Six-Figure Fines For Four-Letter Words Worry Broadcasters
The above article really makes you think about your rights and what the United States is coming to when the FCC has just passed a law that will fine people 325,500 dollars; for indecent language basically for swearing on the radio or television. Wow, was the first thought that came to my immediate mind because that’s a load of money and the FCC is considering to raise it to 500,000. I understand that parents want to have children censored from bad language on t.v. but that’s what the cable guy what parental monitoring and what actual parenting is supposed to be. What’s the most outrageous but expected part of this law is where is stems from how it was passed? Who passed it? Why? All of the W questions that to me say bad parenting, take responsibility for your actions stop blaming everything and everyone else and stop trying to take away free speech completely. The reason that the FCC passed this law was because after the 2004 Super bowl when Janet Jackson’s boob popped out millions of parents screamed at the top of their lungs to Congress to do something to stop these terrible people. Because it was intolerable, what I have to say is stop relying on the tube to baby sit your kids and find someone or find a way to get off their lazy asses and to actually be parents.
It’s just really scary because people are not allowed to say anything without the fear of being fined and this is taking away our rights as ‘Americans’ whatever that means. Just like it speaks of in the article that a lot of artists and even news casters in such are worried that this is taking away their freedom of speech. And the thing is if we allow this then what is next it’s only inevitable that all of our freedoms will be stripped from us and it will have been for some just cause because boobs are not allowed on the tube…
This is one example of how scary this law is; one stand-up comedian took out an indecency-liability policy on himself. Another said he was forced to sign a waiver before he went on the air at a radio station, promising to pay any indecency fine that might result from his appearance. The only ones that are allowed freedom of speech are the few who will pay because under the law, cable channels such as MTV and HBO and satellite radio companies such as Sirius and XM remain unpoliced by the federal government.
All I can say is people seriously need to reevaluate what they are doing because they are taking away the rights that their fore fathers fought for because this is wrong…
If anyone is interested in reading the article check out the website below:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001245.html
Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Do you think free Speech will exist much longer?
Six-Figure Fines For Four-Letter Words Worry Broadcasters
The above article really makes you think about your rights and what the United States is coming to when the FCC has just passed a law that will fine people 325,500 dollars; for indecent language basically for swearing on the radio or television. Wow, was the first thought that came to my immediate mind because that’s a load of money and the FCC is considering to raise it to 500,000. I understand that parents want to have children censored from bad language on t.v. but that’s what the cable guy what parental monitoring and what actual parenting is supposed to be. What’s the most outrageous but expected part of this law is where is stems from how it was passed? Who passed it? Why? All of the W questions that to me say bad parenting, take responsibility for your actions stop blaming everything and everyone else and stop trying to take away free speech completely. The reason that the FCC passed this law was because after the 2004 Super bowl when Janet Jackson’s boob popped out millions of parents screamed at the top of their lungs to Congress to do something to stop these terrible people. Because it was intolerable, what I have to say is stop relying on the tube to baby sit your kids and find someone or find a way to get off their lazy asses and to actually be parents.
It’s just really scary because people are not allowed to say anything without the fear of being fined and this is taking away our rights as ‘Americans’ whatever that means. Just like it speaks of in the article that a lot of artists and even news casters in such are worried that this is taking away their freedom of speech. And the thing is if we allow this then what is next it’s only inevitable that all of our freedoms will be stripped from us and it will have been for some just cause because boobs are not allowed on the tube…
This is one example of how scary this law is; one stand-up comedian took out an indecency-liability policy on himself. Another said he was forced to sign a waiver before he went on the air at a radio station, promising to pay any indecency fine that might result from his appearance. The only ones that are allowed freedom of speech are the few who will pay because under the law, cable channels such as MTV and HBO and satellite radio companies such as Sirius and XM remain unpoliced by the federal government.
