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Hey everyone in honor of Amber Heardâs birthday today, here is this GoFundMe to donate to Sanctuary for Families!
Sanctuary for Families was one of many charities who signed The Open Lette⌠Rebecca Salem needs your support for Happy Birthday Amber - Sanc
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How to spot a smear campaign:
Victimsâs âcrimesâ will be enlarged, and even if theyâre small missteps, they will be treated as if only the worst person on the planet would do such a thing
Accusations against the victim will always be a reach, aka, they did âthis little thingâ but it actually means theyâre a racist/murderer/genocide supporter/fascist/have blood on their hands, even when the personâs actions never conformed to those crimes
All and any actions of the victims will be misenterpreted in the worst possible way, anything the person does will be taken as an offense and intentions will be read as hostile and manipulative, regardless of how clear they are
All victimâs actions will be taken out of context; ie, victim said something cruel to someone, but they take out the context of the victim being abused, threatened, tortured, forced into defense mode and finally attacking out of desperation to defend themselves and get free
The victim will commonly get provoked into giving a bad reaction, (anyone gets defensive if theyâre accused of the crimes they never did, or simply triggering insults until they snap), and the reaction will become the new 'proofâ that the victim is in fact, evil and guilty
A lot of pressure will be put on you to react 'correctlyâ to the smear campaign; if you donât accept to demonize this person at once, youâre getting scrutinized, shamed for your lack of morality, told that you support all these horrid things and that you are just as despicable
You will notice a trend of people ganging together based on their demonization of the victim; they will set a standard where youâre accepted and welcome if only you also will demonize and hate this person, and if you donât, youâre blocked, cast out, and accused of causing harm
It will feel very easy to accept to demonize this person, and going against it will feel risky, like going against the grain, doubting the word of the many and risking being demonized yourself.
The smear campaign continues all the way until the victim is chased out of the community and denied a voice, even if the victim commits no further crimes, awful things will be said about them, their past 'misdeedsâ continually brought up, until the victim is commonly believed to be worthless, and becomes completely isolated, scared of society and alone
There will be no limit to what is considered okay to do to the victim of a smear campaign; even if the victim is accused of minor bad behaviour, it will become okay to threaten, insult, shout slurs, trigger, provoke, humiliate, manipulate, and repeat any kind of abusive behaviour to the victim, all because 'theyâre bad so they deserve itâ.
People leading the smear campaign will switch between being 'extremely grossed out and enragedâ to showing absolute joy and satisfaction when they find a new reason to demonize and smear the victim. People truly horrified of someoneâs actions do not get a leap of joy when a new disaster happens, theyâre not beside themselves to abuse the perpetrator all over again.
It will never, ever be acceptable to show any mercy to the victim. Forgiveness is out of the question, trying to understand them is out of the question. Even reading or listening to what this person is saying will be banned and forbidden, unless itâs for humiliating purposes. They will be shown as absolutely irredeemable, and associating yourself with them as evil and unforgivable. You will be instructed to block or unfollow or report the person based on what youâre told, without any significant proof.
Do not fall for smear campaigns. If a large amount of people all agree that a person is the worst, but their story is exaggerated, out of context, sounds fictional, and doesnât show any proof, and the people switch from being enraged to eager, doubt it. Participating in a smear campaign will help the abusers isolate and abuse someone, and you do not want to be a part of it. They will also smear anyone who stands up to their abuse, so youâre helping the abusers to create a place where pointing out abuse gets you cast out of the community.
Yet again, a woman faces her abuser in court. Yet again people are smearing her for coming forward. No one should ever have to publicly share photos of their medical care to have people believe them. We stand by you Megan, we believe you đ.
The letter denounces the ârising misuseâ of defamation lawsuits to silence people who report domestic and sexual abuse.
More than 130 people, including Gloria Steinem, and organizations in the field of womenâs rights advocacy and domestic violence and sexual assault awareness have signed an open letter to support Amber Heard, who lost a defamation suit this year brought by her ex-husband, Johnny Depp, for an op-ed in which she said she was a âpublic figure representing domestic abuse.â
The letter, which was exclusively shared with NBC News ahead of its public release Wednesday, was signed by groups like the National Organization for Women, the National Womenâs Law Center, Equality Now and the Womenâs March Foundation. It was written by a group of people who identify as domestic violence survivors and supporters of Heard.
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This is the kind of ridiculous stuff the Xena crew had to work against.Â
And in this same interview, Rob talks about how they were told that Xena was not going to be a romance betwee two women. And therefore they intentionally threw various male characters at the ladies every other episode to keep the studio happy. Which explains the boy-of-the-week format season 1 seemed to have.Â
Lucy says in this interview that if something risked being censored, then they hid it in the subtext.Â
Calling Xena queerbaiting is not being fair to the show. Not even a little. Queerbaiting is when something âqueerâ is teased in a work and not followed through with.
