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My math teacher sent this to the math group chat (read d/m/y)
Fellow Americans please queue this for December 2nd
Just realized that both coming out day and indigenous peoples day are on the 11th this year so here's your reminder from your local queer native to not let Indigenous Peoples Day get ignored and forgotten this year. Support natives even if they're not queer this october 11th, and don't let white + colonized narratives be the main focus of the day.
Also I highly encourage white people to reblog this
hey guys its indigenous peoples day so it'd be really cool if you guys donated or signed petitions pertaining to native hawaiians and other polynesian indigenous peoples! i feel like we tend to get overlooked on days like this, but we should be lifting each other up! we're allies! so heres a link for hawaiipeoplesfund.org, a list of links for aboriginal lives matter, and the hawaii land trust website where you can donate and read more about how we've lost our land! and if you own an ukulele, try to learn more about it and support some local artists! mahalo!
yall better be just as outraged about this as you were about notre dame
This is even WORSE.
To elaborate why this is worse: Art and religion are all well and good. But information can be critical. When libraries burn, information can be lost forever. Because we photograph art. We have blueprints of the Cathedral. The Notre Dame cathedral did not burn to the ground, only the wooden structures did. The entire library and everything within is gone here. Another reason this is worse? It was DELIBERATE. It was bombed. Accidents like Notre Dame happen all the time. But bombings don’t have to happen. So yeah, if you cared about Notre Dame, logically you should care about this too,
I drew things because of Twitter. That’s Maul with a tiny clone Thrawn in the first one. Thrawn is hugging the Darth Maul bear form Build-A-Sith. It’s RP. Don’t look too deeply into it.
And that’s Ahsoka popping out of a birthday cake in the second.
Also, did I mention I’m on Twitter RP now as Thrawn? It’s a thing. I figured it out. 😂
“House on Fire” by Sarah Anne Johnson, 2009. Dollhouse/mixed media.
My maternal grandmother Velma Orlikow was an unwitting participant in CIA-funded brainwashing experiments at the Allan Memorial Institute at McGill University in the mid-1950s. As a patient under the care of Dr. Ewen Cameron, she was subjected to invasive treatments such as shock therapy, LSD, and medically-induced sleep. These events traumatized her and rippled down through the family tree. (via the artist’s website)
Velma Orlikow and eight other victims of Subproject 68 of Project MKULTRA sued the CIA, and in 1988 these nine victims won (Orlikow et al. v. United States). the US argued in this case that “the actions of Dr. Ewen Cameron, the psychiatrist who utilized the CIA funds for his research” constituted “psychiatric treatment which falls within the parameters of acceptable medical standards”.
77 victims were awarded compensation by the Canadian government in 1994, but “more than 250 others” who had been subjected to psychiatric abuse and torture “were denied compensation because their treatment was less intense and had fewer long-term effects” (Dene Moore, “Ex-patient to tell of pills, shocks, brainwashing”, The Globe and Mail, January 8, 2007). victims of Subproject 68 of Project MKULTRA and their descendants, as Survivors Allied Against Government Abuse (SAAGA), are still seeking compensation and public apology from the US and Canadian governments, Royal Victoria Hospital, and McGill University Health Centre.
i knew this conceptually, but like you dont really KNOW that public school is designed to set you up to be a good worker bee until you're cracking out a report, after hours, at 7 pm on a monday night and it hits you; oh, i'm doing homework, this is why they made me do homework, and suddenly i'm feeling it in my chest. i cant believe i was raised by the state to be an automaton, and worse, i am one of the lucky robots who isn't doing manual labor.
ya know what fucking reblog this, we SHOULD be mad
protect asian lives. say it with me.
“protect asian lives”
asians worldwide are being beaten and killed. and it keeps going unnoticed. if you are being silent, fuck you.
the amount of hate crimes against asians have risen 1900%. it’s not our fucking fault we are in this pandemic. asians arent a virus or a disease. leave us the fuck alone.
now say it again.
PROTECT ASIAN LIVES
protect asian lives. say it with me.
“protect asian lives”
asians worldwide are being beaten and killed. and it keeps going unnoticed. if you are being silent, fuck you.
the amount of hate crimes against asians have risen 1900%. it’s not our fucking fault we are in this pandemic. asians arent a virus or a disease. leave us the fuck alone.
now say it again.
