Like all his predecessors, Ehud Olmert constantly invokes spurious security arguments in order to defend policies that are indefensible. The Palestinians do not pose a threat to
Like all his predecessors, Ehud Olmert constantly invokes spurious security arguments in order to defend policies that are indefensible. The Palestinians do not pose a threat to
Local zealot on the topic of Islam: I’m seeing more and more filthy keffiyehs in the streets than ever.Nice. Had this good Christian lived in 1930s Germany, we would no doubt have read comments about 'filthy yarmulkes'. Read more »
Here, Have A Kitty
Amnesty Internationals Irrepressible Info campaign
That new widget in the sidebar allows us to help “undermine censorship by publishing fragments of censored material” from some of the many websites around the world which have been censored by one government or another. (via Lauredhel) Read more »
Some artwork from Amanda Marcotte’s book “It’s A Jungle Out There”, published by Seal Press, is now online at Dear White Feminists. I wrote about Seal Press a short while ago, here, and y’all know about the current AM/appropriation conversation going on everywhere in the femiblogosophere and RWOCosphere.
This is blatantly, indefensibly racist. This is vile. Read more »
[image source: Turing Foundation]
News.com.au: Aboriginal children ‘injected with leprosy’ Read more »
Rather bemused to find this story through Shakesville via Mark Steyn via Tim Blair via Currency Lad, but they’ve got Bob Ellis bang to rights regarding Read more »
The previous federal government used the spectre of child sexual abuse as justification to scrap the permit system contained in the Land Rights Act, which required people wishing to visit Aboriginal freehold land in the Northern Territory to first obtain permission. It was cheered on its efforts by its ideological fellow-travellers, who were happy to smear anyone who did not support the move as protecting paedophiles and other child abusers. Read more »
Update: Seal Press has just responded to the people criticising their artwork in Amanda Marcotte’s “It’s A Jungle Out There” book as racist and colonialist. The apology is here:.
Friday, April 25, 2008
A Public Apology
To Our Readers, Our Friends, Our Critics, Read more »
Brooklynite’s new blog is live (Congratulations!). Check it out at studentactivism.net.
The entry that leapt out at me:
You know how Seal Press aren’t at all racist? And how these book covers[1] are just all mass-market-fun and goofball and ironic and hilarious and why must you always be so serious and critique-y and stuff anyway?
Well. The amazing Blackamazon had a very brief vent in her own space, in the midst of a post last week enthusing about WAM!2008:
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