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Hospital visitation a privilege not a right, says Romney

Hospital visitation for same-sex couples is a benefit, not a right, says Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney. Romney believes that states should define LGBT “benefits” like adoption and hospital visitation rights. Romney still supports a federal amendment defining marriage as between one man and one woman.

“Governor Romney supports a federal marriage amendment to the Constitution that defines marriage as an institution between a man and a woman. Governor Romney also believes, consistent with the 10th Amendment, that it should be left to states to decide whether to grant same-sex couples certain benefits, such as hospital visitation rights and the ability to adopt children. I referred to the Tenth Amendment only when speaking about these kinds of benefits – not marriage,” Bay Buchanan, a Romney senior campaign advisor, told Buzzfeed.

Romney’s position would be a reversal of President Obama’s executive order that prohibits hospitals from discriminating against LGBT couples. This is consistent with Romney signing the National Organization for Marriage’s pledge to fight marriage equality and to appoint Supreme Court justices that oppose same-sex marriage. Romney contributed $10,000 to NOM, a virulently anti-LGBT group, according to a Federal Election commission filing released by the Human Rights Campaign.

(Reblogged from bubonickitten)
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It bears mentioning that nations with high-performing school systems—whether Korea, Singapore, Finland, or Japan—have succeeded not by privatizing their schools or closing those with low scores, but by strengthening the education profession. They also have less poverty than we do. Fewer than 5 percent of children in Finland live in poverty, as compared to 20 percent in the United States. Those who insist that poverty doesn’t matter, that only teachers matter, prefer to ignore such contrasts.

The Myth of Charter Schools by Diane Ravitch | The New York Review of Books (via robot-heart-politics)

but america is exception we dont have to listen to anything from other countries

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reading while white: crime statistics Tue 10 Apr 2012 by abagond

queergiftedblack:

I already wrote about how to think about black crime as a white racist. This post covers the advanced topic of American crime statistics:

  1. Whatever White Americans do is normal – no matter how high or low their numbers, they commit crimes at the proper rates. Always. This is a given. Because there is nothing wrong with them. To think otherwise would be racist! They are the measure against which everyone else is judged.
  2. Racialize crime – blame most of the crime on black people. Even where whites commit most of it. If challenged, make it about the crime rate:
  3. Crime rate – Where white people commit most of the crimes it is because most people are white. How is that wrong? But if blacks, who are 13% of America, commit more than 13% of any crime, even 14%, it is because there is something wrong with them:
  4. Higher black crime rates prove Criminal Tendencies – the great thing about statistics is that they seem so objective and yet get rid of all the context: the drug trade, racist policemen and judges, bad policing, racial profiling, poverty, etc. Context only matters when white people do bad stuff. When black people do, it is because something is wrong with them. That is not racist, that is just Reality.
  5. Interracial crime – for added effect compare black-on-white crime to white-on-black crime. This is especially good for rape because of white male sexual insecurities and because the government report is particularly misleading. Black-on-white crime proves what everyone already knows: blacks are out to get whites! No matter how low the absolute numbers.
  6. Hispanics – If Hispanics are not separated from whites in some statistic point that out and state, without proof,  that non-Hispanic whites (True White People) have a lower crime rate.
  7. Hate crimes – blacks commit most of the hate crimes. Everyone knows it. Except the FBI, whose numbers clearly cannot be trusted.
  8. Where African statistics are low they are wrong, where they are high repeat them. Rape or murder is low in Senegal? They are bad at recording crime. Do they even have pencils over there? Rape is high in South Africa? It must be right. If anything it is probably understated!
  9. Genocide, slavery, blah, blah, blah – whites killed tens of millions of people of colour to get to where they are. But if anyone brings that up just say it was too long ago to count, that they need to get over it. Or bring up Rwanda and use that as a fig leaf. Wars past and present are off the books too. So is Wall Street. The only true measure of how violent and immoral a race is are the street crimes they commit in an unjust society.
  10. Why blacks disagree – not because you are wrong but because they like to whine and avoid responsibility, are given to emotional Negro thinking and have low IQs. If they had bigger brains and were objective like you, they would see the light – like those Reasonable Negroes they show on television.

http://abagond.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/reading-while-white-crime-statistics/

(Reblogged from polerin)