Rahm Emanuel, yes of Chicago, made a similar statement today. Stop with this self-righteous regionalist bs. Racism, xenophobia, and general asshole tendencies know no geographic boundaries...

agreed

this is the problem with selective memories and myopic readings of history. nothing at all ever happens in a vacuum, but we are often misinformed or literally discouraged from making real connections between global events because we only focus on how things impact specific sectors of society (or the world).

and, to be honest, if you look at what was going on at the univ. of missouri, black kids were afraid to walk around campus because of the color of their skin or black people in general have legitimate fears for walking around in their own neighborhoods (yes, really, see the following: the 911 caller thought he was…

and at the end of the day, what we “need to acknowledge” is that as i said in my other comment, people suck and will use whatever means necessary to harness and sustain whatever semblance of power they have, particularly if they feel that it is threatened in some way.

but you do see it articulated through other means, even if not under religion. that’s why focusing on religion alone is short-sighted. brutal colonialism projects in, yes, the 20th century, were installed under the guise of “civilizing missions” to help “modernize” indigenous peoples around the world. the main goal,…

islamic culture or extremist fundamentalism? bc the latter seems pretty compatible with the values many people in the west on an equally fundamentalist front seem to have (i am thinking in particular of religious fundamentalists that think the morning after pill is killing babies and that women who leave the house to…

absolutely. it’s a big plus of the neighborhood. people who have lived there for a while are friendly and generally nice/helpful. when i lived there, i became good friends with a guy who always seemed to be walking his dog who had lived there for a zillion years. eta: it’s just the dipsh*ts who were in my building who…

Bedstuy is huge though, so it depends on which part you are in.

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no. please go educate yourself on this, particularly as we see many of its strains in the present. it’s a real system that had dire consequences for many marginalized populations worldwide:

this happened in the u.s. as well. there is a documentary coming out about cases in LA, though it’s happened everywhere thanks the racist and ableist eugenics + social darwinism movements that happened throughout the u.s. https://www.wearemitu.com/mitu-world/no-…

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observation: jada and will look younger than kanye and kim...

when i saw it, i was more concerned about the people who pick and handle these flowers...

for the most part, that has been the central criticism building against blm for a minute now. unfortunately, while i think the loose structure is helping for allowing people at multiple levels of society to get involved, it absolutely has its consequences. but on the upside, if we trace the energy and rhetoric behind…

did you miss my sentence there about OWS? the tea party developed before a lot of the tools we use today to maintain a less leadership-based movement. sure, the rest was on ideology, but their origins point to their structure as well.

that’s a rally silly and poorly founded comparison. they are more close structurally to occupy wall street. the tea party sprang from a rejection of taxation about a decade ago and has always been based in conservative politics, though, this stance veered far more to the right than in the past.

looks like a wig to me

you can certainly try...