Chiisai Lapin

 Clothing, bunnies and food.

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sick fearless bastard by Crazy Ivory

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Feel free to use as icons! ^^

[thisiseverydayracism]

How Churchill engineered the holocaust of 3 million Indians

As the resistance swelled, Churchill announced: “I hate Indians. They are a beastly people with a beastly religion.” This hatred killed. To give just one, major, example, in 1943 a famine broke out in Bengal, caused – as the Nobel Prize-winning economist Amartya Sen has proved – by the imperial policies of the British. Up to 3 million people starved to death while British officials begged Churchill to direct food supplies to the region. He bluntly refused. He raged that it was their own fault for “breeding like rabbits”. At other times, he said the plague was “merrily” culling the population.  Skeletal, half-dead people were streaming into the cities and dying on the streets, but Churchill – to the astonishment of his staff – had only jeers for them. “If food is so scarce, why hasn’t Gandhi died yet?”

Source: The Independent, Time, IBT

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colonialism in action. 

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Baby Chipmunk by Irene

[sarahseeandersen]

Good morning everyone. Yesterday I made a cute little comic about feeling relieved that this nasty election cycle is over. However, given the result, I decided to scrap it and repost this comic instead.

In summer 2015, my little brother came out to me. A few weeks later, the United States legalized gay marriage. It was an amazing feeling. I was so proud that my country was becoming a more equal and safe place for my loved ones.

Obviously, the tide has changed. Because of the light hearted nature of my comic, I’ve often tried to tip-toe around politics. But today I feel free to state that I’m devastated by our decision to elect Donald Trump. There are so many issues I care deeply about—LGBTQ rights, women’s rights, racial equality, climate change, healthcare—that are now in jeopardy.

With my reposting of this comic, I’d at least like to share my love and support towards the LGBTQ community. You are strong, enduring, wonderful, and you deserve better. Furthermore, I want America to be a place where people of all genders, sexualities, races, religions, and backgrounds can feel embraced and welcome.

We have some tough years ahead of us. But let’s at least work on spreading love and acceptance in our own hearts. My brother, parents (both of whom are immigrants), and friends should be able to feel like their community is a safe and supportive one.

Don’t bother with your #draintheswamp comments. You elected a dangerous, unqualified bigot. I’ve been seeing your poison everywhere for the last few months and I’m not letting it happen on my page today. For today I’m not afraid to block people.

Stay safe everyone, I love you.

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[love-like-a-ghost]

White People. 

[yourstoryisnoteverover-deactiva]

Exactly. White people, that’s how.

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[chiisailapin-blog]

What the actual fuck, America?

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Produced by LEMAT WORKS

🎃 🕸 Purple Moon / Future Galaxy / Dot Axis / Portfolio  🎃 🕸

[whatsdifferentincanada]

This again.

[chiisailapin-blog]

omg why am I not in Canada right now

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Sailor Moon Sailor Stars trading card art

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I had the Venus one when I was a kid :D

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[georgetakei]

Gotta name ‘em all.

This Guy Asked His 4-Year-Old To Name His Pokemon, And These Are The Results

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[chiisailapin-blog]

I had this poster on my bedroom door when I was a kid!

[tofugu]

Why I Don't Give Up My Seat On The Train

Sorry old ladies, pregnant ladies, and man ladies. This seat is mine. I sat on it fair and square.

After one particularly controversial Japanese blog post last week, Japanese Twitter was blazing up 炎上 (えんじょう) with tweets of anger and support. The topic? Trains. The controversy? “The reason I don’t give up my seat on the train.”

The argument wasn’t as simple as the title lets on. Let’s start with the whole idea of giving up your seat. Of course, there’s “priority seating,” and you absolutely should give up your seat to any elderly, pregnant, baby-carrying, or injured people. Nobody’s debating that. But, this blog post talks about all seats, not just priority seating, which really puts us in quite the gray area. Do you have to give up your (regular) seat to a pregnant lady? No. Should you? Probably. Will you? Maybe not. It becomes a judgement call, and if you don’t make the right one, you’ll surely be judged by others. There are two points that the blogger (we’ll call him by his id: Kangaetakekka) makes:

Why I don’t always give up my seat to someone on the train.

Why people shouldn’t think badly about others who don’t give up their seats.

While this immediately sounds like some proper S-Class douchebaggery it actually does get a little more complicated than the two points let on. Kangaetakekka has reasons for why he feels this way, and of course many others on the intertubes had words of support and/or words of anger for all of his feels. I’d like to be able to say “oh man, what a jackass!” and then call it a day, but even I can’t bring myself to do that, at least not at 100%. I really do understand where he’s coming from. Let’s go through some of his reasoning. I’ll add my own opinions and thoughts along the way.

Read more!

[nihongogogo]

There are 2 counter points I’d like to raise to the notion of letting this guy off the hook:

First the VERY WIDELY USED maternity mark, which is like the London Underground’s ‘Baby on board’ badges, indicating a) the lady is pregnant and b) she is actively signalling she wants a seat.

I’m foreign and have lived in Tokyo just over 3 years, if I know what this is, then it’s reasonable to expect Japanese natives to know soon after moving to Tokyo. There are posters all over the place and the text on the symbol makes it easy to figure out even for non-Tokyoites. You cannot go a single day in Tokyo without seeing this, I am shocked that this blogger doesn’t know about it to be honest, but I also can’t understand how people couldn’t notice a heavily pregnant woman. Maybe as a woman I genuinely do notice these things more naturally.

Second, the admittedly far-less-well-known Help Mark, which indicates someone has an internal, invisible health issue that means they may require a seat, this can be anything from chronic pain, to depression, to a heart condition. If someone is wearing this mark (again advertised thoroughly with posters in stations around Tokyo), they are basically signalling they need a seat/or not being selfish by taking a seat in the priority area.

