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November 25, 2009
Posted by yaman

Free speech is the wrong way to think about hate speech

Artificial rivalries between offensively similar elite centers of privilege are noxious enough in their own right, but when they foster elitism and prejudice, they become dangerous.
In last Friday’s edition of YDN, Bijan Aboutorabi argues that, in withdrawing a t-shirt design calling the rival-but-mirror-image team “sissies,” a university committee tasked with facilitating this crass competition produced [...]

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April 8, 2009
Posted by yaman

Racist jokes draw the color line

For the most part, public and explicit expressions of extreme hate or animosity towards racialized groups of people are pretty easy to identify as wrong. Despite this, in certain spaces, the infamous ‘harmless racist joke’ persists because, as the defender says, it is not to be taken as a serious communication of ill-will.
Examples of these [...]

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July 14, 2007
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What it means to be racist

Racism is nothing more than a mistake in analysis, and a logical error. It is not racist, as is often believed, to harbor malice towards another group of people. It is simply hateful. Considering that group of people to be a group worthy of any one feeling in the first place is what is racist. [...]

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July 10, 2007
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Suhail Khan’s problematic approach to anti-Muslim sentiment

An abridged version of this post was submitted to the Daily Cal. They printed a further modified version on July 16, 2007, under a misleading headline “We Have Nothing to Prove to America,” as if 1) I am a Muslim and 2) I make any pretenses about representing Muslims. I am not a Muslim and [...]

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March 29, 2007
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The sad plight of migrant domestic workers in Lebanon and the Middle East

This post was prepared for a new blog tracking the right of migrants in the Middle East, Migrant-Rights.org. Migrant-Rights.org is an initiative spearheaded by Esra’a al-Shafei, a Bahraini activist who also founded MidEastYouth.com and FreeKareem.org.

Sushar Rosky, born 1987, hangs from the balcony of the apartment in which she worked as a maid for only 20 [...]

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March 13, 2007
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On the lookout for domesticated, peace-loving Muslims

The right in America is not Islamophobic. In fact, it often goes to special lengths to emphasize its impartiality towards the Muslim faith. In the March 2007 edition of the California Patriot, for example, Aditya Kashap confirms suspicions that there are good Muslims somewhere in the world: “it is quite obvious to me that most [...]

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December 24, 2006
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BlueStarPR: Crude but aesthetically pleasing propaganda

In the fall of 2006, conspicuous posters printed by a marketing firm called BlueStarPR began to appear on the University of California, Berkeley campus. Others reported seeing them in places around the Bay Area. The stated goal of BlueStarPR is to “shape public opinion through knowledge and understanding” by producing “positive and educational posters, advertisements, [...]

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The Dream Deferred Contest: it stinks like rotten meat

I almost entered this essay contest on civil rights in the Middle East last year sponsored by the Hands Across the Mideast Support Alliance. Looking over the first place essay, I’m glad I didn’t, and I’m almost certain I will not participate this year either. Responding to the question “Why should Americans like you help [...]

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December 3, 2006
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Selective democracy

Why is it that when the Shia protest it is called a coup, but when the Sunnis do it it is called a “Cedar Revolution?”
I do not think I have given due credit in the past to the impact events have on me as they transpire, and especially as they are covered by the [...]

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    Tom Friedman Writes The Happy Ending To The Iraq War He Helped Enable

    OH, HELLO. Here’s some good news, after years and years of promoting the necessary destruction of Iraq and Iraqis, all for the purpose of a war that diverted the United States from pressing issues of national security, Tom Friedman has declared the Iraq misadventure to be a success and has officiall…

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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    Cops vs. Kids in New York City Schools – NYTimes.com

    It’s time to rein in the way police and safety officers in New York public schools mistreat students.

    Police the police.

    Source: www.nytimes.com

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    Student Activists Beaten After Rally On Interstate (VIDEO, PHOTOS)

    Produced by HuffPost’s Eyes & Ears Citizen Journalism Unit On March 4th, 2010, demonstrators in California and across the country took to the streets to protest massive cuts at all levels of education and government imposed austerity measures.

    Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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    Occupy CA: Statement on Highway Takeover

    Frederick Douglas tells us that power concedes nothing without a demand: Street rebellions force the establishment to yield to the demands of the movement or be faced with an ungovernable, rebellious populace. In short, stopping highway traffic in protest of the dismantling of public education was a…

    Source: occupyca.wordpress.com

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    Heckling Oren at UCI was right | Taher Herzallah

    We would not be where we are today as a country if people who were politically marginalized had not stood up for their rights. As a student and human rights activist, I expect that our universities will allow space for all points of view, including my nonviolent and heartfelt protestations against O…

    Source: www.ocregister.com

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    It’s Not about Islam & Judaism, It’s About Anti-Colonialism, Territory, Liberation, and Lives – Nir

    On Sunday, February 28th the New York Times published an outrageous oped by Efraim Karsh full of lies, distortions and mistakes. Karsh claims that Muslims view themselves as part of the House of Islam and the rest of the world as part of the House of War. I have worked in Afghanistan, Pakistan, Soma…

    Nir Rosen destroys many of the myths that are common to American approaches to Iraq, Muslims, and the Middle East in general.

    Source: www.thewashingtonnot…

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    Kevin Huffman – Tweaking the RNC’s fundraising strategy

    Fear tactics? Not the best fundraising strategy. First, your plan divides Republican donors into two main categories: small donors who are “visceral,” “reactionary” and motivated by “fear,” and large donors who are “calculated,” “ego-driven” and motivated by “access.”

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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    Deportations to tear apart S.F. family

    Charles Washington with his wife Tracey, holding her 5-year-old son, speaks on behalf of his family at the Asian Law Caucus office in San Francisco.

    Gavin Newsom wrecking homes and families in San Francisco.

    Source: www.sfgate.com

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    Anti-racists turn up the heat at UCSD

    A noose hung to intimidate African-American students is the latest racist incident to spur activism at UC San Diego ahead of the March 4 Day of Action.

    Especially noteworthy is the section about the Black Student Union denouncing the administration-led “leadership bodies” as “a tactic to divide student leaders from the student movement.” All student ‘government’ is a tactic to divide student leaders from students.

    Source: socialistworker.org

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    Blanco: In Solidarity with 1.3% of UCSD | Racialicious

    The scandal is that many students at UCSD consider black people and communities as a product of their imaginations and consumer habits: an entertainment commodity we pay to watch on MTV, or hear on the radio. A stereotype we have the “right” to enjoy and take pleasure in, because we have paid good m…

    Source: www.racialicious.com

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