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Did you know?

White American males constitute only 33% of the population. Yet, they occupy approximately:

  • 80% of tenured positions in higher education
  • 80% of the House of Representatives
  • 80-85% of the U.S. Senate
  • 92%of Forbes 400 executive CEO-level positions
  • 90% of athletic team owners
  • 97.7% of U.S. presidents 

Good thing we solved sexism and racism u guise

yes good thing..look at all that equality bb…

jeez.

Maybe it’s not racism but actual incompetence in minorities, I’m not trying to be racist and I know there is still racism, however I don’t think  you can say that this is entirely at the fault of racism.

So wait...You see that white men make up 33 FUCKING PERCENT of the population...See ALL THOSE STATISTICS? It means that the other 77% of the population, aka EVERYONE ELSE, makes up, AT MOST, 20% of a certain part of the workforce.

And yet your answer is "White males are just superior to everyone else." But no. You're not racist or sexist. You're just a fucking piece of shit who thinks that sexism and racism (and let's be honest, probably every other ism) is probably justified, because "minorities" (pro-tip, dipshit, when you constitute 1/3 of the population? THAT MAKES YOU A MINORITY, NOT THE OTHER WAY AROUND!) are just incompetent.

You make me want to vomit. Go fucking sit in a corner until you realize exactly how fucked up you are and how fucked up your way of thinking is.

A Schizophrenic suicide.

things don’t always get to me but this got to me 

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Woah

jesus

are there sources for this or are we just supposed to be in awe of the word schizophrenic 

I did some digging, and it turns out that this is, in fact, a Russian man with schizophrenia who managed to commit suicide by shoving this knife into his skull. I unfortunately came across the autopsy photos on a forum (jfc...Don't go looking for this, okay? Seriously, it's pretty disturbing) and there were NUMEROUS hesitation marks all over his skull from where he'd tried to do this and failed.

So for once, yes, it's appears it's legitimate, at least as far as I can tell. (I've spent about 2 hours total scouring, and that is literally the only story that goes along with this photo that I've found)

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It is a profound injustice that the jury at this trial is even allowed to entertain the idea that Zimmerman could have perceived himself to be in imminent danger, when at any point, he could have driven away in his vehicle, as was the recommendation of police, leaving the proximity of the unarmed teenager who he provoked and later killed.

FUCKING THANK YOU

"Oh, so because I’m straight I’m not allowed to have an opinion on [insert LGBT issue here]"

Listen. 

I’m an english major. I know next to nothing about science, engineering, and astronomy. Sure, I think space is cool. I’m very supportive of NASA’s efforts. I might even have an opinion on where we should send the next shuttle or how much money we should spend on space travel. 

But at the end of the day, my opinion on the matter is not valuable. I’m not going to enter into a discussion about the next shuttle launch with a bunch of trained scientists and expect them to take me seriously. 

Sometimes, your opinion is not valuable. Sometimes, you aren’t qualified to enter a discussion.

And, lets be honest, straight people’s opinions are valued in literally every other situation. Hell, straight people get more awards for lgbt “activism" than queer people themselves.

If you really can’t accept that sometimes your voice isn’t the most important in the room, you might need to get over yourself. 

WORMHOLES – tunnels through space-time that connect black holes – may be a consequence of the bizarre quantum property called entanglement. The redefinition would resolve a pressing paradox that you might be burned instead of crushed, should you fall into a black hole.

Knowing which hazard sign to erect outside a black hole isn’t exactly an everyday problem. For theoretical physicists, though, it reveals an inconsistency between quantum mechanics and general relativity. Solving this conundrum might lead to the sought-after quantum theory of gravity.

This bothers the fuck out of me. People exist to teach other people how to be decent? Fetishization of marginalized groups is gross.

"Queer people need to suffer so cis straight people can learn tolerance".

This is why I don't trust so-called "allies". This is the type of shit they do.

like i followed the new blog hoping theyd be different. like ‘i know this group sucks a lot for reasons but ill work to combat that while i wear their name’….but its turned into more ‘i dont oppressed enough anymore lemme go hang with these asshole

Pretty much. It's always sad to see someone succumb to the dark side. (And I swear I'm not being a smart ass, that's the best way I can think of to put it.)

