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And so, national security is diametrically opposed to human security
Lets see. Critical Security Studies has been a prime interest since I was 16 years old and running the Terror Talk/Threat Construction Kritik at policy debate tournaments. I won rounds solely on the...
View ArticleTackling the anti-DREAM Act rhetoric
Most of the online news articles referring to the DREAM Act and undocumented students are marked with anti-illegal immigration comments ranging from "illegal is illegal" to "they are criminals, deport...
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Marking The Anniversary of 'Illegal Immigration'
May 6, 1882 is the date for the birth of ‘illegal immigration.’ Like most social concerns that are only deemed as a ‘problem’ when it benefits the state, the immigration of Chinese laborers to the...
View ArticleThe flawed logic of either/or – Creating spaces for intervention
black/white, straight/gay, women/men, left/right, us/them, American/Un-American, nativist/humanist, legal/illegal, liberal/conservative anti-corporate/anti-labor, capitalism/communist, butch/femme,...
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Wall Street Collapse? Another Crisis of Capitalism
data-recalc-dims="1"> I wish I had the ability to be shocked when I hear about a ‘deep crisis’ that can cause staggering losses (a cyclical crisis of capitalism), a $700 billion bailout for private...
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The Perversion of Tolerance – I Don't want to be 'Tolerated' and neither...
Tolerance is intolerant and demands assimilation. —Herman Broch, cited in the Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria Conversely, what is proclaimed and practiced as tolerance today, is in many of its most...
View Article'Anti-Illegal Immigration' is a euphemism for Anti-Immigrant
“So if the government designates a term [alien] for a group of people, I don’t see what makes it pejorative…” -NumbersUSA Uh-huh, similarly, when the state labels people as ‘Gooks’ and ‘Niggers,’...
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Moving Beyond the “Illegal Immigrant”
Yesterday, the Associated Press announced that it would stop using the phrase “illegal immigrant” to describe an individual present in the US illegally, or who entered the country without proper...
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