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Don't Trust Celebrities: Disney's Boy Meets World & MTV, Nickelodeon illuminati exposed

Wed, 15 May 2013 01:58:57 +0900

Don't Trust Celebrities: Disney's Boy Meets World & MTV, Nickelodeon illuminati exposed:

donttrustcelebrities:

Spread the truth: http://boymeetsworldilluminati.tumblr.com/

(Click on any of these pictures to enlarge all of them)

(OK Magazine Google+ Hangout Interview with Danielle Fishel. At “11:31” Danielle Fishel does the illuminati hand sign that Jay-Z does)

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omg this is the dumbest post ever

Can I still be in love with Topanga?

To all white people

Thu, 09 May 2013 03:58:12 +0900

peaceshannon:

blackinasia:

thisisnotchina:

blackinasia:

Here. Educate your own goddamn self. And don’t fucking troll.

i prefer this website tbqh

That one’s great, but this one might be even better.

sorry, the last two were too funny not to reblog.

mad props to www.yoisthisracist.com

He even answers your questions, and is straight fresh.

irish-buzzsaw: I got a tattoo yesterday of Dan Harmon’s story...

Mon, 06 May 2013 05:05:50 +0900

irish-buzzsaw:

I got a tattoo yesterday of Dan Harmon’s story circle.

It also occurs to me that not everyone on here knows that that is! It’s the structure that Dan Harmon uses to write material and it is similar to The Hero’s Journey. The nerdy English major in me saw this for the first time and immediately connected with it. It describes a characters journey in many stories in history. The different quadrants of the circle mean different things and the numbers correspond with different points in the journey. 1) The character is in a zone of comfort. 2) But they want something. 3) So they enter an unfamiliar place. 4) They adapt to it. 5) They get what they want. 6) They pay a heavy price for it. 7) They return to their zone of comfort. 7) Having changed.

I’ve always enjoyed writing stories, ever since I was little but my problem is always ALWAYS the plot. When writing something this is obviously something to help you create a plot and it’s in a place that’s easily visible while I’m writing. But better yet it has personal meaning - we’re all on a hero’s journey in our own way. We all enter and exit zones of comfort for different reasons and is the price we pay to gain what we want worth it?

Community is very obviously a different kind of show and I think it’s due mostly to this structure. It’s the first show I’ve ever watched where I genuinely and honestly cared about the characters and I have been obsessed with it ever since. Community and discovering Donald Glover’s stand up made me want to do stand up myself, which I’ve done and it’s been one of the most difficult but rewarding experiences of my life. And listening to Dan Harmon’s podcast and reading has book has changed so much about how I think and how I relate to other people. And when things like that happen, it generally means it’s time for a tattoo.

Feel free to share - I’m proud of it and even though the thought of it sort of embarrasses me (at least the part of me that is in denial about being a typical fangirl) I’d be stoked if Dan saw it. Although being a fangirl helped me meet some really amazing people, so hell… I guess it’s time for me to own it!

It’s so obvious that Harmon isn’t writing this season. If one is familiar with Harmon’s technique, there’s a clear disconnect between the past 3 seasons and this one. The previous ones had great stories interwoven with excellent jokes. This one is great jokes forced into stories? It’s hard to tell. There’s way too much forced resolution, and exploration of who they think these characters are rather than having them want something, having them exit their comfort zone (not necessarily real) to obtain it, and having paid a price for it. Maybe the writers are trying, but they’re just not as good as Harmon was at it.

SARAH SHAW "Riding the white horse: On being foreign in South Korea"

Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:45:29 +0900

SARAH SHAW "Riding the white horse: On being foreign in South Korea":

dagseoul:

I wasn’t the sexualized Western female, the fat American, the junior coworker.

Sarah Shaw is not the first white teacher to address Koreans and their mean stereotypes, but white people do love two things: playing cultural anthropologists and being foreign, and her memoir is exemplary at both. What’s better than dressing up as your favorite women of color than actually pretending to be a minority in a safe place and getting paid for it?

Shaw’s memoir begins, in typical fashion, with the recognition that Korean men, no matter how nice they attempt to be, are just awful. Sorry, Korean guys, but this white feminist has got your number.

KEVIN, my Korean co-teacher, had an idea for our open class. “Let’s make a motivational video,” he suggested. “I’ll ask, ‘Would you like some more?’ you’ll say, ‘Yes, please,’ and after we repeat this a couple times, you’ll stuff your shirt with balloons. When you stand up to clear your tray, you’ll look really fat!”

“Really, Kevin? I have to be the fat foreigner?”

“It would be so funny,” he assured me, “and it would make the students more interested in the lesson.”

I sighed. I wasn’t too keen on the idea of humiliating myself in front of all my students and the classroom evaluators by acting as the stereotypical fat Westerner, but I wasn’t opposed to the idea either. It certainly wasn’t politically correct, and I would never think to create a “humorous” video like this in the United States. But I wasn’t in the United States; I was in Korea, and after several months living as an expat and teaching English in Seoul, I knew that the image of “fat people” made Koreans of all ages burst into uncontrollable fits of laughter.

Fucking Koreans, right?! I mean, Shaw knew how much they love to laugh at fat people, but there she was actually observing Koreans laughing at fat people. How did this happen? Not privilege, certainly. Except, she was going to have to be that fat person and that wasn’t comfortable. Instead of telling her co-teacher, “Kevin, I’m not dressing up in balloons to be a person everyone will laugh at because I think it’s demeaning and weird,” Sarah put on the fat-suit made of balloons anyway. After all, these teachers, these students, these people, her neighbors, all Koreans, are just part of her experiment in playing with others’ cultures.

This story is the introduction to Shaw’s essay about being foreign in Korea Apparently, two things must be included in every white narrative about life in Korea: in spite of great jobs, safe social lives, impressive health care, and a large community of foreigners in a country where an English speaker with absolutely no knowledge of the native language can get around with relatively few difficulties, authors must illustrate how humiliating it is to be a white minority and how ignorant Koreans can be.

