...and then I got mad.

moniquill: snarkinfestedwaters: thelilnan: do-you-have-a-flag:...

Thu, 28 Feb 2013 11:40:58 +0800

snarkinfestedwaters:

thelilnan:

do-you-have-a-flag:

polybiusquare:

Good Dog

I had an idea of what this comic was about about halfway through

and by the last panel I just yelled OHHHH NOOOOOOOO!

OH GOD NO I REMEMBER THIS

NOOOOOOOOO

D:

I saw where this was going, and I was right, and it was still really fucking sad.

I am not happy to admit that I caught on to this one by the fourth page, and YET I DID NOT STOP READING.

Make Kat's dream come true for Luna Sea's The End of The Dream Singapore

Tue, 29 Jan 2013 11:45:22 +0800

mindscalpel:

Hi all,

I would be very grateful if you kind folks could help and make my dear friend Kat’s dream come true. She is a huge fan of a Japanese band called Luna Sea. She’s loved them since she was 13, and Luna Sea is a huge influence in her life. So it would be a huge deal for her if she could win this contest. It would be nice to make her smile and make her day… in fact, her year, if she could win this.

So if you lovely folks have a Facebook account, please log on and go to this link All you have to do is Like and Share (yes, do both!) the picture at its original source that she has submitted for the contest. The top lucky 20 people with the most Likes and Shares will have the chance to meet and greet Luna Sea.

Hopefully, Kat will be one of those lucky 20.

Thank you in advance! Much love! xoxo

Why I, as an Iraqi, will NOT watch Homeland

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:08:27 +0800

yellow-turbanfacing:

I don’t know much about Homeland- but I am aware that there is a character that is psychologically damaged from time spent is Iraq

And so why I am NOT going to watch Homeland is this-

I am so sorry that your ILLEGAL, UNFOUNDED INVASION of MY COUNTRY psychologically damaged

I am so sorry that YOU entering MY LAND without warrant hurt you

I am sorry that YOU are the VICTIM because God knows, WE, THE IRAQI PEOPLE, APPARENT AREN’T

A lot of people have told me “governments start wars, soldiers fight them”

To which I respond-

DO NOT feed me that victimization of soldiers rhetoric

THEIR ACTIONS are THEIR ACTIONS

They have the CHOICE, the RESOURCES and the OPPORTUNITY to learn about what being in the US military entails and many don’t take that chance

WE DID NOT HAVE THAT CHOICE

WE SIMPLY GOT INVADED

WE ARE THE VICTIMS

A lot of people have also told me “if not for the Americans, you’d still be living under Saddam! Don’t you get that?”

Buddy- as a SHIA IRAQI, believe me, I GET IT

I DON’T GET where the ILLEGAL American invasion comes in

I DON’T GET where this inevitable moral duty of the Americans to be OUR SAVIORS and to LIBERATE us from oppression comes in

I DON’T GET where the idea that we are INCAPABLE of removing our own tyrants comes in

When I see what’s happening in Egypt, Tunisia, Bahrain, Syria, Libya and Yemen,

FOR BETTER OR FOR WORSE,

All I can think is-

THAT COULD HAVE BEEN US

ARABS DO NOT REQUIRE WESTERN INTERVENTION TO FREE THEMSELVES FROM THE VERY DICTATORS THAT WESTERN NATIONS SUPPORTED AND VERY OFTEN INSTALLED

We are NOT a monolithic race of desert-dwellers, doomed to suffer in our tents until Uncle Sam and the rest of his WHITE SAVIOR army comes in

We can do it ON OUR OWN

So I don’t appreciate people dumbing my people down and robbing them of their agency and their ability to do it themselves

I ACTUALLY FUCKING HATE THAT

In conclusion-

I, PERSONALLY, AS AN IRAQI, will NOT watch Homeland because it engages in the victimization of the invaders of my country, MY HOMELAND, and because that victimization proliferates the White Savior stereotype and takes away from my people their agency and their RIGHT to feel victimized by the illegal invasion and occupation of our land and our lives

PS-I do not know how Homeland is as a show. For all I know, it could be excellent. I have heard mixed reports about its portrayal of Islam and Arabs so I will defer to those who have actually watched it because I will not.

