[allthecanadianpolitics]

International Women’s Day: Indigenous women still not equal in Canada

On Friday another damning report was released that concluded Canada committed “grave violations” of the human rights of indigenous women and girls across the country. The report also recommended a national inquiry. “Aboriginal women and girls are more likely to be victims of violence than men or non-aboriginal women, and they are more likely to die as a result,” said Niklas Bruun and Barbara Bailey, members of the Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women. “Yet, despite the seriousness of the situation, the Canadian State has not sufficiently implemented measures to ensure that cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women are effectively investigated and prosecuted.” At least 1,200 indigenous women and girls have gone murdered and missing in the past three decades. How did we come to this state of affairs in Canada? How could the senseless and unfortunate murder of one soldier on Parliament attract Harper’s empathy, compassion and conviction to prevent another senseless death, but 1,200 horrific murders and missing indigenous women and little girls do not rank “high on our radar”?

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[ricktimus]

[angrywocunited]

What makes Lena Dunham white feminist devil?

According to yourfaveisproblematic:

That tiny little thing where her entire damn TV show has no POC in it

POC cast in Girls play only “the help”, random people:

Sidné Anderson as “Jamaican Nanny”

Jermel Howard as “Young Black Guy”

Moe Hindi as “Roosevelt Hotel Bellhop”

Jo Yang as “Tibetan Nanny”

The time she added a black actor (Donald Glover, who is very problematic in his own right and will be getting a post soon) for a couple episodes, during which she accused his character of fetishizing her as a white woman, and declaring that she “doesn’t see race” and “doesn’t see him as black”. Pro tip: erasing people’s identities and experiences is still racist.

About the lack of POC on Girls: “We really tried to be aware and bring in characters whose job it was to go “Hashtag white people problems, guys.” You know, because it’s the job of POC to go “hashtag white people problems” all the damn time.

This Islamophobic tweet:

The super Orientalist essay she wrote about a visit to Japan. Choice quotes include: 

“She weighs about seventy-three pounds and has hands like paper cranes”

“I can’t imagine a passionate affair with a native man”

“Yellowish Fever: I know I said I could never imagine a Japanese affair, but I’ve changed my mind. Kazu, the art handler hanging my mom’s show, is gorgeous like the strong, sexy, dreadlocked Mongol in Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (causing my sister to email the instruction: “Yeah, girl. crouch that tiger, hide that dragon. P.S. That’s a Chinese movie”)”

“Japanese people look so young — fourteen year olds in ill-fitting suits. What kind of business could they all be doing? When they cross the street it looks like a music video, or the cover of Abbey Road. They are so orderly and leave a foot of space between themselves and the next office escapee.”

“The White Man Cometh: Being the only Caucasian in a room, you almost feel invisible because you are so visible. When you’re in Mexico or someplace, at least they want your paper dollars. But here, we are uncouth, smelly, hairy. We have swine-flu. Our currency is inferior and our history is short. Yet the Japanese also love Sid Vicious, cowboys, birthday cakes, bagels.”

“Her former colleague (a word she pronounces cawl-eee-gew) had an affair with Kazu, art handler crush, and it was a great dishonor, not only for that woman’s husband but for everyone who knew either cheater”

“Sometimes, when you’ve been in Japan for ten days, you start to get a little funny… You will start bowing to people who hold open a door or sell you a honeydew yogurt or inform you that there are fish flakes on some crackers you’re not sure you want. You will flash a peace sign and assume a pigeon toed stance whenever someone aims a camera at you.”

“Remember that L’s sound like R’s and vice versa”

“Tada asks my age. I say “23, last week.” He’s excited. “HOPPY BIRSDAY!””

"A random guy in a French maid’s apron says, “You so sexy, RENA.””

“I had this dumb, Western idea. Like, I’m going to go to India and it’s gonna be so transcendent that I’m not gonna be afraid of death anymore, and I’m going to lay down so many of my Western anxieties and embrace a new kind of knowingness and bring it back to the U.S.”

