I realize that you think you’re providing a platform for honest discussion, but you’re actually just taking power away from oppressed groups by advertising it as “debatable” whether the N word is offensive. Slurs are not just words, and you can’t just hold “civilized discussions” without “polarization” when you’re literally proposing to debate whether or not slurs are “just words.” This kind of debate only hurts the disenfranchised and benefits those in power.
It’s true, anti-censorship is often used as the battlefield to cause grievous injury to the already dispossessed but the alternative of not letting the discussion occur, of letting bigotry and/or resentment fester without it being intelligently challenged is much worse:
1. Honest and respectful discussions must take place in order for minds to be changed.
2. Context is All.
This is some white bullshit
- Anonymous
Okay heads up for all Americans eligible to vote:
The Supreme Court just issues a ruling allowing Ohio and other states to purge voters from their election registration rolls due to their failure to cast a ballot in previous elections.
This is a major victory for the Trump administration and the GOP, and a direct consequence of the Supreme Court being stacked with more conservative judges (the votes were 5-4). This is also a huge part of what Trump/the GOP were counting on to save them in the 2018 midterm elections, which is where Democrats have been hoping to take back a majority in the House, giving them more power to combat Trump’s abuses of power and Republican legislation.
What this means is YOU CAN NOT ASSUME THAT YOU ARE REGISTERED for the 2018 elections, just because you SHOULD be. Thanks to this decision, red states can purge voters’ registration based on their not having cast a ballot in even just previous federal elections, NOT just the national Presidential elections. Effectively, if you haven’t voted in previous senate races or for congressional representatives in the past few years, that’s all they need now to say you’re no longer registered and need to register again.
They’re deliberately counting on people assuming they’re still registered and so not checking until after registration deadlines have passed, or showing up to vote this November and only then finding out they’re no longer registered, when its too late to do a damn thing about it.
And this is absolutely targeted at marginalized communities, low income voters, disabled voters, and basically anyone who simply can’t always AFFORD to keep on top of every federal election and show up to vote in every senate race, etc. Which not so coincidentally happen to be all the communities and voters who have the most to gain from Democratic victories in the 2018 midterms and are the least likely to cast votes for GOP candidates at this point.
This was absolutely a calculated effort aimed specifically at keeping the GOP in power with a majority control of the government come November, and unfortunately, it has a DAMN good chance of accomplishing just that if it goes by unacknowledged. I’m not looking to alarm or panic anyone, simply to say:
If you are a registered voter in a red state at this point, please please please do not take your registered status as assumed. Check on your registration status, look up all relevant voter registration deadlines for your state and district, CIRCLE THAT SHIT ON YOUR CALENDAR, and check your registration status AGAIN right before those deadlines pass, so you can be sure of it before its too late to do anything about it til the next voting cycle.
Yikes
Reblog this shit right now
(via lady-feral)
I’m writing this on January 18, 2018. On January 21st, 4chan’s /pol/ and a bunch of miscellaneous alt righters and Neo-Nazis will be conducting this “campaign”. Here’s @pennsylvanian-patriot (a known Nazi) jumping the gun early here on Tumblr with a post that already has a thousand notes.
They’ve put a lot of work into it, both graphic design and organization-wise. To the average person who doesn’t hate immigrants, it might not make sense. How is this ugly, weirdly juvenile graphic supposed to convince anyone of anything? Yet they believe it’s political genius. They believe it will piss off feminists while simultaneously persuading “normies” to hate immigrants.
So let’s turn the focus 180 degrees and talk about exactly why they think it’s such smart and clever culture-jamming, because it’s part of the fascist mindset, and as such really important to understand in order to combat.
Fascism is above all an anti-human worldview. We all have tendencies to want to dehumanize groups of people we don’t like, but fascism takes it to the next level and absolutely requires that widescale dehumanization. Jewish people, people of color, disabled, and on and on. The flip side of this constant drive to dehumanize is that they’re also always turning things human that aren’t human. In this case, nation-states.
As someone broadly on the left, I have a clear understanding of what nation states are, a basic foundational pedestal on which more complicated political and economic systems get layered: a nation state is a collection of people. A corporation is also a collection of people. Nation states are not people. Corporations are not people. People are people.
