[The Raw Story headline: “A new website will ship your ashes to the GOP Rep. of your choice is Trumpcare kills you”]
This reminds me of that picture I saw of someone at an AIDS protest in the 80s that had a jacket that said, “When I die leave me on the capitol steps” or something like that
Also yes fuck those bastards make them have to face the human sacrifice they’re signing to line their fucking pockets.
Once again, politicians are willingly allowing the citizens they supposedly represent to die. ACT UP was one of the most in-your-face activist movements to ever exist. My favorite example is when they stormed into a production studio and disrupted the CBS Evening News live. As this was during the time of the Gulf War, they had this message to say once they were in front of the cameras: “fight AIDS, not Arabs.”
Gaining rights is almost exclusively achieved through aggressive activism. Those who spout “maybe if you were calm about it we’d listen” are fucking liars who want to silence a movement.
As long as you bring no harm to others: be loud, in-your-face, and potent as you can be in your protesting.
ELL ((English Language Learner)) students are often treated as though they are inferior or unintelligent based on the fluency of their English. In reality, this is something all ELL people as a whole face, students or not. I see it daily- people talking to ELL students as if they were a toddler, judging their grammar as a definitive sign of their intellect, snickering at their imperfections in speaking English, etc.
This is something I see happening from all angles, including from professors and other authority figures. In the past, I’ve even been guilty of such a mindset. Though even now, among all of the social justice matters circling out lives, this still seems to be an issue that is hardly brought to attention.
I work at a Writing and Communication Center at the University of Washington. My role is a peer consultant, meaning I tutor and assist students of any year or major with all forms of reading and writing. My point being, I work with countless ELL students throughout my shifts.
When I work with ELL students, the appointments are almost always focused on grammar, as they are embarrassed that they don’t yet understand the impossibly absurd rules of English grammar.
More than that, though, I see a disturbing trend. They bring in their work and seem ashamed, apologizing to me for how bad their work is before I even look at it.
However, when we sit down to look at their work, it is far from awful. The content and ideas I see expressed are some of the most profound that I’ve been brought from my clients. I see exceptional analysis and brilliant ideas in the content of the paper, yet many of them still think their work is terrible. They’ve been conditioned to think so, as there are far too many people who look only at the grammar and composition of their writing.
This frustrated me to no end; it’s a compounding series of micro-aggressions that discourage ELL students from claiming their education. I can only imagine the difficulty these students face from academia and rampant stereotypes/misconceptions.
Their talent is constantly undermined; this is rather ironic to me, given that the population of ELL students I see at the writing center are the most diligent and motivated clients, far and away. Even though language barriers can make some assignments take much longer, they take the initiative to use the writing center and spend the energy it takes to thrive.
I suppose the point of my long-winded rant is this: It’s about damn time that we retaliate against the system that perpetuates this view. I may not be an ELL student, but as someone who is learning a second language, I especially want to be an ally to the community, starting with speaking out on the problem.
Hey if you are a blog of any of the following varieties, like and/or reblog this so I can check our your bloggity! I need more peeps to follow.
-social justice in general
-LGBT stuff that focuses on lesser acknowledged groups like asexual polysexual transgender non-binary demisexual etc
-Latinx pride
-mental health blogs and recovery blogs
-feminism
Got interviewed for a social justice article for the school paper this morning. I go to a conservative Christian school, so let’s see how many rich white kids my opinions will piss off.
Can I just say that I love how a lot of game grumps blogs also post and reblog social justice related stuff, which is really freaking cool and it makes me very happy. I love to see the lovelies supporting LGBT rights, smashing the patriarchy, and fighting ableism!
If you’re expecting a fandom tag to be your ‘safe space’ AKA fuzzy echo chamber, you’re gonna have a bad time.
Besides people love to yell at people for disagreeing with them regardless of what…
Being nice doesn’t always work.
And I don’t owe to ANYONE to be nice to them if I have to demand my rights from them.
For example, if someone refuses to use my preferred name or pronouns, that’s a personal attack on me and like hell I’m going to put up with that. The first time I’ll assume they didn’t know and be nice about it, but I have people in my life that knowingly and persistently use the wrong pronouns with me. And I’m suppose to “play nice” with them? No. They’re trash and I’ll treat them like trash.
The fact that any marginalized group even has to ask for their rights is grounds for them to take it back by whatever means.
Fuck this anti-sj “well maybe people would give you the rights they had no grounds to take away from you in the first place if you were a little nicer” mentality.
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[The Raw Story headline: “A new website will ship your ashes to the GOP Rep. of your choice is Trumpcare kills you”]
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