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abaldwin360:

NEW YORK (Bullion Bulls Canada) — In writing about the relentless collapse of Western economies, I frequently point to “40 years of plummeting wages” for Western workers, in real dollars. However, where I have been remiss is in quantifying the magnitude of this collapse in…

stfuconservatives:

A new report says that although national teen pregnancy rates are the lowest they’ve ever been (or at least since they started tracking them in 1940), states that have abstinence-only sex “education” have higher rates than states where schools teach you about condoms and stuff.

Can we just declare abstinence-only education a failure and a sham and be done with it?

-Jess

jasencomstock:

This is why it is a waste: the grasstops leaders of the LGBT community are fairly wealthy white males, who happen to be gay, who live in an urban environment and are chomping at the fucking bit to drop the pretense of progressive and inclusive politics and join their Republican Brothers in shitting all over everyone else. 

Instead of prompting a national dialogue and soul-searching on this important topic, the reaction to the shooting of Martin by a neighborhood watch patrolman, George Zimmerman, has focused instead on questions of racial bias. Reckless pot-stirring by ambulance-chasing zealots like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, along with typically lazy and even deliberately inaccurate reporting by the mainstream media have stoked racial tensions while ignoring the problem of gun proliferation. Jackson told the L.A. Times that the case is an embarrassment to white America, ignoring Zimmerman’s Hispanic ancestry. Sharpton masquerades as a TV journalist for MSNBC while leading rallies demanding that Zimmerman be arrested.

LGBT people and black Americans are no strangers to these horrifying crime statistics — both groups are disproportionately impacted by hate crimes. But the focus on race, which was largely triggered by NBC News’s doctored 911 recording for which a producer was fired last week, is a distraction that pumps up cable ratings and generates lots of heat, but no light.

Adding to the toxic and dangerous reaction: celebrities and their vapid Twitter commentary. Director Spike Lee re-Tweeted Zimmerman’s home address, but got it wrong and an innocent retired couple residing there was forced to move out to avoid a vigilante mob. Correcting Lee’s error, Roseanne Barr then Tweeted the correct address for Zimmerman’s parents and later apologized for promoting the same sort of vigilante-ism that purportedly killed Martin.

Not to be left out of all the bandwagon posturing, the nation’s leading LGBT advocacy groups belatedly leapt into the fray on April 2 — 36 days after the shooting — to draw parallels between black and LGBT crime victims and express solidarity with Martin’s family.

Anyway, everything is awful. Thanks Kevin Naff, you turd.

This “us versus them” rhetoric implies that the LGBT victims are white, which couldn’t be farther from the truth considering that LGBT people of color are the victims of the most severe and deadly hate violence.  What Naff fails to acknowledge is that our “hate crime martyrs” are overwhelming people of color, be they straight or LGBT.  Among them are Brandon White, Deoni Jones, and Robert Champion, young queer people of color who were recently attacked and murdered simply because of who they were.  It’s worth noting that Naff himself has yet to write about any of them despite his chiding about the lack of coverage of LGBT hate crimes in recent weeks.

We agree with Naff that many questions about the case remain unanswered, and that Florida’s ridiculous so-called “Stand Your Ground” law played a central role in the killing.  At the same time, however, it is mind-boggling to us that Naff decided to use his position and power to lash out against those of us who signed the statement, while ignoring the fact that race-based hate crimes destroy the lives of both black and LGBT people.  His attempt to pit homophobia and race-based oppressions against one another helps no one and further drives a wedge between the black and gay communities.