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landysbear:

Here’s something uplifting for y’all’s dashboards.

fenrismp3-hasmoved:

France’s politicians and community leaders have criticised the “intolerable” violence against Paris’ Jewish community, after a pro-Palestinian rally led to the vandalizing and looting of Jewish businesses and the burning of cars. 

please please please spread this around, please speak up about this, please let everyone know that this is not okay, please please please protect my people from a second kristallnacht, please 

This was originally posted on 22/07/2014. Still relevant tho.

mad-maddie:

My Patreon just launched!

mantreads:

reverseracism:

cromaka:

The performers, who call themselves “funnyguys”, advertise that they will paint any message on their body in exchange for money while dancing in the jungle.

While many choose their own name or a funny message, PewDiePie jokingly asked the pair to display: “DEATH TO ALL JEWS”.

He published the resulting clip, showing them dancing and laughing while holding the antisemitic message above their heads, on his YouTube channel.

While some fans found the clip funny, others said the star had gone too far.

Despite requesting the hateful message to be displayed, and publishing the resulting video, PewDiePie apologised to fans at the end of the video – but still gave the performers a five-star rating.

He said: “I am sorry. I didn’t think they would actually do it. I feel partially responsible. I mean I’ve got to give them five stars for an outstanding experience because at least they did what I asked.”

He added: “I don’t feel good. I don’t feel too proud of this, I’m not gonna lie. I’m not antisemitic, or whatever it’s called, okay so don’t get the wrong idea. It was a funny meme, and I didn’t think it would work, okay. I swear I love jews, I love ‘em.

“I am so sorry. I don’t know what else to say.”

pewdiepie paid some guys actual money to hold up a sign that said “DEATH TO ALL JEWS”, published it, gave them a 5-star rating, and then tried to shrug off any responsibility by saying he didn’t think they would really do it. he even says he only feels “partially” responsible and he’s “not antisemitic” despite the fact that he 1) posted this video so close to a surge in antisemitic hate crimes following trump’s election and 2) posted this video at all.

this isn’t funny, this isn’t satire, it’s gross and hateful shock humor at the expense of people who are already unsafe with the increasingly emboldened neo nazis–i mean, “alt right”. it’s not defensible. stop supporting him.

That racist, disgusting, vomit inducing Antisemitic roach.

these are the two performers in question. they had an innocent business going on where they would dance in the jungle with a sign saying anything, pewdiepie exploited them by forcing them to brandish his antisemitic message, and they were banned from Fiverr (obviously a source of income for them) while pewdiepie excused himself from blame and received none.

in the same video pewdiepie

• paid a freelance performer to drink bleach and proceeded to smugly laugh about it
• said hiring graphic designers is useless and instructed the viewers to steal art from deviant art instead
• made fun of the entire demographic of people advertising on Fiverr (calling them people who will do “whatever i want” for $5) and took it as an excuse to exploit them, saying “they are more than happy that i am supporting their business.” and in the same grossly entitled breath, he took these two disprivileged men’s business away.
• called “death to jews” a “funny meme”

this man and anyone who finds him funny is fucking disgusting and irrelevant. 

famehunting:

Please
sit down. Thank you. I love you all. You’ll have to forgive me. I’ve
lost my voice in screaming and lamentation this weekend. And I have lost
my mind sometime earlier this year, so I have to read.

Thank you, Hollywood Foreign Press. Just to pick up on what Hugh
Laurie said: You and all of us in this room really belong to the most
vilified segments in American society right now. Think about it:
Hollywood, foreigners and the press.

But who are we, and what is Hollywood anyway? It’s just a bunch of
people from other places. I was born and raised and educated in the
public schools of New Jersey. Viola was born in a sharecropper’s cabin
in South Carolina, came up in Central Falls, Rhode Island; Sarah Paulson
was born in Florida, raised by a single mom in Brooklyn. Sarah Jessica
Parker was one of seven or eight kids in Ohio. Amy Adams was born in
Vicenza, Italy. And Natalie Portman was born in Jerusalem. Where are
their birth certificates? And the beautiful Ruth Negga was born in Addis
Ababa, Ethiopia, raised in London — no, in Ireland I do believe, and
she’s here nominated for playing a girl in small-town Virginia.

Ryan Gosling, like all of the nicest people, is Canadian, and Dev
Patel was born in Kenya, raised in London, and is here playing an Indian
raised in Tasmania. So Hollywood is crawling with outsiders and
foreigners. And if we kick them all out you’ll have nothing to watch but
football and mixed martial arts, which are not the arts.

