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Instead of meeting with Aboriginal youth who had traveled 1,600 kilometres by foot in -50°C frigid winter temperatures to Parliament Hill, Prime Minister Harper went to an airport photo-op with two pandas.
Inspired by the Idle No More movement, 17-year-old David Kawapit Jr. and six friends left their traditional territory to travel for two months through brush, snow and frigid winter temperatures - walking from northern Quebec to Ottawa to call attention to local issues facing youth, including suicide, and fight for the future of Aboriginal people in Canada.
And instead of meeting with the walkers, Prime Minister Harper chose to leave town for an expensive photo-op with two pandas.
Canada’s Aboriginal youth face many hurdles — and this panda PR shows you the problem with this government’s priorities.
It’s outrageous that Aboriginal children and youth in Canada receive $2-3,000 less education funding each year than non-native children and youth — and need to walk 1,600km just to be heard by our government.
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Am I the only one who gets these occasional yearnings for oriental women?
wow
Obviously the comment is gross but what the clip looks like it’s suggesting is even worse. Together this has to be the most disgusting thing I’ve seen all week.
what the fuck is WRONG with you, op?
I see it’s still time for homocidal impulses.
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here they come
These statements just fucking baffle me. What do you think we are ALWAYS FUCKING TAUGHT IN SCHOOL? What do you thikn we always saw on the History Channel (before it turned into Snow Plow Survival Man or w/e)?
WE DO NOT NEED A WHITE HISTORY MONTH BECAUSE OUR HISTORIES HAVE DOMINATED HISTORICAL DISCUSSION FOR CENTURIES. Oh and btw as soon as a PoC tells you some fucked up shit about our history - e.g. imperialism, racism, genocide - you don’t want to listen to it so clearly you have no fucking interest in history at ALL.
o.O it begins…
I believe it was deluxvivens who said, “can you imagine having a White History Month that actually told white history? little white children would be going home killing themselves.”
(Source: kohenari)
Aziz Ansari teaches Giuliana Rancic a valuable new dance move at the Golden Globes. [x]
i’m here for this.
(Source: cantgetnoworseee, via fromonesurvivortoanother)
Here is a picture of the Alpha Chi Omega, Beta Mu chapter Penn State sorority that decided to do a Mexican theme, presumably for Halloween.
As you can see, all the girls are wearing sombreros, fake mustaches and they have maracas in their hands. But the kickers are the two signs they have in the middle. One says “Will mow lawn for weed + beer” and the other says, “I don’t cut grass, I smoke it.”
Yeah.
This is racist. It’s insensitive, inaccurate, perpetuates harmful racial stereotypes and it’s a lazy attempt at a group costume. But if any of you recognize these women and/or know which sorority they’re a part of, please let me know in my ask box.
When I find out which sorority is responsible, I will report them to the University and to their national headquarters. They deserve to get their sorority suspended and get kicked out of the sorority.
EDIT:
Okay, listen up!
After some sleuthing around the internet, I have confirmed that this photo is of members of Alpha Chi Omega, Beta Mu chapter at Penn State!
Soooo, here’s contact information for the parties that must know about this:
Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Penn State
Phone:814-863-8065
Email:greeks@sa.psu.edu
Penn State University Panhellenic Council
Advisor: Susan LeGally - sul33@psu.edu
President : Julianne Robbins - jer5229@psu.edu
Penn State Office of Student Conduct
Phone: 814-863-0342
Email: studentconduct@sa.psu.edu
National Alpha Chi Omega Headquarters
Phone: 317.579.5050
Email:http://www.alphachiomega.org/contact.aspx
Susan Hogle, Receptionist - receptionist@alphachiomega.org
Jessica Kelly - Director of Collegiate Experience -jkelly@alphachiomega.org
Cheri O’Neill - Executive Director - coneill@alphachiomega.org
Arianna Maggard - Chapter Consultant - amaggard@alphachiomega.org
LET’S SPREAD THIS LIKE WILDFIRE. LET’S NOT LET ANOTHER GROUP OF STUDENTS BE RACIST AND NOT GET ANY PUNISHMENT FOR IT.
Racist. As. Fuck. Y’all are horrible. They deserve charter revocation and serious disciplinary action.
