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ghettoso:

#FASCISTBOOK: It is not hate speech to say that racist white cops who murder innocent black people are PIGS. SUCKERBERG: Chow down on my nasty, fat, brown cock. Up your ass bitch.

truscum-vivi:

transmedicalism-saves-lives:

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bizarrolord:

lasatfat:

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ilililian:

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totallyalegitspy:

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femaledirk:

And they banned me without giving me an ability to answer that no, I *personally* wouldn’t say that, but it *still* doesn’t give a right for someone to rape the unwilling party. 

Grow the fuck up or go to jail for promoting rape of gay people.

I would say that! Like in a heartbeat I would say that. I’m pretty sure I have said that.

So you tell people off for being fat and having an eating disorder but also willingly and on purpose trigger said eating disorder.

Yeah just fuck you

Just because for some people this blunt approach could be eye-opening doesn’t mean it’s for everyone. Specially if they have an ed and trying their best to treat it, professionals involved or not, you as an outsider aren’t one (even if you had similar experiences). Why would you purposely say that? Yeah, you don’t have to play into ones “delusions” (like some people call it) but intentionally doing that is morally questionable in my opinion. @transmedicalism-saves-lives

First off? Fat people don’t have restrictive eating disorders, they have excessive eating disorders. Anything that makes them eat less is doing a favor. Second, if they’re trying to sleep with me I have every right to inform them of the reason that ain’t gonna happen.

Yes to having that right, but saying it “in a heartbeat” sounds like not caring about them at all. As if you were doing them a favour by causing a guilty conscience. I like going by the rule if they can’t fix it within a minute keep it to yourself, especially if they are trying to fix it already. If they were pressuring you or whatever like cornering you by all means you don’t have to be nice imo. Personally I think your approach is unnecessarily provocative and will do more harm than good. People in general respond more to support and help than being that blunt.

Plus I think what they meant by “eating disorder” was anorexia/bulimia, not compulsive eating. Which is truly an assholish thing to do to someone with these disorders.

But yeah, you can reject someone without triggering dysphoria. There’s a big difference between “I’m not into trans people, sorry” and “FUCK YOU, YOU SICK DEGENERATE RAPIST, YOU’LL ALWAYS BE A HOMOPHOBIC MAN/WOMAN NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO!!!”

Whatever happened to “you don’t need to give a reason to reject someone?”

Point taken. If you do give a reason, just don’t be an asshole about it.

It’s also incredibly vile to insist that fat people only have excessive eating disorders. If you refuse to acknowledge that anorexia can (and oftentimes does) occur in fat people, you’re… literally just a piece of shit, I don’t know how else to say it.

Anorexia is literally characterized by dangerously low body weight. This is what happens when people start self-dx’ing.

honey, you’re not a doctor, and you obviously know jack shit about eating disorders. please, for the love of god, look up “atypical anorexia” and stop spouting bullshit you have no clue about?

Dude you’re straight up wrong. Fat people aren’t limited to binge eating disorders. You’re clearly aware that you’re wrong and all you’re doing is digging yourself a deeper hole. You’re wrong. Get over it.

You don’t have to be at a dangerously low weight to be anorexic. You can catch an illness before it becomes incredibly serious and treat it then. Just because an anorexic fat person is however many pounds doesn’t mean they haven’t lost a large amount of weigh in a short period of time. It doesn’t mean they won’t eventually become dangerously underweight.

Just face it. You’re not correct here.

yourenotafeminist:

Me on a date: So tell me about yourself

Girl: Well I’m a feminist and I think women are far superior to men.

Me: Excuse me I just have places to be.

Today, on Ignorant People Use Tumblr: Blogger makes an anti-feminist page without actually knowing the definition of a feminist.

I know I’m super late of on this, but it recently came to my attention how incredibly stupid and ignorant and hateful people on twitter were in response to Miss New York Nina Davuluri winning Miss America. They had the gall to say that she should not have won because she wasn’t even American, comparing her to Al-Qaeda and calling her a Muslim (as if that’s supposed to be something offensive). Seriously? Do people not realize how stupid they sound when they make comments like this? Its like saying that a banana and a war tank are exactly the same things. I must be deluding myself but last time I checked being American is a frame of mind, not just being born in the country. I could understand and even tolerate some of their ignorance if they did not understand that concept, but she was born and bred in the USA! I’m more sad than angry about this. It really goes to show the lack of morality and common decency that is rampant in this country; going to church and reading the Bible does not constitute morality- it is just being a good human being, open and understanding.

