no offense but i need everyone to stop saying that “we survived” bad presidents before. like, i get it, the country has weathered people like andrew jackson and ronald reagan and will probably weather trump. but when you say “we survived” andrew jackson? tell that to the 4000 (of 16000) cherokee who died on the trail of tears. “we survived” ronald reagan? tell that to the 650,000 americans who have died of aids– a national health crisis which reagan refused to even recognize?
you know who “survived” presidents like trump? people who never had to be afraid of them in the first place.
I’ve heard some of the most “liberal,” yellow dog Democrat, “God Bless the Whole World NO EXCEPTIONS” bumper-sticker displaying, safetypin-wearing white women use that same “experiment” line at the top left regarding PRESENT DAY school deseg, so not only am I sharing this comic, I’d like to state with 100% sincerity those are words coupled with actions that are every bit as racist as Trump’s comments about Black neighborhoods. Or, hell, even his keeping black people out of his properties in the ‘70s. When people who consider themselves good and progressive stop making exceptions for themselves so that they can practice racism (against children, no less), maybe – MAYBE – we can start getting somewhere.
As a future teacher, no lies detected. You would be surprised how even so called educated progressive white parents when it comes to these topics can be as nasty as any other racist, even when it is targeted at children. You have had parents literally sue schools for allowing more diverse populations in (aka. Blacks and Hispanics) because it will ruin their perfect schools (it doesn’t, these kids get a better education and the white kids already see no negative change what-so-ever, if anything they become more culturally aware). John Oliver did a great piece on this topic.
And because it’s the norm that so called educated progressive white parents participate in it, it somehow doesn’t count as appalling racism – it’s “good parenting.”
When the director of The Ghost in the Shell calls Scarlett Johansson “the best of her generation” what he actually means is she’s the most popular.
Only white actresses were considered for The Ancient One.
A Chinese actor with 15 years of martial arts experience auditioned for Iron First and was told he had to be the villain to a white hero.
An Indigenous actress was told to her face that she couldn’t audition for Tiger Lily because they didn’t want the character to be Native anymore.
So until Hollywood stops discriminating at casting calls and allows people of color their fair shot in this business I don’t want to see anymore white people being held up as the best in the business in defense of whitewashing.
The Ghost in the Shell Live Action Trailer is out. You can watch it here. I am not posting it on my blog, because personally I do not want that train-wreck anywhere near me. I watched it and that was enough to make me throw up a little in my mouth.
Now that the trailer is out, we know that the movie still takes place in “Japan” (or more specifically, as fans will know, New Port City). Which begs the question, why would the Japanese Government be manufacturing and using white cyborg bodies as opposed to Japanese ones? Also, why does no one in this trailer ever speak Japanese? Ah but of course we must suspend our disbelief to once again accept that white people can play around and have important roles anywhere in the world. There are no boundaries for white people. They can be anything they want to be.
Look. There’s no other way to phrase this. The movie is hollow. The setting, the characters, everything feels like the production team took the surface-level details of GitS and played around with it to their liking. The setting is a bland, superficial, and fetishized portrayal of Japan. Scarlett Johansson roams and stand around with confused, zoned-out faces, that screams ‘where am I? who am I?’ like she’s on a journey of self-discovery.
Actually wait, scratch that. It’s not like she’s on a journey of self-discovery. She is on a journey of self-discovery; it’s clear from the trailer that the main plotline is Kusanagi Motoko – no wait I’m sorry, THE MAJOR, learning more about where she came from and how she was created. Which is fair enough, since that has always been something explored in the GitS franchise – but it feels incredibly artificial and uninspiring when you remember that Scarlet Johannson has played this role multiple times. In Lost in Translation she’s a woman who’s trying to find her direction in life by experiencing Tokyo’s nightlife, in Lucy she’s a genetically enhanced woman running around Taiwan. GitS is basically part 3 in this trilogy (and one can only hope that this is a trilogy and not a fucking quintet) where this time, ScarJo is a cyborg in Japan. It’s a white woman finding herself in a ~foreign, exotic, asian~ environment.
Now some will say that I am overreacting and that this is just typecasting. Yes, it is typecasting, but when this typecasting often results in a hackneyed, superficial depiction of East Asia, its cultures, and its peoples, I have the right to criticize it and call it what it is – racist.