All I can say is people seriously need to reevaluate what they are doing because they are taking away the rights that their fore fathers fought for because this is wrong…
If anyone is interested in reading the article check out the website below:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001245.html
The above article really makes you think about your rights and what the United States is coming to when the FCC has just passed a law that will fine people 325,500 dollars; for indecent language basically for swearing on the radio or television. Wow, was the first thought that came to my immediate mind because that’s a load of money and the FCC is considering to raise it to 500,000. I understand that parents want to have children censored from bad language on t.v. but that’s what the cable guy what parental monitoring and what actual parenting is supposed to be. What’s the most outrageous but expected part of this law is where is stems from how it was passed? Who passed it? Why? All of the W questions that to me say bad parenting, take responsibility for your actions stop blaming everything and everyone else and stop trying to take away free speech completely. The reason that the FCC passed this law was because after the 2004 Super bowl when Janet Jackson’s boob popped out millions of parents screamed at the top of their lungs to Congress to do something to stop these terrible people. Because it was intolerable, what I have to say is stop relying on the tube to baby sit your kids and find someone or find a way to get off their lazy asses and to actually be parents.
It’s just really scary because people are not allowed to say anything without the fear of being fined and this is taking away our rights as ‘Americans’ whatever that means. Just like it speaks of in the article that a lot of artists and even news casters in such are worried that this is taking away their freedom of speech. And the thing is if we allow this then what is next it’s only inevitable that all of our freedoms will be stripped from us and it will have been for some just cause because boobs are not allowed on the tube…
This is one example of how scary this law is; one stand-up comedian took out an indecency-liability policy on himself. Another said he was forced to sign a waiver before he went on the air at a radio station, promising to pay any indecency fine that might result from his appearance. The only ones that are allowed freedom of speech are the few who will pay because under the law, cable channels such as MTV and HBO and satellite radio companies such as Sirius and XM remain unpoliced by the federal government.
All I can say is people seriously need to reevaluate what they are doing because they are taking away the rights that their fore fathers fought for because this is wrong…
If anyone is interested in reading the article check out the website below:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/10/AR2006071001245.html
Friday, July 07, 2006
I read an article that a white professor from the University of Texas wrote and it was reveling because it speaks of race and how white people are really afraid of many things and for many a good reasons, and it seems proven rightly in the article. The first reason was that white people are afraid to admit to themselves that everything they have or have earned is not truly earned because all the while they send out for jobs, hire people from other countries and never really have to do things them selves. The second reason that white people are afraid is that there is a great fear of losing everything that we have. Everything monitary, social status, gov. ect. and along with that the other kinds of privilege many of us have living in the middle class and above in an imperialist country that dominates much of the rest of the world and eg. if things were to change than it would evaporate, the distribution of resources in the United States and in the world would change.The third and best fear that I thought was great and really relates to some class discusions that have taken place recently is the fact that white people are afraid of being out numbered that one day in the far away future that things will greatly change. 'A world in which non-white people might someday gain the kind of power over whites that whites have long monopolized'. To me this was really just histerical because it's true, white people are afraid that one day they could possibly be outnumbered and than what? Someone non-white could treat them as they have to others for centuries and gotten away with it. And that's a startling thought because then they become the 'underdog' if you will and they don't know how to feel about that. I really loved this article because some of the points that this article brought up were so true but you wouldn't nessecarilly think about these topics in the context that they were written unless you were in a classroom discussion but the fact that this is a published article and that the public can read it is awsome because it forces you to open your eyes to the reality of brutality and even bigger and scarier that one day it could and very well might not now, or tommorow but long from now come full circle and suck for the white people...
for anyone that would like to read this article it was written by: Robert Jensen
the article is called: The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Priviledge
the website it can be found at is: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/7Erjensen/freelance/fearsofwhitepeople.htm
for anyone that would like to read this article it was written by: Robert Jensen
the article is called: The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Priviledge
the website it can be found at is: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/7Erjensen/freelance/fearsofwhitepeople.htm
Thursday, July 06, 2006
The Heart of Whiteness
I read an article that a white professor from the University of Texas wrote and it was reveling because it speaks of race and how white people are really afraid of many things and for many a good reasons, and it seems proven rightly in the article. The first reason was that white people are afraid to admit to themselves that everything they have or have earned is not truly earned because all the while they send out for jobs, hire people from other countries and never really have to do things them selves. The second reason that white people are afraid is that there is a great fear of losing everything that we have. Everything monitary, social status, gov. ect. and along with that the other kinds of privilege many of us have living in the middle class and above in an imperialist country that dominates much of the rest of the world and eg. if things were to change than it would evaporate, the distribution of resources in the United States and in the world would change.
