#Human rights and civil liber

[hussyknee]

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[ihhfhonao3]

I’m a firm believer in the passive and small acts of activism.

You’re actively fighting capitalism by resting and taking a break. You’re actively fighting homophobia by wearing a rainbow pin to signify to others your allyship. You’re actively fighting climate change by air drying your hands after washing them. You’re actively fighting childism by letting a minor talk to you about how they’re doing. You’re actively fighting oppressive systems by simply existing.

There have always been others like you, and there always will be others like you. Your existence is rebellion. As long as you’re alive, conservatives and bigots have lost.

You’re a rebel. You’re a warrior. You’re a fighter. And you don’t even know it.

[cavalierzee]

Arresting Liberty

[alwaysinbetweeninsaneandinsecure]

This family needs help fleeing Sudan. There are children, elders, and disabled people at risk in this family. Please give what you can & share!

[lastcatghost]

The absurdity of having to fight for the right to exist as a trans person while the climate increases the significance with how the weather's changing everywhere, the cost of everything except wages just keeps going up, people still suffering to death from poverty, how does anybody not see this as a desperate attempt to distract us

[aloeverawrites]

Okay I have a question for other feminists.

So I'm confused 'cause like, yeah. Should I use feminism to mean gender equality? Okay that sounds iffy, hear me out-

Feminism is obviously about gender equality. Which is good, it's trying to give women the same rights and freedoms as men. It's also trying to solve women's issues that are intersectional, like helping women of color (WoC), helping transwomen and trans people in general, and helping disabled people. So it's doing a lot.

But sometimes I want to talk about the issues that men face, like a higher suicide rate, lower-life expectancy and higher rates of criminality and homelessness.

I feel feminism does help with men's issues, but is it wrong to feel like feminism is meant to be mainly about helping women? It has the pre-fix "fem" and for years it's mostly fought for women because nobody else was.

For men's issues I use the term men's liberation. (I don't use men's rights because that movement is a bit of a dumpster right now. Lot of misogyny and weird sexism against men.)

For women's issues I use women's rights, or feminism.

So is it okay to say feminism when I'm talking about women, men's liberation when I'm talking about men, and gender equality when I'm talking about both of them?

And also men's liberationist mostly identify as feminists too, and the circles that I'm in try to speak up for women's rights. But even though, I wouldn't use men's liberation when I'm trying to talk about women's rights.

So what do you think? Does feminism = women's issues and men's liberation = men's issues?

Or is feminism so big that it represents everyone?

[fantasmadelaciudad]

i hate doing the readings for this class they make me so upset

[shekeepsmeworms]

Had some wine feeling good made a really shitty bowl in ceramics class this morning that I’m really worried has a bunch of air holes in it and had a really crappy therapy session where I didn’t talk too much but was honest about some other stuff which is good overall I guess but now I’m doing drunk crochet and watching the Duggar family documentary and probably going to stop watching soon once they start talking about the awful stuff but yeah day in the life of a woman doing her best I guess

[peaceresource]

Pool School...

How Can You Be in Two Places at Once, when you’re not anywhere at all?

https://youtu.be/DZJdMzkY_C4?list=RDEMgg_j5m15ZSkDrX9GGEuBxQDavid Bromberg – Sharon My pool “school” started when I had to stand on a milk crate to be tall enough to shoot pool. https://youtu.be/5m2HN2y0yV8?list=RDEM7oZ7Q-LTyH_5NfN_sGo3VgJohn Coltrane – Equinox (Original) And it continues…  https://youtu.be/nE_lXJyHlSI?list=RDEMgg_j5m15ZSkDrX9GGEuBxQDavid Bromberg – Suffer to Sing the…

[hurgablurg]

Oppressors always assume that a revolution will end with them being oppressed in turn, because they can't conceive of any systemic structure that is not exploitative.

This article is from 2022, but it came up in the context of Palestine:

Here are some striking passages, relevant to all colonial aftermaths but certainly also to the forms we see Zionist reaction taking at the moment:

Over the decade I lived in South Africa, I became fascinated by this white minority [i.e. the whole white population post-apartheid as a minority in the country], particularly its members who considered themselves progressive. They reminded me of my liberal peers in America, who had an apparently self-assured enthusiasm about the coming of a so-called majority-minority nation. As with white South Africans who had celebrated the end of apartheid, their enthusiasm often belied, just beneath the surface, a striking degree of fear, bewilderment, disillusionment, and dread.

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Yet these progressives’ response to the end of apartheid was ambivalent. Contemplating South Africa after apartheid, an Economist correspondent observed that “the lives of many whites exude sadness.” The phenomenon perplexed him. In so many ways, white life remained more or less untouched, or had even improved. Despite apartheid’s horrors—and the regime’s violence against those who worked to dismantle it—the ANC encouraged an attitude of forgiveness. It left statues of Afrikaner heroes standing and helped institute the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which granted amnesty to some perpetrators of apartheid-era political crimes.

But as time wore on, even wealthy white South Africans began to radiate a degree of fear and frustration that did not match any simple economic analysis of their situation. A startling number of formerly anti-apartheid white people began to voice bitter criticisms of post-apartheid society. An Afrikaner poet who did prison time under apartheid for aiding the Black-liberation cause wrote an essay denouncing the new Black-led country as “a sewer of betrayed expectations and thievery, fear and unbridled greed.”

What accounted for this disillusionment? Many white South Africans told me that Black forgiveness felt like a slap on the face. By not acting toward you as you acted toward us, we’re showing you up, white South Africans seemed to hear. You’ll owe us a debt of gratitude forever.

