y'all isn’t it wild how white people do not consider the KKK as a terrorist group
But the government does
The KKK are also devout Christians but no one seems to be in a rush to condemn Christianity as a terrorist religion
And maybe the government does consider some of them to be a terrorist group, but you notice how they aren’t being dismantled as fast as the Black Panther Party was. In fact, several of them are up for nomination to the new administration and not a single one of them has been arrested for publicly being part of a known terror organization.
Steve Bannon hails Satan, Darth Vader and Dick Cheney in new interview with The Hollywood Reporter. He also claimed he’s not a white nationalist but an “economic nationalist.”
Valhalla does not discriminate against the kind of fight you lost. Did you lose the battle with cancer? Maybe you died in a fist fight. Even facing addiction. After taking a deep drink from his flagon, Odin slams his cup down and asks for the glorious tale of your demise!
Oh my god, this is beautiful.
A small child enters Valhalla. The battle they lost was “hiding from an alcoholic father.” Odin sees the flinch when he slams the cup and refrains from doing it again. He hears the child’s pain; no glorious battle this, but one of fear and wretched survival.
He invites the child to sit with him, offers the choicest mead and instructs his men to bring a sword and shield, a bow and arrow, of the very best materials and appropriate size. “Here,” he says, “you will find no man who dares to harm you. But so you will know your own strength, and be happy all your days in Valhalla, I will teach you to use these weapons.”
The sad day comes when another child enters the hall. Odin does not slam his cup; he simply beams with pride as the first child approaches the newcomer, and holds out her bow and quiver, and says “nobody here will hurt you. Everyone will be so proud you did your best, and I’ll teach you to use these, so you always know how strong you are.”
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A young man enters the hall. He hesitates when Odin asks his story, but at long last, it ekes out: skinheads after the Pride parade. His partner got into a building and called for help. The police took a little longer than perhaps they really needed to, and two of those selfsame skinheads are in the hospital now with broken bones that need setting, but six against one is no fair match. The fear in his face is obvious: here, among men large enough to break him in two, will he face an eternity of torment for the man he left behind?
Odin rumbles with anger. Curses the low worms who brought this man to his table, and regales him with tales of Loki so to show him his own welcome. “A day will come, my friend, when you seek to be reunited, and so you shall,” Odin tells him. “To request the aid of your comrades in battle is no shameful thing.”
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A woman in pink sits near the head of the table. She’s very nearly skin and bones, and has no hair. This will not last; health returns in Valhalla, and joy, and light, and merrymaking. But now her soul remembers the battle of her life, and it must heal.
Odin asks.
And asks again.
And the words pour out like poisoned water, things she couldn’t tell her husband or children. The pain of chemotherapy. The agony of a mastectomy, the pain still deeper of “we found a tumor in your lymph nodes. I’m so sorry.” And at last, the tortured question: what is left of her?
Odin raises his flagon high. “What is left of you, fair warrior queen, is a spirit bright as fire; a will as strong as any forged iron; a life as great as any sea. Your battle was hard-fought, and lost in the glory only such furor can bring, and now the pain and fight are behind you.“
In the months to come, she becomes a scop of the hall–no demotion, but simple choice. She tells the stories of the great healers, Agnes and Tanya, who fought alongside her and thousands of others, who turn from no battle in the belief that one day, one day, the war may be won; the warriors Jessie and Mabel and Jeri and Monique, still battling on; the queens and soldiers and great women of yore.
The day comes when she calls a familiar name, and another small, scarred woman, eyes sunken and dark, limbs frail, curly black hair shaved close to her head, looks up and sees her across the hall. Odin descends from his throne, a tall and foaming goblet in his hands, and stuns the hall entire into silence as he kneels before the newcomer and holds up the goblet between her small dark hands and bids her to drink.
“All-Father!” the feasting multitudes cry. “What brings great Odin, Spear-Shaker, Ancient One, Wand-Bearer, Teacher of Gods, to his knees for this lone waif?”
