controversies
It seems every time one racially-charged incident ends, a gender or religious controversy takes its place; Ruminate on the issues dividing our nation and world.
The EPITOME of Rape Culture, The Trauma of the Rising Sun flag – and why it should be BANNED at the 2020 Olympics
The flag of the rising sun is a flag that was used by the Imperial Army of Japan during and before World War II. Many pacific countries have complicated opinions about the flag. This is because wherever the flag went atrocity, sorrow, and death followed swiftly, mostly as a package deal. After the endless carnage, the flag would be posted up around the fallen kingdom in high places, banning the one belonging to the country, a symbol of dominance, nationalistic pride, and triumph. This flag had spread throughout Pacific Eurasia, including but not limited to Korea, China, the Philippines, and Vietnam. In the eyes of Imperial Japan the people they invaded were treated as beings less than human – playthings, literal objects of pleasure, bullet catchers, slaves. Worthy only of use and death, the usual when it comes to war crimes. The only problem is that this flag, a symbol of atrocity, is still flown today.
By Snookeronidjon6 years ago in The Swamp
Abortion and The Argument from Personhood
Legality In America 38 states class a foetus as a person in criminal and tort cases and attach additional penalties to cases where a mother and her unborn child are injured. 29 states do not have a minimum gestation time and confer personhood status regardless of the foetuses stage in development. In theses states if you punch a woman that’s one week pregnant in the gut and kill the foetus additional charges can still be filed.
By Floran Bailey6 years ago in The Swamp
Understanding Intersectionality
It isn't uncommon to hear people compare the discrimination that they face in an additive manner. For example, if you compare someone who's part of two minority/"othered" groups against someone who is part of four, my additive standards it could be argued that the person who identifies with the four groups faces more discrimination than the other, therefore the person with only two labels is "more privileged". I've seen charts on various social media platforms with titles along these lines for people to find out how much discrimination they face.
By Abi Risser6 years ago in The Swamp
Article of Fact
Gun Violence and Video Games In recent news, over the last decade, gun violence and mass shootings have been an almost everyday occurrence. With many people wanting to have some form of gun control, we have to stop and think about all of the other outlets of where this violence is coming from. My theory, along with many other believers, is that gun violence and mass shootings directly correlate to video games with younger adolescents.
By Sage Winter6 years ago in The Swamp
Questions From an Unquiet Universe
January, 2020 PHILOSOPHY. I want to be a philosopher. I don’t understand how to get started; keep tripping on the words. As an example, in my efforts to become a deep thinker, should I talk to myself out loud? I get stuck. Should I say“as an example,” or be more economical with language; say, “for example” and do I “talk” to myself or “speak” to myself? More problematic. When I speak to myself, I sound like Lenny Bruce and Lenny wouldn’t “speak, “ he would “talk” and while that would really upset Mrs. Rosman, my high school English teacher, Lenny wouldn’t care and then I begin to wonder if anyone really cares and it turns out to be the longest fucking run-on sentence imaginable. Were Joyce’s stream of consciousness prose brilliant, a clever manipulation of language or just well edited, run-on sentences? Do I use “was” or “were.” Mixing plurality and tenses; stuck on pedestrian linguistics? Trying to be a deep thinker but thoughts are flying through the air like staccato, atonal Jazz notes. Simultaneously grounded and inconsistent. Question, if I’m speaking to myself, who’s speaking to the voices in my head? Answers, no answers. Philosophizing. Success.
By Steven W Meistrich6 years ago in The Swamp
How a Culture of Drugs Is Killing our Youth
featured image credit to: CC Scott Garfitt/Shutterstock 2.0 Last weekend the world, unfortunately, lost another great young soul in the form of artist Juice WRLD. Reports from TMZ claim that the artist who turned 21 December 2nd, passed away after a seizure in Midway Airport in Chicago.
By Adonis Richards6 years ago in The Swamp
Stairway to Micro-Heaven
When it comes to the "poor and huddled masses" in terms of taxes, education, and healthcare all political candidates just wanna do is slap a bandaid on it. Slappin that bandaid and skiddadle on your way now! Never have I ever heard any of our lovely politicians speak about microfinance and the role it may play in aiding the poor on climbing out of darkness.
By Maria Parsheva6 years ago in The Swamp
Meghan Markle – A Right Royal debate!
The start of this piece isn’t about Princess Michael of Kent, it’s about a piece of her jewellery. She wore a Blackamoor brooch (above) to a lunch a few years ago that Meghan Markle attended. Some will argue, and many did in 2017, that she was being racist by wearing the brooch.
By Ian Peter Loftus6 years ago in The Swamp
War. What is it Good for?
" Now I become Death, destroyer of Worlds." That's a quote by the late Robert Oppenheimer. He was a theoretical physicist who lead the Manhattan Project, the program that developed the first nuclear weapon during World War II. He was nicknamed "the father of the atomic bomb." After he created it, he was later blacklisted for opposing it. He called for international controls on nuclear weapons. Even Oppenheimer knew that nuclear weapons could destroy us all if they were in the wrong hands. Who's to say which hands are right to even have them to begin with?
By Jenna Lynn6 years ago in The Swamp
Poverty as a Political Issue
Poverty as a political issue. Study definition before judging political policy Poverty is a social problem that brings great suffering to so many, but the politics of poverty often get in the way of solutions. The comparisons made in the following essay are from Britain but will probably be applicable in any developed nation which has politicians wishing to make political gains, by voicing claims about poverty.
By Peter Rose6 years ago in The Swamp
