Daily Archives: March 17, 2015

The Microaggressions of “American Sniper”

Here’s yet another example of ‘microaggression’ and ‘trigger’ nomenclature, tools designed to extinguish all ideas not espoused by the typical Obama Coalition identity bloc: Some Muslim students at the University of Missouri protested an upcoming campus screening of “American Sniper” … Continue reading

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Capehart Acknowledges

WaPo columnist and MSNBC regular Jonathan Capehart does the unthinkable… he admits that, in the case of Michael Brown in Ferguson, the ‘Hands Up, Don’t Shoot’ narrative (which he helped promote) was wrong: But this month, the Justice Department released … Continue reading

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Mi Casa

From an article in The Economist about the eclipsing of white America: Two factors make the rise of Hispanic America different. Never before has such a large group of new arrivals lived so close to their ancestral homelands, linked to … Continue reading

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The Word “Expat” is Racist

Mawuna Remarque Koutonin is “editor of SiliconAfrica.com and a social activist for Africa Renaissance.” As so, he is naturally given op-ed space in The Guardian. “Why are white people expats when the rest of us are immigrants?” is the title … Continue reading

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The Neuroscience of Despair

In “The Neuroscience of Despair“, Michael Begun applies philosophical anti-scientism (i.e., the reductionism inherent in neurobiological ‘total explanations’ of conscious phenomena, that is, the materialist philosophical position known as scientism) to the issue of clinical depression: “Together with the popular … Continue reading

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