Month: July 2018

rawboney:

twistedingenue:

artem-ace:

There’s this guy that sits in front of me who you would think is a conservative redneck bc his entire aesthetic is southern lumberjack w boots and denim and hats but he’s actually one of the most inclusive and anti trump guy I’ve ever met and today he wore this hat that sums up his entire personality and I’m screaming.

Don’t judge a book by its cover; make cornbread, not war.

Hey, this is the  motto of the Southern Foodways Alliance, and among other things, they have an AMAZING podcast called Gravy, which ‘shares stories of the changing American South through the foods we eat’.

You  like this hat. Listen to that podcast. You’ll be happy.

Y’all need to stop being surprised by the radicalism in The South. The idea that Southerners are inherently more backwards is steeped in classism and ableism and erases all the awesome work marginalized folks are doing out there

jupiterbabe:

hairpoofs:

sigynness:

hornyonmainstreet:

1. Hello

People here trying to make me feel bad about going to private schools my whole life from kindergarten to university because this is what my parents wanted for me and I am grateful for giving me the most precious thing in the world, that it’s education

lucky for me I can’t read this nonsense because us public school peasants are illiterate

would just like to point out that if this is a british video (BBC), that in the uk, the terms public school and private school have opposite meanings to their meanings in the us

Not quite. Just for general clarification:

Independent/private schools do include the “public school” subset.

Many of the older, expensive and more exclusive schools catering for the 13–18 age-range in England and Wales are known as public schools as defined by the Public Schools Act 1868, the term “public” being derived from the fact that they were then open to pupils regardless of where they lived or their religion (while in many other countries a public school is run by the state or municipality).

Not all private schools fall into that group, which is probably why they used “private school” for the video.

But, the other major category (with the vast majority of students) are state schools.

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rudjedet:

bubobubosibericus:

papafargo:

thirstygirlclub:

littlebearie:

simplyahopelessdaydreamer:

I remember a teacher telling me how Archaeologists would hack off the noses of statues they found in order to remove any indication that it was of a black person or any POC. It hurts me to think of all the art we’ve lost and damaged because of historical revisionism and flat out racism.

I…wasn’t taught this. Only about penises being broken off as censorship.

When I was in primary school (around 8 or 9) I asked why none of the Egyptian statues had noses. They lied to us and said that they broke off because they were a really fragile bit of the statues so when I learnt the real reason (years later) I was so pissed off with teachers for lying to millions of school children around the world. It’s disgusting and needs to be taught properly.

I only just learned this.

From this post.

@rudjedet here we go again.

Here we go again, indeed. Every time I come across this I’m just going to append the corrections even if it kills me, because good grief do I hate this particular piece of misinformation.

There was no widespread archaeological effort to hide the Egyptian ethnicity by chiselling off the noses of statues or reliefs. 

The noses are missing because of a variety of reasons, including erosion, vandalism (modern or contemporary, but mostly contemporary), accidents or because you were an ancient Egyptian who had beef with your neighbour and said neighbour decided to kill you in the afterlife as well by hacking off your statue or relief’s nose.

Read the longer explanation here.

If you want to support your local exhausted Egyptologist correcting this ingrained myth until the tag-end of eternity, consider buying her a coffee.

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jumpingjacktrash:

FUCKING THIS

now, lemme say a thing:

unlike a lot of angry folks, i have no real problem with people who have cultivated their assets over a few generations and have a million or two in property and investments. that’s something you can actually do with hard work, time, and enough luck that medical surprises or other misfortune doesn’t take it from you. i know actually quite a few families that could pool that much across three generations or a handful of siblings and cousins. that’s the kind of wealth that gave rise to the story of wealth being the result of hard work and intelligence – because if there are a couple doctors or lawyers in the family, or someone bought IBM stock in the 70′s, some attention and elbow grease can give you seven figure results.

which is NOT to say ‘everyone can do it, if you’re poor you’re just not trying’. there are a lot of factors that go into that, and a lucky start is the biggest one. in america, abled whites get that lucky start a lot more than everyone else, and yadda yadda you know the rest.

but the point is, people with like 1.5 million, or 4 million, can end up there by taking advantage of their luck and applying work to it over decades. if that’s what their priority is, of course. so i don’t look at someone with a lake house and an investment portfolio and instantly think EVIL BAD. i think: i don’t really agree with their priorities and we probably wouldn’t get along socially, but the instinct to grow your family’s prosperity is universal, and i’m not going to condemn them without evidence of wrongdoing.

ok, that said?

the ultra-rich?

the billionaires? the hundreds-of-billions-aires?

monstrous.

you cannot cultivate money like that. you cannot grow it as a family project. it starts with an absurd windfall, and then you grow it through crimes compounding upon crimes. crimes against humanity, if not crimes by the law. you acquire billions by making money your god, and flushing your soul down the toilet.

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