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        valquainton:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

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panic-boy-21:

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laughingacademy:

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The White Wash is real.



One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts



Just wait until you google what the original Statue of Liberty(that got refused by America)looked like


For those of you who don’t want to look it up yourselves:
Lady Liberty is a black woman.

Guys, this has been thoroughly debunked since 2000, and it does the statue on the left there a huge disservice to treat her as an unwanted copy. That’s Lady Liberty of St. Maarten, an homage from 2007 (post-dating the debunking, even) that was dedicated to the anniversary of the ending of slavery there:
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a representation of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, with bonus American iconography:
HOWEVER: Lady Liberty in New York is not based on a white woman, either. 
She’s a Muslim Arab woman, at least in terms of the modeling of her face. Her face was reused from an abandoned project to build a colossal statue of a modern Egyptian Arab peasant woman near the Suez Canal (as verified by the Smithsonian, no less).
While she wasn’t originally dedicated specifically for immigrants, the poem “The New Colossus” was added specifically because of the position she occupied in the harbor and the symbolic visual power she would have to immigrants coming in. The author, Emma Lazarus, was Jewish.
It’s important to fight back on the whitewashing of history, because it happens left and right, but it shouldn’t happen at the cost of misinformation that treats Lady Liberty of St. Maarten as an unwanted prototype rather than a powerful monument in her own right and, ironically, claims that she’s now a white woman when she’s not while also ignoring the powerful influence of the Jewish-American community on the final version.

Geez, I’m really tired of people trying to spout false shit all over tumblr. Like, this post has 37K notes, But I assure you, that like many other false posts, ¾ of the notes are from people who saw the false bit and prefered to reblog it that way and be mad, instead of just making a simple google search

Hi Darling Friends of Tumblr.
I’ve been taking too long to do data entry and I’m not good at actually doing analysis so it’s time to start naming and shaming.
@thatpettyblackgirl is a blog that I’ve been observing for a while that has a really interesting pattern of behavior. 
Namely, posting a bunch of shit like this. 
Remember that tweet about Olive Garden supporting Donald Trump that was debunked? Well when it circulated on tumblr two weeks ago it was because of @thatpettyblackgirl
You know the misreported post about the school lunch program that refused donations from a local businessman? That was a different blogger but thatpettyblackgirl has circulated another version of it. 
That other blogger has a posting history that’s full of the same kinds of things thatpettyblackgirl posts - lots of reposts from twitter, lots of screenshots from other sites, not a lot of commentary, and things that are decontextualized enough to make them seem worse than they are or to totally misrepresent the actions depicted (like this reposted video and tweets indignant about a man being arrested when the very specific purpose of his protest was to get arrested).
It reminds me of that post about coconut husks as a wood alternative that’s been circulating recently - a screenshot of a white man above a news article is posted with the complaint that white people “discovering” coconuts after disregarding them as useless when the article is about a new method of processing coconut husks that allows them to be put to new uses. 
That blog is fascinating. And has a lot in common with thatpettyblackgirl - both of them reblog their own posts at a rate that’s higher than I’ve seen on most tumblrs (btw, you should know that a while back I asked for volunteers who would let me explore their tumblrs and while my research sample isn’t random it is a collection of small and large blogs and none of them have *checks notes* reblogged their own post of a bunch of screencaps of a tweet storm five times in the last couple of days). Both of them tend to post screencaps, neither one really writes much. They reblog a lot of memes, and both have some pretty big textposts that are just straight rip-offs of tweets (”bi folks have you eaten today? answer quick and iced coffee doesn’t count” is one of thatpettyblackgirl’s recent popular textposts and it’s ripped off from twitter.) They also reblog eachother a fair amount - along with @whyyoustabbedme and @endangered-justice-seeker, who ALSO have really weird posting patterns.
Also all four of those blogs are part of a group of nine blogs that were created in a three-week period of 2017 that I’ve been watching that don’t seem to follow a pattern of normal tumblr behavior and that also post an awful lot of incorrect viral posts and are staggeringly popular (for clarity: blackqueerblog is not one of the nine created in that time period). 