Notice how, even though Shaw participated in the stupid project rather than creating a better one of her own, she conveniently gives herself a Get-Out-of-a-Moral-Dilemma-Free pass because “I wasn’t in the US, I was in Korea” and she just wanted to make the kids laugh, even if it was at fat people. Sounds like a wonderful teaching moment, right? Not for this teacher. Hell no. She was just a powerless foreign woman who Kevin Teacher was masterfully dominating, though he clearly had no clue about it.

We should keep track of the tourist teacher clichés in this post. We have three here. One, Koreans are mindless bigots. Two, Korean sense of humor is just crude slapstick like laughing at fat people and farts and no one in the world has ever seen other people laugh at this shit. Three, Korean men are naive sexists. With only the introduction to her foreigner memoir out of the way, Sarah Shaw is really taking it to Korean culture.

Republic of Korea 0 : 3 Sarah Shaw

After studying in Seoul as an exchange student in 2009, I returned to teach English at a public school in 2011. I was placed at a low-income elementary school located in northeast Seoul, where half of the students’ families were receiving welfare checks from the government, and I was paired with Kevin, a 40-year-old devout Christian, married with two children. Kevin was raised in the mountainous countryside and spent his youth studying diligently in order to gain acceptance at a prestigious university in Seoul. Because of his humble background, good sense of humor, and years of experience working with children, Kevin could easily connect with our 12-year-old students. We’d teach together Monday through Friday for 22 hours a week, and we’d often role play. In one instance I asked, “What are you doing?” and Kevin immediately squatted down, contorted his face, and responded, “I’m pooping!” indulging in a classic form of Korean slapstick humor. The boys burst into fits of giggles, while most of the girls wrinkled their noses in disgust. I laughed, and thought, This man is having more fun than the kids.

This is going nowhere good is it. Shaw is scoring high cliché points, though, and completely shutting the actual Korea and its culture out. In one paragraph, she professionally emasculates Kevin. Sure, Shaw admits that he makes her feel comfortable, but it’s clear he’d be offended and embarrassed by her ridiculous representation of him as obeisant to Christianity and Acceptance. In one sentence, she wonders at his years of dedication as a student to achieve such humble placement as a teacher in a working class school (another cliché) and, in the next, she infantilizes him by performing being gobsmacked that he could “easily connect with our 12-year-old students.” I could go on, but you get the point, I hope.

Korean men never fare well when white feminists write about them unless they’ve married one or are happily dating one. Then Korean men are great. Typically, though, Korean men are often not only patronized in these discussions but talked about as if they were little boys. Shaw’s essay is not only a harsh generalization, so far relying on stereotypical descriptions, but it has not one citation to back up claims like “I was placed at a low-income elementary school in northeast Seoul, where half of the students’ families were receiving welfare checks from the government… .” White people are really only ever doing good if they’re hanging around with poorer people of color. Moreover, if you had never lived in Seoul, you might think Shaw was stuck out in the dangerous ghettoes in the hinterlands of Seoul, out “northeast”. However, the truth is that she was teaching in an area where thousands of foreign teachers live.

What Shaw needs is an editor with a fucking stick standing behind her to punish her for each generalization, hyperbole, and bullshit claim she makes. Is this a memoir meant to explain what life is like in Seoul as a foreign teacher or is it an attempt to settle a score? I think the latter because Shaw has scored often in only several paragraphs.

Republic of Korea 0 : 6 Sarah Shaw

From the first day in the classroom, Kevin made me feel comfortable. We would have contests where the students would write the days of the week in English and I would have to write them in Korean. He would give extra attention to the low-level students to encourage them to enjoy studying English, and I would laugh when he would enthusiastically respond to things that I found quite normal, such as glimpsing a screen full of women in bikinis when he googled the word “hot” for our lesson about temperature.

Because of our extroverted natures, Kevin and I were able to chat freely, but as an older man in an ageist society, he could also be quite stubborn and controlling. On Thanksgiving, we argued for 15 minutes in front of the class after he thought my explanation of American Thanksgiving was wrong. Another time, in Korean, he jokingly told the class I had failed my required drug test. “Kevin, that didn’t happen!” I retorted, “They’ll tell their parents!” He was shocked that I’d understood.

You’d think with that first sentence, Shaw was going to give Kevin a little credit. Right? Nope. She’s merely setting Kevin up again. Though he really loves his students, he’s just a little boy who gets shy seeing women in bikinis. Though extroverted—whatever that means because Shaw never explains a fucking thing—Kevin took advantage of her open nature and told the kids she was a drug addict. Here we have clichés #7 and #8: all Koreans think foreigners are drug addicts and Koreans don’t think foreigners can understand them. We have no reason not to believe Kevin Teacher said this to some of the students, though it’s strange for an elementary teacher to talk this way to the kids. What’s missing is any sort of attempt to place the accusation in context. All we get is a description of the claim itself. Shaw simply cannot or is willfully refusing to describe anything with detail. And somebody needs to teach her that this makes an author appear to be disingenuous at best, a liar at worst.

Republic of Korea 0 : 8 Sarah Shaw

As I hope I’m making clear, Shaw is not interested in offering a complex narrative for her memoir. She’s posing as a thoughtful writer to tell on Kevin who would be horrified if he knew she wrote this. After all, her photo is on the site, her full name on the memoir, she’s already commenting on it from her Facebook account. And so, everyone will know who Kevin Teacher is whether or not “Kevin” is his actual name. Shaw notes:

When we embarked on a staff hiking trip, [Kevin] had me pose next to a sign that said “Danger! High Voltage! Do not climb!” It was all in good humor and he wasn’t intending to offend me, but I felt embarrassed to be used as the punchline of his “stupid foreigner” jokes.

The paragraph above offers a skeleton for a Shaw Score Settled Against Koreans. She provides no context whatsoever; the transition into this short paragraph follows her description of times in the classroom; the memoir is putatively about being a foreign teacher in Korea, but Shaw is merely dishing dirt on Kevin Teacher. Here, Kevin makes jokes about a stupid foreigner. And Shaw scores another point, sticking in quotation marks around “stupid foreigner” insinuating Kevin thought she was one—and this comes at an interesting transition in Shaw’s memoir where she will begin to address sex. Shaw implies nobody knows sex and sexual oppression as she does, and this Korean Christian Sexist, Kevin, will not escape criticism. He’s just a naive puritan who fucked with the wrong tourist.