They gave me three seconds to say this, so: An actor’s only job is to
enter the lives of people who are different from us, and let you feel
what that feels like. And there were many, many, many powerful
performances this year that did exactly that. Breathtaking,
compassionate work.

But there was one performance this year that stunned me. It sank its
hooks in my heart. Not because it was good; there was nothing good about
it. But it was effective and it did its job. It made its intended
audience laugh, and show their teeth. It was that moment when the person
asking to sit in the most respected seat in our country imitated a
disabled reporter. Someone he outranked in privilege, power and the
capacity to fight back. It kind of broke my heart when I saw it, and I
still can’t get it out of my head, because it wasn’t in a movie. It was
real life. And this instinct to humiliate, when it’s modeled by someone
in the public platform, by someone powerful, it filters down into
everybody’s life, because it kinda gives permission for other people to
do the same thing. Disrespect invites disrespect, violence incites
violence. And when the powerful use their position to bully others we
all lose. O.K., go on with it.

O.K., this brings me to the press. We need the principled press to
hold power to account, to call him on the carpet for every outrage.
That’s why our founders enshrined the press and its freedoms in the
Constitution. So I only ask the famously well-heeled Hollywood Foreign
Press and all of us in our community to join me in supporting the
Committee to Protect Journalists, because we’re gonna need them going
forward, and they’ll need us to safeguard the truth.

One more thing: Once, when I was standing around on the set one day,
whining about something — you know we were gonna work through supper or
the long hours or whatever, Tommy Lee Jones said to me, “Isn’t it such a
privilege, Meryl, just to be an actor?” Yeah, it is, and we have to
remind each other of the privilege and the responsibility of the act of
empathy. We should all be proud of the work Hollywood honors here
tonight.

As my friend, the dear departed Princess Leia, said to me once, take your broken heart, make it into art.

maggie-stiefvater:

Readers kept asking me how to not be afraid of driving. I wrote a little bit about it on Jalopnik.

plantpuppy:

to summarize:

•Anish Kapoor gets exclusive rights to use Vantablack, the world’s “blackest black” pigment, which understandably upsets a lot of artists

•Stuart Semple responds by creating Pink, the world’s “pinkest pink” pigment, which he makes legally available to everyone except for Anish Kapoor
•Kapoor somehow gets ahold of Pink and posts an Instagram photo of his middle finger dunked in the pigment that Semple had banned him from using
•Semple gets ahold of Vantablack and posts an Instagram video of his hand making the peace sign with his fingers coated in Vantablack
•During this time, Semple also releases Diamond Dust, the “most glittery glitter,” again available to everyone EXCEPT Anish Kapoor

The best thing about Diamond Dust is that it’s made from actual shards of glass so Anish can’t just stick his middle finger in it again

This petty art feud is actually starting to look like it could be one of the most important pieces of performance art of the 21st century

dbananza:

tmirai:

I’ve never had more respect for this man. There is a link to his interview in the article.

thank you.

bylacey:

Hey guys! Just a heads up: I’ll be running this giveaway on Twitter until the 27th of November. Along with running this giveaway–that I started in hopes to spur others into giving ANY dollar amount to ANY charity you deem worthy of fighting back against bigotry both in the US and worldwide–I’ve pledged to Planned Parenthood to show my support.

I am happy to draw for those willing to put forward a few of their hard-earned dollars towards a worthy cause. Please spread the word!

edit: The original post says I’ll be using tweetdraw but that is a retweet randomizer! Oops! My bad! I’ll be using RANDOM.ORG to enter each proof of donation and draw a winner!

auroralynches:

katara:

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blackdenimjeans:

zanemalicks:

Y’all still wanna vote for this old white feminist thot

When Hilary dies

And this people of the internet, is what politicians call, a “sound bite” 

“…And our problem is not all kooks and Klansman. It’s also in the cruel joke that goes unchallenged. It’s in the off-hand comments about not wanting “those people” in the neighborhood.

Let’s be honest: For a lot of well-meaning, open-minded white people, the sight of a young Black man in a hoodie still evokes a twinge of fear. And news reports about poverty and crime and discrimination evoke sympathy, even empathy, but too rarely do they spur us to action or prompt us to question our own assumptions and privilege.”

if you want to be political, stop being lazy