police have killed more americans this decade than the iraq war.
if you support the police, you are sympathetic to domestic terrorists.
templeofanubis-deactivated20170 asked:
What the fucks happening in Ferguson?
syllethx replied:
Alright, i’m gonna sit down and basically explain the situation in this ask so everyone of my followers knows why i’m so pissed.
Michael Brown, a 17 - 18 year old african american boy was unlawfully shot (8-10 times supposedly) by police in St Louis, Missouri on saturday, august 9th, 2014. He was unarmed, and had done nothing to attract suspicion other than the fact that he was black. His body was left in the street for 4 hours. (beware: somewhat graphic image linked)
There are several claims from witnesses (see: Dorian Johnson’s account and video [HIGHLY RECOMMEND READING UP ON HIS ACCOUNT, ITS VERY SPECIFIC] — Brown’s friend who experienced the situation first hand, La’Toya Cash and Phillip Walker— Ferguson residents nearby the incident), that fall together in generally close claims. However, the only one who’s claim seems out of place is the police officer’s who shot Brown. Who, by the way, is put off on paid administrative leave AND who’s name remained under anonymity for his safety (However, attorney Benjamin Crump is looking for a way to force release his name). He claims that Brown began to wrestle the officer for his gun and tried attacking him after he told Brown and his friend Dorian Johnson (22) to “get the f*ck on the sidewalk”.
According to Johnson, after a minor confrontation on the officer’s part where he grabbed Brown by the neck and then by the shirt, the officer pulled his gun on Brown and shot him at point blank range on the right side of his body. Brown and Johnson were able to get away briefly and started running. However, Brown was shot in the back, supposedly disabling him from getting very far. He turned around with his arms in the air and said “I don’t have a gun, stop shooting!” By this point, Brown and the officer were face to face as the cop shot him several times in the face and chest until he was finally dead. Johnson ran to his apartment and by the sound of his account, seemingly had some sort of panic attack. Later he emerged from his home to see Brown still laying in the streets. People were gathered with their cellphones, screaming at the police.
According to msnbc, the police refuse to interview Johnson at all, despite his amazing courage to come forward. They didn’t wanna hear it. They only listened to the cop’s account of it all and were vague with the media on what they thought happened. They’ve also refused to commit to a timeline in releasing autopsy results and other investigation information.
Numerous rumors are sweeping around such as Brown stealing candy from a QuickTrip, the store he emerged from calling the cops on him, Brown reaching for a gun, Brown attacking the cop first, ect. But these have all been debunked. (I know a lot of these have been debunked, but im having a hard time finding sources. if anyone could help out and link some legit ones id be SO grateful)
The event in and of itself was terrible, but now it has escalated beyond belief. Around 100 or more people, mostly black, went to the police station to protest peacefully. Things quickly turned bad as martial law got involved and authorities were bringing in K9s, tanks, heavy artillery, ect. The heavy police presence only made things worse as riots began to break out and looting and vandalism started. [ x ] [ x ] [ x ]
Now, as of very recently, the media has been banned from Ferguson. There is also a No-Fly zone above Ferguson for the reason of “ TO PROVIDE A SAFE ENVIRONMENT FOR LAW ENFORCEMENT ACTIVITIES ” as said on the Federal Aviation Commission’s website. Cop cars are lined up on the borders to prevent people from entering/leaving. Media outlets are being threatened with arrest. It completely violates our amendments and everything.
It’s becoming increasingly scary and difficult to find out whats going on over there. I’m afraid this is all the information I have, though. If anybody else knows anything about the situation, please feel free to add on or correct any mistakes i’ve made as i’m no expert on writing these things.
And as a personal favor, i’d really appreciate anyone to give this a reblog in order to spread the word. I think it’s a shame that this is going on in our own country yet so few people know about it. Help me make this topic huge and get this as much attention as possible.
Pay Attention to Ferguson
Please pay attention to what is happening in Ferguson right now.
The people of Ferguson are staging a peaceful protest regarding the unlawful, tragic murder of Mike Brown, and the police are responding with rubber bullets (one man has been injured so far) and tear gas, calling the protesters “fucking animals.”
The police are wearing full military gear. They are responding with absolute violence.
The police are trying to cover up their vicious, unconstitutional actions, telling the news crews/journalists to leave the scene of the protests so they can “clean up.” They’ve completely sealed off Ferguson. THEY’VE TRAPPED THE PROTESTERS (and regular people who would like to go home) INSIDE AND ARE TRYING TO FORCE THE MEDIA OUT. They are harming and threatening to arrest journalists who do not comply.
