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Plants are just like… Too much sun. Not enough sun. Ground too wet. Ground too dry. The pH balance is wrong. There’s not enough drainage. I don’t like terracotta. Feed me. Stop feeding me. God was killed here. I do not vibe with this soil.
While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a clapping, As of ass cheeks gently clapping, clapping at my chamber door.
“tis a visitor,” i muttered, “dummy thicc, and nothing more”
Halle Berry in B*A*P*S (1997) directed by Robert Townsend, costume design by Ruth E. Carter
Not to sound like an edgy cyborg but I genuinely disagree with the statement “Empathy is what makes us human.”
First because this keeps getting used as a way to harm people perceived as lacking empathy due to disorders like Autism and PTSD.
Second because the more severe forms of chronic emotional detachment tend to produce a lack of action in general rather than antagonism. (Ex: What is currently called Schizoid Personality Disorder.)
Third because allegedly neurotypical people - especially the ones I have known who pride themselves on being exceptionally empathic - seem to have no problem shutting off their empathy whenever they pass a homeless person on the street.
A culture that emphasizes empathy for the sake of empathy is one that prioritizes deception and performance over sincerity and solidarity. It ironically creates the very emotional façade that people attribute specifically to the unemphatic.
And finally - you don’ t need to personally share another person’s struggle before you can actually help them in a meaningful material way.
I want to add, as somebody who spends so much time reading papers on personality disorders, empathy is a term pretty much exclusively used for moral judgement even in the literature. It is used to mean “ability to literally feel what others are feeling”, “ability to use facial expression and body language to infer what others are feeling”, “performs the socially appropriate facial expression, body language, and actions in response to another person’s feelings”, and “caring about the feelings of others” interchangeably despite supposedly having the very specific meaning of sharing emotions. It is used to justify demonisation and mistreatment, especially of ND people and those with a history of childhood trauma.
The neurotypical concept of Empathy™ is purely about performing normalised social conventions, so the idea that “Empathy™ is what makes us human” really is just another way to dehumanise people who Don’t Perform Right.
Hot Take: everyone knows that Clark is Superman but everyone is convinced they’re the only one who knows that Clark is Superman so they’re all like “ah geez I have to keep this a secret so no-one finds out” and the only person who genuinely Does Not Know is Lex Luthor
@sabey__
Spread this around; remind the world that for every Nazi, there’s an entire train full of sensible people capable of basic moral behaviour.
Remember, hand sanitizer removes sharpie, and good hearted people remove hate
Update: This is happening right now, on the weekend of 9-12 August 2019.
Demonstrations organized by Indigenous women to confront Bolsonaro’s policies, in both April and August 2019
In the northeastern state of Maranhão, which was already seeing rapid deforestation, invasions of indigenous reserves by land grabbers have spiked since Bolsonaro took office, said indigenous women at this year’s April encampment.
“When this government started, we immediately felt threatened because the farmers, the loggers thought that they can encroach [on our land] and do whatever they want because he [Bolsonaro] allows them to invade our land,” without punishment, explained Cintia Maria Santana da Silva, a leader of the Guajajara/Tenetehara indigenous group from the Araribóia Reserve.
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In the Governador Indigenous Reserve, also in Maranhão state, the Gavião people have likewise seen an upsurge in illegal invasions and deforestation since Bolsonaro took office, said indigenous leader Maria Helena Gavião.
“I think that [ruralist] people are feeling more well represented by this government, so they are not ashamed anymore of entering indigenous areas,” Gavião explained. She doesn’t feel Bolsonaro is doing “anything good” for indigenous peoples, but the worst thing he has said so far is that “not one centimeter of land will be demarcated for indigenous reserves.”
“This is an affront to us, this is a violation of our rights.… This government is anti-indigenous. We are not happy with him, with what he has been doing,” the Gavião leader said.
