February 2013
“The hypocrisy is breathtaking, brain-aching. These people talk unironically of their right to free expression whilst doing everything in their power to hurt, humiliate and silence any woman with a voice or a platform, screeching abuse at us until we back down or shut up. They speak of censorship but say nothing of the silencing in which they are engaged. I have even been told, with apparent sincerity, that using the ‘block’ button on Twitter to prevent anybody who has posted threats of violence against me is actually an attack on the troll’s freedom of speech - no apparent distinction being made between the right to express your views and the right to have your ugliest half-thoughts paid attention to.”
—Take Back The Net: it’s time to end the culture of online misogyny (via brute-reason)
January 2013
Gettin' Real Tired Of Everybody's Fuckery: faineemae: I love when people say things like, “you need to accept... →
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I love when people say things like, “you need to accept that people have different opinions than you” when it comes to holding people responsible and discussing the institutional consequences of racism, sexism, religious oppression, political justice, homosexuality and transphobia.
Um no, this isn’t some “I like oranges and you like bananas” type of shit. These opinions are harmful and can be rather dangerous. Especially when “opinions” have been the cause of much discrimination, genocide, colonialism, torture, harassment and even resulting in death.
“Opinions” got Trayvon Martin and boys like him killed, they are the reasons many LGBTQ youth kill themselves everyday, they are the reasons why Muslims have to face discrimination, why women weren’t allowed voices until just pretty recently, why the people of Palestine and Syria are suffering, they are why groups like the KKK and Westboro Baptist Church exist.
So, if you have a problem with people discussing these issues, unfollow and move on.
But hey, it’s just your opinion, right?
I like bananas and you like oranges.
Truth: The FACTS about the pay gap: →
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Or why the Lilly Ledbetter Pay Act wasn’t enough, four years later:
— Women make just 77 cents for every $1 made by men.
— For African-American, Latina women, it’s much worse: They earn just 70 cents for every dollar paid to men and 64 cents for every dollar…
“Strangely, Americans see immigration reform as a way to “solve” a problem, when really it represents a historic opportunity for Americans to embrace their country’s unique Latino personality – in the same way that English Canada acknowledged its French component 50 years ago. Latino culture and the Spanish language are not “foreign” to the United States. They were present on the continent before the foundation of the United States. In fact, the 21 (other) Spanish-speaking countries in the world consider the U.S., at least partly, as one of their own.”
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The U.S. needs to embrace its Latino personality - The Globe and Mail
Really interesting angle. Thanks, Canada.
(via savage-america)
When you lament being objectified because you are a female-bodied person who works in a male-dominated industry, and a guy responds by saying “all you ladies can feel free to objectify me anytime you want, no problem,” what he is really saying is “I don’t understand what objectification is, nor do I have any desire to hear what you have to say about it.”
Why do people not understand there is a difference between these:
- liking a guy who happens to be trans
- liking a guy because he is trans
veganism originated from POC
the fact it’s made a popular fad by white people pisses me off
Do white evangelicals have a delusional persecution complex? Barna says yes, and provides quantifiable proof →
patheos.com
And that’s where the latest survey from the Barna Group comes in. Because that survey provides what all those anecdotal examples cannot provide: Quantifiable proof that a majority of white evangelical Americans are hate-fueled sociopaths making themselves and others miserable with a perverse and delusional persecution complex.
Barna doesn’t quite put it as strongly as that, but the implication is identical. A majority of white evangelicals “want Judeo-Christians to dominate the culture,” said David Kinnamon, president of the Barna Group.
“Union membership plummeted last year to the lowest level since the 1930s… Government figures released Wednesday showed union membership declined from 11.8 percent to 11.3 percent of the workforce… Overall membership fell by about 400,000 workers to 14.4 million, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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Union membership was 13.2 percent in 1935 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. Labor’s ranks peaked in the 1950s, when about 1 of every 3 workers was in a union. By 1983, roughly 20 percent of U.S. workers were union members.” —
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Union membership was 13.2 percent in 1935 when President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the National Labor Relations Act. Labor’s ranks peaked in the 1950s, when about 1 of every 3 workers was in a union. By 1983, roughly 20 percent of U.S. workers were union members.” —
“Union Membership Falls Sharply, Led by Decline Among Public Sector Workers” / Washington Post (via findingsofnote)
And at the same time, job creation has almost entirely come in the low-waged service sector — jobs that don’t pay well enough to lift people out of poverty.
(via oldenough2burmom)
We treat the education system similar to that of a factory, those who aren’t deemed up to par based on the scores of an incomprehensible test are shuffled into dead end schools which produce many dead end children
Arizona Politician Wants to Jail People Who Expose Others to HIV →
hivplusmag.com
BY NEAL BROVERMAN
An Arizona legislator introduced a bill that would make it a felony to intentionally expose someone to HIV and other sexually transmitted diseases. Lela Alston, a Democrat serving in Arizona’s House of Representatives, was inspired to introduce the bill after a constituent described to her how she was unknowingly infected with an STD. If passed, Alston’s bill would make it a felony to intentionally infect someone through sex, organ donation, or needle sharing. The legislation, referred to a judicial committee, is already gaining sponsors in the House.
Many bills such as Alston’s were passed in the ’80s and ’90s, but later repealed. Many legal scholars find such bills dubious since it’s difficult to prove that someone intentionally infected another person with a disease.
“They’re very difficult to prosecute,” legal scholar Veda Collmer told Cronkite News. “It would be hard to meet the burden of proof.”
