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Monthly Archives: September 2009
Limiting Free Speech (35): Publishing Lists of Pedophiles on the Internet, Ctd.
(source) A follow-up from this previous post on the same subject. We should of course do our utmost to protect people, and especially children, from sexual predators. In the U.S., and to a lesser degree elsewhere, “utmost” means publishing so-called … Continue reading
Posted in housing, justice, law, limiting free speech, privacy
Tagged 1984, children's rights, crime, free speech, limiting free speech, pedophiles, pedophilia, privacy, rape, registries, sex, sex crime, sexual predators, sexual violence, u.s.
4 Comments
Hitler and Obama: Reductio ad Irrelevantum
The refuge of the politically desperate: compare your opponent to Hitler/fascists/nazis, even if the only thing they have in common is an irrelevant detail. This is usually called, in dog Latin, a reductio ad Hitlerum or reductio ad Nazium, and I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, discrimination and hate
Tagged antichrist, fascism, hitler, joke, nazi, obama, photoshop, political joke, politics, protest, right-wing, signs, t-shirt, tea-party, tea-party signs, u.s.
9 Comments
Economic Human Rights (29): Unemployment Benefits in the U.S. and Elsewhere
(source) Strange as it may seem to some, unemployment benefits are a human right, and rightly so in my opinion. Poverty makes rights impossible, and unemployment benefits save many from poverty, especially during a recession in which unemployment isn’t just … Continue reading
Posted in economic human rights, poverty, work
Tagged economics, GDP, human rights, recession, spreading the wealth around, taxation, u.s., unemployment, unemployment benefits
14 Comments
Islamophobia, A Collection of Images
Islamophobia is an interesting phenomenon from the point of view of human rights. The “fear of Islam” has many different causes: outright racism Muslim terrorism, resulting in genuine fear combined with unwarranted generalization Muslim immigration, resulting in worries about employment … Continue reading
Political Graffiti (61): Global Inequality
(source, art by Mantis) More on global inequality. More on development aid.
Posted in aid, equality, political graffiti
Tagged development aid, inequality, political graffiti, politics
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The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (8): The War on Terror and the War on Street Photography
(source) Suspicious looking tourists, beware! If you’re casually taking photographs of street scenes, U.K. police may arrest you. After all, you may well be a dangerous terrorist planning your next attack. That’s what happened to Alex Turner (also a blogger): … Continue reading
Posted in freedom, law, most absurd human rights violations, war
Tagged anti-terrorism, arbitrary arrest, photography, police, terrorism, UK, war on terror, war on terrorism
7 Comments
Economic Human Rights (28): The Health Consequences of the Recession and of Unemployment
(source unknown) The Economist called it the “unsurprising research finding of the day“, but I think it’s a useful confirmation of an existing intuition: this paper finds that the recession can have a beneficial effect on the health of some people … Continue reading
Posted in economic human rights, health, poverty, work
Tagged africa, anti-semitism, capital punishment, crime, crisis, death penalty, development aid, GDP, health, health care, human rights, human rights facts, infant mortality, poverty, recession, unemployment
4 Comments
Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (54): Tolerance
Liberals can understand everything but people who don’t understand them. Lenny Bruce More on tolerance here. More Lenny Bruce.
Posted in comedy, political jokes and funny quotes
Tagged joke, lenny bruce, liberal, politics, quote, tolerance
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Types of Human Rights Violations (2): Self-Inflicted Human Rights Violations
(source) We usually think of human rights violations as a harm inflicted by one person on another, by the state on some of its citizens, by companies on citizens etc. And that’s indeed the natural way to think of them. … Continue reading
Political Graffiti (60): Fight War, Not Wars
More on war. More anti-war graffiti here and here. More political graffiti in general here.
