February 2012
66 posts
I'd be cool with White History Month as long as...
skankassqueer:
sapphrikah:
ghdos:
The Middle Passage
The Trail of Tears and genocide of Native Americans
Jim Crow
How the prison system is set up to keep black and brown people in a cycle of poverty
Japanese Internment camps
Let’s do it in August. There are no other major holidays so the focus can be all on white people plus it’s nice and warm outside. Cookouts and fireworks for all.
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Food Stamps (A Shitty Poem about Government...
amouthygirl:
Walking down the street and on the side of the road
I see a dirty, poor man carrying a heavy load.
He looked at me in the eyes just as I passed
I smiled, and he turned to follow me so fast.
He wanted to talk, couldn’t find the word
Or maybe he thought I wouldn’t have heard.
But then he finally spoke, his voice subdued
All he needed was some money for some food.
He said,...
“Nonviolence declares that the American Indians could have fought off Columbus,...”
– Peter Gelderloos from How Nonviolence Protects the State (via liberationorstarvation)
An open letter to everyone who is about to start...
anarchyandscotch:
I took a peek at some of the comments on the recent post that Tumblr is considering banning blogs that promote things like eating disorders and suicide. Predictably, many people are whining about how Tumblr is taking away their right to free speech.
If you are of this mindset, please note the following:
Such a policy does not encroach on your First Amendment right to free...
“The first act of violence that patriarchy demands of males is not violence...”
– bell hooks (via feminishblog)
“He is rigid and a homophobic. He said, ‘I want a constitutional amendment to ban...”
– Former US Senator Al Simpson, (R-Wyo.) on Rick Santorum. In 2011, Simpson emailed me this statement on HB 74, a bill to ban recognition of same-sex marriage in Wyoming:
“I can’t imagine anything more inhuman, insensitive and unfair. Wyoming people believe in getting the government out of their...
We're all Human
dank-potion:
Please refrain from saying this when I’m discussing racism.
I’m aware that we’re all human. You don’t need to tell me that, I’m not the one treating people like they’re sub-human. That’s a very mediocre and condescending way to respond when someone is discussing a serious problem that’s affecting the quality of peoples’ lives around the world.
“Trans people are told by the law, state agencies, private discriminators, and...”
– Dean Spade, Normal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics, and the Limits of Law, p 41
I mean, basically, yeah.
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reading this now
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“It is time to allow farmers to grow industrial hemp in the United States. There...”
– Rocky Anderson (via rockyanderson2012)
Virginia votes to refuse NDAA | RT →
anonymissexpress:
22 February, 2012, via @AdamfromNorway
Although Congress approved this year’s National Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers on another level continue to find faults with its nasty detainment provisions. Virginia is now the latest state to consider laws that nix some of the NDAA.
When US President Barack Obama signed his name to the National Defense Authorization Act for...
Science Finds Humans Aren’t Inherently Nasty |... →
socialismartnature:
See, humans are naturally inclined toward socialist behavior! That’s why the capitalist ruling class needs to make such immense use of various forms of ideological, economic, physical, and social coercion against us in order to keep its order in existence [i.e., prisons, media, police, politicians, scapegoating, racism/sexism/xenophobia, etc.]
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According to researcher...
“In order for Bruce Wayne to fund his high-tech covert military campaign against...”
– Peter Rollins (via azspot)
This is what I’m SAYING. Ok you rounded up a few criminals with your batarang. What are you doing about institutional inequality that fosters crime, BRUCE.
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Wow, I never thought about that.
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Why I Hate Batman Openly Stated Reason...
“Such was the origin of monogamy, as far as we may trace it in the most civilized...”
– Friedrich Engels (via solitaryforager)
“Alas, for the ignorance of the human mind, which can see a right in an...”
– Emma Goldman (via dirty-rotten-scoundrel)
“Because Black Bloc anarchists do not believe in organization, indeed oppose all...”
– The Cancer in Occupy
Uhm, hello strawman? Total bullshit
(via autumn-and-eve)
I am so sick and tired of seeing that Chris Hedges article. He is nothing but a reactionary and a fascist sympathizer.
(via socialistscum)
This article leaves me very disappointed in Chris, I’ve come to expect...
The Great Carbon Bubble: Why the Fossil Fuel... →
whisperedinsecret:
Excerpt”
“What he and the rest of the energy-industrial elite are denying, in other words, is that the business models at the center of our economy are in the deepest possible conflict with physics and chemistry. The carbon bubble that looms over our world needs to be deflated soon.”
Today on Cis Feminists, Shut Up
autumn-and-eve:
» Uggh, I hate when guys call me a female! » (To trans women): Well, you might be a “girl”, BUT YOU’RE NOT A FEMALE
Some feminists piss me off.
“When I’m on the train, I read my favorite gay magazine. I can’t remember having...”
– The Bearable Whiteness of Being Gay - CNN Opinion (via thenoobyorker)
What’s shocking is when I read on Grindr or something else “Aryan for same”.
It’s like, “W… what?”
One time I actually read “übermensch” in a Grindr profile.
(via cuntymint)
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(via oppressionisyucky) This is why I...
“I swear to god I will lose my mind if I hear the “sex sells” fallacy one more...”
– (via littlelightx)
Women do not get raped because they were wearing...
“One percent of the nation owns a third of the wealth. The rest of the wealth is...”
– Howard Zinn (via solitaryforager)
“Although the Greek woman of heroic times is more highly respected than she of...”
– Friedrich Engels, The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State
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“You don’t have to be a woman to be a feminist. You should just be a fucking...”
– Margaret Cho (via dizzyfeminist)
“Pro-life conservatives are obsessed with the fetus from conception to nine...”
– George Carlin (via heylauren)