A traditionally dressed Muslim woman was set on fire in NYC.
A woman dressed in traditional Muslim clothing was set on fire by an attacker Saturday night in Midtown Manhattan, theNew York Daily News reports. Her blouse caught fire, but she was able to put it out herself and is reportedly physically unharmed after the attack.
The suspect allegedly lit the woman’s shirt on fire as she stood outside the Valentino store on Fifth Avenue shortly after 9 p.m., the Daily News reports, before walking away from the scene without speaking to her.
The NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force is reportedly investigating the attack to determine if it was an anti-Muslim hate crime. This comes after two Muslim women and their children were attacked in Brooklyn just last week.
I’m not pledging to a damn thing until we fix this country.
Are you fucking kidding me?! This is NOT okay! Holy fuck
Anyways the most savage joke Andy Samberg’s ever done was that one time at the spirit awards the year all these racist ding dongs werent bothering to pronounce Quvenzhane Wallis’s name right and he spent the whole night hosting it pronouncing her name perfectly (including but not limited to opening his speech with saying that she’s one of his all-time favorite performers) and seemingly obliviously calling Paul Rudd “Paool Rood”
Tonight members of Students for a Free Tibet are protesting cultural erasure in the film Doctor Strange outside of AMC Village 7 in Manhattan. The major criticism is the casting of Tilda Swinton as the Tibetan character The Ancient One.
Also the link’s picture is misleading, those are random fans not Tibetans lol. If you want a real picture, Badheytsang is SFT’s Campaign director, him and office manager Jigme Yama are leading the protest, like and share the post on Facebook!
People who are boycotting Doctor Strange are using the money they would have spent on a movie ticket to donate to Students for a Free Tibet, a nonprofit organization that works in solidarity with the Tibetan people in our struggle for freedom and independence.
Two things: 1.) Congress is trash and I cant wait to vote them out because we do not need a Congress that consistently fails their people and 2.) STOP ADOPTING BABIES FROM OVERSEAS IF YOU AREN’T GOING TO FUCKING TAKE CARE OF THEM. EMOTIONALLY, PHYSICALLY, LEGALLY. IF YOU AREN’T GOING TO TAKE CARE OF A BABY, THEN DON’T TRY TO RAISE ONE. ASIAN CHILDREN ARE NOT EXOTIC SOUVENIRS, SO STOP TREATING THEM LIKE THEY ARE.
The foster care system, the justice system, and the US government has failed this man.
I’m putting this out there as a person who has worked in and with the foster system. In particular, I’ve worked with it in California. But here is shit I saw that’s relevant to this article:
I’m 500% behind everything @geek-baits said, especially the all-caps. And the following is why.
Some people don’t realise that there are a lot of kids in the foster care system who are undocumented (or, “illegal,” except being a person in a country isn’t fucking illegal), and there are a ridiculous amount of reasons for this. Here are some of the reasons my students (in an all-foster youth school) gave me for being undocumented:
1. Same as this man. They were adopted by people who then didn’t finish processing their paperwork. This was most commonly Southeast/East Asian children, but it also applied to African children.
2. Some of them were with their also undocumented families. And then they were removed from their families because of complaints of neglect/abuse by neighbours, schools, people LIVING in their community (who weren’t really OF their community), etc. Their families would then be taken in by ICE and deported while they (and some of their siblings) got tossed into foster care. Most of these kids were Latin American.
3. Some children were brought in via trafficking. I had two particular girls who were brought over from Africa (one from Congo, one from Sudan), didn’t have their paperwork processed at all (by their adoptive “parents”), and they were removed from the homes once it was determined that they were being abused. (Both girls, however, told me that nothing happened other than removing them from the home. Their white “parents” were never held accountable, and their files corroborated this along with previous social workers.)
Here’s another fun bit of information: A lot of those kids, especially in groups 1 and 2, don’t realise that they’re undocumented until much later in life. They go to apply for their first job (aged 16+), only to realise they don’t have a social security number; they go to do things that require being a citizen only to realise they can’t and, at that point, are put into a dangerous situation (being deported is a dangerous situation).
It’s gross, it’s disgusting, and shit’s gotta give. We can’t keep doing this to people, and this is disproportionately affecting people of colour.
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