ANYWAY this is all reminding me very strongly of bellygangstaboo and lagonegirl. 
I know I probably sound like this image:
But there are excellent, thoughtful bloggers who discuss police brutality, racism in the US, class warefare, and institutional bias who aren’t ALSO unflaggingly committed to having their own dedicated Snopes pages. @odinsblog, Franchesca Ramsey, @antifainternational, and @mostlysignssomeportents might be a good place to start. 
My dudes, I don’t want to be depressing so I’ll let Vanity Fair do it for me:

That Russian operatives could so effectively engage Americans with 
tactics as simple as Facebook ads, fake-news postings, and Twitter 
trolls, shows how dangerous misinformation is in the social-media age, 
when propaganda can be so easily amplified. More important, it 
highlights how primed Americans already were for manipulation. 
When the ICE raids started up again a few months ago thatpettyblackgirl was posting about how shameful it was that there was nothing that could be done. A lot of these blogs are writing about how it’s impossible for black people to succeed in America, they’re writing about how voting is always rigged and you can’t fight the system.
And you know what that goes against every fucking principle of my cold little anarchist heart. These blogs are full of despair - they look like they’re full of cute memes and fresh news but they’re a poisoned pill telling you not to bother because you can’t fight the system. They’re not offering help, they’re training you not to bother fighting for your rights (there was a popular post about how the Hong Kong protesters are light years ahead of US protesters - that post didn’t talk about mutual aid or sharing tactics, it just said “people in the US would never” and left it at that, like we can’t learn from each other and share information across borders)
Fucking. Anyway. I’ve been fairly quiet about this because I’ve been trying to be all good and data sciencey about it but I’ve seen this post on my dash fifty times this week. 
Keep your eye out for @thatpettyblackgirl  @uncommonbish @whyyoustabbedme and @blackqueerblog - all of them have large followings and are known to post tweets and news articles out of context and if you’re considering reblogging information from one of their blogs please make a point to fact-check the post yourself. 
Not everything they post is wrong. I don’t know if these are real bloggers who don’t care about the potential negative impact of their tweet thievery or if they’re weird psyops blogs that are intended to make you feel hopeless about your place in the political process. Whatever they are it doesn’t matter when they continually post misinformation and don’t seem to care about stopping so please be cautious.
Anyway, I’m cataloguing these sorts of posts at @psyops-redux so if you want to keep an eye out for stuff that’s debunked I’ll tag by originating blogger over there.
Stay safe, buds. 

Dammit, I got all fired up and I forgot to add:

THERE’S A GAME THAT HELPS YOU RECOGNIZE WHEN PEOPLE ARE POSTING MISINFORMATION AND MAKES YOU LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO PLAY IT.


Ah.  The number reposts from their own blogs had puzzled me in the past.  I assumed it was something to do with the way Tumblr runs that I wasn’t tech-savvy enough to understand.  But this makes a lot of sense.  Unless someone tells me otherwise, I’m gonna go ahead and unfollow the blogs listed.  Any recommendations for actual historical/current affairs poc blogs to follow instead?
: Mira Jacob
 @mirajacob
 Two things I didn't know until I was
 yesterday years old:
 1) Memorial Day was started by
 African Americans honoring fallen
 Union solders
 2) The Statue of Liberty was gifted to
 America to celebrate freed slaves, not
 immigrants.
 Erasure is real, you all. But that part
 we knew.
 7:28 AM May 27, 2019 Twitter for iPhone
 37.2K Likes
 12.2K Retweets
valquainton:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

the-barista-who-became-a-rabbit:

meganphntmgrl:

panic-boy-21:

blckrapunzel:

laughingacademy:

interficio-vos:

thatpettyblackgirl:


The White Wash is real.



One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts



Just wait until you google what the original Statue of Liberty(that got refused by America)looked like


For those of you who don’t want to look it up yourselves:
Lady Liberty is a black woman.

