This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
This is not what a free society looks like.
@astrotwilight: If you have nothing to hide then why are you scared, are you a drug dealer?
Yes, absolutely. And a thief. And a homeless person. And a sex worker. And a graffit artist. And an undocumented person. And a person having sex. And a person carrying illegal medication. And, if I’m brave enough, maybe even someone who would break the law not just for my own needs but to change this rotten world where people suffer and starve and are imprisoned and enslaved and deported and murdered in the name of ‘the law’.
How does anyone look at the sentence “Are you sure we’re not watching you” and not feel immediately threatened by that, to the point of DEFENDING it
“If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear.” Okay then, take a shower in public where everyone can see you. Or pull your pants down in the middle of the sidewalk to take a crap. Or have sex with someone in public. EVERYONE HAS SOMETHING TO HIDE.
Anonymity and being discreet isn’t always about doing something wrong. Like we all have our own reasons to want to hide things from people lol
Those who are already marginalised and targeted know.
“Don’t hide,you have nothing to fear if you have done nothing ‘wrong’”
Just means “Don’t hide,let us see everything so we can decide on which part of you to label as ‘wrong’.”
not being really overweight but not being thin is a weird place because you never look quite as good as your friends and you’re in that spot that everyone tells you “you’re not fat!” but doesn’t want to say you’re thin and no matter if your weight shifts you always sort of look the same to yourself and in some situations you can hide your appearance but in others its alarmingly obvious, and buying clothes is like a luck of the draw as to if you’ll look thin or huge because it feels like there isn’t an in between
I met a fourth grader and her name was yue, and she was like ‘yea I’m named after a character from avatar the last air bender cause my parents are huge nerds’ and all I said was ‘that’s rough buddy’ and she beamed at me and I’m pretty sure I made her day lmao
Do you ever think about the fact that the US has created and legitimized a system of institutionalized inequality by funding schools through property taxes? That basically a child’s education is only as good as the value of the property in their neighborhood. Funny how education is so often viewed as an equalizing factor when there is nothing equal about it.
I really don’t care if I’ve already reblogged this
Because this needs to be reblogged….
I remember learning this for the first time as an adult. I had grown up thinking education was the great playing field leveler. So I was so furious to find out how very much it wasn’t anything of the kind.
This is a big part of why you’ll often see rich white people fussing about school district lines, because they hate the idea that their money is going towards the education of poor children.
some fun facts about the production of hamlet i’m in right now:
the ghost never appears physically
ghost scenes take place in complete darkness, lit only by the guards’ flashlights
rosencrantz and guildenstern’s first entrance involves a tango choreographed to beyoncé’s “crazy in love”
other transition music includes “applause” by lady gaga, “loveless” by lorde, “only angel” by harry styles, and “a little party never killed nobody”
gertrude is either drunk or hungover for the entire play
when polonius encounters hamlet to find the cause of his madness, hamlet is reading a copy of “infinite jest”
rosencrantz and guildenstern try to seduce hamlet into a threesome
they also try to seduce claudius
at intermission laertes goes onstage to practice his swordplay and flirt with the audience members in french. osric watches him from behind the curtain and takes notes
the pirates who deliver letters to horatio are dressed in trench coats, sunglasses, and fedoras
fortinbras is a thirteen-year-old boy
and finally:
hamlet doesn’t give the “to be or not to be” speech. horatio does. at the end of the play. over hamlet’s body
Fisherman: Friend, what do you want? [weasel sniffs at a closed bucket with fish] Hungry for some fish, aren’t you? Maybe I should give you a fishing pole? Eager beaver. Let me open it. [weasel is busy digging under the bucket. fisherman gently pokes it] Hey, there is a lid up here. Come on, pick any you want. [weasel grabs a fish and runs away] Hey, no “thank you”? Well, you’re welcome.
the distinction between “crafts” and “fine art” is probably driven by misogyny and the devaluation of women’s labor
art forms that have traditionally been practiced by women like embroidery are devalued and called just “crafts” while art forms that women historically were mostly barred from (painting, sculpture) are “fine art”
Also racism; African and Indigenous art is considered crafts whereas only white forms are “art”