Never normalize Nazis.

I hate _% of people statistics being used like “oh it’s such a small number” cause 1% is a small number but 1% of 7 billion is 70 million. That’s more than the population of the UK, France or Italy.

6% of the US is 19 million, as stated above. There are only 3 states that have over 19 million people in them. 19 million is the population of the entire state of New York. That’s more than half the population of California.

Taking populations and turning them into percentages is okay until you try to say “oh that’s not a lot of people” but the reality is… That’s millions. That’s enough to be its own country. That’s fucking scary.

Like don’t get me wrong, that’s nicer than the idea that Americans are split pretty 50/50 on such issues…. but that’s still 3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country.    6% is a nice, softened way of saying “over 1 in 20 people”.

3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country. 

3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country. 

3 neo-Nazis for every Jew in the country. 

Let that sink in. Then think about how your Jewish friends and neighbors feel right now, and have been feeling all this time.

And that’s only the people who “Identify” 

Regardless of other factors, do you believe asexual people have the right to be part of this community because of their asexual identity?

Yes: 94.2%, 1838 respondents. No: 5.8%, 113 respondents.

Regardless of other factors, do you believe aromantic people have the right to be part of this community because of their aromantic identity?

Yes: 92.2%, 1771 respondents No: 7.8%, 149 respondents

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I’m just posting this here for my aces and aros who are feeling down on themselves and defeated tonight. Remember that nine out of ten people support you and that the current loudest voices are not those of the majority.

I know a few people who might benefit from seeing this.

Holy… holy shit… that makes me so, so happy, you can’t even know-

@creativity-killed-thekitten 💜

After the recent article about Star Wars trending on Google, I thought it might be fun to take a closer look at how various Star Wars characters are trending on Google, both old and new. The results may make some … Continue reading →

This link was submitted to me, and tbh it kind of hurts to read about how Finn is so much less popular even than other ST characters, who are generally not as popular as PT characters. What hits me particularly hard is that John Boyega is virtually nonexistent in search trends compared to his ST co-stars despite having such a prominent role in the movies. Are we really going to keep pretending that people sleeping on Finn and John has to do with anything but antiblack racism, when a drop-dead gorgeous actor on this level of talent and hustle is a lead in a worldwide megafranchise and is virtually ignored?

Also the difference comes in to place with the Bible as well. Jewish ppl tend to follow the god of the Old Testament, all powerful, all knowing, vengeful, jealous, and law abiding. Many of the rules Jewish people ahere to come from the Old Testament, observing the Sabbath, not eating of unclean things like pork. God was something to be feared and have limited to no access to. They also follow the Torah.

Whereas Christians tend to weigh heavily on the New Testament. Christians believe in Jesus, and once he died for our sins the veil from the Old Testament ripped in two clearing the way of god and mankind to become one hence the Holy Spirit. God in you. Though most Christians believe in Jesus and what he did and talked about his two rules, many like to dip into the Old Testament to pick up rules that no longer apply because of what Jesus did. Christians use these rules to okay racism, control over women, slavery, kill homosexuality, killing people who aren’t Christians etc. Christians come from the word Christ as in Jesus Christ.

But a few Christians called Red Letter Christians (which I am) only adhered to Jesus spoken word via the red lettering in the New Testament of the Bible. Jesus gave only two rules 1. Love thy neighbor as thyself. 2. Believe in Him. Never during his time on earth did Jesus condemn homosexuality, control over women, slavery, killing because a person isn’t like you, nor racism.

Is that concept of Judaism something told to you by someone who is Jewish? Because Jewish people I know seem to believe god is a punk-ass bitch and they need to fistfight him, more or less. Jewish people have literally put him on trial multiple times, so mainstream modern Judaism seems very different from the characterization of following an all-powerful, jealous and law-abiding god. And for that matter, most Jewish people’s relationship to the commandments doesn’t bear much resemblance to the legalistic adherence to archaic rules that many Christians characterize them as, aided by the Christian Bible itself.

I had a few Jewish friends growing up. They were from a stricter denomination, Orthodox Judaism to be precise. Your friends sound like Reconstructive Judaism. Orthodox don’t believe Christ was the son of god and that he was just a Prophet.

