November 2010
24 posts
If you want to know what Buddhism means and how a...
newfilosofee:
You get my point.
Men have called me a feminazi, frigid, a bitch, but it all boils down to ‘You...
– HBI member, KIM (via lipstick-feminists)
When we talk about women as cultural producers — whether it’s music or art or...
– bell hooks in Venus magazine, 2003 (via kperfetto)
This is why I’m riled up when I see a new writer/singer/whathaveyou being lauded as “the next” JKR/Beyonce/whathaveyou. (Because God forbid there could be more than one kind of female artist.)
Marginalized groups are not responsible for explaining their marginalization to...
– word. (via wuling09)
I Fixed the US Budget Deficit! →
Dude I totally fixed the US budget deficit! And I didn’t even have to raise anybody’s taxes! Fun game.
Many academics have studied the cause for the Partition and its horrendous...
– A review of The Great Partition on Amazon. (via trastorn)
I have made it clear that America is not and never will be at war with Islam.
– President Barack Obama, in a speech at the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, November 10, 2010 (via mohandasgandhi)
This is the kind of attitude we need in America. (via stfuislamophobes)
THE 99
Hide your face and grab the kids. Coming soon to a TV in your child’s bedroom is a posse of righteous, Sharia-com pliant Muslim superheroes — including one who fights crime hidden head-to-toe by a burqa.
These Islamic butt-kickers are ready to bring truth, justice and indoctrination to impressionable Western minds.
— Andrea Peyser
BRB LOLING FOREVER.
in other news: the...
We deny the snobbish English assumption that the uneducated are the dangerous...
– G.K. Chesterton, The Man Who Was Thursday, page 44 (via bearbearpdx)
The rhetoric of “democracy” has recently become a replica of the...
– Fakhreddin Azimi, Quest for Democracy in Iran
ubiquitous use of crazy →
This. Just. So much.
Your honor, I have stated in this court that I am opposed to the form of our...
– Eugene Victor Debs.
Merf. Thinking is Hard.: Academic Freedom and Me →
ichmuss:
Originally posted here
The complications of politics, culture, and academic freedom in one career.
By Ian Barnard
Prehistory 1
It’s the early 1980s, and I’m an undergraduate student at a notoriously liberal university in South Africa. Apartheid cabinet minister Piet…