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Yesterday, during a speech on immigration in Las Vegas, President Obama reacquainted the nation with the actuality that “unless you’re one of the first Americans, Native Americans, you came from somewhere else – somebody brought you,” he said.

Immediately, anti-amnesty apologists and Bering Strait Theory enthusiasts took to Twitter to argue againstMr. Obama and the positionthat Native Americans never migrated across the northern land bridge 15,000 years ago:

Conservative tweeter@MarkWonderfulremarked: “Needless to say, those of us w/some education know that even ‘Native Americans’ are immigrants, having come over land bridge from Asia.”

@QuoteLawrencewrote: “This is the stupidest comment made by stupid criminal sympathizers. You’re a native once you’re born here.”

Although the Bering Strait Theory is frequently considered as an irrefutable fact (at least in the Twitter-sphere), Harvard Medical School Professor of Genetics David Reich declared in July that the Bering Strait remains a theory – and one he anticipates will be refuted with further research.

Still, that hasn’t staved the American populace from utilizing the Bering Strait argument whenever the issue ofimmigration is the topic of caustic debate.

The late Native American writer and scholar Vine Deloria Jr. openly rejected the Bering Strait Theory and, furthermore, encouraged archeologists to put more consideration into American Indian creation stories.

“What Vine was saying was that people need to think critically about what is being said to them,” said Professor Theodore Van Alst, Lakota, and the Director of Yale’s Native American Cultural Center. “[Deloria] said that they need to listen to the nations and their traditions and their stories.”

Van Alst noted that it’s also convenient that the pro-Bering Strait Theory community’s evidence (if it exists) is “under water” and that the theory is invariably used “to [discredit] notions of indigenous rights to landholding.”

“[The Bering Strait Theory] is used to support the notion that we’re just an earlier set of people on a long continuum of immigrants,” he said. “… There needs be a real reassessment of this thing.”

Lauded Canadian journalist and musician Wab Kinew said that the president’s comments were “powerful” and that those who employ the Bering Strait Theory are “constantly trying to discredit us and undermine us.”

“They’re trying to legitimize colonialism,” he said.

Kinew added that it’s possible that Mr. Obama is finally on the brink of following through with his campaign promises, which date back to the 2008 presidential race.

“I think most Americans will see this as a sign that he could follow through with his initial campaign promise [to] recognize Indigenous Peoples as sovereign nations,” he said. “It’s a sign that the president gets it when it comes to indigenous history.”

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Has this been done yet

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(via Child's Play: Alan Rickman's 1970 Account of Murderous Children In An Inner-London Play Park - Flashbak)

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He invented a persona called Akira Yoshida, earning a second paycheck as a Japanese Marvel writer.

Marvel‘s new editor-in-chief, C.B. Cebulski, is already embroiled in a bizarre scandal.

In the mid-2000s, Cebulski adopted a Japanese persona to write comics like Wolverine: Soultaker and Thor: Son of Asgard, most of which involved martial arts or Japanese culture in some capacity.

Cebulski used the name Akira Yoshida, even giving interviews about Yoshida’s background in Japan. This added a facade of authenticity to his work, but there was another reason why he used a pseudonym. It allowed him to circumvent Marvel’s ethics policy, which banned editors from double-dipping as writers or artists.

Posing as Yoshida, Cebulski could get paid as a writer on top of his regular editorial salary. “Yoshida” also had an obvious advantage against other new writers, because Cebulski could “introduce” him to the American comics industry.

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wtf human www.patreon.com/Sephko

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MOVIES COMING OUT IN 2018!

Black Panther, A Wrinkle in Time, Tomb Raider, Ready Player One, X-Men: New Mutants, Avengers: Infinity War, Han Solo, Deadpool 2, Ocean’s 8, Bumblebee, The Incredibles 2, Jurassic World 2, Ant-man and the Wasp, Venom, X-Men: Dark Phoenix, The Nutcracker and the Four Realms, Ralph Breaks the Internet, Fantastic Beasts 2, Spider-man: The Animated Movie, Aquaman, and Mary Poppins Returns!

