September 2012
“This notion that “we” advanced peoples provided for the Natives, exactly the...”
– — Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong by James W. Loewen (via soliloquize)
Mod note from Micky: I don’t really like the term third world, but this is an excellent thing to point out.
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America is in search of a new enemy | Rami G.... →
As the 11th anniversary of the 9/11 attacks against the United States approached, I noticed that the matter was not discussed very much by Americans I encountered or in media outlets. Perhaps that’s because an 11th anniversary of any event is not particularly memorable. Or because the killing of Osama bin Laden removed much of the personalized anger and sense of looming threat that had driven...
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TW: Coercion is rape
sanityscraps:
goldenphoenixgirl:
the-dark-depths:
Why didn’t anyone ever tell me that sexual coercion = rape? How could I have been raped…on nearly a daily basis for almost 2 years no less?!
When rape comes into my mind I think of violent and aggressive times of someone forcing themselves onto another. Not my ex telling me, “If you loved me, then you’d have sex with me”, or “If you don’t...
Mitt Romney & Paul Ryan = lying, cracker fucks
“White women’s tears can come about in different ways, but here is the classic...”
– abagond, “white women’s tears” (via wretchedoftheearth)
One of my favorite articles ever written.
(via darkjez)
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