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Kenya’s Carnage
As if the world needed another battleground, peaceful Kenya slipped into a civil war as post-election demonstrations turned to riots, and riots to rampages. Kenya’s December 27th elections could have...
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Using American Indian Genocide To Spread Anti-Immigrant Sentiment
Marcello sent us this really fascinating example of political propaganda from an anti-immigrant party in Italy. He translated the text as: They suffered immigration Now they live in reserves Think...
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PETA’s “Holocaust on Your Plate” Campaign
These images were all used (along with lots of others) in a 2003 campaign in which PETA, obviously, compared modern agricultural practices and eating meat with the Holocaust: Found here. Found here....
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Here are two videos from MTV’s Think campaign (both found here): I am not at all sure what the message is here–just a general “fear your government” warning? A comment on the Bush Administration’s...
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Remembering National Tragedies: The U.S. vs. Germany
I am in Munich for the month and last week I visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial. I was struck by the difference between the tour I took here and the tour I took of the Lara Plantation just...
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Re-Framing the Abortion Debate
Emily D., Jeff S., and Dmitriy T.M. have all sent in links to a series of billboards, recently put up in Atlanta, that suggest that abortion is a form of genocide against African Americans: We’ve...
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The Re-Victimization of Homosexual Targets of the Nazi Regime
A hundred thousand men and women identified as homosexuals were imprisoned during the Nazi regime. They were detained under a law known as “paragraph 175,” which made sodomy illegal. Up to 15,000 were...
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Sure, There’s a Thing Called “Reverse Racism”
You absolutely must find three minutes to watch Aamer Rahman defend the idea of reverse racism. Yes, he says, of course reverse racism is possible: “All I would need is a time machine…” The rest is...
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