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
Posted in America, bizarreness, celebrity, morality, news, race
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
Today’s post comes to you late because my iconoclastic, point by point take down of liberalism (yep, liberalism) wasn’t quite where I wanted it to be.
Well, that’s at least part of the reason.
Since our collective busy schedules have forced us to [temporarily] drop Fame Days from our rotation, I’ve also been concerned that this blog might get a little too negative. I figure I’d put off alienating everyone I know and point out something positive at the same time- and that “something” is actually a “someone“.
Henry ****ing Rollins.
Posted in art, bizarreness, celebrity, Comedy, Fame Day, morality, music
Tagged activism, actor, art, Bhopal, Black Flag, cause celebre, celebrity, comedy, disaster, gay, Henry Rollins, henry rollins band, homophobia, marriage, music, racism, racist, rights, Rollins, SOA, sons of anarchy, spoken word, stand up, veteran, voice actor, West Memphis Three
Did you know that in a few days, Scotland will vote on becoming an independent nation?
On the 18th of this month, Scots will be flocking to polling stations to vote either “yes” or “no” on becoming a self-governed country, joining in the movement with many areas of Europe, currently campaigning for self-determination (though barring the Catalonians, Scotland’s probably the closest any have yet gotten).
And may that day yet come…
So is this a good thing? We here at CWR say yes. Continue reading
Posted in Economy, environmentalism, Europe, government, health, history, money, news, politics
Tagged age, bigotry, BNP, citizenship, EDL, ethnocentrism, Europe, fracking, freedom, GCHQ, healtchare, independence, Indyref, loch lomond, Military, missile, Nationalism, NHS, no, NSA, nuclear, pension, pensioner, poverty, proposal, racism, Referendum, scotland, Scottish, September 18, SNP, spending, taxes, trident, UKIP, vote, weapons, Yes
Reader’s, we here at CWR have been at this for a while.
We’ve made you laugh, we’ve (probably at some point) made you cry, we’ve filled you with feelings of inconsolable rage, and judging by some of the search terms used to find our blog, we’ve done other things to you which we shall never speak of.
You people are into some shameful, ****ed up stuff…
Now with all that said, we’ve only ever defined the blog you’ve come to know and love as being about “figuring out” culture. We’ve never really set any ground rules, and today, I’d like to change that. Continue reading
Posted in art, bizarreness, blog news, morality
Tagged bigotry, Canada, change, characteristics, Culture, CWR, Equality, Europe, inequality, national, perspectives, principles, racism, salem witch trials, social pressure, Syria, tradition, USA, Values
I think it only fair, given the current situation in the Gaza Strip, to shout-out the West’s general view of the Middle East today as having honorary Shame Day status [you can check out yesterday’s post for what that’s all about]. Cue my flawless segue into today’s actual topic, which is in regards to the West’s general view of the historical Middle East.
This retreads some pretty well-worn ground for me, because it’s about Hollywood and race. I’ve spotlit problems with the “one size fits all” approach to casting minorities, heavily criticized Hollywood’s attempts to whitewash their remakes of groundbreaking animated films, and outright condemned producers who cite the inevitable change in the industry while stolidly refusing to have any part of it. The difference here is that this time it’s heavily tied into Western Christianity.
It’s been almost 60 years since The Ten Commandments, and I want to say we’ve come a very long way since then. Again note that that’s something I want to say. To be truly and completely honest there is almost nothing I want more than to be able to write to you all and tell you that in six decades we are so, so far from the time when Charles Heston and Anne Baxter were cast as Moses and Nefertiti, respectively. You know what they say, though, you can’t always get what you want. Continue reading
Posted in Christianity, film, morality, race, Shame Day
Tagged Anne Baxter, Ari Handel, Bible, casting, Charles Heston, Christian Bale, Christianity, diversity, Egypt, Egyptian, everyman, Joel Edgerton, middle-east, minorities, Moses, race, racism, Ramses, responsibility, Ridley Scott, shame day, Sigourney Weaver, Sphinx, The Ten Commandments, white, whitewashing
This was originally going to be my topic for Monday, but I decided to put this discussion off for a few days and showcase it here. Our “Fame Days”, after all, aren’t just about celebrating achievements but include shining the spotlight on noble issues or events we believe should have more attention, and I’d be hard-pressed to think of any idea more deserving than the “One-State Solution”.
Chances are that you have absolutely no idea what I’m talking about, and that’s fine. Normally I rail against what I’d consider self-imposed ignorance when it comes to politics or foreign affairs, but this is a really, really obscure concept (heck, that’s the entire reason we’re talking about it today).
When we’re talking about either the “one-state” or (more common) “two-state” solutions, we’re referencing the debate over the future of Israel and the Palestinian territories. Pretty much every so-called “road map” to “peace in the Middle East” revolves around settling the question of the borders of Israel and what would eventually become the state of Palestine. Who gets what land, access to which resources, authority over which sites- you get the idea.
Posted in Africa, Fame Day, government, history, lgbt, morality, politics, race, relationships, religion
Tagged 1967, a cancer in the body, african migrants, anti-occupation, antisemitism, apartheid, Arab, askhenazi, bigotry, borders, cancer, conversion, democracy, descrimination, Ethiopian Jews, freedom, interracial, israel, jewish, jews, Knesset, leftist, messianic, messianic jews, middle-east, Miri Regev, mizrahi, mk, nabka, one state, one state solution, palestine, Palestinians, peace, prejudice, race mixing, racism, racist, rally, religion, right of return, road map, segregation, sephardic, tolerance, two state, two state solution, Yad L'Achim
 | Evan on What is the Meaning of “… |
| How to Write and Pub… on Why Does the Billionaire Roman… | |
 | superevilmrevil on What is the Meaning of “… |
| Evan on The “One Size Fits All… |
 | Phi on The “One Size Fits All… |
Culture War Reporters 