Month: June 2017
Call-Out Culture Isn’t Toxic. You are. – Riley H – Medium
Every month or so, an article comes out screeching about how terrible, horrible, no good very bad “call-out culture” is. Before I get into that, I want to start from the beginning.
Why Do Call-Outs Exist?
The idea of “calling out”, first and foremost, came from Black femmes on social media who were being violently harassed every single day. Rape threats. Death threats. Ban evasion. I watched as the idea of “calling out” developed around 2011–2012 on Tumblr, a site that had no real means to block someone or prevent them from harassing you in any way they saw fit.
Why did we use call-outs back then? Because the only way to stop people from abusing us daily was to scream at them until they stopped.
That was the original goal of a call-out. To make someone stop harassing you.
So How Did Call-Outs Become What They Are Now?
Those same constantly harassed Black femmes realized that people were learning when they did those call-outs. There’s no better learning experience than to watch it directly. Their hypervisibility allowed multiple people to watch, in detail, from beginning to end, how something that seemed okay to white sensibilities quickly devolved into racism. People actually began to learn about why Black femmes appear to “jump the gun”, that is, call something racist before they themselves can see the racism, because they could view the progression through the process of a call-out.
The hypervisibility of Black femmes allows what they do to be seen and also not be seen. What the people viewing Black femme call-outs saw was what they eventually began to turn call-outs into. They saw these “Sassy Black Girls” doing some proverbial neck-rolling and finger-snapping at people online and they wanted to be that too.
They didn’t and still don’t realize that for Black femmes, call-outs may be the only way to stop a violent motherfucker from sending you threats from multiple accounts. Particularly on these social media platforms that never listen to our complaints, even when we have screencapped evidence of threats.
Then How Can You Say It Isn’t Toxic When People Are Misusing It?
People misuse everything. Again, the hypervisibility of Black femmes allow what they do to be seen while also being unseen. Black femmes doing call-outs are either mean bitches or Sassy Sassmasters. There is no consideration or our pain, aggravation, or PTSD from the perpetual abuse we face online. The multiple attempts at more calmly speaking on things that happened before the call-out? All ignored. Anything that may give us humanity is ignored for the sake of the spectacle.
Calling out was originally our last resort…and for fun, performance and ally cookies, it’s been appropriated and now we’re the ones suffering from the results of your multiple articles on Why Call-Out Culture Is Totally Evil.
Calling out wasn’t and isn’t toxic. It was all Black femmes had for protection in multiple online worlds that didn’t care about protecting us. What’s toxic is the people who stole. The people using it now. The people who don’t bother to connect it to its context and history, its creation. The people who never bothered to understand why it existed in the first place.
Is this by crackerhell riley???????? The OG scammer and callout ringmaster???????? LMFAOOOOOOOOOOOO
The same Riley who got their friend to say Asians are just white people with slanted eyes? The same Riley who crowdfunded for a video game they had no damn intention of creating? The same Riley who would be the first to sic their lil crew onto minors for disagreeing with them on shit? That Riley????????
“ Black desi. They/them. Pro software engineer and game developer. Creator of #TransLawHelp. Pay me: http://cash.me/$ril-yatdtwps
ITS THAT RILEY LMFAO
Hooooooooooooooooly shit.
hey riley have you paid back all that money you stole from teenagers who wanted diverse video games yet
“callout culture can’t be toxic because of the group memberships of the people who originally invented it!”
MAN DO I HAVE SOME NEWS FOR YOU
Law enforcement officials plan to announce charges Thursday against a dozen members of the Turkish president’s security detail for their involvement in a brutal attack on protesters outside the Turkish ambassador’s residence here last month, two American officials said on Wednesday. Authorities have already charged several others, including two Americans and two Canadians, with taking part in the violent skirmish. The Washington police have been investigating the May 16 incident along with the State Department and the Secret Service. The police planned to announce the charges at a news conference on Thursday morning, according to the two officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the charges before they were made public.
