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Some dude in 2020: You should not judge a historical figure, a man from the past, by the modern ethics! He was a product of his time. 500 years ago his actions were completely normal! It’s present-ism, we can’t judge… bla-bla-bla…

People from 500 years ago: Oh my, this guy is such a bastard, a genocidal butcher, a total piece of garbage. Let’s keep records of this douche so people from the future shall hate him too.

shining-dawn

explorerrowan

Columbus’s crew were writing about what a genocidal monster he was. There were mutinies and uprisings by his crews and colonists constantly. If his contemporaries were willing to risk the ire of the queen of Spain to oppose him, we have every right to call him out on it too.

booksandpetrichor

My fave professor always says “there have always been antiracist people doing antiracist work”. So yeah, I can hold historical peeps to a higher standard because there were good, ethical people who knew better

odinsblog

Saying “you can’t judge the founding fathers on slavery” because “they didn’t know any better” or “that’s just how it was back then” is a cop out. It’s a standard whitewash that is still used to excuse racists today.

And I can promise you that there absolutely positively were people back then who knew slavery was wrong, and voiced their opinion that slavery was evil. Starting with the slaves themselves.

And if the words of the slaves somehow isn’t good enough, then listen to what one of the founding fathers had to say about the evils of slavery: (x)

Saying people didn’t know any better is whitewashing history, and perpetuating a false image of white purity and innocence. Slavers knew exactly what they were doing. All in the name of free labor and profit. The exploitive nature of capitalism hasn’t changed very much. I’ll bet 100 years from now people will argue that Jeff Bezos didn’t know he was risking the lives of his employees in the middle of a pandemic. Because “times were different back then.”

So yeah, people who insist that “times were just different back then” are racism apologists, whether they realize it or not. That worn out excuse is as old as slavery itself. Call those fuckers out.

#read #read later #thing #important

streetkit

it does suck that the government defunded PBS but it's also so fucking funny that now that they don't take uncle sam's slavery dollars they're running videos like "How america's foundation was built on genocide"

no more being polite about it fuck the USA

washingtonexaminer-blog

The foreign policy issue that has split John McCain and Lindsey Graham.

afloweroutofstone

“We should nuke them” “No, no, I’m telling you: carpet bombs would save money”

afloweroutofstone

Both of the Senators who inspired the Holden Bloodfeast character have now passed away

radioactive-earthshine

Not sure why it's a new trend among fic readers to assume if the fic has not been posted within the week it's inappropriate to comment on it, like the fic has to be hot out of the oven to give feedback for.

I got a comment on a fic that is less than a year old and it was mostly an apology for being a comment on an "old fic" and how late they were in commenting.

Just comment on the fic. Doesn't matter how old it is.

mysteryteacup

Fandom is not social media.

Fandom is not trends.

Fandom is a cross between a library and having a slumber party with your friends.

"Old" means nothing to fic.

vintagegeekculture

Albert Pyun’s “Knights” (1993), with kickboxer Kathy Long.

jawlipops

always thought that sylvaina ( and wow by extension) would make for a really fun superhero au

jawlipops

always thought that sylvaina ( and wow by extension) would make for a really fun superhero au

zoesupreme

Christopher Nolan almost allows colors into his mythical epic shot on 70mm IMAX film. thank god they stopped filming in time.

kheru-post-randoms

Sir the METEOROLOGICAL SYMBOL OF HOPE just invited itself over the Castle where the Hero Finally Comes Home After Way Too Many Trials And Tribulations

And you just.

Said no????

It's free symbolism and you said no because it's a rainbow and it's not gritty enough?????!!!!?

lifebloodblue

The goddess Iris herself offered to make an appearance in your Greek mythology movie and you dare deny her??

thewindowofthesummerhouse

Yutaka Hidaka

californiaquail

leviathan-supersystem

The Navy’s presence in the Caribbean has not reduced despite the Iran war.

But the long deployments take a toll on the crews and Marines, who had planned for a normal rotation and are now months past their initial scheduled return home.

“You don’t sign up for an easy time, you know any deployment is going to be uncertain,” said Joe Plenzler, a retired Marine Corps officer. “But extending deployments like this, when it feels really open-ended, that starts to bleed into retention. How much more likely am I able to convince my family to do another enlistment and stick with it?”

incredible that the best liberals can do at criticizing Trump's illegal and unprovoked aggression towards Cuba is "but what if laying in wait to slaughter Cuban citizens with impunity mildly inconveniences our death squads???"

normaloperafan

Hanako likes seeing pretty girl defeated. Sensei is likely a busty female teacher.

halimaidmf

walk into an lgbt org, about to try joining one of their events. ask organiser if the org is transfeminist or transmisogynist. she doesn't understand. i pull out the diagram explaining the difference between transmisogyny and transfeminism. she laughs and says "it's a good org dude"

katiknitt

currentlydoomscrolling

lady-viccy

Men making it about themselves again

getrealprim

Not even *just* making it about themselves, they’re vilifying trans women on a post about how we’re vilified bsffrrn

hesperocyon-lesbian

Ah I see we’re doing “trans women are lucky they’re so visible to the panopticon” again

discodyke-dogthing

Worst part is the reblogs and comments reacting to this with "Ugh there they both go infighting again, why can't they get along?" I'm sorry but if we keep getting villified and treated like shit are we supposed to just take it so we don't "start infighting again"???? what the fuck are we supposed to do if we keep getting treated like this

sylvia-on-the-run

just figured id put this here in response to tall the whiny tmras no you dont actually get treated as bad as us!

katiknitt

jon-on-the-faun

transmascs get a 20% smaller muffin btw. just saying....

ign1ted-ember

We can't even be hated without you motherfuckers going "but what about the men". WE GET IT, LET US TRANSFEMS HAVE ONE FUCKING POST WITHOUT YOU TRYING TO DERAIL IT TO MAKE IT ABOUT MEN

SHUT THE FUCK UP

jon-on-the-faun

1- I'm not misogynist 2- If you keep complaining "why do you always make it about you", stop excluding trans boys. We will only ask for representation while we keep being excluded. I am tired of all trans media be always about women, trans women are nice, i get it, they suffer, but we also suffer. We also suffer, the difference is that you gals forget how excluded we are. This isn't a battle of who suffers the most and whos the biggest victim, it's just that, we should fight for each other's rights, and if you're so mad at me fighting for the visibility of the transmascs and the nonbinaries, YOU are the problem.

ign1ted-ember

You came into a post EXPLICITLY ABOUT TRANS WOMEN and decided to start whining because it wasn't about you, you are a transmisogynist go make your own fucking comic if you so desperately need it to be about you

jon-on-the-faun

lmao??? you keep twisting everything I say. The tag is literally 'trans issues" not "trans women issues" but I guess the world revolves around trans women because the only trans people existing are women. lmao go touch some grass and learn how to interpret text. You're arguing with a 15 year old.

silbervvind

Take out the "trans" from your rambling and you're indistinguishable from an antifeminist.

"Ugh, I guess the world revolves around women, because they're the only people who matter. And you all just want me to die because I'm a man!"

mazinautumn

How about we stop pointing our teeth at each other and get the crusty old motherfuckers on top? Our struggles are different but they have a common cause.

silbervvind

How about you stop putting TERFs and other transmisogynists on the same level as trans women? How about you stop framing trans women as just as bad as the chauvinists who want to kill and/or rape them? How about you go to hell?