February 2012
89 posts
(○o○): PSA to whitefolks →
socialjusticeally:
lafemmeprovocateur:
If you’re ever in a discussion with a person of colour and you think you’re right and they think you’re wrong, stop talking. You are, by default, wrong. We are the masters of our own oppressions, not you. You have no business trying to express your opinions in that conversation. Your opinions are not welcome. What you need to do is stop talking, listen,...
Prohibition didn't work then and it isn't working... →
baseballlibertarian:
by John Stossel
Yet those same politicians oversee a cruel system that now stages SWAT raids on people’s homes more than 100 times a day. People die in these raids — some weren’t even the intended targets of the police.
Neill Franklin once led such raids. The 33-year Maryland police veteran, now executive director of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition, locked up...
An Irate Canadian Housewife
Written by a housewife in New Brunswick , to her local newspaper. This is one ticked off lady… “Are we fighting a war on terror or aren’t we? Was it or was it not, started by Islamic people who brought it to our shores on September 11, 2001 and have continually threatened to do so since? Were people from all over the world, not brutally murdered that day, in downtown Manhattan , across the...
“It’s not that Chris Brown is categorically unforgivable. It’s more that he’s no...”
– VICE on Cord’s Chris Brown post.
(via thenoobyorker)
Cramer: On the right side of the bullet →
weaponsystems:
Every so often, a local news story about a victim of crime goes national. Most recently, it was Sarah McKinley, 18, home alone with her 3 month old son, a few days after Sarah’s husband had died of lung cancer. Two men apparently looking to steal pain medicine prescribed for the husband broke in. Sarah grabbed a shotgun and a pistol and killed Justin Martin as he forced entry into...