I hate that moment when you see someone you unfollowed on your dash, and only see that they've become an even worse person. I can't believe I used to follow them.

time heals all wounds

peechington-marie
so you’re still ignoring the initial post, still ignoring the rampant hatred of sex workers that is ALL AROUND feminism, and, to make this shit cake even tastier, you’re now going to erase my experience, tell me how I feel and what has happened to me don’t matter because they aren’t “facts"?
LOL I hope it’s evident why I call your… branch of feminism bullshit. LOL But please, by all means, keep erasing every voice that doesn’t echo your own. That’s how to Get Shit Done, right?

yeah, no, all i’m doing is trying to get you to realize that slutwalk wasn’t influenced or condoned by radical feminism, period. i have agreed with you countless times that the slutwalk treatment of women is disgusting. i also never said your experiences didn’t matter, i merely said they weren’t facts, and that’s very true. i am deeply sorry that liberal feminism has put you through such a gauntlet of pain, but that’s literally my entire point here—that it’s not radical feminism you’re pissed at, it’s liberal feminism.

like, we both literally agree 100% that the slutwalk shit was damaging and hurtful to many, many women. you’re trying to make it out so that i’m not, because that’s what you’ve been taught, that’s what you’ve been told to do, this is how you’re “supposed" to react to a radical feminist simply talking to you.

but by this point i realize arguing with you is pointless because you’re so hell-bent on hating radical feminism just like the rest of this pathetic fucking website to actually listen and instead have to fabricate lies in order for you to back-track safely out of blame, you know, that you are spreading false information and lies just because it’s convenient and furthers this fantastic tumblr trend of being able to blame all the faults of feminism squarely on the shoulders of radical feminism without every providing a shred of actual evidence, and when in fact presented with such, you fall back on boring, repetitive accusations that, with a little time and energy, you would discover are usually lies.

but i’m done here i guess. no point wasting time with someone who blatantly refuses to admit when they’re wrong. bye.

Like I just feel some kind of way about this whole thing this person typed to me. In not one single place, did this person take even a moment to address radical feminism’s stance on any of the groups I listed.

In not one single place, except for making the claim (without any proof) that “radical feminists stood out" against slut walk (since they keep saying “facts" ~facts~ FACTS), did this person take even a moment to address or expound on radical feminist’s issues or views on slut walk.

In fact, this entire back and forth has been about this person proving the viability of radical feminism as an idea, without recognizing the actuality of that viability and deciding to, I don’t know, place the “blame on the shoulders" of where it belongs: feminism as a whole.

You can call it liberal, radical, 3rd wave, modern, new, whatever you want. Hell, you could call it space invaders, and it doesn’t change that feminism erases, abuses, ignores, and uses people who belong to marginalized groups every day - acknowledging us only when it furthers your agenda.

I’m not even for a moment, other than this one right here, address or acknowledge your claim of my being “brainwashed" (that’s what you’ve been taught, I believe you said) - as if, because I do not support a radical, liberal, or 3rd wave/modern feminist agenda, I must be unable to think for myself. I cannot even verbalize what a filthy, pedantic, underhanded argument point that was to make, to imply I lack the faculty to arrive at a particular conclusion simply because it does not meet flush with your own.

As I said two hours ago: this entire movement is selfish, self absorbed, abusive, self serving and hateful. You could honestly tell someone because they don’t agree with you, they must be incapable of thinking for themselves? You ignored the entire initial post, but I am supposed to take blame? Well surprise, I do. I shoulder responsibility for even interacting with you even once. I was wrong. I’ll apologize to myself and let you move along. :-)

Why understanding the word "Gypsy" is important.

This week, several neo-Nazis in Ontario, Canada, were allowed to walk free from court on a technicality.

Although arrested for protesting in front of a motel housing recently arrived Romani refugees (mostly women and children) carrying banners adorned with swastikas and shouting racist slogans (things like "Honk if you hate Gypsies," “Out Gypsies out," “You’re a cancer" and “Canada is not a trash can"), court judge Russell Otter accepted the defence position that the Crown had not proven that the terms “Roma" and “Gypsy" mean the same thing. The Crown sought to amend the charge to read “Roma a.k.a. gypsies." This was refused.

This terrible report pretty much sums up the reason I argue against all of the shit I find in the #Gypsy tag. When you have scores of TV shows, musicians, and bubblegum hipsters arguing that no, it’s fine, it’s just a word and we use it in a different way….

it undermines the centuries of racist hatred that has been meted out to us and that we still face. It allows neo-Nazis to excuse their overtly racist behaviour because, oh we weren’t talking about the Roma…only the Gypsies.

