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sabbatic: slytherin-starkid-of-tardis: urbancatfitters: everyone is embarrassed of their fourteen...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 23:49:22 -0400

slytherin-starkid-of-tardis:

urbancatfitters:

everyone is embarrassed of their fourteen year old self trust me if you’re fourteen right now you will regret whatever it is that you are doing at this moment

What, being a SuperWhoLockian, Tumblrian, and just being generally pretty good? I don’t think so.

#it’s funny cause they’re being 1000% serious

geth-metal: frostbackscat: Oh my god if you’re going to judge...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 22:37:36 -0400

geth-metal:

frostbackscat:

Oh my god if you’re going to judge someone’s cosplay you better learn your fucking shit because this is Duela Dent you goddamn assholes.

AHAHAHA

Perpetually laughing over the fact that “real gamer/comic book nerd” males keep insulting women for cosplaying things they’ve never even heard of

who’s the “fake geek” now, fuckers?

jaclcfrost: “maybe if you went to bed earlier you wouldn’t be so tired”

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 19:30:14 -0400

jaclcfrost:

“maybe if you went to bed earlier you wouldn’t be so tired”

inyriforge: Can it wait for a bit? Garrus is in the middle of...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:41:37 -0400

inyriforge:

Can it wait for a bit? Garrus is in the middle of learning how to calibrate.

shadow-sass: infinitryproductions: thirstingaintdead: Lady gaga “speaks out” against...

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:40:03 -0400

shadow-sass:

infinitryproductions:

thirstingaintdead:

Lady gaga “speaks out” against bullying

Macklemore “speaks out” against homophobia

Kanye “goes on a rant” about racism.

Kanye “goes on a rant” about George Bush.

Coded language don’t really be coded tho.

Nicki Minaj “goes on a rant” about sexism.

Oop oop oopity oop did someone drop a bunch of truth over here?

foodfuckery: This beautiful soup is like lasagna in a bowl....

Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:37:03 -0400

foodfuckery:

This beautiful soup is like lasagna in a bowl. Delicious Lasagna Soup!

Recipe

Hi, I am Sindy, would you mind checking my architecture blog? have any tips? I am quite new here :O~ I always follow back... :)*

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 16:59:41 -0400

Hey! I’m not really an architecture blog, i just put things in those tags for my own reference, but if you’re looking for some architecture blogs to follow, justthedesign and tinyhousesmallspace are both pretty great! Sorry it took so long to answer this, and welcome to tumblr and good luck with your architecture blog!

Mom: ' well you need to call them and ask.'

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:00:19 -0400

Mom: ' well you need to call them and ask.'

Me: I dont think you understand how much i cannot do that.

foxnewsofficial: sometimes i’ll have loads of money and then other times i’ll be awake

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 00:39:24 -0400

foxnewsofficial:

sometimes i’ll have loads of money and then other times i’ll be awake

Le rapport du matin: Beep boop this is your regularly-scheduled reminder that:

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:24:00 -0400

Le rapport du matin: Beep boop this is your regularly-scheduled reminder that::

bittergrapes:

non-binary trans people exist

passing privilege is a thing

not every trans person socially or medically transitions

you cannot always tell by looking at a person if they are trans

being ‘stealth’ or ‘in the closest’ does not mean that a queer/trans person lacks self-respect or confidence because there are many Very Serious barriers to social transition/openness about trans or queer status and it’s very presumptuous to assume that everyone has the luxury of being out to everyone 100% of the time

a trans person presenting as their assigned gender does not mean that they are not trans

no one has to adhere to the social preconceptions of gender regardless of trans status, but people who do adhere to them are not weak or less deserving of respect

there is no such thing as Trans Enough

trans people can be transmisogynist, binarist, cissexist, heterosexist, racist, sexist, sizeist, ableist, and any other -ist, and their trans status does not make them immune to criticism

trans people aren’t inspiration porn or pity porn

it is okay to change gender labels multiple times because gender is fluid and it doesn’t make you a ‘special snowflake’ or whatever

all pronouns are imaginary and invented so shut up about ‘weird’ pronouns

respect pronouns, respect gender identities, don’t be an asshole

thank u 4 reading here is a corgi for A+ listening skills

everydaycomics: Graveyard Shift (C) Daryl Toh Liem Zhan 2013.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:22:58 -0400

everydaycomics:

Graveyard Shift (C) Daryl Toh Liem Zhan 2013.

roundtop: I’m not like most girls. I’m like all girls. I am the alpha girl and the omega girl. I...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 21:21:56 -0400

roundtop:

I’m not like most girls. I’m like all girls. I am the alpha girl and the omega girl. I have many faces, and I am called by many names, not all of which are audible to human ears. I contain multitudes. I am legion. All shall be assimilated.

superblys: superblys: what a nice post you have. it’d be a shame if it got more notes than you...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:57:27 -0400

superblys:

superblys:

what a nice post you have. it’d be a shame if it

got more notes than you expected

wait a fUCKINg SECONd

chances are, if you’re the standard cishet white male who feels the need to describe himself...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 19:07:10 -0400

chances are, if you’re the standard cishet white male who feels the need to describe himself as a “gamer”, and wears it like a badge of honor, I probably hate your guts, given that ninety percent of the time you’re all fedora wearing whiny little shits losing your shit over the fact that girls do, in fact play games, and are, in fact, real gamers. Hell, probably more than you are, given that they spend as much time gaming as you do bitching about imaginary “fake gamer girls”

"i don’t respect you if you don’t respect my right to squee at gay people like they are pets"

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:34:51 -0400

“i don’t respect you if you don’t respect my right to squee at gay people like they are pets”

- allies (via infamousnfamous)

fivelettered: crafthunters: Bleach fabric drawings. To Do It...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:33:39 -0400

fivelettered:

crafthunters:

Bleach fabric drawings. To Do It Yourself you just need: - bleach - pencil with a an eraser - fabric

➡Don’t miss our new craft finds, inspirations & DIY ideas! Let’s crafthunt together!

Crafthunters on Tumblr | Crafthunters on Facebook

this. is. legit!

ahorsecalledhonour: Wonderful

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:30:40 -0400

ahorsecalledhonour:

Wonderful

fascinasians: Jackie Chan has the best story ever about Bruce...

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:08:58 -0400

fascinasians:

Jackie Chan has the best story ever about Bruce Lee

Actually the best.

rscspokenword: why wonde rwoman is better.

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:05:38 -0400

rscspokenword:

why wonde rwoman is better.

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:05:10 -0400

When You Kill Ten Million Africans You Aren’t Called ‘Hitler’:

thegoddamazon:

saandusti:

canadian-communist:

Take a look at this picture. Do you know who it is?

Most people haven’t heard of him.

But you should have. When you see his face or hear his name you should get as sick in your stomach as when you read about Mussolini or Hitler or see one of their pictures. You see, he killed over 10 million people in the Congo.

His name is King Leopold II of Belgium.

He “owned” the Congo during his reign as the constitutional monarch of Belgium. After several failed colonial attempts in Asia and Africa, he settled on the Congo. He “bought” it and enslaved its people, turning the entire country into his own personal slave plantation. He disguised his “business transactions” as philanthropic and scientific efforts under the banner of the “International African Society”. He used their enslaved labor to extract Congolese resources and services. His reign was enforced through work camps, body mutilations, executions, torture, and his private army.

Most of us – I don’t yet know an approximate percentage but I fear its extremely high – aren’t taught about him in school. We don’t hear about him in the media. He’s not part of the widely repeated narrative of oppression (which includes things like the Holocaust during World War II). He’s part of a long history of colonialism, imperialism, slavery and genocide in Africa that would clash with the social construction of the white supremacist narrative in our schools. It doesn’t fit neatly into a capitalist curriculum. Its bad to “say racist things” (sometimes), but quite fine not to talk about genocides in Africa perpetrated by European capitalist monarchs.

