#52 On reasons for selection
Dear Jamie Damn it man all I wanted was an exact explanation of the hierarchy of value boiled down into a sentence or two. What good are you? I’d like
Tag: religion
I blame the victim blamers
Don’t blame the victim and don’t blame the perpetrator. I call out victim blaming wherever I see it. Obviously in rape culture the phrase denotes people who offer reasons that women
SEASON 2, 2015 – Foreword
The fact that some satirists were murdered for drawing cartoons about Islam had a particular resonance for us: some of you might know why. Shockingly, a fair fraction of commentators
PA: Charlie Hebdo — Nothing to do with religion
÷ Religion had nothing to do with the Paris attacks ÷ A commonly issued qualification following the IS beheadings and the Paris attacks was that they were not about religion.
Ye be judged
It’s both impossible and stupid to not judge others. This is too obvious for words, except that I repeatedly find myself being accused1)Somewhat judgementally. of “judging people” as though it were the
Islamophobic? Maybe
There is a significant overlap between those who criticise Islam and those who have a cultural fear of Middle Eastern Muslim migrants. The latter is surely what people mean when they speak of Islamophobia:
What’s the worst that could happen?
Well, thinking in quantitative terms, maybe we can actually figure out the literal worst thing that could happen. First, assuming that each person can experience some pretty bad stuff, on
Jamie’s graduation speech
I was given the chance — surprisingly — to give the student speech at my graduation ceremony on the 20th of December. I submitted a version of my speech for