Don’t romanticize it.

When a person says that they’d just love to have my experience I just want to say, “Really? You want the frequent headaches, the ringing sound in your head that’s not really there but you’re beyond exhausted like all the time that at this point being tired is just a continuous state of being for you, and no amount of sleep can alleviate your constant dread of social situations and being in noisy places and second guessing yourself ALL THE TIME even when you know there’s no reason to but its just that being deaf is like having a phantom sense and you’re always wondering if there’s a sound there or if something’s happening here and you’re not hearing it but no worries because someone will be there to make you feel like a total piece shit for not hearing them speaking to you?”

Let me know how that goes as you realize it’s not a simple matter of plugging up your ears.


I’m not sure if I think any of us are obligated to apologize to some hearing people for making them feel uncomfortable for five seconds when we are uncomfortable in their world for a lifetime.

Sunny bus selfie. Yesterday as I boarded there were already two strollers in the priority zone (ther

Sunny bus selfie. Yesterday as I boarded there were already two strollers in the priority zone (there are two on Vancouver buses accommodating one wheelchair user and one stroller at a time - better than most cities).

The bus driver obviously had to ask them to move because wheelchair users have priority (strollers are supposed to be folded up at this point). Of course the ladies didn’t want to remove their toddlers and fold up their strollers so they made it awkward for everyone but the worst part of it was for me - everyone involved referred to ME as ‘the wheelchair’. I am a damn person.

They all also spoke as if I wasn’t even there (which not surprising given that I’m referred to as an object). And here’s the thing - I know it could have been far far worse - in Britain for example there’s a stand off between wheelchair users and parents with pushchairs (strollers) even though the Supreme Court has actually ruled in wheelchair user’s favor (of course! We don’t have a choice in the space we take up and our need for that space is fundamental to our existence in the community).

So, I know it could have been far worse but it just really sucks being spoken about in this way and never TO. The lady decided she could share my space and didn’t even ask me if I was okay with this. Neither of the mothers looked at me once. You know how that makes me feel? Not just that they like to think I don’t exist but that they’d rather I didn’t exist. That I’m an annoying inconvenience in THEIR day, not the other way around.

I had different problems with using the bus before I used a wheelchair and to be honest they were worse but I just implore everyone to think about how you talk about wheelchair users and just address us! Talk to us like any other human being. We are people and we deserve your decency and humanity.


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The things I have to say are fucking important. Otherwise I wouldn’t say them. Yes, even if they’re

The things I have to say are fucking important. Otherwise I wouldn’t say them. Yes, even if they’re only two words.

The ‘aesthetic’ of your tumblr that entirely lacks original content is not as important as my VOICE or IDENTITY.


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#FASCISTBOOK: It is not hate speech to say that racist white cops who murder innocent black people are PIGS. SUCKERBERG: Chow down on my nasty, fat, brown cock. Up your ass bitch.

A geography and history refresher, in the wake of Irma and Maria

I am really appalled by comments that I’ve seen about us coming to the aid of Puerto Rico, which has been brutally ravaged back-to-back by hurricanes Irma and Maria - comments about how they don’t deserve our “foreign” aid, they send too many “illegals” and “refugees” here…

So, I thought it would be worthwhile to share the following:

⭕ Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory! Therefore, they are not a “foreign” land.
⭕ Puerto Rico is not a U.S. territory by our virtue and goodwill - we took control of Puerto Rico in a war with Spain.
⭕ All Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens. Not a single person born on Puerto Rican soil, is “illegal.”
⭕ Puerto Ricans were made U.S. citizens by the U.S. Congress - despite Puerto Rican protests - in the 1910s, which meant that Puerto Rican men were subsequently drafted into World War I.
⭕ Puerto Rico has **ZERO** voting representation in Congress - therefore, they cannot vote on things like the budget (which includes hurricane relief), whether or not to go to war, etc.
⭕ Puerto Ricans are not Mexican.
⭕ Puerto Rico is an island - and therefore, they don’t share ANY border with the contiguous United States. This makes “Build That Wall” chants sound even more stupid and vile.

