Thank you, I'm printing this and hanging it up where I can see it every time I'm reading about MSM Obama smears and Bush's and McCain's outrageousness. It's been really hard to change my communication patterns - generally intimidating and judgmental. I've been so, so much more effective when I curb those tendencies and actually try to understand where opponents are coming from, ideologically or information-wise. My best technique so far for chillin' the rhetoric: I have both of Obama's books on audio book on my iTunes. I listen to his quiet, reasoned and reasonable determination to make change take root …
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The death penalty case was not simply rape - the child was torn apart by a 250 lb man, left to bleed to death, and her ongoing-as-she-grows reconstruction won't be painless or invisible - she was his second victim, and these criminals grow more violent, not less. Ever fight for real rehab for the victims of these crimes? Gun case finally laid to rest NRA's claim that government has no right to make legal demands of gun owners, that's why Barack favors it. It would take one helluva Supreme Court to rule all gun ownership illegal except in the hands of …
Posted to Holding Barack Accountable
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It's easy to get seduced by the rhetoric: If you ethnographers tell us military folks all there is to know, we'll kill less of them. Hey, we hunky uniform types are just the grunts, sympathetic characters, risking our lives for a bunch of corrupt politicians and CEOs. You geeks have your hearts in the right place, let's work together, so less of us romantic-uniformed grunts/heroes die and less exotic civilians get bombed, mined, and given cluster bombs for the holidays. It's win-win, they say; you get info, which makes you academically and financially comfy. We get info which makes us the …
Posted to Anthropologists At War
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The laundry list of injustices against black men is endless, and well-known to readers here. What's also endless, apparently, is demands for change "now". It's exactly why we always take two steps forward, one back. At the point where we should be smart and tactical, we explode with demands for immediate relief. When it's a black leader that finally takes over, our demands can quickly become the focus of domestic politics, which is exactly what makes many white voters hesitate to elect him. All groups oppressed by the system make this mistake, it's not unique to black Americans or any other …
Posted to The Vendetta Against Black Men
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