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Right wing Republican politicians and even some Democrats are frothing at the mouth in outrage over pro-Palestinian student protests. Some are calling for arrest, others for the National Guard to suppress these protests. The central rationale is equating anti-Zionism with antisemitism, a false equivalence intended to shut down the protests.

But where was the outrage on the right over decades of christofascist demonstrations at Planned Parenthood clinics? Why was no one calling for the arrest of the mobs of hateful, screaming zealots who inspired bombings and murder? Why today are LGBTQ event organizers forced to arrange their own security as protection from actual Nazis threatening their existence?

Hate speech is hate speech no matter if the target is black or gay or Jewish or fat or trans. No one of these groups deserves more protection than the others.

Protesting for changes in government policies is NOT hate speech. Policies don’t have feelings. Policies can’t be traumatized. In the USA we have a right to protest peacefully.

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He was apart of a terrorist movement so his words are full of crap. And he helped organize kidnapping and murder of 11 Israeli athletes. Anyone who wants to believe him will one day ignore Palestine's many abuses on Jews if they do become a country.

You guys whine about that clip while ignoring your camp's wide history of bigotry towards Jews who don't suck Palestine's dick.

#zionism #bottlepiecemuses

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how would sigmund react if someone tried to buy shirley for a night

Rip of that persons head XD

#trails series

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#dilbert #racism #political cartoons #irony #siryouarebeingmocked

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Kind of hilarious to me how poorly the title "Mob Psycho 100" localized to English-speaking areas. To someone whose first language is English, it scans as:

Mob (Yakuza, Mafia)

Psycho (violent person with "crazy" behaviors)

Thus: a particularly violent member of organized crime.

But in Japanese it scans as:

Mob (background characters in crowd scenes in manga or anime)

Psycho (short for psychic)

Thus: a psychic who looks/acts like someone you'd never pick out of a crowd scene in a comic.

#mp100 #indeed the name has unfortunate implications in English #probably contributes to it being a bit if a sleeper

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I don’t know how this isn’t common sense, but:

If your movement has managed to put an already oppressed minority group in danger to the point where they don’t even feel safe to leave their home to go to school, your movement is heavily flawed.

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We have all known this has been a genocide for a while but Israel is literally gathering as many Palestinians as they can so they can bom them that is what is happening and has been happening for a long time Rafah was the last safe place they had, the only safe place for them to go is Egypt which has either closed its border by now or is close to. We learned about the holocaust in school, we were horrified of what the nazis did, this is history repeating itself, this is not war this is genocide

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I saw this Twitter post and couldn’t agree more. When you think about it, Alastor behaves more like a realistic abuser than Valentino. Of course, this is completely unintentional by Viv since Alastor is supposed to be the favorite and quirky one. This is what happens when you make all your villains/abusers over-the-top, one-note, and super obvious bad guys. This is what also happens when there’s no established morality in the shows.

Then the fandom wants be surprised when Alastor is called evil or vile, have to keep citing potentially outdated outside sources, and Viv has to explain Alastor’s character in interviews instead of the show itself.

Like Stolas, Alastor won’t really be called out for his bad actions and the narrative will used this mysterious deal he’s in to make him sympathetic. Like Blitz, the fandom will blame Husk for the situation as he “consented” to the deal or probably say “Well he was an overlord too and he may have hurt people too”. Even though the show uses Husk’s deal to bond with Angel.

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#long #siryouarebeingmocked

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sure, call me pro-hamas

i don’t know about you but i certainly believe in the right to resist oppression

is it really terrorism to even try to take down an apartheid who’s taken your land, killed your family, raped and starved and abducted your people and beaten your friends?

a victim of rape is allowed to hit their rapist, hamas is rightful resistence

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One way to have "diverse" characters in you story without sounding preachy or woke is to avoid making the antogonist a strawman of whatever political faction you consider """"evil""""""

For example, if my character is a trans man, there is no way, the antagonist would be Mr. or Mrs. Transphobe.

That´ll be boring and predictable.