He waves them off with a hand.
“This woman, LaTeesha, Destroyer of Cancer, from whom the great tumors fly in fear, has fought that greatest battle,” he says, his voice rolling across the hall. “She has fought not another body, but her own; traded blows not with other limbs but with her own flesh; has allowed herself to be pierced with needles and scored with knives, taken poison into her very veins to defeat this enemy, and at long last it is time for her to put her weapons down. Do you think for a moment this fight is less glorious for being in silence, her deeds the less for having been aided by others who provided her weapons? She has a place in this great hall; indeed, the highest place.”
And the children perform feats of archery for the entertainment of all, and the women sing as the young man who still awaits his beloved plays a lute–which, after all, is not so different from the guitar he once used to break a man’s face in that great final fight.
Valhalla is a place of joy, of glory, of great feasting and merrymaking.
Ever wonder how big wolves are and why running from them is a really bad idea?
This had me so fucked up the first time I worked at the zoo. Because honestly they just look like big German-Huskies when they’re not wild. They look like big puppies. And then… they get close to you… And it’s suddenly kinda fucking terrifying. Like “oh this is the animal that used to scare people shitless.” “This is the animal that used to run through nightmares and poems so much.” And you suddenly fucking get it. As cool as these animals are far away, as important as the animals are in their natural environment, as much as we need them to survive… they’re still pretty fucking terrifying
can you believe these things became our friends
And then people domesticated them and now sleep with them in their beds.
We’re not a species meant to last
I’d actually argue the opposite!
We took these super efficient killing machines and befriended them and now they love and protect us as much as we (ideally) love and protect them
Cats basically domesticated themselves so that they could share in our food, medical care, and affection
In urban spaces, prey species know that there’s a higher likelihood that humans will help you if you’re stuck or injured than them killing or maiming you
It’s just, over time we see trends of our species overcoming environmental pressures that would and do lead to extinction in other species by sharing and forming close bonds with other sentient organisms and just kinda… aggressively community-bonding our way out of it?
For a long time there’s been this pervading idea that we, as a species, are just innately violent and terrible and “sinful” and it’s been that violence that let us survive (see the hunting hypothesis of human evolution). But that’s not what we see
We are, at our core, a species that looks into the face of something other, and thinks “I wonder if they want to be friends?” so long as the individual isn’t actively trying to kill us. Sure, tons of people do awful things every day, but for every terrible act or thought on this Earth, there are a dozen acts of kindness that people do casually for complete strangers
So yeah. We looked at these massive fluffy monsters with the sharp claws and crushing jaws rooting in our garbage just beyond the campfire and thought, the way no other species before or after us has done to the same extent; “They look friend-shaped!”
And they were. And that is how we got to be the dominant species on this planet
Friend shaped is the best phrase ever, dogs, wolves, humanity
News flash to anyone who follows liberal media: electroshock conversion therapy hasn’t been used since the 50s. Conversion therapy today just means TALKING TO A THERAPIST. And in any case, it’s not going to work (even if the patient complies), so don’t get your panties in a bunch.
To the people still rioting in the streets over the election results: you do realize you’re doing the exact opposite of uniting our country, right?
We sucked it up and let Obama be president for four more years, and you can’t grow up and give Trump a chance?
Mike Pence wanted to see a musical. That’s all.
Lmao wow yeah okay someone clearly doesn’t actually know what conversion therapy entails or the meaning of the word “riot”. I don’t have the time rn to educate because my queer disabled ass has to get to work, but if anyone would care to enlighten this person I highly encourage you to do so.
That said, Mike Pence is a bigot and I think he got exactly what he fucking deserved for going to a show created and performed by the minorities he hates so much. Even if I WERE to give president-elect overcooked carrot a chance, he blew it when he chose a raging antisemite as his chief strategist, soooooo….
I got you, Mat.
