posted on April 16, 2013 with 3,559 notes and Comments
A message from Traditional Canadians for the Preservation of the Traditional Definition of All Things Traditional. [x]

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tags #traditional marriage   #marriage   #gay marriage   #marriage equality   #traditional family   #equality   #LOL   #BURN  
posted on April 5, 2013 with 9,155 notes and Comments
crazygoingslowly: Basically every conversation I had this past week.

crazygoingslowly:

Basically every conversation I had this past week.

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tags #Christianity   #religion   #bigotry   #religious tolerance   #religious intolerange   #religious persecution   #persecution complex   #discrimination   #equality  
posted on July 8, 2012 with 360 notes and Comments
"If I were to ask you, “Do you believe that folks of color had equal opportunity and were treated equally in 1963, or whether or not black children were treated equally in schools and had equally educational opportunity in 1962, I know right now no one in here would say, “Well, of course, naturally they did in 1963. That was a damn good year to be black or brown in America.” Everyone regardless of your opinion in 2007 would quickly acknowledge how bad it was back in the day, because it is no sweat off your back. Forty four, forty five years later, it’s easy to talk about how bad it was, but see, here’s the trick: What do you think those white folks said when those very questions were put to them in 1963, and in 1962, in a time where the apartheid system was very much ineffect? It was before the Civil Rights act, before the fair voting acts, before the fair housing act. In retrospect, we can all look back and say how profoundly unequal it was, and yet when white folks were asked, some of them our parents, our grandparents, great uncles great aunts. These ancestors of ours were asked the very same question in 1963. “Do you think people of color” – they didn’t use that term, they said racial minorities – “Do you think that racial minorities are treated equally in your community?” And 80% of white folks said yes."
Tim Wise, The Pathology of Privilege. (via generalbriefing)
— via queerandpresentdanger
tags #racism   #equality   #equal opportunity   #privilege   #apartheid   #Jim Crow   #Civil Rights movement  
posted on April 24, 2012 with 743 notes and Comments

Whenever I see blog posts talking about how much women/nonwhite people are oppressed in America I laugh.

dumbthingswhitepplsay:

alexandraerin:

xfirecorex:

You are not oppressed, not really. Sure, not everything is perfectly equal, but we’re a lot better than 50-100 years ago, and I think that a lot of Tumblr Justice fucktards should put that in perspective.

So, I’d like you imagine an oppressive totalitarian state. You know, evil empire, stormtroopers, etc. Hitler by way of Kafka kind of thing.

Imagine in this state, there are a brutal secret police force empowered by the regime to basically do what the fuck ever they want. They can torture. They can murder. They can rape. They can stop and detain people at any time for any or no reason. They can suspend the basic protection of law. If they assault or kill someone during these stops, they are not answerable to the law as an ordinary citizen is.

This totalitarian police force will shoot unarmed school children in the back. They will unleash noxious chemical agents in the halls of a school. They will cover up the murder of a child by a political ally and informer. They will chase a child into his house and shoot him in front of his family. They will assault a twelve-year-old girl and then come to her school to arrest her later because she fought back. They will break into a house and shoot a little girl as she lies napping in her living room. They will shoot someone twenty-eight times and then charge them with attempted murder.  They will shoot unarmed bystanders and then justify it by saying that someone in the crowd had a gun, whether it was true or not. They’ll torture and kill a chronically ill military veteran who annoys them by accidentally calling for help in the middle of the night, they’ll do it laughing and shouting insults.

They will go so far as to hog tie a man and torture him to death in front of his children, drowning him with a garden hose in response to his plea for water.

They fabricate evidence, fabricate crimes, cover-up their own crimes and those of their friends and supporters. Rarely are they forced to answer for their atrocities. Instead, the worst among them are praised for being “tough” and “getting the job done.” Their job, of course, is not to serve nor protect the citizens of this hypothetical state, but to keep them in line… to keep them scared, to keep them quiet, to keep them in their place.

Would you agree that the people living under this purely hypothetical regime are oppressed? I mean, that to me all sounds like textbook oppression. If anything, it sounds a bit over-the-top, right?

But of course, it’s not hypothetical. I’m talking about the United States of America. None of the examples I gave above are hypothetical. Most of them happened in the last 40 days. They all happened to people of color, most of them Black.

What do you want to call that, if not oppression?

what is this?

AE pwning silly heauxs again?

