Abstract ideas like "justice" are hard for some people to understand. Spewing hate and telling others to kill themselves is not "justice", it's hypocrisy. It drives people away from your cause and makes justice even more unattainable.
Poet
Taylor Steele captures the problem with appropriating Black slang.
In her poem “AAVE” (which stands for African-American Vernacular English) Taylor Steele explains why appropriation of Black slang is the worst. African-American culture is being popularized on a daily basis and while Black people are judged and mistreated for using something they came up with ages ago, White people come off as cool and original when they use it.
They can have AAVE, but they need to give up all technology and comforts created by everyone except black people. I have no sympathy for people who want to hoard whatever they create for themselves but ever so eager to partake in the fruits of every other races labor.
>AAVE is a language, you’re racist if you expect black people to speak textbook English
>White people can’t learn or use AAVE, that’s cultural appropriation, it’s racist
I expected it to be full of body parts or creepy dolls or some shit because its Sixpenceee, but they actually found a preserves seller. That’s so neat.
And after they let the preserves seller out they explored the preserves cellar!
Anonymous asked: Why the ef does it matter if Sanders was a Draft Dodger anyway? All draft dodger were pardoned under the Ford administration so it's not like it actually matters anymore.
Someone who actively avoided service, especially illegally, might not make such a good Commander-In-Chief. Plus, there are all those wars he voted in favor for…Send someone else, just not me?!? It’s hypocritical.
What the term POC is supposed to do: Replace the word minority, which can have negative connotations, and vaguely describe any group of people who aren’t white
What the term POC is NOT supposed to do:
Replace the word black when you’re talking SPECIFICALLY about black people
Allow non black POC to make their struggles and black struggles interchangeable
Allow non black POC to be anti black under the guise of “solidarity”
This has been a public service announcement.
Also it’s a noun people! POC actors, POC people,POC fans, all that shit doesn’t fly!
So basically it’s to lump all non-whites together into a homogenous group when it suits black POC To use them, but not when it’s inconvenient for black POC (see: Flint water issue vs. Native American water issue)
Also, POC is NOT a noun, it’s an adjective, which modifies a noun, according to the example above:
POC actor- noun, actor; adjective, POC. The adjective POC modifies the noun, actor, telling you WHAT KIND of actor is the subject of the sentence.
When used alone, the P in POC is the noun and the OC is the adjective Noun - Person; adjective - Color (of is a conjunction used to connect the noun and adjective) The conjunction+adjective Of Color modifies the noun Person, telling you WHAT KIND of person is the subject of the sentence.
Why is there silence and even support for Alison Rapp, who used to work for Nintendo as a PR employee until this week, even though she has publicly expressed questionable opinions about legalizing pedophilia on social media?
*Context added below by dearfeminists staff*
Alison Rapp was a Nintendo
PR employee who was fired for moonlighting with another job which is a violation of company policy.
Afterwards many feminists on twitter claimed she was really fired because anti-feminists/white supremacists within gamergate secretly convinced Nintendo to fire her since they were offended that Nintendo would allow women to work in their company.
Afterwards it was discovered that Alison Rapp had frequently tweeted in support of pedophilia, legalizing child pornography, lowering the age of concent, and defended men accused of sexually assualting children.
After these tweets were discovered websites like Kotaku and Tech Times either ignored them and continued to report she was fired because anti-feminists don’t want women in the work force and Nintendo is copable. Or (as some feminists even argueed) the reason why anyone would be offended with a person advocating for the legalization of child porn is because they don’t beleive women should have freedom of speech.
It seems strange how if a man makes a sexist joke on twitter feminists will dox him and get him fired from his job, but if a woman literally defends pedophiles molesters and gets fired from her job for unrelated reasons feminists will say it’s a violation of her freedom of speech…
They also like to say “Only the government can violate free speech”… Except for when it’s Alison Rapp, then suddenly Nintendo gains awesome governmental powers somehow.
Alison Rapp deserved to get fired on so many different kevels. I almost wish Nintendo could hire her back just so they could fire her again.
I think that inheriting racist institutions comes with certain obligations.
Like, things were set up in the US to give white people unearned power at the expense of black people. Which means that as a white person in the US, I *have* unearned power. I have less unearned power than most white people because I am also disabled, but I am still white and that still matters.
I don’t want things to be unequal. I don’t want to have unearned power and I don’t want anyone to be oppressed.
But the fact of the matter is that I *do* have unearned power.
And that may not be my fault, but I do think that it is in some sense my responsibility.
And it’s like also — I’m proud to be an American and it’s a major part of who I am. And I think part of what makes patriotism an ok and good thing is being willing to acknowledge the awful parts of my country as well rather than pretending they don’t exist, and accepting the obligations as well as the benefits.
See I think we’re looking at this whole thing all wrong. The average white person doesn’t have,any power. What power? The power to have their vote ignored in elections? The power to lose their home in a housing bubble? Maybe the power to have their job shipped to a country with cheaper labor? The average white person has no power at all.
What the TRUTH is, is that people of color have UNDESERVED DISADVANTAGES.
the panama papers: the biggest secret data leak in history (a concise masterpost)
so what is it?
they are leaked documents that contain information from Panama based Mossack Fonseca, “a law firm that specializes in the creation of off shore accounts designed to hide wealth in tiny island tax havens”
this video sums up what is in the documents (tw: sex slavery, death)
mostly because it incriminates some of the world’s top politicians and key wealthy individuals as they engage in off-shore laundering, tax evasion, and other crimes (x)
David Cameron’s father is one of the ppl involved and I’m entirely unsurprised.
And this is not just about rich people dodging taxes; it’s about criminals and dictators hiding their ill-gotten wealth too. Some of the other people linked to this also include former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak and Muammar Gaddafi.
Why isn’t the raw data available though
Why are we relying on the press to read and interpret these documents for us
