#discrimination-quotes

[thepersonalwords]

Prejudice plunges you into a world of fear and hate. That's no way to live.

DaShanne Stokes

[samthechaotic]

Tim: Whenever I face a horrible situation, I ask myself "what would Jason do?" and do the exact opposite.

Damian: For the first, and probably last, time in your life Drake, you're right.

[wispforever]

original quote under the cut

[desoax]

Bayer's Essure was a metal and polyester coiled device that was put into women's fallopian tubes to block the pathway between sperm and egg. After it was approved for sale in the United States, women began to complain that it caused allergic reactions and chronic pelvic pain and led to hysterectomy. In some cases it was lethal. Although eventually the FDA required a black box warning on the packaging, a Freedom of Information inquiry revealed that the company had 32,000 complaints about the device that had not been sent on to the FDA. Eventually, more than 39,000 women sued Bayer or hired lawyers over their use of Essure. In 2020, with no admission of wrongdoing, the company settled claims against it for $1.6 billion. In other instances, the authors pointed out, adverse event reports were made to the FDA but not shared with the public. Silicone breast implants were not allowed from 1992 to 2006, and when newer materials became available for implants, the public and doctors assumed they were not risky–even though there were no long-term studies of the effects of those materials when implanted in the breasts. However, as concerns grew, "safety advocates began meeting with the FDA in 2015. In 2018, the agency revealed that the adverse event reports existed but were not made public, despite the mandatory reporting requirement. During a public meeting in 2019, the FDA acknowledged that the agency had received over 300,000 breast implant adverse event reports–20 times more than they had previously admitted publicly. After this meeting, then-FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb promised release of all AE reports collected through 'alternative summary reporting,' most of which were released in June 2019."

Sex Cells: the Fight to Overcome Bias and Discrimination in Women's Healthcare, by Phyllis E. Greenberger, MSW

[draco-glacialis]

Agatha: *kills a villain*

Coven: *shocked*

Agatha: what he deserved it??

Lilia: just because he deserved it doesn’t mean you should kill him. Besides not everyone is as fine with murder as you are.

Agatha: well that’s just because not everyone has been discriminated against by a community that’s built on being different and being discriminated against for it. Not everyone has only ever heard that their never be good; that they are a monster no matter what they do. Not everyone decides to go fuck it I’ll be good in my own monstrous way as a result.

Coven:

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)

[charliejaneanders]

The Ninth Circuit also held in Navajo Nation v. U.S. Forest Service that spraying recycled sewage over sacred Navajo sites did not constitute a substantial burden on their practice of religion involving the sites.

It Sure Seems Like the Courts Have Placed Christianity Above Other Faiths

[kalavathiraj]

Maximum tolerance Comes from Not just counting similarities But also differences - How to get along?

Life Lessons, QUOTUS

[yippie-madness]

the never ending gloom of capitalism, but yeah its prolly just brain chemical imbalances

[silvantransthranduiltrash]

Bby Aragorn: *wondering through the halls of Imlardis*

Rando elf 1: ugh, i can’t believe that savage is visiting again. You’d think that our lords would have better taste.

Rando elf 2: i’ll say! And i can’t believe they allow him to be near Lady Arwen! Unsupervised at that! He’s already taught her to fight, who knows how else he’ll corrupt her.

Elf 1: truelly the silvans are such a barbaric lot, not only do they have everyone fight, but they scorn and ignore the Ainur, our holy gods who represent the light!

Elf 2: we can only hope that that brute Legolas *spits the name* doesn’t further influence our lord and his family with his dark ways.

Bby Aragorn: *frowning at what he’s overhearing*

Bby Aragorn: *suddenly lifted into the air*

Legolas, setting Aragorn on his hip: hey there, Aragorn! Have you been good? Caused any chaos lately?

Bby Aragorn: *cheers* Las! I have been a super good boy! Though i might have stolen some cookies here and there... but ‘Lladan and ‘Rohir helped me!

Legolas: *carrying bby aragron away* that’s good! And if you get in trouble, just blame it on the twins, that’s what i do.

Bby Aragorn: *nods with a pleased expression*

Bby Aragorn:

Bby Aragorn: hey, Las?

Legolas: yes?

Bby Aragorn: what’s a sav-savge?

Legolas:... a savage?

Bby Aragorn: mhmm! Or “barbiac”

Legolas: Barbaric. Where did you here those words?

Bby Aragron: just now! I over heard some elves talking about you and they used those words. They also called you a brute! I don’t think they were being very nice.

Legolas: well, you’d be right, kiddo. Those aren’t nice words to use.

Bby Aragorn: then why do they use them?

Legolas: bc there are a lot of light elves that don’t like dark elves, such as myself. They don’t think we’re good enough, “elf” enough, in a way.

Bby Aragorn: but... you are an elf?

Legolas: i very much am, but some elves don’t think that my people qualify.

Bby Aragorn: well that’s stupid.

Legolas: you can say that again.

Bby Aragorn: what’s a light elf? Or a dark elf?

Legolas: well, “light” and “dark” are basically the way the elves are divided in those who don’t believe in the Valar, and those who do believe in the Valar. There are a few more distinctions, but that’s the gist of it. I, myself, along with my people and the avari, are all considered “dark elves” because we don’t believe in the valar. The elves who live here, such as the Noldor and the Sindar, do believe in the Valar.

Bby Aragorn: so those elves don’t like you bc you don’t believe in the same things they do?

Legolas: well, that, and bc they have a superiority complex.

Bby Aragorn: well that’s stupid. All of it is stupid. Those are stupid things to do for stupid reasons!

Legolas: yes, so don’t be mean to someone just because they’re different from you, ok? After all, like you said, it’s a pretty stupid reason to be mean.

Bby Aragorn: *nodding determinatly* when i grow up, i’m gonna make sure people stop being mean to each other bc they’re different! That way i’ll be surrounded by not stupid people. And anyone who is mean to someone else bc they are different will be called a stupid poopy-head!

Legolas: *laughs* you do that! I look forward to it.

[thepersonalwords]

Discrimination does not 'make America great.' It makes America weak.

DaShanne Stokes

[razreads]

You don’t have to be part of a group to understand that they’re being mistreated.  

James Ponti, City Spies

[eelhound]

"If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself — as men have done to women, and class has done to class, and nation has done to nation — you may hate it, or deify it; but in either case you have denied its spiritual equality, and its human reality. You have made it into a thing, to which the only possible relationship is a power relationship. And thus you have fatally impoverished your own reality.

You have, in fact, alienated yourself."

- Ursula K. Le Guin, from "American SF and the Other." Science Fiction Studies, Volume 2, Part 3. November 1975.

[melodyross]

killing someone would be

less of a sin than kissing

a girl I love, if your God

is using Love as an excuse

for violence and control

what does that say about him?

if you hate someone

for the colour of their skin

then you are saying that

a physical part of a body

is more significant than

what is inside

and if that is so

why do you think that

your opinion, your hate

should be relevant in any way?

if you claim that people

are unique and should be themselves

and then you hate

on trans people who are

literally trying to be themselves

you are just a hypocrite

if you think you have the right

to decide on a body that is not yours

what would you do if

someone came over and asked

for your lungs because

someone else needs them?

we are all just people

we should not hate ourselves

and try to destroy the last

bits of humanity we hate left

you are not superior to someone

when you steal their rights.

[365filmsbyauroranocte]

Born in Flames (Lizzie Borden, 1983)