Delhi Protests and the Caste Hindu Paradigm: Of Sacred and Paraded Bodies

Mon, 31 Dec 2012 16:03:45 +0800

In the same Delhi, hundreds of adivasi girls are taken as domestic slaves and get raped, and go missing…Why doesn’t the mainstream media even consider that newsworthy? Why is there no uproar for the death penalty for these upper caste men from elite backgrounds raping us? Is it because we are born to get justly raped by the others?

The present protests and silences only endorse the caste hindu paradigm that the upper caste woman’s body is sacred and its violation requires the highest retribution while the bodies of dalit, bahujan and adivasi women, and women under military regimes such as Manipur and Kashmir are ‘rape-worthy’ and the men’s sexual depravity on these women need no correctives.

Thank you for the insightful commentary. I wasn’t sure if this was happening, but judging by the initially flippant and lazy comments made by law-enforcement and politicians during this horrible period, followed by the enraged backlash, I was suspecting something very much like this was happening.

vintage-kl: 1964 - Robert F. Kennedy arrives in Kuala...

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 18:27:40 +0800

vintage-kl:

1964 - Robert F. Kennedy arrives in Kuala Lumpur

Here’s more information about the policewoman, Blossom Wong.

just shut up.

Fri, 28 Dec 2012 11:52:59 +0800

gyzym:

First, a story.

So, my first semester of my freshman year of college, I took this Intro to Women’s Studies class. The class met for five hours a week, one two hour session and one three hour session, and the breakdown of students was what I eventually discovered to be the typical sampling in any Women’s Studies class with no pre-recs at my mid-sized, southern Ohio state school. There were a number of girls who would become, or were already part of, the feminist advocacy groups on campus; there were a number of girls who would prove themselves to be opposed to feminism in both concept and practice, one of whom I distinctly recall giving a presentation on the merits of the “Mrs. Degree,” while my professor’s eye twitched in muted horror; there were a handful of girls and at least one guy I’d come to know later through assorted campus queer groups; and there were, of course, the three to six dudebros, self-admittedly there to “meet chicks,” all but one or two of whom would drop the class after the first midterm. At eighteen, I was myself a feminist in name but not in practice—I believed in the idea behind feminism (which is, for the record, that people should be on equal footing regardless of gender, not that we should CRUSH ALL MEN BENEATH THE VICIOUS HEELS OF OUR DOC MARTENS GLORY HALLELUJAH), but I didn’t actually know anything about it. I could not identify the waves of feminism. Intersectionality and how the movement is crap at it were not things of which I was aware. Never had I ever encountered the writings of bell hooks. In a lucky break, you do not need to know about the waves of feminism, or know what intersectionality is, or have read bell hooks to read this essay! (But you should read bell hooks. Everyone should read bell hooks. bell hooks is FUCKING AWESOME.)

The first couple of weeks of this class were about what you’d expect. The professor was fun and engaging, but she was not exactly pulling out the eye-opening stops on our wide-eyed freshman asses. There were handouts. There were selections of the textbook for reading. There was a very depressing class about domestic violence, abuse, and rape that was the typical rattling off of terms and horrific statistics that everyone winced at, but that nobody really internalized. The dudebros snickered in the back corner, grouped together like they would be infested by cooties if they spread out, occasionally chiming in with helpful comments like, “Dude, the lady on the back of this book is smoking,” and getting turned down by each girl in the class, on whom they were hitting in what I can only assume was a pre-determined descending order of hotness. The queer kids, myself included, huddled in the other corner making pithy comments. The up-and-coming active feminists glared at the bros, who leered back, and the Mrs. Degree-friendly crowd mostly texted under their desks and made it very clear that they were only there for humanities credit. Again, it was a fairly typical southern Ohio state school class full of fairly typical southern Ohio state school freshmen. Nobody was super engaged, is what I am saying here. Nobody, myself included, was really eating it up with a spoon.

