Protean Post-Left Nonsense

Tim Wise: When are Republican Leaders Going to Reject Talk Show Hosts Stoking White Racial Resentment

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 8:07 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)

Tim Wise asks when the Republican Party is going to reject the racist rhetoric and dog-whistle politics coming from the likes of Glenn Beck, Rush Limbaugh and other right wing radio and television hosts.

politics, racism, mainstream-media, glenn-beck, rush-limbaugh, tim-wise, barack-obama, birthers, tea-parties, teabaggers

Combating the Campus Rape Crisis

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:44 PM EDT (prospect.org)

Why hasn't it worked? Perhaps it's because making rape prevention the responsibility of young women teaches students that guys can't be expected to be responsible for their own actions.

education, misogyny, rape, rape-culture, victim-blaiming, feminism, rape-on-campus

it turns out that gay marriage isn't the end of the world

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:39 PM EDT (magazine.goodvibes.com)

Remember how at the start of the gay marriage debates, a lot of people were claiming that gay marriage was a threat to the institution of marriage? Well, the most recent information from the National Center For Vital Statistics (thanks to HuffPo for the link) shows that after 4 …

politics, gay-marriage, divorce, family-values, civil-rights, gay-rights, heterosexism, homophobia

Porn company 'inadvertently' earns Entrepreneur of the Year from Newt for stimulating the economy

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:03 PM EDT (Pandagon)

In the you can't make this sh*t up category, Pink Visual owner Allison Vivas received a congratulatory fax from Newt Gingrich's American Solutions for Winning the Future (ASWF).

business, economy, newt-gingrich, family-values, pornography, irony

Anti-Abortion Group Announces Drive To Outlaw Birth Control Pill in Florida

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:00 PM EDT (Crooks and Liars)

We always knew it would come to this. It's never really about abortion, it's about sex - and punishing the people who think they can act like sluts and get away with it instead of feeling God's wrath!

politics, sexism, gender, feminism, anti-choice, misogyny, patriarchy, dominionism, christian-extremists

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Guatemalan army stole children for adoption, report says - CNN.com

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:47 AM EDT (CNN)

The Guatemalan army stole at least 333 children and sold them for adoption in other countries during the Central American nation's 36-year civil war, a government report has concluded.

world-news, guatemala, adoption, human-trafficking, neo-colonialism, guatemalan-civil-war

Caster Semenya is a Woman and Sports are Dumb

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 11:38 AM EDT (wetasphalt.com)

The question of whether or not Caster Semenya is a woman is moot. She is clearly a woman. She was raised as a woman, she has been identified as a woman from birth. She feels she is a woman. End of story.

sports, gender, sexism, patriarchy, feminism, caster-semenya

Coal miners strike in Hunan, Central China

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 1:08 AM EDT (libcom.org)

The mines belong to the Jinzhushan Mining Industry of Hunan Coal Group (Xiang Mei Ji Tuan, XMJT), which proposed being privatized and being listed on the stock market.

world-news, activism, strikes, capitalism, labor

Fascist violence victim snatched from hospital by Greek police

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:59 AM EDT (libcom.org)

A victim of the continuous parastate operations of fascists and plainclothes policemen in the area of Agios Panteleimonas in Athens was snatched early this week from hospital by police forces violating doctors orders and basic rights to healthcare.

world-news, greece, fascism, police-brutality, racism

Introducing El Libertario

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:56 AM EDT (news.infoshop.org)

We think that what happened in Venezuela since 1999 has been an unhappy mix of big-mouthed leadership and state capitalism, based on the plentiful oil income.

world-news, political-science, political-theory, political-philosophy, venezuela, hugo-chavez, imperialism, anarchy, anarchism, anarchist-theory

Leonard Peltier: I am Barack Obama's Political Prisoner Now

Seeded on Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:50 AM EDT (CounterPunch.org)

After releasing an original and continuing disciple of death cult leader Charles Manson who attempted to shoot President Gerald Ford, an admitted Croatian terrorist, and another attempted assassin of President Ford under the mandatory 30-year parole law, the U.S.

politics, leonard-peltier, indigenous-rights, racism, imperialism, department-of-justice, barack-obama, justice-system

"Why Don't Students Like School?" Well, Duhhhh...