Guys, this has been thoroughly debunked since 2000, and it does the statue on the left there a huge disservice to treat her as an unwanted copy. That’s Lady Liberty of St. Maarten, an homage from 2007 (post-dating the debunking, even) that was dedicated to the anniversary of the ending of slavery there:
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a representation of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, with bonus American iconography:
HOWEVER: Lady Liberty in New York is not based on a white woman, either. 
She’s a Muslim Arab woman, at least in terms of the modeling of her face. Her face was reused from an abandoned project to build a colossal statue of a modern Egyptian Arab peasant woman near the Suez Canal (as verified by the Smithsonian, no less).
While she wasn’t originally dedicated specifically for immigrants, the poem “The New Colossus” was added specifically because of the position she occupied in the harbor and the symbolic visual power she would have to immigrants coming in. The author, Emma Lazarus, was Jewish.
It’s important to fight back on the whitewashing of history, because it happens left and right, but it shouldn’t happen at the cost of misinformation that treats Lady Liberty of St. Maarten as an unwanted prototype rather than a powerful monument in her own right and, ironically, claims that she’s now a white woman when she’s not while also ignoring the powerful influence of the Jewish-American community on the final version.

Geez, I’m really tired of people trying to spout false shit all over tumblr. Like, this post has 37K notes, But I assure you, that like many other false posts, ¾ of the notes are from people who saw the false bit and prefered to reblog it that way and be mad, instead of just making a simple google search

Hi Darling Friends of Tumblr.
I’ve been taking too long to do data entry and I’m not good at actually doing analysis so it’s time to start naming and shaming.
@thatpettyblackgirl is a blog that I’ve been observing for a while that has a really interesting pattern of behavior. 
Namely, posting a bunch of shit like this. 
Remember that tweet about Olive Garden supporting Donald Trump that was debunked? Well when it circulated on tumblr two weeks ago it was because of @thatpettyblackgirl
You know the misreported post about the school lunch program that refused donations from a local businessman? That was a different blogger but thatpettyblackgirl has circulated another version of it. 
That other blogger has a posting history that’s full of the same kinds of things thatpettyblackgirl posts - lots of reposts from twitter, lots of screenshots from other sites, not a lot of commentary, and things that are decontextualized enough to make them seem worse than they are or to totally misrepresent the actions depicted (like this reposted video and tweets indignant about a man being arrested when the very specific purpose of his protest was to get arrested).
It reminds me of that post about coconut husks as a wood alternative that’s been circulating recently - a screenshot of a white man above a news article is posted with the complaint that white people “discovering” coconuts after disregarding them as useless when the article is about a new method of processing coconut husks that allows them to be put to new uses. 
That blog is fascinating. And has a lot in common with thatpettyblackgirl - both of them reblog their own posts at a rate that’s higher than I’ve seen on most tumblrs (btw, you should know that a while back I asked for volunteers who would let me explore their tumblrs and while my research sample isn’t random it is a collection of small and large blogs and none of them have *checks notes* reblogged their own post of a bunch of screencaps of a tweet storm five times in the last couple of days). Both of them tend to post screencaps, neither one really writes much. They reblog a lot of memes, and both have some pretty big textposts that are just straight rip-offs of tweets (”bi folks have you eaten today? answer quick and iced coffee doesn’t count” is one of thatpettyblackgirl’s recent popular textposts and it’s ripped off from twitter.) They also reblog eachother a fair amount - along with @whyyoustabbedme and @endangered-justice-seeker, who ALSO have really weird posting patterns.
Also all four of those blogs are part of a group of nine blogs that were created in a three-week period of 2017 that I’ve been watching that don’t seem to follow a pattern of normal tumblr behavior and that also post an awful lot of incorrect viral posts and are staggeringly popular (for clarity: blackqueerblog is not one of the nine created in that time period). 