The Ferguson PD have created an illegal police state. This is, by all means, unconstitutional. BUT IT IS NOT A NEW OCCURRENCE. If you are shocked by this display of police brutality, then you must have missed the last 50 years of anti-black history. And the saddest part? This is not the worst case of it by any means. I beg you, please, pay attention to what is happening and commit it to memory.
Here is a petition to change the current laws and stop the police from abusing their power. I urge you to sign it. And I urge to you share your outrage over what is happening. Tell your legislators, your communities, your social media cohorts. SHARE IT BEFORE THE POLICE AND MEDIA COVER IT UP.
The officer who murdered Mike Brown, the disgusting pig who shot this boy 9 times, is on PAID LEAVE right now. THAT SHOULDN’T EVEN BE AN OPTION.
The peaceful protesters of Ferguson are being gassed and shot at for seeking justice. PLEASE DON’T IGNORE THEIR STRUGGLE.
PAY ATTENTION.
(Most links are tweets, as twitter was the fastest and most up-to-date source for information re: Ferguson.)
EDIT:
Here’s a link to an LA Times article, summarizing the events of the evening protest.
this doesn’t excuse it
I think we’re all pretty well aware of the tragedies happening in our world not only right now but almost constantly. we know. it’s terrible
but does that give you the right to say any shit that you want and do any shit that you want under the guise that “well there’s shittier things happening in the world so…”? no it doesn’t. it doesn’t work that way
he’s so hung up on his god damn high horse that he won’t stop using a word that’s not only offensive but harmful to a large group of people
keep digging that grave, jon
How disappointing.
wow i love how instead of saying sorry and acknowledging what he did was wrong he turns the subject and says WE are wrong. wow
(jontron kills someone)
lawyer: what do you have to say in your defense
jontron: today, TEN people got killed in isreal
“umm i can say a word that’s harmful to a large majority of people because PEOPLE in ISRAEL are DYING you guys.”
shut up with your patchy beard-ass, ugly neckbeard looking garbage piece of shit self, haul your ass out to the dump and live in it you absolute fucking piece of human waste
omegaleveltelepathsdoitbetter:
no i mean it. the yin yang symbol is a religious taoist symbol. you cannot use it unless you are taoist and you can’t really be taoist unless you are of some form of chinese descent.
there are people in mainland china being prosecuted and being victims of severe police brutality right now for being taoist and using the yin yang symbol, stop acting like it’s fucking nothing.
( yes some of these are specifically about falun gong but it has deep roots in taoism and actual taoists are being targeted as well but there are less western articles in it)
Frequent Goyische SJ Micro-Aggressions Seen on Tumblr
- Tokenism - See every post reblogging the Neturei Karta as the “real” Jews
- Oppression Olympics/Derailing - “Who cares about those Jews who were shot up in the museum in Belgium when the Palestinians are being oppressed so badly in Gaza?”
- Identity Policing - “Jews aren’t an ethnic group, they’re a religion”
- Silencing - “You can never call me anti-semitic, I’m anti-zionist and that doesn’t mean the same thing as anti-semitic.”
- Speaking Over Us - “Jews are totally okay with Holocaust comparisons.”
- Erasure - See that list circulating tumblr listing things forbidden by the bible that people supposedly don’t think are forbidden anymore, completely ignoring that the Tanakh (which Christians adapted into the “New Testament”) is still valid in Judaism.
- Gaslighting - “You Jews made this up because you control the media!”
- Victim Blaming - “Do you think so many bad things would’ve happened to the Jews throughout history if they didn’t deserve it?”
- The Privileged Accusing the Oppressed of being Privileged (with bonus oppression olympics, quote is word-for-word from a white Catholic blogger)- “People can sit there and say that Jewish Americans are victims of hate crimes more than anyone else, and this is ALWAYS brought up whenever I discuss anti-Arab racism in the United States (I wonder why!!!), but you know what? There is absolutely a connection between capital and social standing in having the ability, or dare I say privilege, to report hate crimes.”
- Feigned Ignorance - See how few notes there are on posts depicting anti-semitism? Jewish bloggers frequently complain about no one reblogging them. Because they don’t get reblogged except by other Jews.
- Being a Bad Ally - The exception to the feigned ignorance is, of course, the frequent pile-ons whenever a CELEBRITY is revealed to be anti-semitic. Otherwise, we mostly get ignored. Don’t think we don’t notice. Gary Oldman being an asshole doesn’t compare to 17,000 people holding an anti-semitic march through the streets of Paris. That never seems to go viral, despite all the video.
#NotAllGoyim do these things, however.
Feel free to submit more examples.
#NotAllGoyim is a glorious tag
I would like to also add
- re: Erasure - besides that eye-roll inducing Christian bullshit, it also encompasses the denial of aspects of our people, be it our inherent diversity, or our complex self-identity, or our own history. Removing us from our own histories, and our many positive contributions to the history of the world, is common.
