Can anyone tell me what is wrong with this paragraph?

Mr Baptist has not written an objective history of slavery. Almost all the blacks in his book are victims, almost all the whites villains. This is not history; it is advocacy.

It's from an anonymous review (now withdrawn)of The Half Has Never Been Told: Slavery and the Making of American ( Read more... )

Well, Sherlock fandom seems to be going down in flames. *watches it hit the water* Remains to be seen if there will be any survivors. From what I've been able to gather, the Sherlock/John shippers believe themselves to be "oppressed" by those writing other ships, and have initiated hostilities on Tumblr, including this gem, which appeared on my ( Read more... )

God bless the Daily Show. ;)

Which of these is the most rage-making statement?

Yet it is males who suffer in our society. From boyhood through adulthood, the White American Male must fight his way through a litany of taunts, assumptions and grievances about his very existence. His oppression is unlike anything American women have faced. -- Fox News

OR

The real kicker came ( Read more... )

George Zimmerman has been found not guilty.

Only in America. I am beyond disgusted.

I've tried to avoid the Zimmerman trial because it's too rage-making for me to handle. But this quote needs to be noted.

"The only one who was injured at all-except for the gunshot-was George Zimmerman." -Defense Counsel Mark O'Mara, in his closing remarks ( Read more... )

Anne Rice on Paula Deen:

I think she’s being lynched because America does this now to those who are politically incorrect.

*headdesk*

Only a writer of Anne Rice's caliber could manage to use "lynched" and "politically incorrect" in the same sentence. Attagirl.

48 hours after the "conservative" contingent of the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act (the country is changed! institutional racism no longer exists!), six states started implementing "voter ID" laws designed to deny people of color, poor people, students and the elderly (in other words, people who tend to vote Democratic) their right to ( Read more... )

But the NY Post sucks.

Or, two, that the the Post did the followup reporting-that its reporters found out that the kid had been identified online, that he'd contacted authorities, that he's just some poor teenager who posts "SWAG" image macros on his Facebook page-but is institutionally so committed to identifying an Arab, any Arab, as a terrorist ( Read more... )

Here's ex-Bush Press Secretary and current Fox News shill Dana Perino, doing her "LOL Black People" "parody" of "rap" music.

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If you have even half the embarrassment squick I do, you'll probably find this uncomfortable, unless anger at the ignorance and implicit racism being displayed doesn't distract you ( Read more... )