Thatâs not Xena.Â
Nevermind the fact that Xena is a show from 20 years ago, its not even queerbait by todayâs standards. Thereâs is a huge difference between a show that had to use subtext to dogde censors and a show that teases a gay narrative to draw an audience in with no intention of following through with it.
Just watch some of the crew talking about the show. Liz Friedman has mentioned that she got a call from the studio about the shot of Xena walking towards Draco in the opening credits. Because it looked like Xena was approaching a woman.Â
That specific shot was in the opening credits of the very first episode! Right from the beginning they had to dodge censors.Â
X:WP has some problems, sure. But queerbaiting wasnât one of them. Because they tried. But there was only so much they could get away with.Â
So accurate
WHY ARE WE STILL HAVING THIS CONVERSATION
THEY CALLED EACH OTHER SOUL MATE.
THEY LITERALLY FOUGHT HEAVEN AND HELL FOR EACHOTHER.
THEY KISSED. ON THE MOUTH. ON SCREEN. SEVERAL TIMES. NOT EVEN FOR LAUGHS.
ITS NOT A MATTER OF HOW MUCH THEY COULD AND COULD NOT GET AWAY WITH, ITS HOW MUCH FUCKING CONVINCING DO YOU FUCKING NEED.
THEY DIDNT TEASE SHIT. THEY PROMISED ACTION AND ADVENTURE AND JUST GAVE YOU LESBIANS ON A SILVER PLATTER WITH A CHERRY ON TOP ON THE SIDE FOR FREE. THAT AINâT QUEERBAITING.
IF YOU REFUSE TO ACCEPT THAT TWO WOMEN CAN BE IN LOVE IF YOU HAVENT PERSONALLY WATCHED THEM FUCK, THEN THATS YOUR OWN DAMN PROBLEM.
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Does anyone have the link to watch that interview where Liz Friedman talks about that shot of Xena walking towards Draco? Iâd like to use it as exonerating evidence in my own post about this. Iâll credit whosever finds it.
Sadly the video seems to be gone from YT, but I made a gifset of it here.Â
turkey and azerbaijan are attacking armenia right now, and itâs 1915 all over again because the world is distracted and people are too busy wondering if theyâre gonna live or die, and who gives a shit about my country anyway? my mum told me to tell my friends and explain to them whatâs happening and that we are the victims in this war because azerbaijan is spreading lies and people are believing their lies and i told her, what good is that going to do? do you think anyoneâs going to come to our aid? is russia going to help us? is america? is england? erdogan said they will finish what their ancestors started, and he means genocide. he means ethnic cleansing. he means to massacre every last one of us. and in doing so admitted to the very same thing turkey has spent 105 years denying. i donât know who to tell and what good telling people will do because weâre a small, insignificant country, and we have nothing to offer to the people in power, the handful who rule the world. so i sit here with my pain and i feel helpless. i know thereâs twitter threads and links to petitions and people being urged to contact their senators, and sorry if im being pessimistic, but azerbaijan has been attacking us for the last 22 years, and though we defend ourselves, we canât do anything to stop them. theyâve violated ceasefires (and geneva conventions) multiple times. i donât think theyâll rest until every last one of us is dead.
we just want peace. we just want to live peacefully. weâre not asking for a lot here.
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Watching this happen Iâve been so scared there is going to be another genocide and nobody would notice. My whole life Iâve hated how forgettable armenian people seem to be to the world. Protect armenian people or rot, please donât turn a blind eye to us again. And same as above, reblog or unfollow.
here are some cold hard facts for those interested:
1. after losing the war in 1994, the az government spent the next nearly 30 years on a) dehumanizing armenians, b) blaming armenians and losing the war for the terrible socioeconomic state of the people in this oil-rich country while president and his family steal all of the money their oil produces, c) pushing armenophobic propaganda on the population since kindergarten age, d) oppressing and humiliating the other ethnic minorities living on its territories, e) regularly violating the ceasefire of 1994 whenever the internal situation get tense and the ppl get angry, f) selectively sending the youths of said ethnic minorities to the bloodiest parts of the frontline whenever said ceasefire violations happen, g) suppressing free speech, arresting journalists, harassing and threatening those who dare to voice their discontent, etc.
2. in early 1920s, josef stalin, in order to appease the new turkish ârepublicâ and its leader ataturk, with the hopes of using turkey as the base for spreading the communist revolution further into asia, passed artsakh (also known as nagorno karabagh) with its 95% ethnic armenian population onto the new created turkic azerbaijan republic (a country that did not exist before 1918, thatâs what newly created means), despite the opposition from the people of the region in question and the republic of armenia.
