Tag: fairness

rallyforbernie:

Aleppo is being besieged and bombed by Russian and Assad forces for days now. Their electricity and water supply are faltering, there’s 30 doctors for hundreds of millions of people, UN supplies are being held up because of the intensity of the attacks, and the people have no way out. This is a humanitarian tragedy on every scale.

scottymouth:

George Michael’s life was constantly trailed by homophobic media that painted him as a sexual deviant and a drug addicted train wreck “corrupted” by the gay lifestyle. In reality, George Michael was an artist who, for a large portion of his life, was forced to hide his sexuality and live a lie in a pre-millennium society that emotionally punished anybody whose orientation challenged heteronormative expectations. Let us not forget the paths paved by people like George Michael: those who bravely came out during a time when closet doors were locked from the outside.

plaidadder:

laurakvstheworld:

fromchaostocosmos:

dearnonacepeople:

the-movemnt:

White supremacists target Jewish community of Whitefish, Montana

  • White supremacists across the country have focused their attention on Whitefish, Montana, because of neo-Nazi Richard Spencer.
  • Spencer’s parents Rand and Sherry Spencer live in Whitefish.
  • Earlier this month, the town took a firm stance against Spencer’s rhetoric.
  • A city council meeting included the reading of a recently approved proclamation that “repudiates the ideas and ideology of the founder of the so-called alt-right as a direct affront to the community’s core values.”
  • An activist in the town called for a boycott and protest of the businesses in a building owned by Sherry Spencer. 
  • In response, Andrew Anglin wrote an article for The Daily Stormer in which he targets Jewish Whitefish residents, exposing their contact information.
  • The article, entitled “Jews Targeting Richard Spencer’s Mother for Harassment and Exortion. TAKE ACTION!” uses anti-Jewish slurs and describes the Jewish people as “a vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths.“ 
  • Anglin calls on supporters to “hit [the named targets] up,” asking “Are y’all ready for an old-fashioned troll storm?“ 
  • Targeted individuals and human rights organizations, as well as city council members, have received death threats since the article was published. Local businesses in support of human rights have also been harassed. Read more

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Don’t forget they also released the name and social media information of a Jewish 7th grader who is a child of an activist. These monsters aren’t opposed to coming after our children.

They have always been okay with coming for Jewish children because to then Jews an infestation and thus not children or human.

PLEASE PROTECT MY PEOPLE PLEASE ACT

OK, so, someone obviously needs to introduce anti-doxxing legislation. I mean it’s time. The law would have to be written very narrowly to avoid abuse, but it could be. I know we’re going to be playing defense for the next 4 years but this really should be introduced at the federal level by the Democrats even if it never passes. There is no form of legitimate protest that requires you to doxx an individual. But that’s for the long term.

In the short term, I might suggest that concerned netizens make a donation to Love Lives Here, which has been working in the Whitefish area since, it appears, 2014, and probably deserves our support anyway. 

odinsblog:

Paul Ryan once argued that “liberal government programs give people comfort, but not dignity.”

And to justify cutting Welfare and defunding food programs, Republicans disingenuously equate having the basic necessities needed to live — like food — to dignity. Following that logic, are we to believe that wealthy people somehow have more dignity than poor people, because they have more access to more resources like housing, food and clean drinking water? Do the mostly white residents of Bismarck North Dakota have more dignity than the Native Americans at Standing Rock? Do Donald Trump’s children somehow have more “dignity” than does Little Miss Flint? Because Trump’s children don’t need to depend on free lunch programs?

Wealth ≠ dignity.

Access to resources ≠ dignity.

People living in or born into poverty do not have less dignity. They have less wealth and less political power.

Providing free school lunches to children living in poverty doesn’t “give kids an empty soul” it simply feeds hungry children. Feeding a hungry child lunch is not “giving them undue comfort” or making them lazy, it’s simply feeding a hungry child. How did feeding hungry children become a controversial act for “Christian” conservatives?

Intentionally starving children to teach them the “dignity” of hunger is inhumane.

Stop stigmatizing poverty. Stop equating poverty with a lack of dignity. Stop reinforcing the notion that poor people have no dignity just because they’re poor. There is no nobility in starvation, and there is no benevolence in allowing children or anyone else to go hungry when you possess the power to prevent it.

Interesting you should bring up the ‘Christanity’ of these people, because there’s something the man himself has to say about that:
Matthew 25:34-40 – Then the king will say to those on his right, ‘Come, my Father has blessed you! Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the creation of the world. I was hungry, and you gave me something to eat. I was thirsty, and you gave me something to drink. I was a stranger, and you took me into your home. I needed clothes, and you gave me something to wear. I was sick, and you took care of me. I was in prison, and you visited me.’ Then the people who have God’s approval will reply to him, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry and feed you or see you thirsty and give you something to drink? When did we see you as a stranger and take you into our homes or see you in need of clothes and give you something to wear? When did we see you sick or in prison and visit you?’ The king will answer them, ‘I can guarantee this truth: Whatever you did for one of my brothers or sisters, no matter how unimportant they seemed, you did for me.’

anniemikasas:

If you’re a fan of Moulin Rouge or Great Gatsby, watch The Get Down because it was created by Baz Luhrmann, who also co-wrote and directed both films. 

If you like musicals, watch The Get Down. 

If you like 70′s aesthetics, New York City, hip hop, or disco, watch The Get Down. 

If you claim to want or support actual representation for people of color, watch The Get Down, which has a majority black and latinx cast and has, like, two white people who only show up a couple times. 

If you want LGBT representation, watch The Get Down. If you want to know a little bit about the history of black and latinx drag culture, ballroom culture, and LGBT culture, watch The Get Down. If you want to see interracial relationships, watch The Get Down. 

If you want to see well written, nuanced women who are complex and who actually make mistakes, watch The Get Down. 

If you want a glimpse into the way working-class people struggle with white capitalism, how poverty subjugates people of color, and the struggles young people of color from these communities face, watch The Get Down. 

Watch The Get Down. It hasn’t received a tenth of the amount of attention it deserves, and we know that it’s because it has a majority black and latinx cast. Tumblr can’t handle such things, but seriously I encourage you to watch it. 

lyrangalia:

falconrune:

skull-bearer:

falconrune:

@fandom please stop using “i dont want any more heteronormative relationships” as code for “get the female characters out of here”

Fandom writes a lot of woman-erasing slash for canon where the female characters are badly written or absent. In fandoms where there was numerous well-written female characters, femslash is huge and women are everywhere.

Fandom is not the problem here. Canon is.

fandom shoves out women even if they are well written and even if the male characters they are discarded for are terribly written.

Fandom operates on a double standard with women characters.

Fandom demonizes female characters who exemplify the exact same qualities as male characters.

Fandom uses gendered insults about female characters’ sexuality while prizing male characters’ sexuality.

Fandom reduces women of colour characters to tropes while developing extensive backstories for minor white male characters.

Fandom writes female characters as plot devices and volunteer wombs for male characters, reducing them to their bodies and how they can be used for male characters.

Fandom has shown through fanfiction that they are absolutely capable of turning bad writing into good fanfiction. The fact is fandom absolutely chooses to turn that talent to almost exclusively white male characters to the detriment of female characters and male characters of colour. 

Fandom has demonstrated that when canon is the problem, they are perfectly capable of fixing those problems. Fandom itself is a problem because of how it makes the choice of what problems to fix.