“We do a really good job in this country of basically sealing off sick people and sealing off toilets and sealing off everything that lets us know we’re animals. And in India not only do they not do that, there’s no interest in doing that.”

During her trip to India, she said she sympathized more with “the stray dogs she saw than the poverty-stricken people.”

“I hated India. I know you are not allowed to hate India. But I did. I wasn’t happy. And I felt crazy. I am a hypochondriac. I saw too many puppies that I thought needed me. So many moms and I got in a big fight and I left India. Early.”

On the cost of her apartment: “It was this cheesy thing where they listed the prices people bought homes for. And its said something like Nicole Richie, 5.3 million dollars, Lena Dunham 430,000 dollars. It was my proudest New York Real Estate moment.” Are we supposed to be impressed that she spent ~only~ half a million dollars? 

How Girls constantly includes scenes of rape or sexual assault, and then depicts them as totally fine and no big deal

“The world’s getting more and more full. Our generation is not just white girls. It’s guys. Women of color. Gay people.” Well that about sums it up. Those are all the existing types of people.  There are NO others. And none of those categories overlap, either.

The huge amount of nepotism on that show, which makes her assertion that the all-white casting was “a complete accident” seem very unlikely.

“I’m not super thin, but I’m thin, for like, Detroit” which is almost definitely racist, and classist as a bare minimum.

“The vet was a young, sweet man. Definitely Jewish, which is something I care about only in times of crisis”

“I want to date a male flight attendant. Everyone I’ve slept with is gay anyway”

“She was always doing cleanses, yet she still had an inner tube of flesh around her middle—something that I wouldn’t begrudge if her son hadn’t once told me that he thought Nancy and I had ‘the same genre of body’.”

“Jonah didn’t have a very specific style beyond dressing vaguely like a middle-aged lesbian”

About a girl she knew and bullied as a child: “Cassie was a very fat girl we knew who we had nicknamed fat Cassie because she also wasn’t that nice.”

This fuckin tweet:

[katblaque]

I legit cannot stand white feminists like this. 

[socialismartnature]

Sikh Man Hospitalized After Truck Driver Calls Him A "Terrorist" and Runs Him Over

White supremacist terrorism.

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Police are still looking for a driver who called a Sikh man in Queens a “terrorist” before running him over with his pickup truck and dragging him 30 feet.

The Village Voice reports that Sandeep Singh was crossing 99th Street at 101 Avenue in Richmond Hill with his friends when the driver became angry that the group was blocking his car, and told him to “go back to your country.” While Singh blocked the path of the truck as his friends called police, the driver ran over Singh, dragging him through the street.

 … Singh’s brother, Navdeep Singh, said he had to collect surveillance footage from nearby bodegas and bring them to the 102 Precinct himself, because the NYPD hadn’t bothered to do so.

“I want justice for my brother. They have to take this case very seriously because it’s attempted murder plus it’s a hate crime.”

Amardeep Singh, the director of programs for the Sikh Coalition, told the Voice that this sort of indifference on the part of the police is routine. “There’s a sense that there is a real apathy in the 102nd Precinct in Richmond Hill, as it applies to this community,” he said

[avjogia]

It takes a lot of bravery now days to follow religion/family traditions.

[hotdogcouch]

[surprisebitch]

THIS IS EXACTLY IT. PLAIN AND SIMPLE AS THIS.

[fleatwood]

I can’t wait until our generation becomes teachers that actually know how to make a video full screen and get the god damn cursor out of the way

[haillordsauron]

Lol

[truestoriesaboutme]

*cut to 15 years later*

"Miss, you have to make the hologram 3D."

"What? Hold on, I’m trying to full screen this. Where’s the cursor?"

"There is no cursor, Miss. Flick your wrist to make the hologram 3D."

"And that’ll fullscreen it?"

