White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

June 22, 2011 11:16 am3 comments
White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack

originally posted here. “I was taught to see racism only in individual acts of meanness, not in invisible systems conferring dominance on my group” Peggy McIntosh Through work to bring materials from women’s studies into the rest of the curriculum, I have often noticed men’s unwillingness to grant that they [...]

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Repudiating Nihilism

May 12, 2011 1:44 am1 comment
Repudiating Nihilism

I’ve been a bona fide stalker and harasser of the Alternative Right at Gonzo Times and at my more cosmopolitan writings at Little Green Footballs. There is something really significant to this group of overt self described fascists and the fact that they are brilliant writers with a firm grasp [...]

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Whence Bigotry? (a.k.a. Prejudice and the State)

April 16, 2011 4:11 pm0 comments
Whence Bigotry? (a.k.a. Prejudice and the State)

Cross posted at jVerse with podcast The evolutionary psych story about humanity is that war, genocide, and the divisive “-isms” that keep humans in a perpetual state of conflict are inevitable expressions of an “us vs. them” tendency that is simply a part of our biological makeup. It’s indisputable that [...]

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Fanny Howe's "Economics"

April 7, 2011 1:34 pm13 comments
Fanny Howe's "Economics"

Economics is an incredible book. Writer Fanny Howe in a mere 134 pages does what conservatives have wanted to do for decades – lay out the failures, neurosis and narcissism of the Baby Boomer generation. Howe does this with finesse and, through the medium of fiction, is able to show [...]

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A Primer On The New Tribalism

April 2, 2011 5:24 pm6 comments
A Primer On The New Tribalism

Punk Johnny Cash has asked that I write more about the Alternative Right and their movement. We’ve had several excursions with them here at Gonzo Times, as I have when I written about them elsewhere. This article I hope to be a definitive piece aimed for republication in the Gonzo [...]

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The Alternative Right

March 20, 2011 11:45 am58 comments
The Alternative Right

Jay Batman’s articles crystallized for me something I have seen on the rise for the last year or so. In American society, and to a larger extent Europe, Canada and Australia, you’re seeing the rise of a movement that is best described as the “alternative right.” These guys are radical [...]

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Libertarianism, Race and Gender issues

March 10, 2011 9:54 am34 comments
Libertarianism, Race and Gender issues

The issues of race and gender seem to have blown up here at Gonzo Times. This has not been without resistance. The article I posted in October specifically seems to be getting a lot of attention. I have ran into the classic colorblind concepts in response to much of what [...]

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Republican Senator Leads Islamic Witch Hunt In Senate

March 9, 2011 10:57 am0 comments
Republican Senator Leads Islamic Witch Hunt In Senate

The King hearings have been compared to McCarthyism, but McCarthy went after political ideology not racial and ethnic groups, that was Hitler. New York Republican Senator Peter King is using tax dollars to go on an Islamophobic  witch hunt in the United Sates. Peter King supported by the right wing [...]

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The Cracker Wears Blue

March 8, 2011 8:10 am5 comments
The Cracker Wears Blue

Where are all the black men? They’re behind prison bars from the white mans laws. Where are all the white men? They’re in corporations and in city halls. This alone is proof of the institutionalized racism in the United States. 13% of the population is black. 46% of the prison [...]

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Slavery Today And In The Future In The United States

March 1, 2011 1:06 pm2 comments
Slavery Today And In The Future In The United States

Slave Labor Easy Source For Corporate And Government Profit Disturbing Implications For Racial Minorities “As prisoners become sources of profit for the State, we can guarantee one thing: there will be more of them.” Over 40,000 prisoners are currently in Michigan state correctional facilities. Michigan is just one state of [...]

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Cry of Jazz

January 27, 2011 7:57 am0 comments
Cry of Jazz

The 1958 film “City of Jazz” is a poignant piece that spoke openly of the oppression of blacks. 65 people volunteered to work on the film for free. The ideas in the film parallel the struggle of the oppressed with the structure of Jazz. I ask the libertarians who watch [...]

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