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The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) dir. Justin Chadwick

Kelly Green on Victory Friday. Even though I'm supposed to be working. Anyway Go Birds 🦅

#I still don’t know who is more offended between Grogu and Din…

Anti-suffrage postcard showing a group of suffragettes using umbrellas to beat up a policeman, printed inscription front: ‘Suffragists on the warpath. Jump ‘n him, He is only a mere man.’ (c. 1910).

Courtesy London Metropolitan University.

The art history version of “you’d look prettier if you smiled more”

you know what? fuck this *un-smiles your painting*

HAD to keep @furbearingbrick 's tag:

Can't wait for the uniqueness of the holocaust to be a topic of importance in a political campaign in america in 2024. That's how it should be. That's normal

It's true, the Holocaust isn't unique, it holds the largest impact because it is the most recent one, at least for jews, given time other genocides will overshadow it, and it should be taught in the same vein as other historic atrocities.

There was the Effacer le tableau.

The Hutu massacres of the first Congo war.

The Rwandan Genocide.

The Bosnian Genocide.

The Isaaq Genocide.

The Anfal campaign.

The Gukurahundi.

The Cambodian Genocide.

The East Timor Genocide.

The Ikiza.

The Bangladesh Genocide, which may have a repeat very soon.

The Holodomor.

The Great Leap Forward.

The Armenian Genocide.

I can go on.

To limit education to but one atrocity, when all of these happened in the same century is an attempt to reframe or even hide these atrocities, for instance I have seen many socialists defend both the Holodomor and the Armenian Genocide, it does those being educated a disservice by treating the Holocaust as unique while surrounded by a myriad of other heinous genocides.

I will say context is important, and I don't know the context here, but yeah he's right to acknowledge the many other genocides that exist.

I mean the context in the screenshot provided is obviously correct and vindicates what Walz is saying. Someone screenshotted that as proof Walz was wrong because they could not read the words in it, just that it somehow disagrees with them.

He fucking says, right there, "to exclude other acts of genocide severely limited students' ability to synthesize the lessons of the Holocaust and ability to apply them elsewhere," that's the quote that this thread's OP and Twitter OP both looked at and got enraged by without reading! Guess what? If you teach people the Holocaust was completely unique and unprecedented and unrelated to any other patterns of behavior, the take-home lesson is that it might as well have been done by space aliens and there's no reason to be concerned with what humans are doing!

and by divorcing the Holocaust from all other genocides, it also allows people to not have a framework of other mass atrocities, which surprisingly enough seems to make them believe that the holocaust could have actually NOT happened, considering how they don't have a framework about how often atrocities happen.

the follow-up here is that when walz taught his class of sophomore high school students about the holocaust, he had them extensively study other genocides and the social conditions that preceded them. the class wrapped up with a group project trying to predict where the next genocide was most likely to take place

(this was in 1993)

and where did they collectively conclude the next genocide was most likely to happen?

Rwanda.

if, like me, you can't remember the date of the Rwandan genocide off the top of your head, it kicked off in April 1994.

So ... when Tim Walz says that studying the Holocaust as part of a pattern is vitally important, he is not talking out of his ass.

Hitler himself said that no one would remember the Armenian Genocide, theorizing no one would remember the Holocaust.

By ignoring the number of these genocides, and treating them as anomalies, we inadvertently set up the conditions for the next one.

I'm so glad I follow people who can read.

I think I saw some exit poll (I'll see if I can find it again) that listed the men in women's sports/prisons as one of the top 5 reasons they voted against Harris, along with inflation and the economy. Even though she didn't mention it (to my knowledge) on the campaign trail, that commercial really did more damage. And like the anon said a few of the women I spoke with said that while they did vote for Harris, that was definitely something they didn't agree with.

He actually won. It's over for American women.

Women refuse to wake up. I am losing hope.

The fact that losing abortion didn't already wake them up.

Gotta be honest, it's insanely demoralizing.

oh

Women are also responsible for this and we need to hold them accountable for this devastation. I think many of them are frustrated by those who choose not to follow the traditional lifestyle. Because of this, they believe these women shouldn't have reproductive rights. If there was a male candidate from the Democratic Party, they would probably have voted for him. They did not vote for Kamala because even today people cannot see a woman in a position of power. Internalized misogyny definitely exists.

It’s been like two hours and my dash is already full of people talking about how we’re gonna hold the women accountable.

Are you people serious.

This election was decided based on sex. In every state except one (from what I could see before the paywall popped up with my slow Internet), women voted for Harris and men voted for Trump. Blame men.

except this is what the results looked like by race and gender in 10 key states according to nbc

so all the rhetoric about black men not voting for kamala was completely false, and obviously not a great demographic to focus on considering the smaller percentage of the electorate they make up compared to white women. and other exit polls suggest that women in general in many swing states, even when more than 50% total were voting kamala, were not showing up for her as much as they did for biden in the 2020 election, her lead with women voters was not as great as biden’s was. and, in every state where abortion was on the ballot, more women voted for abortion rights than they did for kamala, showing that republican women do not understand how dangerous trump and the project 2024 rhetoric is to women’s rights. internalized misogyny/the trad movement and white women’s racism both absolutely played a role in trump being elected. of course, men overall are more culpable for electing trump than women are. but women also need to wake up. the fact that nearly half of women in this country voted for trump is problem enough.

and btw from exit polling it’s clear that while sex had an impact on election results, the election was truly “decided based on” the economy and immigration. for example, only 14% of voters decided their vote based on abortion over all other issues, and 24% of those voted republican, meaning only ~3% of voters went into this election with the primary agenda of banning abortion.

the majority of americans (67%) feel that the economy is not good and the majority of that demographic voted for trump, in a much more extreme majority than any gender divide in this election. this is because most americans are stupid and don’t realize that an incumbent president (or vp) is not responsible for the state of the economy, inherits the impacts of decisions of the previous president, and also that the global economy is suffering from inflation after covid.

i was also feeling very doomer “this country hates women” before looking at the exit polling, and i’m not saying that that outlook is entirely wrong at all. it’s incredibly grim that a rapist and felon has won over a decent, qualified female candidate. but i don’t think we should reduce the election results to being about woman hatred. i don’t think this is a healthy mindset to have, because there’s a difference between republican voters hating women/being motivated to vote against women’s reproductive rights and republican voters simply not being concerned about women’s rights/caring about other issues more (and falling for racist, anti-immigrant rhetoric, and voting based on that perceived “threat”)

Fucking thank you. Radblr does not want to face the fact that it is overwhelmingly white women who play a huge role in their own oppression. It's right there! Look at it! For some reason the thought of acknowledging this makes them have an aneurysm! Y'all will preach about female solidarity this, female solidarity that but how the fuck do you expect black women supposed to feel solidarity with y'all when the polls look like that? If y'all won't even talk about it?

pro-abortion. pro-divorce. i believe we have the god-given right to give up

when people go after no-fault divorce or abortion what they're really doing is trying to enshrine the sunk cost fallacy into law

it sounds like a joke but this is a genuine political belief of mine. you should be able to leave a situation you don't like. the government has no business trapping you in a relationship.

quitters rights!

A 69-year-old Arkansas woman was convicted of killing her husband for ordering a porn channel.

Gyns, a potential rapist is down

She should be free.

Teach you girls.....