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[allthecanadianpolitics]

But MacDonald was the founder of our country.

Yes, and he was also a genocidal, white supremacist.

He does not deserve any monuments in Canada in my opinion. Put him in museums, but not glorified in statues. Let his full history be on display in Museums not monuments which are built to glorify an awful man.

He did this:

When Canada used hunger to clear the West

And this:

John A. Macdonald was the real architect of residential schools

And this:

John A. Macdonald’s Aryan Canada: Aboriginal Genocide and Chinese Exclusion

And this:

Commentary: John A. Macdonald’s white-supremacist views were shocking, even by the standards of his time

And this:

“During the American Civil War (1861 to 1865), Montreal served as refuge to Confederates — southern Americans who wanted to keep slavery and secede from the United States union. The Southern slavers found a friend in John A. Macdonald.”

And this:

“In 1885, PM Macdonald told the House of Commons that, if the Chinese were not excluded from Canada, “the Aryan character of the future of British America should be destroyed.” This was the precise moment in the histories of Canada and the British dominions when Macdonald personally introduced race as a defining legal principle of the state.“

[antiporn-activist]

You say:

“ All women are beautiful”

but what you probably mean is:

“All women have value.”

And the reason you’re mixing up those two words is that you’ve been raised to believe that only beauty can confer value on women.

[copperbadge]

[stonekirk-blog]

Lamplighters promise a ‘Pirates’ with a feminist outlook

JOSHUA KOSMAN’S CLASSICAL MUSIC PICK To call the stage works of Gilbert and Sullivan “Victorian” in their outlook is true as far as it goes. But that blanket term encompasses a wealth of political and sociological nuance, and the vein of irreverence that runs through the works makes them rife for reinterpretation. For the Lamplighters’ new production of “The Pirates of Penzance,” director Nicolas Aliaga Garcia draws on what was referred to as the New Woman Movement, casting the female characters as strong-minded, independent characters.

[stonekirk-blog]

[stonekirk-blog]

Whilst rehearsing a musical:

Me and other girls: *singing part of a song about how beautiful a pirate is*

Theater Director: Okay that was good girls but I'm gonna need y'all to stare longingly at his ass this time okay?

[basichighschoolwhitegirl]

I’ve discovered that my goal in life is to be just as crazy as Mabel from Pirates of Penzance. I mean, come on. *She told the police to go and die *She loves all people and gave her heart to a complete strangers *Literally insane *Sings with random “birds?” I guess that sing at the beach

Like, who wouldn’t want to be like her??

[stonekirk-blog]

Love this!

[profeminist]

R.I.P. Sci-Fi LEGEND Ursula K. LeGuin

“We are volcanoes.  When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” -Ursula K. Le Guin has died, via @nytimes #Portland

- Ann Curry

Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”   ― Ursula K. Le Guin

- Margaret Killjoy‏

[pi4nobl4ck]

[anderwelt]

WATCH IT TILL TO END

[robinade]

Man: “I’ve now created the world’s largest functioning whoopie cushion!” *flops on it, creating a long farting sound*

*camera pans to nearby cat, looking deeply unamused*

[stonekirk-blog]

i gotta try this with my cats

[screenshotsofdespair]

[averagefairy]

me talking to myself in the back room at work

[stonekirk-blog]

Love this, in an on-the-edge maniacal laughing kind of way

[socialistexan]

@realphilosophytube , “The Philosophy of Antifa”

“If you’re a political enemy of fascism though, either they lose or you die”

[socialistexan]

Transcript of the gifs:

If you’re a fascist and anti-fascists come for you, you have a choice. You can give it up. You can renounce what you said. You could go on with the rest of your life and stop turning up to fascist rallies. Anti-fascists probably aren’t going to be your best friends, but they’ll move on.

But if you’re a person of color, if you’re trans, or a person with a disability, or gay, or Jewish and fascists come for you, there is nothing you can do to make them happy except stop existing.

That’s the key difference between the far-left and the far-right. Anti-fascists organize themselves against those that are building fascism. If you are doing that, that is something you can nonviolently stop doing. If you’re a political enemy of antifa, you can become a friend. If you’re a political enemy of fascism though, then they lose or you die.

[snarlfurillo]

IF YOU’RE A POLITICAL ENEMY OF FASCISM, THEN THEY LOSE OR YOU DIE.

[stonekirk-blog]

#fascism #antifa 

[chauiee]

Feinstein: You’re a big, powerful man. Why didn’t you [gestures pushing motion]?

