January 2012
125 posts
“Tonight I can write the saddest lines,
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me...”
– Pablo Neruda. “Tonight I can write…” (via quote-book)
Watchchinatowndo:
Sheng Wang
get hip
“The selection of a Republican candidate for the presidency of this globalized...”
– Fidel Castro Calls Republican Field a ‘Competition of Idiocy’ - NYTimes (via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)
“In December of 2011, just weeks before the takedown, Digital Music News reported...”
– Why was MegaUpload really shut down?
“Not that it matters, and not that I’m some kind of rich mogul, but I’ll say this...”
– Wil Wheaton (via mesniers)
There is no evolution debate
mohandasgandhi:
anticapitalist:
The evolution debate was over decades ago, if not earlier.
Shut up.
Can you please come to my ConLaw classes with me? Evolution is constantly a debate because people all over the country are always filing suit demanding creationism be taught, not as a supplement to evolution but in place of.
Evolution is a theory in the exact same way gravity is a theory.
...
“One wonders how can the historians – both Indian and Western – project Gandhi as...”
– Mr. Gandhi was used by the British as a collaborator
(via cultureofresistance)
The patron saint of American liberals.
Ron Paul says, only people who experience racism...
dagseoul:
enios51 quotes Ron Paul
“Racism is simply an ugly form of collectivism, the mindset that views humans strictly as members of groups rather than individuals … By encouraging Americans to adopt a group mentality, the advocates of so-called “diversity” actually perpetuate racism. Their obsession with racial group identity is inherently racists [sic]…we should understand that racism...
“We got to face some facts. That the masses are poor, that the masses belong to...”
– Fred Hampton
“We have to understand very clearly that there’s a man in our community called a...”
– Fred Hampton
Anime and the Social Construction of Race
esprit-follet:
This is how white people are typically depicted xD
Also: http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/faceoftheother.html
zeezeescorner:
A common misconception about anime cartoons amongst uninitiated audiences in majority-English-speaking countries is that anime characters are drawn to look ‘White’ rather than ‘Asian’. First of all, neither of terms are factual fixed...
Watchworldcitizenshe:
Totem Pole to be finished in 4 days.
This is Baguio’s oldest tree, dating as old as 224 years and is now being carved in the image of a mother by 8 Ifugaos to give it a new life. To serve as a reminder to the people what a tree can provide to our existence, to never forget that before we happened, she has been around serving the earth we live in, down from our ancestors to the...
Martin Luther King Jr., Letter from a Birmingham...
cultureofresistance:
“I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative...
