Month: August 2017

Wow, sorry, Marian. I promise the praise is genuine, even if I’m terrible at remembering names (in life and in fiction, I assure you; it wasn’t for lack of emotional impact).

duaedesigns:

seananmcguire:

ruffboijuliaburnsides:

seananmcguire:

It’s okay!  I got dumped once for calling my boyfriend “Dave” when his name was Tom.

listen, i’m fuckin bad with names, but how do you forget your BOYFRIEND’S name???

95% of my processor space is taken up by remembering details about fictional people, generation one My Little Ponies, and shortcuts through Disney Parks.

Names my husband (who I’ve been with for about a decade now) have called me include my sister, my father, and Thor. None of these are even close to my actual name. 

theunitofcaring:

I think white supremacists lean really hard on the framing that they’re not destroying peaceful integrated multicultural societies, they’re just noticing that those never existed anyway or are about to collapse anyway. 

And of course it’s a transparent lie. There are lots and lots of societies that have had successful peaceful integration. Racists and xenophobes are the force making integration difficult and dangerous and fragile; there’s not some other force that they are just innocently noticing. (Bad economic conditions and weak governments and violence all contribute to making racist and xenophobic movements more appealing. But it’s important to observe that the ‘failure of multiculturalism’ is still caused by the racists and xenophobes acting, it’s not something that happens separately from them.)

I was reminded of this post again last night, watching one interesting documentary I ran across.

An unfortunately good summary starting at around 45:25, from someone who was apparently pretty high up in the UK’s National Front during their big ‘70s surge:

We were trying to bring about race warfare, so our job was to basically disrupt the multicultural society, the multiracial society, and make it unworkable and make the various different groups hate each other to such a degree they couldn’t live together. And when they couldn’t live together, you end up with that ghettoized, radicalized society from which we hoped to rise, like the proverbial phoenix from the ashes.

A transparent lie in some other respects, yeah. (Not the first time I had encountered that idea, but he put it very succinctly.) A number of groups may have adjusted their specific tactics in the meantime, but the goals haven’t really changed.

They don’t have much plausible deniability there, no matter how much they try to dissemble and convince the general public that the main problem does not lie in their very deliberate shit-stirring.

It is of course worrying how many of the general public would just as soon go along with that, though. Some too-successful manipulation.

tilthat:

TIL that an indian who saw his homeland go barren due to deforestation, took to planting trees himself and 37 years later , he is responsible for the formation of a tropical paradise which not only has trees but different wildlife species such as rhinos,tigers,elephants etc too.

via http://ift.tt/2fH0Mne

An interesting short documentary about Jadav Payeng’s work: Forest Man

positivity-roses:

One thing that helps me not feel awful about intrusive thoughts: 

Those thoughts are

intrusive because they’re unpleasant to you. That’s part of the definition. So, if you have violent intrusive thoughts? That does not mean you’re a violent, cruel person – in fact, it means the thought of violence is unpleasant to you. Sexual intrusive thoughts? You’re not a pervert – if you were, those thoughts wouldn’t be

intrusive! 

thenib:

From Barry Deutsch.

Not to mention what’s been going on elsewhere: Finsbury Park suspect ‘made abusive remarks about Palestinian march’

The IHRC, which organises the march, said that before this year’s event it had been made aware of social media postings threatening violence, including one individual who threatened to drive a van into the march. There is no suggestion this was Osborne.

But sure, these folks are “self-radicalizing”, and presumably coincidentally coming up with the same ideas.

Source: thenib.com

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thunderthighmobster:

Hey guys, Star is a dear friend and comrade to me and she got caught in the terrorist car attack on Aug 12th in Charlottesville. She is one of the people more critically hurt, but will fortunately live and make a full recovery. But she needs time, and she needs help with paying for medical costs and bills etc.

She told me when I visited her today that she wants to give everything she doesn’t use to other victims. 

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