George Washingtoad was a Toad in The Super Mario Bros. Super Show! in The Koopas Are Coming! The Koopas Are Coming!. Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool and Toad helped him fight King Koopa and his Koopa Troop. He is a general for the thirteen Mushroom Colonies.
He is an obvious spoof of George Washington, the revolutionary war general and first president of the United States of America. Also, unlike all the Toads in the cartoon, he has hair and a nose.
I hate him and I want him dead
15/4/25 メス会3(MesuKai3) Photo by Noise
Nastaran Kolestani is a transgender woman and refugee from Iran who came to America with her partner in life to escape the backlash from her family and Iranian culture. Nastaran was accused of murdering her partner at their apartment in Twin Falls, Idaho and sentenced to prison for 18 years to life only 7 months after arriving in the US. She survived a subsequent self-inflicted gunshot wound to her head in a botched attempt to take her own life moments after the death of her partner on August 25th, 2008. For the past 6 years, she has been adamant that the death of 29 year old Ehsan Velayati Kababian, her lover, was an accident despite an eye witness account. The case never went to trial because Nastaran accepted a plea bargain that waived her right to any future appeals. The ACLU and members of the LGBT community have taken her case to heart because her incarceration shows a lack of justice, in that such a plea bargain is said to be “unlawful and unusual” (Gina Morvay). She has suffered abuse in the prison system and from the media coverage of the case because of her gender identity. In addition to this, she endured severe culture shock upon arrival in the states. Her lack of understanding of the English language and American culture was the linchpin of her conviction. The documentary, called Nastaran (meaning rose in Farsi), explores the saga of her life, from growing up in Iran in a very repressed environment to her relocation to Twin Falls, Idaho, also a very conservative town.
if you care about trans women of color and how they’re abused by the justice system then please signal boost this or give if you can. this is the state I grew up in, I saw first hand how awful it was to be Iranian in Idaho.
This prison holds two of the most notorious cop killing dragons…. William and Cousin Chris.
It has been revealed that a U.S. drone strike accidentally killed two innocent Al Qaeda hostages on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border in January 2015. One of the victims was an American man, Warren Weinstein, and the other victim was an Italian man, Giovanni Lo Porto. Both were aid workers in Pakistan. Obama held a speech for them at the White House on Thursday this week, condemning the drone strike that killed them and taking full responsibility for their deaths. Would Obama tell the public that one of his drones killed a young Afghan boy in Nangarhar, Afghanistan the same month Warren and Giovanni were killed? Would he tell them that another five Afghans were killed by one of his drones in Kapisa, Afghanistan that same month, whom locals claim were civilians? Would he tell them that Gul Nawaz, a 75-year old refugee from Pakistan who fled to Khost, Afghanistan was killed in a drone strike in Khost last month? No. Over the years I’ve learned that the Afghans and Pakistanis (and others) killed by American forces are never worth apologizing for (not that it would do much, but at least it’s an acknowledgement). That’s why you rarely get to know their names and stories, they’re just labeled as ‘collateral damage’.
The thrilling saga of a praying mantis WHO REFUSES TO GET OFF MY DOOR
I’m currently stuck living w/ my abusive family and I’m going to be homeless soon
I don’t have a permanent place to stay and I’m unemployed thanks to being disabled
going to an emergency homeless shelter is my best last option
my family has been barring me for months from applying for the disability benefits I need so badly, restricting my self autonomy, and neglecting me to the point of starvation
if you want a longer explanations of how my family has been abusing me over the past year you can read about that here and here. keep in mind that things have escalated in severity and gotten more dire since those posts were originally made and that my family’s abuse has kept me trapped here
I’m going to need money for things such as
please signal boost this post and donate to my paypal if you can
I’m not sure how to get across how terrifying this situation is but I need as much help as I can to keep myself on my feet
just when I didn’t think my situation could get any more urgent, it did
as of 5/8 this is what living w/ my family is like and how terrifying they are
So I do have screencaps that I can add in case girljanitor/medievalpoc removes any of the existing links here.
Do I even need to say how messed up it is that GJ/Mpoc thinks it’s okay for them to make grossly oversimplified statements about complex Jewish identities (both historical and modern)? They are not Jewish, they do not deal with the complexities of Jewish identity or racialization or othering; they simply decided that they get to call Jews white.
Also, this quote:
Um, no. There are white Jewish people. and there are Jewish people of color. Race does not equal religion. People of color were not marginalized during the European Middle Ages, but Jewish people definitely were.
shows that GJ/Mpoc thinks that Jewishness=Judaism=religion.
This quote:
In contrast, people of color are marginalized in the realm of representation in Art History now, including depictions of Jewish people of color, where white Jewish people are not.
shows that GJ/Mpoc does not actually know that Jews’ supposed whiteness has pretty much no practical application in European art, because Jews are still not seen as white in Europe. This is a fact and you can hear it from many bloggers in Europe; they are simply not treated on strict lines of colorism (of course, in America while much of Jewish whiteness operates on lines of colorism, it also operates on lines of how willing Jews are to align themselves with white supremacy and other such complex things as that). Making this distinction is absolutely useless.
Read the rest of the post if you want. It’s all pretty superficial.
My Grandmother B. was a Holocaust survivor, and Polska Roma. She fled the war, coming to America concealed in a large suitcase carried by a white Jewish family. Today, our family still talks about the debt we owe that family, which perhaps cannot ever be repaid.
Let’s get this straight. GJ/Mpoc has set the stage here for us, so I’ll just sum it up:
Continue on down for a rather short explanation of why this is bullshit.
Say whatever you want, but you don’t flee WW2 Germany hidden in a fucking suitcase carried by a Jewish family because you had a little ideological spat with Hitler. You come to this country hidden in a fucking suitcase because you don’t pass for white. And maybe you son does sometimes, and your grandsons tell people they’re “Sicilian” but that doesn’t erase you, Gramma Blake.
Okay, so another quick summary.
Aside from the fact that this story is almost definitely fabricated, the details of it as well as how GJ/Mpoc talks about it makes it clear that they do not care about perpetrating harmful shit about Jews.
What they say here is basically that in Nazi Germany, Jews could pass as white. (Made more evident in the earlier quote, when GJ/Mpoc says “white Jewish family”!)
Even though at this point in time was when the Nazi party was attempting to return Jews to their original state as (officially) racially persecuted instead of just religiously persecuted, meaning that conversion didn’t make them exempt from persecution–that is, Jews were attacked as a race, not a religion. It doesn’t matter how much GJ/Mpoc wants to pretend that Jews can be white because it’s “just a religion,” NAZI GERMANY IMPLEMENTED LAWS THAT MADE JEWS TO BE CONSIDERED A RACE. AND THEN LAWS THAT OPPRESSED THEM BECAUSE OF THIS.
Jews were not considered white when there were arguments about what made someone count as racially Jewish–namely how many Jewish grandparents were needed to be counted as of the Jewish race. Whiteness was simply not a privilege extended to Jews in Nazi Germany, and it’s fucking ludicrous to think that anyone would ever think that it was. Yet here we have GJ/Mpoc, the person you’ve all entrusted to bring you accurate European history (and accurate representations of race in Europe!), claiming that Jews in Nazi Germany were actually white.
Also, just as an extra note? How does GJ/Mpoc know that the family that carried their grandmother was “white Jewish?” If their Rroma ancestry is supposedly so shut up, how do they know the skin color of their grandmother’s rescuers? (Who probably didn’t exist or were warped for the story.)
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That’s all I have right now for call-outs. I might find out more later that they’ve said about Jewishness. They’ve obviously done more messed up things, but this is specifically the Jewish-related things.
