WHITE-WING CONSERVATIVE BIGOTRY: “White People Freak Out When Black Athletes Speak Up” / The Ring of Fire / Farron Cousins ☮
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Category Archives: Morality
WHITE-WING CONSERVATIVE BIGOTRY: “Another Study Confirms That Conservatives are Just Low Information Racists” / The Ring of Fire / Farron Cousins ☮
Another new study has been released that confirms what previous studies had found – that conservative voters are likely to have much lower IQs than their Progressive counterparts, and they are also much more likely to hold racists attitudes.
WHITE-WING CONSERVATIVE BIGOTRY: “The Alt Right – Just Another Word for Mainstream Republicans” / The Ring of Fire / Farron Cousins ☮
RIGHT-WING AUTHORITATIVE NATIONALISM: “Embracing the Alt-Right: New Trump Campaign Chief ‘Created an Online Haven for White Nationalists'” / Democracy Now / Amy Goodman, Sarah Posner, and Heather McGhee ☮
ATHEISM: “Conscientious Atheism” / Penn Jillette ☮
ABRAHAMIC IDIOCY: “Salafi Preacher: Jews Use SpongeBob Squarepants to Turn Kids Gay” / Secular Talk / Kyle Kulinski ☮
LOGIC: “God Should Reveal himself” / The Atheist Pig ☮
h/t: American Atheists
ACTIVISM AND ADVOCACY: “Jordan Flaherty: Say No to the Savior Complex” / The Laura Flanders Show ☮
“In the real world, people don’t need heroes, they need systemic solutions to racism, patriarchy, colonialism, and capitalism.”
Journalist and author of “No More Heroes: Grassroots Challenges to the Savior Mentality” Jordan Flaherty talks about savior complexes and why they get in the way of real change.
ABRAHAMIC METAPHYSICS: “History Lesson: Religion’s Portrayal of ‘Hell’ is Totally Misunderstood” / Big Think / Rob Bell ☮
A lot of us are banking on heaven for ourselves and hell for certain others, but spiritual teacher Rob Bell urges us to think about those concepts as states of consciousness, and rethink the nature of the afterlife.
POLITICAL PSYCHOLOGY: “The Science of Fear-Mongering: How to Protect Your Mind from Demagogues / Susan David ☮
Always Question Authority 