coco chanel was a nazi

i say this with no hyperbole whatsoever

she literally worked for the nazis and benefitted from jewish shareholders in chanel being sent off to concentration camps when their share came into her possession

parisian consumers actually refused to buy a lot from her own ranges after 1940 because she was an infamous collaborator but british and american consumers kept on buying them and continue to glorify her

that’s nice

this is a good review of the book where this is explained:

“Gabrielle Chanel — better known as Coco — was a wretched human being. Anti-Semitic, homophobic, social climbing, opportunistic, ridiculously snobbish and given to sins of phrase-making like “If blonde, use blue perfume,” she was addicted to morphine and actively collaborated with the Germans during the Nazi occupation of Paris. And yet, her clean, modern, kinetic designs, which brought a high-society look to low-regarded fabrics, revolutionized women’s fashion, and to this day have kept her name synonymous with the most glorious notions of French taste and élan.”

And she’s still hailed as a “Feminist icon”  by white women. 

Shit… File this under: “shit I didn’t know but does not surprise me in the least”

WAIT there’s a good ending to this–Coco Chanel originally was business partners with a Jewish family, the Wertheimers. She tried to screw them over, but they were too damn smart for that, so they gave their shares to a dude named Amiot, went to NYC in 1940, and then came back later. Today the company is still owned by the Wertheimer family.

This Jewish family now owns the entire legacy of Coco Chanel plus all the money from the company and if that isn’t one of the best revenge stories I don’t know what is.

Ayyyyyyyyy <3

At least now when you buy chanel its funding a jewish family’s revenge against a nazi.

headlines I like to see

Why would you post the headline but not the article? (X)

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/with-net-neutrality-on-the-chopping-block-communities_us_5a0f467de4b0e6450602eaa5

(17th Nov, 2017 - Donald Cohen)

The Times isn’t the only newspaper joining in the fun, either.

These journalists know what they’re doing. They remember that the last time the British press hyper-focused on a single trans woman she took her own life (cw #suicide #transmisogyny). So when they put pen to paper week after week to attack a trans woman who has committed no crime except to attempt to involve herself in public life, there is only one goal they can possibly have:

They’re trying to kill her.

This HAS to stop. 

The Times can publish weeks upon weeks of deeply personal attacks on a teenager, but when people call them out and prove them wrong, the Times ignores it.

This isn’t news. This is a vendetta.

Please support her.

“you can like an entertainer without agreeing with their political opinions”

RACISM IS NOT A POLITICAL OPINION

HOMOPHOBIA IS NOT A POLITICAL OPINION

SEXISM IS NOT A POLITICAL OPINION

TRANSPHOBIA IS NOT A POLITICAL OPINION

The Stanford prison experiment tapes were so stupid when I watched them in AP psych and so stupid when I watch this film about them. Literally they could’ve all sat and played cards and got $15 a day to tell ghost stories all day and be best friends. But masculinity and whiteness and power created this violent irrationality that positioned young ass men to be met with brutality and trauma and disrespect even when it was obviously taken too far. and it makes no sense. If someone put me in a room with Black girls and said I would get paid $90 a day (that’s the equivalent apparently) to be a prison guard, do you know how fast I’d be sitting with them and learning about them and exchanging Instagrams and like.. sleeping.. like what the fuck was the point of any of that…

My psych teacher introduced us to this study and literally before she showed us was like “don’t ever confuse a study based on one type of person (white men/boys) to be an example of an Everyman situation. There is strong evidence that if this was recreated with diversity, or even just with girls, that the results would have been drastically different. This is an example of bias and sexism in the medical research community.”

“Other, more subtle factors also shaped the experiment. It’s often said that the study participants were ordinary guys—and they were, indeed, determined to be “normal” and healthy by a battery of tests. But they were also a self-selected group who responded to a newspaper advertisement seeking volunteers for “a psychological study of prison life.” In a 2007 study, the psychologists Thomas Carnahan and Sam McFarland asked whether that wording itself may have stacked the odds. They recreated the original ad, and then ran a separate ad omitting the phrase “prison life.” They found that the people who responded to the two ads scored differently on a set of psychological tests. Those who thought that they would be participating in a prison study had significantly higher levels of aggressiveness, authoritarianism, Machiavellianism, narcissism, and social dominance, and they scored lower on measures of empathy and altruism.” http://www.newyorker.com/science/maria-konnikova/the-real-lesson-of-the-stanford-prison-experiment

The thing about this study is that whether or not it’s generalizable to the public is debatable at best.

But it’s certainly generalizable to the population of people who tend to be drawn to prison system and law enforcement jobs because that’s exactly the demographics that tend to show up in those positions.

US Senators who sold out to ISPs for Net Neutrality.

notice how the traditionally red states are more likely to have corrupt senators……..

Everyone can help with at least one of these things.

1. Call Out The U.N., make sure they direct their efforts toward this cause 

2. Support the International Organization For Migration (IOM).

3. Fight the “root causes” of slavery and trafficking 

4. Hold social media companies accountable 

5. Donate to global anti-slavery companies 

6.  Help raise awareness! 

7. Shop slave free 

Atlanta is in the top 3 across the world for sex trafficking. Sad but true

women just can’t win..

I’ve had to bring my daughter into work with me a couple times. 🤷🏽‍♀️

How about: Really, Dunkin’ Donuts? You don’t pay enough for this woman to get childcare or paid maternity leave?

