This insular ‘naval gazing’ by the West is typical of its imperial and colonial past, and its a priori assumption that it – and it alone – possesses any culture worth having.
Category: Human Interest
Anything that does not fit into to any of the other specific categories and is of general interest!
RIP Chinese Victims of Elliot Rodger (2014)
Whereas Barbara Walters spent hours on CBS quizzing Peter Rodger – the families of the Chinese victims were treated as second class citizens, being given a short-time to express their grief and generally treated with disrespect.
Elliot Rodger (Re-Visited) Misogyny
Why did he not simply embrace his gayness? He did not embrace his gayness because his middle class upbringing taught him to despise homosexuality in general. When I review the following interview with Peter Rodger, I see a an eerily ‘detached’ privileged White man playing to the cameras and simply defending his own reputation through spin and sound-bites – after-all – he is a film director.
Free Ross Ulbricht (18.3.2017)
Ross Ulbricht created a computer programme outside of governmental control – how did the Obama administration respond? Ross was sentenced to life imprisonment without parole. Land of the free indeed!
The Last Bookstore – Unusual ‘Elisa Lam’ Email (Thursday, March 16, 2017 09:28)
Although referring to themselves as ‘L.L.’ (probably mistaking ‘Elisa Lam’ for ‘Lisa Lam’), they sent this email to me through ‘https://emkei.cz’, a site that offers ‘Free online fake mailer with attachments, encryption, HTML editor and advanced settings…’, apparently based in the Czech Republic.
Elliot Rodger: Bourgeois Excess, Racism, Mental Illness & Self-Hating Gayness
‘Full Asian men are disgustingly ugly and white girls would never go for you. You’re just butthurt that you were born as an Asian piece
SANGHA KOMMUNE (SSR) 