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GQ Encyclopedia of Matt Damon, his Bourne co-star Julia Stiles begins to tell the story of their encounter with Prince:

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add “I live inside my own heart, Matt Damon” to the things I will now commonly say that nobody will understand

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“Pedestrian small talk” ha i love it 😂

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I’m using this whenever a random white person starts taking to me 💀

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Fun History Fact: The overwhelming majority of cowboys in the U.S. were Indigenous, Black, and/or Mexican persons. The omnipresent white cowboy is a Hollywood studio concoction meant to uphold the mythology of white masculinity.

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Thank you.

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I will always re-blog this

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I think it was high school when i overheard some white girl put on her best semi-disgusted and confused voice and go “why do so many Mexicans dress up like cowboys?” and I had to be the person to tell her.

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Why do you think the whites say buckero? Cause they couldn’t say vaquero.

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manynamedshe

I dunno if I reblogged this before but fuck it, y'all gon learn today.

nyokoko

Teach the children.

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also, cowboy culture was hella gay. like, write-poems-about-your-cowboy-partner gay.

IF people acknowledge it, they play the necessity card– there weren’t any women out on the range, so they had to “resort to men.” this claim completely erases 1) the romantic (not just sexual) writings of actual cowboys, 2) the acknowledgement of cowboys’ potential homosexual activity by writers at the time, and 3) the possibility that some men would deliberately become cowboys with the intent to seek out homosexual encounters.

no one wants to admit it, but cowboy culture was just. so inherently gay.

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Im here for the gay POC cowboys

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The English author Kazuo Ishiguro has been named winner of the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”, which it said had “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.

With names including Margaret Atwood, Ngugi Wa Thiong’o and Haruki Murakami leading the odds at the bookmakers, Ishiguro was a surprise choice. But his blue-chip literary credentials return the award to more familiar territory after last year’s controversial selection of the singer-songwriter Bob Dylan. The author of novels including The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro’s writing, said the Academy, is “marked by a carefully restrained mode of expression, independent of whatever events are taking place”. Speaking to the BBC, he called the award a “magnificent honour, mainly because it means that I’m in the footsteps of the greatest authors that have lived”.

“The world is in a very uncertain moment and I would hope all the Nobel prizes would be a force for something positive in the world as it is at the moment,” he said. “I’ll be deeply moved if I could in some way be part of some sort of climate this year in contributing to some sort of positive atmosphere at a very uncertain time.”

Ishiguro’s fellow Booker winner Salman Rushdie – who is also regularly named as a potential Nobel laureate – was one of the first to congratulate him. “Many congratulations to my old friend Ish, whose work I’ve loved and admired ever since I first read A Pale View of Hills,” Rushdie told the Guardian. “And he plays the guitar and writes sings too! Roll over Bob Dylan.”

According to the former poet laureate Andrew Motion, “Ishiguro’s imaginative world has the great virtue and value of being simultaneously highly individual and deeply familiar – a world of puzzlement, isolation, watchfulness, threat and wonder”.

“How does he do it?” asked Motion. “Among other means, by resting his stories on founding principles which combine a very fastidious kind of reserve with equally vivid indications of emotional intensity. It’s a remarkable and fascinating combination, and wonderful to see it recognised by the Nobel prize-givers.”

Permanent secretary of the academy Sara Danius described Ishiguro’s writing as a mix of the works of Jane Austen and Franz Kafka, “but you have to add a little bit of Marcel Proust into the mix, and then you stir, but not too much, and then you have his writings.

“He’s a writer of great integrity. He doesn’t look to the side, he’s developed an aesthetic universe all his own,” she said. Danius named her favourite of Ishiguro’s novels as The Buried Giant, but called The Remains of the Day “a true masterpiece [which] starts as a PG Wodehouse novel and ends as something Kafkaesque”.