3. during the 70 or so years that artsakh was part of the azerbaijan republic as an autonomous region, the gov of azerbaijan did everything they could to a) suppress the development of the region, b) change the demographic of the region by moving turkic population to artsakh
4. in 1980s, the people of artsakh, utilizing their rights stipulated in the soviet constitution, petitioned both moscow and baku to be allowed to reunite with armenia. as a response to this, the azerbaijan government started large-scale repressions against the organizers and activists of the reunification movement. arrests on made up charges, threats and violence followed (more info on all that in the link provided below)
5. the people of artsakh then held a referendum as was their right under soviet constitution, and more than 90% of itâs population voted in favor of seceding from the azerbaijan republic. the response to this were the anti-armenian pogroms in baku and sumgait ( https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-01-18-mn-305-story.html)
Alexander Gulanerian heard the mob pounding down the hall seconds before his door was broken down and they stormed in, brandishing knives, b
6. all this grew into the first artsakh war, which azerbaijan lost, as mentioned in point 1.
to sum it up: artsakh was never a part of the independent azerbaijan republic, during itâs brief 70-year forced az control its indigenous armenian people were oppressed via various government policies, the people of artsakh deserve to live a free and happy life in their homeland, free of threats and fear of annihilation that is sure to happen if azerbaijan takes control of the region
to them, itâs just a territory and they want that territory without the people.
for further reading, check out this comprehensive timeline of the artsakh history up to 2017( when it was written)
https://www.evnreport.com/spotlight-karabakh/spotlight-karabakh
then, this: on what actually happens to armenian lands and cultural heritage when itâs in azerbaijani hands
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2019-11-07/armenian-monuments-azerbaijan
For centuries the sacred khachkars of Djulfa stood tall along the banks of the River Aras â hulking and ornately carved 16th-century headsto
while you are at it, read up on the armenian genocide and keep in mind that turkey, specifically for this war, moved syrian jihadists to azerbaijan to fight against armenia and artsakh. read up on the kind of internationally banned ammunition azerbaijan has been using against the civilians in artsakh capital, and then maybe make your judgement.
oh, and if anyone tries to frame this as an islam vs christianity thing, send them to hell, regardless of the side they claim to support, bc this isnât it.
Women in Bradley County Jail are being kept in horrible, unsanitary, and unsafe conditions. Literally signs for help in the window.
The best way to help is to bail them out!!
Please if you have a couple of dollars to spare we are doing our best to get as many women out. Women who canât, will get money in their commissary for sanitary products.
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[ID: four pictures of signs inside a prison window. The first reads, "nobody is given underwear, socks, or bras! Women bleeding on themselves! Denied medical attention" the second sign is simply the word "help" written in caps on the inside of the glass. The last two signs read, "no masks. 13 days housed with daily new people" and "I'm 35 weeks pregnant" these appear to be written by the same person; their face in the window has been obscured by editing. End ID]
This is horrific.
just wanted to draw catradora in these outfits!
(catraâs outfit is from bpâs kill this love and adoraâs is from rvâs psycho. i think maybe they would relate to these songs during the angsty part of their story)
Um no wtf. Some people have pre-existing conditions that make it difficult to breathe with a mask on. E.g. anxiety, asthma, COPD. Mind your own business.
Actually I have anxiety, claustrophobia, sensory issues, & severe asthma, yet I still wear at least one if not two masks in public.
âmind your own business,â it becomes my business if itâs possibly harmful to me or the people around me
Yes, some people have pre-existing conditions that can make wearing masks difficult, the solution is going out in public as little as possible or finding alternative face coverings. (Iâm sure thereâs more safe solutions out there that other people have figured out)
I have no solutions for an alternative face covering that would work for someone w/copd, but someone with copd probably wouldnât want to be in public rn b/c theyâre very high risk?!? (Please someone correct me if Iâm wrong on any of this I do not have copd)
Also asthmatics and other high risk people should wear masks to protect ourselves if we can? Having a few asthma attacks or panic attacks is so much better than me or someone else dying from covid19.
Stop using my conditions and disabilities as an excuse for pushing harmful ideology.
first of all, anxiety is NOT a condition that necessitates not wearing a face mask, even the slightest bit. if you think it is, youâre an idiot.
for people with actual breathing conditions (such as copd or severe asthma), or anyone else who doesnât want to wear a mask, face shields exist and are extremely cheap (you can get a 6-pack for 5 bucks):
the solution to âi canât wear a mask because i have a breathing conditionâ is not âi can go out without a facial covering and endanger the lives of othersâ. it is either find an alternative face covering like a face shield, or donât go out at all.
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same energy as the guy on reddit calling the protesters âviolentâ and then saying âtodayâs generation couldnât handle Call of Duty: Age.â Because of how toxic the language is.Â
Itâs actually an incredibly common tactic fascists implement.
Their enemies (the outgroup) are both too weak to the point of being undesirables while also so powerful they can control vast global conspiracies against the in group.
Think of how fascists represent Jews. Weâre both so weak - effete and sickly and morally corrupt - but so powerful that we run a vast empire that controls banks, world governments (basically anyone that the fascist is not currently in charge of), all of left-wing politics (âcultural Marxism,â George Soros, ect), and racial minorities in a bid to replace white people with Jews and PoC (yes, they do not consider Jews white, all of us).