The third and best fear that I thought was great and really relates to some class discusions that have taken place recently is the fact that white people are afraid of being out numbered that one day in the far away future that things will greatly change. 'A world in which non-white people might someday gain the kind of power over whites that whites have long monopolized'. To me this was really just histerical because it's true, white people are afraid that one day they could possibly be outnumbered and than what? Someone non-white could treat them as they have to others for centuries and gotten away with it. And that's a startling thought because then they become the 'underdog' if you will and they don't know how to feel about that.
I really loved this article because some of the points that this article brought up were so true but you wouldn't nessecarilly think about these topics in the context that they were written unless you were in a classroom discussion but the fact that this is a published article and that the public can read it is awsome because it forces you to open your eyes to the reality of brutality and even bigger and scarier that one day it could and very well might not now, or tommorow but long from now come full circle and suck for the white people...
for anyone that would like to read this article it was written by: Robert Jensen
the article is called: The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Priviledge
the website it can be found at is: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Erjensen/freelance/fearsofwhitepeople.htm
The third and best fear that I thought was great and really relates to some class discusions that have taken place recently is the fact that white people are afraid of being out numbered that one day in the far away future that things will greatly change. 'A world in which non-white people might someday gain the kind of power over whites that whites have long monopolized'. To me this was really just histerical because it's true, white people are afraid that one day they could possibly be outnumbered and than what? Someone non-white could treat them as they have to others for centuries and gotten away with it. And that's a startling thought because then they become the 'underdog' if you will and they don't know how to feel about that.
I really loved this article because some of the points that this article brought up were so true but you wouldn't nessecarilly think about these topics in the context that they were written unless you were in a classroom discussion but the fact that this is a published article and that the public can read it is awsome because it forces you to open your eyes to the reality of brutality and even bigger and scarier that one day it could and very well might not now, or tommorow but long from now come full circle and suck for the white people...
for anyone that would like to read this article it was written by: Robert Jensen
the article is called: The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Priviledge
the website it can be found at is: http://uts.cc.utexas.edu/%7Erjensen/freelance/fearsofwhitepeople.htm
new but old post...
I learned something today while interviewing for the class project. Not only did my partner stereotype other people and groups unconsciously but we were also stereotyped. Never before have had I realized bluntly that I stereotype. When my partner and I went to interview strangers on campus we looked around to see who looked like they might be ‘ok’ with some of the questions that we had to ask and as we did this we found a couple that we assumed were teachers. Based on their type of clothing and from how they were older with briefcases we naturally thought for sure they were teachers.Now this isn’t really a negative stereotype but then it occurred to me that if unconsciously I presumed that this couple were teachers and indeed they were not; that I probably do it a lot more with a wide variety of groups and genders ect. without even realizing it. This relates to class in the sense that we discuss how there is prejudice in the world, stereotypes and racism everywhere but we always tell ourselves that, ‘we’ are not like that. But maybe it’s more that we do it and don’t even realize that we are doing that. It struck me because now I am wondering if I do this more and if even sometimes consciously.Something else that I learned during these interviews is that I felt that I was being discriminated against because I was viewed as an ‘a typical American girl’, example during my second interview I spoke to a Chinese woman and I asked her several questions on race and prejudice and she seemed very offended when I asked these questions. Luckily to save me my partner came and brought up a good point because I had asked if the girl had ever felt that other people put her into a stereotype for being Asian and she just glared at me, however my partner came (Italian with a thick accent) and said for instance do you have a stereotype for Italian woman? And she looked at her and laughed and said of course! You all love to cook and are great at it! And we talked about ‘that kind of stereotypes because it was more comfortable. Later it made me think of the chapter that spoke of the Emic/Etic perspective and how I to her was an outsider and by asking her these questions I made her feel uncomfortable and that perhaps I was being intrusive. So I was truly on ‘the outside’. But what if I had been Asian? I have to ask myself if she would have answered my questions better and actually given me more information about how she truly felt because all her answers were ‘yes, no, not really, maybe’.Sometimes we feel more comfortable with people that we feel are more like us because they would understand better and when they are an outsider if we know that there is already an stereotype on us that we are much less prone to justifying it for them…
Sunday, June 25, 2006
culture in other societies
Jaqueline Yngvason
Saneda/Soc/151
Online article Blog
06-23-06
The article that I found was from a published article on “Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia” by: Lawrence S. Sugiyama a, b, John Tooby b, and Leda Cosmides b c.
