Well, I woke up this morning, flipped on my laptop, and had this image waiting there to greet me.
For ****’s sake, people.
Alright, lets get to it. Continue reading
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Tagged actress, arrest, black, Daniele Watts, django unchained, Ferguson, gun, husband, interracial, LAPD, Prison Sentence, prostitution, race, racism, racist, Sean Hannity, sentencing, Small Business Loans, Social desirability bias, Statistics, Stop, Weapon, white
Yesterday, CWR’s own Kat posted “Do Western Christians Want Martyrs?”, a short post questioning the motivations behind the recent outpouring of Western sympathy for the plight of Iraqi and Syrian Christians, currently being massacred by the forces of the terrorist group formerly known as ISIS. That post prompted the following comment: “[it] seems a bit sick to turn this into a critique of Christians or Christianity… what is it in you that wants to make this a critique of Christian hypocrisy?”
Now I don’t think it was Kat’s intention to downplay the genocide in progress in the Levant and it certainly isn’t mine either. So why critique Christians?
Because Christians are guilty.
No, they’re not pulling the triggers or wielding the swords, but the actions of Western Christians have contributed not only to the slaughter of Iraqi and Chaldean believers, but the persecution, suffering, and misery of the church all across the world. And even as Western Christians switch their profiles to the Arabic letter “nun” for “Nazarene”, the self same people continue to be part of the problem.
Let me show you a picture:
These are the first of the first. The oft-forgotten Christians of Palestine. The descendents of the very first followers of Christ. These people are literally Nazarenes.
Where is their defense? Continue reading
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Tagged 3rd World, Amazon, Amazonian, Bethlehem, Bush, Christian, Christianity, Christians, el salvador, European, fake, Foreign Policy, Gyspy, Houghton, Houghton College, hypocrisy, Iraq, IS, ISIS, Islamic State, israel, martyr, Martyrs, middle-east, Mr. By-Ends, Nazarene, news, Nike, nun, Oscar Romero, palestine, palestinian, Palestinian Christians, Pilgrim's Progress, Policy, Roma, Sabian, Slave Labor, sweat shop, sweatshop, Syria, western, Western Christians, Yezidi
On the ninth of this month Ferguson, Missouri police officer Darren Wilson shot and killed 18-year-old Michael Brown during a traffic stop. The subsequent days have seen massive protests in both the city and across the nation, matched only in their intensity by the crackdown of the local police.
Now while the police have just now cited that the deceased Michael Brown was the suspect in a local convenience store robbery (nothing has yet been proven), the cops have nevertheless come under widespread criticism. By all accounts, 18-year-old Michael Brown, who has no record of bad behavior- criminal or otherwise, surrendered to Wilson after a brief struggle. Despite his raised hands and his shouts that he was unarmed, Wilson opened fire anyway, shooting the teenager no less than six times.
We could talk about the struggle that allegedly occurred, the protocol in place for such events, and a host of other factors, but ultimately the fact that Wilson shot and killed an unarmed teen remains undisputed.
But we’re not here to talk about that.
We’re here to talk about the days that have since passed.
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Tagged Al Jazeera, Army, Bahrain, Brutality, Darren Wilson, Egypt, enemy, Ferguson, Fergustan, Fucking Animals, Gaza, Huffington Post, Jean Quan, justice, Michael Brown, Militarized, Military, Missouri, occupation, Occupy Oakland, palestine, peaceful, police, Protest, reporters, riot, siege, Tear Gas, unarmed, Washington Post, weapons
This week I emerged from my happy little language cult in a tiny remote Quebecois town.
I emerged to discover a lot of sadness.
I had already been hearing bits and pieces about the deaths in Gaza and the lives lost to Ebola before I even left Trois-Pistoles, but the last few days I’ve also been hearing a variety of horrific rumours about ISIS. Last night when I started researching for tonight’s blog, I thought I would look into the veracity of those articles.
That was a bad idea.
At the time, I had a hard time finding coverage of the things I had heard about from any reputable sources. And the things I did come across were highly disturbing and meant to be provoking. I’m not actually going to link to anything I came across in my search, because I don’t want to see those images ever again. I don’t know when or where those photos were taken. I don’t know if they are fake or real. All I know is that they made me very very angry. And they made me feel very, very powerless.
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Tagged actor, celebrities, children, cnn, comedian, Culture, death, Ebola outbreak, evil, Facebook, fake, Gaza, grief, grieving, Iraq, ISIS, Mere Exposure Effect, mourn, Mrs. Doubtfire, powerless, real, rescue, Robin Williams, sadness, suicide, Syria, Yazidis
UN Officials report having warned Israel “17 times” that the school was housing refugees and children.
I’m writing this after one of the deadliest days in the recent bombing of Gaza. As of right now, estimates place the Palestinian death toll for the past 24 hours as being over 100, with many lost after the IDF (“Israel Defense Force”) bombed a UN school-turned-refugee shelter. With the total death count standing at 1,336, it can be tough in such times to feel that there’s any hope- but readers, there is a way to fight back.
It’s called “Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions“.
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Tagged Alice Walker, apartheid, BDS, Boycott, civil rights, Death Toll, Desmond Tutu, Divestment, Gaza, Haredi, human-rights, idf, israel, israeli, Presbyterian Church, Sanctions, school, south africa, Stephen Hawking, Tesco, UN, UNWRA, West Bank, zionism
Writing “Shame Days” is harder than it looks. You gotta find a subject that’s extensive enough to merit an entire post of ranting without it being so reprehensible as to leave you speechless (Scott Lively, you satanic **********er, I’m looking at you). With that in mind, and as it’s rapidly approaching 9:00 PM as I write these words, we’re going to revisit an old subject that I personally don’t think got the lashing they deserve.
So who’s being drawn and quartered today?
It was in the title of this piece, so I guess the question’s pretty dang redundant.
“Your Fave is Problematic” is a Tumblr blog devoted, much like these Shame Day posts, to calling out celebrities and artists who the authors view as having committed bigotry in some form or another. Evan and I have both briefly touched on these guys, with us generally concluding that while noble in intent, they tend to be a bit extreme in their measures of what is and isn’t acceptable. Evan specifically stated that “I truly believe that Your Fave Is Problematic is doing a good thing”, however, after myself digging through their blog a bit more, I really just can’t say the same.
These guys are *******es.
Let me break it down here. Continue reading
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Tagged appropriation, Arab, bigotry, Black face, celebrity, Colbert, colonialism, Cultural, Culture, die antwoord, dreadlocks, ethnicity, evil boy, history, Mad Men, race, racism, satire, Scott Lively, shame, shame day, SJW, stephen colbert, TCK, white guilt, Your Fave Is Problematic
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