And then one day, my professor opened the class with, “So, who here has seen Beauty and the Beast?”

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A very, very good explanation for why Moff’s Law exists.

"Oh my god, you are NOT from my tribe, don’t fucking tell me that, QUICK WHAT IS YOUR LAST NAME, ARE..."

Fri, 21 Dec 2012 19:25:24 +0800

“Oh my god, you are NOT from my tribe, don’t fucking tell me that, QUICK WHAT IS YOUR LAST NAME, ARE WE RELATED, HELP ME LORD, NOT AGAIN.”

- Native American proverb (via android-eighteen)

WAIT SECOND COUSINS THATS NOT SO BAD HEY

(via snowysavageprincess)

azzandra: Doomsday myth obscures plight of indigenous people sinidentidades: At its peak, the...

Thu, 20 Dec 2012 18:05:36 +0800

azzandra:

Doomsday myth obscures plight of indigenous people

sinidentidades:

At its peak, the Maya civilization had one of the richest cultures in the Americas. Today, ethnic Mayas in central America and Mexico suffer from discrimination, exploitation and poverty.

In Guatemala, where nearly half of the population is indigenous, descendants of the once-mighty ancient civilization have even fallen victims to genocide.

The rich Mayan culture will be in the global spotlight Friday when revelers — and doomsday watchers — will mark the end of a 5,200-year era as sketched out in the elaborate Mayan calendar.

But the plight of indigenous Mayas in the region will likely go undiscussed.

“The indigenous population was always seen as cheap labor and this persists to this day,” said Guatemalan anthropologist Alvaro Pop, a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues.

“They are seen as a tool and are not the focus of public policies.”

The Maya civilization reached its peak between the years 250 and 900, but then slipped into decline around 1200.

Three centuries later, during Spanish colonization, the Mayas were dispossessed of their lands and reduced to poverty as well as servitude.

Today, there are currently an estimated 20 to 30 million direct descendants of the ancient civilization living in southern Mexico, Belize, Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala, where the indigenous group is most prevalent.

In Guatemala, ethnic Mayas often find themselves on the margins of society, with limited access to education, health care and other basic services. Their native languages are not officially recognized.

Within the indigenous community, which accounts for 42 percent of Guatemala’s 14.3-million-strong population, the poverty rate is 80 percent.

Nearly six in 10 indigenous children suffer from chronic malnutrition, and the infant mortality rate has hit an alarming rate of 40 per 1,000 live births, according to the United Nations Development Program (UNDP).

In Mexico, social misery and exploitation led to the creation in 1994 in Chiapas state of the media-savvy but later weakened Zapatista National Liberation Army, which drew attention to the community’s plight.

But ethnic Mayas paid perhaps the heaviest price during Guatemala’s civil war that pitted the army against leftist guerrillas from 1960 to 1996.

“There were external reasons which exacerbated the population’s poverty and led to a stigmatization of indigenous people,” according to Pop.

More than 600 massacres of indigenous communities were recorded during that period and tens of thousands of Indians sought refuge in southern Mexico from the brutal counter-insurgency by the military, according to a 1999 UN report.

I mean, who gives a shit about actual living, breathing people who suffer, right, when you can sell your own brand of woo-woo-woo to ~~credulous idiots~~ truth-seekers.

so-frustrating asked: As a Pakistani girl who's seen the damage and the impact drone strikes have in Pakistan, I am completely unapologetic for my criticisms of President Obama's hypocrisy. The people on my dash anyways, aren't doing this to make him look bad, and THEIR voices and valid arguments are being drowned out by people who say that they're being "racist", and while there are people who just use it as an excuse to hate Obama, there are also a lot of people who just want to really make a point. Just my 2cents.

Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:09:25 +0800

brashblacknonbeliever:

I don’t know if I made my point clear enough.

I want the voices of Pakistani people to be heard. It is extremely important that we listen to the people who are directly affected by America’s foreign policy when they speak out against drone strikes, invasions, and wars. There are many people who have offered extremely good and consistent commentary and criticisms for months, if not years on end. I want their voices to be heard too because they bring up some very pertinent points.