PROTECT ASIAN LIVES
this whole mutual thing is overhyped on this site. want to send me an ask off anon? do it. want to tag me in a post? do it. follower, mutual, or just random person who stumbled across my blog: I crave interaction and literally do not mind.
I think I’ve had three people that don’t really speak to each other about talk how the Bush years were actually worse than the current years with the “with-us-or-against-us“ thing. With Trump, it’s a small, if loud and shrill group, but in those years it seemed like the damn nation thought people against the Iraq war were purely evil traitors.
Freedom fries. You didn’t even have to be explicitly against the war, just being okay with the concept of France was enough to justify a boot in your ass.
There’s a Boston Legal episode about an Edwin Starr impersonator who’s not allowed to sing “War” (huh, what is it good for…) because it could be construed as anti troops/bush/government. It’s a very realistic plot.
I know I say this a lot but anyone too young to remember the Bush years should watch that show, it’s a very good example of the sorts of insane shit that people were arguing about back then.
Yeah. Trump may be worse (and the Republican Party may be crazier/more openly awful), but Trump doesn’t have Dick Cheney. Or anyone half as competent/evil.
Knock on wood.
Does anyone remember Trent Reznor not going to the… vmas one year I think it was, because he wanted to perform “Capital G”, a song criticizing the government, in front of a picture of Bush and they told him he couldn’t? And he was like fuck you then and just didn’t show?
If y’all wonder why older tumblerians get twitchy about censorship that shit is why.
Hell, one day when I was in grad school I was walking around and said something like “I hate Bush” to the person I was with and they shushed me in obvious fear.
If you wonder why I think free speech is an idea, not just the letter of a law… there you go.
The Bush years were awful.
Something that I just realized that younger tumblrites or folks outside of the US might not get:
“Doing X is letting the terrorists win” has become a hyperbolic meme but people were fucking serious about that.
I was just a wee baby high schooler for discussions about the patriot act and libraries handing over information and the government tracking searches, but I knew I didn’t like it, I knew that it was a bad idea and said so.
“What, do you want the terrorists to win? We’re just going to let everyone buy explosives with no oversight because you wanna read fanfic at the library? What if your mom had been on those planes, how would you feel about it then? We have to do this to keep everyone safe, what is wrong with you that you don’t want to stop this from happening again?”
In early 2002 I was a wee baby high schooler at an airport for a school conference. I’d left my boarding pass at the security station and ran back to get it once I’d realized it was lost. When I stumbled up to the metal detector (which seems so quaint in this era of full body scans) two national guardsmen in full BDUs with helmets and armor turned and pointed their M4s at me. “Are you Allison?” one barked and I unfroze long enough to nod. He handed me my boarding pass. “Be more careful!” When I got back to my group I was bawling and having what I didn’t realize at the time was a panic attack (having guns pointed at you is extremely scary).
“Well what did you think, you can’t just go running around an airport! They’ve gotta keep everyone safe - of course they’ve got military guns at the terminal, what, you think terrorists should just be able to waltz onto an airplane whenever they please?”
(Sidenote, I don’t check bags anymore because they always get opened and examined for “random” searches and I get pulled aside and patted down more than anyone else I know and I’m 100% convinced that’s because of this one mislaid boarding pass when I was 15)
Don’t want people tortured in prison? You’re letting the terrorists win. Questioning the validity of invading Iraq? You’re anti-american and letting the terrorists win. Sitting for the pledge of allegiance? You hate this country, which is what the terrorists want and you are therefore letting the terrorists win.
Saying “if we change our whole way of life and stop protecting people’s rights and freedoms then the terrorists HAVE won and we’re sacrificing liberty for security which is exactly the kind of thing you assholes say we shouldn’t do” to your political science professor in college? Oh my god maybe you are a terrorist.
