Tag: civil rights
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Terrorists Strike on American Soil
Ahmed Mohamed was arrested for making a hoax bomb. That’s the official reason for his arrest. But that’s not why he was arrested. The why of why he was arrested is a little more complicated, but it boils down pretty succinctly to bigotry, xenophobia, and terrorism. Let’s get a few things straight, this wasn’t a…
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Pretty Good Week, Right?
Weeks like this don’t come along very often. Victory after victory after victory, with barely enough time to breathe in between, and most of them coming from a recently suspect Supreme Court. States don’t have to allow hate symbols on license plates Southern arch-conservatives saying it’s time to take down the traitor flag a decision…
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Is it safe to come out now?
Back just before the election (October 26th, to be exact), one of my favorite political cartoonists, Matt Bors, published this cartoon: Matt was running a Kickstarter to raise money for an upcoming book at the time, and one of the donors, someone he considered a friend, retracted his $250 donation and cut off contact over…