Tag: violence

I was one of the scary kids too, and I won’t be able to watch this either.

k-pagination:

From Mel Baggs:

“We were children trying to survive environments we couldn’t cope with.  Every one of us.  The system failed all of us, and we all knew it.  Some of us survived, some of us didn’t, none of us came out unscathed.

All of us were singled out as the problem kid with problems, ignoring what surrounded all of us: violence, hopelessness, abuse, neglect, despair, bullying, torture, confusion, oppression.

What the media is doing to these children is its own form of violence.  It is an invasion.  It is telling our stories the way they see us, not the way we are.”

I was one of the scary kids too, and I won’t be able to watch this either.

topsocialartistbts:

topsocialartistbts:

Guys, please please please keep Brazil in your prayers and keep an eye on us.

Today we had the elections and the candidate who’s winning is extremely sexist, homophobic, white supremacist that supports dictatorships and that everything should be solved with guns (he’s also a former member of military).

He has said that women aren’t fit to work bc they can get pregnant, that the reason he had a female child was because he was “weak” when making the baby, that “gayness” is a product of parents not beating their children enough, that the biggest mistake of the horrible dictatorship our country lived in the 60’s was torturing instead of killing, etc.

So far, his hateful speeches have sparked a massive hateful following of people who idolize him and there have been numerous cases of these people doing terrible things in his name. For instance, groups of people chanting on the streets that he will kill gays (a slur was used), people taking pictures using guns in the voting cabin, hacking a fb group of women against this man, his supporters shot and killed a dog for “disrupting” their event and more.

The mainly white male following has spread inummerous fake news about other candidates and are convinced that nazism was a leftist movement and use this info to demonize the main contender, who’s a leftist. This caused the german embassy to release a statement informing them that it was (obviously) actually a right wing movement. Not surprisingly, as radical right wingers, they do not believe it. That, coupled with his VP talk of “race whitening” doesn’t shock anyone here.

The elections will soon be over and he’s winning with a 20% gap. I am completely desolate. I don’t know what to do, how life’s gonna be for me and my friends. I’ve never been more scared in my life. My country is recognized all over the world for its freedom, but we’re about to enter very very dark times.

Please, don’t forget us.

He has now won the election.

Yesterday a black boy my age was killed in a protest and today people are celebrating this “win” setting fireworks on the streets.

We will resist, as always. But we need your help.

clatterbane:

This post I reblogged earlier is well worth a read anyway. But, I was interested to see someone do such a good job of wrapping words around some observations:

I don’t mean stay closeted — I didn’t manage that for very long, I’m a terrible liar, and this was the early 90s and my college hosted Queer Nation rallies — I mean don’t get caught…

At some point the world changed. Part of that change is that the people who believe gay to be the literal worst and most disgusting thing a person can be or do, worse than murder, they feel outnumbered and threatened now. And now that they feel threatened, outnumbered, small and powerless, they enact their insecurity and fear in great grand gestures.

Yeah. It’s all very disturbing. In some ways, the social and political atmosphere around a number of things has turned so much more polarized and frankly scarier–when it was far from great before. As she points out. And with not much obvious to be done besides just keep trying to ride it out.

I have had to think about some of this stuff a lot, too. And it gets overwhelming sometimes.

Ran across this, from a couple of years ago, when I was (unsuccessfully) looking for something else. Seemed worth bringing back.

gokuma:

transboysunited:

transadvicegroup:

spyhops:

stephrc79:

howler32557038:

Since joining Tumblr, I’ve met a lot of young queer people. Look, I’m a bisexual man in a gay relationship, and I’m approaching 30. I was still a kid when Matthew Shepard’s story was being covered on the news. I remember thinking, “I better keep my mouth shut about these feelings I’m having.”

And then I met Dominic when I was 12, and people could see how in love we were. And we got the shit beat out of us. The year I met him, some kids in the grade above me held me down against the bleachers in our gym and stomped on my hand until my fingers broke. Instead of sending me to the nurse, the teacher sent me to the assistant principal to explain the situation. She asked why the kids had beat me up. I said, “They were calling me gay.”

Her response was, “Well, are you?”

My, “I don’t know,” earned a call to my parents, and I was outed. Efforts were made to keep me from seeing Dom. Throughout high school, Dom’s stepmother intensified these efforts. He slept in the basement of the house. Although he was an incredibly talented student, he was prohibited from participating in any extracurriculars. He suffered a lot of physical abuse during those years.