Let’s not spite our fellow countrymen and women, just because their native tongue isn’t English.

One thing that A Series of Unfortunate Events does really well is that it establishes very early on to a quite young audience that sometimes people don’t mean it personally when they hurt you, but that doesn’t excuse their behavior.

Take Mr. Poe for instance: in every single encounter the Baudelaire orphans have with him, he messes everything up. He consistently puts the children in dangerous situations just because it’s convenient for him, he never listens to what the children actually have to say, and he refuses to be held accountable for his own mistakes, thereby dooming himself to make them over and over again.

If you divide it up evenly, Mr. Poe is just as responsible for the children’s ill fate as Count Olaf because for every single book in which he’s involved, and up through The Carnivorous Carnival in the Netflix series, he is capable of righting the situation and saving the children and he still decides to save his own behind rather than helping the children who are in dire need of an adult figure they can trust. Desmond Tutu famously said that “if you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor”.

And yet, Handler draws a distinctive line between Mr. Poe and Count Olaf in the series because one truly is worse than the other. Mr. Poe doesn’t mean to harm the children, and genuinely does care about their wellbeing, even if he is awful at doing so. He is always appalled when Count Olaf is actually revealed at the end and he does want the children to be safe. Count Olaf on the other hand actually hates the children and means to cause them harm.

The series draws the same distinction between Charles and Sir in that regard and Jerome and Esme, as well. It makes the point that people hurt each other and do harm in the world for all sorts of reasons and very rarely is it personal - that we shouldn’t take it personally when people are bad because adults are fallible too and sometimes they make mistakes without thinking. But even more so, the series makes the point that unintentionality does not excuse the harm that they do. Just because someone doesn’t hate you and that someone didn’t mean to harm you doesn’t mean you are obligated to forgive them or be understanding of their position. So often in this world people make excuses for their behavior, saying they didn’t mean to do something or they didn’t understand the effect it would have or they just weren’t listening and we’re expected to accept their apology and move on because we’re told intent means everything.

But the thing is, intent isn’t everything. Intent is only half the battle and our actions always have consequences, regardless of whether we like those consequences or not. Ignorance is not an excuse for inaction because it is our responsibility in the world as citizens of the world to be conscious of the effect our choices could have on others. The Baudelaire orphans never forgive Mr. Poe, and in The Penultimate Peril when Mr. Poe approaches them and offers them help and offers to take them to their next home, they refuse his help and their refuse his apology because his intentions in that instance don’t matter because he created great harm in the world and just because he didn’t foresee it doesn’t mean that he couldn’t have. This follows the same vein as excusing someone’s behavior because it was rooted in deep trauma or mental illness or justified revenge - the reason why someone did something wrong doesn’t matter, they still did something wrong and they need to face up to their crimes.

It was an important message then, but I think it’s an even more important one now in the political climate that we live in. There are so many people in this world right now who want to cause harm: neo-Nazis, the alt-right, homophobes, transphobes, racists, sexists, and we have an administration that actively takes delight in causing harm to oppressed people as long as it stands to benefit them in some financial way. They know they are hurting people and they continue to do so anyways so long as it makes them more comfortable. These are the Count Olafs of the world.

But then there are the ignorant people that support Trump and his administration, that do racist things like calling the cops on black people just because they look “suspicious”, or use their religion as an excuse to justify discrimination, and simply regurgitate everything they’ve been told by others just as ignorant as them about the way the world ought to work, and those are the people who pave the way for the Count Olafs of the world. It is easier to excuse their bad behavior because they really don’t mean for what they do to cause harm - most of the time they genuinely think they’re doing the right thing - but their actions have just as big of consequences as the actions of the Count Olafs. The children never would have ended up in Count Olaf’s clutches time and time again if Mr. Poe hadn’t put them there. The Count Olafs are worse, and it’s important to recognize the difference between intended harm and unintended harm, but we have to hold the Mr. Poes of the world accountable too, because ignorance is just as much a choice as malice.

