Not Thinking About Race: Accidentally Illustrating Evil with Skin Color
Let’s say, for the sake of argument, that the artists designing this graphic did not purposefully associate darker skin-like colors with more evil and lighter skin-like colors with less evil. I think this is a fair assumption, though I don’t know for sure that this is true. But let’s give them the benefit of the doubt.
If they didn’t do this on purpose, then race never consciously entered their minds. Once you notice that the colors are skin-like colors, and if you are a member of a society that discriminates against darker-skinned people, you immediately see that this graphic reproduces those stereotypes… AND YOU CHANGE THE COLORS.
Posted: August 26, 2010 at 3:55 pm.
In what might be the most serious challenge to Barack Obama’s legitimacy as President, a new poll shows that one out of five Americans are not convinced that Mr. Obama exists.
The poll, conducted by the University of Minnesota’s Opinion Research Institute, reveals that 23 percent of those surveyed “strongly agreed” with the statement, “I believe that Barack Obama’s birth was faked, just like the moon landing.”
Posted: August 25, 2010 at 11:13 pm.
Journalism Warning Labels
Posted: August 24, 2010 at 9:47 pm.
Rights exist because of people. Government exists because of people. Markets exist because of people, and if those markets stop working for people, they should be modified until they do. Libertarians take an opposite view, which is that their institutions—-free markets for seculars, free markets plus the patriarchy plus the church for Christian libertarians—-have the right of way when they come into conflict with the life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness of The People. Pollution is no reason, in their view, to introduce environmental regulation. Economic crashes shouldn’t result in economic regulation. We’re all supposed to just see that as the way the cookie crumbles.
Libertarianism is Fundamentally Anti-Human
Posted: August 24, 2010 at 12:14 pm.
During his reelection campaign, TNR wrote, [Presidendt Woodrow] Wilson had told a group of suffragists that “[h]e was with them,” even as “he confessed to a ‘little impatience’ as to their anxiety about method.” From this, the magazine concluded that the president had “at best a vague, benign feeling about [the issue], and no conviction whatever that woman suffrage was creating a national situation which called for thorough sincerity, nerve and will.”
An evasive stance on a controversial civil rights issue from a liberal president; an insistence that the issue is primarily local, rather than national, in character; a complete failure of sincerity, nerve, and will: If these things sound familiar in 2010, it is because Barack Obama is taking exactly the same approach on gay marriage.
Posted: August 24, 2010 at 11:32 am.
Scott Pilgrim vs the World’s video game aesthetic goes beyond just the surface look and feel of the movie; it’s also a commentary on how a generation brought up on video games seemingly prefers the tangible rewards system of video games to the ambiguities and dissatisfactions of adult life.
Posted: August 20, 2010 at 4:44 pm.
Design Fantasy Camp - Core77
Posted: August 19, 2010 at 3:55 pm.
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Posted: August 19, 2010 at 2:14 pm.
I’m Voting Tea Party brand t-shirts by Jeremy Kalgreen
A series of satirical t-shirt designs for Tea Party supporters.
Posted: August 19, 2010 at 1:56 pm.
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