ANYWAY this is all reminding me very strongly of bellygangstaboo and lagonegirl. 
I know I probably sound like this image:
But there are excellent, thoughtful bloggers who discuss police brutality, racism in the US, class warefare, and institutional bias who aren’t ALSO unflaggingly committed to having their own dedicated Snopes pages. @odinsblog, Franchesca Ramsey, @antifainternational, and @mostlysignssomeportents might be a good place to start. 
My dudes, I don’t want to be depressing so I’ll let Vanity Fair do it for me:

That Russian operatives could so effectively engage Americans with 
tactics as simple as Facebook ads, fake-news postings, and Twitter 
trolls, shows how dangerous misinformation is in the social-media age, 
when propaganda can be so easily amplified. More important, it 
highlights how primed Americans already were for manipulation. 
When the ICE raids started up again a few months ago thatpettyblackgirl was posting about how shameful it was that there was nothing that could be done. A lot of these blogs are writing about how it’s impossible for black people to succeed in America, they’re writing about how voting is always rigged and you can’t fight the system.
And you know what that goes against every fucking principle of my cold little anarchist heart. These blogs are full of despair - they look like they’re full of cute memes and fresh news but they’re a poisoned pill telling you not to bother because you can’t fight the system. They’re not offering help, they’re training you not to bother fighting for your rights (there was a popular post about how the Hong Kong protesters are light years ahead of US protesters - that post didn’t talk about mutual aid or sharing tactics, it just said “people in the US would never” and left it at that, like we can’t learn from each other and share information across borders)
Fucking. Anyway. I’ve been fairly quiet about this because I’ve been trying to be all good and data sciencey about it but I’ve seen this post on my dash fifty times this week. 
Keep your eye out for @thatpettyblackgirl  @uncommonbish @whyyoustabbedme and @blackqueerblog - all of them have large followings and are known to post tweets and news articles out of context and if you’re considering reblogging information from one of their blogs please make a point to fact-check the post yourself. 
Not everything they post is wrong. I don’t know if these are real bloggers who don’t care about the potential negative impact of their tweet thievery or if they’re weird psyops blogs that are intended to make you feel hopeless about your place in the political process. Whatever they are it doesn’t matter when they continually post misinformation and don’t seem to care about stopping so please be cautious.
Anyway, I’m cataloguing these sorts of posts at @psyops-redux so if you want to keep an eye out for stuff that’s debunked I’ll tag by originating blogger over there.
Stay safe, buds. 

Dammit, I got all fired up and I forgot to add:

THERE’S A GAME THAT HELPS YOU RECOGNIZE WHEN PEOPLE ARE POSTING MISINFORMATION AND MAKES YOU LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO PLAY IT.


Ah.  The number reposts from their own blogs had puzzled me in the past.  I assumed it was something to do with the way Tumblr runs that I wasn’t tech-savvy enough to understand.  But this makes a lot of sense.  Unless someone tells me otherwise, I’m gonna go ahead and unfollow the blogs listed.  Any recommendations for actual historical/current affairs poc blogs to follow instead?

        

            
            

                
                
                    valquainton:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

the-barista-who-became-a-rabbit:

meganphntmgrl:

panic-boy-21:

blckrapunzel:

laughingacademy:

interficio-vos:

thatpettyblackgirl:


The White Wash is real.



One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts



Just wait until you google what the original Statue of Liberty(that got refused by America)looked like


For those of you who don’t want to look it up yourselves:
Lady Liberty is a black woman.

Guys, this has been thoroughly debunked since 2000, and it does the statue on the left there a huge disservice to treat her as an unwanted copy. That’s Lady Liberty of St. Maarten, an homage from 2007 (post-dating the debunking, even) that was dedicated to the anniversary of the ending of slavery there:
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a representation of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, with bonus American iconography:
HOWEVER: Lady Liberty in New York is not based on a white woman, either. 
She’s a Muslim Arab woman, at least in terms of the modeling of her face. Her face was reused from an abandoned project to build a colossal statue of a modern Egyptian Arab peasant woman near the Suez Canal (as verified by the Smithsonian, no less).
While she wasn’t originally dedicated specifically for immigrants, the poem “The New Colossus” was added specifically because of the position she occupied in the harbor and the symbolic visual power she would have to immigrants coming in. The author, Emma Lazarus, was Jewish.
It’s important to fight back on the whitewashing of history, because it happens left and right, but it shouldn’t happen at the cost of misinformation that treats Lady Liberty of St. Maarten as an unwanted prototype rather than a powerful monument in her own right and, ironically, claims that she’s now a white woman when she’s not while also ignoring the powerful influence of the Jewish-American community on the final version.