One day, I was reading the book Honolulu, by Alan Brennert, a fictional account of a Korean picture bride’s life in Hawaii in the early 1900s. Kevin noticed the image of the Korean woman on the front cover, wearing an off-the-shoulder top and bowing her head in sorrow. “Why is she wearing such an obscene shirt?” he asked.

I was surprised; I thought the woman looked both beautiful and classy. “I don’t think it’s obscene. Lots of women wear shirts like that in Western countries.”

Shaw knows classy when she sees it and Kevin is too uptight. It’s at this point, when I first read this after Praise showed it to me, that I decided Shaw is pretty much making shit up. She’s not entirely fabricating situations, but she is clearly creating dialogue. To be honest, Kevin might not even exist. If we are to believe Shaw, Kevin is a big tween in teacher’s britches who is devoted to God, leers at her because she is extroverted, and doesn’t understand how classy oppressed-looking, Korean women are on book covers. It’s all rather ludicrous, but she scores points. I’m not going to post more about this section, but it ends with Kevin saying “Divorce? Oh, no.”

Republic of Korea 0 : Sarah Shaw 11

I want to address something that has me annoyed above all else. Shaw would have us believe that not only does she know about and understand Korean language, history, and culture, but that she’s a feminist extrovert who’s comfortable and cool in what can be trying circumstances. Shaw is the all-seeing, all-knowing white expert who, I’m sure she sees nothing wrong with this, is merely contrasting Korean (Kevin is a stand-in for Koreans) conservative views and perceptions of Western women with her objective representation of the reality. SHE is that representation. It’s Sarah v. Kevin. Thus, she is not even remotely objective. But not just that: Shaw is confessing her own conservative views and her perceptions of Korea and Koreans, but without submitting them to any scrutiny at all. It’s the worst kind of writing. If she were my student, I’d refuse to grade her work. Revise and resubmit. What she has done should be unacceptable and for a professional organization to provide her with a soapbox to dish dirt, make accusations, and be what those of us who’ve lived here for a while all consider racist.

At this point, we’re not even halfway through Shaw’s memoir and she has not actually talked about herself at all. I’m going to skip to where she does. Guess who fares well in Shaw’s memoir about being a foreigner? Of course she does.

Like Jess, when I first arrived in Korea in 2009, I spent my exchange semester unaware of the stereotypes that applied to Western females. I too would wear North American-style, sleeveless, low-cut tank tops. Even though I didn’t show the same amount of cleavage as Jess, I didn’t give any thought to the slut factor.

In fact, I wasn’t paying attention to how Korean society perceived me at all, since I had started dating an exchange student from the Netherlands. Although his ethnicity is Korean, he was adopted at birth, so we both were experiencing Korean culture and language for the first time. We were in love, and we certainly weren’t stressing over cultural taboos.

We both lived in the dormitory at our university, which was separated by gender, a stark contrast to my college dorm back in the States, where boys and girls were allowed to room together on specified floors, and a bottomless basket of government-funded NYC condoms were available in the lobby.

Shaw is so enlightened. Once again, Korea is ridiculously stereotyped as an oppressive puritanical society where the US is a fucking paradise. Literally, a fucking paradise, as coed uni dorms offer bottomless baskets of condoms to the students.

Republic of Korea 0 : Sarah Shaw 12

I have to be honest. I have no desire to slut-shame Sarah Shaw. I don’t even want the perception. So, I’m not going to address how she writes about her very short time in Korean university as an exchange student. It’s clear Shaw is proud of her “overt sexuality” whatever that means. As I’ve noted, her memoir is not very detailed. To avoid confusion, I’m simply going to let you check it out for yourselves.

Unfortunately, Shaw doesn’t take too long before bringing Kevin back into the narrative. She has to because he’s a character her narrative depends on. I can’t skip this part. What Shaw does is, in my opinion, unforgiveable. She consistently illustrates herself as open and curious in her discussions with Kevin. I wonder why, then, she consistently punishes him, in this narrative, for being frank and curious with her?

Kevin continued bringing up topics related to sex during our lunch break, and I always chose to respond, curious as to what he would say and, in a way, encouraging him to confront his own stereotypes. He’d talk about how he wanted to watch porn, but couldn’t because he lived with his mother-in-law, or he’d mention how he once stared at two girls in Australia for two minutes who were wearing bikinis and lying on their stomachs, hoping they would turn over.

He mentioned how he used to work at an English education center with several native English teachers, and he would frequently talk about an African-American male colleague who would indulge him in detailed accounts of his sexual escapades with Korean women. When his colleague embarked on “the midnight run,” a term for English teachers who suddenly leave Korea without notifying their employers, they found a library of porn on his office computer.

Shaw continues to dish on Kevin and other men with a story about rainbow parties. I’m not interested in discussing it. What’s the point?

Republic of Korea 0 : Sarah Shaw 13

And again, Shaw quickly scores points making herself Kevin’s teacher:

Although Kevin’s stereotypical comments often frustrated me, with the absence of Western male teachers at our school, I realized that I was probably one of the only people he could talk to about sex. Without realizing it himself, he was living in a sexually oppressive society, mainly because of his status in the church. He once mentioned that he wanted to accompany his colleague to the red-light district in Sydney during a month-long educational fieldwork excursion, but he knew he wouldn’t be able to control himself and remain faithful to his wife. “Religion is essential to preventing us from those things that we desire,” he said. While Kevin proved to be a loyal husband, I began feeling sorry for him. If he had a healthy sexual connection with his wife, he probably would have been discussing these issues with her rather than me.

I think this might be the most offensive paragraph in the narrative. I don’t know. Maybe you’ll find another one. Shaw is not only enlightened, healthily extroverted, educated about the world, but she’s also a sex counselor for Kevin who’s now fully transformed into a one-dimensional masturbating prude who hides in Church from sex and lusts after his foreign co-teacher and sneaks peeks at porn from time to time. In addition, because of Korea, he lacks the ability to properly discuss any of this. This is like a hat-trick of points and high clichés.

