How many times we gotta tell yall it's {noun} of color not POC {noun}

Yes this is ok for white people to rb

Anyways unlearning incorrect terminology is not easy but it’s not an excuse not to try or to tell poc it’s not that deep if you’re an ally.

So like

Doctor of color

Not

Person of color doctor

Genuinely asking cause my reading comprehension is shit

Yes!

For example, if you have a woman of color who is also an actress, you’d call her an actress of color, not a WOC actress or a POC actress!

Wilted Leaves Of Cabbage

Federal troops were called against 13,000 miners.Three battles that led to the biggest armed insurrection since the Civil War. 

 Ask yourself why you were never taught this in school. 

Although there were planes used against the miners in the Battle of Blair Mountain, it is not true that this was the first time planes were used to drop bombs on American soil against Americans. 

The Battle of Blair Mountain took place in August and September of 1921. Just a few months prior to that, on May 31 and June 1, planes were also used to help destroy the Greenwood district of Tulsa, Oklahoma, a prosperous black neighborhood nicknamed The Black Wall Street. At least 39 people died during the event, which is known as the Tulsa Race Massacre. Hundreds were wounded, and 6,000 black people lost their homes. 

Both of these events were hugely important moments in American history. 

Ask yourself why neither was taught to you in school. Also ask your local school board. 

hey if anyone could take a moment to sign this petition calling for an immediate investigation into the cops who pepper sprayed teenagers & peaceful protesters inside central station after the sydney black lives matter protest on june 6th that’d be really helpful! central station is underground & really close quarters, it’s a really brutal place to get attacked with pepper spray

Wish I could say I did, but I dont, it is very nice though.

Give me some more Anon.

Ok but on a serious note this is a main reason why I hesitate to write salt.

Like, it's easy to write ladybug being annoyed by his puns and jokes. That's normal, they're superheroes, they have a JOB to do. Make a joke when it's over.

The assault however; the hand kissing, staying in her space, not listening to her say "no" again and again. Again, that's not salt, that's canon! And it is downplayed and 'normalised' in such a way to make Ladybugs refusals look bad on her.

That's how the writers did it, that's the entire reason why the episode 'Felix' exists. To make Chat look good in comparison.

The punch scene? Done to show how marinette can and will respond to that behaviour. Her not doing it to Chat? The writers.

On top of which she needs Chat in a fight to win, so she can't do Anything to send him away.

And the writers know this!

Writing about the sexual assaults is salt worthy, claiming simple puns as the same is not.

The hand kissing and the staying in her space? She leans into those. She likes those. She got mad at him when he stopped. That is, therefore, not assault.

Whenever she says “no,” he does listen. He comes back later, yes, but whenever she says stop he stops. That is, therefore, not assault.

Ladybug’s refusals aren’t meant to look bad on her, they are her asking him to respect her space and he does. They trust each other, they respect each other, and yes: Marinette can and will respond to people doing things she doesn’t want with immediate and intense reactions, as you yourself admitted. She doesn’t push chat away; she leans into him.

Chat does not and has never committed sexual assault. He occasionally pushes her boundaries, but immediately backs off when she reasserts them.

To the people who view chat as an SA:

How fucking dare you. Im an SA survivor and that is not sexual assault, so please shut the fuck up

Same actually.

Honestly, I’ve SA and from what I see, this is not sexual assault at all! She enjoys it (even if she doesn’t show it in the right way). You can see she is visibly upset when Chat flirts with another hero.

(ex. Rena Rouge, Ryuuko)

And as we can see in Felix, she knows when enough is enough. Seeing as she is love with Adrien and knew that he wouldn’t act like that and punched because she did have enough.

She knows Chat’s puns and hand kisses are a playful tease while still being serious and therefore, no SA

If you genuinely believe that Chat Noir is a sexual harasser, unfollow me this instant please 🤗

And also rededucate yourselves on the topic too so that you don't go around mislabelling fictional characters this and that 🥰🖕

This was one of the reasons I had to take a step back from the MLB fandom. I’ve been through SA - admittedly, to a relatively small extent - and the stuff everyone’s so salty about? That ain’t it. In fact, if you watch the show, you’ll know Ladybug often flirts back with Chat Noir! Not to generalise, but if she was uncomfortable with him kissing her hand, she’d probably yank it away and move back, instead of leaning into his personal space to boop his nose.

