afab people typically type in lower case and use more abbreviations/acronyms and more likely will keysmash, use certain memes or use "!!!" or ",,," or lots of dots or all caps. also some specific phrases just scream afab to me. amab people usually are more blunt with typing and use capitalization (not always) and grammar more often, most likely won't use any !!!s, may keysmash if it's a gay man but unusual, more dry sense of humor, might be more likely to use longer words and reference politics
1500 cases from 1990-2016 (that we know of). And to clarify, this lists comprises of brown and black lives.. there’s so many names I could add to this, we are far from this post-racial utopian society people try to paint us as. In some areas in the UK, black people are 17x more likely to be stopped and searched. Black bodies mysteriously die in cells while the IPCC torments the families with biased investigations that they were never here to seek justice for them. Just this February Sarah Reed a black British woman died under mysterious circumstances in her cell. Tell me how a black woman who was sexually assaulted in the psychiatric hospital she was put in ended up in prison? She was also a victim of police brutality a couple of years ago. In 2012, police broke the neck of science student Julian Cole leaving him brain dead while the family still awaits his justice in 2016!
We need to know why our lives are seen as so disposable. We need to know why black people are over represented in the custodial system and why such racial prejudices exist in the criminal system in the first place. They purposely hide the history and achievements of black people in the UK so we remain ignorant and forget about our own movements in the 60s - our fights to bring in “no discrimination” laws. Our fights to be treated as equal. Many Brits don’t even know the origin of the biggest festival in Europe - Notting Hill carnival, which was political, created as a means to celebrate our heritage and culture in the face of adversity. Gangs of police have been terrorising us since the majority of our grand parents came during the windrush era in the 40s. Police brutality is nothing new. Ask your grand parents how they used to try to intimidate black folks minding their business, kidnap and beat them up only to drop them off somewhere far from home. How they’d ignore evidence pointing to members of white hate groups who would murder us, harass us and vandalise our property/businesses. This isn’t anything new. And history continues to repeat itself as the list of brown and black lives continue to be taken away/brutalised. The media may try to hide it but it’s happening.
Let’s not pretend that the UK hasn’t played a huge role in propagating the false belief that whiteness is superior. Let’s not pretend that they have not spread this through violence, pillaging countries, colonisation and slavery. Do not wipe away the history of this country and what they continue to do, to paint some utopic fantasy which you can use to compare to America. What can Britain teach America about valuing black lives? We aren’t above them at all.
The UK has a higher incarceration rate of blacks than America does
First female black student-president at nation’s most expensive prep school is forced to resign after ‘offensive’ photographs of her mocking ‘typical white classmates’ emerge online
The former black student body president at a pricey New Jersey prep school was forced to resign from her leadership position earlier this year after she posted a series of photos on the Internet, in which she is seen dressed as what she describes to be the typical male, white student at the school.
In the photos, former Lawrenceville School Student Body President Maya Peterson is seen wearing L.L. Bean duck boots, a Yale University sweatshirt and is holding a hockey stick, which she says is representative of the typical ‘Lawrenceville boi.’
In addition to the photos, she added hashtags like ‘#romney2016,’ ‘#confederate,’ and ‘#peakedinhighschool.’
Peterson explains that the photos were meant as a joke in response to complaints made by students about her senior photos, in which she and 10 friends - all of whom were black - are seen raising their fists in a ‘Black Power’ salute.
‘I understand why I hurt people’s feelings, but I didn’t become president to make sure rich white guys had more representation on campus,’ she told the website. 'Let’s be honest. They’re not the ones that feel uncomfortable here.’
Some of Peterson’s classmates, however, didn’t see the humor in her ‘racist’ photos.
'You’re the student body president, and you’re mocking and blatantly insulting a large group of the school’s male population,’ one student commented on the photo.
Peterson’s response to the comment only made things worse.
'Yes, I am making a mockery of the right-wing, confederate-flag hanging, openly misogynistic Lawrentians,’ Peterson responded. 'If that’s a large portion of the school’s male population, then I think the issue is not with my bringing attention to it in a lighthearted way, but rather why no one has brought attention to it before…’
Both students and faculty members felt the images were offensive, and that ‘it was not fitting of a student leader to make comments mocking members of the community,’ Dean of Students Nancy Thomas told the Lawrenceville student paper.
