the-real-seebs:

vastderp:

reallyfoxnews:

Fox News contributor Erik Rush on the Boston Marathon bombings: kill all Muslims.

Rush is currently engaged in a Twitter war with some rightfully upset people, doling out lovely responses like “make me skank,” and “or what, bitch?”

Lovely.

dump this nazi muffin in an unemployment line tomorrow along with all the people he looked down on yesterday.

I mean, yes, Fox News and all, but is it possible that he left a terminal logged in and someone’s just trying to make him look bad? I am having a really hard time imagining a person who (1) can form grammatical sentences (2) thinks “Yes, they’re evil. Let’s kill them all.” is a response to… well, much of anything.

nope, it’s him. he’s still digging, too:

he’s a notorious psycho who recently predicted Obama will have Christians declared mentally ill and ship them off to asylums.

reallyfoxnews:

Fox News contributor Erik Rush on the Boston Marathon bombings: kill all Muslims.

Rush is currently engaged in a Twitter war with some rightfully upset people, doling out lovely responses like “make me skank,” and “or what, bitch?”

Lovely.

dump this nazi muffin in an unemployment line tomorrow along with all the people he looked down on yesterday.

Reblogging and adding this:

CNN have a habit of being pretty scummy in general, they did some racist bullshit a few years ago:

The headline has nothing to do with what the research actually indicated, it was totally unnecessary and gross. I wrote them to complain and nothing happened. These days they’re posting ads disguised as news headlines and supporting rapists in non-editorial pieces. They piss me right off.

subterran replied to your photo: cringing so hard for her right now, i can’t lie….

“i never knew for white people gender was such a big deal” i am going to vomit everywhere

yeah gg thealienthatisalsoadinosaur, you sure showed those transpeople of color with their disproportionately high murder rate comparative even to white transpeople that they don’t actually exist or matter.

how do you walk after shooting yourself over and over again in the foot like that? doesn’t it hurt?

OH, BUT IT’S ALL IN THE NAME OF FANDOM.

This land is your land, this land is my land,
From California to the New York Islands
From the Redwood Forest, to the Gulf Stream waters
This land belongs to you and me…

All right
Yeah

They are the judge and the jury
Yeah the ones who will decide
Who gets burned out in a hurry
Who can stay and must fly
You will find them out in Michigan
Find them in Berlin
You will find them everywhere
There’s people wearing different skin

Judge and the jury, yeah!

This land is my land
But that’s where the music stops
What about this land is your land
It must have fell off and got lost
They sing this land is my land
Sing it loud and clear, well
This land is your land
As long as you’re from here, all right

Judge and the Jury, oh yeah!

You can meet in secret twice a week
And shave off all your hair
You can dress up like it’s trick or treat
Get a big tattoo somewhere
But if you think that makes you a mover
If you think that makes you strong
We got a jailhouse full of losers 
Who found out before too long

They ain’t the Judge and the Jury

This land is my land
But that’s where the music stops
What about this land is your land
It must have fell off and got lost
They sing 
This land is my land
Sing it loud and clear well
This land is your land
As long as you’re from here, all right

You better not let the sun go down on you in this town boy.
You’d better make tracks and haul ass out of here!

The Judge and the Jury, oh yeah!

They say
This land is my land
But that’s where the music stops
What about this land is your land
It must have fell off and got lost
They sing 
This land is my land
Sing it loud and clear well
This land is your land
As long as you’re from here, all right

The Judge and the Jury, oh yeah!
The Judge and the Jury, oh yeah!

This land is my land
This land is my land
This land is my land
This land is my land

the-real-seebs:

vastderp:

CONCLUSION: I’m only ten pages into the book and this shit reads like stormfront fanfiction. Like somebody nominally turned the racial power structure upside down but somehow left the culture the same (there’s an anti-black slur that causes chaos. why? why would PoC have that reaction to a term the author has claimed in interviews is a compliment?)

This one, I can answer. You are looking at the face of evil.

This is not fiction, in any meaningful sense. And I don’t think it’s a satirical inversion; I think it’s an extrapolation from what she believes is true now to where she thinks it’s going. So the reason she writes PoC as freaking out about the use of a word which is complimentary is that it’s what she thinks happens now.

As is usually the case, the powerful lies are based on a thing which is nearly-true. Consider the n-word, and the ways in which different people use it. Consider that very few people consider it a “slur” for me to call me spouse a “faggot”. So it’s not totally unthinkable to imagine a term which is taken very differently depending on who says it.

Problem is, our writer has not considered the degree to which that relies on social status cues and the implicit unity of marginalization. The trick of using a slur within a group as a mark of unity doesn’t work when it wouldn’t be taken as a slur backed by institutional power coming from the outside. It’s easy to agree that “honkie” is probably a racial slur, and I have plenty pale skin, but if someone else with pale skin called me a “honkie” to express unity, I’d be completely mystified, because that makes no sense at all.

