WTF Wednesday

In which I shake my head at the sad, pathetic things that people do and say:

We refer the Board to the following link – http://logansrogue.livejournal.com/1327524.html – which will corroborate our client’s allegation that their advertisement has been the subject of discontent for the feminist bloggers on the said site. We are sure the Board will note that the bloggers on this site do not represent the majority of society who are reasonably minded and less sensitive to an advertisement with a tongue in cheek approach.

This from a complaint regarding an ad banned in Australia for be wholly inappropriate.

Oh, those feminists and their unreasonable demands that women be respected! Any reasonable person man can easily see the relationship between almost naked women swimming in cream (oh the originality!) and purchasing a domain name, right?

I would laugh at this if I didn’t believe that a lot of people men will think that’s a good point.

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Many, many many of our great grandmothers were raped in slavery. But surely a few of em were loved and surely some…

…Some were cunning and brilliant enough to use their bodies to gain liberation thus fooling massa.

Of course most were raped, we know that, but some were sharp enough to trade that good-good for status or liberation.

They are absolutely not “hos.” They’re sexually heroic. They’re self-liberating by any means necessary.

Tweets by ToureX. I’m at a rare loss for words on this one. How that thought could even enter anyone’s mind is beyond me. Like Renee, however, I’m wondering why more people aren’t crying foul on this one. (MSNBC President Phil Griffin at 212-664-4444, EMAIL: viewerservices@msnbc.com. *hint, hint*)

Immigration Fail

This is from the Facing South blog, a great blog that everyone should be checking out daily.

Immigrant advocates say immigration enforcement worse under Obama

Prominent immigrant advocates launched their most sharply worded public critique yet of the Obama administration’s immigration policy.

Advocates who spoke at a press conference Monday in Washington, D.C. angrily pointed to statistics that showed a significant acceleration in immigration enforcement over President Bush’s last year, with over 387,000 immigrants deported since Obama’s inauguration.

As a result, livelihoods were lost, local economies affected, and families split apart, the advocates said.

“These are the same enforcement practices that we marched against during the Bush administration,” said Angelica Salas, director of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles.

On any given day, Salas added, over 32,000 immigrants are under detention in jails and prisons around the country awaiting deportation.

The advocates said they felt betrayed by an Obama administration that promised to take their concerns into account and then became more aggressive than its predecessor in cracking down on immigrants.

You can watch the news conference from yesterday (8 March 2010) here.

I Want To Blog Again Even Though The Internets Make Me Sad

So, after all that fanfare about starting a new blog and whatnot (which obviously didn’t work out too well, seeing how I haven’t written anything here since, what, October of 2009?) I’m ready to give this another try. Why yes, I’m gonna give it a go at being a blogger again. I’m going to put down those messy pens and all of that flammable paper every once in a while and occasionally commit my thoughts to the Digital Ether.

And I will do it with panache.

I can, of course, think of no better way to alienate encourage people to come back and read what I have to say than by posting this video of conservative (is that what we’re calling them now) people rapping against Obama (I’m not saying that conservative (and frankly very white) folks can’t rap. Or that Obama shouldn’t be criticized. I am, however, saying that these folks can’t rap, or dance, or criticize anything in any way that any thinking person would or should ever take seriously ).

So, um…enjoy? (I had the misfortune of first seeing this video here.)

If you can watch the above video and not hate me for posting it (which would be understandable) you should come back and check me out again. I promise hope to never offend you this much ever again.

This Kid Is My Hero

For real. Period. (h/t Tiger Beatdown)

Class is in session, and it’s being taught by a ten-year old.

How To Ruin What Should’ve Been An Amazing Freestyle

[Trigger Warning: This is about more than just Hip Hop]

This should have been amazing. You have DJ Premier, arguably the best DJ to ever live; you have Mos Def, Black Thought, and Eminem, three incredibly talented Hip Hop artists; but leave it Eminem to ruin the whole thing with a rape joke.

“My dick is so big if I add another inch to it, you would swear when I raped you that you was actually into it”

Appalling.

If you think I’m being nit-picky and wondering how I can say that one line ruined the entire freestyle, you will notice that it’s that line out of his entire freestyle that gets a “whoo!” It’s this celebration (and implicit endorsement) of rape jokes that contributes to terrible incidents like this, where a 15-year old girl was gang raped and beaten while as many as a dozen people stood by and watched. If you can’t see the connection, you need to be locked away in a dungeon somewhere never to see the light of day again because you are dangerous.

People Act Like This Is Surprising?

This isn’t much of a surprise at all, but since Boston has been on my radar of places that I may live one year from now, I took notice. It’s not like 1989 was that long ago. And as you surely remember, there was that thing over a black professor and white cop there recently.

(Yes, I know that if I chose my new home based on lack of racist asshats, I might as well plan on moving to Jupiter, but I can hope, right?)

Diary of Boston Cop Hints at Deep Racism

The legacy of the Boston Police Department’s ugly racial past is playing out behind closed doors and under seal in federal court as lawyers battle over an explosive diary written by a former head of the homicide division.

Retired Lt. Detective John Daley – who led homicide from 1985 to 1989 – scribbled his personal thoughts on murder cases and professional life within the department in the 1980s in a diary that includes sharp critiques of black officers and the black community, according to brief excerpts contained in court papers.

According to the records, filed in the Shawn Drumgold federal civil rights case, Daley wrote that the department was “getting the bottom of the barrel” as it recruited black cops in the late ’80s and early ’90s. He called the removal of two white homicide detectives involved in the controversial Drumgold investigation a “sacrifice to the black community.”

“I’m not interested in talking about it,” Daley said when asked for comment outside his Marshfield home yesterday afternoon.

Of course you’re not interested in talking about it. It’s because all the other racists have moved on to, um, subtle racism.

Random Nostalgia That Makes Me Happy

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