21 5 / 2013
Mr. Cappadocia: feminist77: I am all for free speech. I am fine with you having a...
I am all for free speech. I am fine with you having a different opinion than me. What I will not abide by is hate speech. Free speech may legally allow you to say racist, sexist, ableist, and other kinds of fucked up things, but it will not protect you from my wrath.
Deal…
I’m not telling you what you can and cannot say, though. You can say whatever you want to, but you should be held accountable for what you say, particularly if what you say is harmful towards a group of people. And anyway free speech does not protect you from individuals’ words and actions (unless of course they break another law in the process).
21 5 / 2013
I am all for free speech. I am fine with you having a different opinion than me. What I will not abide by is hate speech. Free speech may legally allow you to say racist, sexist, ableist, and other kinds of fucked up things, but it will not protect you from my wrath.
Deal with that.
20 5 / 2013
ALSO did anyone else notice how the family at the beginning just *happened* to be POC? This won’t give anything away. Basically there was this family and the little girl had cancer and the villain manipulated the dad into blowing up himself and a bunch of other people. They couldn’t have made that family white because that would have been *too sad.* But since they were POC it wasn’t *that* sad.
20 5 / 2013
OK Star Trek: Into Darkness was entertaining and all, but the more I think about it, the more I realize how much it totally sucked. I can tell that they TRIED to have a diverse cast, what with the 2 women of color and the Asian dude and all. But still, it’s depressing to me that it’s set in 2250 or whatever and STILL all the people in positions of power are white men.
Not only that, but also all the interesting characters in the entire movie were white men. I mean obviously there’s Captain Kirk and Spock (who, my boyfriend pointed out, is from a diff planet, but that doesn’t mean he’s not still a white male because he is), and the admiral and that guy who died. But then there’s also Scottie and the doctor, who at least get to be funny, and Kahn, who gets to be evil and manipulative. What crap roles do the women get stuck with? Well, one of them is pretty and blonde, and the other one cries a lot and bitches at Spock (like all women bitch at their partners for no apparent reason ha ha ha). Awesome.
And I know it’s because white men wrote and produced this movie for a white male audience, so they don’t give a flying fuck.
But still.
And DON’T start with that whole ‘well it’s based off the original show which was made in the 70’s and the 70’s was less diverse’… No. Stop. That’s not an excuse. They could have given women and people of color more interesting or important roles in the plot. The End.
***EDIT*** Soooo I was just informed by mturnstyles (thank you, by the way) that Kahn was brown in the original series. I mean, I know he’s a villain, but in my mind a villain of color would be worse than no POC representation in the main roles whatsoever. Maybe not, but in any case, what a fucking terrible excuse for a movie.
13 5 / 2013
illegal immigrants? you mean white people
except that white people didn’t immigrate into the united states… they funded the united states. you can’t illegally immigrate into a society you created.
did you actually just say white people created society in america
(via emmylovestrees)
09 5 / 2013
Loud & Proud: So I write a post on being a Black woman and finding it difficult to have healthy self-esteem
and folks feel the need to jump on and add “black person” or tell me that “women in general” face shit.
NO. I meant BLACK women, specifically. Because I live in a world where
Psychology Today, a fairly well respected mental health publication, publishes a study finding…
04 5 / 2013
I will never let myself scroll past a picture of Walt and not reblog it. I feel like I’d be dishonoring him, and he’s just done so much for me that it’s just not right.
Mr. Disney
Bless this man for enriching my childhood.
People who don’t reblog this
DISHONOR
DISHONOR ON YOUR WHOLE FAMILY
DISHONOR ON YOU
DISHONOR ON YOUR COW
DisneyyWalt Disney was a documented racist, and he was known by those close to him as a fervent antisemitic.
He was quoted as saying that hiring black employees would “spoil the illusion of Disney”. His movies also contain racist and misogynistic messages.
