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Why do white people want to say the n-word so bad? Why do they act like they didn't use it to put down and degrade black lives and dehumanize black people? Why do they still call it a "double standard"? Why can they still not understand the concept of reclaiming a word?

Reappropriation:

"Linguistic reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group. It is a specific form of a semantic change (change in a word's meaning). Linguistic reclamation can have wider implications in the fields of discourse and has been described in terms of personal or sociopolitical empowerment."

The whole point is that the marginalized group takes back the power they were deprived from for all these years. When black people choose to use it, it's to turn it's meaning around, use something that was used to oppress them to elevate each others. When white people say it, all the power that they initially had comes right back. The word gets all it's primary hatred and it's no longer the subject of anything else than discriminatory language.

It's not a slur because it offends people all of a sudden, it's a slur because it was used against a community for hundreds of years. You don't get to decide when it will stop being a vicious word, you don't get to criticize and say that we're giving too much power to a word. White people were always the oppressors, and WE live in a society where YOU will never experience racial discrimination, the color of your skin will never disadvantage you. So please for the love of god, shut the fuck up.

Not in a song. Not for a joke. Not to insult. Not to greet. It's not dark humour, you're just very unfunny.

If you're a non-black person, don't say it, it's really easy to do it. Educate yourself.

https://youtu.be/_LK-j8ZED44

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https://www.universitystar.com/opinions/columns/only-black-people-are-allowed-to-say-the-n-word/article_386007b3-b442-599f-ab15-4ac14838e58d.html

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FREE PALESTINE

Educate yourself on what's happening right now. Having well formed opinions on relevant topics matters more than you may think.

Israel is not a country, there are no "struggles on both sides". This is not anti-semitism, an actual genocide is currently taking place and defending Palestine and it's people should not a controversial topic.

Links to great and informative instagram accounts:

https://instagram.com/letstalkpalestine?utm_medium=copy_link

https://instagram.com/eye.on.palestine?utm_medium=copy_link

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https://instagram.com/nouraerakat?utm_medium=copy_link

https://instagram.com/jewishvoiceforpeace?utm_medium=copy_link

https://instagram.com/decolonizemyself?utm_medium=copy_link

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Hello, I haven’t been active lately but I just wanted to share with you this google doc that I made yesterday for a school debate on abortion. I am obviously extremely pro-choice and I live in a very conservative country and school that are clearly anti-abortion, but I really enjoyed making this. It’s a compilation of information and opinions that I have accumulated from multiple sources such as news articles and social media platforms (tiktok…), including some of my personal writing. I spoke about misconceptions related to this subject and gave some arguments and ended with a couple solutions. I am sharing it with the intention of educating. Maybe this will change your point of view on abortion, maybe you’ll use it to build your arguments, maybe to share it with someone else. Ignorance is a problem, but being unwilling to learn is a tragedy, keep an open mind, there’s no shame in re-evaluating your point of views when new information is presented to you. Thanks! Have a great day.

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Artist Daniel Rarela creates “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” memes to stop people from whitewashing MLK

follow @the-movemnt

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URGENT PLEASE SHARE

Here are the websites in the order that they appear in the twitter thread:

Please share, sign the petitions, donate if you can, contact and call the numbers, please try to save a life.

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Okay. So after a video going viral of an innocent man being choked to death by a police officer, with other cops looking and not reacting whatsoever to this tragic scene. After hearing his begging and pleading, noticing his shortening breaths, hearing the panic in his voice and still not helping. After thousands of previous and following cases of police brutality were talked about. After we were made aware that the police has continously attacked, traumatized, paralysed and killed innocent black people throughout the years and nothing had changed, people were tired of prejudice and decided to do something about it. They protested, they tried making their voices heard, they demanded decency, they wanted black lives to matter. So how did the president of the united states react? Did he call out the undeniable systemic racism that POC have been a victim of ever since the beginning of time? Did he make sure that George Floyd and every other soul that was unjustly taken way received justice? Did he try to reform the police and the racist incarceration system? Did he do anything of use, did he try, did he do the bare minimum, did he lie and say something respectful just for show? No. He called protestors thugs. He cared more about the walls of corporate organizations and businesses than about human lives. He threatened the protestors, allowed the teargassing, beatings, insults, arrests, and murder of people who wanted change to happen.