Except, THEY ARE THE SAME THING

The history of the word “Gypsy" is inexorably tied to the Roma. It was a word created on our backs as we made our way into Europe. It was a word branded on our foreheads before we were hung. It was a word tattooed onto our skin before we were gassed. It was a word that took away our children. 

It was a word battered into our hearts for all eternity. 

It doesn’t matter how we try to assert our own identity, to separate ourselves from the word “Gypsy", we aren’t allowed. People use the word AT us how and when they choose. Some argue that only the “bad" Roma are “Gypsies". Some argue that the only “Gypsies" are Romanian. Some argue that we’re Romani Gypsies. Some groups under the term are proud to be Gypsy (mostly those who did not face the Holocaust) and continually misrepresent our relationship and our relationship to the word.

Then, of course, you have the legions of young people who INSIST that  the word “Gypsy" can be removed completely from its ties with a racial and ethnic category and pulled solely into the realm of hipster life and bubblegum fashion. Clothing lines flaunt their “Gypsy Style" and bands such as “Gogol Bordello" support this argument with frequent use of the word “Gypsy" and promotion of a stereotype (and nothing done to address it).

TV shows utilizing the term “Gypsy" do not, for the most part, show Roma. They are made by white people and generally feature Americanized Irish Travellers (the My Big Fat Wedding series for example) or Romanichal. They are a misrepresentative (and often extremely stereotyped) portrayal of our lifestyle. The shows are often used as a defense for those who would slander our ethnicity. 

Roma is the correct term for our race and ethnicity. I am Romani. I am part of a larger group of ethnicities that include Romanichal, Sinte, Kale, Kaale, Calo, Kallon, Romany. We are all corralled under the term Gypsy together, though our histories are divergent and our language and culture different. We all have our roots in India centuries ago. We all battle discrimination and racism on a daily basis. 

We are not the only ones under the exonym, but we are certainly the largest group to whom the word is applied.

Please, don’t use (or support the use of) the word “Gypsy". It is an ethnic and racial slur that has murdered many hundreds of thousands of my people and now allows white supremacists to walk away unpunished….

So Patrick has been approached about the cultural appropriation of THIS shirt a few times on twitter but no one has ever really followed through on it after their original tweets.
Someone tweeted him today about it and never replied back, so I figured I would send him some relevant links (HERE and HERE ), and he DM’d me with this.
Patrick Stump continues to be my favorite person in the world and my almost 10 year crush is not going to go away anytime soon.
i think i just literally cried because this is probably the best thing i’ve EVER seen anyone in the bandom world do for well… my culture, my ethnic heritage. to see him respect my heritage, something i’ve been denied so often in the bandom world… i just… i’m going to need a moment because i feel like bursting into tears this is literally the sweetest thing that anyone’s ever done and i know it’s not entirely for me… but at the same time… it’s like i feel really truly welcome into that world, that someone out there isn’t going to trample over me and my feelings and my heritage and oh god i’m just babbling but holy fuck patrick stump just when i think i couldn’t love you any mmore… you do this and you respect my culture a fucking first for me in this bandom world…
big baby sobs
just reblogging this for that comment up there^
To the few of you who are reblogging this and saying stuff like “I don’t understand how it’s offensive” or “why are people so sensitive these days”… please fuck off. And then go educate yourselves.

:’)))))))))))))

the appropriate way to respond when you find out your band has been attached to racist imagery. (not ignoring it, letting 800 people call the person who called you out a cunt before saying anything and then ultimately doing nothing about it at all ) (i’m looking at you touche amore)

More and more every time I see a post involving Patrick Stump, my appreciation for him grows. This is a dude who actually gets it.

I spent my two-hour layover mourning the two halves of my Ovation. Help me save others from the same fate!

SIGNAL BOOST. I honestly didn’t know this.

See, I was planning on taking a trip out west to visit a friend, and bringing my guitar along. So to whoever submitted this? THANK YOU. You just saved me from having to mourn mine snapping.

I'm so sorry about your guitar, though :(

please can all of you tag your food posts starting tuesday as it’s the first day of ramadan and it would be really nice if you could cooperate with your muslim followers for just one month. it will be kinda difficult to see a gif set of ice cream and melting chocolate when I’ve got a 20 hour fast going on. thanks n___n