Peterson’s take on race has irritated her classmates in the past, as well.
In 2012, following the re-election of President Barack Obama, Peterson wrote on Facebook about how proud she was that an African-American was president - and threw in a sarcastic jab at white people.
'As a black and Latino, gay woman in the United States of America, today is a momentous day,’ she wrote. 'I’m sorry to all the rich white men who have failed to elect a president that endorses their greed.’
Some of her classmates felt the Facebook post was racist.
'I’m gonna have to assume from your political beliefs and what you’ve said that you do not pay for your Lawrenceville tuition in its entirety,’ one student wrote. 'But do you know who pays for that? Yeah, that would be all those greedy white men who actually worked for their fortune, not relied on the government to support them. Just saying.’
Peterson’s family paid full tuition at the school.
Peterson’s getting elected student body president worried many of her classmates, as they believed she was alienating a large portion of the student body with her controversial comments about white classmates
One former student said Peterson’s photos - and overall attitude, ‘violated the spirit of the Lawrenceville community.’
'It was hateful. It wasn’t inclusive,’ the student, identified only as David, said. 'When I think of Maya Peterson, I don’t think of someone who is an avid proponent of progress or of inclusiveness. I think of someone who is hateful. She had a hateful spirit.
I have never felt more love for someone that I have never met than I do for this young woman. I thought she would apologize but in the boldness of her reasoning I saw no lies.
Maya Paterson for some public office in the future? Presidency maybe..
Blackface African parties: Silence
Native American mocking parties-Silence
Urban Black culture mocking parties-Silence
Black woman with a hockey stick-OMG REVERSE RACISM!!!
I honestly believe she was making a point and their reaction made her point perfectly.
Because the rape and misogynistic jokes in the brony fandom aren’t just kept on one blog. It’s not just one gross comic. Googling for Celestia brings up rape jokes. Youtube searching Celestia brings up Molestia videos. Brony imageboards and forums are full of sexist and disgusting image macros. You know the brony fan-animation thing, Button’s Adventures? The makers of that are big on this kind of humour too [warning, the video behind that link is shamefully juvenile rape humour]. Fans shout nasty jokes around at conventions, bring up this kind of content at panels, it’s everywhere. It’s disrespectful, it’s ignorant, and it’s everywhere.
this isn’t limited to celestia, either
literally the third, FIRST PAGE result for ‘fluttershy’ is a video of her being raped by the viewer in unmistakable horrible detail
i dont know about you but plenty of parents let their kids search youtube videos to keep themselves occupied, or the kids sneak on the computer on their own (kids are surprisingly smart, after all). and especially with the shitty economy parents do not have the ability to supervise their kids 100% of the time, and kids will often find ways to circumvent any parental locks since they typically aren’t very sophisticated
so what happens when an 8 year old girl searches for her favorite cartoon pony and clicks the third result? what happens when she sees a character she loves being sexually abused by someone she trusted for the sake of getting some brony’s rocks off?
it’s the first lesson that the world isn’t safe. that they aren’t safe. that men see women, no matter who they are or what they’re like, as objects to be used and abused. it’s a loss of innocence. and it’s something no little girl should have to see.
if you want to make rape porn about a sweet little pony from a cartoon for little girls, i think you’re disgusting, but i can’t really stop you. but maybe it should be corralled into little corners of the internet clearly marked ‘adult’ for you and others like you. not one of the top results of characters from a children’s show
yes, in an ideal world all children would be supervised by their parents while using the internet. but A. like i said, parents are not goddamn omniscient, B. some parents are abusive/just don’t care, C. a lot of parents are uneducated about the breadth of the internet’s horrors, D. the internet is more and more a part of everyday life, it is fucking everywhere, usually with multiple intuitive devices in your home capable of accessing it
so if you’ve never considered the possibility that a single mom could say “stay here honey, I need to run to the store to get milk and bread” and leave her 7 year old alone, and she grabs mommy’s ipad and goes to youtube because that’s where the cartoons live and searches for her favorite pony’s name, you’re fucking daft. stop shirking responsibility. you need to own this and acknowledge this is goddamn harmful
