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Some stuff Ampersand is reading today

Posted by Ampersand | June 17th, 2003

Ornicus defends hate crimes legislation
I read this post and kept on saying “yes! yes! That’s it exactly!”

Great quote from Prometheus 6

Just as you’d react one way if Ludacris called you “mah nigga” and another if Strom Thurmond did, the phrase “regardless of race” is taken differently when said by white men in positions of power than when said by Black folks.

The Black Commentator on the DLC
The Black Commentator isn’t favorably impressed by the GOP’s outpost in the Democratic party; the article, good in its own right, also contains useful-looking links. I liked this Sharpton quote: “The sellout of progressive politics has been a total disgrace for the Democratic Party. Not only is it morally wrong and politically cheap, but it doesn’t even work.” (Via Promethius 6).

Mark Kleiman on the paucity of real bagels outside of NYC
Actually, it’s not Mark but one of Mark’s readers, David Boyum, who answers the question that former New Yorkers have agonized over for years. (I’d add that staleness isn’t really the problem: Real bagels can be frozen and reheated with only a slight loss of quality.)

Mikhaela’s News Blog on Newt Gingrich’s Science Fiction
Apparently Newt is taking up a second career as a novelist; he’s writing an “alternate history” trilogy starting with the premise that the South wins the Battle of Gettysburg.

Julian’s Lounge on arguing with libertarians
Julian, himself a libertarian, describes some libertarian arguments that he finds annoying. Surprisingly, they’re the same ones I find annoying.

Body and Soul on Burma and Unocal
Body and Soul links to a couple of LA Times articles covering the Unocal lawsuit, and also pointing to seven similar instances involving different companies. As Jeanne points out, the infamously “liberal” New York Times has a tendency to bury or de-emphasize stories like this.

Leah of Eschaton on academics in public policy debates
A good post, with (as Kip says) good links. The two Michael Bérubé essays on “political correctness” - one from 1991, one from 2001 - make particularly good reading.

D-squared on pithy quotes from the press

I just wanted to note for posterity that on page 50 of the current issue of the Economist, somebody has written a sentence containing the phrase “mere uncertainty about where the next meal is coming from”.

(For the quote in context, click here.)

Bigfatmama on being not just fat but supa fat:
Good post declaring her refusal to buy into fat-hatred. “i won’t write about hating my extra flesh. i don’t have any extra, it’s all necessary, all essentially me.” I’ll have to pay attention to this blog more… Link via Fatshadow.

The Ignatz Awards! (The Ignatzes?)
Sam Heldman puts forth an admittedly premature, but very entertaining, summary of the Supreme Court’s activities this term. (My occasional co-blogger Bean may want to note the existence of a case called “US vs. Bean.”)

U.S.S. Clueless (not that one) on those annoying white kids:

I’m so tired. I’ve been awake since 5:30am. This morning we helped to serve breakfast to the homeless at 3rd Street Church of God. That was rather interesting. A group of about 30 kids came in to visit AFTER we set up the food & stuff. They all sat together and were staring at all the homeless guys like, “I’m here to help all of you homeless negros.” It upset me because these kids were taking pictures of the homeless people and they made their rounds in the place…you know the welcomes white suburban kids give when they’re in a setting with poor black people to show that they really do care. It was so patronizing. I was so angry at this group of kids and their leaders. Their leaders were doing the same thing. It was like they were only there just to go back home to their friends and say, “I helped poor black people in the ghetto for a day.”

Via The Mad Prophet Blog (who in his anger forgets that objecting to racism doesn’t make misogynistic language okay).

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2 Responses to “Some stuff Ampersand is reading today”

  1. madprophet Writes:
    June 17th, 2003 at 3:07 pm

    Sorry about that. I’m not trying to be misogynistic, I just curse a lot. Product of my environment.

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  2. David Writes:
    June 18th, 2003 at 9:02 pm

    Have you noticed that Wampum is blogging again (albeit more sporadically)?

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