1. 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.

    Juan Cole, 08/09/2012   (via thepeacefulterrorist)

    Juan Cole actually wrote this 4 days after a white terrorist, yes, terrorist, murdered 6 and injured 4 people at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin. The terrorist who committed said crime spoke of an impending “racial holy war” beforehand and was a member of white supremacist/neo-Nazi hate groups.

    (via mohandasgandhi)

    ataxiwardance: I’m not always a fan of Juan Cole, but his point about disparate popular representation of terrorist violence is as obvious as it is worth repeating.

  2. ‘I bear my scars with dignity,’ says 15-year-old Ylva Schwenke, ‘because I got them standing for something I believe in.’
One Day in History - in pictures

Photographer Andrea Gjestvang’s poignant portraits of survivors of the Utøya massacre in Norway in November 2011 have won her the top prize at the Sony World Photography awards

Fifteen years old. So strong.

    I bear my scars with dignity,’ says 15-year-old Ylva Schwenke, ‘because I got them standing for something I believe in.

    One Day in History - in pictures

    Photographer Andrea Gjestvang’s poignant portraits of survivors of the Utøya massacre in Norway in November 2011 have won her the top prize at the Sony World Photography awards

    Fifteen years old. So strong.

  3. jhermann:

Teju Cole continues to devastate in 140 characters or less.
ProPublica: Everything we know so far about drone strikes
jhermann:

Teju Cole continues to devastate in 140 characters or less.
ProPublica: Everything we know so far about drone strikes
jhermann:

Teju Cole continues to devastate in 140 characters or less.
ProPublica: Everything we know so far about drone strikes

    jhermann:

    Teju Cole continues to devastate in 140 characters or less.

    ProPublica: Everything we know so far about drone strikes

  4. israelfacts:

Twelve Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli rocket attack
In the single deadliest attack of the Israeli operation so far, 12 civilians were killed in Sunday’s air attack on a four-storey house in northern Gaza City, health officials said.
Two or three missiles fired by F-16 fighter jets reduced the house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood to rubble, witnesses said.
Five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children were among the dead, spokesperson of the health ministry Ashraf al-Kidra said.
Al Jazeera

A hidden wound. A deep ache.  israelfacts:

Twelve Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli rocket attack
In the single deadliest attack of the Israeli operation so far, 12 civilians were killed in Sunday’s air attack on a four-storey house in northern Gaza City, health officials said.
Two or three missiles fired by F-16 fighter jets reduced the house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood to rubble, witnesses said.
Five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children were among the dead, spokesperson of the health ministry Ashraf al-Kidra said.
Al Jazeera

A hidden wound. A deep ache.  israelfacts:

Twelve Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli rocket attack
In the single deadliest attack of the Israeli operation so far, 12 civilians were killed in Sunday’s air attack on a four-storey house in northern Gaza City, health officials said.
Two or three missiles fired by F-16 fighter jets reduced the house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood to rubble, witnesses said.
Five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children were among the dead, spokesperson of the health ministry Ashraf al-Kidra said.
Al Jazeera

A hidden wound. A deep ache.  israelfacts:

Twelve Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli rocket attack
In the single deadliest attack of the Israeli operation so far, 12 civilians were killed in Sunday’s air attack on a four-storey house in northern Gaza City, health officials said.
Two or three missiles fired by F-16 fighter jets reduced the house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood to rubble, witnesses said.
Five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children were among the dead, spokesperson of the health ministry Ashraf al-Kidra said.
Al Jazeera

A hidden wound. A deep ache.  israelfacts:

Twelve Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli rocket attack
In the single deadliest attack of the Israeli operation so far, 12 civilians were killed in Sunday’s air attack on a four-storey house in northern Gaza City, health officials said.
Two or three missiles fired by F-16 fighter jets reduced the house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood to rubble, witnesses said.
Five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children were among the dead, spokesperson of the health ministry Ashraf al-Kidra said.
Al Jazeera

A hidden wound. A deep ache.  israelfacts:

Twelve Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli rocket attack
In the single deadliest attack of the Israeli operation so far, 12 civilians were killed in Sunday’s air attack on a four-storey house in northern Gaza City, health officials said.
Two or three missiles fired by F-16 fighter jets reduced the house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood to rubble, witnesses said.
Five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children were among the dead, spokesperson of the health ministry Ashraf al-Kidra said.
Al Jazeera

A hidden wound. A deep ache.  israelfacts:

Twelve Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli rocket attack
In the single deadliest attack of the Israeli operation so far, 12 civilians were killed in Sunday’s air attack on a four-storey house in northern Gaza City, health officials said.
Two or three missiles fired by F-16 fighter jets reduced the house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood to rubble, witnesses said.
Five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children were among the dead, spokesperson of the health ministry Ashraf al-Kidra said.
Al Jazeera

A hidden wound. A deep ache. 

    israelfacts:

    Twelve Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli rocket attack

    In the single deadliest attack of the Israeli operation so far, 12 civilians were killed in Sunday’s air attack on a four-storey house in northern Gaza City, health officials said.

    Two or three missiles fired by F-16 fighter jets reduced the house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood to rubble, witnesses said.

    Five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children were among the dead, spokesperson of the health ministry Ashraf al-Kidra said.

    Al Jazeera

    A hidden wound. A deep ache. 

  5. I must remind you that starving a child is violence. Suppressing a culture is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Punishing a mother and her family is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ghetto housing is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Contempt for poverty is violence.

    — Coretta Scott King (via theyoungradical)

  6. newshour:

Won’t you be my neighbor? Monday at the RNC, protestors and police converged. Photo by Mallory Benedict.

Love that sign.

    newshour:

    Won’t you be my neighbor? Monday at the RNC, protestors and police convergedPhoto by Mallory Benedict.

    Love that sign.

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