Washington police officials confirmed that the two Americans are Sinan Narin, of Virginia, and Eyup Yildirim, of New Jersey. Mr. Narin was charged with felony and misdemeanor assault. Mr. Yildirim, who can be seen on video repeatedly kicking a protester, was charged with two felony counts and one misdemeanor assault count. The two have been arrested….
Coming almost a month after the incident, the charges are the most significant retaliatory step taken to date by American authorities, who have fumed privately and publicly over what they see as a highly offensive attack on free speech — not to mention American law enforcement.
Lawmakers from both parties on Capitol Hill, as well as a smattering of advocacy groups, have clamored that those responsible for the assault be prosecuted. Last week, the House unanimously passed a resolution condemning the attack and calling for charges against the security forces. In calibrating its response, though, the Trump administration has had to tread carefully, navigating a web of diplomatic and military concerns with a key NATO ally. The incident appears to have already stalled a proposed $1.2 million small-arms sale to Turkish security forces that was moving toward approval by the State Department last month.
And then there was the added wrinkle that the entire security detail for President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey had left the country with him just hours after the incident. Members of the security team face several felony and misdemeanor counts, the American officials said. It is highly unlikely that Turkey would extradite the men to the United States to face the charges, but they do face the possibility of arrest should they ever try to re-enter the country.
How shameful and misleading Wash. Post reports on disability insurance could be the preamble for cuts
How shameful and misleading Wash. Post reports on disability insurance could be the preamble for cuts
Sometimes I want to find the person who first came up with the idea that it is “ableist” or a form of “cultural appropriation” for hearing people to want to learn sign language
and give them a really blistering lecture about how they are completely abusing the concept of “ableism” and “appropriation”.
No, it is not ableist for ANYone to want to learn sign language.
No, it is not appropriation for ANYone to want to learn sign language.
Deaf people WANT for more people to learn sign language so we can have more people to communicate with.
So please, *please* don’t ever tell anyone that their wanting to learn or use sign language is in any way ableist or “appropriation”. Because it is *not*.
If you are a person with auditory processing issues, then we WANT for you to learn sign language if it might make communication easier for you.
If you are a person who is non-verbal, then we WANT for you to learn sign language if it might make communication easier or more accurate for you.
Yes, we still want you to learn sign language even if your auditory processing issues, or your loss of speech, only happens sometimes and not all the time. Part time need for sign language is still *need for sign language*.
Yes, we still hope you will consider learning sign language even if you have no personal need for sign language at all. Your learning sign language can give *us* more people to communicate with, and therefore still benefits *us*. It is not ableist for you to want to learn sign language to benefit other people. In fact, it’s basically the *opposite* of ableist because it makes it easier for us to be fully included in society.
A more detailed response for people wanting to learn sign language, particularly for people with auditory processing issues.
(Resources for people with APD in general)
Oh, seriously. And people, there is a constant need for hearing people who know sign language. You can literally do it as a job.
Kodkod (Leopardus guigna)
The kodkod is the smallest cat in the Americas. It lives primarily in central and southern Chile and marginally in adjoining areas of Argentina. Since 2002, it has been listed as Vulnerable on the IUCN Red List
as the total effective population may comprise less than 10,000 mature
individuals, and is threatened due to persecution and loss of habitat
and prey base. The kodkod has a small head, large feet, and a thick tail. Typical adult length is 37 to 51 cm. Kodkods are equally active during the day as during the night,
although they only venture into open terrain under the cover of
darkness. During the day, they rest in dense vegetation in ravines,
along streams with heavy cover, and in piles of dead gorse. They are excellent climbers, and easily able to climb trees more than a meter in diameter. They are terrestrial predators of birds, lizards and rodents in the ravines and forested areas, feeding on southern lapwing, austral thrush, chucao tapaculo, huet-huet, domestic geese and chickenphoto credits: Mauro Tammone
No No No! 🙀 Don’t take your hands. I feel so comfy. 💕🐊
HOW CAN SOMETHING BE THIS CUTE
Urocyon's Jaunts 2.0 
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