Problem 1 - Misunderstanding of what Conversion Therapy entails in 2016
- here’s the 2009 American Psychological Association report in which they find that not only does conversion therapy have no scientific basis, it also has essentially no benefits and causes significant harm, especially to adolescents
- sadly I can’t find any of the peer-reviewed stuff done by Shidlo and Schroeder in the late 90s/early 00s up on open-access, but they’ve written a considerable body of work on the ethical dubiousness of conversion therapy, as well as the increased risk of suicide for those subjected to it (again, particularly adolescents)
- here’s the PolitiFact page where they collect the references for Mike Pence advocating the removal of funding for HIV support and prevention, and instead using that funding for conversion therapy (hey, did you know that the show that Mike Pence went to and got boo-ed at is currently starring an HIV-positive brown gay guy and has a cast almost entirely made up of POC? Gay people and POCs: good enough to watch on stage, not good enough to be granted health care or protection from discrmination.)
- for added flavor, here’s the Huff Post article about how Mike Pence let an HIV outbreak in his state go on for months because he refused to allow the distribution of clean needles to IV drug users. Here’s the New York Times article about the same incident (does the NYT count as liberal media? I’m never sure) in which they’re much kinder about the fact that it took multiple people several months to convince him to stop the outbreak.
Problem 2 - this odd conception that people protesting against the cheetoh are doing it because their liberal feels have been hurt
(disclaimer: I’m Canadian. So I’ve got maybe half a horse in this race, because a) there are people I love who live in the US, and b) the US’s bullshit inevitably flows North)
- here’s a compilation of all the horrible things that the Cheetoh has said during his campaign (includes racism against essentially every group of non-white people available, blatant misogyny, promises of institutionalized discrimination against the LGBT community, and the part where he mocked a disabled reporter. Oh - and also he’s promised to repeal the ACA, which for many chronically disabled people is the only way they can afford healthcare.)
- hey did you know that the Cheetoh lost the popular vote? more people voted for Hilary than voted for him. Here’sthreearticles that point out how the Republicans’ ongoing war on voter rights helped lead to your Cheetoh in chief.
- I like how everyone conveniently forgets that Republicansprotestedbothof Obama’s wins. (Sorry, OP, those sources are all probably too “liberal” for you, but uh. For what should be obvious reasons, conservative media isn’t particularly interested in pointing out this piece of hypocrisy.)
This isn’t a sourced fact, I’m just curious. You do understand that people aren’t protesting just because there’s a Republican in office, right?
They’re protesting because they are fucking scared.
Trump has appointed a white nationalist as his chief strategist, and a man who was refused a judgeship under Reagan because he was too racist (for the Reagan era!) as his pick for ADA. He’s put his support behind FADA, which essentially strips LGBTQ people and women (and, arguably, other minorities) of federal protection from discrimination, as long as the person doing the discriminating claims that it’s part of their religion. He’s put his support behind mass-deportations of undocumented immigrants, which will not only tear apart families but also I’m pretty sure crash the American economy. He’s put his support behind forcing American citizens who happen to be Muslim to register with a central authority which, I don’t know how well you know your history, but that has some really scary historical parallels. One of his spokespeople was on Fox News last night saying that the internment of Japanese-Americans during WWII set a good historical precedent for what the Trump Administration would like to do to Muslim-Americans.
Let me re-emphasize this for you. An official Trump spokesperson. Went on national TV. And said that one of the most significant human rights violations in your country’s history. Is a good historical precedent.
I’m white and Canadian and your president-elect fucking scares me shitless.
How do you think people who are actually going to have to live under his policies feel?
(Please - tell me what you had to suck up under Obama. Which of your rights did he threaten to violate? How were you, a white, presumably straight American - based on your tumblr picture - how was your physical safety compromised?)
@HamiltonMusical: Tonight, VP-Elect Mike Pence attended #HamiltonBway. After the show, @BrandonVDixon delivered the following statement on behalf of the show.
A funny thing about introducing a new queen into a hive that has lost its queen (or one that you’ve killed because her brood was too fighty).
