links for 2007-10-11
- “ghetto-fab parties are part of a broader reactionary movement that believes whiteness and the ivory tower are being imperiled by political correctness, radical professors and “minority rights.””
- “A consumer group accused Unilever of hypocrisy…for running conflicting advertising campaigns — one for Dove that praises women and their natural beauty and one for Axe that the group said “blatantly objectifies and degrades” them.”
- “University police were unable to decide whether the piece of rope found in the basement of Belk Residence Hall was a noose…They have been investigating since a student reported finding it in the basement of Belk Hall Sept. 19.”
- Great post here. “When you hear vitriolic anti-immigrant sentiment coming from elected officials or minuteman-type vigilantes, we need to call this out as racism. Even though they’ll claim that their intents are not racist…”
- “Jeff Yang catches up with renaissance girl Margaret Cho as she trades in standup for set of pasties and a cavalcade of scantily-clad studs and vixens in her new alt-burlesque traveling show, “The Sensuous Woman”"
- “pictured a restaurant credit-card slip with a 7 percent tip and a signature for “Mark Goldfarb.” Underneath was written: “Attention all crappy tipping Jews!!! Just because you’re ‘screwing’ the server … does not mean that it’s a mitzvah.”"
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