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I’m just gonna throw this out there for the world, and I promise to never mention it again, because this is an ongoing issue I’m dealing with both on and offline. I want others to hear this because I sure needed to:

NOT ALL WHITE PEOPLE ARE RACIST.

MY BEING WHITE DOESN’T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO TELL ME MY OPINION DOESN’T MATTER SIMPLY BECAUSE OF MY SKIN COLOR. MY OPINION IS AS DESERVING OF RESPECT AS ANYONE ELSES.

I AM ALLOWED TO WEIGH IN (RESPECTFULLY) ON ISSUES THAT MINORITIES FACE. WHY? BECAUSE THEN I’LL LEARN ABOUT WHAT KINDS OF THINGS ARE REALLY GOING ON, AND WHAT I CAN DO TO HELP.

I AM ALLOWED TO USE WHATEVER PHRASING OR SLANG I WANT, REGARDLESS OF MY GENDER, RACE, SEXUALITY, WHATEVER, AS LONG AS IT IS RESPECTFUL AND NOT SAID WITH ANY INTENT TO INJURE OR PERSECUTE. (This is, of course, excluding slurs, which are intended to be degrading and harmful)

I DO NOT HAVE TO BE A MINORITY TO DESERVE RESPECT.

I DO NOT HAVE TO BE GAY/TRANS/WHATEVER TO DESERVE RESPECT.

I DO NOT HAVE TO BE A MINORITY TO VOICE AN OPINION.

When you tell me these things and make me feel like less than a person, you are dong to me EXACTLY what you think I’m doing to you..

I am so tired of this culture of hate that Tumblr is propagating. I don’t deserve to feel like “privileged cis scum” (actual phrasing) because I was born white and straight. As a reminder, I’m a domestic abuse survivor living with some really serious mental health concerns. I have less than $1,000 to my name and I live in a tiny studio apartment. I cannot afford to go to college. I am far from “privileged.” The fact that none of that means anything because I’m a middle-class white girl is, frankly, disgusting. Hate breeds hate, and I really think we need to step back and remember that.

EDIT: I know it says ‘dong’ instead of ‘doing’ but I like it and it made me laugh so I’m gonna keep it that way.

dizzyloved

The problem with this; Privilege does not entail wealth nor does it erase your struggles. It discusses the privilege that you obtain from your skin color, such as the ability to walk out of a bad neighborhood at night and be asked if you're okay instead of being thrown in jail or killed. You make a lot of valid points, but your misunderstanding of privilege can destroy your argument.

just-shower-thoughts

People born in 2016 will probably be alive to see the year 3000

insectdiscount

Okay I’m not that great at math but I’m pretty sure this is wrong

keylimetim-deactivated20181216

They would be 84 years old; that’s achievable this day and age.

localgaysian

No, they wouldn’t be 84 years old. I’m very sorry.

dizzyloved

Sometimes tumblr. Just sometimes.

animalrates

This is Cody. Happiest dog I have ever seen. It’s his birthday and I don’t think I could be happier for him.

Cute as shit. 17/10

more animals rated here

historyvikings

Trippy.

babyanimalgifs

more baby animals here

avant-sad

film fact of the day

The Smiths aren’t a real band. Zooey Deschanel was supposed to say “I love Radiohead” during the elevator scene of 500 Days of Summer, but she forgot her line and improvised the name “The Smiths”. the music heard in the movie by this make-believe band was provided by Pavement.

lyrwen

The Smiths are a real band though. I had a lot of PLAYED A LOT OF SCRABBLE with a cute boy listening to the smiths.

avant-sad

okay

dizzyloved

That moment when you're so out of touch musically you don't think The Smiths are a real band.

vikychen

thoughtfullysassyunknown-blog

I just found some really cool Pokémon phone cases for the iPhone 6 and 6s!!

gamefanatics

Sorry, folks. If you’ve been playing Pokemon GO, the Pokemon accessory has been delayed till September! Was looking forward to it. … . . #gaming #games #videogames #gamefanatics #gamer #gamers #PokemonGO #Niantic #Nintendo #mobilegames #accessories http://ift.tt/2aa6Ey1

mvyflower

QWERTY QWERTY QWERTY by Hallpen

Hallpen:

Rami said,

“Qwerty was originally a cat. And then they asked me how I am with cats. I go, “Honestly, I have a few allergies. Not all cats, it’s not a big deal. I mean, how often is the cat gonna be there?’ I guess everyone went berserk and was like, ‘He can’t have a cat.’" “So Qwerty became a dog,” he says. “We shot with this big fluffy white dog that you saw in the production stills. I walked in, and I said to Sam, ‘You got the sitcom dog. That’s the dog that’s in every family home on every sitcom. That is not my dog.’”

“So then, Qwerty became a fish.”’

myfanaticdomain

The North Had Temporary Amnesia But Totally Remembers Now

spiffybunn

Jon Snow’s parentage theory

Game of Thrones fans be like….

ladyhawke81

Vikings | Sons of Ragnar

+ Bjorn Ironside + Ubbe + Hvitserk + Sigurd Snake in the Eye + Ivar the Boneless

starscream-moved-blog

lesbianhaircut

the military begins recruiting ‘soldiers’ before they grow out of their booster seat

four year olds have toy guns and green army men

by grade school you’ve memorized the star spangled banner and the pledge of allegiance

in middle school you’re old enough to play first person shooters set in war times. you and your friends brag about how many kills you have, what guns are your favorite

in high school, rotc comes to visit. you get letters in the mail detailing scholarship and housing opportunities you could have

and if you’re poor or unsure of your future or in love with the idea of ‘protecting your country’ like the men in call of duty

every branch of the military has a sponsored blog on here because they want everyone 13 and up to know that soldiers are heroes and they should join them

blogtitletaken

To those of you who were wondering, this is a very US-specific post. What gets done to you guys is terrifying, and it’s really unfair.

