Archiving the pre-end-times' happenings. Topics usually appropriate for mixed company. But not really.
Catching Elephant is a theme by Andy Taylor
But at least one group says the tours “turn poverty into entertainment.”
Stop.
JFC. Wow, I wonder who’re the people making money off this humans on display stroll. I’m totally certain it’s going to help people living in poverty so they can have better lives.
They had bus tours of some of the villas in Buenos Aires when we were there. Rich Americans looking through bus windows at poor people. Ugh.
Fetishizing poor people for fun and profit. Despicable. The whole “voluntourism” thing is problematic, but to say “we turn crippling third-world poverty into FUN FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY!” is taking it to a new level of awful.
-Jess
“Hey guys! Poor people ARE worth something after all!”
I guess I never caught that bug where you’re only supposed to care about your own country or your own local area. To me, 49 decapitated Mexicans is just as bad as 49 decapitated Americans and I know if there were 49 decapitated Americans in the street anywhere in the country, it would be like 9/11 all over again. It would be the largest news story for years - if it just happened once - but it happens time and time again in Mexico… and I guess as long as Americans aren’t getting decapitated, apparently the rest of the country, and especially our media, couldn’t give a damn and that’s part of what’s sick and wrong with this country’s media. And so, we march on as if nothing is wrong, as if everything is hunky dory, as if the war on drugs makes sense and hasn’t created these grotesque gangs that grow larger and more grotesque by the day - and it’s not because of the drugs. It’s because the drugs are illegal.
Cenk Uygur, on the 49 decapitated bodies recently found in Mexico
This quote captures my anger at how the media usually report overseas disasters: OMG 7 NEW ZEALANDERS DIED IN THE BOXING DAY TSUNAMI WHO CARES ABOUT THE HALF MILLION ASIAN PEOPLE WHEN WHITE PEOPLE WERE INVOLVED.
(via lavender-labia)
Don’t you love it when your friend is like…
“I’m swimming in this but I bet you’d look really good in it”
…
It makes me all
LOOK I GOT A DEGREE. You may all start taking me seriously now kthnx.
Marriage is like tenure for couples.
WHITE PRIVILEGE BLOG ALERT. LOGICAL FALLACY. LOGICAL FALLACY. DO NOT COMPUTE.
You should check out this blog post: http://forthesakeofscience.com/2012/05/10/yhc-is-off-the-blogroll/
And this is why:
Hawkins, the guy who wrote this post, is a fellow Mainer who I’ve never actually met but runs in the same circles as I. He is an atheist- an antitheist more specifically, and often opens discussions on facebook which I’m generally fond of. Sometimes I feel his approach can be a little in-your-face, but not to the point where I’m turned off enough to unfollow him. His most recent blog post I am particularly pleased by. Micheal Hartwell, a blogger who calls himself and his blog “Young, Hip & Conservative”, is someone I would consider an actual acquaintance and know on a personal level. Hartwell has recently moved to Boston to become a journalist, which is particularly unsettling due to how very often he resorts to logical fallacies such as straw man, begging the question, and ad hominum in his writing. He is also blissfully unaware of his privilege. I believe that Hartwell needs to be exposed for this, especially in hopes that other people will begin to stand behind Hawkins and I. We must challenge him and hold him accountable for what Hartwell considers to be sound writing. Just look at the way he talks to his “friends”:
Hartwell’s entire blogs-worth of logical fallacies this way. I suggest playing “find the racism and white male privilege” drinking game if you’re looking to make it a good time.
Some people just like to straw man…
“What? You think harmful chemicals should be banned? Well, you must want kids to sleep on cardboard because poor people can only afford mattresses with chemicals in them.”
Someone literally said this on facebook earlier. And he writes for a Massachusetts newspaper. I just don’t have enough face to palm.
I’m within 300 words of my 5,000 word essay…
Is it wrong that I just want to celebrate all the time and have wanted to ever since I started this thing because it’s my last undergrad essay ever?
This feeling is only increasing as I write my conclusion paragraphs.
Pretty sure the US ratio is lower, actually, but still heinously high.
(Source: getinvolvedyoulivehere)