The day he turned 18, he packed up everything he had and walked to my house, and we’ve lived together ever since. Things are better, but they’re not perfect. I’ve had trucks pull up next to me at stoplights and, seeing the pride sticker on my car, through old drinks and garbage into my window. I no longer speak to my dad’s side of the family. I haven’t been to see them for Christmas or Thanksgiving in years. One of my uncles had cornered me at Thanksgiving when I was 17 and said, “I’m not going to judge you, but I’d be happy to break your neck so God can do the judging a little sooner.”

I joined a support group for trans and intersex people. When I joined, 40 people attended regularly. Within the year, the group was half the size it had been. Some couldn’t make it anymore, because they were staying at the shelter, where their stay hinged on them agreeing to instead to attend homophobic sermons. Some were put in correctional therapy. Five of them died. Three of those, I didn’t know, but I knew Alex, the 19 year old who was fag-dragged in Kentucky and died a day later in the hospital, and I knew Stephanie, who went home to Alabama to care for her mom in hospice and was beaten to death with a baseball bat by her mom’s boyfriend.

Tumblr is not reality. The dynamic here does not reflect the dynamic out there. Here’s the part where I finally make a point, and it might be extremely unpopular – but guys, value your allies. Value each other. We are met with enough hate in our daily lives to enter an online safe-space and meet more hate from our own, over petty things. Don’t go after one another over every little thing you find problematic.

Learn to see nuance. Maybe the word “queer” bothers you, and you see a gay man using it as an umbrella term. Maybe someone called a trans man a trans woman because they’re confused about terminology, but the post where they did it was voicing support for the trans community. Maybe someone is just asking a question, wanting to learn more. Stop. Attacking. These. People.

Allies are being driven away. Members of our own community are being ostracized. Others are feeling nervous and estranged, and it’s largely because of places like Tumblr, where the social justice movement is quickly becoming violent and radical. I am begging you, stop nitpicking “problematic” things and start directing your efforts to create real change. When it comes to comes to your allies, forget the “social justice warrior” mentality and put down your torch. Educate calmly. Be respectful. Be understanding. Be forgiving. And I’m certainly not saying that your anger doesn’t have a good place – when you are met with bigots on the street, congress members who want to pass hateful laws, violent protesters, abusive parents, prejudiced teachers, that is when you need to be a warrior. That’s when it counts. In the real world. When you have the opportunity to protect people from real harm. Attacking your would-be allies via anonymous asks is just going to lose us ground in the long run. And we don’t have time for that, not when trans women of color are being murdered every day, not when states are still fighting against marriage equality, not when there are politicians in office who believe that trans people are possessed by demons, not when we’ve just lost 50 brothers and sisters to one gunman, not when the media won’t even admit that the attack was homophobic.

Please step back. Look at the big picture. Look at where we are, globally. Don’t just log on to your safe space and attack your allies over small missteps. That’s like washing the dishes in a house that’s on fire, kids. Let’s fight on the battlefield, and when we come home to each other, let’s just focus on bandaging up our wounds so we can go out and win the war.

Signal boost to this unbelievably important message.

I’d reblog this a thousand times if I could.

Stop attacking allies. Educate. Not hate. 

This is incredibly important. Please read!

Educate calmly. Be respectful. Be understanding. Be forgiving.


takashi0:

rainbowloliofjustice:

trilllizard666:

hufflpuffin:

thefreakynigga:

broadwaybutterfly310:

He’s gonna be a serial killer when he grows up. Who the fucks shoots and person for any reason and than mocks him for being in pain holy fuck

How to tell someone is privileged and has never been victim of violence 101

I don’t know why that article says he mocked him, as if he was standing over his body and insulting him. He didn’t. The boy commented that the guy was crying after the fact.

The man who robbed his house was a methhead and had done so multiple times to his house and others in the area. The intruder was armed and told the boy that he was going to kill him. The boy got his gun but the intruder didn’t take him seriously until he fired.

The intruder was shot in the leg as he started to run and he was taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life-threatening. The boy later said the intruder was crying like a baby. 

Dude got a taste of his own medicine, threatening to kill an innocent child with a gun. He wasnt mocked but he absolutely fucking deserves it because he wouldn’t be crying if he shot that kid and killed him. 

