And for further reading:

Canada has a Black Incarceration Problem that Human Rights Advocates say isn’t Being Addressed

The systematic racism that indigenous Canadians face is also terrible.

Canada’s prisons are the ‘new residential schools’

While admissions of white adults to Canadian prisons declined through the last decade, Indigenous incarceration rates were surging: Up 112 per cent for women. Already, 36 per cent of the women and 25 per cent of men sentenced to provincial and territorial custody in Canada are Indigenous—a group that makes up just four per cent of the national population. 

Trudeau’s response perfectly encapsulates Trudeau and his milquetoast “liberalism.”

He also said this at the same event:

"I don't support it in real life"

Then stop normalizing it Then stop romanticizing it Then stop pretending it’s “hot” Then stop pretending it’s “cute”

will you ever understand that fiction is NOT reality

the brain reacts to fictional situtations they same way it does with real situations

a collection of links to articles about how fiction affects reality

but yeah, fiction totally doesnt impact reailty

old people are literally trying to blame our generation for food allergies…….

the sjws ruined halloween

peanut allergies were invented on tumblr

NOTHING

I think this country was already ugly. He just helped bring it to light for us all to see.

^exactly

^^

Pretty much. All they needed was for someone to make it okay to be openly racist.

Robert Brockway, http://www.robertbrockway.net/2013/07/18/its-not-a-game-if-you-cant-lose/ (via pelikinesis)

This is a really good quote about how the nature of this word has changed.

(via jamkaks)

….When was trolling ever anything but a transparent attempt at getting attention you’re lacking elsewhere in your life though?

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Jordan Klepper attends a Trump rally to catch up on all the hottest conspiracy theories.

Dear Millennials,

Do you hate the way Baby Boomers talk about you?  Well, I want you to remember something:

The Baby Boomers were also the generation of the Hippies.  And the so-called Greatest Generation said the exact same things about the Baby Boomers as the Baby Boomers say about Millennials.

The exact same things.  The only thing missing was the word “selfie”.

Hippies/Baby Boomers were called lazy and entitled.  They were called selfish and self-important.  They were treated as if they didn’t know how to work or show proper respect for their elders and everybody thought that they wanted some sort of special treatment.  The Baby Boomers were perceived as this group who thought everything was all about them.  If you asked the Baby Boomer Hippies, at the time, they’d say they were just exploring sexuality and fighting racism and trying to do away with the old ways because the old ways weren’t working.  They fought and they protested and they were passionate.

Then, to borrow a phrase from The Dark Knight, “you either die a hero or you live long enough to see yourself become a villain.”  That’s what happened to the Baby Boomers.  But, there’s a third option.

Remember.

Remember what this feels like.  Remember what it’s like to be in your teens and twenties.  Remember that it’s not easy.  Remember everything the past generation says about you.

Because there will come a day when the Millennials are in their 30s and 40s and 50s.  Where the President and Congress will all be Millennials.  Where you will be the establishment.  You will be in charge.

And there will be people of your generation, your age group, who will look at the Post-Millennials and say “Look at how selfish and disrespectful they are!  What is wrong with their music?  What is wrong with their hair?  They can’t be separated from their technology for one second, can they?!  People in my generation knew how to work hard!  They weren’t lazy and entitled like these kids are!”

It will happen.  Don’t let it.

Fight it.  Fight for yourselves now but, when you’re older, fight for the next generation.

Break the cycle.

If you hate the way you’re treated by the older generation and the media, then remember that and don’t do it to the ones who come after you.

Listen. I worry about this all the time. 

Anger towards privileged groups is a result of years of oppression and hatred.

Anger towards minorities is supported by years of oppression and hatred.

That’s why hatred towards privileged groups is not the same as hatred towards minorities

unpopular problematic opinion but

you shouldn’t have to reveal some deeply personal thing about yourself, especially if it somehow affects your safety, just so that people will listen to you and stop treating you like shit

@prayforprada you called it lmao

yikes…

It’s not Americans that are bombing people on a daily basis though

pal… have i got some news for you…

Why do white people think America belongs to them? What evidence can u show to support this arrogant, godless presumption? Who “gave” America to you? What receipts do you collectively possess to prove ownership?

No one is answering my questions but all of white tumblr who see this is proving my point with silence. Silence = compliance with the stat quo

@pax-britannica @nationalistmemes etc bring ya friends

I’m not American my dark chocolate pal

Not American but if I had to take a wild guess I’d say right of conquest. The land as a whole didn’t exist as an actual governed country before, it was occupied by various warring tribes from Canada all the way down to the southern tip of South America; Europeans showed up and either killed or assimilated the various tribes and claimed the land as their own and set up their own form of government.

