cant believe my tiny baby is growing up to be such a vaguely evil-looking babe
im so proud
[ on success ] I’ve only ever really been in shows of friends, so I don’t know exactly what happened. I think I’m incredibly cheap to hire. That can buy some traction. I’m as cheap as it’s possible for an actor to be legally.#i love how MEAN he is sometimes #but he’s so cute and says it in such a flat way #people just laugh it off #but he’s so BITING #like the ‘it’s a hell of a medical form’ one #he might as well have said #‘stop describing myself to me as if i’m some kind of oddity you motherfucker’ #but instead he’s sarcastic about it in just the right way #GOD #he’s so motherfucking smart and ruthless and i love him #richard ayoade (x)
Today I learned that my cousin was targeted by the police, but they failed.
So he was dropping his girlfriend off at her house and he was taking my grandfather’s NEW truck.
The police pulled him over and he put his hands on the steering wheel, like you’re supposed to do, and he waited on the police officer to approach him.
The police officer informed him that he pulled him over because there was something wrong with the tailpipe of the truck (keep in mind, brand new truck) & that he needed his license and registration, so my cousin gave it to him.
As the police officer went back to his car, my cousin called my grandpa and told him that something was wrong with his tailpipe on his BRAND NEW TRUCK.
My grandpa, thinking something was not right, asked where my cousin was and went to arrive where he was being pulled over at.
Back to my cousin, waiting on the police officer, 3 more cop cars pulled up and one had a K-9 dog with him. My cousin, confused, asked what was going on. The police told him nothing, not to worry about it. He kept talking to my cousin to distract him, but my cousin saw in the rear view mirror that the police officer with the K-9 dog had something in his hand.
The police officer with the k-9 dog called the other police over and told him, “the dog smells weed.” My cousin does not smoke, and my grandfather doesn’t carry weed.
When the police asked my cousin if he had any drugs on him, my grandpa pulled up in his car. At the very moment, the police with the K-9 dog got back in his car, & sped off. The first police officer told my grandpa, “we’re done here.” & left in his car with the other cops following him.
Guys.
The police officer was going to try and plant weed in my grandpa’s truck.
He was going to say that it was my cousins.
My cousin could have been the next hashtag on our social media networks.
REBLOG THIS BECAUSE I WANT EVERYONE TO SEE THIS SHIT. SOME POLICEMAN ARENT SHIT AND DO NOT DESERVE THEIR BADGE. THEY DELIBERATELY TARGETED MY 18 YEAR OLD COUSIN AND WAS GOING TO SET HIM UP. THIS IS BULLSHIT.
“I am insulted that this anime did/didn’t do a thing with race! POC deserve respect! I want them to change it to be more like I want!”
The Japanese have a completely different racial and social history, so it may be that they are making it based on their own experiences. Are you basing this idea on Western ideas of race and racial relations? Wouldn’t making the Japanese make media that reflects a Western idea of race be cultural imperialism? Here’s a good way of knowing if you are informed of Japanese racial politics:
Are you aware that Okinawa was not originally a part of Japan, was conquered, and is often referred to as the Ryukyu Islands? That it has it’s own ethnic minority with its own rapidly-dying language, and Okinawa also has by far the largest concentration of detested American army bases? Here is a photo from the 19th century of a Ryukyu Island native, taken by a Japanese man to sell “ethnic photos” back on the mainland.
Did you know that the “Japanese” we know of are not technically native to the island at all, but arrived sometime in prehistory to displace the original inhabitants? This would be the Ainu, and genetic studies have shown they’re actually more closely related to Caucasians. They now mostly live in Hokkaido, most of their land having been taken and many been killed due to historic wars and slavery.
Did you know that countless ethnic Koreans and Chinese have lived in Japan since the colonial period, often because of having their land ownership and livelihoods forcibly taken and moved to Japan? That they were forced to not speak their native language and had to go by Japanese names? That even though many of them have lived there for generations, they could not obtain citizenship until 1980 without getting a Japanese name? That there were hate crimes committed against Korean schoolgirls as early as the late 1990’s?
And the ultimate taboo, did you know that Japan had its own class of “untouchables” like India? These are known as Burakumin, or at least that’s the nicest word for them. They were often relegated to “unclean” professions like tanning and butchery, and in premodern Japan someone could literally cut down a Burakumin in the street in broad daylight and receive no reprisal. While they are legally no different from anyone anymore, socially is a different story. If you have Burakumin ancestry, chances are, you live in certain districts–because no one else will rent or sell a house to you. Employers use your address to openly discriminate against you. If you marry, your family may hire someone to trace your family history to make sure you have no Burakumin ancestors. To many, it’s taboo to even discuss them. Below is Jiichiro Matsumoto, a burakumin and considered to be the father of burakumin liberation.
There’s more, of course, but you get the idea. Most people outside of Japan are simply considered gaijin–whether you’re a black gaijin or a white gaijin. You’re a foreigner. Sure, due to imperialism, a Japanese is going to think of a white English-speaker first and there are some differences within the category, but know that this is the category the rest of the world has been placed in. We’re a goofy novelty sure, but there are random gaijin of all colors being the “talento” of Japanese television. Outside of the extreme Japanese right, we’re not very controversial.
As you can see, the Japanese are racial-ideology-wise far from perfect. But for someone to come in with no knowledge of this long and complicated history and insist that having more Hispanic/Black/POC(a meaningless term in a country full of POC) characters in anime, it’s saying that American racial ideas and politics are more important. Sure, I love when anime has diversity of any kind. But if you think an anime with a “POC” is more progressive and ignore something like Samurai Champloo–which has both a Ryukyu island native main character and several episodes devoted to the Ainu–then I’m sorry, but you’re being culturally ignorant and contributing to cultural imperialism. That yet again, the gaijin should be the star. And the West has a very, very long history of imposing its own sense of morality on everyone else. I can find way more foreigners of any color portrayed in anime than any Ainu, let me tell ya. I have no right to tell a foreign industry to stop making media that reflects them and their racial identity and instead make stuff that looks like an American sitcom.
This doesn’t mean let Japan off the hook. But that means that if you want to have your own opinion, if you want to be taken seriously, and if you want to promote social justice without doing the exact same white man’s burden act we’ve always done, then you have a responsibility to educate yourself.
Since the election and the appointment of John Whittingdale the BBC’s future has seemed ever more in doubt, and I worry terribly about that. I love Doctor Who, for a start, and I don’t want to see it go. But more than that, I worry about Cbeebies. It’s so good for disabled children and adults, really genuinely good – it has a show done entirely in Makaton and aimed at children with learning difficulties, a show starring a visually impaired little girl played by a visually impaired little girl, one of the presenters is disabled… (there’s also a lot of racial diversity, more so than the mainstream BBC I suspect.) It does such a good job, but I really worry it’ll be one of the first things to go when the hammer inevitably falls.
If you get annoyed by the teacher leaving one little mark on the board, it doesn’t mean you have OCD.
If you have to fix someone’s slightly messed up hair because it annoys you, it doesn’t mean you have OCD.
OCD is lying awake at night wondering if you locked the front door, when in the back of your head, you know you did cause you checked 27 times but why not make it 28.
OCD sucks and it’s a serious condition that shouldn’t be thrown around like it is.