Maybe he doesn’t want to give up his seat to these groups, but claiming ignorance when people are literally sticking labels on themselves to make their needs clear just doesn’t seem cool at all. If you need either of these tags they are available from major stations, ask the attendants and you should be able to get the advice you need.

[chiisailapin-blog]

Interestingly, I was watching a segment on the news last Friday morning that discussed how pregnant women were no longer choosing to wear the badge. Many women have, disturbingly, been experiencing harassment on trains, ranging from people making remarks such as “take a taxi” to getting purposely hit by bags.

Also, from my experience, I very rarely see people giving up their seats to those who need it. If you’re sitting in the priority area, that’s something you should be vigilant about, not ignore. I remember two guys in their twenties acting like a woman with a baby strapped to her and a toddler in tow didn’t exist. It was disappointing and awful. An old man ended up giving up his seat for her. I don’t understand how those “men” couldn’t feel ashamed.

[nihongogogo]

@chiisailapin I try not to judge when young people sit in priority seats in case they have a hidden disability. I look totally ok on the outside, but chronic pain means some days are fine, but other days are constant internal screaming. I know my issues are minor compared to a lot of other people’s too. People harassing pregnant women though? That’s so low! Do you have a link to the news article? I’d like to watch it.

[chiisailapin-blog]

Of course we can never know what condition other people are in but in your reblog earlier, you mentioned the ヘルプマーク. Neither of those men had it, and if they do have a disability, maybe they should get one so that, as you wrote, they are not perceived as “selfish by taking a seat in the priority area”. My husband has also witnessed this numerous times and said that the least they could do, if they don’t want to wear the badge nor give up their seat, is apologize and explain their own situation (as awkward as that might be), not ignore the other person in need. It’s rude.

Also, I live on the first stop of a train line and like the original blog poster wrote, people purposely chose to live there so they don’t have to stand on the way to work. 

 The news segment about pregnancy harassment was on NHK, so it might be on their website (I watched it on television). However, there is an article from a few months back covering the same issue:

http://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/111793

[tofugu]

Why I Don't Give Up My Seat On The Train

Sorry old ladies, pregnant ladies, and man ladies. This seat is mine. I sat on it fair and square.

After one particularly controversial Japanese blog post last week, Japanese Twitter was blazing up 炎上 (えんじょう) with tweets of anger and support. The topic? Trains. The controversy? “The reason I don’t give up my seat on the train.”

The argument wasn’t as simple as the title lets on. Let’s start with the whole idea of giving up your seat. Of course, there’s “priority seating,” and you absolutely should give up your seat to any elderly, pregnant, baby-carrying, or injured people. Nobody’s debating that. But, this blog post talks about all seats, not just priority seating, which really puts us in quite the gray area. Do you have to give up your (regular) seat to a pregnant lady? No. Should you? Probably. Will you? Maybe not. It becomes a judgement call, and if you don’t make the right one, you’ll surely be judged by others. There are two points that the blogger (we’ll call him by his id: Kangaetakekka) makes:

Why I don’t always give up my seat to someone on the train.

Why people shouldn’t think badly about others who don’t give up their seats.

While this immediately sounds like some proper S-Class douchebaggery it actually does get a little more complicated than the two points let on. Kangaetakekka has reasons for why he feels this way, and of course many others on the intertubes had words of support and/or words of anger for all of his feels. I’d like to be able to say “oh man, what a jackass!” and then call it a day, but even I can’t bring myself to do that, at least not at 100%. I really do understand where he’s coming from. Let’s go through some of his reasoning. I’ll add my own opinions and thoughts along the way.

Read more!

[nihongogogo]

There are 2 counter points I’d like to raise to the notion of letting this guy off the hook:

First the VERY WIDELY USED maternity mark, which is like the London Underground’s ‘Baby on board’ badges, indicating a) the lady is pregnant and b) she is actively signalling she wants a seat.

I’m foreign and have lived in Tokyo just over 3 years, if I know what this is, then it’s reasonable to expect Japanese natives to know soon after moving to Tokyo. There are posters all over the place and the text on the symbol makes it easy to figure out even for non-Tokyoites. You cannot go a single day in Tokyo without seeing this, I am shocked that this blogger doesn’t know about it to be honest, but I also can’t understand how people couldn’t notice a heavily pregnant woman. Maybe as a woman I genuinely do notice these things more naturally.

Second, the admittedly far-less-well-known Help Mark, which indicates someone has an internal, invisible health issue that means they may require a seat, this can be anything from chronic pain, to depression, to a heart condition. If someone is wearing this mark (again advertised thoroughly with posters in stations around Tokyo), they are basically signalling they need a seat/or not being selfish by taking a seat in the priority area.

Maybe he doesn’t want to give up his seat to these groups, but claiming ignorance when people are literally sticking labels on themselves to make their needs clear just doesn’t seem cool at all. If you need either of these tags they are available from major stations, ask the attendants and you should be able to get the advice you need.

[chiisailapin-blog]

Interestingly, I was watching a segment on the news last Friday morning that discussed how pregnant women were no longer choosing to wear the badge. Many women have, disturbingly, been experiencing harassment on trains, ranging from people making remarks such as “take a taxi” to getting purposely hit by bags.

Also, from my experience, I very rarely see people giving up their seats to those who need it. If you’re sitting in the priority area, that’s something you should be vigilant about, not ignore. I remember two guys in their twenties acting like a woman with a baby strapped to her and a toddler in tow didn’t exist. It was disappointing and awful. An old man ended up giving up his seat for her. I don’t understand how those “men” couldn’t feel ashamed.