Besides this, he also contracted with the FBI and the House of Un-American Activities during the 1950s. He had hundreds of Hollywood actors, producers, and directors red-listed for “supposed communist ties”.
heres one of many articles documenting the fascist ideals of the man you idolize:
http://www.businessweek.com/stories/2006-12-03/walts-not-so-wonderful-world
^^^^^reblogging for commentary
(Source: waltdisneyworld-love)
02 5 / 2013
"Racism is not in your intent. Your intent is immaterial in how racist your actions are. This isn’t about you BEING a racist. It’s about you DOING A THING that is racist. Your intent doesn’t change it. Your ignorance of its meaning doesn’t change it. It’s got nothing to do with you as a person and everything to do with the meaning of your action in the context of sociocultural history."
- moniquill (on red face & cultural appropriation)
I’m just going to reblog this again, since some people apparently need reminding.
(via darkjez)
So on point, I can’t even
(via agirlcalledchris)
(Source: nemoomnianovit, via screaminfuschia)
02 5 / 2013
"Don’t fool yourself. English isn’t inherently superior, or easier to learn, or more sonically pleasing. Its international usage comes from forceful assimilation and legacy of colonialistic injection. It isn’t a deed that one should take pride in."
(via thefistofartemis)
02 5 / 2013
This body of work is an exploration of the extent of cultural appropriation and encourages a discussion about it. I give the appropriator and the appropriated the opportunity to defend themselves and create a dialogue between them, while maintaining a neutral stance myself. I am not attacking those who appropriate, merely educating and creating awareness. I’m also exploring appropriation myself, and discovering the carying degrees of it within this visual conversation.
I’d like to make this a long term exploration, with a lot more participants as a form of generation-wide debate. If you’d like to be photographed to add your point of view, please do not hesitate to pop me a message here or an email at sanaahamid@yahoo.com and we could work something out!
27 4 / 2013
Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist white scientist who decides to give a group of black men a STI and, instead of treating them for it, watch them slowly suffer from it so you can study it FOR SCIENCE.
Now imagine you’re the white supremacist sexist medical establishment that denies women the right to get their tubes tied unless they already have loads of kids and require them to get their husband’s permission while at the same time forcibly sterilising legions of native and black women.
Now imagine you’re an “objective” racist psychologist who decides that slaves wanting to escape is a psychological disorder called “drapetomania” and the “cure” for that is lashings and cutting off toes.
Now imagine that you’re the “objective” and “scientific” medical establishment that deems queerness a disorder and decides that electroshock treatments or lobotomies are the effective solution or feels the need to “intervene” by surgically altering the bodies of intersex infants to fit your perceptions of what genitalia should look like.
Religion has done a lot of fucked up shit. But I’m sick and tired of people acting like SCIENCE hasn’t been involved in wars, death, and genocide either. And it’s the assumptive bullshit notion that ALL religions are somehow stupid and not worth your consideration that perpetuates this colonialist bullshit approach that white people have now upon Native and other individuals when tribes fight for the right to their sacred lands of, “Oh you’re religion is just hooey!”
First they “civilised” us with religion and now it’s science and repatriation. Stealing native lands and native artefacts and native bodies FOR SCIENCE so you can profit off of them.
If you’re going to lay in on the death religion causes, IMO you better realise that there’s a difference between the bastion of white supremacist cisheteropatriarchy that is modern Christianity and other religions which have little in the way of social power in comparison. AND you better recognise that science can be just another extention of white supremacist cisheteropartiarchy too and FURTHER the goals of that power structure rather than being as “objective” as they claim and countering it.
Haha. Imagine that.
Also, Ricky Gervais is a jerk.
THE COMMENTARYY
perfect commentary is perfect
(via sanityscraps)
26 4 / 2013
"I speak out of direct and particular anger at an academic conference, and a white woman says, “Tell me how you feel but don’t say it too harshly or I cannot hear you.” But is it my manner that keeps her from hearing, or the threat of a message that her life may change?"
(via boredsincebirth)