Republic of Korea 0 : Sarah Shaw 16

I hope I’m being rather transparent about how full of clichés and empty of meaningful focus and detail Shaw’s memoir about being a foreigner is because I’m finding it hard to re-read this crap and so am going to skip to the end. If you feel like reading it, Shaw continues to discuss sex and sexuality and nosy neighbors and love motels—because Koreans, though prudes, also like to sneak away to have sex. So, that’s good, according to Shaw, but also not good because, unlike Westerners, Koreans are not overt about it, whatever that means.

Republic of Korea 0 : Sarah Shaw 17

I think Shaw is an outright bigot. A high-minded fool. I think she’s a colonialist pig and a patronizing shit. She believes being empowered is being a flirty know-it-all who pretends to be frank without ever being genuine and claims this is empowerment. Did Kevin know he was merely an object of curious observation? I know, now I’m stereotyping. Here’s the deal, I have a lot of writing from Shaw that illustrates my generalization about her. I don’t have the stomach to continue analyzing the final 40% of her work. On the other hand, having read the entire memoir twice, I still know nothing about Kevin. Shaw’s writing about Korea is typical, not because it’s honest, which it is not, but because it serves to merely justify the author’s preconceived notions about Korea, Koreans, their lives and language.

Am I wrong? I’m here.

I have to be honest; there’s a point in time, about 9 months after I got to Korea, where I would’ve written a similar narrative. It took a conscious effort to learn more and engage people close to me to escape from that.

These posts are re-enforcing. I came to Korea from Egypt, where I’d lived for 6 months, and what was my first real step from “home.” I relied on terrible information, like ESL Cafe and random blogs (hadn’t even found the Tumblr yet) for information. And what you read are stereotypes, all from white perspectives. And then you go and try to plug them into your life. It’s constructivism in sociology.

And, honestly, your blog (along with a couple others in Korea) were ones I discovered that challenged me to get out of that bubble. Instead of ESL Cafe and Blog Spots (the WORST) I read books and Tumblrs who I had actually met in real life, and took a significantly more objective approach to their lives. It wasn’t “tee-hee this is my experience in Korea”. It’s here’s what happens in Korea. This shaped my interactions with co-workers, made them significantly more insightful, encouraged me to listen, and made me more well-rounded.

Is it just part of the growing-up process, and Shaw just isn’t there yet?

thepeoplesrecord: Every 28 hours an African American is...

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 14:52:27 +0900

thepeoplesrecord:

Every 28 hours an African American is extrajudicially executed in the U.S.
April 24, 2013

Every 28 hours a black woman, man or child in the United States is executed by a person employed or protected by the US government according to a year-long investigation by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement (MXGM), which has thus far been virtually ignored by the news media, progressive outlets included.

Following the murder of Trayvon Martin, the MXGM embarked on a year-long study to determine the prevalence of extrajudicial killings of black Americans. The organization initially recorded around 120 killings in the first half of 2012, which came out to one black person murdered every 36 hours. That number climbed to 313 by the end of last year, forcing the MXGM to update its findings to every 28 hours in their latest report, titled “Operation Ghetto Storm“. That’s almost one black American killed every day by law enforcement, security guards and/or vigilantes, which the MXGM believes is more accurate since their numbers reflect only those killings that are reported by police departments and the news media. As the organization points out in the report, there exists no national tracking of police-involved shootings, so it’s impossible to know the full extent of the crisis.

The Numbers

The largest portion of those killed in 2012 (40 percent) were between the ages of 22 to 31, followed by 18 to 21 year olds at 18 percent. Children made up 8 percent of extrajudicially executed black Americans.

Furthermore, 44 percent of those killed were unarmed while 27 percent were “allegedly” armed, meaning police claimed the victim was armed but no corroborating evidence existed to prove this was the case. Only 13 percent of those killed were said to have “fired a weapon either before or during the officer’s arrival”, according to the MXGM.

One of the report’s most damning findings is the sheer lack of accountability for these killings. Thus far, less than 9 percent of those responsible for the deaths have faced charges, almost all of whom are security guards or vigilantees and all of which have yet to be determined. Despite the fact that an overwhelming number of the victims were definitively unarmed, only 3 percent of officers officers responsible for the deaths have been charged: “3 for vehicular crimes stemming from their crashes, 5 for manslaughter—the killers of Remarley Graham, Wendell Allen, Dane Garrett Scott Jr, Christopher Brown, and Bobby Moore Jr.”

And the justifications are almost always the same: “I felt threatened”, “he reached for his waistband to get what I thought was a gun”, “he was acting suspiciously”, etc. All are based on personal perceptions that are no doubt influenced by racial stereotypes, given that every American is surrounded by a culture that conditions them to fear the “criminal black man”.

This isn’t speculation. Study after study has confirmed the lethal consequences of the black-as-criminal stereotype.

Source (there is much more text to this article here - check it out)

I posted this article on a HS Sports board from the area where I grew up—NW Ohio. The discussion that ensued is fascinating… The board is at www.excoboard.com/nosf You’ll have to register to view the “politics” section where its posted, or to post.

Here’s the convo so far. The first post is simply a link to the article. I’m “stillinpreschool” and don’t know any of the other posters in real life.

Buckeye2B
Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot

Posts: 9576
Registered: May 2005 Posted Yesterday at 04:09 PM IP

Sip…How do I as a white man respond to this without sounding racist???

Come to Detroit. If you don’t understand why this happens, you will as soon as I drop you in a neighborhood of my choice at night with a gun in your hands. When that fear hits you, I bet your mind will make up all kinds of things, whether they happen or not. Take a minute and read further:http://mxgm.org/wp-content/uploads/…hetto-Storm.pdf

Toward the middle, they cite each death and the circumstances surrounding their death. This is nothing more than a governmental institution witch hunt.

Do you think it’s any different in Miami for the latinos who live in poverty ridden neighborhoods? Or in Texas or Arizona for Mexicans? I don’t care about your race or nationality, but if you are involved in suspicious acts and it costs you your life, then I guess you should have thought about your choices before it got to that point.

Political Correctness - the belief that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
stillinpreschool
All-State

Posts: 4228
Registered: Dec 2006 Posted Yesterday at 04:36 PM IP

Quote:
Buckeye2B wrote:
Sip…How do I as a white man respond to this without I don’t care about your race or nationality, but if you are involved in suspicious acts and it costs you your life, then I guess you should have thought about your choices before it got to that point.

I appreciate you at least trying to not sound racist.

To your point, what this (and I imagine other statistics as well) say is that if you’re of a different race, your activities are more likely to be considered suspicious.

And suspicious activities provide no justification for execution. We have a judicial system. Look at the graph. Only in 13% of the instances did the suspect fire. “Felt Threatened” is NOT a reason for trained law enforcement to shoot. Period.

You, me, and the proletariat make three, baby. Whittaker
All-State

Posts: 2137
Registered: Jan 2008 Posted Yesterday at 04:55 PM IP

If someone breaks into my house and I “extrajudicially execute” that person, shouldn’t I get a rebate on my taxes for saving the the expense of a trial and a jail cell?
Or at least a ‘Vigilante’ endorsement on my drivers license.

‘And I’m driving a stolen car down on Eldridge Avenue. Each night I wait to get caught but I never do’ stillinpreschool
All-State

Posts: 4228
Registered: Dec 2006 Posted Yesterday at 05:34 PM IP

I’ll concede a point—- there’s no data distinguishing between what percentage were house break-ins, but the write-up makes it seem like it was not many.

To my response earlier to B2B. Consider:

Afr. Amer. make up about 13% of the US. Let’s assume, for this argument, that 30% of all African Americans engage in suspicious activities (a ludicrous number, btw). That means that 3.9% of the total US population is African American and engaging in in “suspicious activity.”

Now, let’s assume that only 10% of white Americans engage in suspicious activities. And we’ll assume as well that about 70% of the country is white. This means that 7% of the US population is White and engaging in suspicious activity.

Following my logic here? I don’t think any of the assumptions are unfounded.

Given that, there should be TWICE AS MANY WHITE PEOPLE KILLED EXTRAJUDICIOUSLY as there are African Americans.

That would mean that a white person is extrajudicially executed EVERY 12 HOURS.

Do you think that’s true? Probably not.

This means we have some race issues.

You, me, and the proletariat make three, baby. Buckeye2B
Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot

Posts: 9576
Registered: May 2005 Posted Yesterday at 05:40 PM IP

Ditto. You break into my house, I’m not going to stop to ask you what race you are. You will eat lead because you are a threat.
As well, if I’m a cop and I feel that I am going to be fired upon, I am going to protect myself. Sad for you I am a better shot…the fact that I am white has very little bearing on it.

Sips, you can bleed liberal all over this, but I guarantee if you have a gun in your hand in the neighborhood I’m thinking off, you will shoot your way out. Fear takes the liberal out of all men and you won’t stop long enough to think if they are black, white or mexican, but rather for your own personal safety.

Political Correctness - the belief that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
stillinpreschool
All-State

Posts: 4228
Registered: Dec 2006 Posted Yesterday at 05:49 PM IP

Lol.

Numbers clearly are liberal.

It doesn’t matter what I/ do. It matters what our law enforcement officials do. What our government and states do.

You, me, and the proletariat make three, baby. stillinpreschool
All-State

Posts: 4228
Registered: Dec 2006 Posted Yesterday at 06:00 PM IP

BTW, even if I assume that only 5% of White Americans do suspicious stuff, that’s still as many deaths that should occur as with African Americans, as the percentage who do suspicious things would be the same.

You, me, and the proletariat make three, baby. da24
All-World

Posts: 14619
Registered: Sep 2005 Posted Yesterday at 06:02 PM IP

How many African Americans died last year killed by an African American? Check those stats and where is the discussion on that ?

In Obama´s Audacity of Hope, he stated, “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in any ugly direction.”

A little less than every five hours, somewhere around the world a Muslim is carrying out a fatal jihad attack.

Keynes once argued that governments could bury dollar bills in bottles and employ people to dig them up and it would still be worth it to stimulate the economy. stillinpreschool
All-State

Posts: 4228
Registered: Dec 2006 Posted Yesterday at 06:10 PM IP

Oh, you know, it’s in the link I put at the top of the page.

I guess you’re great at reading if it’s from one of the nonsensical sites you copy and paste from, but think it’s unimportant when anyone else posts it?

Here’s the relevant part:

Quote:

UPDATE:

I’ve received emails from several readers asking why these 313 killings are so important when far more African Americans are killed in “black-on-black” violence. Since so few people understand the underlying causes of this violence, it’s a fair question that deserves an answer, which the MXGM addresses more articulately than I can. From the report (emphasis mine):

We certainly do not intend to minimize the horror and importance of the thousands of Black people who tragically die at the hands of other Black people each year. However, to a large degree, those killings are not directly sponsored or sanctioned by federal, state and local governments. On the other hand, police, sheriffs, security guards and, to a certain extent self‐ appointed enforcers of law (vigilantes) ARE “authorized” by governments and paid for by taxes. They are hardly accountable for these killings and even less frequently charged in a court of law. In contrast, both the victims who survive and the perpetrators of “Black‐on‐Black” crime end up as part of the million Black people incarcerated in the U.S. at any given time.

The report goes on to elaborate on the causes of this “intra-comunal violence” which has been provoked and fed by the war on drugs, a creation of the US government. Despite its absolute failure, the drug war has continued to devastate communities of color at home and abroad because illicit drug trafficking is lucrative for US banks, US imperialism and the countless industries that have sprung up to profit of of incarceration and militarized policing (i.e. private prison companies, less-lethal weapons makers, SWAT team tactical gear manufacturers, etc.).

You, me, and the proletariat make three, baby. Buckeye2B
Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-as-Sir Launcelot

Posts: 9576
Registered: May 2005 Posted Yesterday at 06:16 PM IP

I have worked with kids for years and rather than focus on what they can’t control (IE - law enforcement) we focus on the choices they make. If you are a black kid, in the wrong location or the wrong neighborhood on the wrong night, you might want to think about what you are doing there before you go there. Of those who were “allegedly” shot unjustly, I wonder how many considered another choice rather than put themselves in those situations?

