this hit me like a bus
I’ll reblog it till my fingers bleed
uh they also tell jews to get over the holocaust all the time but sure, keep throwing them under the bus
I love how they compare the Titanic, an accident, to the Holocaust.
racism cw
It’s my understanding that Black voters are aligning with Trump in greater and greater numbers as election day draws near. This is a picture of Donald Trump with his parents. For those of you too young to know the significance of what they are wearing, they are Klan robes, an in the Ku Klux Klan, and they were life long members. Fred Trump, Donald’s father was arrested in 1927 at an event for Klansmen, almost 2 decades before Donald was born. This picture is towards the end of Fred Trump’s life in 1999. Fred Trump, Donald Trump’s father, was a member of the Klan for more than SEVENTY years. Yet, this year, Donald Trump said he didn’t know enough about the Klan to disavow them. Why would he lie about that?
I am BEGGING everyone to please repost this and repost it often until election day. Donald Trump is a liar and a racist. His not so hidden agenda is to restore white power to America. Understand that his policies will be detrimental to Black people in ways far greater and more far-reaching than we can comprehend.
Which is precisely why I posted the link to his father’s 1927 arrest at a Klan event. His father was a Klan member.
And this is further proof that his father was the same Fred Trump and very well may have been involved in the killing of someone.
(((Prayers and Voting)))
The world need to know this
The picture’s fake, but as for the rest of it; there’s a bunch of evidence here…
…please, please don’t vote for Trump
a guide to british news sources
Because you (quite rightly) hear a lot about how awful the Daily Mail is, but not enough about how awful the others are.
The Daily Express:
Cons:
- Can very possibly lay claim to being even more racist than the Daily Mail
- Currently financing UKIP, which needs no further commentary really
- Also hates immigrants, the EU, and school shooting survivors
- Obsessed with a) Princess Diana and b) touting ‘miracle cures’ for stuff, all of which is nonsense
- Is less popular than the Daily Mail, but I suspect that just helps their particular brand of awfulness go under the radar more
Pros:
- None whatsoever
The Times:
Cons:
- owned by Rupert Murdoch
- Seems to have gotten steadily more and more right-wing over the years
- AA Gill writes for it and he’s a tool
- Ditto with Jeremy Clarkson (for the Sunday edition), who is the Worst
Pros
- Invented the Times New Roman typeface, so we have them to thank for that I guess
The Guardian
Cons:
- Once published (alright, it was in its sister paper The Observer, but still under the Guardian name) a piece by Julie Burchill so shockingly transphobic it’s remembered with disgust even now
- Is pretty white-feminism-y, really
Pros:
- Still probably better than most of the others, although you may have guessed that’s not saying much
The Sun
Cons:
- another one that could make a convincing case for being even worse than the Daily Mail in many aspects
- ACTIVELY ENDANGERED PEOPLE’S LIVES back in the 80s with their headlines about AIDS
- Is still loathed in Liverpool to this day due to its coverage of the Hillsborough disaster
- Happily and casually racist, homophobic, ableist and transphobic
- Just…read its Wikipedia page. How the hell is this clusterfuck still a newspaper
Pros:
- absolutely zero
The Daily Mirror
Cons:
- I think it’s sort of responsible for Piers Morgan’s fame, sorry about that
- wrote a really gross article about Charlie Sheen’s HIV diagnosis
Pros:
- presumably hates racist comedian Frankie Boyle almost as much as I do
The Independent
Cons:
- was a pretty good newspaper as far as I know, is now no longer published
- neither are most of its sister publications I think
Pros:
- Its website is still around
The Daily Star
Cons:
- I refuse to call this a ‘newspaper’
- It literally just makes shit up and puts it on the covers
- It’s a sexist, racist, Islamophobic, gross mess
- Just…look at its headlines, and despair that people actually buy this
Pros:
- Nope
The Daily Mail
Cons:
- Where even to start
- Constantly outs or tries to out transgender people, this has led to someone’s actual death
- They kept Richard ‘Human Scum’ Littlejohn on their staff even after that: he’s also called the deaths of five women sex workers ‘no great loss’ and mocked the family of Mark Duggan
- And countless other things
- After the death of 90s pop star Stephen Gately, published an article insisting his homosexuality killed him
- Responsible for possibly the most disturbing, homophobic headline ever put to print
- Happily supported fascism in the 1930s and opposed Jewish refugees fleeing Germany coming to Britain
- EVEN THAT is just scratching the surface
Pros:
- If you were some sort of detective and the outcome of your case relied on knowing exactly what Kylie Jenner was wearing on the evening of 11th December 2015, then you’re in luck, because the Mail obsessively details young female celebrities and their choices of outfit
- Other than that, absolutely nothing.