Also tumblr kiddos - read up on the Dixie Chicks:
During the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the Dixie Chicks performed in concert in London on March 10, 2003, at the Shepherd’s Bush Empire theatre in England. This concert kicked off their Top of the World Tour. During the introduction to their song “Travelin’ Soldier”, Natalie Maines, who along with Robison and Maguire is also a native of Texas, said:
“Just so you know, we’re on the good side with y'all. We do not want this war, this violence, and we’re ashamed that the President of the United States is from Texas.”[41][…]
Maines’s remark sparked intense criticism;[44] media commentators claimed that she should not criticize Bush on foreign soil. Maines responded, “I said it there ‘cause that’s where I was.”[45]
[…] Maines attempted to clarify matters on March 12 by saying, “I feel the President is ignoring the opinions of many in the U.S. and alienating the rest of the world.”[47]
The statement failed to appease her critics, and Maines issued an apology on March 14: “As a concerned American citizen, I apologize to President Bush because my remark was disrespectful. I feel that whoever holds that office should be treated with the utmost respect. We are currently in Europe and witnessing a huge anti-American sentiment as a result of the perceived rush to war. While war may remain a viable option, as a mother, I just want to see every possible alternative exhausted before children and American soldiers’ lives are lost. I love my country. I am a proud American.”[48][49]
In wake of the statement against Bush, many supporters of the group dropped their support. […] In one famous anti-Dixie Chicks display, former fans were encouraged to bring their CDs to a demonstration at which they would be crushed by a bulldozer. […] Bruce Springsteen and Madonna both felt compelled to come out in support of the right of the band to express their opinions freely; however, Madonna herself postponed and then altered the April 1 release of her “American Life” video in which she threw a hand grenade toward a Bush look-alike, after witnessing the backlash against the Chicks.[51][52]
Colorado radio station KKCS suspended two of its disc jockeys on May 6 for playing music by the Dixie Chicks.[60] On May 22, at the Academy of Country Music awards ceremony in Las Vegas, there were boos when the band’s nomination for Entertainer of the Year award was announced. However, the broadcast’s host, Vince Gill, reminded the audience that everyone is entitled to freedom of speech. The academy gave the award to Toby Keith, who had been engaged in a public feud with Maines ever since she had denounced his number one hit “Courtesy of the Red, White, & Blue (The Angry American)” as “ignorant” the year before.
That Toby Keith song was the one I kind of obliquely referenced in my post up there, the one with the lyrics:
Justice will be served and the battle will rage This big dog will fight when you rattle his cage And you’ll be sorry that you messed with The U.S. of A. ‘Cause we’ll put a boot in your ass It’s the American way
The hyper-militarization of the police, invasive overreach and surveillance of our digital lives by the NSA, the jingoism and mandatory patriotism that have transmuted into virulent nationalism, and the longest war in US history are relics of Bush.
*Fuck* Bush and the awful, imposing, frothing all-or-nothing patriotism that so many people were expressing at that time.
Ofextremelycourse fuck Trump and his nationalist, paternalist, misogynist supporters too.
Reblogging because I was literally talking to @lireavue about this just yesterday.
Remember the protests against the Iraq war? Remember the largest anti-war rally in history?
The local Independent Media Center produced a short video claiming to show inappropriate and violent police behavior, including backing horses into demonstrators, shoving people into the metal barricades, spraying a toxic substance at penned-in demonstrators, using abusive language, and raising nightsticks against some who couldn’t move. However, NYPD spokesman Michael O'Looney denied the charges claiming that the tape was “filled with special effects” and that it did not prove the police had not been provoked.[57]
This was long before everyone had a video-camera in their phone, so it was very difficult to prove fuck all. But I knew people who’d been there, and the violence was pretty extensive.
In Colorado Springs, 4,000 protesters were dispersed with pepper spray, tear gas, stun guns and batons. 34 were arrested on failure to disperse and other charges[21] and at least two protesters had to have hospital treatment.[61]
It did little, as far as US action was concerned (although it probably - thank gods - convinced Harper that he should stay the fuck away).
The unprecedented size of the demonstrations was widely taken to indicate that the majority of people across the world opposed the war. However, the potential effect of the protests was generally dismissed by pro-war politicians. The Prime Minister of Australia, John Howard, claimed that the protests were not representative of public opinion, saying “I don’t know that you can measure public opinion just by the number of people that turn up at demonstrations.” In the United States, the then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice was reported as saying that the protests would “not affect [the administration’s] determination to confront Saddam Hussein and help the Iraqi people”.[22]
The Obama Administration was far from perfect, and I am not going to claim it was but I swear to god, people younger than ~27-30 do not actually grasp quite how Fucking Awful the Shrub was and how astonishingly united the opposition to the Cheeto is. And how fucking bad the Cheeto has in fact proved to be at PR-and-shit since the election.
(And very arguably, most people under ~40+ do not grasp how different the world is from, say, Nixon’s era. After all, Nixon got away with using the National Guard to fire on college students - this is the 70s, this is mostly white, affluent kids here, aka those MOST PROTECTED by privilege - and killing four of them. And that wasn’t even what came close to getting him into Deep Shit.)
the last four years have been bad, but at least this time it seems like the resistance is loud and strong. In 2000 we were coming off 8 years of Bill Clinton, who signed welfare “reform” and a bunch of mass incarceration bills and whose politics were firmly in the neoliberal mode.