Mark Twain wrote a satire about Leopold called “King Leopold’s soliloquy; a defense of his Congo rule“, where he mocked the King’s defense of his reign of terror, largely through Leopold’s own words. Its 49 pages long. Mark Twain is a popular author for American public schools. But like most political authors, we will often read some of their least political writings or read them without learning why the author wrote them (Orwell’s Animal Farm for example serves to re-inforce American anti-Socialist propaganda, but Orwell was an anti-capitalist revolutionary of a different kind – this is never pointed out). We can read about Huck Finn and Tom Sawyer, but King Leopold’s Soliloquy isn’t on the reading list. This isn’t by accident. Reading lists are created by boards of education in order to prepare students to follow orders and endure boredom well. From the point of view of the Education Department, Africans have no history.

When we learn about Africa, we learn about a caricaturized Egypt, about the HIV epidemic (but never its causes), about the surface level effects of the slave trade, and maybe about South African Apartheid (which of course now is long, long over). We also see lots of pictures of starving children on Christian Ministry commercials, we see safaris on animal shows, and we see pictures of deserts in films and movies. But we don’t learn about the Great African War or Leopold’s Reign of Terror during the Congolese Genocide. Nor do we learn about what the United States has done in Iraq and Afghanistan, potentially killing in upwards of 5-7 million people from bombs, sanctions, disease and starvation. Body counts are important. And we don’t count Afghans, Iraqis, or Congolese.

There’s a Wikipedia page called “Genocides in History”. The Congolese Genocide isn’t included. The Congo is mentioned though. What’s now called the Democratic Republic of the Congo is listed in reference to the Second Congo War (also called Africa’s World War and the Great War of Africa), where both sides of the multinational conflict hunted down Bambenga and ate them. Cannibalism and slavery are horrendous evils which must be entered into history and talked about for sure, but I couldn’t help thinking who’s interests were served when the only mention of the Congo on the page was in reference to multi-national incidents where a tiny minority of people were eating each other (completely devoid of the conditions which created the conflict no less). Stories which support the white supremacist narrative about the subhumanness of people in Africa are allowed to be entered into the records of history. The white guy who turned the Congo into his own personal part-plantation, part-concentration camp, part-Christian ministry and killed 10 to 15 million Conglese people in the process doesn’t make the cut.

You see, when you kill ten million Africans, you aren’t called ‘Hitler’. That is, your name doesn’t come to symbolize the living incarnation of evil. Your name and your picture doesn’t produce fear, hatred, and sorrow. Your victims aren’t talked about and your name isn’t remembered.

Leopold was just one part of thousands of things that helped construct white supremacy as both an ideological narrative and material reality. Of course I don’t want to pretend that in the Congo he was the source of all evil. He had generals, and foot soldiers, and managers who did his bidding and enforced his laws. It was a system. But this doesn’t negate the need to talk about the individuals who are symbolic of the system. But we don’t even get that. And since it isn’t talked about, what capitalism did to Africa, all the privileges that rich white people gained from the Congolese genocide are hidden. The victims of imperialism are made, like they usually are, invisible.

Fun fact, it doesn’t stop there. After King Leopold II relinquished his personal control of the Congo Free State in 1908 it became the Belgian Congo under Belgian control, and they allowed scientists to use the Congolese population as forced test subjects for a (failed) Polio vaccine that may have contributed to the introduction of a mutated strain of SIV (Simian Immunodeficiency Virus) into the African population in the mid-20th Century. This was because the Polio virus was cultured in the livers of apes, and when they produced it in Africa they used local chimps, where SIV had been present for thousands of years.

My aunt told me about this. She’s from Congo. They learn about him in their schools there…but only skirted over not in detail.