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links for 2010-05-09
Weeaboo Weeaboo (a.k.a Wapanese) is an English slang used to describe a person (typically of non-Asian descent) who prefers Japan and all things in Japanese over one’s indigenous culture. (tags: comedy culture internet media race fiction fun)
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links for 2010-05-08
Raising Boys not Barbarians – Sehar Tariq (tags: culture desi politics education) What I understand about Faisal Shahzad Sometimes, I feel Muslim Pakistanis are like Daffy Duck, always cursed to have the anvil drop on our heads, regardless of our patriotism, lack of criminal record, good credit score and groomed facial hair. The moderate and […]
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links for 2010-05-06
AfroCyberPunk
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links for 2010-05-04
"5 Myths about immigration" By Doris Meissner Despite the fact that we are a nation of immigrants — or perhaps because of it — immigration continues to be one of America's most contentious topics. The new law in Arizona authorizing police to arrest individuals who cannot show documents proving that they are in the country […]
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links for 2010-05-02
Taibbi: The Lunatics Who Made a Religion Out of Greed and Wrecked the Economy | | AlterNet The case in question involves a hedge fund financier, John Paulson, who went to Goldman with the idea of a synthetic derivative package pegged to risky American mortgages, for use in betting against the mortgage market. Paulson would […]
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links for 2010-05-01
Think Progress; Arizona Expands Its Discrimination: Teachers With Heavy Accents Can’t Teach English, Ethnic Studies Are Banned (tags: culture , politics, race)
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links for 2010-04-29
Un-American Activities – Paul Krugman Blog – NYTimes.com But it’s not just a matter of the letter of the law: it’s about who we are as a nation. What America means to me is a land in which you are judged for yourself (tags: social krugman law culture)
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links for 2010-04-28
Immigration: Corporate Trade Deals Root of Problem "What's wrong with the Schumer-Graham proposal? It ignores trade agreements like NAFTA and CAFTA, which produce profits for U.S. corporations, but increase poverty in Mexico and Central America (tags: capitalism law politics social culture race)
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links for 2010-04-27
The New York Times' Muslim problem It looks like Ross Douthat picked the wrong month to try to pretend that threat-induced censorship is a uniquely Islamic practice. Corpus Christi is the same play that was scheduled and then canceled (and then re-scheduled) by the Manhattan Theater Club back in 1998 as a result of "anonymous […]
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links for 2010-04-19
Chris Maisano, "Misreading the Tea Leaves" A few weeks back, CNN released the results of a poll that shows that Tea Party activists and sympathizers are largely drawn from the ranks of the upper middle class. Almost three quarters of the teabaggers have attended college compared with 54 percent of all Americans, and 66% reported […]