"I know in your mind you can think of times when America was attacked. One is December 7th, that’s Pearl Harbor day. The other is September 11th, and that’s the day of the terrorist attack. I want you to remember August the 1st, 2012, the attack on our religious freedom. That is a day that will live in infamy, along with those other dates."
Congressman Mike Kelly, on why mandatory coverage of birth control is similar to tragedies that killed thousands of Americans. (via theatlantic)
#Politics
#Birth control
#Health care
#News
#WTF
#This is why I'm a misanthropist
#women
#rights
#feminism
(via theatlantic)
What in the actual fuck. Anonymous, you better be behind this. Somehow. Please.
Not the Onion.Fox Nation with an… alternative point of view.
"Opponents of marriage equality have never been able to show any evidence that any harm is caused to heterosexual marriages by granting all American adults the right to marry as they choose — because there is no such evidence. With little more than a week to go before the May 8 contest, and early voting already under way, North Carolinians need to consider whether they really want to inflict this gratuitous bigotry on their fellow citizens and their children."
#gay rights
#marriage
#USA
#this is why i'm a misanthropist
"Who thinks it’s cool to bully nuns? While continuing to heal and educate, the community of sisters is aging and dying out because few younger women are willing to make such sacrifices for a church determined to bring women to heel. Yet the nuns must be yanked into line by the crepuscular, medieval men who run the Catholic Church. “It’s not terribly unlike the days of yore when they singled out people in the rough days of the Inquisition,” said Kenneth Briggs, the author of “Double Crossed: Uncovering the Catholic Church’s Betrayal of American Nuns.” How can the church hierarchy be more offended by the nuns’ impassioned advocacy for the poor than by priests’ sordid pedophilia?"
#catholic church
#religion
#vatican
#women
#This is why I'm a misanthropist
"The actress Amandla Stenberg literally looks like a tiny angel, but this movie-goer equates blonde with innocence. A little black girl is not automatically innocent, no. Only a little white girl. Actually, only a blonde. The posts go on and on and on. It’s not just a coupe of tweets, it’s not just a coincidence. There’s an underlying rage, coming out as overt prejudice and plain old racism. Sternberg is called a “black bitch,” a “nigger” and one person writes that though he pictured Rue with “darker skin,” he “didn’t really take it all the way to black.” It’s as if that is the worst possible thing a person could be."
#This is why I'm a misanthropist
#hunger games
#WTF
#racism
#race
#Twitter
#tumblr
#Social media
"People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress,” said Alan Dlugash, a partner at accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York who specializes in financial planning for the wealthy. “Could you imagine what it’s like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?"
#completely tone deaf
#exorbitant privilege
#finance
#owe
#this is why i'm a misanthropist
#wall street
#ows
"Wilders sells xenophobia. His main product line, Muslim-bashing, is going out of fashion. He has spotted the next trend in western European xenophobia: bashing of eastern and southern Europeans. That hostility is now passing from newspaper headlines into daily life, and looks set to worsen."
#FT
#Simon Kuper
#racism
#xenophobia
#islamophobia
#immigration
#Europe
#this is why I'm a misanthropist
