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13 years ago @ Frontpage Magazine - Sodomy 'For the Sake o... · 1 reply · -14 points
The Advocate has begun to back away from it. http://www.advocate.com/politics/military/2012/07...
Gay Star News has also declared Ibrahim's claims to be wrong. http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/anus-gay-terro...
13 years ago @ Frontpage Magazine - Sodomy 'For the Sake o... · 25 replies · -52 points
13 years ago @ Antiwar.com Original A... - Israel Lobby Creates A... · 0 replies · +6 points
14 years ago @ MRZine - mrzine.monthlyreview.o... · 0 replies · +1 points
14 years ago @ MRZine - mrzine.monthlyreview.o... · 2 replies · +1 points
an outdated LinkedIn page that I was required to create by HR a few years ago when I received a short-term contract from Parker Tide – a contracting firm – to write a manual for NGOs. The State Department was a contractor for this publication – which was designed for distribution to all NGOs receiving any US funding.
16 years ago @ Max Ajl - Olmert, Heckling, and ... · 1 reply · +1 points
16 years ago @ Max Ajl - Olmert, Heckling, and ... · 3 replies · +1 points
16 years ago @ Max Ajl - The Trouble with Heckl... · 0 replies · +1 points
Not all of the people in the audience were these dispassionate liberals... there were many committed pro-Israel, Friends of Israel (the campus group), and pro-Israel media (the northside ethnic Jewish press like the Jewish Star).
These liberal elites will fall into the zeitgeist when it suits them. Until then, they will continue to put on their finest clothes for events like this. The goal of the protest was to show people in Gaza and Lebanon that we're in solidarity and to show the University that the arguments about free expression hold no water.
16 years ago @ Max Ajl - The Trouble with Heckl... · 3 replies · +1 points
The people who attended the speech were liberals who reflexively attend these events without any specific conviction in support of Olmert.
We were not trying to convince anyone in that room of anything other than there is vocal visceral resistance to this man.
Our protest was aimed at the people in Gaza and Lebanon. We did this so they can see that Palestinians and other Americans in Chicago do not forget about them and will take risks to be in solidarity with them. Al Jazeera showed the protests and played the report hourly for the entire day yesterday.
17 years ago @ Womanist Musings - Gay Man Not Welcome In... · 2 replies · +3 points
The Senegalese Penal Code is itself a legacy of colonialism, and the creation of these laws by French colonial rulers is one part of the story where European homophobia was imported into Africa. They may have created the laws to appease and incite local prejudices as a means of maintaining their legitimacy as rulers of someone else's country. Who thinks that Africans wrote these laws?
People who have resisted colonialism may see the international (European) "human rights" movement that promotes the Western notion of commodified sexual identities, individualism and consumerism as a continuation of the outside control of their lives.
It's a sad story. But let's put a "Europe" and "white people" label on this post. Don't dump this at the feet of Senegal.
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