March 2012
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How the West de-democratised the Middle East →
Rather than promote democracy in the Middle East, the West has a long history of doing the exact opposite.
First, the position that Islam is incompatible with democracy was false from the beginning, because it served imperial ambitions of the West and violated Muslims’ self-perception that, not only is Islam compatible with democracy, it was one of the engines of democratic...
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Inner monologue whenever a white person sees fit...
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Watchglitterlion:
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coldcaveat:
White people, explain yourselves.
I regret nothing
White people
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Line of thought from twitter.
polerin:
Thinking about Alex, the girl who is being stripped from her mother because she’s trans, and realize that it happens more with families of color.
How many black children are in the foster care system because racially biased standards deem their parents unfit?
How many families broken up because they are undocumented immigrants?
The mother who got years of jail time when a drunk...
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magicalorphanboy:
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urbanafrofuturism:
The term “government n*gger” is mostly used by some white people in the South to refer to a Black person on welfare or getting a government check of some sort.
so anyone whohonestlybelieves Santorum said Govermentnik (which isn’t a word used by anyone ever anywhere)
you are deluded
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“Like every black parent in Britain, I’ve had to have “the talk” with my kids...”
– Ava Vidal on Trayvon Martin and why the criminalisation of black children must end (via guardian)
“white parents can never teach their non-white adopted children strategies how to survive in a racist society”
“white parents can never teach their non-white adopted children...
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fairytale-leil:
today is land day.
for those of you who don’t know, today is youm el ard (land day) in palestine.
it’s a day of remembrance of this date in 1976 when protests where held all over the nation in response to the israel’s announcement that it would seize huge amounts of land from my people. six palestinians were killed, one hundred were injured and hundreds were also arrested. it’s...
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Lovesick Android: puggbutt: “The fact is that... →
puggbutt:
“The fact is that transgender people—in particular, transgender people of color—have simply not experienced the same strides forward as their lesbian, gay and bisexual brothers and sisters. A landmark new report, ‘Injustice at Every Turn,’ presents undeniable proof. This report,…
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miseengarde:
white girls who want my culture’s bindis and saris and henna
take my skin colour too
and my dark brown lips
take my self-hatred because i don’t fit into the euro-centric ideals of beauty
take the oppression too
take the history of colonization that has devastated my country
and the drones that currently devastate my country
take all the bad stuff too
not just the pretty,...
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whiteness
vsquaredk:
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babstheartist:
theoceanandthesky:
people still don’t get it. we don’t hate White people. we hate Whiteness. Whiteness is what killed Trayvon Martin. Whiteness is what killed Emmett Till.
Whiteness is the idea that White is right and everything else is wrong.
Whiteness is why most of the time if POC are on TV they are acting out a stereotype. Whiteness is why...
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TRIGGER WARNING for Racism, Police Brutality &...
Crown Prosecution Service reviews decision not to charge officers heard boasting of strangling 21-year-old black man | Friday 30 March 2012 13.29 EDT
Listen to the recording
Scotland Yard is facing a racism scandal after a black man used his mobile phone to record police officers subjecting him to a tirade of abuse in which he was told: “The problem with you is you will always be a...
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survivor-problems:
when you don’t have a family because they all directly abused you/were abuse apologists/invalidated your experiences by telling you that you weren’t abused. “nobody’s family is perfect” and this affects your life in so many different ways you are still figuring out how much it has hurt you. submitted by anonymous
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Update: 11 year old trans girl lost appeal →
thatfeministdyke:
transawareness:
The above article is an update. Her mother went to appeal to keep her out of the psychiatric ward and lost. She will be institutionalized because of her expression of her gender. She will be held until she conforms to male gender and then released to foster care, not her mother who was supporting her.
Please, if you haven’t signed the petition, sign it,...
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Set Off Your Medical Pendant, Get Shot
nikariot:
amaditalks:
A 68 year old black Marine veteran was shot and killed in his own home in White Plains, NY after police responded to a “medical emergency” call when the man accidentally activated his medical assistance pendant device.
In the middle of the night, police banged on his door until he was roused from sleep, demanded entry, when he refused (because he was not ill) they broke...
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“All this talk about “hoodies” & looking “gangsta” yet the most dangerous...”
– (via heyfranhey)
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“The racist smear campaign against Trayvon Martin, the unarmed black teen shot to...”
– White Supremacist Hacks Trayvon Martin’s Email Account, Leaks Messages Online
This makes me absolutely fucking SICK. I can’t vocalize properlly how fucking sick this makes me.
and it proves to me more than ever that this entire fucking thing is steeped in *white supremacy* and not “white...
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Adopted or abducted?
fralcon:
Veil of secrecy lifts slowly on decades of forced adoptions for unwed mothers around the globe.
Most women describe giving birth to a child as a life changing experience – in a word – “challenging”, “joyous”, “miraculous.” But generations of young, unwed women describe their experience of giving birth to a child as a nightmare – and decades later their suffering has yet to end. From...
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FYI: White people who claim they're not white just...
^ Seriously, this shit is just another slap in the face to every POC who didn’t wake up “extra-colored” on the same day that some white person up and decided not to take accountability for their privilege over us.
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Tributes to the White Gods of Earth
mry-jensen:
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Swedes are imagined as and imagine themselves as the most white - therefore the most aesthetically perfect and genetically valuable - of all Western nations on earth (and ultimately, of all humankind). At the same time, Swedes have proportionally adopted the most non-white children in the world, and numerous Swedes have entered into intimate relationships with non-whites...
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Tributes to the White Gods of Earth
Swedes are imagined as and imagine themselves as the most white - therefore the most aesthetically perfect and genetically valuable - of all Western nations on earth (and ultimately, of all humankind). At the same time, Swedes have proportionally adopted the most non-white children in the world, and numerous Swedes have entered into intimate relationships with non-whites and accordingly...
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Selchieproductions is a racist, ableist hypocrite
selchieproductions:
This because of colonialism, not because of some snobbery amongst the Saami.
My mother was adopted away for dual reasons, one being the fact that the Swedish government into the sixties promoted the idea of us Saami as less human than white Swedes, meaning that any Saami child could be saved by being adopted away, both from the culture and language. Sure, it backfired as...
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“From a very young age we’re basically taught to think of racism and “anything...”
– feministdisney (via loveyourchaos)
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“You must write, and read, as if your life depended on it.”
– Adrienne Rich, What is Found There: Notebooks on Poetry and Politics
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