anyone else just hollowed out over the fact that the modern replacement for beanie babies by the same company are like these bug eyed big headed lumpy soulless fuckin
i get so upset any time i go in a gas station or travel anywhere its literally only the eyes if the eyes were normal id like them but god theyre so ugly
One of the white participants left the session and went back to her desk, upset at receiving (what appeared to the training team as) sensitive and diplomatic feedback on how some of her statements had impacted several of the people of color in the room. […] [Later] her friends wanted to alert us to the fact that she was in poor health and “might be having a heart attack.” Upon questioning from us, they clarified that they meant this literally. These co-workers were sincere in their fear that the young woman might actually die as a result of the feedback.
All of this is going to feel very familiar to anyone who’s blogged about racism in fandom.
“White fragility functions as a form of bullying: ‘I am going to make it so miserable for you to confront me — no matter how diplomatically you try to do so — that you will simply back off, give up, and never raise the issue again.’ White fragility keeps people of color in line and “in their place.” In this way, it is a powerful form of white racial control. Social power is not fixed; it is constantly challenged and needs to be maintained.”
One of the white participants left the session and went back to her desk, upset at receiving (what appeared to the training team as) sensitive and diplomatic feedback on how some of her statements had impacted several of the people of color in the room. […] [Later] her friends wanted to alert us to the fact that she was in poor health and “might be having a heart attack.” Upon questioning from us, they clarified that they meant this literally. These co-workers were sincere in their fear that the young woman might actually die as a result of the feedback.
All of this is going to feel very familiar to anyone who’s blogged about racism in fandom.
“White fragility functions as a form of bullying: ‘I am going to make it so miserable for you to confront me — no matter how diplomatically you try to do so — that you will simply back off, give up, and never raise the issue again.’ White fragility keeps people of color in line and “in their place.” In this way, it is a powerful form of white racial control. Social power is not fixed; it is constantly challenged and needs to be maintained.”
but the USA quickly found $16.8 TRILLION to bail out banks – from a financial fiasco that they themselves created. Those banks were giving out tons of subprime loans – targeting minorities through their churches causing 25% of African Americans to default on their mortgages.
“This is a big wake-up call to any incumbent on the ballot in November,” said Mary Anne Marsh, a Boston-based Democratic strategist. “We’ve been in a change election cycle for years. But Trump may have opened the door for all these young candidates, women, people of color, because voters want the antithesis of him.”
L’Oréal Paris has dropped its first transgender model from a campaign after she faced criticism for remarks about institutional racism.
The beauty brand said Friday on Twitter that the comments made by Munroe Bergdorf were “at odds” with its values and had decided to end the campaign with her.
Some on social accused the transgender model of being racist, while others applauded the stance that she took against institutional racism and said that L’Oréal had gone against the diversity that it purported to support.
In case anyone is wondering, this was super easy to make. There’s 35 links and I just googled ‘coping with trauma through fiction’ and linked most of the results on the first 4 pages. All of these just about writing, not even about all the other forms art can take. Antis, creating art about trauma to deal with your own past is a thing. It’s a well-documented thing supported by everybody from Harvard University to mommy bloggers. There’s books full of prompts about how to get started writing about your trauma. There’s conferences and lectures encouraging survivors to cope with their experiences and tell their stories through art, including fictionalized versions rather than straight memoirs.
His restaurant was robbed at gun point, and he was shot in the arm…
The person in this cartoon is intentionally pitting two separate demographics of people with similar grievances against each other.
Implicitly, the veteran thinks that the fast food worker does not deserve $15 per hour because he does not work hard enough for it, whereas veterans have been shot at for a living and still do not receive enough care. The fast food worker’s obvious reaction is to be indignant and provide the veteran with a blow-by-blow account of how he has to deal with the foulest dregs of humanity on a daily basis.
This puts the veteran and the fast food worker on opposing sides: each thinks that the other is in some way holding them back and distracting from their own issues.
This creates a villain for each side to focus on, which distracts them from what should obviously be the primary target, that both sets of people should be teaming up against: a system which can’t even pretend to care about the issues that either of them face.
Divide and conquer.
Politicians do this all the time, and it’s amazing how we as voters keep falling for it. All you have to do is show up in front of a crowd of angry people, and tell those people that an Acceptable Target is to blame. Could be White People, could be The Jews, The Illegals, The Godless Heathens, whatever works. Then all of the disparate groups which should be united against you are instead warring against each other. And at least one of those groups is looking to you to stop the Other Group Menace. Voila, you have a voter base that you can exploit and screw over for as long as the Other Group remains a credible threat.
Of course, sometimes the ploy is not as obvious as that. Sometimes it’s as subtle as this cartoon.
ugh 