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More tea, Wesley?
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We have to stop CONSUMING our culture. We have to CREATE culture. DON’T watch TV, DON’T read magazines, don’t even listen to NPR. Create your OWN roadshow. The nexus of space and time where you are — NOW — is the most immediate sector of your universe. And if you’re worrying about Michael Jackson or Bill Clinton or somebody else, then you are disempowering YOURSELF. You’re giving it all away to ICONS - Icons which are maintained by an electronic media so that, you want to dress like X or have lips like Y… This is shit-brained, this kind of thinking. That is all cultural diversion. What is real is you, and your friends, your associations, your highs, your orgasms, your hopes, your plans, your fears. And, we are told No, you’re unimportant, you’re peripheral — get a degree, get a job, get a this, get that, and then you’re a player… But you don’t even want to play that game. You want to reclaim your mind and get it out of the hands of the cultural engineers who want to turn you into a half-baked moron consuming all this trash that’s being manufactured out of the bones of a dying world.Terence Mckenna (via thephysicsoffalling)
(Source: 6kinky6kitty6)
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This guy deserves a high five.
(Source: alternet.org)
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![He is completely right.
thedailywhat:
Security Threat of the Day: Yesterday morning, LA food stylist Adam C. Pearson was removed from a Delta plane after a fellow passenger brought Pearson’s suspicious behavior to the attention of the flight crew. That “suspicious behavior”? Pearson’s knuckle tattoo, which reads “Atom Bomb” — a reference to a childhood nickname. “I was just shocked,” Pearson told the LA Times. “All eyes were on me, I felt everyone staring at me and I was like, ‘I didn’t do anything.’ “
Pearson, who is a Delta Gold Medallion flyer, was eventually cleared and allowed back on the plane, but says he wouldn’t mind a public apology for the inconvenience. “I’m not out for blood,” Pearson says, “but why didn’t they offer to book that other person on another flight if they didn’t like my tattoos? Why was that other person more important than me?”
A Delta rep said the incident would be investigated.
[latimes.]](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lbvxuqs4Mv1qzpwi0o1_250.jpg)
He is completely right.
Security Threat of the Day: Yesterday morning, LA food stylist Adam C. Pearson was removed from a Delta plane after a fellow passenger brought Pearson’s suspicious behavior to the attention of the flight crew. That “suspicious behavior”? Pearson’s knuckle tattoo, which reads “Atom Bomb” — a reference to a childhood nickname. “I was just shocked,” Pearson told the LA Times. “All eyes were on me, I felt everyone staring at me and I was like, ‘I didn’t do anything.’ “
Pearson, who is a Delta Gold Medallion flyer, was eventually cleared and allowed back on the plane, but says he wouldn’t mind a public apology for the inconvenience. “I’m not out for blood,” Pearson says, “but why didn’t they offer to book that other person on another flight if they didn’t like my tattoos? Why was that other person more important than me?”
A Delta rep said the incident would be investigated.
[latimes.]
(Source: thedailywhat)
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“He is ignoble—base and treacherous, and hateful in every way. Not even imminent death can startle him into a spasm of virtue. The ruling trait of all savages is a greedy and consuming selfishness, and in our Noble Red Man it is found in its amplest development. His heart is a cesspool of falsehood, of treachery, and of low and devilish instincts … The scum of the earth!”
—Mark Twain, 1870, The Noble Red Man (a satire on James Fenimore Cooper’s portrayals)It seems in the past we transmuted all of our self-hate, all of our mistakes and flaws onto those which we slaughtered because we thought we deserved their land. I guess I shouldn’t say ‘we’ because all of those who committed such violence are dead, but this war isn’t over. American Indians face a unique problem from other minorities: most people don’t even recognize their existence. We think about American Indians only in terms of the past, of what happened back then and not what is happening right now. These people are not “lazy, dirty, and all alcoholics” nor do are they all nature-loving tree huggers. They are people just like you and me, who cannot escape the stereotypes perpetuated by years worth of movies and media portraying them as inferior savages. They suffer from some of the worst forms of poverty and discrimination on and off reservations, and both political parties in the 2000’s have supported termination of tribal sovereignty of tribes in the west to feed the US’s need for natural resources such as coal. In a 2006 qualitative study by non-profit Public Agenda, one Albequerque Indian said, “Even in modern-day society, we’re still faced with annihilation. I’m still living in the Holocaust. As a native people, [we] are still having one.”
American Indians deserve our respect and recognition as equals, and awareness is so pivotal. How can anyone help if we all ignore the problem?
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“The true story of Thanksgiving reminds us that the U.S. was born in genocide and slavery — and that the empire today rests on the constant expansion of that.”
Native Blood: The Myth of Thanksgiving
Everything we know is a result of centuries of oppression and genocide.
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This is reteaching gender and sexuality
(Source: putthisonthemap.org)
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Female fat [as] a moral issue is articulated with words like good and bad. If our culture’s fixation on female fatness or thinness was about sex, it would be private issue between a woman and her lover; if it were about health, between a woman and herself… A cultural fixation on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty but one about obedience.Naomi Wolf The Beauty Myth(via fatgirlsguide)
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When we look at what the factors are that make life so miserable for young gays and lesbians, it’s tempting for progressives to point the finger at religious traditions that are hostile to sexual pluralism. But the young men in American high schools who are beating up other boys whom they suspect of being gay are rarely doing so in order to comply with a misunderstood dictate from the Torah or the Pauline epistles. It’s not faith that drives the hate as much as it is an overwhelming desire to establish masculine bona fides. “I torment faggots, therefore I can’t be one; I beat up queers, therefore I’m a man.” That toxic equation may be aided and abetted by conservative religion, but it isn’t rooted in it. Rather, the hateful behavior is rooted in the rigid rules of American masculinity, a masculinity predicated on a contempt for and a paranoia about even the slightest whiff of femininity among the be-penised.
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Wow!
(Source: newwavefeminism)
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I despise when this happens to me because it really is terrifying and demeaning. If someone where to come up to me and say, “You know, I don’t mean to be creepy but you’re beautiful” with a nonthreatening stance and leave it at that, then I’d be flattered. But if some jerk feels that yelling at me from a car or following me is a compliment, he is sorely mistaken. I really don’t know how to respond in this type of situation; if you don’t respond or do so negatively it can provoke extreme reactions and even violence, but if you do respond you’re reinforcing the behavior. I’m really glad a lot of the people in this video recognize that these types of actions are supported by our culture; in the face of all the advancements women have achieved over the years, we are still objectified, by people we don’t even know and that is a scary thought.
A great video about street harassment. Found at Holla Back DC!
(Source: fuckyeahfeminists)
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A person of good intelligence and of sensitivity cannot exist in this society very long without having some anger about the inequality - and it’s not just a bleeding-heart, knee-jerk, liberal kind of a thing - it is just a normal human reaction to a nonsensical set of values where we have cinnamon flavored dental floss and there are people sleeping in the street.George Carlin
(Source: growing-up-indie)
