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...country must run features like this anytime the U.S. government openly contemplates a military action, police action or "freedom fight" abroad. If we think we understand enough about a nation to know what is best for it, then we ought to be able to look its ordinary citizens straight in the eyes before killing them for their own good. And please spare those people speeches about how it is only their government we hate, not them. If the whole world operated by that standard, Prime Minister Tony Blair's Britain and President George W. Bush's U.S. would have been...
...paying 40 grand for...it seems that one parent, eager to get the authentic experience, partied so hard at Purimpalooza that he/she was found passed out in the basement and UHS had to be called in...A group of juniors, ready to let loose after playing it straight for the parents, boarded the shuttle ready to rage. Unfortunately for them, their foul mouths were overheard by one student’s mom and her bevy of parent friends. Nothing says educated like the phrase “let’s get fuck-tarded”...A Hist & Lit senior...
...goes without saying, of course, that we are “post-homophobic” (or—and here I must give credit to blockmate Jeremy Hartman—“PoHoMoPho”). Simply put, for me it is a given that the value my straight-boy friends place on me has fundamentally nothing to do with my being gay. And while my closest friends can find humor in nearly any idiot’s prejudice, they are also with it enough to separate what is hateful (and therefore unfunny) from what is…well, funny...
...clear that this person saw me primarily as a clownish little faggot, instead of as Ben, and that she stupidly fancied herself a forward-thinking person because she could like me not just despite, but for my lovable gayness. Similarly, I have some straight friends who, having several gay friends and being politically liberal, feel they’ve cleared their names enough to indulge in “ironically” anti-gay humor, which often consists of simply referencing a person’s homosexuality, but without actually forming a witticism...
...post-racist humor, like any humor, only really sizzles when you have something funny to say; if you don’t, you’ll probably just end up showing off an ugly side of yourself that is a little too interested in parsing people into gay and straight, white and not-white. That’s the tendency that the Bad People find so repulsive—what they implicitly assume is contained in all humor that hints at homophobia, racism, sexism, genderism, etc. When they find it where it really exists, though...