You have to introduce the new queen into the hive with these special queen cages that are stopped up with candy, and are open enough to let the hive smell the new queen, but not open enough that they can get in there and kill her.
Because they will kill her.
When you first put the new queen in she smells like an intruder, but by the time it takes the bees to eat through the candy and free the queen, the queen’s pheromones will have had time to work and the hive will have gotten used to her.
From the outside this kinda seems like:
“Yeh, we were all going to murder you to death before, but we’re full of candy now, so we’re cool. Oh yeh, and how about you be the new queen and stuff. Yeh, that’s cool too.”
beekeeping is really weird
Listen, strange bee queens lyin’ in cages distributin’ candy is no basis for a system of government.
“A man’s appetite can be hearty, but a woman with an appetite is always voracious: her hunger always overreaches, because it is not supposed to exist. If she wants food, she is a glutton. If she wants sex, she is a slut. If she wants emotional care-taking, she is a high-maintenance bitch or, worse, an “attention whore”: an amalgam of sex-hunger and care-hunger, greedy not only to be fucked and paid but, most unforgivably of all, to be noticed.”
“And, just about now, somewhere in the manosphere, someone is furiously typing, “Stop whining, women over there are really suffering,” which actually means “Shut up and consider yourself lucky that we treat you as well as we do.” The idea that women’s rights are measured in terms of competition with other women is just about as sexist as something can get. It demonstrates an utter inability to imagine a world where women’s rights aren’t being traded and regulated by men.”
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Soraya Chemaly, ‘What Exactly Does ‘It’s A Man’s World’ Mean?’
For those of you who don’t know the context here, that woman lived in a period when women couldn’t vote and was meeting the nation’s first female presidential candidate.
The second photo is her watching one of the most qualified women in history with 30+ years geopolitical experience lose to a racist, sexist yam in a hair piece.
“I must make two honest confessions to you… First, I must confess that over the past few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro’s great stumbling block in his stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen’s Counciler or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate, who is more devoted to “order” than to justice; who prefers a negative peace which is the absence of tension to a positive peace which is the presence of justice; who constantly says: “I agree with you in the goal you seek, but I cannot agree with your methods of direct action”; who paternalistically believes he can set the timetable for another man’s freedom; who lives by a mythical concept of time and who constantly advises the Negro to wait for a “more convenient season.” Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will. Lukewarm acceptance is much more bewildering than outright rejection.”
—Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “Letter from a Birmingham Jail
The MLK quote that white people love to ignore. The whole “stop being so angry MLK would want you to love and forgive!” shit falls apart when you know exactly how he felt about those kinds of statements. -V
Well, I'm white, so that pretty much makes me a threat to everyone alive, so I should probably register.
In a stunning speech on Thursday at a first-of-its-kind summit on anti-Semitism, Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, pushed back against the rising tide of hatred in this country with an extraordinary promise:
And we must stand with our fellow Americans who may be singled out for how they look, who they love, where they’re from or how they pray.
And let me say this. There recently have been reports that the new Administration plans to force Muslim-Americans to register for some sort of master government list.
Look, Islamic extremism is a threat to us all. But as Jews, we know what it means to be registered and tagged, held out as different from our fellow citizens.
As Jews, we know the righteous and just response. All of us have heard the story of the Danish king who said if his country’s Jews had to wear a gold star … all of Denmark would too.
So I pledge to you right here and now, because I care about the fight against anti-Semitism, that if one day in these United States, if one day Muslim-Americans will be forced to register their identities, then that is the day that this proud Jew will register as a Muslim. [emphasis added]
Because fighting prejudice against the marginalized is not just the fight of those minorities. It’s our fight. Just as the fight against anti-Semitism is not only the fight of us Jews. It’s everyone’s fight.
look man im a native english speaker and i’ve been mispronouncing a crap ton of words because i never looked up the pronunciation for any of them but if you make fun of how a foreigner pronounces an english word either because of their accent or having never heard that word before i will fucking fight you because english has shitty pronunciation rules and none of them make sense fuck off
