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I can't believe it's already 2017

Guys I’m crying omg I was drunk please stop reblogging this

#i scheduled it for january 1st 2017 #i will probably still be on tumblr by then *sigh*

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I looked at the pics in my tablet for the first time in a while and i miss my ex's cat but hey now i have my own kitty so eh. Life changes.

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Oh shit i thought i got locked out of this account whaddup!!!!

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The longer i go without dating a cis white guy the more i wonder if i even ever actually liked them or if i was a victim of compulsory heterosexuality Still as hella bi as I've always been, but gf and i were talking about how i don't find the stereotypical "masculine man" attractive, and I never really have. Muscle is hard and uncomfortable to cuddle. Idk Add in how i don't get gender like... at all and would no longer trust a straight cis white dude not to exploit me for emotional labor, and i think you're looking at someone who has finally put their money where their mouth is and stopped liking cis straight white dudes.

#carroll returns... #to talk shit about cishet white dudes apparently #anyway things are still going great with my gf #we're broke as a joke but I knew we would be coming into it #integrity over financial stability kiddos #don't date cis straight white dudes who don't respect you in exchange for stability it isn't worth it

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When Whites Just Don’t Get It, Part 7

Nicholas Kristof, Op-Ed Columnist, New York Times, October 1, 2016.

LET me raise an uncomfortable topic: We all know that in some fundamental way, this presidential campaign is in part about race.

Supporters of Donald Trump are more likely than other voters to tell pollsters that blacks are “lazy,” “violent” and “unintelligent.” Four out of five Trump backers say that discrimination against whites is as big a problem as discrimination against blacks. And only 39 percent of Trump supporters believe that President Obama was born in the United States.

Polling and analysis by The Economist found that Trump is propelled in part by a wave of white “racial resentment” that blacks are coddled whiners, protected by a stifling political correctness.

As for Trump himself, we shouldn’t lightly call anyone a racist, but he has compiled such a comprehensive record of discrimination and bigotry over 45 years that I don’t know what else to call him.

I started this “When Whites Just Don’t Get It” series a couple of years ago because I thought many whites were in denial about racial inequities. That impression has only been reinforced by Trump’s rise.

A widespread white delusion goes like this: We elected a black man president, so let’s stop using past discrimination as an excuse for black failures today. The age of discrimination is over.

In fact, the evidence is overwhelming that racial discrimination remains ubiquitous in America.

Take something as simple as crossing the street. In one study by scholars at Portland State University and the University of Arizona, three black men and three white men played pedestrians trying to cross a street at a crosswalk. On average, a black pedestrian was passed by twice as many vehicles before a driver yielded.

As I see it, the biggest problem with racism in 2016 is not old-fashioned white-robed segregationists (although white supremacists are lining up to promote Trump). Rather, the central problem is well-meaning white people like the drivers at those crosswalks: Many probably believe in racial equality, yet they unintentionally act in ways that perpetuate inequality.

Researchers find this kind of unconscious bias almost everywhere. A Stanford study found that teachers reviewing discipline reports in some cases were more likely to favor harsh punishment for a student named “Deshawn” or “Darnell” than one named “Greg” or “Jake.” And black children with appendicitis are less than half as likely to get strong pain medication at an emergency room as white children with appendicitis.

Businesses that discriminate seem to hurt themselves, but they still do it.

Devah Pager of Harvard conducted a study of racial discrimination in New York City in 2004 by sending young black and white men to apply for jobs at 170 businesses, bearing fictitious and carefully matched résumés. She found that white applicants were more than twice as likely to get a call back; indeed, a white applicant purportedly just released from prison did no worse than a black applicant with a clean record.

This year, Pager published a follow-up based on what had happened to these businesses in the 2008 recession. She found that the companies that had discriminated were significantly more likely to have gone out of business — which may suggest a price tag for discrimination.

Inequities are not just about individual discrimination, for the larger problems are systemic. I was just in Detroit, where 9 percent of children suffer lead poisoning (more than in Flint); if this were happening to rich white children on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, there would be outraged demands for a national commission and reparations.

When opioids were primarily a black problem, America’s instinct was harsh prison sentences; now that it is mainly a white problem, we’re more compassionate and are improving treatment programs. America’s education system is structured so that white suburban children often get an excellent public education, while inner-city black kids disproportionally get a third-rate education.

The Supreme Court is now taking up a case called Buck v. Davis involving a murderer named Duane Buck who was sentenced to death after “expert” testimony that he was more likely to commit violent crimes in the future because he was black. What can that be called but racism?

Many whites object that race gaps are the result of irresponsible behavior by blacks themselves, such as teenage girls’ having babies. Sure, self-destructive behaviors are a strand of poverty (of every complexion), but blacks are cleareyed about this: 86 percent of blacks say that family breakup is a reason for difficulties of African-Americans today. And black churches and opinion leaders like President Obama have addressed this head-on with initiatives like My Brother’s Keeper.