Seeded on Sat Sep 5, 2009 10:45 PM EDT (psychologytoday.com)

Ask any schoolchild why they don't like school and they'll tell you. "School is prison." They may not use those words, because they're too polite, or maybe they've already been brainwashed to believe that school is for their own good and therefore it can't be prison.

education, schools, sociology, psychology

The 5 Sexes: Why Male and Female are Not Enough

Seeded on Wed Sep 2, 2009 9:34 AM EDT (factcheckme.wordpress.com)

but the reality is that there are actually 5 sexes, and we try to force people representing all 5 into 2 gender-identities.

world-news, feminism, sexism, sociology, gender, sex, physiology

Socialism at Work: France and Germany exit recession

Seeded on Thu Aug 13, 2009 4:28 AM EDT (BBC News)

The French and German economies both grew by 0.3% between April and June, bringing to an end year-long recessions in two of Europe's largest economies.

world-news, socialism, economics, recession, france, germany

Author wins fight over "whitewashed" book cover

Seeded on Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:04 AM EDT (thefword.org.uk)

[she] believes the issues of "whitewashing" of covers, ghettoising of books by people of colour, and low expectations for these books are industry-wide.

race, racism, literature, sci-fi, fantasy, books

Alvin Carter, 67-year-old black man - Tasered While Black

Seeded on Thu Aug 13, 2009 3:00 AM EDT (aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com)

Carter, a 67-year-old black man from Hartford, Conn., came to town two years ago to track down his runaway son. The teen had hooked up with some bad influences on the city's south side, and Carter caught up with him in the rough-and-tumble Allied Drive neighborhood.

us-news, racism, race, police-brutality, tasers

Mistaken identity, part 387

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:26 PM EDT (resistracism.wordpress.com)

If people can make excuses for why you were mistaken for somebody else, they can refuse to see racism. I've worn the jacket. I've worn the suit. I've carried the briefcase. And I've still had white people try to hand me their dirty dishes in a restaurant.

politics, race, racism, sociology, ethnicity, white-privilege

A Thought Experiment (Regarding Hillary Clinton)

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:19 PM EDT (Feministe)

Imagine, for a moment, a journalist at a press conference back in the H.W. Bush days asking James Baker what his wife thought about our invasion of Iraq. Imagine Baker, quite reasonably, stating that questions should be directed at him, not his wife.

us-news, hillary-clinton, bill-clinton, sexism, rape, congo, war-crimes

On DeadGirl, The Movie (NSFW, Trigger Warning)

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 3:11 PM EDT (contexts.org)

So the trailer doesn't actually SAY that the two men repeatedly rape the zombie girl who is tied up and actively resisting them. But they do. After the jump is a synopsis excerpted from imdb (spoiler alert, 'cause I know you're gonna run out and watch it) and more images:

entertainment, rape, necrophilia, misogyny, sexism, hollywood, movies, media

Despite Improvements, Rape Kit Billing Problems Persist

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:58 PM EDT (thecurvature.com)

The issue of rape victims being charged for their own rape kits — which are a form of crime scene evidence — received a fair amount of attention during the 2008 presidential race, due to the revelation that while Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, rape victims were billed the …

us-news, criminal-justice, sexism, misogyny, rape, rape-kits, feminism

Latisse. Because if your eyelashses aren't thick enough, you are seriously f***ed up.

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:50 PM EDT (rageagainstthemanchine.com)

The product's website makes frequent reference to hypotrichosis, which indeed does sound terrible (as does anything that ends in -osis), but the company's product line-up hints that what they're really trying to treat is notthathotatosis; Allergan, in addition to Latisse, a …

health, feminism, sexism, misogyny, make-up, manufactured-illness, capitalism

A Boise Police officer who Tased a handcuffed man and threatened his genitals

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:46 PM EDT (aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com)

More reasons for Congressional Hearings and Investigations into Taser Abuse in America.

us-news, police-brutality, tasers

School of Hard Knocks: Violent Discipline and Marginalized Youth

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:42 PM EDT (racewire.org)

A new study by Human Rights Watch reveals that students with disabilities are disproportionately likely to be subject to corporal punishment.

us-news, corporal-punishment, public-schools, racism, ableism, child-welfare, violence, sociology

Now it makes sense: Why the right is really against reform

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:39 PM EDT (field-negro.blogspot.com)

"Not only am I against nationalized health care because it represents an inexorable path towards socialism, but also because the expanding ranks of bureaucrats will be filled with inept blacks, who simply lack the administrative and cognitive skills to process the mounds of paper …

us-news, racism, barack-obama, health-care, health-care-reform, sociology

Police Taser on a 76-year-old man driving an antique tractor

Seeded on Wed Aug 12, 2009 2:09 PM EDT (aapoliticalpundit.blogspot.com)

Glenrock Police Chief Tom Sweet said two officers "probably didn't do things the best way" when they used a Taser on a 76-year-old man driving an antique tractor in a parade.

us-news, tasers, police-brutality

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hey max, i just did a "contact author" on you, but in case you dont get it, i wanted to tell you that i started my own blog. i have also been reading and commenting at curvature. feel free to visit at

http://factcheckme.wordpress.com/

— factcheckme

hey max this comment isnt intended for publication, but what happened to the "skimpy dressing" thread? by the time i got home lastnight, the author had deleted the whole dang thing. i thought that was pretty drastic. did something happen, or was he just sick of having to defend his position to the 3 feminists who showed up? just curious.....

— factcheckme

hey max been a bit since I heard from you sir. I have a couple of articles up on my column i'd like you to swing by and take a poke at to broaden the discussion some. If you have the time and all.

ciao

— JaRagga