Human Rights Archives - Heather's Homilies

Mike Bloomberg and is “Stop and Frisk” Racist?

Heather Hastie — Thu, 20 Feb 2020 01:31:24 +0000

With the entry of former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg into the race to be the Democratic Party presidential nominee, we have the inevitable. The other runners, and their supporters, are digging into his past to find any dirt they can to discredit him. The primary attack against him is the New York police’s use […]

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Anti-Semitism in the US (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Mon, 29 Oct 2018 01:46:37 +0000

Most days I see examples of the fact of the high level racism in the US*. In particular, there is plenty of exposure of the racism against African-, Hispanic-, Latino-, and Native-Americans on my TV screen. When it comes to the sites I look at on the internet, the focus seems to me more about […]

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Trump Weak on Khashoggi Disappearance

Heather Hastie — Thu, 18 Oct 2018 04:41:11 +0000

Each day for the last couple of weeks, I’ve been tweaking a post about Jamal Khashoggi. The post never quite gets to the completion stage, and developments overnight mean much of the post is redundant. Now, the story has been headline news for so long, as it should be, that there’s nothing I can say […]

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Why is Trump is Expanding the Use of Asbestos in US?

Heather Hastie — Thu, 09 Aug 2018 03:47:39 +0000

This quick post about Trump and asbestos is mainly to let you know I’m still here, as well as to bring an un-effing-believable situation to your attention. I’ve had my new chair for about ten days. I assumed everything would be hunky-dory as soon as I got it, but it’s not working out that way. […]

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Trump Administration Abuses Children

Heather Hastie — Tue, 19 Jun 2018 05:32:36 +0000

The latest tactic of the Trump administration to stop illegal crossings of their southern border is horrific. It is child abuse, pure and simple. As most of you probably already know, the US is now separating all parents and children when they SUSPECT the parents crossed the border illegally. Attorney General Jeff Sessions made the […]

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Israel Folau and Christian Morality

Heather Hastie — Thu, 19 Apr 2018 07:10:14 +0000

I wasn’t sure what to write about today, then I got The Author’s weekly email. The Author is the brilliant Jesus and Mo cartoonist. His strip this week is about religious morality, and it brought to mind the big news story in New Zealand and Australia at the moment. It began on 9 April when […]

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Auckland Uni Sacks Staff Member for Trying to Shake Hands with Muslim Student (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Thu, 08 Mar 2018 02:10:15 +0000

Things are slightly better today. We won the fourth one-dayer (cricket) against England yesterday! It was a really exciting game. Ross Taylor was amazing – back to his best. His outstanding performance makes him every Kiwi cricket fan’s hero today. I’ve put several tweets on his feat in the “Sports Tweets” below. So there’s a […]

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Homily: How Authoritarians are Made (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Wed, 17 Jan 2018 02:03:45 +0000

One of the tweets I posted here recently was one of my own. It was a Big Think video entitled ‘The Chronology of Crazy in the USA‘ featuring Kurt Anderson. I often wonder about the various ways the minds of different people work. I’m not going to pretend to be an expert (I’m not), but […]

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Homily: An Ill-Informed Feminist Attacks Jerry Coyne (plus Tweets)

Heather Hastie — Sun, 31 Dec 2017 03:45:27 +0000

Many of you who are good enough to subscribe to Heather’s Homilies only found me because you were already followers of Jerry Coyne’s site: ‘Why Evolution is True‘ (WEIT). Therefore, you you probably read his post on 28 December: ‘A real feminist‘. It’s about, “… Anna Muzychuk, a Ukrainian chess grandmaster who holds the women’s […]

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18 Oct: Daily Homily (Religion & Children) and Tweets

Heather Hastie — Wed, 18 Oct 2017 03:02:24 +0000

I haven’t done many religion tweets in these posts, so I’ll write about it instead. A couple of weeks ago I once again had proselytizers at the front door. This time, they were from the Seventh Day Adventist Church. One was a man in his 30s or 40s, and the other was a boy of […]

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