@sweatycommiefag

I hate myself but thats okay

[worstgirlinamerica]

died at the chateau

[stay-close]

I am not actually tired, but numb and heavy, and can't find the right words.

— Franz Kafka, from a letter to Felice Bauer, c. November 1912

[toxicrants]

Real talk, as a teacher in England I can confirm that the British government does everything and anything to avoid teaching the true extent of colonial history to English kids. 

You ask a modern English teenager about Northern Ireland and they probably can’t tell you about fucking anything currently going on there bar ‘I think we weren’t nice to them’, and that’s the country next fucking door so you know they don’t know shit about India or the Middle East.

The English government PURPOSEFULLY does not teach English children the real in’s and out’s of the British Empire despite a recent call to ‘widen the breadth of our curriculum’ because then where would our football hooligans who defend statues come from? 

Have a good conversation with any bald headed English bloke wearing an England football shirt with an EDL tattoo and test his knowledge of the Empire he loves so much. 100 quid he knows fuck all beyond ‘we civilized those people!’

And this is why no one fucking likes us, because there’s no active effort to teach our younger generations why we were wrong or how to make things better, but there’s a clear educational agenda to shield young English children from any extensive criticism of England.

[sociallyacceptablemadness]

Hey look criticism of colonialism that doesn’t focus on America.

[queeranarchism]

Oh boy oh boy, you wanna know who this post reminds me of The Netherlands, Belgium and France. Each of them, same fucking thing.

History classes do not properly teach about colonialism. There’s a few snippets that avoid nasty words like ‘genocide’ and activists had to fight tooth and nail just to get those little snippets in there. The chapter when then Netherlands became rich from slavery, genocide and colonialism still gets called ‘the golden age’. It’s nauseating.

Real, raw, honest colonial history - with stuff like ‘that zoo we went to on a school trip showed enslaved people of color in cages until the 1920s’ - would shake most people’s worldview to the core. 

[buumblegum]

what’s poppin i have a deep, empty loneliness i can feel in my bones and i don’t know how to function

[thechanelmuse]

Remnants of the British Black Panther’s Lost Legacy

[clatterbane]

Britain’s black power movement is at risk of being forgotten, say historians

The Cambridge academic Robin Bunce said: “There is a fundamental danger of erasing the very notion of a struggle at all. I’ve been researching this for four and a half years and there have been so many occasions when people have said to me: ‘There was no black struggle in Britain. You’re thinking of South Africa or America.’“

The narrative that feeds it is the one that Britain is the utopia of fair play. We have such a commitment to individual rights, we have such a commitment to common sense and decency that there is no systematic racism in Britain.”…

Bunce said it was not just politicians, but wider British society that would rather not dwell on the less palatable.

[clatterbane]

Bringing this one back, while I’m reminded.

[plasticblisss]

me, all the time: i could just die and not have to do this

[goawfma]

it’s fuck the cops forever ✊🏾

[deathbecomesthxm]

Protect the vunerable

Be nice to workers

Eat the rich

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Loving yourself is punk rock

[dyspresja]

edit

[theroyalhistory]

Lady Winifred Helena Lettice Gore as the Spirit of Evil, 1912

[lmaonade]

ahh omg i hate the police <3 i love when cops die 

[anarchistmlm]

when some fuckhead thinks that me trashing biden and saying he’s unfit to be president means that i’m a trump supporter

[tendernxss]

we look like lighting // the wonder years

[la-laborista-republiko]

[bearmythology]

Rhyss Keane: A freaky and downright scary powerlifter (until you see Anchorman’s Ron Burgundy and Dumb and Dumber’s Lloyd tattoo on his right thigh) and is a huge Stephen King fan? Yes, please. [source: instagram]

[barryelbeardo]

Be mine?

[amutualddiction]

Passing through a screen door

[lilpieceoflilpeep]