- Denial - like it says on the tin, the outright denial and/or minimizing of the fact that antisemitism exits, that it can and does get violent, and that it’s on the rise. Denying or downplaying specific antisemitic events counts too
Seriously, if you do these things, I will unfollow you and demand you unfollow me.
no one should identify as a feminist because one was “misandrist” to you that one time but it’s perfectly fine for you to identify as an anti-feminist even though a proud anti-feminist shot 14 women simply for studying engineering, right?
*autistic ppl getting killed by their parents and relatives*
allistic people: *crickets chirping*
*autistic person online makes a headcanon about a character being autistic*
allistic people: ok wait just a goddamn second here
Anonymous asked:
Have you ever watched someone with low functioning autism desperately try to communicate an idea they clearly understand, but can't find a way to get their point across clearly? And watch them get gradually more and more frustrated as they fail to accomplish what they feel in their mind to be a simple task, to communicate a simple concept? When people with autistic children say they "hate autism", these times are often what they truly hate: Watching their child struggle for control.
snakefashion replied:
like i think you are grossly underestimating how much allistic parents truly hate their autistic children
i’m sorry but you’re just wrong parents that hate those times say “i’m sad we have trouble communicating” and not “i hate autism”
if a parent loved their child then they would love their child’s autism because a person cannot be separated from their autism and while autism may sometimes make things harder for people, it is also one of the things that makes those people who they are
Also lol at anon for thinking that it’s impossible for autistic people to ever consider that something might be difficult and frustrating for us. Because Jfc, some of us are nonverbal all the time and some of us are nonverbal sometimes and even when we’re not, communication difficulties are enormously frustrating and yes, we understand that autism can be hard. I am Autistic and being autistic is difficult sometimes and being misunderstood hurts and having people think that they know what you need hurts.
Allistic parents who say they hate autism don’t just use these words. They show it through their actions when they abuse and kill us. They do so when they administer bleach enemas and chelation and hyperbaric oxygen treatments to “cure” us because Jenny McCarthy told them it’d work.
I’m pretty sure parents don’t hate their autistic children
like, what the actual fuck for even suggesting that
Really? Really?
Read this link (tw for followers on vicious, vile hate for what being autistic entails). I’m particularly interested in the line that says “I would change him in a heartbeat.I would sell my soul to the devil to get rid of his autism. I want him to have the exact personality he has now minus the autism.”
Which to me fucking screams “No, you don’t love your child, because you’re wishing for something impossible.” Being autistic is a part of your kid’s personality. It makes them who they are, and wishing that away means you are literally wishing for a different kid. Not just a not-autistic version of your kid, because that is fucking impossible. But an entirely different person.
Here, have some more “I hate autism” sentiment.
Autism does sucks alot! We should be painting our nails, putting on makeup, playing with Barbie dolls, instead my daughter screams and cries all day and plays with her feces!!
So basically, instead of trying to figure out why those things are happening (and I guarantee you that your daughter is in some sort of discomfort that you are ignoring), you’re going to whine about the child you should have had. Because you clearly deserve a better one, amirite? (that’s sarcasm at the end,by the way).
And I already mentioned other ways in which allistic parents show how much they hate their kids, but let me give you some concrete examples.
The use of chelation for autistic children.
How about these parents who locked up their autistic kid in a dog cage?
And the above example is the person who founded the Autism Science Foundation. So, you know. Still doing harm there, clearly.
There was also a segment of the Dr. Phil show where a mother claimed that she hated her autistic daughter. I can’t watch the link again myself because it makes me feel ill, but I think it’s this one.
So yeah, foreoneandall, maybe you should, you know, listen to autistic people when we say that some of the people who are supposed to be taking care of us (our parents, our guardians) are the ones we are most in danger of. Yes, allistic parents hate their autistic children. And not every single one if them is going to say that they do, but the vast majority show it in the way that they treat their kids.
When you hate one of the things that makes an autistic person who they are, well, yes, you hate them. That would be like saying “my son is gay, how sad. I wish he were who he was without being gay”. That isn’t wishing for the same kid with the same personality and interests. That’s wishing for a whole different kid. Being autistic is as essential to me as being queer. I wouldn’t change a thing about either, except how society treats us.
*EDIT: i added in transphobic and homophobic jokes to the list of shit pewdiepie has done
i’ve actually liked pewdiepie when i saw his channel the first time, but that changed. it always pissed me off how he never took the game seriously, so i started watching cry’s gameplays, because cry always takes the story seriously and he lets you to do the same. over the time i stopped consider pewdiepie’s jokes funny and now i just… don’t like him. not anymore.
for everyone asking why pewdiepie is a bad person:
this sums it up pretty well