Crews: Senator, as a black man in America [sigh]…

Feinstein: Say it as it is. I think it’s important.

Crews: …you only have a few shots at success. You only have a few chances to make yourself a viable member of the community. I’m from Flint, Michigan. I have seen many many young black men who were provoked into violence, and they were imprisoned, or they were killed, and they’re not here. My wife for years prepared me. She said, “If you ever get goaded, if you ever get prodded, if you ever have anyone try to push you into any kind of situation, don’t do it. Don’t be violent.” And she trained me. I’ll be honest with you it was the strength of my wife who trained me and told me, “If this situation happens, let’s leave.” And the training worked because I did not go into my first reaction, I grabbed her hand, we left, but the next day I went right to the agency. I have texts, I have phone conversations, and I said, “This is unacceptable!” And I told them how -you know- I almost got violent, but I didn’t. And I said, “What are you going to do about this predator that you have roaming your hallways?” And -you know- I was told, “We are going to do everything in our power. We are going to handle this Terry. You’re right. It is unacceptable.” And then they disappeared. Nothing happened.

[weepingbouquettyphoon]

Look at the faces of the black men behind him it says it all.

[dicapito]

This is real fucking infuriating. This shit isn’t funny. Fuck them and anyone who makes fun of Terry Crews speaking out and taking a stand.

[grannythots-deactivated20190917]

for those who don’t know the context, this is Terry Crews testifying about being sexually assaulted by Adam Venit during a Senate hearing about a proposed bill called the Sexual Assault Survivors Bill of Rights. While I don’t like that Senator Feinstein said what she said, I think it opened the door for a great statement from Terry about WHY he didn’t fight back - since so many people respond to male victims with “oh well you’re bigger than your rapist, why didn’t you push him or her off of you? why didn’t you punch him or her? did you want it or something?” And they don’t listen. Maybe finally people will listen. 

This shows that anyone can be a victim of sexual assault, even a tall, strong, hulking guy like Terry Crews. And I hope him coming forward with his accusations convinces other victims to realize that it being a victim isn’t something to be ashamed of and to take down their attackers, and push the justice system to FINALLY take male rape and assault seriously. 

[odinoco-deactivated20190531]

I think she asked him the question precisely for that

[grannythots-deactivated20190917]

I just looked at her Twitter and she stated (well, implied haha) that yes you’re right, that was indeed why she phrased her question the way she did.  

[fancynewaddress]

Yeah, Dianne Feinstein is someone who has never backed down on this issue. She wanted to give Terry Crews the space to answer the question in a way that I think he’s tried to answer in other forums but has been unable to do.  She wasn’t trying to minimize his experience as a male victim of sexual assault; she was trying to give him the opening to explain that, no, it’s just not possible to fight back when someone in a position of power threatens you. That’s a reality that is frightening for every woman, but as man conditioned to believe that passivity is weakness? I can’t even imagine the emotional and psychological trauma Terry suffered on top of the actual fact of the assault and all that went with it.

But this isn’t Dianne Feinstein’s story, which is why she said the second part of her statement (”Say it as it is.”). Terry Crews needed the opportunity to tell Congress and the world that sexual assault is not a problem confined to one gender, one race, one body type. It’s something that can happen to anyone, and fighting back is not always the option. He was forced to endure and to remain silent because otherwise, every door in Hollywood would have been shut to him.

Now he can speak out. Now he can be an agent of change. And I am so proud that he did make the decision to speak out, because he’s not the stereotypical victim. He’s living proof that this social ill affects all of us.

[linguisticparadox]

Let’s be clear that he was limited not only by the expectations of toxic masculinity, but by racism. A white man would not have been demonized or killed for fighting back against another man who sexually harassed him.

[snarlfurillo]

Yes, the conclusion Crews brings us to, quite masterfully, is that the man who sexually assaulted him chose Crews as a victim because he knew that a black man could not physically fight back. He used racism to sexually assault Crews without consequence.

[stonekirk-blog]

[preciousorgel]

any of ya’ll out here know about Pirates of Penzance

its a musical play from the 1800s about a kid called Fredrick who’s been interning on a pirate ship and he’s just turned 21 so he’s leaving them to be a Law Abiding Citizen and vows to slay them all, to which they reply ‘yeah fair enough’

But first he’s got to become a Real Man and get married, and because he’s never seen a woman in his life except for his 47 year old nursery maid Ruth, he’s fine with marrying her, which is great for her because she’s a bit past Prime Marrying Age, but the minute he sees a group of like 12 young women having a private party on the beach he immediately calls her an old ugly bitch and spends the next 10 minutes begging each one like a little gremlin to marry him.

