Memoirs of a Deadbeat
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I WISH I COULD FIND ALL THE FREAKIN POKEMON I’VE DESIGNED OMG THIS IS DRIVIN ME NUTS.
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“You guys are really obsessed with these Pokémon fusions.”
Bitch
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I think it is incredibly cool that when you strip down the skin and muscle from anything with an endo-skeleton you are left with a bunch of vastly different creatures made out of essentially the same pieces just stretched and skewed.
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“Big junkies come from little junkies, we gotta nip this thing in the bud, sister!” — Edward Norton as ‘Sheldon Mopes’ in Death to Smoochy. -
: racism-education: jehovahs: it’s not ‘reverse racism’ when you’re... it’s not ‘reverse racism’ when you’re being racist to whites
it’s racism
No, it isnt. There is an inherent logical fallacy in your argument that will never make it true. However, white people can be discrimated against. Discrimination is different from racism.
Let’s start from the beginning. Your first step is to accept that “a hatred or intolerance of another race” is not the definition of racism. The dictionary is wrong. Get over it.
Racism is when intolerance in government laws, attitudes and ideals of a society are ingrained in a culture to the point where patterns of discrimination towards a certain race are institutionalized asnormal. If you keep this in mind, you’ll understand that reverse racism doesn’t- and can’t- exist.
There is another saying “Racism (or sexism) = prejudice + power. POC (people of color) can be prejudiced against white people. But they can neverhave power, i.e. a whole system of structured support that backs them. White people often don’t understand how much power they have. Just ONE white person has more power to do actual harm to a black person than one hundred black people do to that white person. A white person can KILL a black person without any consequences, while if the situation was reversed you can bet the killer wouldn’t see the outside of a prison cell for a long, long time.
When white people complain about reverse racism, they are not complaining about losing their RIGHTS. What they are complaining about is losing their PRIVILEGE.
White people can never call someone else racist against them because that ‘someone else’ does not have the power to OPPRESS them. The person has the power to be mean.To hurt feelings.But not to OPPRESS.
THAT is the key difference. When a POC is mean to you, they are JUST being mean to you. Their entire society is not ACTIVELY discriminating against and oppressing you. Their society is not one where it is difficult for them to not be racist against you.
But yours is. And you need to accept that.
You lost me at “No, it isnt”
Racism is discrimination of a person based on their race.
If you want to talk about widespread racism and racism in media and government then talk about it.
But that is not the only definition of racism.
Just because whites are the majority in this case and “Have the power” that doesn’t mean that we INNATELY have power over other people. The situation could just as easily become the reverse if whites were a minority.
Racism of ANY kind should never be tolerated anywhere, it has nothing good to offer society.
Also reverse racism is a bullshit concept.
If the police arrest a white man and a black man for the same crime (Say possession of marijuana) The black man is prosecuted and sentenced to jail while the white man goes free. They were still racist to the white guy, just because they patted his back and treated him nicely doesn’t take away from the fact that they made decisions about his actions based on the color of his skin. He might not get arrested but he is now free to make more poor decisions in his life and never reach his potential because he was not held accountable for his actions while ANOTHER man accused of the same crime loses his opportunity to reach his potential by losing his freedoms. Perpetuations like this (be they positive or negative) are detrimental to every level of an intelligent society and should again, not be tolerated, ever.
If we can stop these things at their source they will never have the strength to become the massive beasts we know them as. Widespread racism didn’t start that way, it had to build up.(via ithinkimightbeacat)
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NYPD Data Proves White People Are More Likely To Possess Drugs Or A Weapon Than Racial Minorities When Stopped, Yet 84% of Stop & Frisk Victims Are Black/Latino
During the just-concluded trial on the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk program, the city argued that officers’ disproportionate targeting of black and Latino New Yorkers was not due to racial profiling but because each stopped individual was doing something suspicious at the time. The data, however, tells a different story: weapons and drugs were more often found on white New Yorkers during stops than on minorities, according to the Public Advocate’s analysis of the NYPD’s 2012 statistics.
White New Yorkers make up a small minority of stop-and-frisks, which were 84 percent black and Latino residents. Despite this much higher number of minorities deemed suspicious by police, the likelihood that stopping an African American would find a weapon was half the likelihood of finding one on a white person.
• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded a weapon was half that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered a weapon in one out every 49 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 71 stops of Latinos and 93 stops of African Americans to find a weapon.
• The likelihood a stop of an African American New Yorker yielded contraband was one-third less than that of white New Yorkers stopped. The NYPD uncovered contraband in one out every 43 stops of white New Yorkers. By contrast, it took the Department 57 stops of Latinos and 61 stops of African Americans to find contraband.
It’s unlikely that the appropriate lesson to take from these findings is that stops of white people should increase because they are more likely to carry weapons and drugs. Rather, they suggest that police are excessively targeting minorities. Officers may be netting more successful stops of white New Yorkers because they are only likely to stop a white person when they actually suspect that person of committing a crime. Considering one officer’s testimony that superiors explicitly directed him to target young black men, minorities are judged by a much more flexible definition of “reasonable suspicion.”
In general, stop-and-frisk has proven to be remarkably ineffective; nearly 89 percent of all stops result in no charges. The city has also had to settle a surging number of civil rights lawsuits against police to the tune of $22 million in one year.
(via ithinkimightbeacat)
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“Here, let me show you some statistics that display how good I am at misrepresenting statistical data.”
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do you ever look around at the big crowds of people around you and realize everyone has a story and memories and family and troubles and achievements and a first kiss and a broken heart but you’ll never know any of it and every human life is really intricate and expansive but oh they’ve walked into a shop and you’ll never see them again and you’ll never know just what they were thinking
yup.
(via sociablesociopath)
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Iggy is the coolest
Iggy Pop is rad, and I saw him live one time, and I was higher than god’s balls, and I swear it was the coolest rock and roll show ever played.
This is the best.
(via ithinkimightbeacat)
