April 2012
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March 2012
9 posts
What good is being smart if you're not GOOD at...
almost done.: Affirmative Action sucks. →
needle-girl:
It’s just reverse racism. Equality will only come if we start judging everyone by the content of their character and not by their ethnicity or gender. If a man is more fit for a job than I am and we both applied for it, he should get it. That is what is right and fair and just.
There is no such thing as “reverse racism,” just so you know. Racism is defined as the belief that...
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“The Jadavs live on a pavement under a bridge that spans a busy highway in suburban Mumbai. There are nine of them and a dog called Rani. Their shelter is made out of cement sacks held up by sticks purloined from construction sites…Everyone else sleeps in the open. To protect themselves from rats, the family swaddles itself in blankets. They also keep a bamboo pole handy. Despite...
“The color of one’s creed, neckties, eyes, thoughts, manners, speech, is sure to...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lectures on Literature (via fsgbooks)
shout out to chapel hill, nc
scottfriday:
to whoever bought a shirt last night. that’s an extra buck o nine in my pocket.
That was me! Yay.
