Racism

Seven timescales on which we seem to be at a turning point

I can think of seven different timescales in which changes seem to be happening right about now. Of course, you can probably take any point in time and construct such an edifice since everything is changing all the time, but this seems to be a moment in which it is particularly compelling to do so. Anyway, here they are.

My Take on the Recurring Incredibly Annoying Argument That Absorbs About Half the Site's Energy Every Time It Comes Up and Makes Allies Treat Each Other Like Adversaries, Which I Really Wish Would Stop So We Could Get Back To Fighting the Oligarchy

My biases, stated up front:

  1. I want this site to survive
  2. I want this site to be a place to organize against the corruption that's killing us
  3. I want the people of this planet to rise against the corruption that's killing us before we die.

Taboos and Lies

I've been thinking about the things we don't talk about (in the USA). We can talk about many things here. There are no rules forbidding it. But even here, some of these subjects are hot potatoes. And if there is an official story, parts of it are likely to be defended. It is as if we live lies, which must not be challenged.

"They Died for that Flag!" - No They didn't, They Died for Rich People

War is a Racket said General Smedley Butler. I'd amend that to say ALL War is a Racket. Some might argue there are exceptions, like WWII or maybe the Civil War, but no, in the end those wars were about power and wealth among the ruling clite. They would not have happened except at the whims of those at the very top. Butler told it like it is when he said he was nothing more than a "gangster for capitalism" during his highly decorated Marine career.

It takes a certain kind of privilege to not vote for Hillary

This is an argument we're going to hear for the next several weeks or few months as the general election campaign progresses. The implied (or sometimes explicitly stated; see LoF) privilege is that of a white male. Frequently "affluent" or some variation will also be included.

Micah Johnson and Why America is a ticking time bomb

"How many Blacks have to have their homes, children, neighborhood, or lives stolen without recourse before someone acts out his rage? How much Israeli-styled occupation policing and graphic videos of police murders is enough for a person to feel hatred for those that do these things?"

Detention Centers Record Revenue vs. Children Need Freedom and Sunshine to Grow

Today's News:

Immigration Officials Making Secret Deals With Private Prisons to Lock Up More Mothers and Children-- New report sheds light on how local contracts are boosting private profits from family detention.

Racist attacks on Muslims, Poles and others

increase as as result of Brexit vote.

The "Leave" "victory" is a victory for British xenophobes and racists, exemplified by the racist leader of the Ukip, Boris Johnson (Bo.Jo.)

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/27/sadiq-khan-muslim-counci...

Please don't paint this as a "win" for the Left. It isn't.

Brexit appears to be a big win for the xenophobic, racist right.

The returns are still coming in, and there is much debate on who backed what and why, who said what to whom, and so on. But preliminary data tells us that the biggest forces behind the Brexit campaign, and the people crowing about it the loudest, with exceptions, are on the far right, and they used strong appeals to racism, xenophobia, even homophobia to get what they wanted.

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