There are different sects of Judaism: Orthodox (adhere to the Bible/Torah strictly, obey the Sabbath and have a gazzion rules to follow), Conservative (adhere to both the Torah but also *live in the real world* like won’t eat pork but work on the Sabbath), and Reconstructive (which as you described your friends are, they believe in Jesus as God’s son, and condemn God’s teachings of the old rules)

Orthodox Jewish people make up just 10% of Jewish people in the U.S., so they are hardly representative (link). That number is 31% in Israel, adding up adherents of Haredi Judaism and religious Zionism, but they are still outnumbered by the 67% of Jewish Israelis who are non-religious and atheist (link). What we would call Orthodoxy does seem to outnumber Reform (3.9%) and Conservative (3.2%) Judaism among religious Jewish Israelis, however. Jewish people have expressed frustration at the idea that Orthodoxy is more “real” or representative Judaism than other denominations (link). The largest Jewish denomination in the U.S. is Reform (which I think my friends are, if memory serves) followed by Conservative, though these terms are not universal across communities. Reconstructionism as far as I can tell does not teach that Jesus is the son of God, in fact according to my research “classic” Reconstructionists reject traditional theism altogether. While Reconstructionism is theologically diverse, I can’t find a mention of any strain of Reconstructionism believing in Jesus that way.

There’s more than just Christian themes in Star Wars though, and George’s religion should have nothing to do with how the movies from either eras our judges. If you’re judging a person’s understanding of their religion based off their movies than most the filmmakers would have shit beliefs.

I live in the US and there’s many other religions in the country, not every atheist came from a Christian belief system. I was raised Muslim and Catholic, but I chose to be Agnostic.

We can’t judge people by their religion unless there’s firm proof that’s what their motivation was from.

That’s kind of the dilemma of literary hermeneutics. We often tend to interpret things based on the writer’s religion or the religious influences they might’ve had or what was going on politically in their country at that time but in the end all we do is guess. Not to mention that there is never such a thing as THE interpretation, no matter how much information we collect about George, JJ, RJ and the current time and context. Then we won’t ever be able to seperate ourselves from our own socialisation which will - no matter how hard we try - influence our judgement. And even those of us who grew up in the western world have very different thinking patterns that won’t only be different from each others’ but also from those of the writers, not to mention  the differences that occure between people literally from all over the world. So even when I for instance write that TLJ is a result of RJ’s racist and  sexist thinking patterns, it’s just the most logical conclusion I came to, but it’s still an interpretation. (but if people interpret his work  that way it’s bad, no matter what RJ’s intention truly was, thus he would need to apologize and reflect on his writing anyway) So the OT as a Christian story is an interpretation. Every parallel we discuss, no matter how likely it seems to us, is an interpretation. That doesn’t mean we should stop doing that of course (LOL then we could throw all literature studies into the trash) but we have to be aware of it. 

Like I forget it sometimes as well but I have the feeling so do many of you. It’s a normal thing bc some of these conclusions are so natural to us that we forget or never realise where they came from. But I can for instance say that the OT as a Christian story or TLJ as a Christian story seem completely alien to me. (even more so with TLJ) And I did grow up in a Christian society too. So it’s just one way to interpret it which seems very likely to some people but unlikely to others. And what truly influenced George… maybe even he doesn’t know. Same for RJ. 

“If you’re judging a person’s understanding of their religion based off their movies than most the filmmakers would have shit beliefs.“

@themandalorianwolf Isn’t that pretty much Hollywood in a nutshell 😂 What I’m talking about, however, is Yoda’s prattling about how attachment is bad and so on, which people keep saying is Buddhist when it’s more a bastardized understanding of Buddhism popular in the West. I have written about this before (link).

And where did I judge someone for their religion? Like, am I being accused of Christophobia or Buddhaphobia or something here? :P I don’t have anything against Christians or cultural Christianity in of itself–I’m a very culturally Christian atheist/agnostic myself. My issue is with people discounting the clear Christian themes (forgiveness, redemption etc.) because of George’s religion. I didn’t bring his religion into this, I made a plausible reading of themes in the story, which is one of many possible readings as @thelastjedicritical said, and someone brought up George’s religion to invalidate that. So I retorted that someone having a different religion or no religion does not discount prior cultural influences. I know that from personal experience, as I said.

I also never stated that Christianity is the only religion in the U.S., I know how diverse it is ethnically, religiously and otherwise. However, it’s just fact that the U.S. is a heavily majority Christian country with some 70% of the population belonging to some sect of Christianity (link), so the statement that atheists in the U.S. are frequently–not exclusively, I never said that–culturally Christian shouldn’t be controversial.

“R/eylos are 95% a minority”

Their own demographic survey begs to differ:

So yeah spare me with the bullshit, demons.

1.37% Black. TBH I didn’t think it would be that low.

Also, they note that the ship is popular in Asian countries, meaning that some percentage of the Asian fans are not “minorities.”

But remember, “minority” doesn’t equal POC. It includes religious minorities, LGBTQ, people with disabilities, and, sometimes, women. White women benefit the most from Affirmative Action, after all.