At least 14 cases of illegal invasions of indigenous lands occurred in Brazil from January to March 2019, mostly in the Amazon, a jump of 150 percent since Bolsonaro took power, according to a report released by NGO Amazon Watch in late April, citing statistics gathered by Conselho Indigenista Missionário, the Indigenous Missionary Council (Cimi), a monitoring group that is part of the Catholic church.
According to Amazon Watch, these encroachments can be linked to “the virulently anti-indigenous rhetoric emanating from Brasília, signaling a much more serious and widespread assault on natives lands and lives in times to come.”
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Indigenous women are rising fast into leadership positions in Brazil. Among the most prominently heard nationally and internationally are Joênia Wapichana, the first indigenous woman ever elected to the Brazilian Congress, who took office in January; and Sônia Guajajara, the leader of the Articulação dos Povos Indígenas do Brasil, the National Articulation of the Indigenous Peoples of Brazil (APIB). But countless other native women are on the frontlines defending their native homelands. Canoé, Silva and Gavião are good examples; all are land defenders in their Amazonian ancestral territories.
During this year’s late April annual gathering of indigenous groups in Brasilia, called the Free Land Encampment, indigenous women from a wide range of ethnic groups, with homes in the Amazon and elsewhere, criticized changes that Bolsonaro has made to longstanding policies, including the indigenous land demarcation process and the availability of health services.
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“The policies adopted by the current government… violate all our rights and aim to destroy us,” Maria Eva Canoé, a leader of the Canoé indigenous group from Northern Rondônia state, told Mongabay during the indigenous encampment.
“But we are strong, we are resistant. And we are here in this… the 15th encampment, to show to the government, and to all society, that we are alive, that we are resisting to exist,” said the 51-year-old teacher, who is a member of the council of the Coordination of the Indigenous Organizations of the Brazilian Amazon (COIAB).
The COIAB representative believes that all of Bolsonaro’s new measures “are bad” but the worst is the land-demarcation power handed over to the Ministry of Agriculture. “Why is it the worst? Because acting this way no indigenous people… will have demarcated land anymore,” Canoé said, adding that indigenous peoples are not invaders. “In the past they lost their land and now they are claiming what belongs to them by right.”
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There will be a first ever march by indigenous women in Brasilia on August 9-12, under the theme “Territory, Our Body, Our Spirit.” It will be held in conjunction and solidarity with the Marcha das Margaridas (Daisies’ March) led by women rural workers annually since 2010.
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Excerpts from: Karla Mendes. “‘Resisting to exist’: Indigenous women unite against Brazil’s far-right president.” Mongabay. 20 May 2019.
Our current landlady is the very image of one of those landlords who’d be spared the guillotine.
She’s an older, polite, maternal (white, middle class) woman who just happened to have enough money to buy a spare house, and is renting it to top up her pension. She reads The Guardian and asks after my family and does the occasional repair when necessary. She’s not one of those evil landlords.
She also just repeatedly lied to our faces about our contracts to try to get us to forfeit most of the rights we have as tenants. She also visits frequently, criticising how we live and reminding us that our home belongs to her. She also condescendingly and unnecessarily explains to us how boilers and washing machines and carpets work.
She explains to us how renting works.
She explains it with an indulgent smile, like a grandmother talking to a child, as if she’s being terribly patient about correcting our misunderstandings.
And she lies.
She lies because as much as she wants to convince us, everyone else, and even herself that she’s a good person, our entire relationship is based on the power she holds over us. She uses her wealth and position in society to extort payment from us, who have nowhere to live. We sacrifice to her the majority of the income we spend our lives earning, just so we can have a roof over our heads. But any time we don’t show proper deference to her, she could have us out on the street in weeks or months. We’d lose our home, because to her it is merely an asset which in no way belongs to us, the people who live there.
