Tag Archives: Racism

Expert Discourse and using IEDs to “neutralize threats”

Posted on July 13, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   So Trumpians, RWNJs, and lesser neoconservatives might be described as the following: “They talk a lot about justice. They talk a lot about freedom. They want to change the society into a positive direction. They believe that they’re doing … Continue reading →

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EU Disintegration and BREXIT: sanctimony & pseudoscience

Posted on June 25, 2016 by ann li-summers

“The EU’s disintegration is now running at full speed.” By ann summers Like Wile E. Coyote going off the Dover Cliffs, anti-immigrant discourse fervor and the MOE made the destruction of the UK Tory party inevitable but can Labour and … Continue reading →

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Screw Political Correctness – DAESH is Salafi-jihadism

Posted on June 21, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “PC” as a RWNJ / GOP media canard: reactionary language licenses for LIVs in a pluralist democracy President Obama on Tuesday offered one of his longest public explanations yet for why he doesn’t use the phrase “radical Islam” … Continue reading →

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Hate gets a pass…racial profiling as political correctness

Posted on June 19, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers Because of a “mouth-feel” like styrofoam peanuts, I hate baked Cheetos or their generic imitators even as I definitely like fried Cheetos. So much for common sense about what is healthy snack food—  fortunately it probably isn’t … Continue reading →

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Memes of a feather: ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and ‘radical Christian terrorism’

Posted on June 14, 2016 by ann li-summers

Immanuel Kant — ‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.’   By ann summers Home-grown extremism still intersects and is intersectional, so expressing “radical islamic terrorism” like “radical Christian terrorism” are as PBO indicated today about political talking points, there’s no … Continue reading →

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Under tRump, cockroaches will have unenumerated, unimpeachable rights and envy the dead

Posted on June 6, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers If we thought the End of the Republic happened when Monica Lewinsky got a TED talk, surprise -— Donald Trump could become POTUS, just as he states that Latino or Muslim judges could be unfair to him. Sonia Sotomayor will … Continue reading →

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Morning Open Thread – Claudette Colvin: The Original Rosa Parks

Posted on April 24, 2016 by Joy of Fishes

Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day. From Great Big Story:  “Around the same time Rosa Parks famously protested segregation by refusing to give up her bus seat to a white passenger, … Continue reading →

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Reclaiming the possibility of democracy or creating libertarianism warlordism

Posted on April 18, 2016 by ann li-summers

Sophie’s Hobson Choice on Maggies Bullet Farm: George Miller’s nearly aboriginal-free post-apocalypse vision or JJ Abrams’ non-LGBTQ utopian dystopia -— What a lovely day for Star War’s POC clone diversity already signalled   What remains certain is that Reconstruction failed, and … Continue reading →

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The beginning of Turner Diaries II(I) or the end of the Bundy insurgency

Posted on January 27, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “Avenge me…” the Red Dawn protagonists’ father cries out, and with his passing, will LaVoy Finicum’s legacy be a 2015 novel that could become The Turner Diaries for a new generation of RWNJ.  Finicum’s 241-page apocalyptic cowboy thriller … Continue reading →

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Bundystani Barbarism – Going Medieval, new materialism & land jumping piracy

Posted on January 26, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The prototypical crypto-fascists terrorizing Eastern Oregon in the USA represent largely symbolic, yet armed, direct actions performed with the occupation of federal land and structures in order to promote issues of anti-governmental resistance on the behalf of land-owning individuals and their … Continue reading →

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