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I am beyond disgusted… A few months ago a regional mexican singer tweeted that she found in saks an isabel marant dress that was the same as the shirts done and worn by women in a community tlahuitoltepec, oaxaca; im talking exactly same like, materials, embroidery, design, i mean EVERYTHING, and today this small community got a memo from france… Apparently Isabel Marant copyrighted the design so these women wont be able to reproduce it or sell it anymore, unless they pay Marant please do mind that these people have been doing this shirt for 300 year so def way before Marant, it’s so sad cause since it is and indigenous region and design the mexican law doesnt really protect these people and this thing means jobs, people, families… i mean fuck marant.

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this is bananas

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Fuck I’m so mad

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trust nobody not even yourself

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#triumvirate

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This was such a wonderful stab at the rise of the far right in Sweden.

This song is a combination of South Saami yoiking (a yoik called Mijjieh libie gaarkijes, which the Swedish broadcasting company translates as ‘we’re strong’, but which also translates as ‘we still remain’ or ‘we stand tall’), the Swedish national anthem sung by a young immigrant, and two traditional Swedish folk songs translated into Arabic and Hebrew.

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#ilu gina

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Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, and Carrie Fisher were all taken aback by George Lucas’s decided lack of good dialogue skills. They stood up to him-and Lucas, chastened, allowed the actors to basically improvise their own wording for the basic points of the screenplay’s dialogue.

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settle this for me once and for all

is “chai” a TYPE of tea??! bc in Hindi/Urdu, the word chai just means tea

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its like spicy cinnamon tea instead of bland gross black tea

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I think the chai that me and all other Muslims that I know drink is just black tea

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why don’t white people just say tea

do they mean it’s that spicy cinnamon tea

why don’t they just call it “spicy cinnamon tea”

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the spicy cinnamon one is actually masala chai specifically so like

there’s literally no reason to just say chai or chai

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They don’t know better. To them “chai tea” IS that specific kind of like, creamy cinnamony tea. They think “chai” is an adjective describing “tea”.

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What English sometimes does when it encounters words in other languages that it already has a word for is to use that word to refer to a specific type of that thing. It’s like distinguishing between what English speakers consider the prototype of the word in English from what we consider non-prototypical.

(Sidenote: prototype theory means that people think of the most prototypical instances of a thing before they think of weirder types. For example: list four kinds of birds to yourself right now. You probably started with local songbirds, which for me is robins, blue birds, cardinals, starlings. If I had you list three more, you might say pigeons or eagles or falcons. It would probably take you a while to get to penguins and emus and ducks, even though those are all birds too. A duck or a penguin, however, is not a prototypical bird.)

“Chai” means tea in Hindi-Urdu, but “chai tea” in English means “tea prepared like masala chai” because it’s useful to have a word to distinguish “the kind of tea we make here” from “the kind of tea they make somewhere else”.

“Naan” may mean bread, but “naan bread” means specifically “bread prepared like this” because it’s useful to have a word to distinguish between “bread made how we make it” and “bread how other people make it”.

We also sometimes say “liege lord” when talking about feudal homage, even though “liege” is just “lord” in French, or “flower blossom” to describe the part of the flower that opens, even though when “flower” was borrowed from French it meant the same thing as blossom.

We also do this with place names: “brea” means tar in Spanish, but when we came across a place where Spanish-speakers were like “there’s tar here”, we took that and said “Okay, here’s the La Brea tar pits”.

Or “Sahara”. Sahara already meant “giant desert,” but we call it the Sahara desert to distinguish it from other giant deserts, like the Gobi desert (Gobi also means desert btw).

English doesn’t seem to be the only language that does this for places: this page has Spanish, Icelandic, Indonesian, and other languages doing it too.

Languages tend to use a lot of repetition to make sure that things are clear. English says “John walks”, and the -s on walks means “one person is doing this” even though we know “John” is one person. Spanish puts tense markers on every instance of a verb in a sentence, even when it’s abundantly clear that they all have the same tense (”ayer [yo] caminé por el parque y jugué tenis” even though “ayer” means yesterday and “yo” means I and the -é means “I in the past”). English apparently also likes to use semantic repetition, so that people know that “chai” is a type of tea and “naan” is a type of bread and “Sahara” is a desert. (I could also totally see someone labeling something, for instance, pan dulce sweetbread, even though “pan dulce” means “sweet bread”.)

Also, specifically with the chai/tea thing, many languages either use the Malay root and end up with a word that sounds like “tea” (like té in Spanish), or they use the Mandarin root and end up with a word that sounds like “chai” (like cha in Portuguese).

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Whenever I see people bitch about language like this, it enrages me to untold levels, because they clearly don’t even get why or how it happens, so I’m thankful someone took the time to actually spell it out with so many people being huge dicks thinking they’re wicked fucking special.

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Hayden King on the systematic racism in Canadian Prisons towards Indigenous people.

