Karen Miller, who to my astonishment I found was actually a published fantasy writer, penned the following astonishing comment, as karenmiller, (http://jaylake.livejournal.com/1692287.html?view=15231359#t15231359) onto lakeshore's journal.

... the thing for us ( Read more... )

Courtesy of Fox News,(http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/02/28/white-right-wants-obama-term-president-farrakhan-says/):

"The word 'prophet' is too cheap a word. I am a light in the midst of darkness," Farrakhan said at ( Read more... )

James Lewis, in "The Lesson of an Affirmative Action President" (American Thinker, http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/01/the_lesson_of_an_affirmative_a.html) make the point that America elected Obama largely because he was black, without ( Read more... )

I think that matociquala, aka Elizabeth Bear, misinterpreted my original remark, because when I (later) explained myself she said she agreed with me. So, while I very much appreciate the expressions of support, I think that I was too hard on her and persuaded others to be too hard on her as well.

I do think that she'd never thought about it the way I put ( Read more... )

The following interesting exchange occurred with minor fantasy writer Elizabeth Bear, who clearly grasps neither myself nor conditions in Cuba, at http://matociquala.livejournal.com/1754006.htmlRead more... )

Check these mooks out ...

http://shemale.livejournal.com/158602.html

I'm not sure who is funnier. shemale for its repulsive name and icons and all-caps shouting, or doombinis for the earnest lecture about how all white people need to feel guilty for "strucutral racism ( Read more... )

Some nice "evil" in the full Ayn Randian sense of the word here

http://firecat.livejournal.com/598782.html?thread=4673022#t4673022

The heart of this evil is expressed in this comment:

White people coming to consciousness about white privilege means accepting the ( Read more... )

Woke up early this morning to the following. One of the best summaries is by various wrters of the San Francisco Chronicle in the hilariously-titled "Protests over BART shooting turn violent" (http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a ( Read more... )

Introduction

"Reparations" to black Americans is an inane idea. And anyone who supports it is either being dishonest, hasn't thought the problem through, or is willing to pepetrate an immense injustice.

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As you may have noticed, it has in the last couple of decades become popular to claim that anyone who criticizes anything involving persons from a foreign culture, or that culture itself, is a "racist." Someone thus accused of "racism" is supposed to simply accept it and apologize ( Read more... )