What strikes me as (for lack of a better word) odd, is the people who never said a word about the drone strikes before the Sandy Hook shooting but now they’re acting like they’re some type of expert on the topic. I feel like those people may end up speaking over the people we need to be listening to.

It just feels, to me, that too many people are latching onto this because one, it makes the Black man look bad, and two, because it now has the catchy little slogan “brown babies matter too” attached to it. I don’t want this to go the way of Kony 2012, where people latch onto it for a week (maybe two) and then throw it by the wayside because a more trendy issue made the news.

I do not think that valid criticisms of President Obama are at all racist, and criticizing his foreign policy and liberal use of drone strikes definitely falls under the “valid criticism” category. I do, however, think that the way people have flocked to the topic in the past day or two is slightly suspect.

(Rebloggable by request)

Florida reform school abuse scandal widens with discovery of more graves

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:42:57 +0800

Florida reform school abuse scandal widens with discovery of more graves :

sinidentidades:

The scale of abuse at a notorious youth residential school in Florida has been laid bare with the release of a report by investigators who say they have evidence of almost 100 deaths at the institution.

Investigators say they believe more graves are yet to be uncovered at the Arthur G Dozier School for Boys in Marianna, which closed a year ago following revelations of the widespread physical and sexual abuse of youths sent there since early last century.

It means the enormity of the outrage, in which survivors have told gruesome stories of regular beatings, rapes and even murders by staff members, is much greater than reported by the Florida Department of Law Enforcement in 2010, when the agency announced the presence of 31 grave sites.

“We found nearly twice as many burials as were thought to exist, but many of them had been lost in the woods under brush and trees,” said professor Erin Kimmerle, head of a team of anthropologists and archaeologists from Tampa’s University of South Florida called on to look into deaths at the reform school from 1900 to 1960.

“The cause and manner of death for the majority of cases are unknown. Where causes could be documented, the most common were infectious disease, fires, physical trauma and drowning.”

Many of the victims were young black males sent to the harsh reform school for often minor infractions such as truancy or “incorrigibility”. Kimmerle’s team also studied what little historical documentation and burial records survived and found that deaths commonly followed escape attempts or occurred within three months of a new “inmate” arriving there.

“No understanding of the Florida State Reform School over the course of its history can be understood without consideration of the impact and implications of segregation, particularly those relating to criminal justice,” she said.

“The majority of boys committed to the school and that died there were African American.”

According to their report, the team found records showing 45 individuals buried on school grounds between 1914 and 1952, with 31 bodies sent elsewhere for burial. There were 22 more cases in which no burial site was listed.

Of the 98 deaths they confirmed, two were adult staff members and the rest children aged from six to 18.

Despite the growing scale of the scandal, and graphic recent accounts of life at the school from those who once attended, no charges are expected. Teachers who worked there are mostly long dead, and the FDLE announced two years ago that it was unable to substantiate claims that deaths were caused by school staff or that any staff members abused boys.

Sweden, where nobody's a racist

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 15:42:21 +0800

selchieproductions:

As a people, Swedes pride themselves on being one of the most equal, peaceful and caring people on the planet, a people who in stark contrast to other nations has never been engaged in any major forms of colonialism, and who has always opposed racism and sexism. The reality, however, is less flattering, and any serious attempt to study Swedish history will show that the general idea of Sweden as a utopian non-racist state without a colonial heritage is far from true.

Historically speaking, Sweden has been a key colonial force throughout Europe, occupying the majority of all countries bordering the Baltic Sea and to this day Sweden continues its colonial occupation of the ancestral homelands of the Saami which began with a decree issued by the King Magnus Eriksson in 1340 where it was stated that every Christian Swedish citizen was allowed to settle in Sápmi, back then referred to as Lappmarkenas long as they paid taxes to the king. Nowadays, the term Lapp is considered a racial slur, but many Swedes continue to use the term despite repeatedly being told not to by members of the Saami.

