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March 18, 2014
"Are YOU a DUer?"
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Are You A DUer?
"Are YOU a DUer?"
If you think that you're a DUer, please DO the following simple, ten question (with a bonus) quiz for immediate verification.
1. Would you fill the blank in the following phrase with only one of the two listed choices? - "Happiness is a warm _______." - Gun or Kitten.
2. Do you spend a lot of time online searching for and posting articles, essays and graphics that pertain to your particular areas of interest in order to give them (and yourself) the widest exposure possible?
3. Are your drinking and drug taking routines a matter of public record, somewhere in the DU archives, in your journal, mentioned in your sigline or posted as an avatar?
4. Do you consider "kicking" a valuable form of online social lubrication?
5. Do you have a strong personal feeling on everything? And when I say "everything," I really mean EVERYTHING.
6. Is getting picked for a DUzy a show-stopping way to make your day, all day?
7. Is nothing that any politician does either good enough for you, or too good for someone else that you're having a heated debate with?
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March 18, 2014
Madness is when the voices in your head become so loud that you can't afford to not answer them. nt
March 18, 2014
Get Shaved In The Face!
March 18, 2014
I just wanted to say...
That the one person that I expected to toss his two cents into my "Managing Privilege" thread, showed up and tossed in a $1.15.
Just like clockwork, baby. Just like clockwork.
March 17, 2014
8 Sneaky Racial Code Words and Why Politicians Love Them
When Paul Ryan talked about a "real culture problem" in "our inner cities in particular" this week, he wasn't the first American politician to be slammed for using racially coded language to get a point across. Far from it.
Ian Haney López, author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, says it's not just the promotion of old-fashioned racial stereotypes that we need to worry about. Rather, he argues, it's the manipulation of racism in service of very specific goals.
López's book focuses on elected officials' ability to tap into bias without being explicit about it, all to gain support for what he calls "regressive policies," which, ironically, hurt working-class white people as much as people of color.
"This sort of coded speech operates on two levels," he says. "It triggers racial anxiety and it allows plausible deniability by crafting language that lets the speaker deny that he's even thinking about race."
The Rest: http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/03/_racial_code_words_8_term_politicians_love.html
Ian Haney López, author of Dog Whistle Politics: How Coded Racial Appeals Have Reinvented Racism and Wrecked the Middle Class, says it's not just the promotion of old-fashioned racial stereotypes that we need to worry about. Rather, he argues, it's the manipulation of racism in service of very specific goals.
López's book focuses on elected officials' ability to tap into bias without being explicit about it, all to gain support for what he calls "regressive policies," which, ironically, hurt working-class white people as much as people of color.
"This sort of coded speech operates on two levels," he says. "It triggers racial anxiety and it allows plausible deniability by crafting language that lets the speaker deny that he's even thinking about race."
The Rest: http://www.theroot.com/articles/politics/2014/03/_racial_code_words_8_term_politicians_love.html
March 16, 2014
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Bad Cop, No Donut - 16 Mar 2014: The Tear Gas Meme Sunday Edition
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