Thank you patrons. This poem deals with morality and learning.

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cumaeansibyl:

kaayyohh:

cumaeansibyl:

mahakavi:

why jared

why’d you have to do this

hey man thanks for explaining to black women why they’re wrong about stuff, we didn’t have anyone else doing that

he comes out of the gate with such fucking hostility too and then he pulls back cos he got caught but he won’t let it go, like “why’d you mention your upbringing" um because black experience is more fucking relevant than your white boy feelings about how all racial slurs are bad

are white people allowed to call other white people crackers because the world’s tallest saltine just took a shit all over twitter

what just happened here wut? is this about the zimmerman case?!? wut?

I guess so? There was some panel on CNN about “cracker" vs the n-word which I think must’ve been inspired by Rachel Jeantel’s testimony (and indirectly by Paula Deen probably)

Because this is the national discussion we need to have when a white man stalks and murders a black child for existing in a place, we need everyone to do some serious soul-searching on whether it was wrong for that child to call him a name.


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While we’re swinging for the fences, here’s Lewis Lapham pondering the unfathomable immensity of the

While we’re swinging for the fences, here’s Lewis Lapham pondering the unfathomable immensity of the cosmos: “Isn’t that kind of the fun, the looking into the vast darkness ripe with wonders that will never cease? The limitless expanse of human ignorance … rouses out the love of learning, kindles the signal fires of the imagination. We have no other light with which to see and maybe to recognize ourselves as human … To bury the humanities in tombs of precious marble is to deny ourselves the pleasure that is the love of learning and the play of the imagination, and to cheat ourselves of the inheritance alluded to in Goethe’s observation that he who cannot draw on three thousand years is living hand to mouth. Technology is the so arranging of the world that it is the thing that thinks and the man who is reduced to the state of a thing. Machine-made consciousness, man content to serve as an obliging cog, is unable to connect the past to the present, the present to the past. The failure to do so breeds delusions of omniscience and omnipotence.”

This and more in today’s culture roundup.

(Image Credit: Autopsy of the First Crocodile, Onboard, Upper Egypt, by Ernest Benecke)


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It’s not just that the concept of Western civilization is bankrupt, racist bullshit … it’s that it’s

It’s not just that the concept of Western civilization is bankrupt, racist bullshit … it’s that it’s much fresher bullshit than you might think. Kwame Anthony Appiah provides an excellent primer: “European and American debates today about whether Western culture is fundamentally Christian inherit a genealogy in which Christendom is replaced by Europe and then by the idea of the West … If the notion of Christendom was an artifact of a prolonged military struggle against Muslim forces, our modern concept of Western culture largely took its present shape during the Cold War. In the chill of battle, we forged a grand narrative about Athenian democracy, the Magna Carta, Copernican revolution, and so on. Plato to Nato. Western culture was, at its core, individualistic and democratic and liberty-minded and tolerant and progressive and rational and scientific. Never mind that premodern Europe was none of these things, and that until the past century democracy was the exception in Europe—something that few stalwarts of Western thought had anything good to say about. The idea that tolerance was constitutive of something called Western culture would have surprised Edward Burnett Tylor, who, as a Quaker, had been barred from attending England’s great universities. To be blunt: if Western culture were real, we wouldn’t spend so much time talking it up.”

This and more in today’s culture roundup.

(Image Credit: The Plumb Pudding in Danger, James Gillray)


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Chabon, Lethem, Eggers, Saunders, Whitehead: the literary luminaries of the nineties made their name

Chabon, Lethem, Eggers, Saunders, Whitehead: the literary luminaries of the nineties made their names on a fantastical escapism, more determined to entertain than they were to provoke. Now that the world’s gone even more to shit, Sam Sacks wonders if their appeal has worn thin: “the central dilemma of the nostalgist’s aesthetic: Can a novelist both recapture the innocent pleasures of storytelling and at the same time illuminate the complex realities of experience? In stable and prosperous times, truth and entertainment can overlap. But periods of crisis wedge them apart, and being faithful to one compromises the other … I find myself missing ambivalence—a quality that rarely squares with entertainment. There must be precious few readers who don’t already feel well disposed to tales of World War II heroes, fugitive slaves, and Abraham Lincoln.”