The absolute best way to do diversity (if you must) is to write a character first, then just make them black, trans, gay, or whatever. And yes, to have the antagonist be a character also that isn't just a stand in for homophobia or racism or whatever. Boring and predictable, like you said.

I remember after The Butler became a hit, Lee Daniels said he wanted his next movie to be an action film with a gay male protagonist. The way he described it made it sound like a straight forward, typical action movie, just with the main character having a male love interest instead of a female one. It never got made, as far as I know, but I think back on it from time to time and wonder if that could have been a "diverse" movie done right. Where the focus is on the plot and the characters and the action and the diversity stuff is just one facet of the character, instead of literally the entire character and the main focus of the movie. Sadly, these days, it's almost impossible to trust that anything with "diverse" characters isn't going to be filled with woke writing and the same diversity committee approved plot points we see in basically everything these days. One of the reasons I'm still mad that Netflix canceled Archive 81 is because it was a series with a black lead who was a fully realized character, and his race never came into the story at all. Yes, the rich white man ended up being the bad guy, but there was nothing racial about it. It was just a casting decision. That character could have been any race or either gender and the character would have been exactly the same. Same with the protagonist. To me, that's what writing should be. Unless the story is specifically about a certain race or gender (ie, you probably shouldn't write a race-neutral MLK biopic) then the race or gender of the characters shouldn't come into play within the story at all.

#long #diversity #siryouarebeingmocked

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So there's this web novel called Worm.

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 It’s about a dark and edgy world that’s full of superpowered folks, and which is, therefore, about three steps away from dystopian collapse. Many places are already there.

The story is about a teenage bullying victim who gains powers, and uses them to become a very dangerous supervillain, despite her best efforts.

And anyone familiar with the RWBY fandom may have just gone “wait, this sounds familiar. Are there a lot of fics where a main character gets an alternate power set?”

Yes, yes there are.

In this fanfic I’m about to complain about, Taylor gets an already existing power that’s already broken.

Canon has “Path to Victory”, which is almost literally just an “I WIN” button. It tells “Contessa” what she needs to do to succeed at almost any goal she wants. She’s a big blindspot for people who can see the future.

Keep reading

#fandom #worm #personal #fanfiction #long #writing #siryouarebeingmocked

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#terry-bradstreet

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Lol

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Tom Cotton has never seen a left-wing protest he didn’t want crushed at gunpoint.

On Monday, the Arkansas senator demanded that President Joe Biden send in the National Guard to clear out the student protests at Columbia University against the Israel-Hamas war

The protesters at Columbia and other college campuses around the United States are voicing opposition to U.S. support for Israel’s war against Hamas, which began in retaliation for a Hamas raid that killed some 1,200 Israelis last October. Since then, more than 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, about 2 million displaced, and many driven to the brink of starvation.

In the same way that the Israeli government’s conduct does not justify anti-Semitism, the anti-Semitic acts of some individuals associated with the protests do not justify brutalizing the protesters. As of this morning, the National Guard had not been called in, but hundreds of students participating in demonstrations across the country have been arrested.

NYPD Chief John Chell told the Columbia Spectator that “the students that were arrested were peaceful, offered no resistance whatsoever, and were saying what they wanted to say in a peaceful manner.” The arrests did not end the protest.

Cotton and Hawley are demanding that Biden use force against the protesters not just because they consistently advocate for state violence against those who support causes they oppose as a matter of principle, but also because any escalation in chaos would redound to their political benefit. They don’t want to solve any problems, they want to make them worse so that the public will warm to “solutions” that will continue to make them worse. They don’t want order, or safety, or peace. What they want is carnage.

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no its in different video here are the vids where he brings it up

the doffy parallels are to the time doffy was a kid ( also there are parallels between imu and the gorosei to enel and his priests ( its theorized that urogue was a priest of enel who left him ( and the gateway to the trials included 5 fingers which is why people think there were 5 priests ( mr morj even made a vids where he brought this up )

Thanks. Is that in the Aokiji video you tagged me in? I'll take a look.

#one piece #Youtube