Nah, instead of learning and getting smarter and taking ourselves out of these situations, we will bitch because we are being fired upon and being killed because we are black?? You know, I saw a man get shot one night in Columbus…. a black grandfather shot by a black cop, and the grandfather died because of it. I watched the cop tell him to “put the f-ing gun down” several times, but when the grandfather started to raise his shotgun, the black cop dropped him with about 5 shots. I’m pretty sure that had I popped out of the alley behind our house, my white backside would have gotten shot too. I was smart enough to stay in my house while it all went down, even though I was watching.

Do you see my point and why I give very little credence to this study? Here is one example:

Quote:
Undercover Broward County Sheriffs set up a
meeting with Wright to buy firearms. Wright
allegedly pulled a weapon on undercover sheriffs
and tried to flee. He did not fire.

Did he maybe make a poor choice in selling firearms to undercover sherrifs?

Or…..

Quote:
Lawrence stabbed an officer to death as officer
was moving him from police car to Mobile
County Metro Jail for booking on a robbery
charge at a Dollar Store. After the stabbing,
Lawrence fled in the patrol car, shot and
wounded a second officer who gave chase and
finally killed Lawrence.

Really??? This is an example of being Extra-judicially Executed? A POS like that and there is great concern because he’s black. White, green, purple….it doesn’t matter. He made a choice…

Political Correctness - the belief that one can pick up a turd by the clean end.
da24
All-World

Posts: 14619
Registered: Sep 2005 Posted Yesterday at 06:20 PM IP

I read that but when does the national discussion start? Rarely have I even heard a mention of it by black leaders.

I’m attending this conference next month and hopefully it gets a lot of discussion.

http://www.preventblackcrime.com/pb…f/pages/Details

I applaud you for having those conversations, and agree that education is an important part of it. Should the conversation ever be “don’t go there because the cops may shoot you?”

Regarding the other point though, there is this graph (seriously, did anyone click this link prior to contributing to this discussion?)

You, me, and the proletariat make three, baby. da24
All-World

Posts: 14619
Registered: Sep 2005 Posted Yesterday at 06:34 PM IP

More like failure to follow orders could get you killed should be part of the discussion. And that is a tough one when they fear the cops.Major part of me mentoring kids period in Bluffton,SC.

In Obama´s Audacity of Hope, he stated, “I will stand with the Muslims should the political winds shift in any ugly direction.”

A little less than every five hours, somewhere around the world a Muslim is carrying out a fatal jihad attack.

Keynes once argued that governments could bury dollar bills in bottles and employ people to dig them up and it would still be worth it to stimulate the economy. Dr. Torch
Automatic Mojo

Posts: 13543
Registered: Oct 2007 Posted Yesterday at 08:34 PM IP

“As a dog returneth to his vomit, a fool returneth to his folly.”

-Proverbs 26:11

WARNING: LITHIUM NO LONGER AVAILABLE ON CREDIT

“From the forest itself comes the handle for the axe.”
-Matisyahn stillinpreschool
All-State

Posts: 4228
Registered: Dec 2006 Posted Yesterday at 08:39 PM IP

Quote:
Dr. Torch wrote:
“As a dog returneth to his vomit, a fool returneth to his folly.”

-Proverbs 26:11

You, me, and the proletariat make three, baby. Dr. Torch
Automatic Mojo

Posts: 13543
Registered: Oct 2007 Posted Yesterday at 10:32 PM IP

lolZ

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“From the forest itself comes the handle for the axe.”
-Matisyahn BHSalum
All-State

Posts: 2756
Registered: Dec 2006 Posted Yesterday at 10:46 PM IP

The article lost legitimacy with me when the second paragraph began, “Following the murder of Trayvon Martin…”

Barack Hussein Obama: living proof that anyone can become President of the United States. redskinfan04
All-World

Posts: 11613
Registered: Jan 2006 Posted Yesterday at 11:18 PM IP

B2B

Drop sips off at Cass Corridor or Highland Park after dark and see if it changes his thought process.

I’d rather spend eternity in hell than spend five minutes in a heaven filled with people like vogel.

stillinpreschool
All-State

Posts: 4228
Registered: Dec 2006 Posted 2 minutes ago IP

-New post-
I just want to be clear what your argument is in regards to the “drop SIPS in a ****ty neighborhood” thing.

The focus of this article is on police—-law enforcement. Which I decidedly am not. They are professionals. With training. Who make a decent amount of money and have powerful unions (which many of the same people here decry).

You expect them to behave the same I way I would? They’re not held to a higher standard? Somehow my probable (by your measure) misbehavior justifies their misbehavior? WTF?

I also think you all highly underestimate me, but that’s harder to explain.

You, me, and the proletariat make three, baby.

KOREA STANDARD TIME: Chinese border town is excited about increased trade with N. Korea. (Then again, maybe not.)

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 04:03:25 +0900

KOREA STANDARD TIME: Chinese border town is excited about increased trade with N. Korea. (Then again, maybe not.):

koreastandardtime:

Bloomberg and the Globe & Mail have conflicting stories about the Chinese city of Dandong, which lies on North Korea’s northwestern border and is a major conduit of trade between the two countries. Bloomberg reports that the opening of another bridge linking the city to the North Korean city of…

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/northkorea/9991907/China-breaking-UN-sanctions-to-support-North-Korea.html

Another relevant story. That isn’t sure what’s going on.

ilovecharts: -snoweel Can anybody think of something for the...

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:13:37 +0900

ilovecharts:

-snoweel

Can anybody think of something for the middle here? I was thinking Scrooge, but I’m not sure you can round up chops to a beard.

Monopoly?

Someone’s uncle Rufus?

Drunk Nate Writes: Writing

Mon, 18 Mar 2013 15:25:24 +0900

Drunk Nate Writes: Writing:

drunknatewrites:

I realized this evening that I no longer write about my life, which is simply a damn shame.

