Archive for 'genocide'
Arrr You Being Lied To About Pirates? Shore! Oar: Racism in Today's U.S. Media
Images of the “third world” have long been distorted before they are displayed to the American public. Most people don’t even know that “third world” refers to the Cold War and should have died along with “red scare” and those bomb drills where schoolchildren were put under desks. American ignorance abounds when it comes to [...]
Posted: July 1st, 2009 under colonial power, empire, genocide, media bias, offensive, oil, racism, third world.
Tags: africa, africans, alexander the great, bandits, barbarians, bomb drills, cold war, colonization, crime, cultural bias, economics, empire, emporer, haystack, ignorance, johnny depp, kareem, massacre, Media, media bias, oil, piracy, pirates, prejudice, psychology, racism, red scare, robber, rwanda, rwandan genocide, Somalia, starvation, stuff white people like, third world, toxic waste, western culture, white people
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Giving Thanks for Genocide: The Argument Against Thanksgiving
I like cranberry sauce as much as the next feminist, but I wonder if the lack of education about the genocide of native peoples in our continent argues against thanksgiving. I am (part) Native American, according to a genetic test conducted earlier this semester, but that’s not the issue. The issue is that if we [...]
Posted: November 23rd, 2007 under Alternet, Robert Jensen, card, discover, discovery, discovery card, genocide, human rights, native americans, native peoples, pilgrims, thanksgiving, turkey.
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