This and more in today’s culture roundup.

(Ilustration: Nathan Fox)


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Literature loves a hoax—the Daily itself may have perpetrated one as recently as yesterday, though y

Literature loves a hoax—the Daily itself may have perpetrated one as recently as yesterday, though you didn’t hear it from me. Clifford Irving, who’s responsible for one of the great written ruses of the past fifty years, isn’t given the credit he deserves as a creative liar. Paul Elie tells his story: “Irving, while living in Ibiza in 1971, concocted a bogus autobiography of Howard Hughes, the reclusive billionaire tycoon. Irving, a Manhattan-born author of three novels that had sold poorly, saw it as a low-risk, high-adrenaline stunt, a kick at the pricks of New York literary society. It was the kind of thing a writer could try and hope to get away with in the days before the Internet laid all—or most—fraudsters bare. That ‘stunt’ turned Irving into the Leif Erikson of literary hoaxsters. (The forged Hitler Diaries would not appear until the 1980s.) Irving got advances upward of $750,000 from McGraw-Hill; fooled the publisher, handwriting experts, and Life magazine’s editors; and stirred the publicity-loathing Hughes to comment—all of which seems to surprise him even now. ‘I was a writer, not a hoaxer. As a writer, you are constantly pushing the envelope, testing what people will believe, and once you get going you say, They believed that; maybe they’ll believe this … ’ ”

This and more in today’s culture roundup.

(Image Credits: By Nick Cunard/Rex/Shutterstock (Lehrer), Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images (Albert), Schiffer-Fuchs/Ullstein Bild/Getty Images (Frey), Steve Helber/A.P./Rex/Shutterstock (Erderly), from Bettmann/Getty Images (Irving, Cooke).)


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melanin-goat:

Guys, I’ve been matched to a lot of stupid people on dating apps but this guy won !

Apparently my bone structure is so “masculine” he had to ask me if I was trans, which btw is not offensive to me. Then when I asked if he was in sarcasm, this was his response. This has to be the morst ignorant response. And the fact that he unmatched me after just proved he has fragile male masculinity.

Thanks for letting me know the type of energy you’re on Alex from day 1

although i really like this girl, i hate seeing ignorant shit like this.i don’t understand h

although i really like this girl, i hate seeing ignorant shit like this.

i don’t understand how people can make such comparisons. if you don’t want people to stare at you, don’t cover your face in metal. i didn’t wake up one morning and say “hey, let’s chop off my hand and then get pissed when people stare because it’s different” you, however, woke up one morning and said “hey, let’s put unnatural pieces of metal all up in my face and get pissed when people stare because it’s different.” don’t pretend like my disability and your piercings are the same thing, they’re not even relatively close.

i am fully with her on the last piece, though. don’t judge someone based upon looks. as a proud tattooed and pierced woman, i hope one day people will grow to accept these things as pieces of art, not means for judgement.


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I was doing some research into Buddhism, and hit upon a revelation that I had to share with all of you real quick!

In the West, we tend to view Buddhism as being inherently contradictory.  “How can it be a pursuit of joy when all of life is suffering, and we need to practice non-attachment to escape it?”

This is due, in part, to a mistranslation of Sanskrit terms, which do not have an exact equivalent in English. When we translate dukkha as “suffering,” it would perhaps be more accurate to say “unsatisfactoriness.” The Buddha taught that our misconceptions lead us to find life to be pervasively filled with a sense of wrongness and dissatisfaction.

What is the biggest misconception, the biggest “ignorance,” then? That is that we exist as an individual self that is separate, cut off from the rest of existence. Attachment to an object or sensation is a product of one feeling a disconnection from that object or sensation - when, in reality, we are all part of one huge, wonderful whole. There’s nothing to attach to in the first place, once you realize it was a part of you and you were a part of it all along!

Ignorance of this truth also breeds aversion, or hatred, as well. When you come to accept that we are all one, you could never bring yourself to hurt anyone or anything else, for that would be tantamount to hurting yourself.

I’m sorry to spring this on all of you out of the blue, but I’ve kind of been having a spiritual awakening recently, and I’m incredibly inspired! Thank you for reading, and may the Tree of Life always shelter you!

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