May 29th "
[T]ake the notion of “political correctness”. It is true that movements of conscience have piled demands onto people faster than the culture can absorb them. That is an unfortunate side-effect of social progress. Conservatism, however, twists language to make the inconvenience of conscience sound like a kind of oppression. The campaign against political correctness is thus a search-and-destroy campaign against all vestiges of conscience in society. The flamboyant nastiness of rhetors such as Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter represents the destruction of conscience as a type of liberation. They are like cultists, continually egging on their audiences to destroy their own minds by punching through one layer after another of their consciences."
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Phil Agre on Political Correctness (via jonathan-cunningham)
Any time someone brings up “well I’m not ‘politically correct’” it calls for a mega-side eye. Because, what? Your desire to say whatever you want however you want to say it trumps the comfort and well-being of the people around you?
(via stfuconservatives)
(via stfuconservatives)
May 24th
lostsplendor:
“A young child clutched the leg of his father, an American soldier home for Christmas, while the father lifted and kissed his wife, Dec 1944” (via World War II Database)
May 23rd
view-earth:
Les Diablerets, in the heart of the Vaud Alps (by North Face)
(via 15steep)
May 22nd
timeformetobehappy:
beauty-fit:
I love fruit so freakin much
Uunnffff food porn yum
(Source: livehappyagain, via get-thinspiration)
