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LOGIC: “Conservative Logic (an oxymoron)”
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Category Archives: Class Discrimination
CHRISTIAN SATIRE: “Reactionary Reasoning”
h/t: Planet Atheism
h/t: PZ Meyers
PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: “The Ironic “War on Drugs”" / MUST WATCH!
The House I Live In
Is The War On Drugs Nearing An End?
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The War on Drugs Is a War on America! Time to End It!
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Related articles
- Brad Pitt: America’s war on drugs is a charade, and a failure (guardian.co.uk)
AMURIKAN PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: “American Prisons Facts” / Stephen Fry
PRISON-INDUSTRIAL COMPLEX: “The Shame of America’s Gulag” / Chris Hedges
Illustration by Mr. Fish
If, as Fyodor Dostoevsky wrote, “the degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons” then we are a nation of barbarians. Our vast network of federal and state prisons, with some 2.3 million inmates, rivals the gulags of totalitarian states. Once you disappear behind prison walls you become prey. Rape. Torture. Beatings. Prolonged isolation. Sensory deprivation. Racial profiling. Chain gangs. Forced labor. Rancid food. Children imprisoned as adults. Prisoners forced to take medications to induce lethargy. Inadequate heating and ventilation. Poor health care. Draconian sentences for nonviolent crimes. Endemic violence.
SUPREME COURT BIGOT: “Voting Rights Act” / Bob Englehart
The white-wing reactionary troll Antonin Gregory Scalia is a fucking racist bigot!
h/t: Truthdig.com
Related articles
- Is Antonin Scalia the Vilest Person in Washington? (alternet.org)
- Rachel Maddow: Antonin Scalia ‘a troll’ (politico.com)
ECONOMIC INEQUALITY: “Wealth Inequality in the United States” / politizane (MUST WATCH VIDEO)
h/t: Planet Atheism
h/t: PZ Myers
Related articles
- Income Inequality Goes Viral (billmoyers.com)
- This Viral Video Will Change How You Think About Wealth Distribution in the U.S. (fastcoexist.com)
- How wealth inequality crowds out America’s success (timpanogos.wordpress.com)
- Wealth inequality in America infinitely worse than you think it is (coolrevolution.net)
ENLIGHTENMENT: “Better Read Than Dead” / Mr Fish
h/t: Truthdig.com
POLITICAL SATIRE: “Voting Republican”
h/t: Honjii’s Harangues
h/t: Planet Atheism
INCOME INEQUALITY: Nick Hanauer / “TED Talk On Income Inequality Deemed Too ‘Political’ For Site”
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Hanauer, one of the first nonfamily investors in Amazon.com, shared this argument as part of a talk he gave at the TED University conference. Now, the organizers of TED — a movement aimed at bringing attention to “ideas worth spreading” — is refusing to share Hanauer’s talk on the internet, calling it too “political,” according to the National Journal.
Chris Anderson, the curator of TED, wrote in a post on his website responding to the allegations that the organization is inundated with requests to post talks on its homepage and only features those that are “truly special.” Anderson also claimed that once Hanauer found out the site would’t be posting his talk, he hired a public relations firm to promote the talk to progressive organizations like MoveOn.org. Anderson also released a video of Hanauer’s talk, providing a link to it in his post.
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