“He is someone who is very interested in understanding the past, but he is not a Proustian writer, he is not out to redeem the past, he is exploring what you have to forget in order to survive in the first place as an individual or as a society,” she said, adding – in the wake of last year’s uproar – that she hoped the choice would “make the world happy”.

“That’s not for me to judge. We’ve just chosen what we think is an absolutely brilliant novelist,” she said.

Ishiguro’s publisher at Faber & Faber, Stephen Page, said the win was “absolutely extraordinary news”.

“He’s just an absolutely singular writer” said Page, who received news of Ishiguro’s win while waiting for a flight at Dublin airport. “He has an emotional force as well as an intellectual curiosity, that always finds enormous numbers of readers. His work is challenging at times, and stretching, but because of that emotional force, it so often resonates with readers. He’s a literary writer who is very widely read around the world.”

Born in Japan, Ishiguro’s family moved to the UK when he was five. He studied creative writing at the University of East Anglia, going on to publish his first novel, A Pale View of the Hills, in 1982. He has been a full time writer ever since. According to the Academy, the themes of “memory, time and self-delusion” weave through his work, particularly in The Remains of the Day, which won Ishiguro the Booker prize in 1989 and was adapted into a film starring Anthony Hopkins as the “duty-obsessed” butler Stevens.

His more recent novels have taken a turn for the fantastical: Never Let Me Go is set in a dystopic version of England, while The Buried Giant, published two years ago, sees an elderly couple on a road trip through a strange and otherworldly English landscape. “This novel explores, in a moving manner, how memory relates to oblivion, history to the present, and fantasy to reality,” said the Swedish Academy. Apart from his eight books, which include the short story collection Nocturnes, Ishiguro has written scripts for film and television.

Awarded since 1901, the 9m Swedish krona (£832,000) Nobel prize is for the writing of an author who, in the words of Alfred Nobel’s bequest, “shall have produced in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction”. Ishiguro becomes the 114th winner, following in the footsteps of writers including Seamus Heaney, Toni Morrison, Mo Yan and Pablo Neruda.

The award is judged by the secretive members of the Swedish Academy, who last year plumped for the American musician Dylan “for having created new poetic expressions within the great American song tradition”. He proved an elusive winner and was described as “impolite and arrogant” by academy member Per Wastberg after initially failing to acknowledge the honour.

Some members of the literary community were also less than impressed: “This feels like the lamest Nobel win since they gave it to Obama for not being Bush,” said Hari Kunzru at the time. The choice of a writer who has won awards including the Man Booker prize should pour oil on at least some of the troubled waters ruffled by Dylan’s win, though Will Self reacted to Ishiguro’s win in characteristically lugubrious fashion.

“He’s a fairly good writer,” Self declared, “and surely doesn’t deserve the dread ossification and disregard that garnishes such laurels.”

*Also from The NY Times coverage about this award: Mr. Ishiguro said that he was the only Japanese boy in his neighborhood in England. Almost from the start, he said, “I have always been conscious of not being quite like anyone else.” But, he added: “If I’d grown up in Japan, I doubt I would ever have become a writer.”

Did you know? Ishiguro wrote The Remains of the Day in four weeks. Read about that here: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/dec/06/kazuo-ishiguro-the-remains-of-the-day-guardian-book-club

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Can we praise small steps in the right direction instead of condemning something for not stepping far enough?

(General “you”)

I KNOW people are hurting for representation in media and all that. I know.

But a show that takes a small step in the right direction should be praised and encouraged, not insulted because it’s not “progressive enough” for you.

Please. People get discouraged if every step they take is labeled not good enough. It is literally impossible to satisfy everyone.

I do understand very much that it would be nice to see more POC in certain roles, or to have autistic POCs, or mentally ill POC, or disabled POCs, or all of the above, and so forth.

The Good Doctor is actually doing a decent job with autism for once. It’s killing the functioning labels bullshit that has plagued autistic people for years. Shaun is Shaun, and every autistic person is different, so Shaun is not going to experience the word exactly like anybody except himself.

