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so many white people don’t get this
[Tweet from Decolonize Schools @decolonizeont: “Friendly reminder that White Privilege doesn’t mean your life isn’t hard, can’t be hard, or was never hard… It means the colour of your skin will never be a factor in what’s causing your difficulties.”]
This! This is why I start cursing like a sailor the minute someone brings up aaaallll the things we the people can do to stop climate change.
Spoiler: it’s nothing. Oh, sure, you can recycle your trash, but that doesn’t mean much when it all ends up getting burned anyway because our economy doesn’t have anywhere near the capacity to deal with the sheer mass of trash, and no interest in doing so. Like, “sure, our company could switch to environmentally friendly packaging, but that’d mean we’d have to change things and it might cost us a whole cent more per article and that’s just not viable you know, so sorry.”
Or, yes, you can absolutely bike to work instead of driving, but your CO2 emissions are nothing against what big companies blow into the atmosphere every second. Nothing.
Or, yes, you can absolutely grow bee-friendly plants in your yard, but that won’t save them.
By all means, be environmentally conscious! In fact, I strongly encourage you to be! But let’s be real here, our individual footprints on this planet aren’t what’s killing it. Big Industry is.
Same with food/water waste!! It annoys me so much when commercials and gov’t campaigns emphasize individual waste when corporations are doing the OVERWHELMING majority of the wasting.
“The Earth is not dying, it is being killed, and those who are killing it have names and addresses.” — Utah Phillips
Although, keep up the good work on the individual level. Don’t let companies be your inspiration.
There was external factors that led to [my eating disorder]. A lot of anorexia nervosa can come from control issues or something you’ve inherited but in my case, I believe it was from external factors. I broke my back at 17 [in a car crash] and it changed my relationship with my body. It probably saved my life otherwise I’d still be anorexic now. I learned how to appreciate my body that I had taken hugely for granted and actively hurting for so long. It literally knocked some sense into me. — Jameela Jamil on society’s routine abuse of women and how it has shaped her life.
Jeff Duncan-Andrade - Growing Roses in Concrete
“1 in 3 urban youth display the symptoms of mild to severe PTSD. And when you compare that data to the military data what you find is urban youth are actually twice as likely as soldiers returning from Iraq to get PTSD.”
This presentation is crucial to educators interested in the future and empowerment of urban youth of color. View the entire video here.
Nothing about us without us. Image description: [pale purple and yellow background with dark text] This April, don’t support an organization that harms autistic people. [crossed out logo for Autism Speaks] Support one built by autistic people, for autistic people. [logos for the Autistic Self Advocacy Network and the Autism Women’s Network]
Reblogging to spread the word, cause evidence shows that Autism $peaks are classic horror movie villains.
Reblogging because I’ve always wondered who to support instead of AS.
To every friend of mine who reblogs this, thank you. It means I can trust you. <3
Why I didn't reblog your "missing person" post
There’s no date on it.
There’s no number to call if we actually do see that person.
It’s just a random picture and I have to take your word for it that the person’s name, age, and last known location are all accurate.
Therefore:
For all I know that kid was found two years ago.
Or was never missing.
We don’t know if they’re actually missing or if the post was made by an abuser looking for their victim.
log this
Last week a post circulated on Swedish facebook about a missing person. Turns out the woman had changed her identity to get away from her abusive (ex-)husband. Now she has to go through it all again. The police went out and told people to fucking stop spreading posts like these without thinking, and to call the police if you see the person, not some random you’ve never met.
robin williams was rad as hell..
I’m still fucking devastated about this.
Same. I’ll never get over it and nothing has been the same since.
Just want to point out that Christopher Reeve was considering suicide before Robin Williams showed up. He didn’t just make him laugh, he saved Reeve’s life. Also, he paid for Reeve’s medical bills from the accident.
*stillgrosssobbingoverthis*
I will never get past his death.
Yeah, I’m still not over this
The most beautiful, funny people are sometimes the ones hurting the most - and the best at hiding it.
It’s worth noting that Williams had a serious physical illness that affected his mental capacities, caused major paranoia, and drove him to suicidal thoughts and actions. He was more than just depressed.
But yes, we suffered great loss when he died. Memory Eternal☦️
if you ask a right winger why a job like, say, sanitation worker has such an abysmal wage even though their job is necessary they’ll tell you that it is an unskilled occupation. we could contest that but for the sake of argument let’s concede.
by this logic, value is derived by how much labor is required to accomplish something, in this case the labor of learning the skill in addition to the labor of completing the task at hand. a doctor would earn a much higher wage because of the labor required to earn the necessary degrees to practice. okay.
but then if you ask a right winger why the price of a pair of glasses, a mattress, or even a bottle of water is so expensive, despite these things being cheap and easy to make, they’ll tell you that value is not determined by the labor that goes into it, but by need and demand.
this inconsistency reveals how neoliberal economics functions: the value of something means whatever is most convenient to the ruling class.
