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Monthly Archives: November 2010
Racist Stereotypes, A Collection of Images
It was and still is quite common to see non-whites depicted as dumb, evil, lazy, poor, cannibalistic, uncivilized and un-Christian savages with stuff sticking through their noses. Or as odd-looking servants, comical figures, dimwitted people scared of ghosts (and turning … Continue reading
Posted in discrimination and hate, equality, human rights images, photography and journalism
Tagged African American, animalization, bestiality, big lips, discrimination, Jezebel stereotype, mammy stereotype, monkey, obama, prejudice, racial superiority, racism, representations of blacks, Sapphire stereotype, savages, stereotypes
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Hypocracy, a New Form of Government
No, it’s not the common misspelling of hypocrisy. It’s a neologism formed by combining the words hypocrisy and autocracy, describing what I believe to be a typically modern form of authoritarian government that does not want to speak its name. … Continue reading
Posted in democracy, freedom, governance, philosophy
Tagged Authoritarianism, autocracy, form of government, hypocracy, hypocrisy, idi amin, iraq, medvedev, putinism, Russia, saddam hussein, twitter
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Capital Punishment (29): In Japan
Japan currently has 107 inmates on death row, and no pardon is allowed. From 2000 to 2009, Japan sentenced 112 people to death and executed 46. … Japan … has a 99 percent conviction rate. … Inmates on death row … Continue reading
Posted in capital punishment, data, law
Tagged Crime and Justice, death penalty, execution, human rights, japan
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Political Graffiti (123): Total Crisis Panic Button
(source) More on terrorism. More political graffiti.
Posted in art, political graffiti
Tagged graffiti, guerilla art, political street art, street art
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Human Rights Maps (104): Human Development Index, Migration and Borders
If you’re not familiar with the Human Development Index, go here first. In essence, the HDI combines measures of life expectancy, literacy, educational attainment, and GDP per capita for countries or regions. When checking differences in HDI scores between countries … Continue reading
Posted in citizenship, data, economics, globalization, human rights maps, international relations, poverty, statistics, work
Tagged border, china, development, economic migrants, HDI, human development index, human rights, life expectancy, map, maps, migration, open borders, prosperity, u.s., wealth
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Measuring Poverty (12): The Experimental Method
(source, photo by Richard Sclove) The so-called experimental method of poverty measurement is akin to the subjective approach. Rather than measuring poverty on the basis of objective economic numbers about income or consumption the experimental method uses people’s subjective evaluation … Continue reading
Human Rights Nonsense (20): Playing to the Gallery for Women’s Rights
(source) On the same day the country’s [Bulgaria's] defense minister lifted its ban on women serving on submarines, the parliament voted to mothball the country’s only submarine. It’s the thought that counts, I guess. (source) More human rights nonsense here. … Continue reading
Posted in discrimination and hate, equality, human rights nonsense, war
Tagged army, gender discrimination, nonsense, soldiers, submarines, women's rights
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Migration and Human Rights (35): The Economic Benefits of Immigration, Ctd.
(source, photo by Daquella Manera) In two previous posts (here and here), I offered some evidence debunking the populist claim that immigration is bad for the economic wellbeing of (parts of) the native population (a claim that’s based on fears … Continue reading
Posted in citizenship, data, economics, education, globalization, international relations, law, poverty, work
Tagged anti-immigration, education, employment, illegal immigration, immigration restrictions, importing poverty, Labour economics, migration, open borders, United States, welfare tourism
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Human Rights Maps (103): Democracy in Africa
The Economist Intelligence Unit Index of Democracy measures five general categories: free and fair election process civil liberties functioning of government political participation political culture (see also Wikipedia) Countries are ranked on a scale between 0 and 10, with 10 … Continue reading
Posted in data, democracy, globalization, human rights maps, international relations, statistics
Tagged africa, african democracy, democracy index, Election, human rights, map, maps
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Gender Discrimination (23): Reverse Gender Discrimination in Criminal Justice
Using data obtained from the United States Sentencing Commission’s records, we examine whether there exists any gender-based bias in criminal sentencing decisions. … Our results indicate that women receive more lenient sentences even after controlling for circumstances such as the … Continue reading