(Source: boehner-trollololll, via tranqualizer)
There is a joke in the Midrashim in which a Jew is riding a bus at the same time that a Nazi Colonel was in the early days of the Holocaust. The Colonel had his dog with him, and began addressing the dog by an overtly Jewish name. The Jew told the Colonel, “It is truly unfortunate that your dog bears the burden of a Jewish name. Without such an encumbrance, I am sure he could have gone far. Perhaps he could have even become a Colonel in the Nazi army.”
Meet Rae Bergmann of of Vista, CA 92081, age 18, tumblr name raebergmannmd a recent graduate of Rancho Buena Vista High School. I won’t share the street address of the small 2-bedroom house where he still lives with his parents, nor will I share his telephone number with you, but he’s posted it on the Internet and it’s not hard to find. His politics are libertarian. He’s also a racist, a misogynist, and anti-Semite. You can tell from the racist and sexist things he says on his tumblr. You can tell from how he goes out of his way to make sure that Jews know he Hitler had killed us all.
He says his religion is “Buddhist.” I’m not sure how he reconciles Buddhism with being a genocidal piece of shit, but there you go. No wonder his efforts to get a date are such a dismal failure. Genocidal piece of shit just isn’t a sexy look.
Rae suffers from depression, which is truly unfortunate, and I sincerely hope he is able to find effective treatment for it. However, it really no excuse for being a genocidal piece of shit.
Rae wants to be a doctor someday. Maybe he wishes he could be the next Josef Mengele, but in the meantime he’d settle for working at Palomar Medical Center in San Diego. Too bad racists and anti-Semites are constitutionally incapable of being good Doctors because you need compassion for your patients, even when they are Jewish and/or Black people. Too bad this record will follow him, because no medical school really wants to produce the next Josef Mengele. Just one more dream Rae will never live because he chooses to be such a rotten human being.
Moral of the story? “Never again” means that the days in which we simply let genocidal pieces of shit talk their shit until they’re strong enough to enact their shit are long, long gone.
Instances in which doxxing is ok: this.
Spread this around. I’m sick of shits like him stepping on the rest of us.
White Supremacy is alive, well, and endangering the lives of my classmates.
There’s this kid you probably haven’t heard of: Noah Steadman. There’s no reason you should have heard of him until now, but now I am asking you to remember his name and to spread it to everyone you can. Noah Steadman is a self-proclaimed White Supremacist who moderates 4chon (basically 4chan for people who were kicked off 4chan for being too racist). Over the course of a couple of months he has been threatening the wellbeing of the students of Bard College at Simon’s Rock; now he has put the college’s staff, faculty and students in concrete danger, having been threatened with, among others, corrective rape, shooting, and bombing. Read the statement below, written by a friend of mine, for a detailed description of what has happened, and remember: Noah Steadman is a White Supremacist and a danger to our community.
To Whom It May Concern:
I am writing this letter to draw attention to a situation at my college, Bard College at Simon’s Rock in Massachusetts, that is and has been threatening the physical and emotional security of myself and my fellow classmates. It takes some time to tell this story; please bear with me. This is a desperate call for coverage, assistance, and dialogue.
We begin on the eve of Rosh Hashanah, when an unknown person or group drew multiple swastikas on the wall of a common area in a dormitory. This elicited an email from the administration condemning the graffiti and requesting information as to the perpetrator. To the best of my knowledge, this is all we know—any action taken by the administration after this point would be confidential information.
Shortly thereafter, a student (Noah Steadman) circulated a flier on campus questioning the relevance of Diversity Day, a yearly Teach-In initiated several years ago by students during which students and faculty hold workshops on issues of diversity, oppression, and identity. The “Diversity Day Challenge” was to name five benefits of Diversity “besides ethnic food and music.”
Admittedly, this might initially seem, to an external observer (and it did to many people on campus), a fairly benign piece of agitation. For many of us, however, this flier generated immediate outrage. If you are not acquainted with our school, Simon’s Rock is an early college (with both an A.A. and B.A. program, accredited through Bard College) that accepts students who have not yet earned their high school diplomas. We are an extremely small liberal arts institution, largely isolated from the surrounding area. I remember that when I applied, the Princeton Review had ranked us as the #1 gay-friendly college in America. We are a small and intimate community of people who, by and large, were discontented with the educational opportunities offered to us, namely the often terrifying and prison-like environments of American public and private secondary education. Both Bard and Simon’s Rock pride themselves on combating inequality and oppression through educational methods; Bard’s prison education initiative is one notable example. Simon’s Rock provides extensive scholarship to students of color, international students, and Diversity Day is but one example of the institutional and pedagogical commitment to fighting inequality that made many students, until recently, proud to anticipate calling this school our alma mater.