The article goes on to discuss:

"Mau Mau anxiety," or the fear among whites of violent repercussions, and how this shows up in reported vs confirmed crime stats - possibly to the point of false memories of home invasion

A sense of irrelevance and alienation among this white population, leading to another anxiety: "do we still belong here?"

The sublimation of this anxiety into self-identification as a marginalized minority group, featuring such incredible statements as "I wanted to fight for Afrikaners, but I came to think of myself as a ‘liberal internationalist,’ not a white racist...I found such inspiration from the struggles of the Catalonians and the Basques. Even Tibet" and "[Martin Luther] King [Jr.] also fought for a people without much political representation … That’s why I consider him one of my most important forebears and heroes,” from a self-declared liberal environmentalist who also thinks Afrikaaners should take back government control because they are "naturally good" at governance

Some discussion of the dynamics underlying these reactions, particularly the fact that "admitting past sins seem[ed] to become harder even as they receded into history," and US parallels

And finally, in closing:

The Afrikaner journalist Rian Malan, who opposed apartheid, has written that, by most measures, its aftermath went better than almost any white person could have imagined. But, as with most white progressives, his experience of post-1994 South Africa has been complicated. [...]

He just couldn’t forgive Black people for forgiving him. Paradoxically, being left undisturbed served as an ever-present reminder of his guilt, of how wrongly he had treated his maid and other Black people under apartheid. “The Bible was right about a thing or two,” he wrote. “It is infinitely worse to receive than to give, especially if … the gift is mercy.”

[madlori]

I see posts going "Okay, I'll vote for Kamala, I GUESS IF I HAVE TO" and "omg if that's the best we can do I suppose I'll support it" and I'm like...

What do you people fucking WANT?

Let's run down how she's rated politically by some organizations that we vibe with, kay?

ACLU = 93% on civil liberties

AFL-CIO = 100% on trade unions

Human Rights Campaign = 100% on queer rights

League of Conservation Voters = 91% on environmentalism

NARAL = 100% on reproductive rights

NRA Fund = 7% on gun rights (we LIKE a low score on this one)

NEA = 100% on education

Planned Parenthoos = 100% on reproductive rights

In addition, GovTrack (which is a nonpartisan tracker) places her in the MOST politically left-leaning categories of Senators. So we've got a very liberal, woman of color who's spent her career trying to mitigate draconian tough-on-crime laws to benefit the accused and keep black people out of prison and decrease recidivism and that's somehow...just barely tolerable.

So I ask again...what is that you're dissatisfied with? Is it Palestine? as recently as March she was calling for a ceasefire and demanding aid to Gaza. Keep in mind she's pretty constrained as to what's possible to do in this situation.

Is it just that she was a prosecutor? That is an important job that needs to be done and we WANT people doing it who aren't rah-rah tough-on-crime Gestapo types, which she is not. We need prosecutors who are addressing the root causes of crime and looking for ways to help people escape the cycle, which she has done to the point that she was often called SOFT on crime.

So what is your objection here? Is it that her politics aren't 100% aligned with a bunch of Tumblr socialists? I got news for you...we Tumblr socialists DO NOT REPRESENT THE ELECTORATE. If such a candidate existed, they would not win.

Democrats struggle sometimes because our tent is large. Republicans just want you if you're a straight white man and preferably rich. There's room for a lot more types in the lefty side, but sadly that means a lot of room also for dissention among the ranks. This is how they get us. Let's not let them, huh? Just a suggestion.

[cavenewstimes]

The Truth About Liberals: They Are Not Your Enemy

For centuries, the term “liberal” has been twisted, misrepresented, and even vilified by those who seek to maintain control over others. But what does it truly mean to be liberal, and why do some people fear liberalism? What Is a Liberal? At its core, liberalism is about progress, freedom, and the well-being of all people. Liberals advocate for individual rights, equality, and the pursuit of…

[sharkspez]

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My right to 💀 life is being 🌊 submerged. I won't fight for freedom that I don't have.

[theportlandalliance]

Moses, Abraham, Religion and other Myths...

“Anthropomorphism is, of course, literally wrong. But, it is also a natural cognitive attitude, grounded in the human biology and consisting in many natural inclinations that lead human beings to consider a certain individual in the world as a person, no

Moses is a myth. https://youtu.be/X3KnCL0S_Ws?list=RDX3KnCL0S_WsTom Waits – “Lie To Me““The Moses story did not “really happen.” Like the vast majority of biblical tales, it is a myth based on older tales, changed to revolve around characters of a certain ethnicity or cultural programming, if you will. The Moses tale is, in fact, a plagiarism taken from Egypt and its satellite, Canaan, among…

[lastcatghost]

[she-is-ovarit]

Where is everybody? We've had mass social movements inspiring mass discussions about Ukraine and Gaza. Where is everybody for all of the women in Afghanistan and Iran?

There are several genocides against women right now. This article mentions "widespread protests on social media" yet this is the first time I'm hearing of this. Something tells me that what is considered "widespread protests on social media" for human rights crimes and genocide of women is a sliver of what's devoted to male victims of male inspired wars and conquests.

These women were psychologically and physically brutally tortured and are going to be murdered for just being protestors to the Women, Life, Freedom movement.

Varisheh Moradi

Nasim Gholami Simiyari

Pakhshan Azizi

Sharifeh Mohammadi

All 4 of these women are real human beings who are at serious risk of being killed for their activism and opinions. The last two have already been sentenced to death while the other two await trail. I feel so hopeless, but I can at least share their names, faces, and stories. I recommend clicking on the link to read their specific situation.