Impudent Sisyphus

oh wow look at that it’s ANOTHER gangster movie about WHITE gangsters being cool and suave and sexy and badass while violently murdering people and wreaking havoc lol wow I’m so surprised

WHOA PLOT TWIST they’re actually the POLICE just ACTING like gangsters, because *reasons*
 and obviously that’s way better, because, like, the police are good guys so it’s totally ok when they break the law and go on killing sprees and are not held accountable at all, it’s not like police brutality is an actual real problem or that huge segments of the population are actually in constant fear of their lives from the police or anything nope not at all

white violent crime is sooo awesome and HAWT u guise lol let’s all go put on our pinstripe fedoras and patent leather loafers and skinny ties and shit and go shoot a bunch of people in the face, because we’re white so it’s classy when we do it

jeremyrennerappreciationlife:

fromonesurvivortoanother:

When people say all asians are good at karate, that’s a stereotype. It is based on some small fact— that karate is a Japanese martial art— but it’s grossly exaggerated into characterizing an entire group of people. It’s a caricature, like saying all asians have slanty eyes and confuse their R’s and L’S. Those things are based on actual facts, but they are blown way out of proportion and made to dehumanize people. That’s a stereotype. 

When People of Color talk about being afraid of the police because they’re white, that’s not a stereotype. It’s a pattern. As in, you can legitimately prove that PoC (especially Black and Latin@ people) are vastly, statistically more likely to be murdered, beaten, or otherwise mistreated by cops. This is a proven fact by scientific study and lots of personal experience.

And even more so, believing in a pattern is a matter of survival— a  white guy could make a racist joke any day and move on and not face any negative consequences. PoC have to watch how they speak and act around cops because they could actually get hurt and even die. It doesn’t matter that for every 100 cops, there’s 1 good guy. The pattern is there, it’s real, and if you don’t follow it bad shit could happen. It’s survival. 

A stereotype is bullshit. A stereotype is a joke made at the expense of other people that eventually snowballs into real world consequences. A pattern is about surviving to see the next day, about a lifetime or repeated occurrences that clearly outline how a group of people is and can absolutely become a threat to you. A stereotype is one tiny thing you decided to harp on until it became an imagined threat, a difference that you could not reconcile with your small worldview. A pattern is about making sure that the people you love don’t get killed. 

Patterns =/= stereotypes. It’s nice that you’re an exception to the pattern, but my characterizing all people like you as such is most certainly not a dehumanizing stereotype. Check yourself.

Read this, fellow white people.

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