- 2010 US Census pretends gay people don't exist. Married same-sex partners with a child won't be considered "families." Census Bureau isn't interested in a person's "lifestyle," explains spokesperson Cynthia Endo, "This is all about the numbers" -- and gay people just don't count. http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2009/03/11/gay_census/ 45 comments politics
- The risk of opposing Israel in the US: "Because of this silence, the pariah status of being one who opposes Israeli violence and supports Palestine’s right to exist remains unspoken in the United States. We pretend it doesn’t happen." http://america.aljazeera.com/opinions/2014/7/antisemitism-israelpalestineamerica.html 3 comments politics
- Greenwald on the motives for terrorism: "Ignoring the role played by US actions is dangerously self-flattering and self-delusional. Listen to the people who live in the places devastated by US violence... it's long past time that we stop pretending that all this evidence does not exist." http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/24/boston-terrorism-motives-us-violence?miiiaou 415 comments worldnews