Hrag Vartanian

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Entries Tagged as 'human rights'

Batman’s “Problematic” Sexuality

July 24th, 2008 · 1 Comment

From an article titled “When Batman Was Gay” on The Bilerico Project:
Early Gotham was a dark and scary place, the sort of place that might inspire people to, you know, dress up like a giant bat. So what happened? Why did the dark and menacing Batman of 1940s become the lame and tame Batman of [...]

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Tags: American · human rights · pop culture

Obama’s Words in Yad Vashem’s Guest Book (Jerusalem)

July 23rd, 2008 · No Comments

I’m glad he went to the Jewish Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem but it upsets me that Obama didn’t spend time during his trip getting to know more about the Palestinian experience in the Occupied Territories.
Actual inscription (via HuffPost) here.

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No Crack for Flint, MI

July 15th, 2008 · No Comments

In one of the the strangest guidelines I’ve ever come across…the hometown of renegade filmmaker, Michael Moore, has issued strict rules about what you can wear and the fines for male ass crack exposure.

According to Daily Voice:
On June 27, the chief issued a departmental memorandum telling officers: “This immoral self expression goes beyond freedom of [...]

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Herzog & de Meuron Becomes Wing of Chinese Propaganda Ministry

July 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

I’m still fuming over the fact that Western architects are (so far) getting a free pass as they fellate dictators (I don’t know any female ones commissioning major Western architects) for money and ego projects that will put forth their vision of a prettified (but not more humane) 21st C.
Now, I see that the Chinese [...]

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