Ok, firstly - with no excuses from me - I'm sorry. Massively.

Secondly, I've been on a very long no-sleep run and am not functioning at full capacity. So I'm not thinking straight.

I'm sorry to each and every person who has been a victim of SA,  none of you deserved that, no-one does.

as someone who has been (and still is) on the receiving end of physical and verbal abuse. I have a hard time identifying abusing behaviours (just spent about ten minutes between these two words dealing with one of my siblings getting physically aggressive towards me for nothing, no joke.) So sometimes I rely on others to see it and learn from them.

So I have a lot of pent up frustration and I guess... After seeing all the Adrien salt and both sides of the arguments on Adrien's behaviour I kinda... Projected? Is that right? I dunno... Too tried to think that much.

So, obviously, I was wrong with what I said, these aren't things I say when lucid.

as a side note, I'm not 'just saying' this cause it looks like I cornered myself here, I am openly admitting I was wrong and out of line here. Next time I get this tired I'm going to take a hammer to my thumbs so I can't type.

Holy fork @spartanxhunterx are you okay?

Also, I’m sorry for both what’s happening in your real life and for the dogpile that occurred here. I appreciate that you’re trying to learn to identify abusive behaviors yourself, and, to be fair, if Ladybug hadn’t consented to what was happening, it would be assault, so I can see why you made the misattribution.

Thank you for coming back to this and listening to what everyone on this thread is saying, and I hope things get better for you soon. Get some sleep!

(Also I know the hammers thing was a joke but I’ve found that even joking about self-harm can have negative effects on your mental state, so remember to take care of yourself!)

Zoom CEO says it won’t encrypt free calls because it wants to share them with law enforcement https://ift.tt/3dvT1t9

Be careful what you say on zoom!

but they’re more than happy to run end-to-end encryption for their wealthy corporate clients, of course!

start pushing for prison abolition or at the very least widespread reform right now i mean it. you can’t say “fuck the police” and “all cops are bastards” and talk about alternatives to police, but say nothing about alternatives to prison and the crime against humanity that is the racist drug war and the U.S.’s mass incarceration, the financial machine behind the police industrial complex

These Four Companies Claim to Support BLM. They Support White Nationalist Tucker Carlson’s Fox News Program.

This is from today’s Popular Info newsletter:

Tucker Carlson is a despicable racist and bigot. These four companies claim to support Black Lives Matter (and have made a HUGE deal about their alleged support), yet they continue to sponsor this reprehensible racist’s show:

Papa John’s is a lost cause. That guy is the patron saint of shitty right-wing pieces of shit, an unrepentant right-wing Trumpist. Fuck that guy and his garbage “food” forever. 

Disney is likely to respond to sustained and overwhelming public outcry, and getting Disney to drop its support for a white nationalist would go a long way toward pressuring other sponsors to drop their support.

Vari and Johnson & Johnson are easy for me to boycott. Maybe they are for you, too?

If you care about this sort of thing, you can vote with your wallet. You deserve better than that Papa John’s garbage. Get your pizza delivered from a local place. Finding alternatives to Johnson & Johnson should be pretty easy in any drugstore. Disney is really tough, because let’s be honest: theme parks are great, and Disney+ is pretty awesome. But I will write letters, and so should you. Vari doesn’t exist in my life so I’m just going to go ahead and put that company on generic blast for supporting a racist bigot. If you handle purchasing for your company, maybe you can encourage your bosses to buy office furniture from some other company.

But all of us can write letters, tag on social media, and let the people who make the decisions at these companies know that we are watching, and we will not support them as long as they continue to sponsor a white nationalist.

HOLY SHIT YALL while I was writing this, Disney pulled their support!! One down, three to do. We can do this!

Johnson & Johnson doesn’t advertise on Carlson’s show.

Reblogging to add the correction, and to update that even the excretory Papa John’s pulled its advertising, too. Good news, all around.

So I realized I was bi just a couple months ago and I sometimes just forget that I am? It's weird I'm totally cool with liking pretty girls but I see all this stuff about pride month and while I think it's cool as heck it still feels like I'm not supposed to be here, I'm supposed to support from the sidelines

I kiiiinda wish I'd realized this before getting married but I love my husband and I don't need anyone else, any gender.

