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Name: Shaun
Gender: Male
Interests: judaism, liberalism, humanism, tolerance, multiculturalism, linux, stock market, postmodernism, probing the subconscious, anti-racism
Expertise: stock market, activism, psychodynamic theory
Occupation: Accounting/Finance
Industry: Government
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Member Since:
4/4/2005
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| Think of the times we've had together.... we've laughed, cried, and shared personal moments against hate and bigotry. The eternal moment of peace shared between student and teacher. I admit, I have been entirely busy the past few months but I still will try to help out where I can, by writing. I am going to a neo-nazi rally in Lansing, Michigan, in the next few days so I'll provide updates on this.
I look forward to another year of education and open-mindedness. Tolerance and democracy.
Sincerely and cordially,
Shaun Goldstein
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| http://www.vidilife.com/index.cfm?f=media.play&vchrMediaProgramIDCryp=A842CC7D-F9D1-4B1B-AE76-5&action=10
He's a brilliant speaker, and Joe Scarborough is also a good guy. Duke, however, is a joke and contantly stutters throughout the entire thing.
This whole ordeal is blatant anti-Semitism and I'm glad Alan put it into perspective. | | |
| http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1142722231554&call_pageid=1105528093962&col=1105528093790
By KURT KLEINER
Remember the whiny, insecure kid in nursery school, the one who always thought everyone was out to get him, and was always running to the teacher with complaints? Chances are he grew up to be a conservative.
At least, he did if he was one of 95 kids from the Berkeley area that social scientists have been tracking for the last 20 years. The confident, resilient, self-reliant kids mostly grew up to be liberals.
The study from the Journal of Research Into Personality isn't going to make the UC Berkeley professor who published it any friends on the right. Similar conclusions a few years ago from another academic saw him excoriated on right-wing blogs, and even led to a Congressional investigation into his research funding.
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A few decades later, Block followed up with more surveys, looking again at personality, and this time at politics, too. The whiny kids tended to grow up conservative, and turned into rigid young adults who hewed closely to traditional gender roles and were uncomfortable with ambiguity.
The confident kids turned out liberal and were still hanging loose, turning into bright, non-conforming adults with wide interests. The girls were still outgoing, but the young men tended to turn a little introspective.
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"I found it to be biased, shoddy work, poor science at best," he said of the Block study. He thinks insecure, defensive, rigid people can as easily gravitate to left-wing ideologies as right-wing ones. He suspects that in Communist China, those kinds of people would likely become fervid party members.
The results do raise some obvious questions. Are nursery school teachers in the conservative heartland cursed with classes filled with little proto-conservative whiners?
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Part of the answer is that personality is not the only factor that determines political leanings. For instance, there was a .27 correlation between being self-reliant in nursery school and being a liberal as an adult. Another way of saying it is that self-reliance predicts statistically about 7 per cent of the variance between kids who became liberal and those who became conservative. (If every self-reliant kid became a liberal and none became conservatives, it would predict 100 per cent of the variance). Seven per cent is fairly strong for social science, but it still leaves an awful lot of room for other influences, such as friends, family, education, personal experience and plain old intellect.
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Goldstein's commentary: I saw this article and then realized I still had this blog up and decided to post it here. It is interested how reactionaries are really the whiners amongst us while the heroic little ones turn out to be Communists. It further lends proof that conservatives can be spotted at a young age and counseled into being open-minded towards homosexuality and democracy. | | |
| Sorry for the lack of updates recently, but I've needed to cure myself of my alcoholic habit. I've gotten a bit depressed after Rosa Parks died and needed to turn to the bottle. Props to Howie and Hakeem for lifting me out of the gutter.
Anyways, I've come across a link written by a fellow Jew that emphasizes how disciminating against those with AIDS is bigotry. I'd like you to read it.
http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=35191
By Lara Loewenstein
DAILY BRUIN COLUMNIST
lloewenstein@media.ucla.edu
When someone first asked me if I'd have sex with a person with HIV, my immediate answer was a resounding no. That was during my freshman year of high school, and the only person in the class who gave an affirmative answer was my teacher.
Initially I was shocked by my teacher's response – I couldn't imagine putting myself at risk when I'd been taught my entire life to avoid sexually transmitted infections at all costs. But after listening to my teacher's explanation and mulling over the idea, I changed my mind.
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However, there are stigmas that surround HIV and AIDS that are hurtful to people who are infected with the virus and that cause people to react with horror whenever the infection is mentioned. Many of the students I talked to immediately assumed that if they contracted HIV, their lives would be over, or at least greatly reduced in length and in quality. A couple people specifically mentioned that they would never be able to have sex again.
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From talking to people, I've found that my ninth-grade "Living Skills" class was a little more open-minded than most. While education has been a huge factor in making people aware of the virus, and, for the most part, has done a good job of teaching people caution so as not to contract it, more sex education classes need to discuss the stigmas surrounding HIV and AIDS.
Probably one of the harshest and most hurtful stigmas is blaming the person who is HIV-positive for contracting HIV. People who find out that they're HIV-positive know this is likely and, according to Babl, blame for being infected is one of the things they fear.
"People forget that everyone makes mistakes sexually," Babl said. Sometimes those mistakes have bigger repercussions, but blaming people is not constructive. People need support, not guilt.
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Today is World AIDS Day. The red ribbons are meant to be worn to show support for people living with HIV and as a symbol of hope for the future. Hopefully someday HIV and AIDS will no longer be an issue, but until then let's show our support for the people who are strong enough to survive with it.
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| Shit.
I just drank two whole bottles of malibu. I've built a tolerance, but hey? What does that matter, aye? I'm a drinking man, not some pansy ass little man who sits in a cubicle drinking kool-aaid. LOL. What a putz, I'm telling ya.
Hakeem just came over and gave me some of this hpnotiq stuff. Wow. I'm telling ya, guys, it is the FUCKING BESt. not too alcohol like this nasty skinhead stuff called rumple minze. I mean, i enjoy a manchewitz but this rumple minze stuff just screams, "I hate the jews! Oi! I listen to shitty anti-communist music".
I fucking laugh my ass off to them. They mean nothing to me. I hope they get AIDS and die, those pigs. Because I'm not taking it any longer. They hate jews, they hate the working man, they drink rumpleminzkin (STOP SPRINGIN THAT GOLDEN YARN WORKING MAN!) AND THEY HATE FREEDOM.
stop them
I hereby offer an ultimatum: Every white racist should die, and even the black racist should be frowned upon. FRrom now on, there is one universal standard: democracy. Thats right. You heard me the first time, suga. Everyone is the same, and there is no genetic difference between crabrass, a black man, and you. Stop being racist.
Love, Shaun Goldstein.
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