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    KILL ALL THE MONSTERS!!

    TweetThe old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time of monsters.” Antonio Gramsci A few weeks ago, a 71-year-old man stabbed a 6-year-old boy 26 times and injured his mother while shouting, “You Muslims Must Die.” The victim, Wadea Al-Fayoume, was a Palestinian American who loved his family, soccer, and basketball. The alleged killer, Joseph Czuba, was not a stranger or a distraught drifter; he was the landlord of the building where the young Wadea lived, had a good relationship with the boy’s family, even building a treehouse for Wadea, bringing him toys, and allowing him to swim in a makeshift pool.…

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    THE IRANIAN PROTEST AND THE REVOLT OF THE HAREM!

    TweetExtensive media coverage of the Iranian women’s protest after the killing of young Mahsa Amini in the Kurdish town of Saqqez has painted the protest as a revolt against the hijab. Iranian women are rising against the hijab, we’re told in headlines, with images of hijab burning flashing all over the western media — no context, no history. In this reductive and oversimplified narrative there is little mention of minorities’ rights or the economic hardship that Iranians have endured for years. “Nothing warm my heart like seeing women burning the hijab,” thundered a headline from Indian Time, coming from a country where lots of men cover their hair. Iranians have…

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    WHOOPI WAS WRONG ABOUT RACE, BUT HOW WRONG WAS SHE?

    TweetLet’s Talk about Race! When Mr. Schultz founder of Starbucks asked America to have a conversation about race nobody was interested in, the rich white billionaire explained why his “Race Together “camping failed. “”I’m not black, I haven’t lived a life in which I was racially profiled, and I wasn’t discriminated against because of the color of my skin,”. Americans have a hard time talking about race and racism; they don’t even want to teach it in schools. However, when a rich black woman expressed her view on a TV show called “The Views,” everybody raced to talk about it. Whoopi Goldberg’s comments triggered an avalanche of debate discussions filling…

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