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He calls the place the American government made him live as a four year old a concentration camp and explains the racism he endured in his childhood: George Takei : Japanese Internment Camp Survivor from Conn Videos on Vimeo. He has more to say about it today, on the 70th anniversary of Executive Order 9066. [...]
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On What’s Presidential, What’s Creepy, and What’s Mitt Romney
February 2nd, 2012 
Daniel Fincke I honestly am confused when people say Mitt Romney looks the part of a president–”like he was sent straight from central casting”, as the cliche goes. I never think of presidents as coming off as equal parts sleazy slick soulless greedy corporate raider, creepy door-knocking glazed-eyed proselytizer, and robotically pandering inauthentic politician. I have this [...]
Schrödinger’s Rapist and Schrödinger’s Racist
January 16th, 2012 Daniel Fincke Under the pen name “Phaedra Starling”, a woman a couple years ago wrote a widely read and debated article about a concept she dubbed “Schrödinger’s Rapist”. In it she addressed well meaning men who take personal offense when their attempts to initiate conversation (or more) with strange women in public are met with cold caution or [...]
Kentucky Church Excludes Interracial Couples
December 1st, 2011 Daniel Fincke Is there any evil at all that the alleged Christian God, who is allegedly love itself, can prevent those who worship him from committing? He cannot even make it so that in 2011, all his American churches have caught up with repudiating racism? Before stepping down as pastor in August, Thompson told Harville that her fiance [...]
Yes, We Can Blame People For Their Feelings, Not Just Their Actions
November 24th, 2011 Daniel Fincke “You can’t blame people for how they feel, only for what they do.” “You have every right to be offended, but you don’t have the right to censor others just because you’re offended.” In this post and the next one, I want to explain why I think these two common moral sentiments are quite mistaken—or, [...]
Arabs As “The New Blacks”
November 18th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Arab comedian Dean Obeidallah: The Watch List Watch it now! Arabs are the New Blacks www.comedycentral.com Comedy Central Funny Videos Funny TV Shows Your Thoughts?
Bullying or Debating? Religious Privilege or Freedom of Speech?
November 13th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Jaime: Did you see the Republicans just endorsed the right to bully in schools as long as it’s done in the name of religion. Kelly: They did not. Jaime: Yes. They did. They perversely added to anti-bullying bill the right to bully as long as such bullying was based on “sincerely held religious or moral convictions.” [...]
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Tags: John Rawls, Libertarianism, Tolerance 
33 Comments »the cRommunist’s take on Race and Religion
October 1st, 2011 Daniel Fincke Friend of Camels With Hammers and our new Freethought Blogs neighbor, Ian Cromwell is an instantly engaging writer. Here is his take on racism of even well-meaning kinds: I don’t remember exactly how it came up, but Sally asked me what my background was (I think she said something like “where are you from?”) I told [...]
Trumped
April 29th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Baratunde tells it straight about the Donald. Your Thoughts?
Posted in Barack Obama, Barack Obama, Politics, Politics, Racism Tags: Barack Obama's Birth Certificate, Donald Trump No Comments »Chris Rock On Obama-Era Hatred: Racism's One Last Temper Tantrum Before It Goes To Sleep
February 17th, 2011 Daniel Fincke From an Esquire interview online now: SR: Like many nice Caucasians, I cried the night Barack Obama was elected. It was one of the high points in American history. And all that’s happened since the election is just a shitstorm of hatred. You want to weigh in on that? CR: I actually like it, in [...]
Daily Hilarity: Tall Black Man At The Gym Could Be Next NBA Superstar
February 16th, 2011 Daniel Fincke Onion SportsDome Your Thoughts?
How Not To Say Stupid Stuff About Egypt
February 2nd, 2011 Daniel Fincke A helpful guide, with special emphases on how not to be insufferably condescending. Your Thoughts?
Posted in News Discussion, News Discussion, Racism, World Affairs, World Affairs Tags: Egypt 1 Comment »Just How Much Control Over Their Children’s Thought Are Parents Entitled To?
January 31st, 2011 Daniel Fincke In reply to yesterday’s open philosophical question whether a Swedish law banning any school, even private ones, from indoctrinating students by teaching their religious tenets as truths (with the ulterior motive of undermining Islamic schools’ abilities to radicalize their students), Mary Young makes a rigorous and eloquent case against such bans well worth highlighting (and [...]
Posted in 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, 'Nuff Said, Applied Ethics, Applied Ethics, Authority, Authority, Autonomy, Autonomy, Christianity, Christianity, Civil Liberties, Civil Liberties, Creationism, Creationism, Cultural Secularism, Cultural Secularism, Education, Featured, Free Speech, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Fundamentalism, Islam, Islam, Law, Law, Law & Politics, Political Secularism, Political Secularism, Politics, Politics, Racism, Religion, Religion, Religious Rights, Religious Rights, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Roman Catholic Church, Roman Catholic Church, Secularism, Separation of Church and State, Separation of Church and State Tags: Dogma, Dogmatism, Homeschooling, Indoctrination, Islamophobia, Parents' Rights 21 Comments »Unreal Discrimination?
