links for 2007-07-26
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Yay!!! “I know all of you remember the big Cosmo GIRL controversy over Kiri Davis’s film A Girl Like Me.
Well after all of that drama, the winner of the contest has finally been announced. Kiri won the Take Action Hollywood Film Contest!” -
This is the OFFICIAL TinKKKerbell thread, everyone. Report all new cases of the racist fairy to Jenn. “She causes a wave of racism to overtake her victim, making them spout racist slurs very much against their will.”(tags: racism)
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“A Canadian babu has just started unilaterally enforcing an obscure policy banning immigrants with the surnames Kaur or Singh. The bureaucrat wants Sikhs to pick more unique names. The government’s apparently never heard of assigning identification numb
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Lauren breaks it down: “When a white man is called “an honorary black man” it’s usually because that white man embodies some sort of stereotype about black people, which makes it a subtly offensive thing to say…”(tags: race stereotypes)
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“I happened to notice the photo…My girlfriend and I were nowhere to be found…My fiancée was Korean-American. Her presence implied…marriage to someone who was not Jewish. That hint was reason enough to keep us out.”
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“Uh… what was Intel thinking with this ad?…Six identical black men (”they all look the same”) who seem to be bowing in submission to a smiling, standing white man?”
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“While the numbers are still too large, this poll shows that more and more Muslims are sickened by the carnage on constant display by the lunatic fringe (they attacked a children’s hospital today) and are rejecting suicide terror as a means of defense a
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“Under fire recently for his heated run-in with a Mills College professor and her grad students, foul-mouthed educator Ben Chavis has resigned as principal of American Indian Public Charter School.”
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“Sixty-one small American colleges have mounted the biggest protest yet against U.S. News & World Report magazine’s annual rankings of higher education. The survey’s 25 premier schools aren’t joining the rebellion.”(tags: via:ananser education)
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“More police, more prisons and more punitive measures aren’t the answer to reducing gang activity, concludes a new U.S. study that experts here say underscores the need for Canada to reject that approach in favour of investing in jobs, schools and program
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Wow… wtf? “Ms. Wright, age 37, has just been charged with firearms charges after she allegedly DROVE HER SON’S FRIENDS TO A RIVAL GANG MEMBER’S HOUSE FOR A SHOOTING. “
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