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GUYS the 80s are back!!!!

Star Wars, high waisted jeans, over sized sweaters, flannels, horrible republican government, conflict with Russia, the ever impending threat of Nuclear Anihilation, scrunchies,

grabby-raccoon-hands

synthpop, bomber jackets, a tyrannical mad woman runs the uk, incompetent child runs the us, the entire worlds in an economic crisis, doctor who

starstuffandalotofcoffee

is this we didn’t start the fire

thelibrarina

Star Wars, flannel shirts, accidental bomb alerts

Bomber jackets, Brexit, Beto loses Texas

13th Doctor saves the day, guess what all your faves are gay

#MeToo, heroin, Cold War starting up again

Syria, blue/white gown, tearing racist statues down

Pussy hats, protests, universal unrest

MAGA hats and Russian spies, British politician lies

Kavanaugh! Endless war! I can’t take it anymore!

jemariel

[cool synth piano solo]

kyraneko

good rhythm, good rhyme on this.

afronerdism

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

afronerdism

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

afronerdism

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.

ryan-sometimes

Sensory overload is such a weird feeling to describe. In a nutshell, sound is attacking me.

mojang-officialer

gay steve

mojang-officialer

I dont have any good ideas for posts right now

antiperiodica

gay steve

mojang-officialer

pretty good, i’ll try it out!

fduiduv08448fuhufg-deactivated2

due to personal reasons i’ll be

platypusinplaid

job application: why are you passionate about working for our company?

me:

thatsthat24

How Northerners Talk Temperature with Southerners 🌡

thekameshell

Southerner: Boy, it got cold!

[Dramatic *dum* sound]

Northerner: Cold? You don’t understand cold.

Southerner: I mean it’s colder than usual for us

Northerner: Where I’m from, this is what we call a sweltering, sweaty, hot day.

Southerner: I was just saying, compared to other days, it’s a little colder

[Background music becomes more intense with time]

Northerner: Stop sobbing and complaining to me about how freezing cold and miserable you are! You don’t know the meaning of the word miserable!

Southerner: I wasn’t

Northerner: You’re weak. You know nothing of this world. You make me sick.

[Background music stops]

Northerner: Okay, thanks for having us for the holidays! Be back soon!

#i feel attacked

Me spending any money that's physical cash and not in my bank account total : this doesn't count as spending, it's not real. It doesn't exist

kasnas

2015 absolutely drained me. I need abouta 2 year long nap, see you in 2017, folks. don’t fucking vote for trump

kasnas

um. good morning and what the fuck

softlenaluthor

thegunlady

#every year he doesnt have an emmy is a sham

onlyblackgirl

MY WIFE WAS MURDERED BY A MAN IN A YELLOW SWEATER!

wafflesandchicken

VIN-DI-CA-TIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

ithelpstodream

bakwaz-deactivated20140825

America is some fucked up dystopian shit honestly like how are y’all even surviving? Paying for healthcare? $60,000 on tuition? POC getting shot in Wal-Marts? White men shooting up elementary schools? That’s terrifying I’m worried about all of you

rainbowreverie

America doesn’t seem that terribly horrible when you live here day to day and you’ve known nothing else but when somebody says something like this it fucks you up really good.

kerryrenaissance

It’s a bit like living in constant pain; it hurts. It’s troubling. But it’s part of your life and you’re used to it. You work around it as best you can.

When it’s gone, even briefly, it’s a revelation. Realizing other people don’t live their lives working around it is also a revelation. Alternatives exist.

The best dystopias try to convince those living in them that they’re actually a utopia, that this is the best of all possible worlds and that the alternatives are worse. Finding out otherwise, after all, could foment revolution.

holdnarrytight

This shit is not normal, y’all. Your country’s not okay

bigskydreaming

Guys, please be careful to vet that what you choose to signal boost is actually accurate. I’m seeing a lot of well-intentioned posts today about Net Neutrality that are likely to do just as much harm as good due to misinformation in them.

For instance, we are not all suddenly shouting that the sky is falling because the FCC has PASSED the bill abolishing Net Neutrality and the changes are to be put in place some time this month. As claimed by one post I just saw with over 5,000 notes already. This is simply, unequivocally NOT true, and it can actually get in the way of the call to action that very post made, asking people to call and email their congressmen, because a lot of people who see that might think “what’s the point, if its already passed?”

It hasn’t. Chairman Ajit Pai of the FCC unveiled in April his proposed plan to strike back the Net Neutrality regulations Obama’s administration passed in 2015, and which have since 2015 been upheld by the courts in the face of Republican opposition’s attempts to claim they overreached. What has people shouting the sky is falling NOW is because yesterday (November 21st) is when the date of the official vote on this proposed plan was announced. That date is December 14th.

Which means there IS still time to affect the outcome of the vote. People are pessimistic about the chances of this vote because the FCC board is held by a Republican majority at the moment, but make the passing of this bill seem toxic enough to other Republican interests and there is still a chance to keep it from passing.

Which is still a hell of a lot better than assuming the bill has already passed and that there’s really no point.

We have until December 14th to kick up enough of a fuss that the Republicans on the FCC board think twice about voting for this bill. And even after that, there are still legal recourses. The courts have refused to uphold other bills Trump’s administration has attempted to pass as overreaching, unconstitutional, and/or in opposition of the true will of the people - just as the Republicans attempted to do back in 2015 when the FCC under Obama passed the Net Neutrality laws in the first place.

This does not mean be complacent. This does not mean assume enough other people will raise enough of a fuss without adding your voice to the mix. It simply means THERE IS STILL TIME TO ACT. The sky may be falling, but until it finishes falling, there’s still a chance to catch it instead.