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Just because there are lots of indigenous people in prison doesn’t mean there’s systematic racism

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Uh…yes it does.

How else would you explain that Indigenous people are imprisoned at such astronomical rates in proportion to their population, and that white people are actually being imprisoned less as time goes on.

Indigenous people only represent 4% of the population and now make up 25% of the population of prisons. Some prisons are now 90% indigenous.

Its readily obvious reading the statistics that this is a major issue of systematic racism. This is from 2013 but it is very relevant here.

Aboriginal corrections report finds ‘systemic discrimination’

Aboriginal people are so vastly over-represented in Canada’s federal prison system that current policies are clearly failing them, according to a new report by the Office of the Correctional Investigator.

The report found “no new significant investments at the community level for federal aboriginal initiatives. No deputy commissioner dedicated solely to and responsible for aboriginal programs, planning, implementation and results. And worst of all, no progress in closing the large gaps in correctional outcomes between aboriginal and non-aboriginal inmates,” Howard Sapers, the correctional investigator for Canada, said during a news conference in Ottawa.

The report was tabled in the House of Commons Thursday morning — only the second special report ever written by the investigator since the office’s creation 40 years ago.

The trail of many social policies which have marginalized one group of our population “defines systemic discrimination,” Sapers said.

“It’s not that anybody designed the CSC programs to be discriminatory but in fact, there are differential outcomes between aboriginal and non-aboriginal inmates,” Sapers said.

The correctional investigator pointed to what he called “alarming” statistics.

“There are just over 3,400 aboriginal men and women making up 23 per cent of the country’s federal prison inmate population,” Sapers said.

“In other words, while aboriginal people in Canada comprise just four per cent of the population, in federal prisons nearly one in four is Métis, Inuit, or First Nations.”

Sapers found almost 40 per cent increase in the aboriginal incarcerated population between 2001-02 and 2010-11.

Additionally, aboriginal inmates are sentenced to longer terms, and spend more time in segregation and maximum security. They are less likely to be granted parole and are more likely to have parole revoked for minor problems.

“If I were releasing a report card on aboriginal corrections today, it would be filled with failing grades,” Sapers said.

The correctional investigator called on CSC to implement the following actions:

To appoint a deputy commissioner for aboriginal corrections.

The development of a long-term strategy to increase opportunities for the care and custody of aboriginal offenders by aboriginal communities, and the re-allocation of adequate funds for these purposes.

The creation of more community-based healing lodges and permanent funding for them, equal to CSC facilities.

Ongoing training of CSC staff to ensure adequate understanding of aboriginal people, culture and traditions.

New and enhanced measures to ensure aboriginal leadership and elders are equal partners in the delivery of community release and re-integration program and services.

The immediate hiring of more aboriginal community development officers.

Improving and streamlining the process around accepting and monitoring released offenders into aboriginal communities.

A ‘cloud’ over Canada’s human rights record

“The overrepresentation of aboriginal people in federal corrections and the lack of progress to improve the disparity in correctional outcomes continues to cloud Canada’s domestic human rights record,” Sapers said.

The acting chief commissioner of the Canadian Human Rights Commission, David Langtry, commended Sapers for a “bold” report, calling the findings “grave,” “troubling,” and requiring “urgent attention.”

“We are still seeing a disproportionate number of aboriginal women in solitary confinement, which creates barriers to access to rehabilitation programs. As a result, aboriginal women in corrections do not get paroled early, if at all. Not only are they over-represented, they are serving more time. These facts were confirmed by the correctional investigator today,” Langtry said in a written statement.

Shawn Atleo, the national chief of the Assembly of First Nations, said the prison system needs to work with aboriginal communities to successfully reintegrate offenders into society, ending the revolving door many young aboriginals experience between prison and freedom.

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Also, because people like to pretend institutionalized racism isn’t a thing and that if a group is being imprisoned more it just means they’re doing more crime and deserve it, I’m gonna emphasize a couple things from above:

aboriginal inmates are sentenced to longer terms, and spend more time in segregation and maximum security. They are less likely to be granted parole and are more likely to have parole revoked for minor problems.

Aboriginal people are punished more severely for doing exactly the same things. They’re forced to stay in prison longer for doing the exact same things. They’re more likely to be sent back to prison for things that other people allowed to remain free after doing.

We are still seeing a disproportionate number of aboriginal women in solitary confinement, which creates barriers to access to rehabilitation programs. As a result, aboriginal women in corrections do not get paroled early, if at all. Not only are they over-represented, they are serving more time.

Aboriginal women are more often being subjected to the worst punishment in prison, and that punishment directly interferes with rehabilitation, which is a fundamental mandate of the corrections system. After being denied rehabilitation programs women are then denied parole, which means that even if an aboriginal woman is given the same sentence as a non-aboriginal woman, she’ll still spend more time in jail, without any difference between their actions.

These things aren’t only very important instances of discrimination and injustice, they directly increase the number of aboriginal people in jail at any one time, because each person is in jail for longer.