In contrast, we whites seem curiously unwilling to shoulder any responsibility for our own part in racial inequity. If we’re so concerned with “personal responsibility,” shouldn’t we show some?

If Donald Trump wants to make this election in part about race, then let’s really talk about race problems in all their complexities. And we whites could spend less time pointing fingers and more time looking in the mirror.

Source: http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/10/02/opinion/sunday/when-whites-just-dont-get-it-part-7.html

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A fucken granny porn blog liked my selfie @staff take care of the porn blogs please they had asks turned off too so i couldn't even tell them to go fuck a rusty spoon I'm having to block at least one a day and half of my notes are from porn blogs, you have a problem and need to fix it. To my followers: reminder that I'm on twitter now @capncarroll and instagram @setthecontrols92 if you want to help me just leave this fucking hell bullshit site with great people but zero functionality.

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concept: instead of replying to ‘you’re pretty!’ with 'i know’ reply with 'everyone is pretty. beauty must be defined by what we are, otherwise the concept itself is our enemy’

Google was my friend and let me know that quote is from a poster my friends have that was made by the CrimethInc. Ex. Workers’ Collective, an anarchist collective. Good to know.

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Break the binary – henri

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Coca-cola: confirmed to be emo

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Customer: how are you?

Me: I'm good, you?

Customer: I'm *smug smirk* WELL.

Me: ... oh I didn't know. I'm so sorry. The English Language Never Evolves and this casual small talk with a stranger in a public place is Academic and Formal. My Apologies.

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i feel like a weird phase that isn’t talked about much is being half closeted and half out like??? idk it’s such a weird dynamic i can’t describe it 

#I'm like there now #out to some coworkers and family #but not everyone #but i have a gf now who deserves me shouting my love for her from the rooftops #hella bi 5evr

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#dude everyone was like hahaha what a shit show

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Ok so for real downloaded and logged into the twitter App on my phone this time... gimme ur twitter @ if u want me to follow you

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There’s nothing wrong with being angry and sad that people don’t accept or understand your gender identity the way you wish they did. 

Cis people are understood. They say, “I’m a man”, “I’m a woman” (or often don’t even have to say it) and people don’t blink, they understand. 

We don’t have that priviledge and it can feel lonely and hurtful. But remember that even if no one sees you for who you are, even if no one seems to understand, you have such a wonderful community here for you, people like you, who suffer the same things, people who ask your pronouns and respect them, people who listen. 

You are not alone, even if it can feel that way. We are here, we understand, we see you for who you are, and that’s our strength. 

#my exbf did not respect my identity at all but my gf does it's lovely

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🤘🏾💖 happy blackoutday 💖🤘🏾

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The stereotype is dead: Researchers show that Native Americans drink less than whites

[IMAGE: San Manuel Band of Indians Hold Their Annual Pow Wow On Oct. 13, 2012 In San Bernardino, California.]

The stereotype of the Native American alcoholic dates all the way back to the beginning of invasion, but a new study may help to debunk that myth. Most Native Americans actually abstain from alcohol, and those who do drink are on average lighter drinkers than whites, finds the study, published in the journal Drug and Alcohol Drug Dependence.

Researchers from the University of Arizona used nationwide survey data to compare the drinking habits of more than 4,000 Native Americans to 170,000 white people. They found that about 60 percent of Native Americans did not drink, compared to 43 percent of whites. Native Americans were also more likely than whites to be “light/moderately-only” drinkers. Both groups showed similar binge drinking habits, with around 17 percent of each population reporting to have consumed five or more drinks one-to-four times over the previous month.

The study helps to shatter the notion that Native Americans are genetically more susceptible to alcoholism than other groups. In a 2015 article explaining how the violent colonial occupation of North America contributed to alcoholism among Native Americans, Influence columnist Maia Szalavitz dissected the popular narrative that European colonizers introduced Indigenous people to booze and widespread alcoholism followed, due to their supposed genetic susceptibility.

“The apogee of victim-blaming, the idea that genetic ‘inferiority’ causes Native peoples to be particularly susceptible to addiction was not falsifiable when it was initially spread,” Szalavitz wrote. “But even now that it has been disproven, the myth obscures the real causes of addiction and the starring roles that trauma and the multiple stresses of inequality can play in creating it.”

The latest study adds to the evidence against this tenacious fallacy and the harmful stereotype it generates.

Mainstream media doesn’t control the message anymore. Support NativeNews.

#hmm yet another stereotype that we white ppl are more guilty of than those who we accuse of having it #it applies to men and women too I've noticed #sometimes straights and gays... #oppressive groups sure like to project onto the groups they oppress

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tell me this isn’t the cutest thing I’ve ever seen

#i may have already reblogged this #but rami malek is so fucking cute #ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh