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...Could society possibly arrive at a point where race had no effect on meaning? Perhaps, but it is hard to imagine that racist language could still exist in such a color-blind world. In the mean time, racism is unequal because language is unequal, and the offensiveness of what you say depends both on the color of your skin and the content of your character...
...Ultimately, this new approach could bring an end to socially conservative agenda. By resorting to these new groovy hip tricks—in this case, sexing up the anti-sex movement—bearers of socially conservative messages are, to a degree, betraying their own causes. The worst effect of this is that it is to suggest that an established value cannot be maintained in modernity unless it takes on the style and rhetoric of its counter-movement. If an old value cannot be sustained through historical memory, there must be an extremely compelling reason—beyond...
...board, and USA Today reports that you would have to drive an SUV for a month to emit as much CO2 as a jetliner emits per person on a New York to Denver flight. And because jetliners emit these greenhouse gasses high in the atmosphere, their heat-trapping effect is greatly magnified...
What’s even more worrisome is that when transatlantic air-travel is deregulated under the “Open Skies” treaty, which comes into effect in less than a year, traffic across the pond could increase by as much as 55 percent, according to estimates published in USA Today. The treaty will enable airlines to apply the ultra-cheap model to much longer, more heavily polluting flights...
...grand visions of the world,” he says. “I have a lot of faith in the power of art. I love theater people and artists. I want to help them on an ideological level. I want to help them so that they can effect change in society through art. I want to help them do that...