They all say no because they’re not stupid. Except Miss Love Interest Mabel, who enters stage right and shatters everyone eardrums with her singing voice. She publicly shames her sisters for not marrying the little beach gremlin and says that she will Do Her Duty and marry the literal stranger. So thats great.

The pirates then come back to see the group of women and immediately capture them with the intention of taking them back to their ship and……marrying them, of course, but in the nick of time their doddering old father arrives and persuades the pirates to let them go because he’s a poor orphan boy (he’s rich and like 70). The pirates are moved to tears by this and let everyone go after singing about how beautiful poetry is (?).

In act 2, Fredrick has hired some policemen and is about to march against the pirates when Ruth, bitter af about getting ditched, appears with the pirate captain and tells Fredrick that according to his intern contract he’s technically still a pirate because it was supposed to be until his 21st birthday and actually he was born on the 29th of February on a leap year, so TECHNICALLY he’s only had 5 birthdays.

Fredrick is SHOCKED AND APPALLED, and tells Mabel that they can’t marry after all and he HAS to go back to the pirates, to which Mabel says “you know thats literally the stupidest thing ive ever heard” and he says “but its my DUTY Mabel, bye I’ll see you in 1940″ so she says “aww kk bye”

Also because he’s a pirate again, he reveals that the father isn’t an orphan at all, and he lied about it, and the pirates are SHOCKED AND APPALLED, and so they set about sneaking into the father’s estate and shanking him, so after a lot of singing and dancing about they arrive at the estate and confront him

“PLease save me Fredrick” says the father. “I literally can’t,” replies Fredrick, “There’s just no way i can stop doing what I’m doing.” At this point the policemen, who have done nothing so far except sing about how much they hate their job, arrive and fight the pirates, losing in about 0.005 seconds. 

“BUT WAIT” says the police sergeant. “what if i told you……you’re making Queen Victoria sad”. “o shit” replies the pirates, surrendering immediately. 

“BUT WAIT” says Ruth,”what if i told you….theyre all the sons of Noblemen, theyre just in their pirate phase”. “o shit” replies everyone, letting the pirates go immediately. 

The play ends with Frederick marrying Mabel, the pirates-turned-noblemen getting off scot-free and marrying her sisters, and Ruth marrying either the police sergeant or the pirate captain or nobody depending on the version.

Basically this is the greatest story of all time and you can listen to the whole think on youtube here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mp9pKUca_JY

[accras]

Two-year-old Albert Apsassin feeling the spirit at National Indigenous Peoples Day in Camrose, Alberta.

[yuricema-deactivated20230814]

So cuuuuteeee

[stonekirk-blog]

#FirstNations #indigenous #dance #dancing #kid #child

[reveredsky-deactivated20171222]

“the gay community was never racist”

shit y’all still are to this day

[andthenyoufoundmy-deactivated20]

:/

[reveredsky-deactivated20171222]

I’m glad my post got around.. ppl need to see some history

[magical-flying-moron]

In 1984, both African American and Asian American groups fought discriminatory door policies at bars across the city. Henry Chappell reported a double-carding incident at theWatering Hole on Folsom. Wearing a dress, heels, and a shawl, Chappell, an African-American self-identified transvestite, was asked for two forms of picture IDs as a means of excluding him from attendance. BWMT hoped that San Francisco would adopt a regulatory model for admittance based on Atlanta’s carding ordinance, which mandated that no bar could demand more than one valid ID per person.3 In part due to pressure from such actions, the City eventually passed a similar ordinance.

Around the same time, the Asian Lesbian and Gay Alliance (ALGA) conducted an informal study of various S.F. gay bars. One of the organizers later recalled, “White guys could sail through with no restrictions, but once color was added to the mix, the barriers went up.” The Midnight Sun and Castro Station were Castro bars particularly notable for their anti-Asian discriminatory practices. When confronted, the owners rationalized their multiple ID policies by claiming that it was difficult to visually discern Asian men’s age.ALGA picketed the Midnight Sun, attracting media coverage with placards such as“Discrimination in the Gay Community Demeans Us All.” During a KPFA radio debate,one participant recalled a bar owner claiming, “Your people don’t drink,” and “It’s a cruise bar; we would lose other clientele because they don’t want to cruise your type.”

-”Racism and Reaction in the Castro: A Brief, Incomplete History”

[stonekirk-blog]