May 2012
28 posts
April 2012
26 posts
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep heart.”
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via especiallyrelative)
“The ubiquity of whiteness in popular media is so overwhelming that, in the absence of any racial signifiers, I would guess that the majority of white people and a significant number of non-white people automatically assume that characters are white. I know I do. (To be clear: I am a white lady.) I mean, Jesus, the impulse to default to white is so strong that the above child prodigies defaulted to white even when explicitly told not to. (I guess they assumed that “dark skin” meant, uh, dark white. Like George Hamilton or something.) Also, speaking of Jesus and white people, let’s not forget WHITE JESUS. White people’s PR campaign has been so comprehensive, we’ve even managed to make God white—to the point where even black people worship white Jesus! And Jesus was hella not white. Like, at all.”
—I See White People: Hunger Games and a Brief History of Cultural Whitewashing
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“Not being racist is not some default starting position. You don’t simply get to say you’re not a racist; not being racist — or a sexist or a homophobe — is a constant, arduous process of unlearning, of being uncomfortable, of eating crow and being humbled and re-evaluating. It’s probably hard to start that process if you’ve been told that every thought you have is golden and should be given voice, and that people who are offended by what you say are hypersensitive simpletons.”
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PostBourgie (via meow-sense) (via mostsmartest) (via aprestigiousblog) (via brazenbitch) (via mindless-meandering)
THIS.
(via djphatrick)For years in my neighborhood whenever you looked for wifi there’s always been an unencrypted network named “pabloyjordana.” This week that network has disappeared, and there’s a new encrypted network just named “jordana.” PABLO, WHAT DID YOU DO?
“What we didn’t hear about was a how an African-American women who in the course of protecting herself from an abusive husband who beat her while she was pregnant, shot a gun that she legally owns into the air. No one was hurt, but she is now looking at 25 years. Yes indeed, you read that right, facing 25 years.. Her name is Marissa Alexander, she lives in Florida, is a mother of 3 and everyone should know her name and her case.The person who prosecuted her case is Angela Corey, the prosecutor in the George Zimmerman case.”
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yo, can you just go read this post?
(via cupcakesnotbombs)
Wow. Read that carefully. Everything is backwards, sigh.
(via shazeeezy)
'Cocktail Party Effect' Identified In The Brain
Weaving your way through a crowded party, you spot an old friend. Despite the surrounding chatter you have no trouble filtering out the other voices to focus on her words alone. How the brain performs this trick, dubbed the “cocktail party effect” has been identified for the first time. The discovery could help generate voice recognition systems that pick out one voice among many.
Read more at New Scientist
