HaifischGeweint

Author's details

Name: Jamie James
Date registered: October 26, 2012
URL: http://haifischgeweint.wordpress.com/

Latest posts

A Week In The Life Of Jamie — May 22, 2013
Ray Bobb: To The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Re-Posted With Permission) — May 15, 2013
Philosophy Dudebros, Boston, & Nazis — April 24, 2013
“In Bad Faith” — April 10, 2013
Some Extremely Effective Grassroots Protest Methods & Exactly Why They Work — March 20, 2013

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May 22 2013

A Week In The Life Of Jamie

Categories:

feminism, forces of stupid, hypocrisy, Jamie, privilege, skeptivism

by HaifischGeweint

An enormous confetti bomb of white privilege and transphobia has exploded through my entire life in the past week, and as I’ve been doing a lot of pretty important writing about it, I’d like to share some of it with you here. There are two core issues at work here. The first concerns SlutWalk, …

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30 comments

May 15 2013

Ray Bobb: To The Truth and Reconciliation Commission (Re-Posted With Permission)

Categories:

#IdleNoMore, civil rights, First Nations, history, Jamie, racism

by HaifischGeweint

A brief note from Jamie on the piece of writing (by another author) that takes up the majority of this post: For readers who are unfamiliar with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, this is a government-implemented program in Canada, which visits indigenous communities primarily for the express purpose of hearing the experiences of residential school …

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6 comments

Apr 24 2013

Philosophy Dudebros, Boston, & Nazis

Categories:

civil rights, history, Jamie, politics

by HaifischGeweint

This past week, the United States has experienced a horrific series of civil rights violations: the Boston Marathon bombing, followed by the lockdown of the entire city under martial law (during which several civilian homes were burst into with military might, in SWAT raids searching for one of the suspects, both of whom were considered …

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105 comments

Apr 10 2013

“In Bad Faith”

Categories:

feminism, forces of stupid, freethought community, Jamie, racism

by HaifischGeweint

It seems to me that whenever someone in the atheist/secular community fucks up, the favourite line of defence is “They didn’t do it in bad faith”. Well, my friends, in case no one has told you before, intent isn’t fucking magical. Also? That is literally about the stupidest fucking thing I’ve ever heard an atheist …

Tags: decolonize, environmental racism, fuck FEMEN, get off my internet Richard Dawkins, no fracking on stolen native land, no pipelines on stolen native land, take concrete anti-racist action or GTFO, take concrete anti-sexist action or STFU

91 comments

Mar 20 2013

Some Extremely Effective Grassroots Protest Methods & Exactly Why They Work

Categories:

feminism, hate, Jamie, skeptivism

by HaifischGeweint

Sometimes the real grassroots wear a fucking mask. And before you challenge my use of the word "real" here, sometimes there actually are fake grassroots.

Last week, I wrote about an annoyingly pervasive blight of unchecked male privilege at grassroots protests, which is actually angry-making when the protest concerns an attack against women’s rights. But when that attack against women’s rights involves multiple layers of outright racism on top of that (racialized women’s rights being particularly vulnerable already, due …

Tags: decolonizing pro-choice politics, effective grassroots activism

31 comments

Mar 13 2013

Philosophy Dudebros & Grassroots Don’t Mix

Categories:

Catholic church, civil rights, feminism, gender, hate, Jamie, politics, racism, skeptivism

by HaifischGeweint

Hi-dee-ho, there, FreeThoughtBorg. I know a lot of you are eager to-be activists and even more of you have a lot of philosophy under your belt buckles. But you may not know yet that being Philosophy Dudebro in a grassroots action is terribad form. And if you don’t yet know this, you need to know …

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235 comments

Feb 13 2013

Dos & Don’ts: Responding To Domestic/Sexual Violence Involving A Complete Stranger

Categories:

crime, feminism, Jamie

by HaifischGeweint

In Canada this past week, two Earth-shattering events of domestic and sexual violence against women were aired in the news. Trigger warning: if you are a survivor of domestic and/or sexual violence, as I am, and you are already having a bad day, this is not going to be a post you’ll want to read …

Tags: domestic violence, sexual assault, violence against women

12 comments

Jan 23 2013

A Primer On Canada’s Indian Act

Categories:

#IdleNoMore, culture, First Nations, history, Jamie, law, racism

by HaifischGeweint

There seems to be a lot of misinformation and possibly wilful ignorance perpetually circulating around about Canada’s—quite frankly genocidal—140-year-old Indian Act. Internet trolls and eugenicists alike declare that it has so many “benefits” for First Nations. Special emphasis is placed on the two separate events in Canada’s history that a proposal for putting The Indian Act through …

Tags: cultural genocide, the indian act

37 comments

Jan 16 2013

Race/Ethnicity Just Isn’t Simple

Categories:

#IdleNoMore, anti-racism, forces of stupid, Jamie, privilege, race

by HaifischGeweint

Race is a social construct. It sounds like a pretty easy idea to wrap your head around, once you understand the meaning of what you’re saying. It’s the idea that the very concept of race itself isn’t genetically determined and isn’t quite as linear a relationship as simply contingent upon the colour of one’s skin …

Tags: cultural chauvinism, decolonization, grassroots social justice, groupthink

18 comments

Jan 09 2013

Idle No More: Deep Green Resistance Has Red Roots

Categories:

#IdleNoMore, Canada, cultural tolerance, First Nations, history, Jamie, racism

by HaifischGeweint

I’ve been following and learning from a number of radical grassroots indigenous activists for quite a while now. I don’t remember when I encountered the first, who has been a source of inspiration and encouragement to me since our first contact on Facebook. But before long, I was getting to know a bunch of people …

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The Crommunist Manifesto

"The stubborn persistence of chauvinism in our life and letters is or ought to be the proper subject for critical study, not the occasion for displays of shock." – C. Hitchens