Stream of Reading (Prepare to be Forwarded) – An Archive of What I'm Reading
(Amazon.com) Counter-Currents.com, a Web site you probably do not encounter in your standard Internet travels, exists to advance the books of noted neo-Nazis and the creation of an all-white nationalist state. Amazon.com, a site visited by 80 million people daily, exists to sell things. But for the past five years, Amazon and Counter Currents have…
Entry Text Last week Trinidad James found himself in the midst of the controversy surrounding a viral clip showing a University of Oklahoma Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house mother repeating the N-word several times as his 2012 single “All Gold Everything” played in the background.Immediately following the backlash, the former Def Jam Records signee said…
Most antiquities scholars think that the New Testament gospels are “mythologized history.” In other words, they think that around the start of the first century a controversial Jewish rabbi named Yeshua ben Yosef gathered a following and his life and teachings provided the seed that grew into Christianity. At the same time, these scholars acknowledge…
It is tempting to look at the problem of police brutality and try to summarize it into a problem we have the tools to repair. Then you read a quote like this one, about Tamir Rice. “Tamir Rice is in the wrong,” he said. “He’s menacing. He’s 5-feet-7, 191 pounds. He wasn’t that little kid…
UPDATE 3/16/2015 10:00 PM PT: Rafael Abuquerque and “Batgirl” co-writer Cameron Stewart have both taken to Twitter to clarify the reference to “threats of violence and harassment” in DC Comics’ statement concerning the cancellation of the “Batgirl” #41 variant cover. Abuquerque, the artist of the variant cover, wrote, “Ill talk more about it tomorrow…
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. Last year, a white male Princeton undergraduate was asked by a classmate to “check his privilege.” Offended by this suggestion, he shot off a 1,300-word essay to the Tory, a right-wing campus newspaper. In it, he wrote about his grandfather who fled the Nazis to Siberia, his grandmother who survived…
Well, this is a bummer. Spoilers ahead if you haven’t watched Kingsman: The Secret Service yet, or if you prefer to not sully your day with some grossness. After being asked during a recent Entertainment Weekly interview what inspired “the gag” at the end of the film Kingsman director Matthew Vaughn spoke about wanting to subvert spy film tropes:…
The other day, I semi-jokingly tweeted this screencap: I found it noteworthy, because the video in question was about tax tips for self-employed people. I found it somewhat emblematic of the online experience for women; it doesn’t matter what you say, you are not welcome here unless you are existing solely for male consumption. Most…
cache hit 185:single/related:3a5449b86601aec7e9aac3e20cf38559 empty On Wednesday evening, Twitter changed its rules to state that it would forbid users from posting revenge porn and non-consensual nudes on the service. In the private information section of the site’s policy list, the company added that users “may not post intimate photos or videos that were taken or distributed…
Change happens slowly in Japan, but it does happen. You wake up one day, and things that weren’t possible years ago are happening today. Nowhere is that more evident than in the woman who will represent Japan in the Miss Universe pageant—but that’s to the chagrin of some who wanted a more “Japanese” winner. Eriana…