Out of curiosity – because I loathe Draco too – what makes you like Hux but not him? Is it just the different ways they’re presented/that people react to them?
yeah, pretty much. like– the best comparison to make here is how i feel about malfoy vs. how i feel about bellatrix lestrange, i.e., i love bellatrix lestrange. love seeing her in the text, love her dialogue, she’s just a joy to read about. and the way she’s presented in the text is– if you’ll excuse the slur– she’s a bitch; the text knows it, the text revels in it. she tortures one of my favorite characters and the one i most identify with (hermione), she uses horrifying language and does horrifying things, she’s a domestic terrorist who wholeheartedly follows an ideology explicitly based on naziism.
and draco malfoy is also a domestic terrorist who follows an ideology based on naziism. the kid is hitler youth, there’s not really any way of getting around this. like, okay, he has a really difficult sixth year because his family has put him in a situation where he has to do a terrible murder that he doesn’t actually want to do. that sucks, you know. having to be hitler youth sucks. but that doesn’t, like… make it okay to be hitler youth.
but fans react more or less as if the opposite is true, as if the fact that malfoy feels unhappy makes it okay that he does evil things. as if, even though bellatrix and malfoy both call hermione a mudblood and curse her/her friends because they’re muggleborns and do their damnedest to get voldemort into power, malfoy feels sad about it– as if that puts him on a completely different moral plane than bellatrix. and, y’know, i disagree with that.
and bellatrix dies, and i cheer when bellatrix dies! every time! it’s one of the best moments in the series, it’s a crowning moment of awesome for molly weasley, bellatrix is so unbelievably horrible and deserves it so much, it’s absolutely beautiful.
but i keep feeling like there’s something i don’t get? people who say that malfoy is better, morally, than severus snape? people who think the canon cuts him a raw deal? and i’ve never seen anything in draco malfoy other than being a rich middle school bully who becomes hitler youth. (probably because, like. there’s so much pain and trauma in this series. me, i like that moment when hermione spins to harry and ron and says no, call me a mudblood, i am a mudblood, that’s what i am– i mean christ, she’s carrying so much, she’s so heartbroken and tired and she’s got the whole world on her shoulders, and i love hermione so much because of that moment of pain.
i love harry so much for smashing dumbledore’s office after the only person who ever promised to remove him from an abusive household dies. i love neville for that moment when he doesn’t want to tell harry & co. that his parents were tortured to death and he has to stand there and listen to his gran tell the whole story, and i love dean and george and cho chang– and i think their pain is more sympathetic and more worthy of attention than malfoy’s, because the kid’s pain generates from having to be hitler youth, and– forgive me– i’m a jew. i don’t find that pain sympathetic at all.
and i don’t find bellatrix sympathetic because of her pain. i don’t find bellatrix sympathetic at all, really. i don’t think you have to sympathize with a character to like them.
but people do sympathize with draco malfoy– that’s that reaction, it’s sympathy. and i think it’s kind of telling that fandom looks at, say, cho chang crying because her boyfriend is dead at the hand of magic nazis, and says “ew, gross, whiny,” and looks at draco malfoy crying because he’s magic hitler youth and says “wow, sad, beautiful.” like. i think there’s a couple things going on there and i think it’s pretty easy to see what they are.)
There’s just so much to unpick, I think, when it comes to Draco And Fandom. There was a discussion on my blog not too long ago about Draco Malfoy vs Kylo Ren, and it basically came down to:
- Draco is a Kylo whom everyone treats like a Finn, which is bizarre
- Well, okay, Draco is at least not a mass murderer
- He’s still a racist though, and he chose to be, and he chose to spend seven-ish books hurling bile and violence at people
- Alright maybe you could see him as like an (eventual) defector from a bigoted cult, like, someone who left the Westboro Baptist Church?
- Except that when that happened in real life, the defectors apologised for their actions and spent ages trying to make up for it
- And Draco never did that, never even apologised. He never did ANY real work, but everyone acts as if he did!
It just baffles me no end. Also it still weirds me out spectacularly how people will condemn other problematic ships (Reylo, Snape/Lily) with one breath and ship Draco/Indian or Black Harry or Hermione in the next. How are you doing that? That’s genuine curiosity: how? He’s a racist! He’s an actual anti-black racist: he laughs along with Pansy when she makes that crack about Angelica’s braids ‘looking like worms’. Why’s everyone got such a blind spot with him? Is it just because Tom Felton’s a nice bloke? What’s going on?!
(And don’t get me started on how horribly Cho Chang was treated by pretty much everyone. Yuck. I’m still surprised Katie Leung actually bothers to give Harry Potter fandom the time of day.)
About the Hitler Youth thing – yeah, that’s what gets me. Like, not too long ago, when my family was together and discussing their various histories, I mention my mum’s ancestor’s flight from Russia during my mum casually drops in ‘Ah yes, people hate us Jews!’. Like, I don’t even know if I really ‘get’ to be considered Jewish – I would assume some belief in God is required at some point and I don’t really have that – but my mother was, she went to a Jewish school and learned Hebrew and everything – and I keep wondering, does she say things like that as a joke or because she actually did grow up thinking people hated her for being Jewish? I’ve never dared ask. But if she did, was it because of people like Draco Malfoy?