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nimby: hebrew hellzapoppin’

NIMBY is the great hypocrisy that seems to be the unique purview of white, liberal “enlightened” views, the kind of arcane morality beyond the ken of the great unwashed. And illegal immigration is a ot-button issue, the kind of flagration … Continue reading

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Primrose for a faery queen

Believing that her Indian subjects were mistreated, the queen at sixty-nine ostentatiously took a young Indian from Agra as an extra personal secretary, or “Munshi”. Her court was scandalized. Equally scandalized was Her Majesty by their race prejudice: For them … Continue reading

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snobbery, default and flattery

As for prudery it seemed as acceptable to the middle classes as to Queen Victoria herself. Her beloved Albert had a great success in cleaning up the court, and Lord Shaftesbury, a strict evangelical churchman and champion of progressive family … Continue reading

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gilligan in a tempest: o brave new world

photoshop making the rounds. I guess we can thank John Heartfield and the Berlin Dada for the original altered art collages of the powers to be and that wanna be. But satire, at heart is an acceptance, perhaps transgressive, but … Continue reading

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caliban

Fear of a Black planet? The hypocritical emancipatory liberalism of John Stuart Mill that seems to reinforce patriarchy, racism in the most delectable sugar coating that today’s pop culture can occultishly conjure up. O Brave New World of Shakespeare’s The … Continue reading

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