BlogHide Resteemsjessij (39)in news • 7 years agoStop deportations! Stop tearing families apart!Stop criminalizing workers and tearing families apart. Stop the deportations. Stop detaining children. Stop the inhumane profiteering of privately owned immigrant detention centers. The…jessij (39)in philosophy • 7 years agoDangerous Ideas: MLK a year before his deathYears after formal de-segregation, Dr. King had come to argue that civil rights were not enough, and in many ways the situation for Black Americans had actually gotten worse. This speech, The…jessij (39)in news • 7 years agoDid you miss this New York Times article in the late 90s?Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was not killed by James Earl Ray, a Memphis Jury found in 1998... but the history books haven't changed, have they? From the New York Times: "After four weeks of…jessij (39)in history • 7 years agoHow the Irish became White: Part OneThe images below remind us that Irish immigrants were racialized in the U.S. in the 1800s. They were dehumanized and depicted as apelike, as the blog Sociological Images points out. Harper's…jessij (39)in history • 7 years agoSlavery's role in building the American economy"... in 1860, 80% of the nation's Gross National Product was tied to slavery." -from Carol Anderson's White Ragejessij (39)in philosophy • 7 years agoJokes about Capitalism: What do you want to be when you grow up?I love jokes-- as a way of showing how ridiculous something like capitalism really is. Capitalism is a historically specific type of political/ social/ economic system, although many people in our…resteemedfatkat (71)in freedom • 7 years agoDrug War Stories: Raison D'Etre of RTT: Realizing Tommorrow TODAY!!!!!!I'm mad as hell, I will continue to take it but like Rod Parsley's ramblings I will be SILENT NO MORE on the wicked empire of Babylon and how the satanist statists that want to violate free will and…jessij (39)in philosophy • 7 years agoCapitalism vs. Socialism DebateA provocative discussion we do not have often enough. Here is the video (1 hour and 20 minutes long) on C-Span: Capitalism is a system driven by profit. Is that (such) a bad…jessij (39)in politics • 7 years agoThe "Privacy" of Gendered ViolenceWe live in a modern state obsessed with law and order and marked by unprecedented levels of mass incarceration. Yet some crimes are ignored or dismissed-- or at least enjoy a level of apparent…resteemedjohnvibes (72)in inspiration • 7 years agoInmates Raise $100,000 to Purchase Educational ComputersPittsburgh, Pennsylvania – Inmates in Allegheny County Jail raised over $100,000, which will be used to buy dozens of tablet computers that can be used in the prison. The tablets will not be…jessij (39)in science • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Images of Gender in Media AdvertisingUntil the 1970s, it was lawful for a man to force sex on his wife even if she did not want it. Activists in the 1970s demanded the recognition of forced sex within marriage as rape. It finally…jessij (39)in sociology • 7 years agosteemCreated with Sketch.Sociology and the modern obsession with the "individual"photo: sfsafehouse.org It is sometimes difficult for people to think outside of the lens of individualism. The notion of the "individual" may appear as common sense to modern Western readers…