svvearwolves

Ah yes I remember how the different military branches visited my high school at multiple times throughout the year and set up their little pull up bars and had little competitions and the strong little ones got lanyards so the recruiters could pick them out

malethotjob-deactivated20210402

I dont even know if you’re joking or not

perfectionistdia-deactivated202

We’re not

thestarfly

We’re really not. What’s super terrifying, that I learned in my kinetic imaging major, is that our military actually hires game designers to design video games promoting our military, and markets them to kids as young as ten or twelve. Our government made friggin reality TV shows out of taking high schoolers and teaching them about the “awesome shit” that they could do for the military. We watched one of the episodes in my Critical Media class, and it made me so physically ill that I actually had to leave the classroom and heave over the toilet while sobbing my eyes out.

volaee

This level of propaganda can and does lead to violence even amongst said children. Ask any Puerto Rican child that’s ever refused to say the “pledge of allegiance” (that’s the real name for what most kids are asked to recite every day before school starts) what happens to them exclusively via the other children who consider this blasphemy.

soggywarmpockets

I took the ASVAB (an intelligence test that the military uses to see which branch you would do best in) as a joke in 10th grade to see who would score higher, myself or my boyfriend. He scored a 91, I scored a 93. The next thing I knew, I had recruiters calling my house and visiting my school. I was pulled out of class to talk to recruiters who came to my school specifically to see me. One recruiter from the Marines showed up at my house after school. When I told him that my mother wasn’t home and I wouldn’t allow him inside he tried to push open the door and said “That’s okay, she doesn’t have to be here for us to talk.” I had to tell him numerous times that I would not talk to anyone without my mother present. Then he sat in his car and waited for her to come home. Keep in mind that I am an overweight female and these recruiters were still trying to get me to sign. They were talking about special diets and training programs that would get me in shape in time for my 18th birthday so I could join. It was ridiculous. My mom said that she had never seen anything like it, and she had scored a 92 during college when she had taken it. (Then again, she had joined the Air Force almost immediately after taking the test, because that was her dream.) Shit is scary.

threepointonefourmakesxai

Oh god yes this brings back memories. I took the ASVAB on a lark to skip classes. I scored a 92 and my GOD the effort they put in to try and recruit me… This was pre 9/11 when I did it, but afterwards (post 9/11) they got WORSE. They told me whatever I wanted to do for a career they could help me but they were so PUSHY they freaked me out. I hid whenever I saw the recruiting staff on campus

deersjunk

I started getting a recruiter contacting me when I was 26 goddamn years old, while married to a PTSD’d out twice deployed vet. Eventually I responded to an email with “I’m fat, asthmatic and married to a human y’all ruined so leave me the fuck alone” and he did. At the same time he started sending my then husband letters about how they were going to call him back to service if he didn’t re-up in the National Guard (who also get deployed to the Middle East), which is actually a lie. nevertheless, my ex was terrified he’d get brought back in and burned all the letters so there’d be no record of him receiving them.

Turns out that recruiter won a bunch of awards in the state for his recruitment statistics. Interesting ways he went about it, huh?

fungushoney

the marines kept calling my house and mailing things to me and my little sister (who is 12) trying to get us to sign up and my mom finally had to talk on the phone to the dude and tell him that i was a chronically ill trans kid and i would not nor would i ever be joining the us military and they finally quit calling

ive also been singled out and yelled at by multiple teachers in school for refusing to stand and say the pledge of allegiance over the years, told things like i was disrespectful and was a traitor to my country and whatnot. its especially bad and military-centric in the south (i currently live in NC). If you dont live in the us, look up the words to the pledge of allegiance. its vaguely reminiscent of Nazi propaganda, and they start children saying it every day from age 5. how many 5 year olds know what they are saying and agreeing to? none of them, thats how many.

thisuneasymist

My high school required us to take the asvab. For two years afterwards I received near daily calls from the air force.

multiphandom

jeez. i went to school in ny and had a really liberal teacher in 5th grade who would drop little comments about discrimination against illegal immigrants, maybe we shouldn’t say “God” in the pledge, etc. and if he hadn’t made those comments i wouldn’t have thought twice about these things even though i wasn’t religious and was reciting a pledge involving “God” every day. by hs, everyone just stood and listened to the pledge without reciting it, and we never had crazy military recruitment. did get the west point letters in the mail though

prof-grace-aspen

I went to school in NY too and that’s where I took the ASVAB my senior year of high school and got letters from all the branches because I did so well. Specifically, the Air Force Academy wanted me real bad lol. You get the stuff about the military all the time in school. But I was an Army brat so I got it double you know?

seriesofnonsequiturs

At both New York Comic Cons I’ve been to, the Armed Forces have a big booth set up with a bunch of video games that Con-goers can try out - and a recruiter conveniently sitting right there in case anyone wants to sign up.

In my after-school class, one of my students is now an official recruit and has already missed class twice to attend his army events.

deargravity

I got several calls from the Marines when I was in High School. It was like they were boys trying to ask me put on a date, just chatting with me about myself and what I was interested in. Thankfully I still had my deathly fear of intimacy with men so I eventually emphasized my asthma to get them to leave me alone. But now in the cold light of 10 years later, that was some grooming shit. Making me feel like a special kid. Preying on a 16 year old girl. Fuck that.

fozmeadows

This is fucking terrifying. No wonder conservative American governments are so furiously opposed to free/affordable college, housing and healthcare - if poor kids had access to all that stuff as a matter of routine, then what the fuck would the army have left to bribe them with?