The actual full-scale colonisation of Sápmi, which includes the use of Saami reindeer herders as slaves in the silver mines in northern Sweden and the more or less complete destruction of the traditional religious practices of the Saami started in the 16th century, and exploded in the 17th century when the Swedish king Carolus XI declared that everyone who settled in Sápmi would be exempt from military service for live and taxes for 15 years, and thereafter pay less taxes than the Saami. Moreover it’s worth noting that Finland remained a Swedish colony until 1808, when Finland was turned into a Russian Grand Duchy.

The Swedish treatment of anyone who was considered non-Swedish was and in many ways still is appalling. Until the 1960’s, the Saami were denied the same basic rights as other Swedish citizens, and for a long time Saami reindeer herders were forced to pay taxes to both the Norwegian and Swedish state. The Saami who as an effect of this decided to give up reindeer herding as a profession were stripped of all their rights to refer to themselves as Saami, but were not granted Swedish citizenship rights. In the early 20th century, the Swedish state founded a race biological institute, whose main task was to study the Saami in order to prove that they were less human than ethnic Swedes.

In addition to this, the treatment of Jews and Romani people - both national minorities - has been characterised by discrimination and racism for years, and while the current favourite pet hate object of the casual Swedish racist has shifted somewhat from these groups to immigrants from Muslim countries, the fact that these groups face racism on a daily basis is an indisputable fact. Earlier this winter, a Romani woman was prohibited from renting a car, because of her ethnicity, and synagogues throughout Sweden has been vandalised frequently in the last ten years. The same goes for mosques, and full-blown, outspoken Islamophobia forms a major part of the current Swedish discourse.

What is perhaps even less commonly known is the fact that it was only in 1878 that the last Swedish colony, the Caribbean island Saint Barthélemy, shifted hands and became a French colony, now referred to as a French overseas department, and that slavery wasn’t outlawed in Swedish colonies until the 9th of October 1847, in turn not a decision taken based on a belief in human rights but rather a way to assure that the French and British would continue to trade with the Swedes in the Caribbean.

The Swedish Slave Trade was significantly smaller than that of the British and the Dutch, but it was nonetheless a n important member of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Sweden has had short-term colonies in a large number of African states, primarily on the African West Coast. Sait Barthélemy was essentially a slave trade port and the Swedish king at the time stated that “free import of slaves and trade with black slaves […] is granted to all nations without having to pay any charge at the unload.”

But racism is far from a purely historical issue; as recently as today, the news reported that immigrant officers and police had been seen at stations on the Stockholm metro, questioning anyone who seemed to be a non-ethnic Swede, and forcing them to produce their ID’s and immigration papers.

Ever since the racist party the Sweden Democrats gained a couple of seats in the Swedish Parliament, casual racism has been on the rise. At the moment the Sweden Democrats is the third largest political party in Sweden, this despite a number of recent scandals in which members of the party threatened immigrants with iron bars and shouted racist and sexist abuse at members of the public.

jhameia: tariqk: rawbiredbest: bekahboo2391: Where has this...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:40:17 +0800

jhameia:

tariqk:

rawbiredbest:

bekahboo2391:

Where has this been all my life!?

okay so

“said” is an invisible word. people don’t notice it. they notice quotes and the nouns that address who is saying it.

my personal rule is to use a word other than “said” if you otherwise can’t tell the emotion that is being portrayed in speech. overuse of alternatives just makes you look like you’re trying too hard.

writing is about style but, like art, you have to know some basics before delving into your novel.

My first thought when I saw this:

Goodnight, sweet prince.

^^^ THAT’S WHAT I THOUGHT TOO

POST-COLONIALIST HIGH-FIVE!

rawbiredbest: bekahboo2391: Where has this been all my...

Fri, 14 Dec 2012 11:28:07 +0800

rawbiredbest:

bekahboo2391:

Where has this been all my life!?

okay so

“said” is an invisible word. people don’t notice it. they notice quotes and the nouns that address who is saying it.

my personal rule is to use a word other than “said” if you otherwise can’t tell the emotion that is being portrayed in speech. overuse of alternatives just makes you look like you’re trying too hard.

writing is about style but, like art, you have to know some basics before delving into your novel.

