Your monday slice of linky goodness:
- Don’t be mean to squid (Kate Beaton rules ok.)
- How the media portrays both the EDL and the antiracist counterprotestors as violent. This is largely due to overreliance on police statements — first priority to them is “maintaining public order” and they blame the counterdemonstrators for making this difficult. Having racists march through their cities in an attempt at intimidation is not a problem as long as nobody tries to stop them. Because that’s when you get riots. Like in Stoke.
- Not a new phenomenon of course. Remember the Battle of Cable Street.
- Despite police resistance however, the UAF protesters still managed to drive the EDL off the streets.
- It’s teh gays what caused Srebrenica! Umm, no. But Christ, what an asshole.
- That odious little twrp Kammmm tried to smear Kurt Vonnegut’s reputation again. On the whole I liked Flying Rodent’s response more than Chris Bertram’s.
- Your slice of comic book history for today: The DC Ratings Scandal of the mid-eighties, when the rightwing political climate and several high profile “smut busts” of comics retailers scared DC into self-censorship, as told by somebody in the frontlines back then: Stephen Bissette. (Part 1, part 2, part 3, part 4, part 5, part 6, part 7 and part 8, more to come. Whew.)