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An Examination of the 2010 FBI Hate Crime Stats by bias

Every year the FBI releases Hate Crime Statistics detailing the number of reported hate crimes by type of crime, type of bias motivation and type of victim.

The first graph shows the percent of hate crimes reported by types of bias motivation.

As you can see, anti-race motivation hate crimes are still the most common hate crimes reported, though anti-religion and anti-sexual orientation also have high rates.

The second two graphs are a more in-depth look at the different anti-sexual motivation biases.

Sources: FBI Hate Crimes Victims Page and Incidents, Offenses, Victims, and Known Offenders by Bias Motivation, 2010 Table.

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Environmental Portraits taken at Balboa Park in San Diego.

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Street Photography. (See more.)

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melsd:

cognitivexdissonance:

Wow someone gets it. 

This makes me happy.

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foreverincircles:

There is a danger. Don’t fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember: carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day after. When we will have to return to normal life. Will there be any changes then. I don’t want you to remember these days, you...

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kiasrai:

01) Being gay is not natural. Real Americans always reject unnatural things like eyeglasses, polyester, and air conditioning.

02) Gay marriage will encourage people to be gay, in the same way that hanging around tall people will make you tall.

03) Legalizing gay marriage will open the door to...

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They tell you we are dreamers. The true dreamers are those who think things can go on indefinitely the way they are. We are not dreamers. We are awakening from a dream which is tuning into a nightmare. We are not destroying anything. We are only witnessing how the system is destroying itself.

Slavoj Zizek @ Occupy Wall Street (via ftm-communist)

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shortformblog:

Some might see a crass corporate attempt to latch onto a movement that fits well with the company’s branding. We see a progressive company showing its pre-corporate roots. (via Percolate)

Why don’t these companies set up a job fair at each one of the Occupy sites?

So will Ben & Jerry’s put their money where their mouth is and hire the 99%? That’s the question. Related: We’ll go ahead and call it.  B&J’s should release a 99%-ers flavor of ice cream! Broken dreams, endless debt, and peanuts. Lots and lots of peanuts.

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Here’s what you need to realise about anti-racism: It’s not about you. It’s not about your feelings as a white person. What you just said is that you’ll entertain the idea of listening to POC talk about ways they’ve been fucked over by whiteness, white privilege, and white people as long as they don’t hurt your feelings. To put it another way: you’re saying that not having your feelings hurt is more important to you than actually trying to understand PoC’s experiences of enduring racism—which is, itself, perpetuating racism. No, maybe you didn’t partake in whatever act of racism we’re talking about in this very moment, but if you’re white, then you are benefiting from the systemic racism that allowed it to happen, whether you like it or not. Yes, listening to the ways that your privilege fucks over other people is uncomfortable. Yes, it can be embarrassing & lead to feelings of guilt, but it is not up to People of Color to censor ourselves to spare your delicate fee-fees. If you truly want to be considered anti-racist, you need to deal with those feelings with other white people & not add to the burden of PoC’s experiences of racism by saying that you won’t take us seriously unless we’re ‘nice’ about the emotional & psychological violence that we endure simply by being PoC in a racist society. So literally, all I want you to do is understand that being anti-oppression (of any kind) is about understanding how the oppressed group is affected & then countering those systems, activities, mindsets, etc. It’s not about you being comfortable, because if you’re doing it right, it’s not going to be comfortable.

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all the gifs. this is so good.

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derpstar:

This annoys me more than anything else. Guys can be the superhero, but girls can only be a superhero if they’re sexy, too e.g., Lara Croft etc. You can’t just dress up, you have to show half your body because that’s all women are good for or whatever.

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Since the movement began on September 17 Occupy Wall Street has drawn criticism for not articulating specific enough complaints. But really it’s not that hard to figure out. At the risk of sounding like I’m speaking for the movement, the basic complaint is unfairness. A system that lets financial institutions run wild without any rules, collects taxpayer money to save themselves when things go terribly wrong, and then continues to make record profits as those same taxpayers fall into plight, ignoring their needs for personal and small-business loans, is simply unfair.

Alex Moore, Bloomberg is Clueless on Occupy Wall Street (via lighthouseaccident)

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Op-ed: On Trans Kids, It’s Us Who Are Confused

The creative gender cases of Storm, Chaz, Tammy and Mario revealed our society’s knee-jerk and crushing reaction to nonconformity.

By Diane Ehrensaft, op-ed contributor

Clockwise from top left: Chaz Bono, Tammy, Mario, and Storm

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What are sex, orientation, and gender?

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Zombie Virus Drives Caterpillars To An Explosive Death

Scientists recently discovered something that was causing European gypsy moth caterpillars to behave very strangely. The caterpillars were infected by a deadly baculovirus, and with their last bits of strength, they did something that would be out of the question if they were healthy: they climbed out onto the very highest leaves of their tree in the middle of the day.

There, their diseased bodies split open, raining infected caterpillar guts onto the leaves and branches below. The death ritual is so bizarre, that scientists started using the term ”tree top disease” to describe the virus that caused it.

In a recent issue of Science magazine, researchers reveal the cause of this odd final act: a specific viral gene that drives infected caterpillars to die in a way that offers the best potential for spreading the virus that killed it…just like a zombie (ScienceDaily).

The virus “ends up using just about all of the caterpillar to make more virus, and there are other genes in the virus that then make the caterpillar melt. So it becomes a pool of millions of virus particles that end up dropping onto the foliage below where it can infect other moths that eat those leaves,” study co-author Kelli Hoover told National Geographic.

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needitloveitcraveit:

Occupy Philadelphia, Day One October 6, 2011 Win, Brittney Bowers Photography  

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alithealmond:

think about it. The idea has changed over decades. In Europe, people made a stand and left because they wanted freedom to worship who they wanted. The American revolutionaries fought for the right to make better lives for themselves from scratch, even though it meant no money or protection from...