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Why Exactly Is Chris Christie Subverting Mitt Romney? - Politics - The Atlantic

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Infographic: The Enormous Racial Gap in Political Reporting

A stunning 93 percent of front-page election news stories are written by white reporters.

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It’s Funny Because We’re White - Politics - The Atlantic

buzzfeed:

barackobama:

And that means the first presidential debate is tonight at 9pm ET. We’ll be watching at barackobama.com/debate, featuring a livestream, a live blog, and a few other live things, probably. See you there.

Guys, we’re living in a world where the President of the United States is communicating with us via Mean Girls GIFs and that’s pretty darn neat!

ryking:

Google Politics (@googlepolitics): “When @BarackObama’s #DNC2012 speech ended at 11:03 p.m. ET, @google searches for “register to vote” doubled nationwide. #googlepolitics”

Wow.

(Source: diadoumenos, via theatlantic)

Pankaj Mishra, author of the excellent anti-imperialism book From the Ruins of Empire, responds to those criticizing his book for being “polemicist.”

A brilliant conversation between Mishra and Tabish Khair can be read here.

This is the republic in the age of the Internet, an ersatz exchange between different types of power: political power (Paul Ryan himself); creative (University of Wisconsin grad student Danielle Henderson, who first matched an image of Ryan Gosling to the algorithm “Hey girl, [pro-feminist comment]”); what we might call creatively distributional power (the thousands who made all sorts of other Ryan Gosling jokes); and the physically distributional (the pilot today who strapped the banner to his or her plane and took off into the air, to fly above Paul Ryan himself).

(via Banner Above Paul Ryan-Led Event: ‘Hey Girl, Choose Me, Lose Choice—P. Ryan’ - Technology - The Atlantic)

veryethnic:

1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”

2. White terrorists are “troubled loners.” Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.

3. Doing a study on the danger of white terrorists at the Department of Homeland Security will get you sidelined by angry white Congressmen. Doing studies on other kinds of terrorists is a guaranteed promotion.

4. The family of a white terrorist is interviewed, weeping as they wonder where he went wrong. The families of other terrorists are almost never interviewed.

5. White terrorists are part of a “fringe.” Other terrorists are apparently mainstream.

6. White terrorists are random events, like tornadoes. Other terrorists are long-running conspiracies.

7. White terrorists are never called “white.” But other terrorists are given ethnic affiliations.

8. Nobody thinks white terrorists are typical of white people. But other terrorists are considered paragons of their societies.

9. White terrorists are alcoholics, addicts or mentally ill. Other terrorists are apparently clean-living and perfectly sane.

10. There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control won’t stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other terrorists.

(via: http://www.juancole.com/2012/08/top-ten-differences-between-white-terrorists-and-others.html)

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