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hey jsyk green taakos are antisemitic! green skin has historically been in antisemitic caricatures, and with a character who can be seen as jewish-coded very easily, it’s bad scoob! also combined with a wizard hat? worse bc in medieval Europe jews were forced 2 wear those hats while outside of ghettos so they could be identified as Jewish. And I’ve seen people who do this draw him with a nose like pearl from su, which…. all combined to a green skinned, pointed hat wearing, big nosed character who loves money and steals? just…just think how that could connect to antisemitic imagery.

link, link

(also, I’ve heard ppl say that it’s a lazy way to make a character not white but still not a person of color so)

most people who do this don’t know that though! the green skin, big nose, witch hat look is associated mostly with the wicked witch of the west, and u probably don’t know that it’s antisemitic. Just keep informed and when a Jew (hi, me) tells you it’s antisemitic LISTEN!

zeroanaphora

I’m listening, but you’re an idiot. If your arg is that witch and wizard iconography is inherently antisemitic, ok, I can see a historical connection, but you’ve made this green skin thing up out of whole cloth, and it all has zero to do with Taako.

pearshapedcomics

tastefullyoffensive

by Pear-Shaped comics

laughingfish

This is the funniest shit I’ve ever seen

clearheelsclub-deactivated20180

Omg

jamiedole

“This Rubik’s Cube is Driving Me Crazy!”

I’m gonna peel off all the stickers cuz I’m too stupid and lazy!

-Crazy Davis on Premium Blend, Comedy Central

agoodcartoon

racists were upgraded to fullblown nazis with the ushering in of trump, agc

jamiedole

“This Rubik’s Cube is Driving Me Crazy!”

I’m gonna peel off all the stickers cuz I’m too stupid and lazy!

-Crazy Davis on Premium Blend, Comedy Central

questionableadvice

~ “Progress”, 1915 editorial cartoon

Society despairs of the Modern Woman, 1915 style

History geek note: Now I’m imagining an editorial cartoon from 1615 comparing “Ye Moderne Bible Reading Woman” with the good, old-fashioned women from 1315 who didn’t insist on learning to read the bible for themselves but were content to have a learned Man of the Church interpret it for them. I’d try drawing it myself if I could draw anything other then stick figures.

silvermarmoset

The editorial cartoon from 1615 you imagine actually exists! Or at least, something a lot like it.

This is an illustration from the 1600s. First picture shows the good old days, when people carried around lances to stab people with and we actually read literature and wore spurred boots. The second picture is THE DEGENERATE PRESENT, where all these 1600s millennials wear RIBBONS and play DICE and SMOKE and DRINK STUFF FROM SNAKE FLAGONS. Damn 1600s hipsters. It was better when I was your age.

Humanity, never change.

questionableadvice

Look! Silvermarmoset posted an editorial cartoon from the 1600s, providing more proof that no matter what century you were born into you always just missed the good old days.

davidmalki

Reblogging this, it’s amazing.

Early 20th century British conservative cartoonist WK Haselden ran a whole series like this in 1920, where “Maud of the Eighties” (1880s, that is; sturdy, Victorian times) was faced with modern mores generally or “Gladys of Today” specifically:

I’m sure this was a hilarious, cutting insight at the time:

By the way, Haselden himself was all of eight years old in 1880. “Born in the wrong time,” I suppose they say.

It’s hard to say how much outright disapproval Haselden was expressing when you read, for example, the below – but as I have pointed out before, things like this that read to us today as awesome were usually intended to be read as unseemly and absurd at the time.

This is a more overt example of the same sentiment:

And before giving him too much credit, I hasten to add he was a staunch anti-suffragist:

Haselden did at least seem to recognize the ironies implicit in “good ol’ days” talk:

Whatever his level of self-awareness, he seems to have reached the conclusion that the chattering class will always be thus:

Indeed, in 1921 he anticipated this entire post!

ryannorth

There is a chance I originally reblogged this partially in the hope David would make amazing hay of it and I WAS NOT DISAPPOINTED

snorlax-and-co

zeroanaphora

well good news your head is clear and clean

myrosecolouredgirl

mother teresa is being canonized (named a catholic saint) tomorrow so i just want to remind you all that she watched thousands of bengalis die and enjoyed it because she thought the denial of medical care and the prolonging of suffering brought one closer to god

corvid-420

my personal favorite: when it was her turn to suffer medical issues, instead of embracing the suffering to get nearer to god, which she forced those under her care to do in her ‘hospitals’, she decided to get nearer to switzerland for medical care instead

violaslayvis

her most famous “clinic” in kolkata (at least) also had atrocious hygeine issues. Nuns would wash dishes in the same sinks as feces-stained clothes & rags. They would also reuse the same needles over & over again without sterilizing them. When asked why they don’t sterilize their needles, one of the nuns replied “That’s just how it is.”