But underneath it all? You are reading something written by someone to whom it is realistic to write PoC reacting with irrational violence because that is what she thinks the world is like. She already imagines that the complaints made by PoC are an attempt to cement their far-superior social status and power over the marginalized and endangered white minority.

Normally, the veneer of hatred over the fear is pretty thick, but in this case, it’s terror porn; it’s written to try to scare people into sharing her fear of a black planet, without any attempt at redeeming literary value.

you know what prompted this book?

When she was a kid she had full, “bee-stung” lips, big green eyes and curly hair and some dickhead compared her to a black person.

BEHOLD RACISM’S TRUE VICTIM!!!!1!

As for black folks as an audience, she is skeptical that there is such a thing:

“Conceivably, if the book had not reached the African-American community of readers, if such a category still exists, perhaps there might be some backlash.”
-Victoria Foyt

Eden, what a nice name. Elements of innocence, cooperation, and harmony. A simpler time, before the fall! I wonder if someone’s going to fuck up the paradise and get kicked out of their gated community and end up surrounded by a barely human jungle tribe!

subtle cues that we should be hostile toward the dark-skinned characters: check!

we’re going to be seeing ”them” in italics a lot in this novel, aren’t we?

oh, can you imagine? white people! living in the sun! all together with no dark-skinned people at all! wow!

uppity haughty bitch has AA-sounding name.

page 10: coal confirmed for this story’s N-word. the main character has used it 4 or 5 times already. here our white-pride heroine lashes out at the uppity black coworker we were told to see as a bitch before she even walked through the door, calls her the N-word, and a room full of PoC flips the fuck out.

how is this different from the way things are today, again?

riiight, the white girl is the victim this time. because of sci fi.

ATTACKED BY A MOB OF LURCHING ENRAGED BLACK PEOPLE!!!! JUST BECAUSE SHE WAS WHITE!!!! THIS IS JUST LIKE IN MY SUBURBAN GATED COMMUNITY NIGHTMARES!!!!!!! THANKS OBAMA!!!!!

CONCLUSION: I’m only ten pages into the book and this shit reads like stormfront fanfiction. Like somebody nominally turned the racial power structure upside down but somehow left the culture the same (there’s an anti-black slur that causes chaos. why? why would PoC have that reaction to a term the author has claimed in interviews is a compliment?)

It’s like Foyt did the bare minimum required to facilitate a whacked out white girl persecution fantasy.

I am intensely uncomfortable.

Look at the implications of the “reverse racism” scenario we’re being fed here. Is what Foyt thinks black people are actually like in today’s racial atmosphere? Does Foyt really think PoC seethe with fury and barely-concealed cruelty, hating white people for being white, constantly on the verge of explosion?

That is some Fox News shit right there.

“Half man/half jaguar” ARE YOU SHITTING ME

When Eden unwittingly compromises her father’s secret biological experiment, perhaps mankind’s only hope, she is cast out — into the last patch of rainforest and the arms of a powerful beast-man she believes is her enemy, despite her overwhelming attraction to him. To survive, Eden must change — but only if she can redefine her ideas of beauty — and of love.

Her love interest, Bramford, is a Coal. So yeah, this is about an interracial relationship in a post-apocalyptic world. Or more narrowly, if you take out the question of race, a Beauty and the Beast story in which both parties must find self-acceptance (no story spoilers) before they can discover true love.

POWERFUL BEAST-MAN

WHY IS SHE THE ‘BEAUTY’ AFTER WE’VE BEEN TOLD AD NAUSEUM THAT SHE’S SUPPOSED TO BE UGLY AND MARGINALIZED

WHY IS HE A ‘BEAST’

WHY IS THE BLACK GUY LITERALLY DESCRIBED AS A JUNGLE-DWELLING ANIMAL

i almost want to read this thing, for the same reason that i pick scabs and look at photos of gangrene

IF ONLY THERE WAS A POORLY JUSTIFIED YOUNG ADULT SCI DYSTOPIA NOVEL WITH AN ASS PULL PLOT ABOUT WHITE PEOPLE BEING HORRIFICALLY OPPRESSED BY BLACK PEOPLE IN THE FUTURE AND FORCED TO WEAR BLACKFACE WITH BRIGHT RED LIPS

MAYBE THEY COULD FILM A PROMO FOR THE BOOK WHERE THE MAIN CHARACER WEARS BLACKFACE AND A BAD BLACK WIG WHILE SHE EXPLAINS THAT WHITE PEOPLE ARE DOOMED!

MAN JUST THINK ABOUT IT FOR A SEC

THINK HOW COOL AND GROUNDBREAKING IT WOULD BE

A STORY WHERE THE MAIN CHARACTER IS—GET THIS—BLONDE AND CAUCASIAN. WOW, THAT’S TURNING RACE PRETENSIONS ON ITS HEAD RIGHT THERE. I WONDER IF SHE’S STRAIGHT TOO? SHE IS? YOWZA, SOMEONE GET THIS AUTHOR A NOBEL PRIZE!