Guys, look. They finally made a baby stroller for wheelchair-bound mothers. This is so important.
My wife is a physical therapist. She started tearing up when I showed this to her.
I love seeing ableist norms broken.
Just a quick wave to RemapNI who adapt devices for people with disabilities
“I just don’t understand why we can’t mourn and use our voice to speak out at the same time.”
Students Who Lived Through The Florida Shooting Are Angry And They Want You To Know
Canada: Has had only 3 mass shootings in the last 10 years thanks to gun control.
The UK: Has had 1 mass shooting since gun control was introduced in 1997.
Japan: Has never had a mass shooting, thanks to gun control.
Australia: Zero mass shootings since the port arthur massacre in 1996.
The US: Had 383 mass shootings in 2016 and 273 so far in 2017.
So take your “gun control doesn’t work!” bullshit and stick it up your ass.
“Mass shooting” in this context is defined, using the FBI’s definition, as a shooting where 4 or more people are killed, not including the gunman.
Do these assholes realize that people on food stamps don’t receive unlimited money?
No they don’t. Wait until they find out most of the food stamp recipients are white…
From the USDA Food and Nutrition Service:
The Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (the Act) defines eligible food as any food or food product for home consumption and also includes seeds and plants which produce food for consumption by SNAP households. The Act precludes the following items from being purchased with SNAP benefits: alcoholic beverages, tobacco products, hot food and any food sold for on-premises consumption. Nonfood items such as pet foods, soaps, paper products, medicines and vitamins, household supplies, grooming items, and cosmetics, also are ineligible for purchase with SNAP benefits.
Soft drinks, candy, cookies, snack crackers, and ice cream are food items and are therefore eligible items
Seafood, steak, and bakery cakes are also food items and are therefore eligible items
So according to law, people cannot get hot food with SNAP. They cannot buy soap, vitamins, medicine, shampoo, Kleenex, or toilet paper–all of which involve hygiene and health, and which most people would consider necessities–with SNAP.
Now the Greedy GOP (in the form of Chris McDaniel of Mississippi) wants to take away two of the foods that ARE allowed. Wouldn’t want poor people actually eating, would they?
You also have NO IDEA why a person is buying something with their food stamps. Maybe they’re buying that steak as a special treat for their anniversary, or that cake is for their kid’s birthday. Just because people are poor doesn’t mean they should have to live without ever having anything nice ever. That’s a shitty thing to expect of anyone, but some of these people act like it’s humane to expect people to live on a diet of rice and beans.
I’ve worked in many stores that accept ebt and the computer accepts whatever amount of their balance qualifies for their food and they have to pay the rest. You can’t buy candy or most junk food. You can’t get anything prepared. I mean you literally get the bare minimum. I had many customers come in with their ebt, that would cover like $20 of their groceries and they would have to shell out like $50 for the rest. It’s not this magical free food card like people be thinking.
@allthecanadianpolitics Some flag/symbol information so you can know the racists.
Thanks for the heads up, and before anyone goes ‘There’s no nazi’s in Canada!”, yes, yes there are:
Right-wing extremist groups ‘prevalent’ across Canada, study warns
Canada not immune to right-wing extremism
Far-right extremist groups on the rise in Canada, expert says
Know your enemy
“Perhaps the most extraordinary characteristic of current America is the attempt to reduce life to buying and selling. Life is not love unless love is sex and bought and sold. Life is not knowledge save knowledge of technique, of science for destruction. Life is not beauty except beauty for sale. Life is not art unless its price is high and it is sold for profit. All life is production for profit, and for what is profit but for buying and selling again?”
- W.E.B. Du Bois
i’m reading why does he do that and this last part has been ON FIRE, i am hollering in my house.
This remarkable line of questioning from Congresswoman Suzan DelBene demonstrates just a few of the ways that the GOP tax plan treats corporations better than people.
Under the Republican plan, corporations are still allowed to deduct state and local taxes. Workers are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct business expenses. Teachers are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct more than $10,000 in property taxes. Homeowners are not. Corporations are still allowed to deduct moving expenses. Families are not.
And this is on top of a $1.5 trillion corporate tax cut.
Let’s be clear, this is not a “middle-class tax cut.” Working families get the crumbs and the super-wealthy get everything else.
how can you not be speechless in the face of that kind of cartoon villainy though, like, he doesn’t even look fucking guilty about it or realize that he should be