We see the awkward moments siding with him instead of the other characters. We see the ableism and discrimination and doubt he has to face to show he deserves to be in his position– it’s almost a small-scale allegory of how autistic people have to prove we deserve to friggin’ exist without someone shoving a cure down our throats or murdering us for having complex care needs.

Shaun is a step in the right direction for autistic people. That should be acknowledged as good because it will encourage other shows to maybe take another step and have a POC who is autistic, disabled or mentally ill (or all of the above). Actors (POC and white) who are autistic, mentally ill or disabled (or all of the above) may get more roles, too.

Let’s encourage the small steps in the right direction. With time, small steps can make someone strong enough to take big leaps. Good things grow from encouragement, but derision will stomp it flat before it gets a chance.

Let’s give it a chance.

(And let’s get Freddie Highmore away from Autism Speaks, too!)

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This year alone we’ve had two major television shows (Atypical and The Good Doctor) that center cishet autistic white men, again. I’m a black autistic woman and I don’t exist anywhere. Like, I’ll praise autistic representation when I get to exist on screen as more than just a footnote. Alternate universe Astrid from Fringe isn’t good enough. Most of the media representation, good or bad, centers around cishet white men. There is very little representation of autistic women of any race, there is very little representation of autistic LGBT people regardless of gender or race. Why should we celebrate yet another erasure of the actual diversity of the autistic community at large? Part of the reason that autistic people protest against Autism Speaks is the fact that the organization has created and fed into the lie that autism is “a male disorder”, which we know to be untrue. How is this different? Just because it’s less outwardly offensive than Rain Man or The Accountant to you doesn’t mean that autistics of color need to be happy happy with it. You can enjoy the show if you want to, but don’t try to tell us that we should give it a chance because another abled cishet white actor playing yet another able bodied cishet white autistic male savant is progress.

Even beyond The Good Doctor and Atypical, cishet white male autistics have dominated autistic representation for literal years. Recently we’ve seen Christian Wolff from The Accountant, Gary Bell from Alphas, Jake from Touch, Max from Parenthood…I could go on, since those characters are all actually stated to be autistic, I haven’t even touched on the characters that are coded that way like Gray from Jurassic World or Sherlock Holmes. And let’s not forget Sheldon Cooper who has TWO shows airing right now. I get that this character is relatable for you, but he’s not for me or any other autistic person of color that is sick and tired of waiting and being told we’ll get our turn eventually. People don’t even believe that we exist, I had to wait until I was thirty two years old to get a diagnosis and even then, I had to fight for it. I know how much of an impact autistic people of color barely existing in media has to do with that. It’s not my job to give yet another piece of representation “a chance” when most of it is invalidating to me. In fact, I’m quite insulted that I’d be asked to. It’s a slap in the face. But I guess my existence is just too progressive for television.

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disappointing with losing yeoh and having a white male captain makes total sense. the white privilege and male privilege that plays into those choices and the history of representation on trek are very much important things to discuss

but talking about jason isaacs specifically as if he’s the exemplar of alpha male gentile whiteness when he’s jewish and has chosen his work with overall thoughtfulness re: gender and power is not cool or fair though

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Isaacs, who began a Friday morning interview with a hearty “Good Shabbos,” had an up close and personal experience with fascist thugs as a boy. They were members of the National Front, back when he was a teenager in the 1970s and 80s: “I remember being chased with pickaxe handles and chains; windows being broken in youth clubs; and cowering inside a restaurant while people “Sieg Heiled” by the front door throwing bricks,” he said from his London home. “I remember running, often, when we gathered in groups, when people just would race up and try to beat up as many of us as possible. And this growing horror that even at my school, people were passing literature around appropriating the language of that kind of fascism, which was becoming mainstream [for a time].” [x]

i’m not saying he’s perfect or that his casting as a captain is not influenced by hollywood racism and sexism, but it’s possible to talk about those things without erasing his identity

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They drive by night, Todd Antony

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The most opulent truck cab ever? Comfy+

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