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Monthly Archives: January 2010
Racism (11): Race and Employment, Ctd.
Some more information related to racism in employment in the U.S. (see this previous post on racism in employment decisions, employment rates, education levels and poverty levels). This study shows that black men without a criminal record are less likely … Continue reading
Posted in discrimination and hate, law, racism, work
Tagged crime, criminal record, incarceration, prison, racism, unemployment, unemployment and race
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Terrorism and Human Rights (26): Is Terrorism Caused by Unemployment?
(source, more Banksy here) I don’t think I need to spell out the ways in which terrorism is a human rights issue (beyond the obvious violations of the human rights of the direct victims of terrorism there are serious human rights implications of the … Continue reading
Posted in economics, poverty, terror, war, work
Tagged banksy, causation, causes of terrorism, coin, correlation, insurgency, radicalization, terrorism, unemployment, violence, war on terror, war on terrorism
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Crime and Human Rights (8): Corporal Punishment and Capital Punishment
(source) In all fairness to the U.S.: contrary to corporal punishment in many Islamic countries, capital punishment in the U.S., although disgusting, is the result of a more or less fair judicial trial* and the punishment for horrendous crimes only. … Continue reading
Posted in human rights and crime, law
Tagged clash of civilisations, corporal punishment, crime, death penalty, fair trial, islam, punishment, state violence, u.s., violence
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Political Jokes & Funny Quotes (70): Problems in the Middle East
I hesitated to post this, since it can be construed as racist. So, just to be on the safe side: no racism intended (regular readers can confirm), and they are in trouble. Something more on Israel and Palestine. More political … Continue reading
Posted in comedy, political jokes and funny quotes, war
Tagged israel, joke, middle east, palestine, quote
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The Most Absurd Human Rights Violations (25): The Crime of Wearing Trousers
(source) A news story from a few weeks ago: A Sudanese woman who wore pants in public was fined the equivalent of $200 but spared a whipping on Monday when a court found her guilty of violating Sudan’s decency laws. The woman, … Continue reading
Truth vs Reasonableness in Politics
Some will disagree, but I believe that many of the important questions in politics, society and morality aren’t matters of truth, knowledge and certainty. For example, it isn’t “true”, in any sense of the word, that justice means the equal distribution … Continue reading
Posted in philosophy
Tagged knowledge, moral intuitionism, moral realism, moral skepticism, morality, nihilism, opinion, participation, politics, publicity, reason, reasonableness, science, truth, tyranny of the majority
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Human Rights Maps (77): Hate Groups in the U.S.
(source/source, click on the image to enlarge) And this is the number relative to the population size of each state: (source) There’s also an interactive version of the first map here, where you can find more information on the groups … Continue reading
Posted in discrimination and hate, human rights maps
Tagged hate, hate crime, hate speech, human rights, human rights maps, kkk, map, mapping, maps, nazism, racism
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Political Graffiti (81): No To Media Monopolies
Here, here and here are some more descriptive posts on the freedom of the press. More political graffiti.
Posted in freedom, political graffiti
Tagged free press, free speech, freedom of the press, monopoly, political graffiti, politics, press freedom
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What is Democracy? (50): Something of the West, Not For Us, Thank You, and the I-Did-It-My-Way Syndrome
(source) In discussions about the promotion of democracy in those parts of the world where it hasn’t been (firmly) established yet, the sceptical side of the argument usually advances either or both of the following positions: Democracy is a political … Continue reading
Posted in culture, democracy, freedom, globalization, governance, international relations, intervention, law, poverty, what is democracy?
Tagged african democracy, asian democracy, democracy promotion, democratic imperialism, gender equality, harmony, imperialism, islam, muslim, preconditions, prerequisites, rule of law, separation of church and state, stability, west
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