First of all, I can’t express how much the people who I’m lucky enough to be surrounded by are a positive influence in my life. It may be cheesy, and somewhat cliché, but I truly know excellent people. In…

깔창

Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:28:58 +0900

sidatron:

ponderbam:

My left foot is a 250
My right foot is a 245
I need some ggalchang up in my shoes

LETS BUY SHOES TOGETHER! my left is 245 and my right is 250!!!!

I have a new business idea.

donpardosaymyname: The Girls (Alison Brie, Cyrina Fiallo,...

Tue, 05 Mar 2013 05:30:57 +0900

donpardosaymyname:

The Girls (Alison Brie, Cyrina Fiallo, Julianna Guill) sing “We’re Going To Be Friends” by The White Stripes at Central in Santa Monica, CA with specials guests Ben McMillan and Tom Felton on guitar.

Annie from Community sings while Draco Malfoy plays guitar.

How invalid is your argument now, bitch?

Alison Brie, sing a duet with me.

I feel ya, Kramer.

Wed, 20 Feb 2013 04:14:32 +0900

I feel ya, Kramer.

koreastandardtime: ebriete: i first discovered this place in...

Sun, 17 Feb 2013 15:26:49 +0900

koreastandardtime:

ebriete:

i first discovered this place in 2009, when a korean friend brought me here to eat! at that time, i wasn’t a fan of 냉면, cos i had some pretty bad tasting ones and i thought that was how it tasted like.. until i tried 고기주는냉면집 in myeongdong! located in the side street, there are two branches but my favourite one is nearer to SPAO and etude house.

so anyways, i ordered the 비빔냉면, which is basically spicy cold buckwheat noodles, and SPICY IT WAS!!! it’s like the best i’ve ever eaten, and what’s more, it comes with bbq pork that tastes just like bakkwa!!! <3 and the best part is that there’s this free beef soup that comes with it! omg i always always crave the beef soup.. typing this makes me wanna go down and grab one bowl now >< the 냉면 is pretty decent too, if you don’t like spicy food! or you can just tell the person separate the chilli sauce for the 비빔냉면.

anyways, i think two years ago, they introduced the 38번가김치찌개 into their shop! so now you can have 김치찌개 there as well, yay! in a big hot pot where you have to cut up the meat yourself! you can even add ramyun inside yummy! there are even instructions pasted on the wall to show the best way to eat it hehe.

two of my favourite dishes in one restaurant, how awesome can this place get!

Restaurant Name: 고기주는냉면집 vs 38번가김치찌개 명동2호점

Address: 서울특별시 중구 명동2가 54-26 2층

Seoul, Jung-gu, Myeongdong 2-ga 54-26, 2nd floor

Tel: +82-2-772-9991

This very enthusiastic review has left me 1) hungry and 2) eager to check this place out.

Want. Need more Korea.

chelseaburgin: I don’t think that I can do this anymore.

Thu, 14 Feb 2013 07:12:31 +0900

chelseaburgin:

I don’t think that I can do this anymore.

fotojournalismus: October 12, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Protestors...

Mon, 04 Feb 2013 23:30:08 +0900

fotojournalismus:

October 12, 2012 - Cairo, Egypt: Protestors watch clashes along the heavily-graffitied Mohamed Mahmoud Street. Violence broke out between hundreds of Egyptian Liberalists and Islamists in and around Tahrir Square.

Amanda Mustard is an American photojournalist based in Cairo.

www.amandamustard.tumblr.com

www.amandamustardphoto.com

I know things are still shaky in Egypt, but I think people should understand how important the fact is THAT THERE IS GRAFFITI. Never, ever would’ve seen this when I was there in 2009.

Change has happened, and continues to happen there. Democracy is far from an easy process.

Lovely photos Amanda.

Downton Abbey

Sat, 02 Feb 2013 14:35:26 +0900

So I wanna know what happens but am seriously lacking the patience to continue with 50 minute episodes.

I also think all the people have little hands.

Party in the R.O.K.: Korean Students Speak finally got back to me...

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:59:26 +0900

Party in the R.O.K.: Korean Students Speak finally got back to me...:

kasiainkorea:

teachacrajy:

partyintherok:

Dear Melissa,

My name is Jenny Wilborn and I am a Fulbright ETA currently in her second grant year. I work in a small private high school located in a rural area in the Chungnam province. I have been in charge of Korean Students Speak (KSS) since I founded it in fall 2011.

I started KSS back in 2011 in order to provide students with the opportunity to utilize English in a creative and organic way to express their opinions and thoughts to the world. In keeping with this aim, KSS does not filter students’ messages, rather uploading every picture/message that we receive, regardless of content. We want to encourage students to put reflect their real opinions, not just what they think we want to hear. Therefore, we cannot control the content that comes out of the students’ pens. KSS does not encourage, endorse, nor claim ownership of any of the messages, positive or negative, that appear on the blog. These messages are indicative of the student’s personal viewpoints, not of lesson plans or content. The sole object is to give these students a platform to be heard, whatever messages they may have.

Many of the sometimes obtuse messages are often used by teachers as springboards for future lessons that delve deeper into cross-cultural issues such as diversity and education. Some students realize the impacts of their messages after these sorts of lessons and request to have their own messages taken down. Again, they take ownership of their messages.

As the founder of KSS, I acknowledge that the content of some students’ messages are offensive and I sincerely regret that these posts have left you disgusted. Your response and the small outcry over recent posts have illustrated the gaps in the project’s background and the lack of context for the KSS platform. Your input is well appreciated and taken to heart.

KSS is currently in the process of creating resources that address the questions and concerns of its audience. KSS will accomplish this in two ways: first, by providing a framework for the project, both as a tool in the classroom and as a project online, and second, by providing cultural context to many of the recurring themes found in students’ messages. We will make these changes online and add a disclaimer about some of the offensive content that is posted on the website.

Thank you again for all your concern. I will try to fix some of these concerns as soon as possible. If you have any other questions, please feel free to contact me at the KSS email, koreanstudentsspeak@gmail.com or my personal email,jwilborn17@gmail.com. Take care, Jenny Wilborn

I am seriously considering emailing them myself. The major, all-encompassing issue is how in the raging fuck can you expect something to be organic, free, creative expression WHEN YOU’RE DOING IT TO PLEASE YOUR TEACHER? These are clearly being done to some sort of prompt. Even when a teacher tells you “Just write what’s in your heart,” whatever is in your heart will definitely be censored and mediated to fit the fact that you are showing it to your English teacher.