My first thought when I saw this:

Goodnight, sweet prince.

I just saw someone who used the word “níþing” cross my TL.

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 17:55:04 +0800

I am deeply uncomfortable with that word. And judging by the about page of said person, I feel like I should be.

Just in case, American, you need a primer as to why the USA is LOATHED around the world.

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:53:00 +0800

Just in case, American, you need a primer as to why the USA is LOATHED around the world.:

We like to tell ourselves that anti-American animosity is produced by propaganda from foreign factions hostile to the US. Actually, that belief is the one that is the by-product of propaganda. The acts of the US government that generate this hostility are rarely discussed in US political discourse, though they are widely discussed in most of the rest of the world. Americans would benefit from spending much less time and energy expressing outrage and offense at anti-American sentiment, and far more time and energy trying to understand why it’s so widespread and intense.

You know what? I’m not going to do what Greenwald did, and put in the “of course what PSY sang was horrible,”. Because it isn’t. What can he do to American soldiers, to the US military? He can spray whatever invective he wants, because, seriously, what harm can he do?

Americans would benefit greatly if they took a good hard long look at the injustice that they do and the deaths that they cause, and less time being surprised and outraged at the anger and hatred that the actions they are complicit to and yet refuse to own up to. Time and time again.

Because, seriously. There really isn’t any need for a faction of people who hate Americans to make propaganda to make us hate you. Americans can do plenty on their own.

foxmccloud: jjuuddas: foxmccloud: “i feel a million bucks” i say to you. you assume ive made a...

Mon, 10 Dec 2012 13:43:35 +0800

foxmccloud:

jjuuddas:

foxmccloud:

“i feel a million bucks” i say to you. you assume ive made a typo, but in reality ive spent the past 15 years of my life systematically feeling every male deer in the world. their hooves are so strong, and their fur so soft.

What the fuck is wrong with this website

a pervasively anti-intellectual hivemind that denigrates anything remotely creative and interesting with constant unending cries of “what the FUCK is WRONG with this website” and “oh my GOD r u on DRUGS” like a coven of shrieking baby pterodactyls cognitively incapable of understanding that the one person who dares attempting to make an interesting or humorous post is forced to see each and every one of their incessant half a cent comments in their own twisted Dantean circle of hell

TBH when I saw the first post I thought: “Why deer? Why not rabbits? Rabbits are awesomer, also, easier to feel.”

Dwarf Fortress is probably the only game…

Thu, 06 Dec 2012 10:38:49 +0800

Where the birth of a kitten ends with your chief medical dwarf catching fire and dying.

holzmantweed: jtotheizzoe: In case you’re curious, Neil Tyson...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:05:19 +0800

holzmantweed:

jtotheizzoe:

In case you’re curious, Neil Tyson doesn’t have any patience for fools when it comes to 2012 Maya apocalypse mumbo-jumbo.

Drop da mic, NdT…

Also, congrats to the Tumblr community for being a place for “impassioned discussion on all topics”!!!

That awkward moment when the usually awesome Neil deGrasse Tyson fails to grasp that there are not merely “a few Maya fans out there,” but real actual living Maya who aren’t thrilled with his disrespecting their culture, especially since they didn’t predict the world’s ending in 2012 in the first place — and neither did the Aztec, whose calendar is often misattributed to the Maya.

That awkward moment when jtotheizzoe follows in Dr. Tyson’s footsteps in fucking up instead of, oh I don’t know, pointing out the facts that refute the good Doctor’s hypothesis.

You know, science?

