Far over the Misty Mountains cold,
To dungeons deep and burrows old,
We must hop on, ere break of day
To seek our high carrot gold.
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Casual Reminder
Manipulative people who purposely push your buttons in a subtle way in order to get a visceral reaction from you are shitty people. They will try to convince you that YOU’RE the manipulative, crazy, and irrational one for simply reacting to their manipulative bullshit, and then try and make it seem like they’re the calm, logical one.
Be advised to fuck them up at every opportunity.
Reblogging because it’s relevant to my life right now.
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POC in Europe Masterpost
“There were no POC in Europe during the medieval ages!!/they probably never interacted with the whites!!”:
The last one is actually during 16th century I believe,but you get the idea. Most of these are Moors who traveled to many of countries in Europe including, GASP Scotland.
Considering that Africans Muslims conquered most of the Iberian peninsula in the early 8th Century CE, and ruled there for nearly 800 years, until the Reconquista finally overcame the last Muslim state in 1492, I’d say it’s more than just fairly likely that people of color were frequent visitors to Europe.
Also, Marco Polo’s journey’s to Asia took place in the 13th Century CE. Given what we know of cultural dissemination (look at the history of India, for one thing), there is no reason to suspect that there were no travellers in the other direction, as well.
Trade, of course, has been taking place between Europe and other lands for a very, very long time. It is well-known, for example, that gunpowder and firearms were invented in China, and gradually made their way west to Europe. The Arabs acquired the knowledge of gunpowder in the mid 13th Century CE, and around the same time, European forces found themselves facing cannon and guns for the first time.We know that Arabs were quite proficient with sailing, and by the medieval period had established themselves throughout most of the known world in the Eastern hemisphere.
Clearly, the idea that the people of Europe rarely, if ever, encountered or interacted with people of color from Africa, Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and/or Arabia, perhaps even the archipelagoes of Southeast Asia/Oceania is ludicrous.Yet, whenever a story is told that includes people of color where white people have been led to believe there were none, we hear creys of historical inauthenticity or anachronism.
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"Here’s something you may not realize: Gun ownership has been declining for decades. According to the University of Chicago’s General Social Survey, in 1977, 54% of American households had guns. By 2010, the number had fallen to 32%. Yet gun sales are at record highs. That means that existing gun owners are buying more and more guns. It’s not enough to have a hunting rifle over your mantle; you need an entire arsenal, just in case the government falls, society disintegrates, and you have to protect your cave — sorry, your home — from the marauding hordes.
That’s exactly what the gun manufacturers want you to think, so you keep buying. They know that hunting will never again be the pastime it once was, and as more Americans move from rural areas to the suburbs and cities, their natural market withers.
That “responsible gun owner” politicians talk about, the one who reverentially passes down to his son the bolt-action rifle his father gave him? That guy isn’t good for business. The manufacturers need the other guy, the one who fears he may not be all the man he could be."
Paul Waldman, discussing masculinity and gun ownership in his piece, “Not man enough? Buy a gun.” (via cognitivedissonance)
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You do not tell POC what is and is not offensive, dehumanizing, oppressive, or racist. You do not tell POC how to react to offensive, dehumanizing, oppressive, and racist content.
This is the same for any group that does not have privilege. Those with privilege do not get to tell those without what is and is not offensive, dehumanizing, oppressive, or racist. It does not matter how those with privilege meant what they said or did, because they are not the oppressed group that it is directed to/at/or about. Just like in any conversation, you can mean one thing, but the other individual’s experiences determine how it is received.
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fiveguyscarbaublesandolivegarden:
How to avoid most problems
when i tell you i just laughed until tears came out of my eyes
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Elementary School Student Brings Gun To School ‘For Protection’
According to the local Fox affiliate, the 11 year-old told his fellow students he was encouraged by his parents to bring the gun to school “for protection” following the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut on Friday.
The boy reportedly pulled the gun, a .22-caliber pistol, out of his backpack during recess Monday morning.
“At recess, he pointed a gun to my head and said he was going to kill me,” said Isabel Rios, one of the boy’s fellow 6th grade students.
This is what Republican rhetoric leads to. “What we really need is more guns in schools!” Well, congratulations, you have it.
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Walmart security guard shoots 'shoplifting' mother dead in parking lot as she tries to escape with two young children
A 27-year-old mother of two has been fatally shot by an off-duty sheriff’s deputy after he suspected her of shoplifting at a Houston Walmart.
Harris County Sheriff’s deputies have said that victim Shelly Frey, Tisa Andrews and Yolanda Craig were stealing when they were confronted by Louis Campbell a 26-year veteran of the force who works as a security guard at the store.
According to Campbell the women ran to their car and when he rushed to open the door, they accelerated away - at which point he fired the deadly shot into the car which hit Frey in the neck.
Security at the store on the 14000 block of the North Freeway had noticed the three women ‘stuffing items inside their purses’ and notified Campbell, who was working an extra job that evening.
Investigators with Harris County said the three women even attempted to pay for some small items to act as a cover for the shoplifted ones.
After chasing Frey and the other two women to their car, Campbell opened the door and commanded Frey to get out. But she refused, officials said.
Andrews began to drive away while the deputy was standing between the open door and the driver’s seat.
‘She threw it in reverse and tried to run over the deputy,’ saidHarris County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Deputy Thomas Gilliland.
‘He confronted the suspects at exit of the store before they left. One female wouldn’t stop, struck the deputy with her purse, ran off.’
‘I think it knocked him off balance and, in fear of his life and being ran over, he discharged his weapon at that point.’
Inside the car as it was speeding away were two small children - investigators have said that they were not Frey’s children.
Gilliland said it was clear that the deputy was law enforcement.
‘He was clearly marked in uniform as a Harris County deputy. And identified himself as the suspects were leaving the establishment,’ said Gilliland to KHOU.Com
Despite the shooting, the women fled but eventually they stopped at The Worthington at the Beltway apartments in the 1300 block of Greens Parkway.
Paramedics from the Houston Fire Department arrived to try and save Frey, but she was pronounced dead at the scene.
‘Shelly was the perfect mom, perfect friend, perfect daughter,’ said her father, Shelton Frey.
He said that his daughter had moved to Houston after Hurricane Katrina to start a new life, but the amount of work she could do was limited by her two-year-old who has sickle cell anemia.
‘Why couldn’t you just shoot the tire, shoot the window?’ said her mother Sharon Wilkerson. ‘Was it that serious?’
1. Lets see the stuff she “stole”
2. Why the fuck was his gun out in the first place. a fleeing shoplifter is still just a shoplifter
alleged petty theft rises to the level of execution when alleged thief is Black - period.
yeah just leaving this here i have nothing to say
remember this when you’re spouting shit about faab people and violence
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