Being calm in the face of oppression is a privilege not afforded to the oppressed.
I suspect $15 million will also be sufficiently punitive as to ensure that this kind of egregious violation of a person’s civil liberties never happens to anyone else ever again. That’s the Achilles’ Heel of tort reform: on the one hand,…
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Omar Al-Bashir can’t exactly ‘disappear’ someone who is now as famous as Ahmed Mohamed, but nor can Ahmed Mohamed return to his country of origin without making nice with the current president, war criminal though he may be.
I don’t think I would be buddies with a war criminal just to go visit my homeland, but then,…
“According to NBC Dallas-Fort Worth, Ahmed was questioned, handcuffed and taken to Irving police headquarters for interrogation, fingerprinting and mug shots, even though he repeatedly insisted that it was a clock.
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“[C]reate problems”? Ahmed’s dad ran in the last presidential election in Sudan against the current president, who is a known war criminal and responsible for the Darfur genocide. I’d say Ahmed’s family is trying to solve problems, not create them. Islamophobia, xenophobia and racism - those are problems created by…
Because a brown Muslim teen in the US would surely risk the possibility of getting shot to death by racist cops, on the off chance that he _might_ be able to live long enough to sue their asses off?
He was arrested, fingerprinted, had his mugshot taken and questioned without his parents present (denied despite repeated…
Unfortunately there are hijab-wearing women being harassed and attacked in Toronto this past month, and other racist and Islamophobic incidents in Canada:
I’m pretty sure it was the racists and Islamophobes who ensured that he and his family had to leave the country. Not easy for a teenage PoC growing up in a virulently racist and white supremacist nation where a bunch of opportunistic demagogues have stirred up populist prejudices for political power, and to be…
I got my 360 Fat (either Falcon or Jasper core) in 2008, it still works perfectly. My Halo: Reach LE Slim that I bought much later, had to go in for repairs (laser died), and will probably have to go back again, this time for the graphics chip (getting weird artifacting/red haze over everything, possibly due to…
Wait, what?! LANAAAA is on Criminal Minds?! How did I not know this?! I may start watching again then (glad they _finally_ brought in another PoC into that white-washed cast).
TL;DR - Two writers in a ‘shocking’ account of cisgender male privilege and entitlement vis-à-vis sex and treatment of women.
Why they get rewarded for this, I do not know—
Oh wait, I do know: patriarchy rewards those who perpetuate/propagate it and who stand to/continue to benefit most from it.
It would be ridiculous if…
Well, considering how long it takes to find a match in the early morning, and how empty the worlds are when I go on patrol... it doesn’t surprise me in the least that Activision refuses to show actual numbers.
This is the sort of thing that makes me want to invest in a wired controller for 360. ;P
How sweet: two Vulcans gaming. Or maybe Orions?
It can also be internalized racism, because Western society is very white supremacist in terms of how Asian men are emasculated and desexualized while Asian women are fetishized and exoticized. Especially because there is very little reach of Asian entertainment in the West (save perhaps for anime, which similarly…
I know what you mean (about not fighting back, or at least saying something) but don’t punish yourself. I just talk shit now online, at 40, to make up for all the times I didn’t when I was younger. ;)
/the formerly quiet, ‘nice’ Asian kid
Gah, Hipster racism. :(
Yeah, I wouldn’t even bother shedding crocodile tears, to be honest.
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