A substantial portion of the student body, and I proudly count myself among them, experienced indignation and outrage at the distribution of this flier. The demeaning and marginalizing wording of the flier had apparent connections to the language and ideology of the reactionary right-wing. To us, the denial of minority students’ identities, cultures, histories, sufferings and struggles was clearly explicit, not implicit, in the document. It represented the perpetuation of hundreds of years of racial, gender, and sexual oppression. We saw the violence of that question, especially considering it’s author, a cisgendered, able-bodied white male. We understood that it was a very real threat to the integrity and security of the school community.
Determined to rise above the taunting tone of Noah’s challenge (“you could win a Macbook Air!”), the existing coalition of identity-based student groups on campus made photocopies of the document and cut them into strings of snowflakes, human figures holding hands, and the like, putting them up in a collective student space. Within hours, a document was posted next to them declaring Noah’s first-amendment right to free speech, decrying student outrage against him as hate speech, and asking people in support of Noah’s right to express himself to sign their names. The threat we initially (and correctly) sensed being leveled against our community continued unabated.
I fully appreciate that, at this point, many a reader would be experiencing the same reaction that the anonymous poster of this statement did: if Simon’s Rock is committed to diversity, how is it just to criticize one student’s opinion, which surely he is entitled to? weren’t people overreacting? how is any of this a threat to student safety? granting the offensiveness of Noah’s challenge, doesn’t it still legitimate him to call further attention to it? These are the sort of misconceptions, understandable but by no means acceptable, which have brought us to the point we are at today.
Today, violence is being explicitly threatened by white supremacists targeted at our school property, administration, and the student body. Maps of campus, images of students, and personal information has been circulated accompanying frenzied battle cries for the sake of the “white race.” Let me ask you, who is in danger here? I have extremely good reason to believe that Noah Steadman is currently contacting white supremacist activist organizations to bring further attention to this situation. As I write this, students on campus and at home for Thanksgiving break are wondering if their lives are in danger, or if we are going to get a call or an email informing us that acts of violence have been committed towards our classmates or teachers. And in reality, we have been living in this state of fear with little respite for more than two months.
In light of our concerns, students were told to suppress their worry; someone else was taking care of campus safety, namely the college’s Anti-Harassment and Anti-Discrimination Committee which adjudicates claims between members of the college which breach the college’s policies on discrimination, harassment, and diversity. For a while, then, Noah was nowhere to be found on campus and we were able to breath a sigh of at least partial relief. Rather abruptly, however, Noah appeared back on campus, and many students were left confused. The feelings of threat and fear returned with a vengeance. In response, a group of students wrote up a document addressing the school’s attitudes and actions around identity based oppression and held a demonstration expressing their disapproval with an institution that colludes with the bloodstained legacy of patriarchal violence.
A student made video documenting the protest was posted on youtube. Shortly after being posted, a barrage of explicitly hostile and violent comments were posted in response to the video. (“Gas these socialists. Hitler was right. WHITE POWER” is just one representative example of the flavor of comments). In addition to the youtube comments, an online forum was discovered where the details of Noah’s actions and our community’s responses to them were being discussed by Noah and others. These comments expressed White Nationalist sentiments of praise and admiration for Noah and vehement hatred for the “Marxists, faggots, and dykes.” Violent threats (bombs, shooting, rape) were made, specific students’ images and information shared.