Today she repeatedly lied to us about our contract, and about the law, because she wanted us to have the minimum legal power possible. If I didn’t organise with a local tenants’ union, I wouldn’t have known my rights. And if I didn’t have the security of being a member of that union behind me, I never would have had the guts to challenge her. My housemate had no idea she was lying, and would have trusted her, signing away what few rights we had under the law.
As part of this tenants’ union, I’m always fighting with the worst landlords - the ones who keep people living in squalor, the ones with a dozen properties, the ones who are violent and abusive. But today has reminded me that even the “nice” landlords are still scum.
A genuinely good person who has enough spare money to buy a spare house (which is a lot of money! they wouldn’t need more!) would just let people who need a home live there, not bleed them of their income for the privilege of a warm place to sleep.
Never trust a landlord.
But more importantly, join a tenants’ union, and take back the power they hold over you. It was one of the most empowering things I’ve ever done.
In London, I recommend London Renters Union.
In Scotland: Living Rent.
In the rest of the UK: ACORN.
+ there are tenants’ unions all over the world, and housing co-ops where everyone who lives there part-owns their home and there’s no landlord to answer to
Here are various links to tenants’ unions and solidarity networks involved in tenant organizing and support around the US:
Nationwide
Homes for All / Hogares Para Todxs [national org, unsure of locals]
California
Tenants Together [statewide]
Alameda Renters Coalition
Berkeley Tenants Union
Center for Community Advocacy [Monterey and Santa Cruz Counties]
Los Angeles Tenants Union
Isla Vista Tenants Union
Oakland Tenants Union
Pasadena Tenants Union
South Pasadena Tenants Union
San Francisco Tenants Union
Mountain View Tenants Coalition
San Diego Tenants United
Santa Cruz Tenants Association
Protect Culver City Renters
Glendale Tenants Union
Sacramento Tenants Union
Colorado
Colorado Springs Tenants Union
Florida
Miami Tenants Union
Palm Beach County Tenants Union
Georgia
Housing Justice League [Atlanta]
Iowa
Ames Tenants Union
Iowa City Tenants Union
Illinois
Autonomous Tenants Union [Chicago]
Metropolitan Tenants Organization [Chicago]
Indiana
Bloomington Solidarity Network
Louisiana
New Orleans Renters Union
Massachusetts
City Life / Vida Urbana [Jamaica Plain]
Tenant and Housing Association of Worcester
Springfield: No One Leaves
Minnesota
InquilinXs UnidXs por Justicia (Tenants United for Justice) [Minneapolis]
Mississippi
Cooperation Jackson
Nebraska
Lincoln Tenant Action
Omaha Tenants United
New York
United Tenants of Albany
Crown Heights Tenants Union [Brooklyn]
New Settlement Apartments – Community Action for Safe Apartments [Bronx]
The Greater Syracuse Tenants Network
Oregon
Portland Tenants United
Southern Oregon Tenants Union [Jackson County]
Springfield / Eugene Tenant Association
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia Tenants Union
Pittsburgh Tenants Union
Texas
Texas Tenants Union [Dallas]
Houston Tenants Union
Tenants Union of San Antonio
Virginia
New River Tenants Union [Christianburg]
Washington
Tacoma Tenants Organizing Committee
Tenants Union of Washington State [statewide]
Washington, D.C.
DC Tenants Union
sorry but if your bed isn’t against at least one wall you’re not valid
I used to think this post was stupid because most people like both sides of the bed free but then I realized some psychopaths put their bed like this so not even the headboard is against a wall and this post is about these animals.
A single person’s bed is generally against 2 walls, a couple’s bed is generally against 1 wall, and people with 0 walls have no fear of the dark/unseen with direct access to their head, and therefore cannot be human.
ok the bed just out in the middle of the room is bad but have you considered: only the footboard end against a wall
no i hadn’t. why would you put that image into my head?
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So many conflicts on here could be avoided or drastically reduced if people internalized that systems of domination aren't perfectly logical zero-sum games and multiple seemingly contradictory things can, in fact, be socially true
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