Secondly, you are putting these kids AND THEIR FACES online for tons of people to see. The internet is forever, and these kids are too young to understand that. The part of the brain that manages impulses and thinks over long-term consequences is not yet formed, and it is not responsible to post these messages along with their pictures that can identify them indefinitely.

My last major issue with this is whole project is how completely and utterly lacking in any useful insights it is. Are people seriously reading this blog and thinking “Wow, I can’t believe that Korean actually DON’T like studying, That totally changes my pre-conceived notions.” Basically, the students are just regurgitating stuff that they think their teachers want to hear. These kids do not need you, or their *~enlightened~* Western English teachers to learn how to express themselves and “be freed from their oppressive backward society”. Maybe instead of photographing them with statements they might regret in a few months, why don’t you encourage them to start their own blogs and write what they want on their own initiative?

This whole thing is, at the absolute least, problematic, and at the worst, racist and manipulative. I scoff at your Fullbright and marvel at your foolishness.

P.S. — Thanks to partyintherok for following up on this.

..

Well said.

I’m going to slightly disagree with TeachaCrajy. I see your point about the organic nature of it, but think that there’s a giant variable across different classrooms. Certain teachers will be better at drawing things out of students than others. Certain teacher will be able to bring about organic, creative thoughts because they’ve successfully created a safe place for that in their classrooms. This doesn’t mean that every post on this blog will be incredible, but crap, have you seen all the nonsense that gets put on Twitter?

I was at a tech conference recently, and a gentleman from Dept. of State was talking about social media in relation to big data, and the importance of everyone being able to have a voice online. He discussed how there becomes this curation layer of the internet which sifts through all these voices (right now, IMO, Tumblr is the best curation platform on the internet) and brings the important ones to the forefront. The ones that are irrelevant and utter rubbish, well, people can generally tell, and they fade away into the databits of time.

I do concede that databits of time idea, though, that you mention. The internet is forever. I worry about the legality and logistics of posting these kids pictures online. Do 12 or 13-year olds know what it means that they own their own photograph, and the implications of its presence on the web?

Lastly, I think the insights are real. Not in what one kid says, but in consistent voices heard over time. Again, this is all on how the lesson is presented by the teacher running it. The way I had seen the blog, without having seen the lesson plan, etc., was that it was giving Korean students a chance to talk to the world. They weren’t attempting to please their English teacher, they were given a medium to share their thoughts with the world. The things that these kids want the world to know, based on what I’ve seen from this blog over X months I’ve been following, is that Korean students feel like they’re oppressed by the school system, and they’re passionate about Dok-do. Those are the main things they want to share with the world.

To me, that is insightful. Even though I knew both of those things, to think that those are the main messages that young Koreans put out to the world gives great insight into the collective psyche of a generation. Westerners realizing the inanity of the Korean educational system is one thing—the young members of it is another. And then announcing that to the world? To be honest, those announcements are what excite me so much about Korea in the future. The hope that Koreans are becoming more reflective and more willing to admit short-comings, and hopefully address them, both in the educational system and culturally and socially as well.

I think I’ve disagreed relatively thoughtfully, and hope the conversation continues. The OP and the rebloggers above I enjoy immensely, and I hope the tone of our debate stays above what seems to be the norm for arguing on Tumblr. I have not the energy for that nonsense.

Cheers, friends!

1 Corinthians 13:13

Mon, 28 Jan 2013 23:41:43 +0900

“And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love.”

The way Christianity in the US is so tied to the GOP, I would think the greatest of these would actually be free market capitalism.

columbusdispatch: shortformblog: Trying to get over the...

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 23:47:09 +0900

columbusdispatch:

shortformblog:

Trying to get over the flu? Skip the chicken soup and grab a pint of “influenza sorbet,” the bourbon-infused frozen treat from Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams loaded with stuff designed to help clear your passages. And despite the name, it is not influenza-flavored. Though we’re sure the Maker’s Mark gives it a kick.

It may not be influenza-flavored, but Jeni Britton Bauer did tell us last year that she had experimented with vinegar and other flavors inspired by her mother’s home remedy of wearing vinegar-soaked socks.

“The funny thing was, I said it was going to either taste like creme fraiche or feet,” Britton Bauer recalled. “It tasted like feet. We were like ‘Oh, that isn’t good.’ ”

Here’s to hoping I don’t need this. Props to Jeni’s for this photo being in the LA Times. Jeni’s is good people.

[Insert Snarky Blog Title Here]: So, Anonymous is going after the Steubenville, OH high school football team.

Tue, 25 Dec 2012 12:34:05 +0900

[Insert Snarky Blog Title Here]: So, Anonymous is going after the Steubenville, OH high school football team. :

endomorphusagi:

TRIGGER WARNING!!!! RAPE!

First: When you live in a small town, the big deal is sports. Particularly football. Wrestling and basketball I think would be second for this area… If you’re a player on the team, you can actually get away with a lot. Like, a lot of shit. My brother should have been…

Damn. CRAZY story, a bit too close to home.

deshaunicus: Okay, as promised, a quick side-by-side comparison...

Mon, 24 Dec 2012 08:31:56 +0900

deshaunicus:

Okay, as promised, a quick side-by-side comparison of how a shot looks before I post-process, and after. Sometimes it’s subtle, like simple white balance, and sometimes it’s more drastic. The left side of the image is what the unprocessed RAW file looks like. The right side is after I’ve applied my processing to it in Lightroom.

It’s worth noting that the image on the left is NOT what you would get if you set your camera to auto, or if you had it automatically make jpegs for you. All digital cameras have their own internal processing to correct for color, enhance saturation, boost shadows, reduce noise, and increase sharpness. When shooting jpeg, this all happens in the background so you can have nice photos instantly. When you shoot RAW, however, the user is responsible for those tweaks.

I know this isn’t an in-depth look at my process, but I thought it would be fun to share a little before and after. I even shared an abstract :)

Proof that a good camera does not a good photographer make.

Lovely post.