How about: Really, America? You don’t have childcare and maternity leave covered as a standard right?

but also fuck Dunkin’ Donuts too

I hope that bitch-ass snitch never has another good day again for a long time

please donate to this brave woman’s legal defense

There's more story here and I want to know it.

put this in the fucking moma, the louvre, the guggenheim, the whitney, and the motherfucking prado

I grew up very near a rez. This is painfully accurate. It's also worth noting that a lot of Native people don't have consistent access to menstrual supplies. Even schools on the rez often lack the funding for a nurse at all, much less extra supplies. Which means these people either need to gerryrig something so they can attend school, which can sometimes be inadequate or unsanitary OR, more often, they miss school altogether. And yeah, casinos, government money, gas stations, etc. That money had to stretch an awful long way for an awesome lot of people and still often comes to a fraction of what the budget would be for a comparably-sized city.

source

so how long before we get another piece by a democratic “feminist” saying how she loves women but democrats shouldn’t resign from their positions because we need men out here to protect our rights by sexually assaulting us or something?

My mother lost her three older brothers fighting Nazi’s in WWII. Three uncles I never got to meet. I have their folded flags in cases on my shelf. Fuck every last Neo-Nazi and Neo-Confederate asshole in this country. Fucking Republikkkan racist traitors.

I have no time for pseudo-liberals humanizing Trash Heaps like this asshole. We get it: Nazis have kids, Nazis get married. They go to work, they watch TV, they cook dinner. Literally no person who has experienced discrimination doubts that the face of that discrimination is utterly, painfully banal. How about humanizing their victims, instead? I want front page human interest pieces that describe just how utterly boring the rest of us are so that maybe, middle class straight, white, cis, able-bodied America will learn to sympathize with us instead of fucking Nazis.

us adults laugh at this as if we dont unanimously agree that middle school was the worst shit that ever happened to us

☝☝☝☝☝

Oh hell no. I've always said middle school should come with a warning label because that shit is living hell. I'd relive high school again a dozen times before I'd go through middle school again. And frankly, op is exactly why I hated middle school so much. So yeah, kiddo. If you're in middle school right now and it feels like you don't know the rules anymore and people who used to be your friends are now ignoring you it bullying you? That's awful. That sucks. You're totally valid for being anxious and upset and angry and confused. Literally every adult has been there and while we think it pales in comparison to taxes and rent and insurance, if we had to relive that experience right now, if tomorrow all the social rules we followed changed and all our friends changed, we'd be experiencing the same feelings. It's natural.

My girl spoke nothing but fucking TRUTH. Now that’s this kind of Women we need our girls to look up too.

Who is she?

Sarah Kendzior.

She’s an expert in authoritarianism and has accurately predicted almost everything that is happening - her unflinching insight and analysis is terrifying but invaluable right now. Well worth following on twitter.

fucking

why did i never see this until now

You know what saddens me?

How fast she has to talk.

If a man were saying that, he’d be going slowly to emphasise points. He’d be indulging in the occasional ‘you know’ or other filler words. He’d be able to stop for breath. Notice that she didn’t do that. She had the whole thing memorised and she got it out with barely a pause to breathe.

Why?

Because she expected to be interrupted.

What she said was awesome and is absolutely true, and is frankly underlined by the fact that she had to say the whole thing all at once for fear that she wouldn’t be able to say it at all if she so much as stopped to breathe because one of those older white men sitting around her would interrupt and roll right over her.

what i notice is the guys in the audience sitting motionless, declining to applaud, though every word she spoke was truth and she spoke it with fire. it’s not the content, it’s a powerful, intelligent woman speaking truth with fire that they choose not to support.

I just want people to know....

That the aztecs never thought that the Spanish conquerers were gods, there are no registries of any prehispanic gods with blond hair, pale skin or any european trait, the only reason why they were well received was because Moctezuma distrusted them from the beggining and wanted them gone as soon as possible and he thought that by treating them well he would avoid stirring conflict.

The “indigenous people revered them as gods” was Spanish propaganda, so congratulations centuries after people are still falling for it.

Also the only reason they won, besides the diseases they brought with them, was because they deceived the other indigenous tribes under the rule of the Aztec empire into thinking that they would give them their freedom.

Spoiler alert: they lied.

I just want people to know....

That the aztecs never thought that the Spanish conquerers were gods, there are no registries of any prehispanic gods with blond hair, pale skin or any european trait, the only reason why they were well received was because Moctezuma distrusted them from the beggining and wanted them gone as soon as possible and he thought that by treating them well he would avoid stirring conflict.

The “indigenous people revered them as gods” was Spanish propaganda, so congratulations centuries after people are still falling for it.

Also the only reason they won, besides the diseases they brought with them, was because they deceived the other indigenous tribes under the rule of the Aztec empire into thinking that they would give them their freedom.

Spoiler alert: they lied.

What if instead of gilly weed Harry had showed up to the black lake challenge in muggle scuba gear like “like where’s your advanced magic now bitches? Got me a free fishing knife with this thing”

Honestly I just want an AU where Harry approached all his magical problems with muggle solutions. Nobody knows how to handle it because he’s supposed to be there learning magic but you know what, it fucking works.

Give me Harry Potter who is like fucking MacGuyver up in this shit, creating his own non-magical solutions to magical problems.

“Potter how did you get past the enchanted keys to the Sorcerer’s Stone?”

“I used a fucking net.”

“How did you get past the dragon?”

Harry shines a little red light on the wall “works on cats, why not a dragon”

“How did you get through the hedge maze?”

“Weed-b-gone, it’s like a pound. Nothing will ever grow there again”

It’s the final battle between Harry and Voldemort. The Dark Lord begins to prepare a spell to end Harry Potter’s life once and for all when….

Originally posted by filmpictures

Reblogging because this is funny and the gif is perfect.