Tag: discrimination
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RC 327: A Line In The Sand Part 2: Black Lives Matter
Anti-racism and Black Lives Matter is not just for a week or a month, it’s for a lifetime. The danger is that as this article points out, us white people have a history of dealing with racism and handwringing that actually doesn’t create action. Obfuscating it with their guilt and ‘need to listen/know more’ which…
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White Privilege and Systemic Racism
I’ve been looking for a resource for my white friends to explain how systemic racism and micro-aggressions are different from the big-R ‘Racism’ in their heads. I have struggled to explain that as a group, white people are racist. There is a difference between systemic racism and individual acts – the big-R racists with their…
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It costs me £38,000 for being queer
It’s well known that if you’re a woman, not white, queer/LGBTQ that you have to work harder and longer than cis white straight men. This glass ceiling is there, I’ve seen it in corporates, usually hedged in bullshit like ‘corporate fit’ or the like, and it’s well acknowledged that privilege and entitlement means a less…
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On terrorism
There have been some frankly awful analyses of the attacks in Paris a week ago, and the fallout from them. Either from surprisingly from my side, the left and anarchists seemingly serving our masters by wanting to take freedom of speech away like desperate young Tankies also doing a very good impression of hand-wringing liberals,…
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Pantigate
Only just found out about Pantigate via the very welcome comment from Archbishop of Ireland that ‘Homophobia insults god’ but I’m horrified at the treatment of Rory O’Neill aka Panti Bliss in Ireland. During a debate over same-sex marriage on RTE he was asked to name examples of homophobia by the host, and the people…
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The hijacking of gay equality as the new crusade and ‘War on Terror’
You need to read this article about HRC and vulture funds– Paul Singer, Daniel Loeb and HRC trying to pinkwash their evil and use the fight for LGBTQ equality to push US interests ‘in our name’. This is why some of the Russia stuff didn’t ring right to me. I hate what Russia is doing, but…