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-alabama-boy-shoots-intruder-20160501-story.html

“who the fuck shoots a person for any reason”

well i dunno, someone breaking into someone’s house armed and threatening to kill them’s a pretty good reason in my opinion

It literally says in the title… home intruder

like

right there

it ain’t even hidden

#like idk you break into my house for any reason and cry because you got shot i mean#wtf am i supposed to feel sympathy for you???

gunstarheroine:

spartanlocke:

justcuzelephants:

kremlint:

kremlint:

railroadsoftware:

railroadsoftware:

this was such a moment in time captured

an underrated part of this video is at 1:00 when someone off camera speaks complete gibberish

there are a billion things I love about this video. the kiss on the lips. the guy that picks up the cigarette immediately. fuck

the fact they’re all dressed like something that could be called prog slav

it’s back

ngl this looks like it could have happened round the corner from me.

sweetschizo:

sweetschizo:

Don’t armchair diagnose mass shooters and other killers. The misconception that all violent people must be mentally ill (and the following conclusion that all mentally ill people must be dangerous) has horrible real life consequences for visibly mentally ill people.

Schizophrenic people are 14 times more likely to be a victim of a violent crime than committing one because people assume that we’re homicidal and dangerous and may react very negatively to visibly mentally ill behavior, partly due to all the media portrayals of schizophrenics as violent killers.

50% of people killed by police are disabled or mentally ill (and the victims are disproportionately black or other people of color) because the unusual behavior of visibly disabled and visibly mentally ill people is read as inherently threathening and dangerous.

Please consider the real life consequences of reinforcing the association between mental illness and violence – people are dying because y’all want to blame all evil in the world on severe mental illness so that you can clearly separate yourself from it. You’re harming an already extremely vulnerable and marginalized group of people and it’s time to stop!

I encourage people who aren’t schizophrenic to reblog this. These stereotypes are literally getting people killed and I’ve seen no awareness around this on this website.

ihavenotyetfiguredoutanything:

proctain:

siryouarebeingmocked:

alaija:

cisnowflake:

denied-par-vollen:

cisnowflake:

strict-constitutionalist:

ar-gangbang:

Beyond parody.

No way.

Yanks claim that knife crime will just replace gun crime if guns are banned, but then mock the UK for trying to restrict knives as well. When will they admit they just have a dangerous obsession with weapons?

I think you’re missing the point. If you heavily restrict guns and people just move to knives, as they have in London, what do you think happens when you heavily restrict knives? You can infringe on peoples freedoms as much as you’d like but it wont make them any less violent.

If you don’t see the problem with making it harder for people to get a basic kitchen utensil because it could be used to hurt others I don’t know what to tell you. What’s next? Hammers? Baseball bats? Motor vehicles? Mag lights? Razors? Pointy sticks? Rocks? The list could go on forever. You could coat everything the the whole of the UK in Nerf foam and people would still beat each other to to death with their bear hands. Maybe it’s better to address what motivates people to act violently rather than banning any and every potential tool they could use to enact that violence?

You may want to look up Australia’s One Punch laws @denied-par-vollen

The way our laws work not only are there prohibited weapons, but anything that could be used as a weapon becomes illegal if they can show you have it for that purpose.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/judge-calls-for-5-levy-on-kitchen-knives-to-reduce-teen-stabbings-a3900136.html

>Judge Madge has already proposed grinding down the sharp point of knives, and now believes a tax would help combat the stabbing epidemic he dubbed a “public health emergency”. 

> (…) Judge Madge said eight or 10-inch knives with a pointed blade — which a butcher, fishmonger, or chef may occasionally but “rarely” use — are the weapons that can cause the most damage. He added: “Why can’t all those with any role — manufacturers, shops, police, local authorities, the Government — act together to reduce the sale of long pointed knives and provide an alternative of knives with rounded ends? 

It’s…it’s actually worse than the headline.

Keep in mind, you already have to be 18 to buy a knife in the UK.

Even butter knives because they are a kind of knife

London man, having his arm hacked off with a meat cleaver: wow I’m sure glad it’s not a pointy knife

Not to mention some pointy object alternatives!

Gang members know there are advantages in using acid to hurt someone rather than a knife because “the charges are more serious if you are caught with a knife and the tariff for prison sentences are much higher”.

Dr Harding added that “acid is likely to attract a ‘GBH with intent’ charge while using a knife is more likely to lead to the attacker being charged with attempted murder”

(And no, further restricting access to common cleaning products seems unlikely to address any of the root problems here, any more than placing age restrictions on scissors and paring knives has done so far.)