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Al Sharpton won’t apologize, we know that already…

Let’s face it, Al Sharpton is a vulture. Now I know in advance that saying anything bad about “Reverend Al” will net me a bunch of nasty comments and emails about being racist or some silliness… but the the truth is the truth. In his career (and it is exactly that) our buddy Al has [...]

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Human self loathing (no feminism edition)…

In a previous post I mentioned that there is a general feeling of self loathing that ties together many of the extreme activist community. They are all, seemingly, trying to find a way to not exist. They wish to be subsumed into their fellow human in some cases by exchanging individuality and free thought for group [...]

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Today’s overused word: "Myth"

There are lots and lots of words used by activists that don’t mean what they think they mean. While “strawman” is probably #1 with “privilege” as the next one somewhere on that list lives “myth”. In a recent post on abyss2hope Marcella Chester took up the topic of women who molest boys. Now clearly it is [...]

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This isn’t vandalism or hatred, right?

Of course it is. Oh wait, they call it activism around some parts. Now just for fun imagine if a man went into a feminist bookstore and put stickers on Dworkins books labeling them the anti-male hate speech they are, how do you think chicks like Charliegrrl would react? You’re damn right they would freak out [...]

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A great look at activism…

Penn and Teller do some great work on their TV show “Bullshit!”. I don’t always agree with their points on everything, but it is always informative. In this episode they took a look at the Environmental Movement. While their points about the sketchy forces driving the movement as a whole are right on, that isn’t [...]

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