Isn’t there supposed to be some science going on this blog?

bankuei: rubato: atheists, especially white atheists, like to worship science as (1) infallible,...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:04:04 +0800

bankuei:

rubato:

atheists, especially white atheists, like to worship science as (1) infallible, and (2) mutually exclusive with religion

they forget that (1) western science is rooted in oppression and is not impartial or infallible, (2) there are scientists of faith, (3) believing in religion or a religious explanation of something does NOT render someone “stupid” (which is in itself a false and ableist notion to even begin with), and likewise believing in a scientific explanation does not immediately render someone “smart” (which is also a questionable trait), and (4) some religions like islam have histories of science and math! shock! surprise!

it’s truly no surprise to me that many white atheists that I’ve come across have backgrounds involving suffocating white christian upbringings, and all they’ve really done is shifted a few things around while keeping the core and frame the same

It really says everything to me when an Atheist rolls all religions together - to compare say, a NDN group doing a ceremony a few times a year with the colonizer religion and to also be silent on the role Eugenics has played.

You don’t see these atheists losing their shit when a symphony dedicated to God is played, but “Don’t let those people over there do their thing, and I can’t be bothered to look at the large organizations actually engaged in legislative action which will actually affect me, unlike this thing I’m going to flip my shit about…”

God, I get so annoyed with that. Right, because Islam is a Church and we have an Islamo-Pope, so whatever Yusuf Qardawi (or “contemporary Muslim scholars”, as if you can divorce religious principle from privilege, cultural mores, economic realities, history…) says is Gospel because he is Infallible and God’s Elect, and everyone who disagrees or criticizes it is a heretic—

Please. Please shut up.

bankuei: biyuti: “Reason means basing your life on evidence and on logic, which is how you deduce...

Wed, 05 Dec 2012 11:00:05 +0800

bankuei:

biyuti:

“Reason means basing your life on evidence and on logic, which is how you deduce the consequences of evidence.” -Richard Dawkins, Reason Rally 2012.

That is the definition and only ideal of the reason movement. How can living your life based on evidence lead to bigotry in any way? Atheists tend to get involved in religious disputes over bigotry because many religious teachings lead directly to said bigotry in that group. There are no atheist “teachings” as it is NOT a religion.

Now, that being said, I will address the fact that you insulted me and an entire group of people for no reason.
I was in no way trying to “demand” a discussion from you or “have my thinking done for me.” I am perfectly capable of finding and reading these things on my own and will probably do so. I replied to your post because I enjoy actually discussing things with another person more than just reading an article. Thank you for insulting me and behaving like a small child when I did nothing but send you a question in hopes of having an intelligent discussion.. That was very mature.

I’m finally at my actual computer and not on a tablet.

I can’t fucking take how ridiculous this is. Hahahahahaha

So. Look. You quote a sermon by one of Atheisms most famous prophets and expect me to believe that it isn’t a religion and that it actually requires being based on evidence and logic? Get real.

So. Wait. You aren’t asking me to do your thinking or demanding a conversation? Well… what is this then? All the evidence is already there. You have all the evidence you need to understand where and how oppression comes *from* the Atheist movement. And how its foundations are oppressive. How its adepts are oppressive (ie., you).

Or where you asking for the evidence? Er… But why would I do that when the evidence is all around you and you clearly don’t want to see it. Either that, or you see the evidence, but have a mind too feeble to draw the conclusions. But how is this my responsibility?

If you think, for a single second, I’m seriously going to enter a conversation with the intent of proving to you how white hetero cis men, those who created the Atheism movement and many of its biggest believers, are oppressive, you are fucking beyond belief.

And I’m childish? For not wanting to spend the time educating you? Fuck off.

hahahahaha

Evangelical white men atheists. Still can’t figure out why the rest of the world doesn’t do the “rational” thing and immediately admit the superiority of white men.

Never mind the ongoing issues of sexism and racism in their ranks. Never mind the weird fixation on worrying more about what an individual, or small group thinks rather than focusing hard on the combination of the massive organizations of the religious right PLUS corporations in anti-science legislation. Never mind focusing on how religion causes All The Evils without a thought to how the Eugenics movement might have pointed to the recurring fact that people will always find a rationale whether it’s religion or faux-science to justify bias and harm.

Most of all, never mind their need to get really upset and put in 1000x the effort on making sure women of color submit and obey rather than maybe think about any of that.