Fascists either don’t understand this, or have made themselves willfully forget due to creepy psychosexual reasons. The nation state is always viewed as a highly sexualized allegory. The nation state is ideally ruled by a stern father figure, but if it allows entry of dehumanized people (immigrants of color), that entry converts the masculine authority into a female receiving things into her body. This is also why they’re so obsessed with the word “cuck,” by the way: it combines misogyny and the fear of having something female that you “own” penetrated by the “other” (a masculine Black body).
If you don’t believe me, do your own research. People have been studying the fascist rape/racism/sexual-paranoia complex on a popular and academic level since at least the 1930s.
When I talk about immigration, I start off with the foundation that people are people. Indigenous people are people. Settlers are people. Immigrants are people. Borders are not organic, like human skin: they’re a cold legal fiction erected to allow some people to exert power over other people. For example, if a US corporation wants to take advantage of cheaper Mexican labor, the border facilitates the flow of their capital investment and the extraction of cheaper goods, but if a Mexican laborer wants to cross the same border to take advantage of higher US wages, the border attempts to destroy her.
The “My Borders My Choice” campaign doesn’t want people to think in those terms. They don’t want you to think at all. They want you to experience emotions: FEAR and RAGE and LOATHING and FUCK and RAPE and RAGE and FEAR. They want to mash down a button to your lizard brain, short-circuiting both rationality and empathy.
Hopefully it’ll only make more people turn against them.
tl;dr: A new grassroots international anti-immigrant campaign tells us a lot about the fascist mindset and how it’s absolutely obsessed with racist rape metaphors.
(via lady-feral)
Spectacle is now live! Go read the first pages!
The webcomic will update MWF. If you get impatient, issue 1 will be available on Oct 11 in its entirety on platforms like Comixology, with new issues coming out every month. This is also a good way to support the comic and keep it getting made! The first volume will be available in print summer 2018.
I’m so massively proud of this! I started working on this six years ago, watched it grow and change and evolve into a strong story with the help of the lovely people at Oni guiding me. Oh babes I hope you enjoy this spooky canvas opera we have made for you.
She got so mad she wrote song lyrics and edited a video and everything omg
this is so extra i love it
(Source: youtube.com, via darthmiho)
i dont get offended at white people jokes even though im white because:
- i can recognize white people as a whole have systemically oppressed POC in america, which is where i live
- most people when they make white people jokes only mean the shitty white people and i am not a shitty white person
- im not a pissbaby
my white friends that have reblogged this give me life
4. Sometimes I am a shitty white person and the jokes remind me to FUCKIN STOP
If ur white and like this post I fux with u
^absolutely
5. It’s hard to be offended when white people jokes involve bland food/tourist dads in socks and sandals/white girls in yoga pants obsessed with pumpkin spice/suburban PTA moms and other harmless and mostly true stereotypes while jokes about POC involve them being called thugs/criminals/slurs/uneducated/illegal immigrants.
i fucks with u heavy if ur white and you reblog this
6. They’re usually really fucking funny and don’t perpetuate stereotypes that will ever affect me economically, politically, or cause me any true harm, let alone create risks that “justify” my murder and/or death
Waits for my white mutuals to reblog😌
yesyesyesyes
7. I still don’t know how to season chicken
8. the dancing thing is right i can’t dance for shit
(via darthmiho)
Naomi Campbell | Alex Kovas
INTERVIEW Magazine | 2010
Photography | Mert Alas & Marcus Piggot
(via artifuss)
i cannot fucking believe i never realized this
So as a division officer to nearly 60 sailors over 3 years. I asked every single one. “What made you join the Navy?” Here is the breakdown.
80% - To pay for college
10% - To get out of a bad family situation
5% - Family Tradition
5% - Because of 9/11.The answer is yes.
(via rosalarian)
Episodes of Beat Bobby Flay where Bobby Loses
season 1: episodes 1, 4
season 2: episodes 2, 5, 9, 12
season 3: episodes 4, 8, 11
season 4: episodes 1, 5, 6, 11
season 5: episodes 2, 6, 10, 12
season 6: episodes 2, 6, 9, 10
season 7: episodes 1, 5, 6
season 8: episodes 1, 5, 8, 9, 12
season 9: episodes 1, 3, 5, 7, 10
season 10: episodes 3, 6, 9, 11
season 11: episodes 1, 4, 8, 12
season 12: episodes 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10doing the lord’s work
(via macabrekawaii)