I really liked the article because it borders on the basis on some of the things that have been discussed during class. How all cultures are very different in several ways but ultimately we are the same in a lot more ways. This article made that point abundantly clear by showing when a group of ‘Shiwiar of the Ecuadorian Amazonia’ was tested on their ability detect a cheater and as the author states; “As predicted, Shiwiar subjects were as highly proficient at cheater detection as subjects from developed nations. Indeed, the frequency of cheater-relevant choices among Shiwiar hunter-horticulturalists was indistinguishable from that of Harvard undergraduates. Also as predicted, cultural variation was confined to those aspects of reasoning that are irrelevant to social exchange algorithms functioning as an evolutionarily stable strategy. Finally, Shiwiar subjects displayed the same low performance on descriptive conditionals as subjects from developed nations (PNAS).
I liked this a lot because I know that culturally when I first started reading the article I was thinking that these Shiwiar of the Ecuadorian Amazonia would not be able to detect cheater as quickly or as proficiently as someone from a developed nation and of course not a Harvard undergrad. I guess that goes to prove the point that culturally there is a natural stigmatism to judge a group of people (especially in this case indigenous peoples of South America). It all goes back to the point that culture is something that you have to try and be more understanding. I guess I just didn’t think that socially someone or a group of people that lived in the Amazon would have the skills to detect a cheater as quickly as someone from a developed nation. At the same time I underestimated. But you would think that someone with people skills and someone who lives in a jaded world would be much quicker and easier to detect something like that, than per-say someone who lives in the jungle. In my mind it just doesn’t make much sense, then again…
Online site for article: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/17/11537
Saneda/Soc/151
Online article Blog
06-23-06
The article that I found was from a published article on “Cross-cultural evidence of cognitive adaptations for social exchange among the Shiwiar of Ecuadorian Amazonia” by: Lawrence S. Sugiyama a, b, John Tooby b, and Leda Cosmides b c.
I really liked the article because it borders on the basis on some of the things that have been discussed during class. How all cultures are very different in several ways but ultimately we are the same in a lot more ways. This article made that point abundantly clear by showing when a group of ‘Shiwiar of the Ecuadorian Amazonia’ was tested on their ability detect a cheater and as the author states; “As predicted, Shiwiar subjects were as highly proficient at cheater detection as subjects from developed nations. Indeed, the frequency of cheater-relevant choices among Shiwiar hunter-horticulturalists was indistinguishable from that of Harvard undergraduates. Also as predicted, cultural variation was confined to those aspects of reasoning that are irrelevant to social exchange algorithms functioning as an evolutionarily stable strategy. Finally, Shiwiar subjects displayed the same low performance on descriptive conditionals as subjects from developed nations (PNAS).
I liked this a lot because I know that culturally when I first started reading the article I was thinking that these Shiwiar of the Ecuadorian Amazonia would not be able to detect cheater as quickly or as proficiently as someone from a developed nation and of course not a Harvard undergrad. I guess that goes to prove the point that culturally there is a natural stigmatism to judge a group of people (especially in this case indigenous peoples of South America). It all goes back to the point that culture is something that you have to try and be more understanding. I guess I just didn’t think that socially someone or a group of people that lived in the Amazon would have the skills to detect a cheater as quickly as someone from a developed nation. At the same time I underestimated. But you would think that someone with people skills and someone who lives in a jaded world would be much quicker and easier to detect something like that, than per-say someone who lives in the jungle. In my mind it just doesn’t make much sense, then again…
Online site for article: http://www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/99/17/11537
Tuesday, June 20, 2006
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