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http://www.cnbc.com/2015/08/24/caitlyn-jenner-halloween-costume-sparks-social-media-outrage-.html

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/ne...een-costume-labeled-817515?utm_source=twitter

It's nowhere near October, but one ensemble is already on track to be named the most controversial Halloween costume of 2015.

Social media users were out in full force on Monday criticizing several Halloween retailers for offering a Caitlyn Jenner costume reminiscent of the former-athlete's Vanity Fair cover earlier this year.

While Jenner's supporters condemned the costume as "transphobic" and "disgusting" on Twitter, Spirit Halloween, a retailer that carries the costume, defended the getup.

"At Spirit Halloween, we create a wide range of costumes that are often based upon celebrities, public figures, heroes and superheroes," said Lisa Barr, senior director of marking at Spirit Halloween. "We feel that Caitlyn Jenner is all of the above and that she should be celebrated. The Caitlyn Jenner costume reflects just that."
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Trade minister Ann Linde and other members of Sweden’s “first feminist government in the world” walked past Iranian President Rouhani yesterday as they covered their hair in compliance with Iran’s compulsory hijab law, despite Stockholm’s promise to promote “a gender equality perspective” internationally, and to adopt a “feminist foreign policy” in which “equality between women and men is a fundamental aim.”

The scene was also a sharp contrast to Deputy Prime Minister Isabella Lövin’s feminist stance against Trump, in a viral tweet and then in a Guardian op-ed last week, in which she wrote that “the world need strong leadership for women’s rights.”

Linde “sees no conflict” between her government’s human rights policy and signing trade deals with an oppressive dictatorship that tortures prisoners, persecutes gays, and is a leading executioner of minors.

In doing so, the Swedish female politicians ignored the recent appeal by Iranian women’s right activist Masih Alinejad, who urged Europeans female politicians “to stand for [their] own dignity” and refuse to wear the hijab when visiting Iran.

“So that is why I say that European female politicians are hypocrites. Because they stand up with the French Muslim women, and condemn the burkini ban—because they think compulsion is bad—but when it happens to Iran, they just care about money.”

“And they go to my country, and they ignore millions of those women who send their photos to me and put themselves in danger to be heard.”

“And [the European politicians] keep their smile, and wearing hijab, and saying this is a ‘cultural issue’—which is wrong.”
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https://www.unwatch.org/walk-shame-swedens-first-feminist-government-don-hijabs-iran/

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But if they wore genuine hijabs that'd be CULTURAL APPROPRIATION which is worse than rape.
 
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Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Popular Support for Social Movements

Social movements are critical agents of change that vary greatly in both tactics and popular support. Prior work shows that extreme protest tactics – actions that are highly counter-normative, disruptive, or harmful to others, including inflammatory rhetoric, blocking traffic, and damaging property – are effective for gaining publicity. However, we find across three experiments that extreme protest tactics decreased popular support for a given cause because they reduced feelings of identification with the movement. Though this effect obtained in tests of popular responses to extreme tactics used by animal rights, Black Lives Matter, and anti-Trump protests, we found that self-identified political activists were willing to use extreme tactics because they believed them to be effective for recruiting popular support. The activist’s dilemma – wherein tactics that raise awareness also tend to reduce popular support – highlights a key challenge faced by social movements struggling to affect progressive change.
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TL; DR: BLM and Antifa are shooting themselves in the foot by acting like spergs.
 
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Russian prankmaster duo Vovan & Lexus, which are (in)famous in Russia for trolling various politicians via phone, made a prank call to Maxine Waters, a staunchly anti-Russian Democratic congresswoman from California.

Under the guise of Ukrainian Prime Minister Groysman, they discussed things like Russian meddling in the very real African nation of Limpopo (Putin covertly supports his Limpopo puppet, Dr. Aybolit). Also, Russians occupying Donetsk and Lviv, as well as hacking Ukrainian TV to show interviews of Putin. Waters took the bait without questioning a single thing.
 
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Extreme Protest Tactics Reduce Popular Support for Social Movements

TL; DR: BLM and Antifa are shooting themselves in the foot by acting like spergs.
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This isn't really news. Early anarchists had a concept called "propaganda of the deed," which they thought would inspire popular revolution. This consisted of dramatic, violent acts, often acts of assassination or terrorism.

In actuality, the effect of these acts were invariably to inspire public horror and disgust, and justify crackdowns on even moderate dissenters by the authorities. Examples would include assassinating President McKinley and the anarchist who threw a bomb at cops at the Haymarket Riot. While the initial reactions to such events may embolden extremists, the ultimate result was to discredit the ideology entirely. Almost nobody takes anarchism or revolutionary Communism seriously any more.
 
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Russian telephone prankmaster duo Vovan & Lexus, which are (in)famous in Russia for trolling various politicians via phone, made a prank call to Maxine Waters, a staunchly anti-Russian Democratic congresswoman from California.

Under the guise of Ukrainian Prime Minister Groysman, they talked to her about things like Russian meddling in the very real African nation of Limpopo (Putin covertly supports his Limpopo puppet, Dr. Aybolit). Also, Russians occupying Donetsk and Lviv, as well as hacking Ukrainian TV to show interviews of Putin. Waters took the bait without questioning a single thing.
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Maxine Waters has been stark raving bonkers for a while now.
 
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Russian prankmaster duo Vovan & Lexus, which are (in)famous in Russia for trolling various politicians via phone, made a prank call to Maxine Waters, a staunchly anti-Russian Democratic congresswoman from California.

Under the guise of Ukrainian Prime Minister Groysman, they discussed things like Russian meddling in the very real African nation of Limpopo (Putin covertly supports his Limpopo puppet, Dr. Aybolit). Also, Russians occupying Donetsk and Lviv, as well as hacking Ukrainian TV to show interviews of Putin. Waters took the bait without questioning a single thing.
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What in the hell is Maxine Waters even doing on TV; she looks like she belongs on tour with Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem as an aging "Janice".
 
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