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Raif Badawi and the value of thinking differently. | tomowolade
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Raif Badawi and the value of thinking differently. June 19, 2015. What can be done to save Raif Badawi? Not much. Saudi Arabia is a geopolitical ally and will remain so for the foreseeable future. What can be done to challenge the ideology that justifies Badawi’s oppression? Non-white people can be racist. Why I’m a Eustonite. →. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). Notify me of new comments via email.
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Yes: Charlie Hebdo deserve praise and support. | tomowolade
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Yes: Charlie Hebdo deserve praise and support. June 19, 2015. To publicly declare disapproval of PEN America and consequently disengage themselves from an annual PEN gala celebrating Charlie Hebdo. I’m a free-speech fundamentalist, but I don’t think it’s a good use of our. Headspace or moral commitments to lionize Charlie Hebdo in particular. L’affaire Rushdie (for example) was a very different matter, as different. As blasphemy is from racism. I support Rushdie 100%, but I don’t want to. Anyone obliviou...
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The racism of some anti-racists. | tomowolade
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The racism of some anti-racists. June 27, 2015. Because inherent in those terms is a sinister implication: ‘if you disagree with how I think a brown person should think, you’re still a nigger’ – a slave subordinate to the interests of white people. ‘If you disagree with me, you can’t be thinking for yourself’ is the message. The white author of a book and a litany of recent articles on Islam, Nathan Lean, mocked. With Maajid Nawaz, a Muslim. Lean – understandably not trying to make himself look...Now is ...
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NUS working with CAGE; progressives in alliance with theocrats. June 19, 2015. The National Union of Students has devastated its credibility once more by choosing to align itself with a group contemptuous of democracy and pluralism. In its annual conference, the organisation, which represents 600 student unions in the UK, declared. In motion 517 that it will work alongside civil liberties organisations including CAGE in order to challenge the PREVENT strategy against counter-terrorism and extremism.
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Why I’m a Eustonite. | tomowolade
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Why I’m a Eustonite. June 21, 2015. Then I became a Eustonite, and accepted the principles plainly expressed in the Euston manifesto. Pro-democracy; anti-totalitarianism; and a support for universal rights. A couple of incidents have reinforced my beliefs. The first was the reaction to the Charlie Hebdo. That smear ex-Muslims as native informants, and portray liberal Muslims as imperialist stooges, the concept of solidarity is demeaned beyond recognition. And banning philosophy societies. These progressi...
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Thoughts on political correctness and SJW | tomowolade
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Thoughts on political correctness and SJW. July 4, 2015. An ideology that exists primarily in university campuses and online activism is gaining greater prominence. This ideology is distinguished by its starkness: conferring absolute power to those without privilege; and fomenting hostility to those who, by accident of birth, assume the status of oppressors. As a maudlin reaction against excellence spreads to the arts, the idea of aesthetic discrimination gets tarred with racist and sexist discrimination.
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Progressives allying with theocrats again | tomowolade
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Progressives allying with theocrats again. August 1, 2015. Nothing illustrates the alliance between the far left and the religious far-right more lucidly than the work of two university of Bath academics: Tom Mills and David Miller, both of whom, in concert with Bath researcher Narzanin Massoumi, wrote an apologia. Of CAGE for OpenDemocracy, denouncing those who are critical of the group. In a manner like this:. And why are self-identified progressives euphemising this man and his beliefs? And his refusa...
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Monthly Archives: July 2015. Thoughts on political correctness and SJW. July 4, 2015. An ideology that exists primarily in university campuses and online activism is gaining greater prominence. This ideology is distinguished by its starkness: conferring absolute power to those without privilege; and fomenting hostility to those who, by accident of birth, assume the status of oppressors. As a maudlin reaction against excellence spreads to the arts, the idea of aesthetic discrimination gets tarred with rac...
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Censorship in university campus | tomowolade
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Censorship in university campus. June 19, 2015. I’ve recently written a blog for the Gerasites about free speech and censorship. I’ve reproduced it here:. The recent attitude displayed by the NUS Women’s campaign received scorn on twitter and elsewhere, but they revealed a mindset undimmed by shame or contrition. Whether by suggesting clapping be replaced by jazz hands. Or insisting gay men stop culturally appropriating black women. The influence of these values is clear and growing. Firstly, self-censor...
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Non-white people can be racist. | tomowolade
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Non-white people can be racist. June 19, 2015. This is Goldsmiths university’s student union welfare and diversity officer, Bahar Mustafa, explaining. Why she can’t be racist:. I, an ethnic minority woman, cannot be racist or sexist to white men because racism and sexism describe structures of privilege based on race and gender. In Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe continues to persecute the white minority. This has led to expulsion and landgrabs. And a lot of white slaves) on the basis that they were inferior by ...