Does being in a hetero relationship mean I'm relegated to being an ally? Genuine question, I don't need to claim any "points" by being bi, I've always supported the fight for LGBTQ+ rights even when I thought I wasn't part of that community, and I always will. And now I realize I am part of this but. Am I really?

You are. This isn’t even a hedge—if you’re bi, it doesn’t matter what kind of relationship you’re in. You’re LGBT. That’s what the B stands for!

Miss me with that electric slide nonsense.

I live right by the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone in Seattle.  For those reading from further away – it’s important to keep in mind what the past week has been like in this area.

Every night, the cops would attack peaceful protestors after it got dark.  The violence was apparently pointless, was often completely unprovoked and massively disproportionate when provoked, and seemed almost perversely dedicated to eroding any remaining public trust in the police.

Day after day of events like 

- “tear gas is wafting into nearby people’s apartments, it made someone’s baby wake up foaming at the mouth,” or

- “you know how, after people were furious about the tear gas, the mayor and police chief declared the police would not use CS gas for 30 days? well, it’s been less than 48 hours, and they just used CS gas again”

- “out of nowhere, a guy drove madly into the cop/protestor standoff and shot someone, and the protestors did more to stop and apprehend him than the cops” (see also here, etc.)

Events of this kind became almost surreally predictable, not in their details, but in their shape: no matter how badly the police are behaving, they’re going to hit a new low tomorrow.  If they seemed indefensible today, they’ll somehow make themselves into even more clear-cut villains tomorrow.  (Example: the night after the “tear gas ban,” they used OC gas, whereas technically the ban was limited to CS gas – and the night after that, they abandoned all pretenses and used CS gas again.)

No one understood why the cops did what they did.  In press conferences and the like, the mayor and police chief contradicted themselves from day to day and sometimes seemed to be unfamiliar with the basics of the previous night’s news.  The city council was baffled, everyone was baffled – the cops even found an odd, tangential way to piss off the Seattle School District in the process of doing all this other stuff.

When the cops left the precinct two days ago, all of that stopped.  I don’t mean to sound like the protest isn’t important anymore, or something like that, but “a continuous peaceful protest is happening in your area” is … well, a lot more compatible with ordinary life and work than than “you now live in a warzone where the city attacks its citizens every night.”

Right now it doesn’t feel like some new group has come in and “taken over.”  Really, it’s the opposite.  The very unwelcome group that “took over” last week – “took over” in terms of their new aggressive behavior if not in terms of literal physical presence – is finally gone.

On twitter I’m seeing dozens of threads from Black activists warning people against burnout, giving all sorts of useful tips about preventing and managing it for the sake of a long-term, sustainable effort.

On tumblr I’m seeing a hell of a lot of young white kids yelling at anyone who actually follows those steps, and acting like burnout is a moral falling rather than a well-proven psychological phenomenon.

Be careful who you get your information from. Don’t let guilt lead you to make choices that will harm both you and the movement.

I’m going to reblog this again since I see more individuals are inquiring about burnout prevention tips in the notes and it’s why I sought out this resource. I hope it helps you!

source

Love is what matters

Wholesome and good

We all should be entitled to the right to live.

OH LAWD HE COMIN

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there is no reason good enough to arrest a 6 year old, this is purely racist

WHAT THE FUCK

WHAT KIND OF THREAT DO YOU EVEN MANIFEST THAT SIX YEAR OLD CHILD HAS TO YOU TO EXCUSE THIS???

THIS IS FUCKING DISGUSTING AND PEOPLE ARE FUCKING MONSTERS FOR DOING THIS/IGNORING THIS/EXCUSING THIS

Imagine being such a punkass little bitch that you arrest a kindergartener for throwing little baby hands.

Highly recommend this book for those concerned about the treatment of Black girls in educational institutions.

Try searching for it on Bookshop.org and help support local bookshops instead of buying from Amazon. Even better if you can find a Black owned bookshop online and buy direct from them.

ADDITIONALLY: Contact your local school board and ask if the public school contracts with local police departments for their school resource officers (SROs). Demand that they terminate their contract and redirect resources plan a better way to serve their students. Minneapolis public school board did this last week.