tags: racism
2000
September
- 2000 Sep 9
- Prophylaxis
parallel to something Chris Rock said, I’m not saying I’d kill all racists, but… I understand
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2006
March
- 2006 Mar 6
- immigration
One would be hard pressed to convince me that anti-immigrant sentiments are not synonymous with outright racism. The arguments that immigration foes posit are specious at best. The whole, “they’re taking our jobs” idea just doesn’t fly. I really don’t see too many white people lining up for a back-breaking season of crop harvesting or signing up to clean out rich people’s toilets. These aren’t jobs that white people want, although in a lot of cases, they are jobs that need to be done. A more informed argument is the idea that we have to discourage them from taking these jobs because it only encourages rich bastards to pay workers poorly. There is a lot of truth in this. The problem is that (1) it doesn’t directly address how we can get the rich bastards to pay decent wages and (2) it doesn’t address the economic pressures that drives people from developing countries to find jobs in the U.S. And, realistically, I just don’t see people voluntarily paying top dollar for their lettuce and tomatoes just so my black and brown brothers and sisters can have a living wage, undocumented or no.
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June
- 2006 Jun 5
- forgiveness is not forgetting
I was inspired by this meditation on racism, which describes the well known evils of over-generalization.
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September
- 2006 Sep 23
- reading the paper on a saturday morning
On some Saturdays, I head out to the Mission Cafe in North Park before it gets overly crowded and buy myself an L.A. Times (because, frankly, the San Diego Union-Tribune is not fit to wipe my ass with.) On the front page, I found two rather depressing stories: (1) the beleaguered Charles Drew/Martin Luther King, Jr. Medical Center in South Central L.A. has failed a “make it or break it” federal inspection, thereby losing funding from CMS and (2) this character piece about a guy named Ronnie Wise who has been fighting illiteracy in the Mississippi delta for the past 30 years in the face of institutionalized racism, uncaring politicians, arsonists, and weather, and who has decided to retire early.
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October
- 2006 Oct 27
- physics vis-a-vis racism and misogyny
Man, Lee Smolin, theoretical physicist to the nth degree, is my hero. The first I had heard of him was his book Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, a discussion of the possible unification of quantum mechanics and general relativity, which covers string theory and loop quantum gravity. I also noted his name in João Magueijo’s book Faster than the Speed of Light.
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2008
March
- 2008 Mar 22
- racism is part of american culture
His opponents on both sides of the aisle are trying to make hay with Obama's comment about the "typical white person" who is afraid of black men. But they miss the point entirely. He's not throwing his grandmother under the bus, as some are wont to say. He's not trying to insult white people. He's merely illustrating an unfortunate truism about American culture, which Chris Rock touched upon a long time ago:
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May
- 2008 May 18
- amanda chapel is a racist!/my 1st racial incident on the web
OK, this is what I get for feeding a well known, long-lived internet troll.
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- bullshit diversity/code triage/first against the wall
Wow. Just, wow.
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- institutionalized racism in the 21st century
Disturbing blog post about how white blue-collar workers supposedly won't vote for Obama if HRC doesn't get the nomination.
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2009
February
- 2009 Feb 27
- racism and the veil cast by defensiveness
So, apparently the mayor of Los Alamitos wasn't aware of the racial stereotype of black people supposedly liking watermelon, and found nothing offensive about e-mailing a photoshopped pic of the White House lawn with watermelons on it instead of Easter eggs. This, naturally, became a thread on Friendfeed, and eventually, it turned into a discussion of what racism is exactly.
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2010
March
- 2010 Mar 13
- oh noes! something on the internet pissed me off!
I'm still not really in the right frame of mind to write a well-thought out blog post to explicate the thoughts that led me to stop visiting Friendfeed for now.
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April
- 2010 Apr 20
- post-mortem
So it's been a little more than a month since I stepped away from Friendfeed. To be honest, I didn't expect to be gone this long. I really did need to take a break though. My initial intention was to walk away for a few days and let the threads fall off my front page, and let my temper cool. But work got really busy, and the past month ended up being pretty rough. The whole episode pretty much took a back seat to everything else I had to deal with. But the longer I stayed away, the more I felt that I had to work through why I got so pissed off before I came back.
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2015
May
- 2015 May 4
- The Etymology of "Thug"
There was never any clear definition of what a thug was, which is why it was so attractive to the British. It allowed them to criminalize any kind of indigenous activity as being something that was inherently irrational and politically illegitimate, not different from the way it’s used today. You’re effectively describing them as having no legitimate grievances and just being hoodlums.
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June
- 2015 Jun 23
- Mass Killings and Mental Illness
It’s not about mental illness: The big lie that always follows mass shootings by white males • 2015 Jun 18 • Arthur Chu • Salon
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- The Confederacy was a Bunch of Traitors
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- 2015 Jun 24
- Massacre in Charleston
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- 2015 Jun 30
- KKK Rally at South Carolina Capitol
I'm sure this will help make things better.
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November
2016
March
- 2016 Mar 22
- Ihre Papiere, Bitte
An anti-Trump protester with the last name of "Gonzalez" gets transferred to ICE custody. You can probably draw your own conclusions.
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June
- 2016 Jun 14
- Donald Trump and White Supremacy
The sad thing is that if you think about it, white supremacy has been the concept of what it means to be American since before the beginning. Even in the early 20th century some types of white people were considered unassimilable. This didn't really change until the 1960s which saw the (almost) complete legalization of the citizenship of people of color. But I'm certain lots of Americans still think people of color are unassimilable.
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July
- 2016 Jul 5
- Islamophobia is Merely Racism
It's obvious that there's a racist component to Islamophobia. It's mostly just another excuse to hate brown and black people, especially when you consider that so many victims of Islamophobia in the U.S. aren't even Muslim.
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August
- 2016 Aug 8
- Philippines is a Terrorist Nation
I wonder how this is going to play out with the many reliably GOP faction of Filipino Americans?
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