This Week In News That Makes You Doubt Your Committment To Humanity

Arnathor said:
Ontario is screwed! Burn the bloody universities to the ground for all I care, they are breeding grounds for communists.
The SJWs will never stop, you will never run out people being 'oppressed'. They will push us inch by inch until this province is turned into a complete shithole.
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That will make you stay forever I guess
 
Fwiffo said:
She looks fat to me.
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I put in great effort getting the pronunciation of that "th" right and now I need to go back to the old, German way?

How do you explain this to your kids?

 
Scherensammler said:
I put in great effort getting the pronunciation of that "th" right and now I need to go back to the old, German way?

How do you explain this to your kids?

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No, call them by an 'otherkin' name: bee-self or even more amusing, worm-self.
 
Thruth said:
Stupid cow is right but please keep her in the US. Please.
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I had a look at some pictures of her and I now think it's too much to ask of Ricky the bull.
I'm still scarred by the images and probably will be for a long time.
Can I coin the term #chicklash?

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http://african.wisc.edu/content/problem-whiteness


University of Wisconsin - Madison

African Cultural Studies
College of Letters & Science

The Problem of Whiteness
African 405

Wednesdays, 5:30-7:30pm

Professor Damon Sajnani

“There is no Negro problem in the United States,
There’s only a white problem.”
-Richard Wright

“How does it feel to be a problem?”
-Du Bois

Have you ever wondered what it really means to be white? If you’re like most people, the answer is probably “no.” But here is your chance! In Frantz Fanon’s famous Black Skin, White Masks (1952), his chapter “Look, a Negro!” interrogated the meaning and experience of coming to know oneself as Black under the constant scrutiny of the white gaze. It is an experience concomitant with W.E.B. Du Bois’s observation that under systemic racism, even well-meaning whites are constantly asking, in one way or another, “what is it like to be a problem?” But, Like Richard Wright’s quote above, philosopher George Yancy’s book, Look, a White! (2010), turns the question around, and rightly returns “the problem of whiteness” to white people. After all, since white supremacy was created by white people, is it not white folks who have the greatest responsibility to eradicate it? Our class begins here. We will come together with our socially ascribed identities of Black, white, mixed and other and, with the problem properly in its place we will ask ourselves and our allies, what are we going to do with it?

Critical Whiteness Studies aims to understand how whiteness is socially constructed and experienced in order to help dismantle white supremacy. Our class will break away from the standard US-centric frame, and consider how whiteness is constructed globally, with particular attention to paradigmatic cases like South Africa. Whereas disciplines such as Latino/a, African, and Asian American studies focus on race as experienced by non-whites, whiteness studies considers how race is experienced by white people. It explores how they consciously and unconsciously perpetuate institutional racism and how this not only devastates communities of color but also perpetuates the oppression of most white folks along the lines of class and gender. In this class, we will ask what an ethical white identity entails, what it means to be #woke, and consider the journal Race Traitor’s motto, “treason to whiteness is loyalty to humanity.”

Readings will include:
W.E.B. Du Bois, 1920. “The Souls of White Folks” in Dark Water
George Yancy, 2010. Look, a White!
Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015. Between the World and Me
Damon Sajnani, 2015. “Rachel/Racial Theory: Reverse Passing in the Curious Case of Rachel Dolezal”
Tim Wise, 2016. White Lies Matter: Race, Crime, and the Politics of Fear in America
 
Thruth said:
Professor Damon Sajnani
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Is it enough to feel black?

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Teaching and Research Interests
Africana cultural studies; social and political theory; HipHop studies; critical race theory; cultural sociology; Africana philosophy; comparative race, racism and (post)colonialism; globalization and diaspora; stratification and intersectionality; Black power and civil rights; whiteness studies; critical ethnic studies
 
Rush to exchange rupees

"Mr. Sidhu counted them out onto the veneer receptionist's desk (there were eight bills in all), punched some numbers into a calculator and showed it to the man: He'd buy the 8,000 Indian rupees for $80. The man shook his head, annoyed, tucked his bills away and walked out of the office, a gust of cold air sweeping in as he pushed open the door.

Mr. Sidhu, his hair slicked back with gel, adjusted the gold chain around his neck and shrugged. He knew he was offering a bad rate (8,000 rupees is in fact worth about $160) but it was Dec. 23 and in a week, those bills would be useless. He knew people were desperate to offload them. And where there's desperation, there's opportunity."

This rupee exchange business is such a shambles. What kind of government would legislate something that pushes people into predatory behaviour?

This must be what Jews exchanging zlotys was like in WW2.
 
so how's your day going today? bet it ain't goin this poorly

Spain Ceuta: Migrants found hidden in car and suitcase

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Police have detained two Moroccans who tried to smuggle migrants into Spain's North African enclave of Ceuta - two hidden in a car and one in a suitcase.

When police checked a car on Monday one person was found hidden in the dashboard and another in the hollowed-out back seat.

The man and woman, thought to be Guineans, received first aid as they had had little air to breathe.

Separately, a young African man was found hidden in a woman's suitcase.

That incident happened on 30 December and again the man - believed to be from Gabon - required urgent medical attention.

A 22-year-old Moroccan woman had tried to smuggle him into Ceuta, but customs officers ordered her to open the case, which was tied to a trolley.

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Image captionA migrant was found inside the car's dashboard (Spanish Civil Guard photo)
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Image captionThe car's back seat was hollowed out to hide another migrant
The incidents coincided with a mass attempt by sub-Saharan Africans to storm the 6m (20ft) border fence separating Ceuta from Morocco.

Fifty Moroccan and five Spanish border guards were injured when 1,100 migrants tried to get over the fence on Sunday.

None managed to get through, but two people were injured scaling the fence and were taken to hospital in Ceuta. One guard lost an eye, officials said.
 
I hope you have alerted sarto?
 
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