The New York Times reports that Jordan Davis has no criminal record and comes from “a stable environment at home”. Like he is the suspect or something. Meanwhile they say nothing about Michael Dunn’s criminal record or the home environment he came from. Like there is nothing odd or sick about a man who picks deadly fights over loud music at gas stations. Or who values human life so cheaply
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Forever side eyeing and unfollowing anyone who reblogs this shit without commentary.
Are y’all seriously gonna ignore the motherfucking fact that it is not so-called “social justice” blogs that send hate messages to people? Do the motherfucking research. It has been proven that the people sending those messages to people that “social justice” blogs call out are the very same anti-sj assholes who make bullshit like this and demand that people speaking about their oppression be “nice” to them. I have written about this multiple fucking times. Damn near everyone who has been labeled a “social justice blog” has written about this shit. Y’all should fucking know better by now. That tone policing, “if you’ll just be nice to your oppressors everything will get better” mentality doesn’t do shit. If you don’t believe me, why don’t you listen to the words of a man y’all love to fucking quote while trying to shut us down:
Lamentably, it is an historical fact that privileged groups seldom give up their privileges voluntarily. Individuals may see the moral light and voluntarily give up their unjust posture; but, as Reinhold Niebuhr has reminded us, groups tend to be more immoral than individuals.
We know through painful experience that freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. Letter from a Birmingham Jail
I suggest you sit yo ass down and read the whole damn letter before you dare to tell someone they need to be nicer to their harassers or oppressors.
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Twelve Palestinians from one family killed in Israeli rocket attack
In the single deadliest attack of the Israeli operation so far, 12 civilians were killed in Sunday’s air attack on a four-storey house in northern Gaza City, health officials said.
Two or three missiles fired by F-16 fighter jets reduced the house in the Sheikh Radwan neighbourhood to rubble, witnesses said.
Five women, including one 80-year-old, and four small children were among the dead, spokesperson of the health ministry Ashraf al-Kidra said.
Please pray for Gaza.
Ya Allah, kesiannya. :(
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“Rape is a criminal act whatever the circumstances. A woman riding the subway nude may be guilty of indecency, but she may not be raped. If she invites or even sells sex at 10:00 and refuses it at 10:45, the partner who disregards her refusal and forces sex is guilty of rape. If she is drunk, asleep, mentally defective, paralyzed or dead, she must not be raped. Why? Because sexual congress must be by consent.”
- Toni Morrison
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