Like when I say ‘white people need to talk to bigots because bigots don’t listen to minorities’ I did not say ‘and it will be easy and fun’.
I know it’s easier to be like ~boo hooo the world is so evil and there’s nothing I can dooo~ but it’s statistically and experientially understood, just by fucking 3rd grade logic, that a bigot will be less amenable towards the subject of their bigotry.
Bigots don’t just ~not like~ minorities- they don’t think we’re human. It’s not about whether they agree with you or not in the moment. Like, pause.
Understand this:
Calls to action for white people to oppose bigotry are calls for white people to position themselves as opposition. THEY ARE NOT CALLS FOR ~SUCCESSFUL DEBATE~
Do not think you are expected nor are you likely to just go around arguing with bigots and they’ll go ‘I agree with you because you’re white!’.
Your job is to be sandpaper.
Every time they open their mouths to make a bigoted joke, or a bigoted remark, or post their shitty bigoted opinion online, you grate against them.
Your job is to make it hard to be a bigot or a fascist. Your job is to ostracize them. Your job is to speak over them the way they love to speak over minorities. Your job is to make it difficult, lonely, annoying, stressful and unwelcome to be a bigot.
When you are white and silent, You are making it easy. You are just letting it happen.
When minorities speak up for themselves, they are in danger, and the bigot just writes off our arguments as the chattering of ‘lessers’.
You, white people, whether you think so or not, are their peers.
Specifically those of you who look and talk like, to an outside observation, your average white american.
Bigots think you all think like them, but are too scared to say it. That, or you’re too much of a coward to stop them.
YOUR JOB IS TO PUSH BACK AND PROVE THEM WRONG.
YOUR JOB IS TO SEPARATE THEM FROM THEIR OWN COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
There are devils among you and if you want to stop being associated with them then fucking prove it. You’re pretty much the only people who can.
From the moment you cross the café’s doorstep, you are greeted by comic strips plastered all over the interior, from walls and floors to the furniture and dishes, so you can’t help but feel as if you magically found a secret entrance to the unreal comic world.
First of all, I can’t believe this has almost 3,000 notes. I’m so glad that people are sharing this – both as a cool design, and also as an important accessibility feature.
Thanks to pseudosoph for linking to additional info (above) regarding weight limits, lift height, and product background – the creator is a wheelchair user himself! Very cool stuff. Keep sharing!
This isn’t a fail. Just wanted to share an accessibility win so people can get ideas for improving accessibility
After his release from prison, Wright obtained his undergraduate degree in 2002, entering law school in 2004 and graduating from St. Thomas University School of Law in 2007. Passing the New Jersey Bar in 2008, he spent the next nine years being investigated by the New Jersey Bar’s Committee on Character before being granted admission to the bar by the New Jersey Supreme Court on September 27, 2017.
On September 27, 2017, Wright became the only person in U.S. history to be condemned to life in prison, secure his own release and exoneration and then be granted a license to practice law by the very court that condemned him.
Wright got his 1991 conviction overturned by exposing the gross corruption and misconduct within the court that convicted him, the prosecutors office and the police force. This allowed Wright to successfully get rid of his life sentence but he remained in prison on numerous other convictions with sentences totaling over 70 years. Wright’s ultimate release came as a result of his cross-examination of veteran police detective, James Dugan. Dugan’s confession opened revelations of wide and systematic misconduct and cover-up in Wright’s case. Then Somerset County Prosecutor, Nicholas L. Bissell, Jr., who tried Wright’s case personally was fingered as being the orchestrator of that misconduct, directing police officers to falsify their police reports while he personally dictated the false testimony of witnesses against Wright and made secret deals with defense attorneys to have their clients lie to the jury that Wright was their drug boss and that they had plead guilty and were going to prison, when in-fact, they were never going to spend a day in jail.
Dugan pled guilty to official misconduct in order to escape prison. Wright’s trial judge, Michael Imbriani, was removed from the bench and sent to prison on theft charges and Bissell, after learning of Dugan’s confession on TV news, took flight with federal authorities in pursuit. As police were kicking in the door of his Las Vegas hotel room, Bissell put a revolver to his head and pulled the trigger, committing suicide. Wright’s remaining convictions were vacated and he was immediately released from prison. The charges were dropped and the case against him dismissed.
Wright now works at the Law Firm Hunt, Hamlin & Ridley located in Newark, New Jersey, and is to have said “I went to law school for one reason and one reason only, To slay giants for a price. And if the giant is big enough and the cause is important enough, I’ll do it for free, especially when it involves helping those who cannot help themselves.”
ultimate power move: law your way out of jail and convict the people who wrongly convicted you
Have reached the point in Ashlesha with the Breakfast Brick.
Brain goes : I wonder if @deadcatwithaflamethrower has an actual recipe for the Brick, and if not I want to figure it out
…*headdesk*
Guess who really does have a recipe for Breakfast Brick? 😀
BREAKFAST BRICK (More delicious than it sounds.)
One 10oz. box of brown rice cereal–or normal Rice Krispies. Heathens.
2 TBSP. of minced ginger (NO sulfites are preservatives or flavors in that; fresh is best but jars without extra crap in them exist.)
3 jumbo brown eggs (Use white if you must. Double-heathens.) 4 Egg whites will also be fine if you can’t have sulfas like egg yolks.
1 full stick of salted organic butter (or whatever butter but NOT margarine)
6 TBSP. evaporated cane juice (granulated sugar, triple heathens)
1 tsp. salt
Pre-heat oven to 400 degrees (convection) or 425 degrees (non-convection).
Grease a cookie sheet that’s at least 9×12 that has edges–not a flat pan, but not a deep one, either. Spray high-heat coconut oil works; Spectrum shortening does also. (Other shortenings and sprays may change the flavor profile.)
Get a big microwave-safe mixing bowl. Put in the stick of butter and zap it until it melts, or melt it in a stove pan before pouring it into the mixing bowl. Add eggs, ginger, sugar, and salt; whisk together until uniformly mixed and the eggs are trying to be fluffy. (Don’t use a blender; that’s overdoing it.)
Pour the entire 10oz of cereal into your concoction and mix with a big spoon until cereal is evenly coated. It won’t be sodden, but if it seems like you have cereal that doesn’t have any concoction on it at all, whisk up another egg in a different bowl and pour it in.
Poor the big glob of cereal stuff onto your greased cookie sheet. Use hands coated with another spray of coconut oil or a sheet of saran wrap to press the cereal glob into more a less a 1/2″ to 1″ high shape that fills the cookie sheet.Bake for 5-7 minutes. That’s just enough time for the eggs to cook, because you don’t want to eat them raw…well, usually you don’t.
Remove from oven, allow to cool, and then start yanking off pieces and eating them. They are legit nom, which is terrifying.
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