lancrebitch

She was a piece of shit

allthingslinguistic

A Linguist Tweets Too Like The Lightning by Ada Palmer

After I read an excerpt from Too Like The Lightning on Language Log, I couldn’t rest until I’d read the book. It turned out to be really linguistically interesting, so go check out the livetweet and the book.

zeroanaphora

Gender pronoun stuff is annoying but otherwise really fascinating.

danskjavlarna

“This space represents tears of grief, remorse, anguish, contrition, sorrow, regret, despair, rage, disappointment, blighted hopes, withered joys, &c., &c., &c., &c., &c.” From Judy, Or The London Serio-Comic Journal, 1871.

zeroanaphora

Love me some &c

language-obsession

OMG my friend told me about mayan hieroglyphics and they’re SO cute!!! They’re just a bunch of rounded squares ahhhhh it makes my heart warm

LOOK !!!!!

AWHHHH

I WANT TO HUG WHOEVER MADE THIS SYSTEM I LOVE IT

earlgraytay

do you want to know more cute things about Mayan hieroglyphics

First off you don’t read them front to back or left to right or anything like that, you read them in paired columns. It’s a little like reading a PDF where you have two pages next to each other- you read the first two left to right, like in English, but then you read down the column, going down left to right.

Another cute thing is that the reason it took so long to decipher Mayan hieroglyphics (a couple hundred years!) was because the scribes liked to play around with how they wrote. The Mayan system had two different ways to write - they had logograms, which are like Chinese characters; and they had phonetic signs, which stood for a syllable of spoken speech- kind of like hiragana or katakana.

Sometimes the scribes picked one or the other to make the sentences make sense- when you’re writing with a lot of syllables sometimes you need to specify whether you’re talking about a stone or a turkey, or which word for “jaguar” you’re using.

But a lot of the time they’d just pick the one they thought looked prettiest. So you had people playing with words all over the place!

Another cute thing about Mayan hieroglyphics: the Mayan gods of scribes were twin brothers called the Monkey-Man scribes!

This is a statue of one of the Monkey-man scribes.

As far as we know, writing was sacred to the ancient Mayans, and calligraphy was a really important art.

language-obsession

OMG IT GOT BETTER !!!!

ok so Mayan logograms look a lot more complicated than Chinese characters, but if they combined both logograms + some kind of phonetic signs in writing, would that make it similar to Japanese then?? Just way more complex?

kinichwiktoj

The system is indeed similar, but a lot more complex in the mayan one. It comes from the fact that the “phonetic signs” can be in any position and because there is no concept of “orthography” in mayan : you can write things the way you want :

All those glyphs mean “shield” pronounced pakal in classical mayan, but all of them are writen using different methods :

The first one is just the logogram PAKAL

The second is the phonetic decomposition of the word using syllabic glyphs : pa-ka-la. The last voyel is usually not pronounced in such a position.

The last one makes use of both the logogram PAKAL and the syllabic glyph la. It is the most common spread orthography, as the mayan liked to make sure that no ambiguity was possible.

The real complexity of the system comes from the fact that one glyph could be written in many different ways, according to its position in the block (on top, on the side..) and the skill of the carver or scribe. Contrary to the chinese characters, a glyph had no fixed form : as long as its main attributes were presents, the scribe could draw or carve the glyph the way he wanted. Add to this the fact that most of the logograms had at least an anthropomorphic form and a more abstract one, and you get a pretty complex system. As an example, all those glyphs mean “sun” and are pronounced k’in :

Here are a few useful links to learn more :

The FAMSI website, where you can use a dictionnary to find glyphs and also read this great study guide.

The Corpus of Maya hieroglyphic inscriptions, where you can admire the beauty of the script when carved of rock .

Mayavase.com, if you want to take a look at mayan calligraphy on ceramics.

Maya decipherment, the best research blog on the subject.

Mayan teacher teaching his student mathematics (you can see numbers coming out of his mouth, and an open book, or “codex” in front of him)

obiternihili

This is also pretty much how Egyptian worked… It’s almost like this is a way of writing that keeps happening for reasons.

theinternetcrab

Chinese characters basically work this way too, except that the strong state stabilized the glyph forms rather quickly after the unification of China, so it’s not as noticable.