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Anyone know where to get their hands on a copy of 'Collection of June Fourth Poems: Commemorating the Tiananmen Square Protest'? I know I can't do much if it isn't translated, but might as well get started now.

the men don't talk about the women, because they are here, whether they talk about them or not.

Now this is the kind of Google Doodle I can get behind.

'Hier ist kein warum' (there is no why here)

There is nothing new in Third World governments seeking to justify and perpetuate authoritarian rule by denouncing liberal democratic principles as alien. By implication they claim for themselves the official and sole right to decide what does or does not conform to indigenous cultural norms.

Ever think you'd totally enjoy Austen if it wasn't for her darn refusal to write about dragons?

Fastest way a blurb can convince me to read something: talk about a non-white author doing stuff that The Rules™ state were first done by a white person two to three centuries after the fact.

If we adjust our memories sufficiently...they will suit the present, yes?

The tendency is here, born of slavery and quickened to renewed life by the...imperialism of the day, to regard human beings as among the material resources of a land to be trained with an eye single to future dividends.

If you're in a state that's currently giving its Electoral votes to Trump, newsflash! There are a number of states where Electoral voters can change their vote without being penalized. Her'e's a nifty website that'll generate emails that you can send to your legislator asking them to adhere to the popular vote (that Hilary won) in their Electoral vote: http://cuddlemnstr.tumblr.com/post/15...

Every person who vocally accomodates hate because it appears between two vaunted covers, every person who interprets freedom of speech as freedom to destroy, every person who expects liberty to be served to others on a silver platter in the next decade or so with no effort of their own, every person who wilfully misconstrues mental illness and disability as inherently bigoted has played their part in electing Trump.

Maybe people will think back on this moment when they move to excuse bigotry in all its forms. Maybe people will keep sucking rapist white supremacist cock. Who knows.

Forgive me for being US-centric for a brief moment here, but: VOTE.

...it is wrong to aid and abet a national crime simply because it is unpopular not to do so.

I could've gone my usual route and taken on Black Reconstruction in America 1860-1880 first, but having just finished off 1150+ and 750+ pagers, I could use a break.

Someone pick my next book from these ones here plz: https://www.goodreads.com/user_shelve...

If you're blaming Trump's popularity on "psychos" and "idiots" and mentally ill and/or disabled people in general, you're part of the problem. Whoever ends up in office won't make you less of the sort of eugenishit who was assumed to have died out at the end of WWII.

How many asexual and aromantic authors have you all read this year?

"The boy has no politics."
"Everyone does. Or perhaps better to say, everyone's actions have political meaning, whether or not they have political intentions."

This insurance company is the Me Before You fandom in a nutshell: http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/201...

Protagonist Falls Sick Only to Be Cared For By the Aloof Yet Attractively Competent Young Thing Just Upstairs, eh. It'd be fan fic if it weren't already fiction. In any case, Philip's bisexual or I'll eat my hat.

Apparently 'The Wheel of Time' and 'Harry Potter' Count As Single Works, or Why Wikipedia's List of Longest Works is (Currently) Useless

Rich is a favorite of mine, but that doesn't mean I'm going to ignore warnings previous to reading this and not critique any TERF ideologies I come across.

Hellbent on finishing this before yet another month goes by.

Why yes, West. There is indeed an association between highway robbery and revolutionary idealism. However, the Ottoman Empire was a type, not the fundamental cause.

And here we have apologisms for pedophilia. Marvelous.

This book would be a great deal more informative and a whole lot shorter if West bothered to ask questions rather than writing anthropological fanfiction for every(one/thing) she encountered.

I should've paid attention to myself when I thought everything post-Alexievich was going to be the mediocre of status quo reinforcing mediocres.

He did not understand how I imagined Florence was not a Florence of murderers when everything nowadays belongs to murderers.

I wonder how many Goodreaders regret knowing Gingrich somehow gets his books published as a direct result of GR's money making schemes (aka rec system).