motherjones:

cognitivedissonance:

Michelle Malkin makes the claim that Occupy Wall Street is 99% white. It hurts my irony bone for someone on Fox News to criticize a social movement for being “99% white.” It hurts real bad.

According to Malkin:

“The protesters have taken to calling themselves the ‘99 percent’ in the country, labeling the capitalists they wish to remove from power the other ‘1 percent.’ When Occupy Wall Street activists call themselves the ‘99 percent,’ it turns out they mean 99 percent non-diverse (by their own politically correct measurements). It’s as pale out there at Camp Alinsky as MSNBC’s prime-time lineup or the New York Times editorial board. Not counting the cameos by Jesse Jackson and Cornel West, that is.”

Uh-huh… love the photo choice showing a rather diverse crowd, Fox Nation. I don’t need to debunk your claim since you, um, did it yourselves.

Bravo.

h/t to Media Matters

 Oh, Malkin, you race-baiting fact-mangler, you.

Just turn OFF the GOD DAMN TV, ALREADY.

Stunning (if misspelled) commentary from a bit of graffiti: “Violence is white privelege”

From defaced:

“Violence,” Burn Notice poster, location unknown, NYC

I wasn’t going to reblog this at first. The more I think about it, the more I realize it’s true.  In western society violence by whites is almost always defended.  I’m sure if more folks of African, Asian, or Hispanic descent were allowed into leadership positions their violence would be more likely to be defended, too.  Just look at Obama.

Then again, maybe “whiteness” has less to do with ethnicity and more to do with one’s cultural mindset.

Hm, that’s a good topic for the next 666cast!

US Gov to Boycott Racism Conference in Rare Show of Honesty

US Gov to Boycott Racism Conference in Rare Show of Honesty, originally uploaded by thepetecom.

Reuters.com reported over the weekend that the US will not be attending a United Nations conference on racism. The reason? Apparently, the declaration the conference wants everyone to sign onto calls Zionism racist.

I don't know about you, but when a single religion/race gets it's own country, I'm thinking that's racist.

Regardless of that, however, it seems pretty ridiculous for the USG to decide that because of this one difference of opinion they're going to boycott the whole thing. For a country founded on the blood of millions of Native Americans, built on the backs of generations of African American slaves, which has exploited cheap immigrant labor from the beginning (and still does to this day) this move by the US seems like a rare example of honesty.

How ironic that we have a black president right now. I suppose it just goes to show you that there is no real difference between the races--a black man can be just as racist as the white guys who came before him.

Or maybe... could this be Classism? After all, the idea here is that we are boycotting the UN conference on racism, thus sacrificing our support of all races in favor of just one--and it's a race (well, religion, really) stereotypically known for controlling wealth (not that I believe this--I just know others do).

I've got nothing against anyone's belief system (believe what you need to in order to get by, I say) but when you use your religious beliefs to harm the rights of others (COUGHpalestineCOUGH) I start to have problems.