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Category: Discourse Studies

Critique of Professional

Posted onJuly 13, 20112 Comments

Warning: This blog post is not professional. But it is real. Can you deal with it? You say I’m “not professional enough.” I hear “you are not white enough.” Profession-al. It’s such a capitalist word, imbued in the disciplining of Read More …

CategoriesDiscourse Studies, Law school, Neo-LiberalismTagsburkha, ethics, hijab, Law school, professional, terrorism, unprofessional, violence, work

It Gets Better: Sanctioning Routine Violence

Posted onMay 28, 2011Leave a comment

Between the movement for marriage equality and the It Gets Better campaign, I’m just about ready to give up my membership in the LGBT community. But I checked, and it turns out that I don’t have a membership card. It’s Read More …

CategoriesDiscourse Studies, NationalismTagsBig Gay, It Gets Better, routine violence

DeCentering Citizenship

Posted onMay 26, 2011Leave a comment

I always find it amusing that our great President chooses to enforce harsh immigration laws, deporting record numbers of people from the United States to appease the same people that question his own citizenship. Then again, Barack Obama is head Read More …

CategoriesDiscourse Studies, Immigration

Fort Hood Sparks Muslim Bashing in Mainstream Media

Posted onNovember 7, 2009Leave a comment

Media Bias on Fort Hood Tragedy This isn’t particularly surprising. American civil liberties get massacred during such crises. Instead of calling Major Hasan an ‘alleged’ shooter till he is confirmed guilty by a court of law (Fifth Amendment), speculators have Read More …

CategoriesDiscourse Studies, Ethnic Studies, RacismTagsAl-Jazeera, Fort Hood, Islamophobia, mainstream media, muslim

Bainimarama: I Staged Coup to Stop Terrorists

Posted onSeptember 27, 2009Leave a comment

While Lasenia Qarase and his corrupt government was nothing to extol and praise, Bainimarama labeled them as ‘terrorists’ at the United Nations General Assembly, in order to legitimise his reign: I believe that these critics are largely unaware of the Read More …

CategoriesDiscourse Studies, Moron of the WeekTagsBainimarama, Fiji, speech, terrorism, United Nations

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