As far as “owning” the United States itself goes, I don’t see how you can argue that any other people but white people own it, considering it didn’t even exist before them. I guess you could argue whether or not the land itself belongs to them but if you want to do that, why stop there, every country on earth likely took or lost territory to another group at some point or other, why not argue for them having their land back as well?

Land is just land and it belongs to itself, until humans arrive and create a society/civilization on it. Europeans arrived in America and settled to the North. Upon exploration of the land they later encountered the so called “Native Americans”. Native Americans were also tribes who arrived and settled in America, more to the Mid and South, (maybe because maybe the North was too cold for them?) But they were nomads, like their ancestors who came all the way from Siberia and around.. There wasn’t a civilization on this land so to speak, until people brought it. Europeans had more vision and were more advanced and thus created a civilization modeled after the one they lived in back in Europe. So America belongs to the people who created society/civilization on it, and their descendants.

And I should add the Spanish did about the same, with all of America. 

I… genuinely… shocked…

I…. You….

You think Native Americans…weren’t anywhere but.. the deserts where… the US Army had driven them…. by the mid-1800′s..?

How… How did you.. miss…the whole… Powhatan… or Iroquois Confederacy…? Or… literally… most of the first 400 years of European life in the Americas…?

You think Leif Erickson fought Skraelings, who were… what, a gaggle of trees? You think he fought an army of manatees-in-human-form?

You know NA were armed by White people and created their own armies because White people, so they could kill each other in their brother wars.. :v

…

You seem to be under the misapprehension that weapons=rifles, and that a bow and arrow cannot be used to build empires. There were already great empires in the Americas before Columbus landed. Contact with him spread devastating illnesses like fire over a dry prairie. Look at depictions of what the Mound Builders of Indiana/Ohio/Illinois likely lived like, and then see what plague and smallpox destroyed. Europeans landed in the New World and started the equivalent of the Black Death’s arrival in the 1340′s— imagine if a determined, well-armed, ruthless enemy had followed the black death and “conquered” all that the disease had cleared. There’s nothing there that suggests a definitive superiority of European culture— it’s just good timing.

I like how almost this whole thread is LAAAAACED with racist language. “Europeans had more vision and were more advanced” is the most racist thing I’ve read today like oh my god how does an entire thread miss the point so completely

>what was the point?

To expose the very real pro white supremacist racism that pervades try thought process leading racist white americans and eurocentric nationalists to falsely conclude that the usa is a land that belongs to them lol. And not a single one of u disappointed. Thanks for participating. Sincerely. Not that I agree with anything u said, but that u were willing to demonstrate precisely the mentality I presumed to be behind such an arrogant assumption as who’re people owning america. You think u did this by yourselves. U think the man-made laws the founding fathers created were just and logical. U think as a result of freedom from the physical chains of chattel slavery, but not being liberated from the social bondage that the rule of white supremacy dictates equals a progress for modern Black Americans for which we should somehow be thankful. Preposterous. Black America owes America nothing and Kaep owes no one a standing ovation or a hand over his heart. Least of all the oft racist and anti-Black rumbling presumptions of white American racism. Now if only one of you could have come in here with a humanistic and historically honest explanation…

but blacks are inferior culturally

Patently false. Kemet and other early indigenous African civilizations gave europe everything it thinks it knows lol why u lyin

your fucking retarted aren’t you?

Nope, but u are subhuman cave dwelling fish cake so there’s that. Racist whites on this site love invoking that ableist slur online when “nigger” has failed them in potency and they have no other kid glove jabs to throw. Your stimpson j cat-like arms are too short to box with me lil buddy.

Originally posted by sagittariusprincessxo

My Nigerian… I’ve stopped giving a shit about this argument a LOOONG time ago.

“Damn wite people, gimme my welfare. I need to go work on my pseudo-history degree.”

It just makes me laugh is all. Why do white people own America? Because we fucking conquered it. What were black people doing at the time? Selling each other to Jewish traders for weapons. The strong win, the weak lose. This is how it’s been for the entirety of human existance, and is one of the basic facts of nature. We are strong, and we conquered this land. We showed mercy to our enemy, when we could have just as easily killed them all off, and now they’re incredibly prosperous. If all you can do is bitch about white people, then you don’t deserve what you have, because it’s thanks to those white people that you have it.

You’re laughing because u have no real answer and this is nervous laughter, the kind that comes from dumb ppl who know they don’t have the solution but like to play make believe. What’s this we shit lord shitbird? U weren’t there. Guess again, this time be honest and not childish. White ppl ain’t gave me shit. Fail again fake nationalist Putin idolator. God u guys couldn’t be honest and answer without the white supremacy myth-based ego if I paid u fuckers to try, sheesh. Racist white arrogance is debilitating…and lame lmao

Great argument. Imagine how awful it must be to live in your head. I actually pity you. I’m sure all zero of your followers would agree.

