Items of interest found recently in my RSS feed
- The science is missing from Ian Plimer's "Heaven and Earth"
- Is the DHS watching returning veterans? Only when they join far-right hate groups
- Michael Tomasky: Did an Obama judicial nominee really express a preference for Allah over Jesus? | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk
- The ideology that dare not speak its name
- Through a glass, darkly
- “the conclusions are only as good as the original assumptions”
- Confined to the Possible (by Phila)
- What Is and Isn’t Racist
- Weekly Feminist Reader
- Mothers For Women's Lib
- Breaking: Allen Andrade Convicted of First Degree Murder
- Plants can make global warming worse
- DIVORCE CAKES
- Couple of anti-feminist myths debunked
- A Chocolate Coating to make the Bitter White Pill Go Down Easier
April 24, 2009 – Tim Lambert reviews Plimer’s book on global warming
April 24, 2009 – Dave Neiwert dissects more wingnut paranoid loopiness
April 24, 2009 – A nice bit of ferreting to uncover the banal truth that has been distorted and lied about to create the latest wingnut outrage-du-jour
April 24, 2009 – worth reading just to discover the phenomenon of “euphemism treadmills”
April 24, 2009 – what snoops around cyberspace can find out about you
April 24, 2009 – as fine an example of people talking past each other as you’ll see around the blogosphere
April 24, 2009 – Quote: “So we have free will, which we can use to make the right choices, based on what’s known to be possible, according to the winners who wrote the history books.”
April 23, 2009 – privilege in labelling
April 23, 2009 – Feministing linkfest
April 23, 2009 – The F-Word recommends a UK blog on feminist mothering
April 23, 2009 – the failure of a trans-panic defence – the jury didn’t buy it
April 23, 2009 – quixote smacks down some of the ignorant claims about CO2
April 23, 2009 – disturbed by how violent some of these are
April 23, 2009 – bookmark this one for the next time you hear the “40% of rape claims are false” bullshit
April 23, 2009 – more on the casting clusterfuck for the last Airbender movie
Categories: linkfest
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Hoyden About Town 
From ‘What is and isn’t racist’:
‘No matter how sympathetic someone who is white is, they will never know what it is to be confronted with the racism that POC must daily negotiate. ‘
*Never* ever? So where does that put, say Gaijin (lit. ‘outside people’) living in Japan?
@ Purrdence:
I’ve never lived in Japan, but from my understanding it’s quite a different form of racism. Japan had to change to become more Western in order to be a wealthy modern nation, they’ve never managed to impose their Eastern-ness on the West, and that relative position of the two cultures makes all the difference.
There’s a deeply laid mass of Nipponese v. Gaijin stereotyping, prejudice and discrimination, sure – but not the same sort of message of bone-deep worthlessness that White cultural assumptions send out to POC. So no, I agree with Renee that if I go live in Japan and experience racism there, it still doesn’t give me the knowledge of what POCs experience from Whites.