links vom 20.11.2014

felix schwenzel

  pan­do.com: I am not 100% sa­tis­fied with the box of shit I re­cei­ved in the mail   #

da­vid hol­mes lässt sich vom neu­en shit­ex­press.com ei­nen hau­fen scheis­se schi­cken und be­klagt sich, un­ter an­de­rem, dar­über, dass die „smel­ly sur­pri­se“ nicht or­dent­lich stinkt. sehr wit­zig

  te­le­graph.co.uk: Why Ade­le was right to igno­re Bob Geldof and Band Aid   #

bry­o­ny gor­don:

No­bo­dy wants a world full of Ebo­la, but nor do I want a world full of Ma­la­ria and HIV and Tu­ber­cu­lo­sis and num­e­rous other di­se­a­ses - not to men­ti­on con­di­ti­ons such as hun­ger and po­ver­ty - that are de­s­troy­ing the li­ves of many mil­li­ons of Af­ri­cans every day.
Cer­tain­ly, I don't want to be told how to be­have phil­an­thro­pi­cal­ly by a man worth an esti­ma­ted £32 mil­li­on, a man who is said to use tax avo­id­ance sche­mes (it is tel­ling that when a jour­na­list as­ked him two ye­ars ago how much tax he paid, Geldof ex­plo­ded at her, say­ing: 'My time? Is that not a tax?' Well, no, Bob, it is­n't).
I don't want to be im­plo­red to give cha­ri­ta­b­ly by a band that tra­vels in se­pa­ra­te pri­va­te jets be­cau­se they don't get on (One Di­rec­tion), or by a man who avo­ids Irish ta­xes while si­mul­ta­neous­ly tel­ling the Irish go­vern­ment to help de­ve­lo­ping count­ries (Bono).

/via @Pe­ter­Balz­li und @nig­gi

  theat­lan­tic.com: The Rape Ac­cu­sa­ti­ons Against Bill Cos­by Must Not Be Igno­red   #

ta-ne­hi­si coa­tes:

Per­haps it is not fair for a jour­na­list to con­sider, or even pu­bli­ci­ze, an­ony­mous al­le­ga­ti­ons of cri­mi­nal ac­ti­vi­ty. Even then we are left with six ac­cu­sa­ti­ons of se­xu­al as­sault: Ta­ma­ra Green says that Cos­by drug­ged and gro­ped her in 1970. Beth Fer­ri­er says that Cos­by drug­ged and raped her in 1984. Ja­nice Dick­in­son says Cos­by drug­ged and raped her in 1982. Bar­ba­ra Bow­man says that Cos­by drug­ged and raped her "mul­ti­ple times" when she was 17 in 1985. And An­drea Con­stand says that Cos­by drug­ged and raped her in 2004. Ta­ken tog­e­ther, the pu­blic ac­cu­sa­ti­ons span some 30 ye­ars and are re­mar­kab­ly si­mi­lar in their de­tail.

The he­art of the mat­ter is this: A de­fen­der of Bill Cos­by must, ef­fec­tively, con­ju­re a vast con­spi­ra­cy, crea­ted to bring down one man, see­mingly just out of spi­te. And peo­p­le will do this work of con­ju­ra­ti­on, be­cau­se it is hard to ac­cept that peo­p­le we love in one are­na can com­mit gre­at evil in an­o­ther. It is hard to be­lie­ve that Bill Cos­by is a se­ri­al ra­pist be­cau­se the be­lief does­n't just in­dict Cos­by, it in­dicts us. It damns us for dra­wing in­ti­ma­te con­clu­si­ons about peo­p­le ba­sed on pud­ding-pop com­mer­cials and po­pu­lar TV shows. It de­s­troys our abili­ty to lean on icons for our mo­ra­li­ty. And it forces us back into a world whe­re see­mingly good men do un­speaka­b­ly evil things, and this is just the cha­os of hu­man histo­ry.

2007 hat coa­tes eine re­por­ta­ge über bill cos­by ge­schrie­ben, in der er viel gu­tes über bill cos­by schrieb, aber nicht er­wähn­te, dass er ihn für ei­nen se­ri­en-ver­ge­wal­ti­ger hielt. wie er sei­ne grün­de da­für dar­legt und wel­che kon­se­q­ne­zen er aus die­ser aus­las­sung zog, lohnt sich zu le­sen.

  red­dit.com: Be­ing a Black wo­man in Ber­lin   #

ich bin si­cher, dass ha­rald mar­ten­stein, läse er die­sen text, gleich eine ko­lum­ne schrei­ben wür­de, in der er sich über die nied­ri­gen stan­dards beim ab­itur be­kla­gen wür­de („Um in Deutsch das Abi zu be­stehen, reicht es wahr­schein­lich, die Zei­chen­trick­fi­gu­ren Wum und Wen­de­lin un­ter­schei­den und ei­nen der bei­den Na­men rich­tig schrei­ben zu kön­nen.“) und in der er dar­auf hin­wei­sen wür­de, dass in kin­der­bü­chern nicht mehr von ne­gern (ta­feln, von de­nen schau­spie­ler im fern­seh­stu­dio tex­te ab­le­sen), küm­mel­tür­ken (os­ma­nen), wichs­ern (schuh­put­zern), ka­na­ken (ur­ein­woh­ner der süd­see­inseln) oder fot­zen (back­pfei­fen) ge­re­det wer­den kön­ne und das frü­her (für ihn) ir­gend­wie al­les bes­ser ge­we­sen sei.

ich per­sön­lich wür­de den text ein­fach mal so ste­hen las­sen und dar­über nach­den­ken, ob ich mit mei­nem ver­hal­ten, mei­ner spra­che und vor­ur­tei­len nicht auch zu den im text be­schrie­be­nen si­tua­tio­nen bei­tra­ge.