Can confirm that it’s popular in Asia, Korean Twitter is overrun with these demons.

Black twitter hates Reylow

I’m still ROTFL at the 1.37% number 😂 I’d have guessed more like 5%, personally.

In response to @luffykun3695 yeah, the dynamics of reylow are similar to what shows up in a lot of Korean media. It’s one of the reasons I dislike K-Dramas.

Union Membership is Finally Back On the Rise

After a long decline, 2017 saw gains in union members. Thank a young person.

by Sam Wallman

TheNib.com

@thenib

Well there's one thing Millennials aren't killing!

sure, not all men, but a lot of men, and we have no way of knowing which ones

“sure, not all black people, but a lot of black people, and we have no way of knowing which ones.”

This is exactly how you sound.

“sure, not all muslims, but a lot of muslims, and we have no way of knowing which ones.”

lettuce consult the fbi data:

Of the 1,864 women murdered in 2010, 91% were killed by men. (by contrast, of the 3,872 men murdered, only 9% were killed by women). Of all the women murdered (by either sex), over a third were killed by a husband or boyfriend. women have legitimate reason to fear men, even the ones they know. 

Of the 3,327 white people murdered in 2010, only 13% were killed by black people. 3% were killed by other or unknown races. white people do not have a statistically legitimate reason to fear other races.

women’s fear of men is based in reality, not bigotry. white people’s fear of other races is based in bigotry, not reality.

This deserves much more than 294 notes

A Statistics teacher in Gotham makes a graph comparing times when Bruce Wayne goes on long vacations with times Batman gets beaten up really badly by villains to illustrate to his class how correlation does not equal causation.

Well, obviously Bruce Wayne wouldn’t want to be in Gotham when Batman is in recovery and can’t protect the city. Duh!

And that’s how “The Coward Bruce Wayne” became an incredibly popular Gotham meme

In 2015, 17% of all U.S. newlyweds had a spouse of a different race or ethnicity, marking more than a fivefold increase since 1967, when the landmark Supreme Court case legalized interracial marriage. 

Overall, one-in-ten married people in 2015 – not just those who recently married – had a spouse of a different race or ethnicity. Read about how intermarriage varies across the U.S., and see our interactive tables of all metro areas.

Ten Things You Didn’t Know About Bisexuals

[Sources: The Williams Institute, Bisexual Invisibility: Impacts and Recommendations, National Intimate Partner and Sexual Violence Survey, Sexual Research and Social Policy]

we’re here, we’re queer and we’re a lot more valid in our anger than you’d like to admit

Holy shit.

Fact: bisexuals make up a majority of the LGBT population.

Fact: the majority of bisexuals are closeted.

Theory: If all bisexual people came out, straight people would no longer be the majority. 

Do we really make up a majority? Cause the way we’re erased i had no idea. Like really. I thought we were in minority…

The Human Rights Commission of San Francisco released a groundbreaking report on Bisexual Invisibility in 2010 which revealed that, even though only 28% of bisexuals are out (compared to 71% of lesbians and 77% of gay men.) bisexuals out-number gays and lesbians combined, Many studies have followed which verify this data. 

There’s also been several studies that have shown that a large percentage of millennials don’t consider themselves exclusively attracted to one gender

Whaaaaat.

*MANIACAL, BISEXUAL LAUGHTER*

Unfortunately, bisexuals’ health outcomes and poverty rates are also pretty grim. There’s a lot of work to do, and it starts with visibility.

*subdued, thoughtful silence*

Sorry I didn’t mean to harsh on the mood! If you look at the linked article we do in fact make up the majority of SGA people (52%, which may be seriously understated for all the reasons discussed here). WE ARE TAKING OVER BWAHAHAHA

Fact: bisexuals make up a majority of the LGBT population.

Fact: the majority of bisexuals are closeted.

Theory: If all bisexual people came out, straight people would no longer be the majority. 

Do we really make up a majority? Cause the way we’re erased i had no idea. Like really. I thought we were in minority…

The Human Rights Commission of San Francisco released a groundbreaking report on Bisexual Invisibility in 2010 which revealed that, even though only 28% of bisexuals are out (compared to 71% of lesbians and 77% of gay men.) bisexuals out-number gays and lesbians combined, Many studies have followed which verify this data. 

There’s also been several studies that have shown that a large percentage of millennials don’t consider themselves exclusively attracted to one gender

Whaaaaat.

*MANIACAL, BISEXUAL LAUGHTER*

Unfortunately, bisexuals’ health outcomes and poverty rates are also pretty grim. There’s a lot of work to do, and it starts with visibility.