Never get into a discussion with a right-winger. They like to play the blame game with you. What's the blame game? Well, you know what it is if you're poor, non-white, gay, or non-Christian.
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Autumn Winds
04 September 2009 @ 10:52 am
Never get into a discussion with a right-winger. They like to play the blame game with you. What's the blame game? Well, you know what it is if you're poor, non-white, gay, or non-Christian.
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30 August 2009 @ 02:45 pm
This made me laugh appreciatively: "...what many leftists, therapy mongers, racism awareness trainers, and sisterizers term 'consciousness raising' is the practice of beating people into unconsciousness with guilt-inducing, ideological billyclubs." -- Anonymous (from here)
30 August 2009 @ 12:03 am
16 May 2009 @ 12:15 am
I recently posed a question about a specific situation and how certain groups of anti-race activists might respond to that situation.
Here's why: I actually based that question off a real example; and not just any example, but an example created by the behavior of a well-known anti-racist who, ironically, has repeatedly attacked and scolded others for doing exactly the same thing.
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09 May 2009 @ 12:25 am
I've been taking numerous shots at misguided liberals and progressives lately, because they're my people and I feel that as such I should correct them when I see behavior on their part I consider wrong and harmful. I'll be called a traitor (and have been) for doing so--exactly the way conservatives attack anyone on their side who doesn't conform to the party line--because people are people (though that's no excuse for such nonsense).
But here's a shot at right-wing crazy: this person, who...well...I was more-or-less with certain points of their argument and then I hit the following:
"The word ‘Homophobia’ is a lie, since it implies that a normal respect for decency is a mental disorder." [1]Wow. Just...wow.
"Using the phrase ‘sexual orientation’ to refer to sexual perversion is a lie, because it implies perversion is value-neutral matter of taste rather than a moral decision in the context of an objective standard." [1]
"Using the phrase ‘B.C.E.’ or ‘C.E.’ to refer to B.C. and A.D. is not only a lie, it is a theft of intellectual property, a betrayal of our common culture, and an insult, made all the more abhorrent by how petty an insult it is." [2]
"Using the phrase ‘undocumented worker’ to refer to aliens illegally trespassing on our sovereign soil is a lie." [3]
"Using the phrase ‘homeless person’ to refer to a bum or a panhandler is a lie." [4]
Homophobia? Check.
Religious bigotry? Check.
Nationalism? Check.
Classism? Check.
Fucking crazy right-winger? Check.
( ...quickly debunking crazy... )
This isn't even shit you can agree to disagree about. This is deep-end, off-the-edge, completely nutters, dangerous, hateful right-wing bollocks. This isn't "if you understand the historical social dynamics, killing the lesbian character was insinuating all lesbians die horrible deaths and therefore behaving contrary to nature and deserving of their pain and losses blah blah blahdy blah", this is "GAYS ARE INDECENT FILTH!" End. Period. Frothfrothfroth.
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19 December 2008 @ 10:02 am
06 October 2008 @ 09:35 pm
I did three hours of volunteering for the DFL* tonight on a phone bank. Mostly a lot of leaving messages on answering machines, with a bit of talking to actual people, and one really wild call...the "I watch Hannity and Colmes because they give you the TRUTH, and they say Obama is a Nazi, and he's going to turn this country into a Marxist state, and he wants to make everyone Islamic, that the mob got him elected to the Senate and he's a terrorist, and he has no experience because he's only served a half-year as a senator, and he's not even AMERICAN, and he doesn't provide for his family at all because his brother lives in a SHACK in Kenya, and you should really investigate Obama more because he's dirty, there's nothing on-line that refutes any of what I'm saying and I'm very well informed, and all the girls are voting for Obama because he's cute because that's what my granddaughter says, but Palin will turn this country right around and she's the most respected candidate ever with lots of experience and great ideas, and don't trust the mainstream media because they won't tell you any of this" call...
Ok, so...to start with, he's a half-black Marxist Muslim Nazi...?
There's so much wrong with the logic of just that bit I don't think it's even worth trying to deconstruct it. If you're buying into something that impossible, we've left logical thinking far, far behind. One would probably have better luck saying "Moon-job blue piranhas dancing in the orbit of seventy-five kilohowdahs of jeebos! Obama good!" as a counter claim because seriously, WTF?!
And that weirdness was just the tip of the crazy-iceberg she fed me, all straight from the pundits at Faux News, whose tagline should be "We're not afraid of just making this shit up!"
* The DFL is Minnesota's Democratic party
10 July 2008 @ 03:08 pm
05 April 2008 @ 06:36 pm
I used to support McCain as an acceptable Republican contender for the presidency, in that I thought he was a decent sort-of fellow even if our politics didn't match and one I could see leading the country despite that, but recently I've found more-and-more reasons to turn a critical eye towards him and re-evaluate my stance on him.
From his blatant flip-flopping on numerous issues, to his votes and stances on the war, war with Iraq, torture, spying and wire-tapping, and so forth, I've been forced to write him off as a choice I could conscientiously live with. My way of dealing with this is to pass on information to other voters who may have fallen into the same "I could live with that" trap.
10 things you should know about John McCain (but probably don't):Note that this information is from MoveOn.org, and if anyone has any corrections or additions to it, let me know.
1. John McCain voted against establishing a national holiday in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Now he says his position has "evolved" yet he's continued to oppose key civil rights laws.1
2. According to Bloomberg News, McCain is more hawkish than Bush on Iraq, Russia and China. Conservative columnist Pat Buchanan says McCain "will make Cheney look like Gandhi."2
3. His reputation is built on his opposition to torture, but McCain voted against a bill to ban waterboarding, and then applauded President Bush for vetoing that ban.3
4. McCain opposes a woman's right to choose. He said, "I do not support Roe versus Wade. It should be overturned."4
5. The Children's Defense Fund rated McCain as the worst senator in Congress for children. He voted against the children's health care bill last year, then defended Bush's veto of the bill.5
6. He's one of the richest people in a Senate filled with millionaires. The Associated Press reports he and his wife own at least eight homes! Yet McCain says the solution to the housing crisis is for people facing foreclosure to get a "second job" and skip their vacations.6
7. Many of McCain's fellow Republican senators say he's too reckless to be commander in chief. One Republican senator said: "The thought of his being president sends a cold chill down my spine. He's erratic. He's hotheaded. He loses his temper and he worries me."7
8. McCain talks a lot about taking on special interests, but his campaign manager and top advisers are actually lobbyists. The government watchdog group Public Citizen says McCain has 59 lobbyists raising money for his campaign, more than any of the other presidential candidates.8
9. McCain has sought closer ties to the extreme religious right in recent years. The pastor McCain calls his "spiritual guide", Rod Parsley, believes America's founding mission is to destroy Islam, which he calls a "false religion". McCain sought the political support of right-wing preacher John Hagee, who believes Hurricane Katrina was God's punishment for gay rights and called the Catholic Church "the Antichrist" and a "false cult".9
10. He positions himself as pro-environment, but he scored a 0 -- yes, zero -- from the League of Conservation Voters last year.10
( ...sources... )