October 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Reggie objects to National Coming Out Day: As a black American I’m old enough to remember what real discrimination was like(I once got bit by a police dog on a peaceful march), as we tried to be judged by our actions. How is the brutality that gays suffered at the hands of policemen in the [...]
A Question For “The Colored Man” On C-SPAN
October 3rd, 2010 Daniel Fincke “May I speak now?” “Yes, Ma’am!” “I’m 90 years old and I just wanted to ask the colored man, why don’t colored people instead of seeing what we did to them, why don’t they see what we did for them. They talk about the slavery but since they’ve given welfare, free medicine, free everything.” “Ma’am, [...]
Xenophobia Distilled In Song Form
September 12th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Maybe when Cartman communicates all these sentiments at once, the xenophobia and racism in them might become a little clearer for all those out there who like to insist that they are of course definitely not racist (how could anyone imply such a thing??) but just wish there were not so many minorities being alive, [...]
Posted in Comedy, Comedy, Hilarious, Parody, Parody, Political Satire, Political Satire, Racism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Satire, Satire Tags: Cartman, Minorities, Not My Waterpark, South Park, Xenophobia No Comments »How To Tell People They Sound Racist
August 11th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Wise advice: Thanks to Feminist Philosophers. Your Thoughts?
Maddow Vs. O’Reilly
July 22nd, 2010 Daniel Fincke Dr. Maddow slaps Mr. O’Reilly back most enjoyably: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Your Thoughts?
Posted in News Discussion, News Discussion, Racism Tags: Bill O'Reilly, FOX News, Media, Race-Baiting, Rachel Maddow 4 Comments »The Tea Party’s Forebears
July 21st, 2010 Daniel Fincke (via) Your Thoughts?
Posted in Civil Rights, Civil Rights, Comedy, Comedy, Law & Politics, Political Satire, Political Satire, Politics, Politics, Racism, Right Wing Politics, Right Wing Politics, Sarah Palin, Sarah Palin, Satire, Satire, Videos Tags: Abraham Lincoln, Federalism, Ku Klux Klan, Lyndon Johnson, Medicare, Mock The Dummy, States Rights, Suffregates, Tea Party, Tea Party Movement, Woodrow Wilson 1 Comment »Coates, With An Appeal To Hitchens, On The Confederate Flag
July 4th, 2010 Daniel Fincke What to make of those in the south who claim the Confederate flag as part of a properly American southern heritage? Ta-Nehisi Coates is eloquent: But people can fly the Confederate Flag and have a serious, evidently credible argument, about its “precise meaning,” mostly because of a long historical fight to make the Civil War, [...]
My Baby Is Black!
June 19th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Apparently this is a vintage 27 second TV spot for an actual 1960′s exploitation film: via postbourgie (which also has a good post on the cop video from earlier). Your Thoughts?
Posted in Film, Racism, Unintentional Comedy Tags: Exploitation Films, Interracial Dating No Comments »Ebert On The Arizona Mural Story
June 8th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Sometimes, there’s just no excerpting from a piece, you just have to insist people read the whole thing. Read Roger Ebert’s whole piece on how we come to think and feel as we do with respect to race and the consequences of what we do about it. Your Thoughts?
Radio Host Fired After Pressuring Arizona To Change A Mural Explains Himself
June 7th, 2010 Daniel Fincke This image is part of a mural, based on photographs of students from the Arizona school on whose outer wall it is painted. Radio host Steve Blair fomented baseless anti-minority outrage among his listeners, leading the school to decide to “lighten up” the image of the boy in the foreground so he looked “happier”. Blair [...]
Sex And The City 2 (And Religion) (And Feminism) (And Race) (And Homophobia)
June 5th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Diana Bass complains: It just wasn’t very funny to see four smart American women parading western consumerism and sexualized identity in blatantly insensitive and anti-religious ways in a traditional world. Wait a minute, what she describes may not be funny but it’s certainly the best thing I’ve heard about the film from everything that I’ve [...]
ZJ Defends “Everybody Draws Muhammad Day”
May 28th, 2010 Daniel Fincke Your Thoughts?
Posted in Free Speech, Islam, Racism, Religion Tags: argument, Censorship, chilling effect, conversion, criticism, Deconversion, Depictions of Mohammed, draws the prophet muhammad, Everybody Draw Mohammed Day, Fear, free expression, guilt by association, intimidation, lds, Mormons, Muhammad cartoons, Muslims, offended, offensive, provocation, provocative, racial prejudice, racist, reactions, religious beliefs, Religious Violence, Responsibility, Rights, salvation army, threats, violation, violent response, Xenophobia, zinnia jones, zj, ZJemptv No Comments »
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