feminist french toast

drizzle them [intersectional] feminist posts on me, girl. 

[gahdamnpunk]

Some places don’t even name the charity like you’re just donating to the corporation’s tax writeoff. You’re better off giving that money to a homeless person on the street who needs it more..

[theconcealedweapon]

If the police were afraid of being falsely accused of brutality, they'd be actively demanding to be filmed at all times. But they don't.

If the police didn't want to be seen as a gang, they'd be demanding the repeal of all laws against victimless actions so their only focus would be on violent criminals. But they don't.

If the police feared for their lives in every encounter with civilians, they'd do everything they could to reduce the number of encounters. For example, they'd demand the repeal of quotas, and they'd feel relieved when social workers want to take over some of those encounters. But they don't.

If the police didn't want to be judged as a group when one of them does something bad, they'd be actively and openly condemning the bad police officers and making sure everyone witnesses that. But they don't.

It's almost as if everything the police say is a lie.

[black-to-the-bones-deactivated2]

The war on drugs is rooted in racist policies . The failure of the war and drugs is obvious. We need to find a better solution, because people of color should never be the victims of racist policies. White Americans are more likely than black Americans to have used most kinds of illegal drugs, including cocaine and LSD. Yet blacks are far more likely to go to prison for marijuana, which is not a hard drug. Moreover , even when white people get caught , they get less time in prison. 

[dealanexmachina]

…is that Rachael Leigh Cook, the same actress who did the original anti-drug ad when she was a teenager?

[ruffboi-mags]

It is indeed.

[cozza-frenzy]

She grew up, realized she’d been exploited to further a racist government agenda, and turned around to bite the hand that feeds. Awesome.

[kari-izumi]

I’m so proud of her

[serenata-your-neighborhood-lefty]

Response for when the far-right pick a fight by spewing ignorant divisive bollocks, then claim that they're being 'bullied', or 'cancelled', or 'oppressed' or 'silenced' when other people argue back or criticise them for said bollocks.

[thepuppyclub]

I agree with the idea that most things boil down to “can you have compassion for others”, but I’d be more inclined to use: “can you treat others with humanity and dignity, and put their rights at the center of your convictions, even if you have nothing in common with them, and even if you cannot emotionally relate to every tragedy in the world.”

[thepuppyclub]

And sometimes, you all need to understand that you don’t have the full context to understand a situation in its full complexities and that you probably never will, which means that your public commentary may be unnecessary and even tactless. 

[dingdongyouarewrong]

worst type of villain is ‘person who holds a fairly reasonable ideology that makes sense in context, but then a bunch of bafflingly evil stuff is added onto it in an obvious attempt to demonize that ideology’ 

[dingdongyouarewrong]

like how virtually every marvel spiderman villain is a working person with genuine grievances after being screwed over by a billionaire…. aaaand then also they’re all cool with child murder so we don’t need to address the structural issues this outlines or the fact that they had a point

or zaheer in korra being like ‘unjust hierarchies and dictators are bad And I Also Want To Kill A Child’ 

or the entire Legitimate Activist Who Goes Too Far subplot in virtually every movie or tv show who tries to handle the issue

[cursmudgeon]

Hollywood’s favorite moral is that anyone who wants to make the world structurally better is a dangerous evil extremist who is doing it wrong and private individuals with no accountability should be able to subdue them with violence by any means necessary because protecting the status quo is the definition of heroism.

[whitepeopletwitter]

[the-memedaddy]

meirl

[dunflower]

[acidflvx-deactivated20160402]

OH SHIT

[kaijuno]

ppl on this website are so obsessed with ‘all or nothing’ when it comes to politics and seemingly cannot grasp that electing officials is more like a strategic chess move to make change easier 

[kaijuno]

Tangentially, people here treat activism like a competition and completely disregard that not everyone is willing or able to throw bricks at cops. Activism is exhausting mentally and physically and telling people that their activism “doesn’t count” because it’s not dangerous enough is just a spit in the face to what work people are doing.

[dankmemeuniversity]

[mysharona1987]

[whitepeopletwitter]

[eeeduard0]

[mjalti]

[progressivejudaism]

As Jews, we have a deep history of fighting for justice.

Let’s continue our fight.

[progressivejudaism]

VOTE!!!

[niggazinmoscow]

THIS RIGHT HERE

[afronerdism]

You guys are dangerously close to realizing specifically what kinds of people they keep from voting and why.

[molothoo]

I want to drill this into everybody’s head:

The United States of America has the highest prison population in the world

Black Americans and Latin people make up the majority of this population (many of whom are non-violent offenders)

Federal Prisons in America require that their state keeps their prisons at a maximum occupancy at all times.

The 13th amendment did not entirely abolish slavery…just one form of it. It remains legal through industrial prison system

[scretladyspider]

Oh and we have privatized prisons which allow companies to actually make money off of keeping people incarcerated 

[dantalaois]

[odinsblog]

Here’s what’s really perverse: prisoners, who cannot vote, still get counted in the U.S. Census. The more prisoners a county has, the more representation it gets, even though the prisoners cannot vote. See how that works? The more black and brown people they lock up, the more government resources and political representation they get. Even though those prisoners have no say and cannot vote.

If county-A has a population of 50 voters but no prisons, and county-B has a population of 50 voters and 50 prisoners, the county with the prisoners gets more government funding and more political represention. This is sometimes called “prison gerrymandering” and it is used in redistrictring.

Not so fun Fact: Southern states that reliably vote for Republicans also have the highest prison population in the United States. (source). So mass incarceration is a double whammy. It’s both a form of voter suppression and a tool to strengthen white people’s political power.

[maximumninjavoid]

TWELVE DAYS BEFORE THE ELECTION

I am SMASHING the reblog button

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

[verilybitchie]

Whether you believe bisexuality was inclusive of nonbinary people in the 1960s, or whatever the latest debate is, the fact is that the bi community has spent the majority of the last decade trying to make it clear that bisexual means or should mean much more than just “attraction to men and women”, and there has been very, very little push back from within the bi community. The general consensus is that the word “bisexual” should be infinitely broad and inclusive, no matter what the etymological root is. Bisexuals do not want “bisexual” to be limited.

The only people desperately trying to reinforce the idea that “bisexual means 2 genders” are people who do not identify as bisexual.