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POPSHow the Irish were viewed in Victorian times
"These ideas were not confined to a lunatic fringe of the scientific community, for although they never won over the mainstream of British scientists they were disseminated broadly and it was even hinted that the Irish might be the elusive missing link! Certainly the "ape-like" Celt became something of an malevolent cliche of Victorian racism. Thus Charles Kingsley could write I am haunted by the human chimpanzees I saw . . . I don't believe they are our fault. . . . But to see white chimpanzees is dreadful; if they were black, one would not feel it so much. . . ." (Charles Kingsley in a letter to his wife, quoted in L.P. Curtis, Anglo-Saxons and Celts, p.84). Even seemingly complimentary generalizations about the Irish national character could, in the Victorian context, be damaging to the Celt. Thus, following the work of Ernest Renan's La Poésie des Races Celtiques (1854), it was broadly argued that the Celt was poetic, light-hearted and imaginative, highly emotion
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POPSJingoistic Conservative Talk Show Hosts Are Vile Conservatives who lambaste liberal media bias need to be as honest when conservative media bias occurs, especially when it occurs by conservatives resorting to the worst vitriol, the most-vile of stereotypes. Please read this article and give me your opinions. Thank you.
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POPSThe positive effect of metal music on today's youth Metal music especially death, dark and brutal, but sometimes even heavy gothic and melodic are mistakenly confused for "evil music" This article tries to clean up metal's name by explaining some of the most popular misconception, wrong ideas and gross generalizations that are commonly associated with metal music thus giving it its undeserved bad name.
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POPSAnti-War Protests In Israel No organisation called for the demonstration – but more than a thousand men and women gathered spontaneously in order to protest in front of the Ministry of Defense in Tel-Aviv, only a few hours after the murderous Air Force attack on the Gaza strip started. "I know there has been a lot of generalizations and criticizing of the Israeli people during these wars, so I figured I'd share with you another side of the story you wouldn't see on TV." (sean57, DP~Thanks)
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POPSWhen in Doubt, Distort It's easier to distort, as A. McEwen notes in his post about the six distortion techniques of the anti-gay industry. (Just six?) Also, keep an eye out for this blogger's upcoming book which shares the same title as his blog: Holy Bullies and Headless Monsters.
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