Sometimes you can defeat an opponent through superior tactics – predicting her/his strategy and countering it out of the gate. Sometimes you defeat an opponent through brute force, having the sheer numbers to overpower her/him. Other times it’s just dumb luck, then the cards happen to fall in your favour and you end up the …
Monthly Archive: November 2010
Nov 18 2010
Is atheism a ‘white people thing’?
I suppose I have been remiss in not commenting on Alom Shaha’s Guardian article entitled The Accidental Exclusion of non-White Atheists: These are issues that the white “leadership” of the atheist and sceptic (sic) movements have largely ignored because they are not issues that concern them. But these issues should concern all atheists – because …
Nov 18 2010
George W. Bush misses the point, says something stupid
So George W. Bush is in the news again for saying something stupid. *Ho hum* “‘I didn’t like hearing people claim that I lied about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction or cut taxes to benefit the rich. But the suggestion that I was racist because of the response to Katrina represented an all-time low.’” So, …
Nov 18 2010
The scourge of “scientific” racism
As a scientist and a black man, I cannot describe to you how weary I am of having people throw “scientific racism” in my face. I don’t mean that people try to prove to me that black people are scientifically inferior; we’ve pretty much debunked that already. No, the thing I resent is when people …
Nov 17 2010
I present to you: Privilege Denying Dude
I was contacted by the person who owns the stock photo that was used to make Privilege Denying Dude and asked to remove the images from the site. I am new to the world of the tumblr. My current favourite is definitely stfuconservatives, which is a (mostly) tongue-in-cheek listing of unbelievably stupid things that conservatives …
Nov 17 2010
Religious thinking used for good
I try to be an honest broker. While I am staunchly anti-religion, I am perfectly willing to recognize when it does something I think is good. This is one of those rare examples where I can’t really spin this as anything other than a positive: “Today I will start with a three-part sermon on: Jesus …
Nov 16 2010
Tanzania elects albino to parliament
Last week I talked about the dangers of believing superstitions, and confusing superstition with culture. I also illustrated the specific plight of albino people, who are particularly targeted with violence for the supposed magical properties of their limbs. Of course, albinos have no magical properties – albinism is a single-gene mutation affecting pigmentation. But that …
Nov 16 2010
Vancouver vultures circling for cash
Hello readers, I’m Crommunist. I’m not a witch. I’m not anything you’ve heard. I’m you! No, actually I’m not you. I’m me. But none of that is important, because I can predict the motherfucking future. You may remember back in April of this year I talked about the so-called “liberation therapy” for Multiple Sclerosis (MS). …
Nov 15 2010
Not a racist bone in my body
There is a groove worn in the palm of my right hand. No, it’s not from that. It is there as a result of consistently smacking my face into my palm every time someone uses the phrase “I’m not racist…” or “I am the least racist person in the world” or “I don’t have a …
Nov 12 2010
Movie Friday: The Great Debate
My cup runneth over with frustration these days whenever I am drawn into debate with someone who trots out old, pre-debunked arguments, as though I’d never heard them before. It happens when discussing race, it happens when discussing gender, and it definitely happens with religion: I wish life came with a moderator like this. Let’s …
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