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Feral
Post subject:   PostPosted: Sep 20, 2007 - 08:37 AM



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oh my

such... drama.

Why so much drama?

This is an unlicensed use of drama.

Really... drama should be saved up for... I don't know... something dramatic.

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Feral
Post subject:   PostPosted: Sep 20, 2007 - 12:31 PM



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Found this while traipsing from one link to another this morning --

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Psychologists have some theories about how the experience of racism plays out in the brain—and what that means today compared to before. All human beings are driven by a few core needs, including the need to understand the world around us. When people do things to us, we must know why, and if we are uncertain we will spend whatever cognitive power we have available to diagnose the situation.

The problem is that we have limited cognitive resources, so when we are solving one problem, we have difficulty focusing on another at the same time. Some psychologists reason from this that subtle racism might actually be more, not less, damaging than the plain antipathy of yesterday, sapping more mental energy. Old-fashioned racism—a “No Negroes Allowed” sign, for example—is hateful and hurtful, but it’s not vague or confusing. It doesn’t require much cognitive work to get it. But if you’re the most qualified candidate for a job, and know it, and still don’t get the job for some undisclosed reason—that demands some processing.

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As reported in the September issue of Psychological Science, black volunteers who had witnessed unfair but ambiguous hiring decisions did much less well on the Stroop test, suggesting that they were using all their mental resources to make sense of the unfairness. Interestingly, white volunteers were more impaired by overt racism than by the more ambiguous discrimination. Salvatore and Shelton figure this is because whites rarely experience any racism; they do not even notice the subtle forms of racism, and are thrown off balance when they are hit over the head by overt acts. Many blacks, by contrast, have developed coping strategies for the most hateful kinds of racism; it’s the constant, vague, just-below-the-surface acts of racism that impair performance, day in and day out.


Cognitive resources are cognitive resources, so it seems self-evident that the findings will have some relevance to the experience of homophobia (among other things) as well.

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Post subject:   PostPosted: Sep 20, 2007 - 10:39 PM



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Oppression changes the oppressed AND the oppressor. Nice to know my professors were right. But do we really need a study to understand this? It doesn't take too many cognitive resources to figure this one out.

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vanrozenheim
Post subject:   PostPosted: Sep 23, 2007 - 09:05 PM
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Israeli arrested in Lebanon a convert to Islam, not a spy
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An Israeli man arrested in Lebanon on suspicion of involvement in murder and espionage owes his plight to his fascination with the Arab world and his trusting nature, relatives and acquaintances said Sunday.
Daniel Sharon, 32, who holds German and Israeli citizenship, converted to Islam years ago and had a special passion for Lebanon _ an enemy country where Israelis have been kidnapped and held in the past, they said.

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Sharon, who entered Lebanon on his German passport, told police his visits to Lebanon were for tourism and that he was a homosexual who had relationships with Lebanese men, according to the report.
Because Israelis are not allowed to visit Lebanon, Sharon was immediately suspect and was transferred to military police.
A friend of Sharon's, Maram Hamud, an Israeli Arab lawyer, dismissed the possibility that Sharon was spying for Israel.
Hamud described Sharon as someone who «loves Arabic and Islamic culture very much» and spends most of his time outside of Israel, mainly in the Gulf nation of Dubai.
Hamud said Sharon was the son of divorced parents, a homosexual who «feels comfortable» in Lebanon and who recently started going by the last name «Trabilsi» _ meaning someone who hails from the Lebanese city of Tripoli.
«There is something childlike about him,» Hamud said, explaining that children «do what they like to do, without giving it much thought. They're not calculated.


How careless of the man. Being 32 and still that much infantile... Well, it can have plusses, too.

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vanrozenheim
Post subject:   PostPosted: Sep 27, 2007 - 12:09 AM
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That's just too sweet...
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Popular homosexual musician Elton John, who regularly promotes homosexuality and has said he would ban Christianity, may be in hot water as police have seized one of his pieces of "art" on suspicion of breaching child pornography laws. According to media reports police seized the photographic image from an art gallery in Tyneside.

Apart from promoting homosexuality, John has expressed his contempt for Christianity. In an August 2006 interview Elton John said, "I think religion has always tried to turn hatred towards gay people. Religion promotes the hatred and spite against gays. But there are so many Christian people I know who are gay and love their religion . . ."


Those "apart from promoting homosexuality" really made me roll around with laughter below of my desk. Poor Sir Elton, now some people are really sour with him. Those hatemongers from LifeSite.net are very industrious in spreading their propaganda, respect. They really are back-breaking in their efforts to make as many little babies populate this world.

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Feral
Post subject:   PostPosted: Sep 28, 2007 - 07:43 AM



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Oh my....

Pro-family group quits gay marriage fight


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Dave Quist, executive director of the Institute of Marriage and Family Canada, said Thursday he has become less concerned about same-sex marriage since census figures released earlier this month demonstrated how rare gay marriage is.


What? This guy thought maybe all the straight boys were going to run out and grab themselves a beau hunk and tie the knot just because they could? Just what are they putting in that moose juice up there anyway... Everclear?

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vanrozenheim
Post subject:   PostPosted: Sep 29, 2007 - 02:16 AM
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Feral wrote:
What? This guy thought maybe all the straight boys were going to run out and grab themselves a beau hunk and tie the knot just because they could?


No, no -- you got it totally wrong. What those "pro-family" folks were fearing was that all the latently homosexual boys would stop marrying females and instead turn self-conscious Gays. Apparently, their fears were baseless, since there are still huge numbers of those poor souls who recognize their true nature late in life.

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