Rep. Barbara Lee was the ONLY member of congress who voted against the Authorization of Force that led to the war in Afghanistan.
the equivalent vote for the Iraq War passed the House 296-133 and the Senate 77-23. A lot of Democrats voted for both of them.
Being against the president in 2020 was a firmly mainstream position. Being against the Iraq War was portrayed as fringe leftist nonsense. Being against the war in Afghanistan was treason, as far as a lot of people were concerned.
the fights might be harder now, idk how to gauge that. but the progressive movement is far bigger, stronger, and louder than it was pre-2008.
This is about Sci-Hub. yeah we get it.. gatekeep knowledge and protect the interests of capital…
Listen, this is serious.
Do not use the website called Sci-Hub!
It lets people access scientific articles for free. This is dangerous. It helps the free flow of knowledge and reduces the competitive edge of all the people who worked really hard to have been born into a wealth.
Like, it’s literally a website where you can type in the DOI of an article and read it, without ever having to pay the publisher who exploited the author.
So, again, do not, under any circumstance, use Sci-Hub. I mean, can you imagine a world where knowledge is free and easily accessible to everyone? Even, y'know, poor people?
Libgen also has many books online, including textbooks, searchable by name, author, and ISBN. Can you imagine textbook companies not getting their hard-earned income from poor college students? Here is the link just so you make sure that you never accidentally stumble across this horrible, unethical website.
Oh, and while we’re talking about books, if you’ve managed to stay clear from Libgen, definitely don’t go to zlibrary, where you can also find a lot of textbooks, but unfortunately they’re completely free.
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I promise, I do art from time to time. LMFAO Doing a self portrait is taking longer than I planned. Posted on Twitter.
While Apple Sauce seems to have people’s attention
I don’t know if you’ve heard, but it has become a big conspiracy theory among teens in Tiktok the idea that Helen Keller was fraud that didn’t exist, and the main argument to back this is “how could someone be both blind and deaf and still be successful and write books”. That’s plain ableism. This entire thing is just deeply ableist and the fact that an ableist conspiracy theory like this can spread so easily among kids is just scary.
Conspiracy theories, misinformation, fake news and bigotry are not a generational thing! It’s not a “boomer” thing, this is something that happens among all generations.
Reading this medium article made me lose my mind at how generational politics are truly rooting people’s brains:
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It’s gotten to the point where it isn’t even a joke anymore as it originally may have been. Generation Z literally does not believe Helen Keller existed. And frankly, I’m having a hard time accepting that she did myself.
I don’t feel bad or wrong for it, and I don’t think anyone else my age does either. But older generations seem to think differently. “Helen Keller overcame many obstacles, and she’s a great inspiration,” my mother said in an attempt to reason with me. She failed to invalidate my disbelief.
Does it stem from our own insecurities — could it be that a blind, deaf woman with more success in life than all of us is too much to grasp? Possibly.
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Boomers and Generation X love to chirp on the younger ones, quoting the adage, “don’t believe everything you read online,” but we’re the ones who have the most trust issues when it comes to news.
We have to fight to have our opinions about the state of our country heard and understood by older generations.
We have to march in the streets and endlessly retweet to try and stop our schools from being shot up.
We have to hear about the injustices committed at the border, against the black community, and against women, all of which are covered in lies that sugarcoat the situation, and you wonder why we have trust issues when it comes to the government.
We don’t have to believe in Helen Keller, and it shouldn’t be surprising if we don’t. The world we were born into makes us profoundly different than other generations, and hopefully, it will also make us into change agents.
This person is trying to paint as a quirky Gen Z thing not believing that someone could be blind and dead and more successful than her, then acting like being Gen Z makes you inherently progressive, bro what is wrong with people.
honestly if u have any teens/gen z ppl in your life, esp if they’re loved ones, like….please ask them about it (and discuss ableism).
also besides there being literal footage on youtube of helen keller (she only passed away in the 1960s), there was also a documentary released this year about her socialist politics and advocacy
https://youtu.be/8ch_H8pt9M8
https://fishnetcinema.com/2020/10/05/nyff-review-her-socialist-smile/
Marginalized people are often used as liberal mascots. As a woman who checks off a lot of diversity boxes, I know this all too well. I have