*entire class sighs*

[mahaarani-blog]

[4 African teenagers create a generator powered by urine]

white feminists: ...

[Palestinian Muslim woman is the youngest doctor in the world]

white feminists: ...

[conventionally attractive cis white girl has unshaved armpits]

white feminists: YEAH YOU GO GIRL!!! DESTROY THE PATRIARCHY!!!✿✿✿

[cosleia]

Shit White Feminists Need To Stop Doing

I’m a white feminist, and let me tell you something: white feminism* is pretty bullshit. It’s exclusive, oppressive, and serves to further marginalize the people who are most impacted by misogyny. …

Try to read this with an open mind, white feminists…our experience is not the experience of all women.

[mazzystardust]

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[fastcompany]

Molskine + Paper app = a beautiful match made in heaven

[jongdaeri-main-deactivated20180]

Another muslim brother dead. Ya allah, inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un.

[american-radical-deactivated201]

Came from Iraq about a month ago to probably avoid death by terrorists like ISIS only to get killed by terrorists Americans.

[ahappymuslimah-deactivated20200]

May Allah grant his loved ones sabr. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji’un

[mangopapi-deactivated20210928]

Sickening yoo

[7ilu3anee-deactivated20171030]

His wife Zahraa greeted him at the airport, only to lay him to rest 20 days later 

[trishathebrown-deactivated20190]

Oh, that beautiful woman there? The one decked out in gorgeous Indian attire? The one coolly ignoring all the racist slurs and utterances of horror crawling along the walls of some godforsaken Waffle House? The one who could not give less of a damn if someone gapes at her audacity to bask in the glory of her culture?

That’s my mother. Hell yes, I’m proud.

[vypera]

I don’t understand how a fucking waffle house is demeaning. Oh, you mean the white people behind you and your mother? I get it, dude. “Lets scrape together some bullshit story to sell to SJWs for attention”. This shit works almost too well.

[trishathebrown-deactivated20190]

You are actually not the first person to voice this sort of sentiment, so I will try to further explain the context of this picture, and you may decide for yourself if you want to believe me. 

 My entire family was traveling that day to a far-off venue for an Indian ceremony, and we stopped at Waffle House for a bite to eat. My mother and I were dressed similarly in ornate Indian outfits called “lehengas,” and my father and brother were dressed in regular Western clothes (nice pants and shirts). My father and brother entered first to get us a table, and it was after my mother and I went in that the atmosphere changed considerably. Normal conversation died down to a quiet buzz, and the other customers viewed us with a medley of expressions ranging from surprise, to confusion, to disgust, to scorn. Only a group of black women openly admired our outfits, and they absolutely gave me a huge boost in much-needed confidence. 

The man whose face you see behind my mother was responsible for making comments regarding “fucking immigrants” and “goddamn terrorists dressed like clowns.” His commentary was met with quiet murmurs of agreement from his table-mates, and he spent the rest of the time balefully looking either at me or the back of my mother’s head. Upon encountering such hostility, I whispered to my mother that maybe we should leave and eat elsewhere. Her response? “You have nothing to be ashamed of. They mock us because they do not understand us.” 

And with that, she sat down with a smile and cheerfully gave the waitress her order. 

 I posted this photo as a testament to my mother’s dignity and unwavering pride. She is a living, breathing inspiration and I cannot explain how much that one day helped build my resolve to remain true to my culture and roots despite possible adversity. I posted this image for neither notes nor followers, but the abundant existence of those aspects proves that many people understand the reality of the situation. Of course, whether you believe this or not is entirely your predilection. All you have to go on is my word, but I have said all that I feel is necessary. 

 Thank you for your time.

[legends-canon]

[ofools-deactivated20151107]

you know what i don’t get? when like, people write romance stories where two characters are so in love w each other its all magnetism, but they? don’t even have fun together? or are even nice to each other sometimes?

"our love could level a thousand mountains and conquer a million cities"

ok but… are you even… like….. friends????