We refuse to passively accept the continuation of a violent history of systemic inequality which attempts to control our interpretations of freedom, inequality, and being. Moreover, we assert our agency to create a society that allows us to participate in speech that is genuinely free.The attitude I described above, the attitude of conciliatory apologetics, free speech, tolerance, and civility, is precisely what myself and my classmates are fighting against. It assumes that words and feelings are expressed in a historical void of objective universalism, that all speakers enter conversations on equal footing, and that words have no substance other than the ideas and concrete objects they signify. What students like myself have been arguing for the last two months is that when a person coming from a place of innumerable privileges publicly questions diversity on our campus, they are bringing the full weight of systemic oppression and violence hundreds of years old to bear on each and every other student. We have been arguing that Noah’s ability and “right” to express his opinions is in direct confrontation with the very existence of every Black, Asian, Hispanic, Native American, Indigenous, Gay, Lesbian, Female, Transgendered, Disabled, Queer, Jewish, Muslim, non-White, non-Christian, non-Male, non-Heterosexual, non-Cisgendered, person in our community. And for some reason, utterly incomprehensible to myself, people still don’t get why we have been saying this. Perhaps the literal threat of harm, written out, will prove galvanizing enough.
We feel it is urgent that stories such as this one reach the general public especially in light of pervasive sentiments that trivialize identity based oppression, and ideas that attempt to demonstrate that we live in a colorblind, post-race society. These are not issues of the past; they characterize the immediate present, and without necessary attention will intensify into our future. As is clearly exhibited by our story, race hatred and identity based violence thrives both on the internet and in our material lives. We have a duty to uncover it and deny it the legitimacy it attempts to claim. Please spread this story. It is crucial that people be made aware of the threats made against us and the severity of this situation before groups such as FIRE and American Renaissance (who we know Noah has personally contacted) get involved.
Here is a link to a dropbox containing screenshots of several threads Noah started on an image forum, in which you will find numerous threats of violence and countless affirmations of white supremacy, including Noah’s own account of his meeting with the school and the map of campus he posted with bulls-eyes indicating the locations of the 1992 shooting at Simon’s Rock, as well as the International Center. One further thread, which I do not believe is contained in the screenshots, can be found here.
(Source: pansypunx)
Sanger Delivers Burning Speech
Local KKK Gals Hang on Every Word
Margaret Sanger shown speaking to local KKK gals and a few Dragons that crashed the event.
The Klansladies are giving a left handed salute copied from the old Roman Empire. It dates back to the Reconstruction Era as the Klan salute and predates the Nazi salute by decades.
For those of you who don’t know, Margaret Sanger is the celebrated “birth control activist, sex educator, and nurse. She coined the term birth control, opened the first birth control clinic in the United States, and established Planned Parenthood.”
What is often not publicized is that she was also extremely racist.
“We should hire three or four colored ministers, preferably with social-service backgrounds, and with engaging personalities. The most successful educational approach to the Negro is through a religious appeal. We don’t want the word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population, and the minister is the man who can straighten out that idea ifit ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.” — Margaret Sanger’s December 19, 1939 letter to Dr. Clarence Gamble (via Racist and Eugenics Statements by Margaret Sanger)
And BOOM goes the dynamite.
And on the other side we have the anti-choicers tromping out their concern trolling about how Black babies are being genocided in the womb.
ATTENTION EVERYONE: Spread this shit like WILDFIRE.
This is a picture of a mannequin dressed as Obama and hung at a Shell gas station in Mandarin (Duval County), Florida. That’s near Jacksonville. I have friends in that area that saw this in person.
As far as I know, there have been no repercussions. That is NOT okay.
We need to take a stand and show that this is NOT acceptable and will NOT go without punishment.
Democrat, Republican, black, white, male, female, etc… We should ALL come together and show that disrespect and intolerance of this magnitude is NOT okay.
If anyone in the area knows exactly which Shell this was, spread the word! As many of us as possible need to walk into that store and raise hell. Phone calls, boycotts, EVERY NEGATIVE REACTION POSSIBLE needs to happen. As soon as I can make it down to Fla, I will personally walk into that store and punch the ignorant, racist, ass hole responsible for this square in the FACE.
Since when is murder funny? Since when is taking the life of another human being ACCEPTABLE AND HUMOROUS? Especially the President of our United States?!
I’m so mad I can barely form words.What the SHIT this is right up near where I live! And you know if this shit had been a Romney doll white people EVERYWHERE would have been freaking out, calling the police, watching survellance tapes and in general making a big deal to find the perpetrator.
This is disgusting. Fuck you, white people of jacksonville. I hate this city and I hate this state.
isn’t this like, illegal? or at least, wouldnt think get you in trouble with the CIA or something
i mean not that it matters given even CIA members have been known to make threats against the Black First Family
but still
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