February 2012
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Saudi writer Hamza Kashgari faces charge of... →
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By David Keyes, Friday, February 10, 3:31 AM
David Keyes is executive director of the New York-based organization Advancing Human Rights and co-founder of CyberDissidents.org. His e-mail address is david.keyes@advancinghumanrights.org.
Saudi journalist Hamza Kashgari was detained in Malaysia on Wednesday night and is likely to be extradited soon to Saudi...
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“The feminism I embrace is sex-positive. It includes heterosexual men and women,...”
– PZ Myers, in response to The Amazing Atheist
“LOOK HOW FUCKING BIG I AM LOL GOOD LUCK COLOURING ME IN BY THE END OF CLASS”
– Nunavut
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“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current...”
– Zaphod Beeblebrox in The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams (via obi-wankenblowme)
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“Whether you use bullets or ballots, you’ve got to aim well; don’t strike at the...”
– Malcolm X (via eternallyfragmented)
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“He knew then it was the siren. For some reason this made him laugh and he began...”
– The Day of the Locust, Nathanael West (via inclosing)
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“I remain unconvinced that anything other than rapid decomposition is the fate of...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, Don’t ever tell anybody anything.
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“It made more sense to commit to nothing, keep my options open. And that’s...”
– Rob Gordon, High Fidelity
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“Truth disappears with history and gossip tells us in the end nothing of personal...”
– Michael Ondaatje, Running in the Family (via holdingupaship)
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“It’s [Afrocentrism] only as absurd as the history it’s responding to….an absurd,...”
– My Professor, L. Harris in my Love & Revolution class (via ancestryinprogress)
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“Every account of a higher power that I’ve seen described, of all religions that...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson, Guten Tag
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Interviewer: Do you think as a filmmaker that you'll always be attracted to people that are socially awkward?
Richard Ayoade: Am I giving some appearance of being awkward? But yeah, probably... I'm not mad on confident people. I don't understand why anyone would be confident, it seems insane to me.
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“That would have been more hilarious had I not been literally weeping with fear.”
– Mark Corrigan, Peep Show (via jewmagic)
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akacarlton:
“ATLANTIC CITY” - The Band.
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“The voyage from San Francisco to Hawaii had been the most terrifying experience...”
– Richard Brautigan, Hawkline Monster. (via jostamon)
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“No one talks bunkum with a better vocabulary than those who lace their hokum...”
– Michael Shermer (via bonander)
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“If feminism is a movement to end sexist oppression, and depriving females of...”
– bell hooks, Feminism Is For Everybody. (via feministteapot)
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Anonymous asked: oh get off your high horse. Things and events and ideas are funny. women in the kitchen jokes are funny. black people are lazy jokes are funny. latinos never miss jokes are funny. And speaking as a white guy, so to are white people cant jump/are nerdy jokes are funny. if someone never had slaves, or kept women down, or hated latinos, or kidnapped white people, they can laugh at everyone equally.
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“Don’t believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they...”
– Albert Camus (via quotesman)
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If your response to being challenged for making a racist, sexist, homophobic, or otherwise bigoted remark is, “It was just a joke! Don’t take it so seriously,” please rethink your logic with these helpful examples:
Upon being confronted for a racist remark, would the response, “It was just an opinion! Don’t take it as an absolute fact” subtract any racism from...
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“Maybe you should run away. I mean, people say it like it’s a bad thing, y’know,...”
– Jez, Peep Show (via akpeteshie)
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“They were all photographing themselves. In fact, that’s all they seemed to be...”
– Charlie Brooker (via inthegallows)
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Anonymous asked: top ten list of your all time favorite movies and bands?
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“I remember once imagining what my life would be like. What I’d be like. I...”
– The Weather Man (via notsafeforsociety)
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“The idea that the Crusades and the fight of Christendom against Islam is somehow...”
– Rick Santorum (via goodreasonnews)
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pixandum:
Joe Tex - “The Love You Save...
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DARKJEZ [Stay Fly & Remain Pimpin']: Ways... →
meeca:
(This list will be forever in-progress. Please add on as you see fit).
Challenge sexist jokes, such as dumb blonde jokes or jokes about rape.
Avoid using words such as “bitch”, “ho”, “slut.”
Recognize when you “zone out” when women are speaking, when you value a man’s opinion more than a woman’s, or when you ask a man for information or advice rather than a woman.
Recognize times when...
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“When we lead from ignorance, we can come to no conclusions. When we say,...”
– Isaac Asimov, “Extraterrestrial Civilizations” (via proudtobegodfree)
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“We’re the only creatures, Johnny, that like to show off, I think. I don’t think...”
– Sean Lock (via itsmarthe)
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“There are often lists of the great living male movie stars: De Niro, Nicholson,...”
– Roger Ebert
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“A recent study by the Yale University Child Study Center shows that Black...”
– Study: African-American Boys Receive Less Attention, Harsher Punishment And Lower Grades In School | News One (via omchomsky)
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“This is an island age. A hundred years ago, you had to depend on other people....”
– Will Freeman, About a Boy