YES

YES IT IS

IT’S SUPER:AE AND HER COMIC IS COMING SOON TO A COMIC STORE NEAR U

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tags #oppression   #privilege   #police brutality   #social justice   #equality   #Truth Bomb   #BURN  
posted on January 10, 2012 with 15 notes and Comments
"He always pictured himself a libertarian, which to my way of thinking means “I want the liberty to grow rich and you can have the liberty to starve”. It’s easy to believe that no one should depend on society for help when you yourself happen not to need such help."

Isaac Asimov (via thebesieged)

More evidence that Isaac Asimov was kind of an awesome human being.

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tags #Isaac Asimov   #libertarianism   #equality   #liberty   #social justice   #welfare  
posted on January 4, 2012 with 38,046 notes and Comments
beeseverywhere: nicoception: electripants: godtierkristin: sugarhihihello: nessfraserloves: delacroix: Me too. And, more than that, I’m sick of the people using it. Women are told almost constantly—by the media, the government, and the overall attitude of society—that our bodies don’t fucking belong to us. The mythical friendzone is just another way for misogynists to enforce that idea while getting to play the victim. It sucks when someone you have feelings for doesn’t share those feelings; it happens to women all the time, too. We hear “I just want to be friends” and “you’re like one of the guys” and “you’re like a sister to me” just as often. But you’ll never hear a woman complain that guys just don’t appreciate a Nice Girl because we’re taught it’s our own fucking fault when we’re rejected—we aren’t pretty enough or thin enough or sexy enough, we weren’t sexual enough or were too sexual, we put out too much or too little or too soon or not soon enough, we didn’t wear our hair the right way or our skirt the right length, we’re “too tomboyish” or “too butch” or “too feminine”, or we’re “not their type”, or we’re otherwise not good enough in various ways to entice the man to grace us with his affection. But when we’re not interested in someone, we’re vilified. We’re the bitch that lead them on, the bitch who let them buy us dinner but didn’t want to date them, the bitch who doesn’t appreciate a nice guy, the bitch they were nice to and then got nothing in return from. And, frankly, fuck those people. Showing interest in me, being friendly with me, getting close to me, or eating a meal with me (even if they paid for it) doesn’t obligate me to open my heart or my legs. And anyone who doesn’t appreciate my friendship sure as hell doesn’t deserve my love or my pussy. BOOM. This is the greatest commentary on the “friendzone” business that I’ve ever seen. Yes good  all the brofists forever and ever good YES THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO SAY BUT COULDN’T FIND THE WORDS FOR THANK YOU ;A;

beeseverywhere:

nicoception:

electripants:

godtierkristin:

sugarhihihello:

nessfraserloves:

delacroix:

Me too. And, more than that, I’m sick of the people using it.

Women are told almost constantly—by the media, the government, and the overall attitude of society—that our bodies don’t fucking belong to us. The mythical friendzone is just another way for misogynists to enforce that idea while getting to play the victim.

It sucks when someone you have feelings for doesn’t share those feelings; it happens to women all the time, too. We hear “I just want to be friends” and “you’re like one of the guys” and “you’re like a sister to me” just as often. But you’ll never hear a woman complain that guys just don’t appreciate a Nice Girl because we’re taught it’s our own fucking fault when we’re rejected—we aren’t pretty enough or thin enough or sexy enough, we weren’t sexual enough or were too sexual, we put out too much or too little or too soon or not soon enough, we didn’t wear our hair the right way or our skirt the right length, we’re “too tomboyish” or “too butch” or “too feminine”, or we’re “not their type”, or we’re otherwise not good enough in various ways to entice the man to grace us with his affection.

But when we’re not interested in someone, we’re vilified. We’re the bitch that lead them on, the bitch who let them buy us dinner but didn’t want to date them, the bitch who doesn’t appreciate a nice guy, the bitch they were nice to and then got nothing in return from.

And, frankly, fuck those people. Showing interest in me, being friendly with me, getting close to me, or eating a meal with me (even if they paid for it) doesn’t obligate me to open my heart or my legs. And anyone who doesn’t appreciate my friendship sure as hell doesn’t deserve my love or my pussy.

BOOM.

This is the greatest commentary on the “friendzone” business that I’ve ever seen.

Yes good

 all the brofists forever and ever

good

YES

THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT I WANTED TO SAY BUT COULDN’T FIND THE WORDS FOR

THANK YOU ;A;

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