three articles: affirmative action; homophobia; animal rights

[bleeding_indigo]

what do you guys think about affirmative action?

snippets from the following article:

- "We're not allowed to get married in this world...but I'd like to declare in front of all these people, I love you and I'd like to live with you the rest of my life."
aww. That's lovely and wonderful!

- "People are saying, whatever happened to heterosexual

Comments

politics politics

[adrastea_star]

the affirmative action ruling I thought was okay, considering. at least they didn't uphold that ridiculous "points" thing. personally, I think people (institutions, politicians and people in general) need to watch their definitions with "affirmative action" these days...it's a touchy subject with a lot of sides, y'know? good and bad, progressive and not so much. **shrug** we'll see what happens i guess.

I didn't even KNOW there was a Gay Pride Month. It's sad they try to get rid of something that isn't even mainstream enough for people to know about...
...Why don't they try and get rid of illiteracy or breast cancer or something instead?

that would make sense. but apparently, there are priorities to be considered :P

in other news, people like santorum make me want to vomit all over somebody's shoes.

priorities, priorites

[bleeding_indigo]

Priorities! :D

Santorum....I don't know. i don't even know. I mean...he HAS to have some kind of logic, right? It's just so ridiculous. I'd like to hear where the flick he's gotten those ideas.

*shiver*

Re: priorities, priorites

[adrastea_star]

I'm sure Santorum thinks he has perfectly sound logic for thinking things like that...not that I like to dissect the minds of madmen but I'd hazard to guess it's something like:
homosexuality= bad
bestiality= bad
necrophilia/pedophilia/lots of other stuff them liberals mus' be wantin' to promote = umm...bad!
...aw, heck. it's all the same, then, right?

**shrug** personally, the only sexual conduct I ever get politically/ethically anxious about is the fact that people like him feel compelled to breed. but at least I know I'm biased.

hm.

[scriz]

very, um...political post, My sweet Babushka...lamb of my loins.

I like that in hot girls!

I am pro-affirmative action. But my thing is that I think that economics should weigh just as much as racial, locational things. Like, a poor white bitch who grew up in the hood needs some help to rise out just as much as the next frijole...

I just got into a bit of a spat about this issue with the dumbest white bitch that ever lived in fidelity_astro's lj...I almost fucking puked because of what she was saying and if I had been sitting on the fence-ish even slightly before...my position has been reaffirmed and solidified. AA is a good thing. It's not about reparations for past wrongs against minorities - but rather it is about the fact that there are ways to make up for disadvantages that set people back their whole lives. Just because a kid grew up in a poor neighborhood with a shitty school and not a lot of support (emotional and monetary) should not mean that that person must continue on that track because there are plenty of priveledged kids who want

CRAZY MOON-LOVERS!

[bleeding_indigo]

word.

[scriz]

One farmer says to me, "You cannot live on vegetable food solely, for it furnishes nothing to make bones with;" and so he religiously devotes a part of his day to supplying his system with the raw material of bones; walking all the while he talks behind his oxen, which, with vegetable-made bones, jerk him and his lumbering plough along in spite of every obstacle.

- Henry David Thoreau, Walden (first published in 1854)