You didn’t even come to answer the question tho comrade bullshitivich. Least I don’t live in a dark realm of whitewashed fairy tales filled with deluded grandeur and white supremacist myths. You’re mad because my question is more real than your reply in that I’m a rational intelligent conscious human being of the original order and you’re a mutt’s turd turning white in the sun, desiccated but still quite stinky

Originally posted by allreactions

just some white supremacists to block. stay safe, friends.

Okay, this mentality is hugely fucking problematic. I put my stuff on the internet to share with people who like the stuff I like, in a space that I’m in control of. People taking it and putting it elsewhere against my wishes is not “just how the internet works”, it’s a disrespectful practice perpetuated by assholes who just want to take stuff that’s not theirs and use it to get notes or earn money or what the fuck ever. If people really liked my work and had respect for me as an artist and A PERSON they would allow me to control where my own work is displayed, and stop assuming just because you CAN download it and put it somewhere else, means you SHOULD. I don’t even understand how people could NOT understand the artists’ desire to maintain control of their work?? I’M the one who spent hours making it, just because I let people see it and have access to a digital copy doesn’t mean I suddenly wave all rights to it or should not give a shit what people do with it. If there were a way to share without allowing people to save it, believe me, I would do that.

Also, it doesn’t matter how respectfully the work is taken. Consider a scenario here: the image is taken once, and put on instagram with credit. Then three other people see it from instagram. One puts it on pinterest with the tumblr source. The second puts it on weheartit with credit to the instagram, because hey, that links back to the source, that’s good enough, right? The third person forgets to link back at all, oh well. More people take it from all of those places, crediting any of those places in between. All of the different sources of this image mess with search engine algorithms and override the actual image source, making it harder to find. Someone from etsy looking for copyright free images to use on products finds one of these unsourced images and takes it and makes a bunch of money off it, hurting the artist financially and wasting their time as they struggle to get the products removed. Some idiot who wants to print out a bunch of johnlock porn to shock the actors on a talk show finds some reposted nsfw easily on google and suddenly an artist who just wanted to share their art with a few like-minded people is being mocked in front of millions of viewers. Eventually, the image comes full circle and is reposted on Tumblr with no credit, when it could have easily just been reblogged from the artist.

This is ignoring all of the people who lie about the source and claim they made it, which DOES HAPPEN despite your claim that it does not. People claim ownership, people trace, people copy the style, people do all kinds of things when they think they’ll get away with it.

This fucking happens. To almost all of the images I post. Multiple times. A day.

How hard is it for people to just decide NOT TO BE AN ASSHOLE AND STEAL IT? Why do people always come back to the artist with this bullshit “well if you didn’t want it stolen why did you put it up??” victim blaming garbage? How does that make any sense except to people who want an excuse to steal??

I’m going to publish this in case other people had this question burning on their mind and because I’m honestly so incensed that people even still ask this question after pretty much every internet artist has had to explain it a dozen times. However I hid their name because even though I’m really pissed off by messages worded this way I have nothing against them personally and don’t want to get them flooded with hate mail or whatever. I’d like to think you are honestly asking, but considering your message is worded like the millions of other messages artists get constantly questioning their rights to control how people share their work, with the standard assumption of my ignorance when it comes to “how things work” and undertone of judgement for thinking I would ever dare try to change “how things work”, forgive me if I’m skeptical.

People who ask questions like this, YOU just don’t want to accept that you have done something the artist dislikes, so you throw the blame back on the artist. YOU don’t want to change the comfortable little way you’re spending your time online taking others’ works, so you try to convince the artist it’s their fault and it won’t change. This is YOUR problem. Ask yourself if you really want artists to stop sharing their work with you and then decide whether that’s a viable solution to this issue.

if i may, i’d also like to extend on this and say:

just because an artist or content creator doesn’t speak english, does not give you ANY right to steal and repost, edit, and/or use their work without their expressed permission. it is not only disrespectful to the artist, but your assumption that the creator will never know and that it won’t hurt them because—hey, they’re ignorant and they don’t speak english!—is xenophobic and racist. i can name overwatch, dragon age, league of legends, and other bloggers that steal art from pixiv and repost it without permission.

we pour hours, days, weeks into a piece and even more years into perfecting our style. but you’d rather shit on us and risk discouraging us into hiding with your “you shouldn’t share it” logic; and for what, a few follows/reblogs? it’s not worth it to the fandom, it’s not worth it to the creator, and it’s not worth being a narcissistic jerk over. when you stop seeing artists as people and you literally objectify them into art-pumping machines, you’re the one in the wrong. stop treating artists like this.

Stop using words like “mob mentality” and “tumblr hivemind” when you really mean marginalized groups lmao