN FRANCISCO -- A federal judge in San Francisco refused Wednesday to dismiss a lawsuit challenging California's Proposition 8, the voter-approved ban on same-sex marriage, and ordered a trial on whether the measure denies fundamental rights to gays and lesbians.

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Interracial couple denied marriage license in La.

By MARY FOSTER, Associated Press Writer

Friday, October 16, 2009

A white Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."

Tags: gay marriage, interracial marriage, loving v. virginia, prop. 8

GOP House members call for investigation of Muslim political activity

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:02:30 GMT

clipped by: ratilfar
clipper's remarks: Just to underscore how extremist the House GOP caucus is, this hysteria is all based on a new book entitled "Muslim Mafia: Inside the Secret Underworld That's Conspiring to Islamize America." That's the source which these House members are using. In fact, one of the GOP House members, Rep. Sue Myrick of North Carolina, wrote the foreword to the book. One of the two authors of that book, Dave Gaubatz, maintains this website, where he's hawking the book through Paypal.

In 2006, Gaubatz created a project called "Mapping Sharia in America", the purpose of which was to create a comprehensive map of every mosque and Islamic school in the U.S. This is what he wrote:

It is our task to conduct an extensive mapping of all the Islamic day schools, mosques, and other identifiable organizations in the US and to determine which ones teach or preach Islamic law, Sharib.

Clip Source: www.salon.com

This might actually be the most despicable domestic political event of the year:

A group of House Republicans is calling for an investigation into whether a leading American Muslim advocacy group tried to "spy" on congressional offices by placing interns on key security committees.

Rep. Sue Myrick, North Carolina Republican, cited an internal January 2007 memo in which the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) discussed placing Muslim interns on Capitol Hill to "focus on influencing congressmen responsible for policy that directly impacts the American Muslim community."

While the Republicans said they did not know of specific legislation that CAIR had affected, Franks, a Judiciary Committee member, said he wouldn’t be surprised if it was trying to amend the Patriot Act.

Tags: republicans, bigotry, ignorance, hate, stupidity, patriot act, muslims in america

Amazing -- Yes bigotry lives on. Esp among our elected officials.

Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:42:10 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Left to 'ourselves' I'm sure many states and municipalities would also vote to ban interracial marriage... or other 'activities' the majority didn't particularly approve of, but that are (or should be) protected as individual liberties.

Thankfully, we have a constitution that guarantees equal protection -- or at least it says that.

Clip Source: www.npr.org

A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.

Keith Bardwell, justice of the peace in Tangipahoa Parish, says it is his experience that most interracial marriages do not last long.

Tags: bigotry, marriage

Interracial couple denied marriage license in Louisiana

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 23:31:13 GMT

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clipper's remarks: More:

If he did an interracial marriage for one couple, he must do the same for all, he said.

"I try to treat everyone equally," he said.

Bardwell estimates that he has refused to marry about four couples during his career, all in the past 2 1/2 years.…

"It is really astonishing and disappointing to see this come up in 2009," said American Civil Liberties Union of Louisiana attorney Katie Schwartzmann. "The Supreme Court ruled as far back as 1963 that the government cannot tell people who they can and cannot marry."

The ACLU sent a letter to the Louisiana Judiciary Committee, which oversees the state justices of the peace, asking them to investigate Bardwell and recommending "the most severe sanctions available, because such blatant bigotry poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the administration of justice."

"He knew he was breaking the law, but continued to do it," Schwartzmann said.
Clip Source: news.yahoo.com
A Louisiana justice of the peace said he refused to issue a marriage license to an interracial couple out of concern for any children the couple might have.
"I'm not a racist. I just don't believe in mixing the races that way," Bardwell told the Associated Press on Thursday. "I have piles and piles of black friends. They come to my home, I marry them, they use my bathroom. I treat them just like everyone else."
Bardwell said he asks everyone who calls about marriage if they are a mixed race couple. If they are, he does not marry them, he said.
Bardwell said he has discussed the topic with blacks and whites, along with witnessing some interracial marriages. He came to the conclusion that most of black society does not readily accept offspring of such relationships, and neither does white society, he said.
"There is a problem with both groups accepting a child from such a marriage," Bardwell said. "I think those children suffer and I won't help put them through it."

Tags: marriage, racism, bias, bigotry, louisiana

Moroni's Trumpet: We Shall Overcome

Thu, 15 Oct 2009 17:45:20 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Someone should hand that Elder a mirror.

Clip Source: patriotboy.blogspot.com

LDS leader claims after Prop 8 the church was as oppressed as blacks in the civil rights era.

Tags: mormons, morons, prop 8, bigotry, gay rights, civil rights, editorial cartoon

There's more Moore.

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 11:35:01 GMT

clipped by: thinkingblue
clipper's remarks: I thought Michael Moore's letter to President Obama was a bit harsh but then again it also hit the proverbial nail on the head. I'm proud of Pres. Obama but he's only human and therefore fallible. I don't believe (lucky for us) his admin. is as reckless as the Bush/Cheney one was. They cared nothing for people, nothing for the WORLD, only their pipe-dreams of total power were important to them. They were almost non-human. Thank goodness they are no longer in power. I can't imagine what else they would have done to ruin America. Sadly there are some of their ruthless followers carrying-on where they left off. (Beck & Limbaugh) but without power they are neutered and just don't have the BITE their mentors had! Thanks Michael for printing on your site, michaelmoore.com a retraction of sorts about what you think of our President winning the Nobel Peace Prize. I know the Republicans stick together more than we but that's their sin, not blessing. They can't change their minds but we can!

Clip Source: www.thethinkingblue.com

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Wait there's more, Moore:

October 10th, 2009 6:01 PM

Get Off Obama's Back ...second thoughts from Michael Moore

Friends,

Last night my wife asked me if I thought I was a little too hard on Obama in my letter yesterday congratulating him on his Nobel Prize. "No, I don't think so," I replied. I thought it was important to remind him he's now conducting the two wars he's inherited. "Yeah," she said, "but to tell him, 'Now earn it!'? Give the guy a break -- this is a great day for him and for all of us."

I went back and re-read what I had written. And I listened for far too long yesterday to the right wing hate machine who did what they could to crap all over Barack's big day. Did I -- and others on the left -- do the same?

Tags: politics, moore, nobel, peace, obama