And In That Moment, I Swear We Were All MSR Trash

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incorrect pride and prejudice quotes

Pride & Prejudice (2005) dir. Joe Wright

Look I might be a closet horse girl and I might have very questionable taste in everything and maybe those two reasons are related BUT this scene is permanently etched in my brain and makes my chest do the thing

Mulder shares a moment of prolonged eye contact with a wet cat named Reggie.

while we’re all on this fuck makeup culture band wagon can we also talk about shape-wear? stockings? painful heels? the fact that for women to be tastefully “done up” she has to be five different types of uncomfortable?

When the Nazi concentration camps were liberated by the Allies, it was a time of great jubilation for the tens of thousands of people incarcerated in them. But an often forgotten fact of this time is that prisoners who happened to be wearing the pink triangle (the Nazis’ way of marking and identifying homosexuals) were forced to serve out the rest of their sentence. This was due to a part of German law simply known as “Paragraph 175” which criminalized homosexuality. The law wasn’t repealed until 1969.

This should be required learning, internationally. 

You need to know this. You need to remember this. This is not something to swept under the carpet nor be forgotten. 

Never. Too many have died for the way they have loved. That needs stop now. 

Make it stop? 

I did a report on this in my World History class my sophomore year of high school. It was incredibly unsettling.

My teacher shown the class this. Mostly everyone in the class felt uncomfortable. 

I have reblogged this in the past, but it is so ironic that it comes across my dash right now. I a currently working as a docent at my city’s Holocaust Education Center (( I say currently because I’ve also done research and translation for them )) and out current exhibit is one on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum ((USHMM)). This is a little known historical fact that Paragraph 175 was not repealed after the war and those convicted under Nazi laws as a danger to society because they were gay were not released because they had be convicted in a court of law. There was no liberation or justice for them as they weren’t considered criminals, or even victims for that matter. They were criminals who remained persecuted and ostracized and kept on the fringes of society for decades after the war had been won. Paragraph175 wasn’t actually repealed until 1994. And it was only in May 2002, that the German parliament completed legislation to pardon all homosexuals convicted under Paragraph175 during the Nazi era. History has forgotten about these men and women — please educate yourselves so this does not happen again. Remember this history. Remember them.

@mindlesshumor ok how the fuck did I miss this when I’ve studied The Holocaust like nobody’s business??? wtf

Because the history we have left regarding it is literally the contents of this first hand account.

It is a thin little book.

When I first opened it, I wondered why it was so thin.

Why there wasn’t other books like it.

Other first hand accounts.

By the time I finished it, I didn’t wonder anymore.

Further reading:

I, Pierre Seel, Deported Homosexual: A Memoir of Nazi Terror by Pierre Seel

An Underground Life: Memoirs of a Gay Jew in Nazi Berlin by Gad Beck

The Pink Triangle: The Nazi War Against Homosexuals by Richard Plant

Branded By The Pink Triangle by Ken Setterington

Bent by Martin Sherman (fiction; however, it’s often credited with bringing attention to gay Holocaust victims for the first time since the war ended)

This is one of the memorial sculptures in Dachau.  It was erected in the early 60s and is missing the pink triangles.  Because in the early 60s, homosexuality was still a crime in most of the world. Our tour guide explained why the pink triangles have not been added later - if they were, then folks would assume that they had always been there.  This way people ask “why aren’t there pink triangles?” and somebody can explain why - because in some ways, the rest of the world was as bass-ackwards as Nazi Germany.

Apparently, this wasnt taught in schools in the 70s-80s, cuz when I mentioned it to my mom, she had no idea that gays were held in concentration camps. She thought it was just jewish people.

All great suggestions 

This post gets better every time I see it

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This really says everything about Justin Trudeau’s priorities.

His top priority right now is building an oil pipeline as the World has been told by Climate experts we have about 10 years to rapidly get off oil if we want to avoid the worst of climate change. 

People are making decisions on whether they can afford rent, food or medicine, and their #1 priority is a pipeline. Right now a majority of Canadians are less than $200 away from personal bankruptcy, but sure lets devote all our attention to a pipeline that won’t even create many jobs.

Indigenous people right now are being forced to relocate due to flooding, are experiencing decades of mercury poisoning, are experiencing toxic mould as housing falls apart, but sure lets build a pipeline instead.

Imagine how much better this country could be if we put all this effort we’re putting towards building fossil fuel infrastructure towards building renewable energy, improving our healthcare system or combatting income inequality?

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Tweets from #ottawaflood: April 26-27 2019

Here are some pictures of some of these places normally:

Chaudière Bridge

Hog’s Back Falls

Ottawa River Trail (not the exact same location, but this will gives you a good sense of the river normally.)

** These are not my pictures. Taken from a Google image search.

Matthew Macfadyen as Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy in Pride and Prejudice (2005)