MAYBE IT COULD BE ABOUT HOW WHITE PEOPLE ’PEARLS’ ARE ON THE VERGE OF EXTINCTION BECAUSE THEY ARE NOT DARK SKINNED ENOUGH, AND SO THEY ARE SYSTEMATICALLY CULLED BY THE EVIL DARK RACE ‘COALS’ 

YEP

WE REALLY NEED A STORY LIKE THAT

IT COULD BE ABOUT HOW RACISM IS BAD AND STUFF

no seriously we don’t need this fucking book to explain bigotry you outdated asshole your young audience has the internet, is ten times smarter than you, and is happy to sit your honk ass down and explain race relations to you and they’ll do it in one tenth of the words you needed to tell your shitty racist story

ioudasiscari:

vastderp:

In case anyone who follows me is still on the fence about the Arkh Project, here’s the person behind it all.

“Arkh is a grassroots project created not by a major company, or even an indie company, but by individual people who would like to see more representation for the underrepresented.” - the Arkh Project Tumblr

“At least I’m not fat.” - Individual Person Who Would Like To See More Representation for the Underrepresented

“fucking retarded” -  Individual Person Who Would Like To See More Representation for the Underrepresented

Okay say what? Like I’m past the point of being surprised that people do things like champion one cause and then turn around and shit on another cause.

But are we seriously sure that this is the same person? Given that this isn’t even a case of “person supports Cause A but shits on Cause B,” some of this is in direct contradiction of the stuff that’s said on the Arkh page. This is “person supports Cause A and then shits on Cause A.”

All questions of faith in humanity aside––we’re going to pretend that that doesn’t exist right now––this shit don’t even make logical sense.

Yep. Riley, GNN, and smallblackangel are all the same person (link also explains some of the stuff wrong with the arkh project itself).

http://www.journalfen.net/community/unfunny_fandom/18490.html#comments here’s another blog about riley/gnn/sba and the arkh project.

It’s not really a secret; they’ve been LJ-infamous for being a racist/transphobic bully for years. The current excuse is “they have turned over a new leaf” but 2009 isn’t that long ago and they are still doing the same shit right here on tumblr.

they tell people to commit suicide and recently doxxed a minor in retaliation for offending them.

“I simple NO LONGER GIVE A SHIT ABOUT OFFENDED WHITE DISABLED PEOPLE. I IN FACT HOPE THAT YOU FEEL BAD ABOUT YOUR WHITE SUPREMACY UPHOLDING ASSES ALL. DAY. LONG.” - Riley (post now deleted)

Here’s a post about some of the things wrong with the project itself: http://sf-drama.livejournal.com/3330212.html

http://sf-drama.livejournal.com/3225031.html and here’s a nice breakdown of Riley’s behavior immediately before Arkh. check out page 2 of the comments, they show up and apologize, and while their posts are gone you can still read all the replies.

and here’s riley calling someone a “native cunt” a few months ago on her dumbthingswhitepplsay tumblr:

i don’t even know what to say about this one except “holy shit”:

Riley supports Cause A but only for PoC, and even then only for certain PoC. Transfolk and non-PoC disabled can get fucked. You can follow their tumblr and see this stuff for yourself before it gets deleted.

In case anyone who follows me is still on the fence about the Arkh Project, here’s the person behind it all.

“Arkh is a grassroots project created not by a major company, or even an indie company, but by individual people who would like to see more representation for the underrepresented.” - the Arkh Project Tumblr

“At least I’m not fat.” - Individual Person Who Would Like To See More Representation for the Underrepresented

“fucking retarded” -  Individual Person Who Would Like To See More Representation for the Underrepresented

mannequinsandmixtapes:

BLACK STACEY - Saul Williams

one of the most intense and ass-kicking hip hop songs i’ve ever heard.

From Wikipedia:

Don’t Be a Sucker! is an anti-racist propaganda film produced by the US War Department in 1947. An American who has been listening to a racist rabble-rouser is warned off by a naturalized Hungarian immigrant, who explains to him how racist demagogy allowed the Nazis to rise to power in Germany, and warns Americans not to fall for similar demagogy propagated by American racists. The film was made to make the case for the desegregation of the United States armed forces.

I really like this short. Especially this part:

“Here in America, it’s not a question of whether we tolerate minorities. America is minorities—and that means you and me.”

It’s really depressing to see 1947 smack 2012 down for ongoing right wing bullshit and have every word still apply 100%, but it’s also oddly reassuring to know that people were saying this stuff even that long ago, and the message remains every bit as fresh.

MITT ROMNEY ARE YOU A SECRET DEMOCRAT 

IS THIS A MASSIVE TROLL ON YOUR OWN BACKERS

IS THAT WHAT THIS HAS ALL BEEN ABOUT

http://jezebel.com/5945024/did-mitt-romney-seriously-just-wear-brownface-to-appear-on-univision