Forward to a few days ago where a bunch of lunatic trump supporters stormed the capitol because their lord and saviour Donald lost the election, brought guns, stole podiums and mail, attacked the police while waving "blue lives matter" flags, took selfies with cops, displayed nazi symbols, held the racist confederate flag, all while spewing hateful propaganda (because this is all they know what to do). Try to guess how the president of the united sates reacted this time. Did he also call them thugs, did he insult them, did he order the force to attack them with rubber bullets, teargass them, kill them? Actually, he told them that he loved them, that they were very special, that he knew how they felt, and that they should go home.

I am speachless.

Also this made me laugh

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JUSTICE FOR JACOB BLAKE

"Jacob Blake, a 29-year-old Black man, was left partly paralyzed after a white police officer shot him seven times in the back outside an apartment complex in Kenosha, Wis., on Aug. 23.

The shooting, which happened in front of three of Mr. Blake’s children, was captured by a neighbor in a video that circulated widely and rapidly on social media. Outrage spread quickly, rekindling the nationwide protests for racial justice that had followed the deaths of George Floyd, Elijah McClain, Breonna Taylor and other Black Americans after encounters with the police. [...]

Four months after the shooting of Mr. Blake, the Kenosha County district attorney, Michael Graveley, announced on Jan. 5 that the officers involved in the shooting would not be charged."

Go Fund Me organized by Jacob's mom:

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Via @bravespalliance on instagram

I know this is extremely disturbing. I know the black trans community doesn't need to be reminded of their trauma. And I am so damn sorry that you still have to wake up in such a hateful world and ostracizing society but I refuse to simply forget about two innocent souls that were taken away way too soon. We have to raise awareness, we have to educate ourselves more on these very touchy subjects, we have to be better, we have to build a better future, we just have to, this cannot be a regular, standard routine.

May they rest in peace.

"You can help the Brave Space Alliance provide funeral accommodations for Courtney and Tyianna by donating to their Funeral Fund at

Courtney and Tyianna, rest in power. We will say your names aloud as a solemn commitment to fight tirelessly for dignity, safety and justice for all trans people."

-Via Howard Brown Health

Links to learn more about them:

https://illinoiseagle.com/#/article/61711

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I am disgusted and in constant disbelief that people with that much hatred in their heart still exist. Actual nazis. I am not surprised, simply disappointed that it is so blatant and yet, people still don't seem to care.

Via @mattxiv on instagram

Also, for the ignorant people that still believe it was Antifa because "one of them had a communist tatoo", I am begging you, just for once, use your fucking brain.

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This is unfathomable, this is one of the most vile thing you could possibly do. Make a joke out of an innocent man's murder, poke fun at police brutality victims, every single soul that was taken away way too soon and that deserved to be remembered for more than just a tragic ending. And in front of a church? Really? Do you seriously think this is what Christianity represents? Do you genuinely think God is proud of you right now?

I am in constant disbelief that some people are ignorant enough to still deny the existence of white privilege, when you get to take selfies with cops, while they should've been arresting you. When you got gently escorted down the stairs by the force, while they were tear gassing peaceful protesters for pleading for decency. When you fucking terrorists, loot, attack, break in, shoot and destroy BECAUSE FUCKING TRUMP LOST, and you get labeled as "great patriots", while the people who asked the police to stop murdering them get called "violent". That is no coincidence.

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This makes me sick. Those are the most hateful, evil, dirty, narcissistics, hypocritical beings. Those are fascists. Those are nazis. Those are the worst kind of humans and they are getting labeled as good patriots, do you seriously not see the irony?

We hit a low point in humanity today.

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PURE FACTS

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I am in disbelief and in utter disgust of what this country has come to, but please let's not forget THIS HAPPENED. This is direct proof that the system hates black people, that the american government is discriminatory, that MAGA supporters are lunatic terrorists, that Donald Trump is a racist hypocrite and that the police has no real honor or devotion to protect the people.

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THIS IS TERRORISM, CALL IT WHAT IT IS

Please get reminded that this is not even comparable to the BLM movement. One is about demanding human rights and the other is about being a lunatic hyporcritical asshole.

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Hi, I just found an amazing tiktok series of a guy explaining the basics of capitalism, socialism, and communism and I just thought I'd share it because I thought it was a great simple summary.

Part 1: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZS79oyov/

Part 2: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZS7xBA5x/

Part 3: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZS7xeyNx/

Part 4: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZS7xJ1eh/

Part 5: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZS7xF14g/

Part 6: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZS7xeWv1/

That's his account's link, go give him a follow.

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