Geez, I’m really tired of people trying to spout false shit all over tumblr. Like, this post has 37K notes, But I assure you, that like many other false posts, ¾ of the notes are from people who saw the false bit and prefered to reblog it that way and be mad, instead of just making a simple google search

Hi Darling Friends of Tumblr.
I’ve been taking too long to do data entry and I’m not good at actually doing analysis so it’s time to start naming and shaming.
@thatpettyblackgirl is a blog that I’ve been observing for a while that has a really interesting pattern of behavior. 
Namely, posting a bunch of shit like this. 
Remember that tweet about Olive Garden supporting Donald Trump that was debunked? Well when it circulated on tumblr two weeks ago it was because of @thatpettyblackgirl
You know the misreported post about the school lunch program that refused donations from a local businessman? That was a different blogger but thatpettyblackgirl has circulated another version of it. 
That other blogger has a posting history that’s full of the same kinds of things thatpettyblackgirl posts - lots of reposts from twitter, lots of screenshots from other sites, not a lot of commentary, and things that are decontextualized enough to make them seem worse than they are or to totally misrepresent the actions depicted (like this reposted video and tweets indignant about a man being arrested when the very specific purpose of his protest was to get arrested).
It reminds me of that post about coconut husks as a wood alternative that’s been circulating recently - a screenshot of a white man above a news article is posted with the complaint that white people “discovering” coconuts after disregarding them as useless when the article is about a new method of processing coconut husks that allows them to be put to new uses. 
That blog is fascinating. And has a lot in common with thatpettyblackgirl - both of them reblog their own posts at a rate that’s higher than I’ve seen on most tumblrs (btw, you should know that a while back I asked for volunteers who would let me explore their tumblrs and while my research sample isn’t random it is a collection of small and large blogs and none of them have *checks notes* reblogged their own post of a bunch of screencaps of a tweet storm five times in the last couple of days). Both of them tend to post screencaps, neither one really writes much. They reblog a lot of memes, and both have some pretty big textposts that are just straight rip-offs of tweets (”bi folks have you eaten today? answer quick and iced coffee doesn’t count” is one of thatpettyblackgirl’s recent popular textposts and it’s ripped off from twitter.) They also reblog eachother a fair amount - along with @whyyoustabbedme and @endangered-justice-seeker, who ALSO have really weird posting patterns.
Also all four of those blogs are part of a group of nine blogs that were created in a three-week period of 2017 that I’ve been watching that don’t seem to follow a pattern of normal tumblr behavior and that also post an awful lot of incorrect viral posts and are staggeringly popular (for clarity: blackqueerblog is not one of the nine created in that time period). 

ANYWAY this is all reminding me very strongly of bellygangstaboo and lagonegirl. 
I know I probably sound like this image:
But there are excellent, thoughtful bloggers who discuss police brutality, racism in the US, class warefare, and institutional bias who aren’t ALSO unflaggingly committed to having their own dedicated Snopes pages. @odinsblog, Franchesca Ramsey, @antifainternational, and @mostlysignssomeportents might be a good place to start. 
My dudes, I don’t want to be depressing so I’ll let Vanity Fair do it for me:

That Russian operatives could so effectively engage Americans with 
tactics as simple as Facebook ads, fake-news postings, and Twitter 
trolls, shows how dangerous misinformation is in the social-media age, 
when propaganda can be so easily amplified. More important, it 
highlights how primed Americans already were for manipulation. 
When the ICE raids started up again a few months ago thatpettyblackgirl was posting about how shameful it was that there was nothing that could be done. A lot of these blogs are writing about how it’s impossible for black people to succeed in America, they’re writing about how voting is always rigged and you can’t fight the system.
And you know what that goes against every fucking principle of my cold little anarchist heart. These blogs are full of despair - they look like they’re full of cute memes and fresh news but they’re a poisoned pill telling you not to bother because you can’t fight the system. They’re not offering help, they’re training you not to bother fighting for your rights (there was a popular post about how the Hong Kong protesters are light years ahead of US protesters - that post didn’t talk about mutual aid or sharing tactics, it just said “people in the US would never” and left it at that, like we can’t learn from each other and share information across borders)
Fucking. Anyway. I’ve been fairly quiet about this because I’ve been trying to be all good and data sciencey about it but I’ve seen this post on my dash fifty times this week. 
Keep your eye out for @thatpettyblackgirl  @uncommonbish @whyyoustabbedme and @blackqueerblog - all of them have large followings and are known to post tweets and news articles out of context and if you’re considering reblogging information from one of their blogs please make a point to fact-check the post yourself. 
Not everything they post is wrong. I don’t know if these are real bloggers who don’t care about the potential negative impact of their tweet thievery or if they’re weird psyops blogs that are intended to make you feel hopeless about your place in the political process. Whatever they are it doesn’t matter when they continually post misinformation and don’t seem to care about stopping so please be cautious.
Anyway, I’m cataloguing these sorts of posts at @psyops-redux so if you want to keep an eye out for stuff that’s debunked I’ll tag by originating blogger over there.
Stay safe, buds. 

Dammit, I got all fired up and I forgot to add:

THERE’S A GAME THAT HELPS YOU RECOGNIZE WHEN PEOPLE ARE POSTING MISINFORMATION AND MAKES YOU LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO PLAY IT.


Ah.  The number reposts from their own blogs had puzzled me in the past.  I assumed it was something to do with the way Tumblr runs that I wasn’t tech-savvy enough to understand.  But this makes a lot of sense.  Unless someone tells me otherwise, I’m gonna go ahead and unfollow the blogs listed.  Any recommendations for actual historical/current affairs poc blogs to follow instead?
: Mira Jacob
 @mirajacob
 Two things I didn't know until I was
 yesterday years old:
 1) Memorial Day was started by
 African Americans honoring fallen
 Union solders
 2) The Statue of Liberty was gifted to
 America to celebrate freed slaves, not
 immigrants.
 Erasure is real, you all. But that part
 we knew.
 7:28 AM May 27, 2019 Twitter for iPhone
 37.2K Likes
 12.2K Retweets
valquainton:

ms-demeanor:

ms-demeanor:

the-barista-who-became-a-rabbit:

meganphntmgrl:

panic-boy-21:

blckrapunzel:

laughingacademy:

interficio-vos:

thatpettyblackgirl:


The White Wash is real.



One of the Earliest Memorial Day Ceremonies Was Held by Freed Slaves
The Statue of Liberty was created to celebrate freed slaves, not immigrants, its new museum recounts



Just wait until you google what the original Statue of Liberty(that got refused by America)looked like


For those of you who don’t want to look it up yourselves:
Lady Liberty is a black woman.

Guys, this has been thoroughly debunked since 2000, and it does the statue on the left there a huge disservice to treat her as an unwanted copy. That’s Lady Liberty of St. Maarten, an homage from 2007 (post-dating the debunking, even) that was dedicated to the anniversary of the ending of slavery there:
The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor is a representation of Libertas, the Roman goddess of freedom, with bonus American iconography:
HOWEVER: Lady Liberty in New York is not based on a white woman, either. 
She’s a Muslim Arab woman, at least in terms of the modeling of her face. Her face was reused from an abandoned project to build a colossal statue of a modern Egyptian Arab peasant woman near the Suez Canal (as verified by the Smithsonian, no less).
While she wasn’t originally dedicated specifically for immigrants, the poem “The New Colossus” was added specifically because of the position she occupied in the harbor and the symbolic visual power she would have to immigrants coming in. The author, Emma Lazarus, was Jewish.
It’s important to fight back on the whitewashing of history, because it happens left and right, but it shouldn’t happen at the cost of misinformation that treats Lady Liberty of St. Maarten as an unwanted prototype rather than a powerful monument in her own right and, ironically, claims that she’s now a white woman when she’s not while also ignoring the powerful influence of the Jewish-American community on the final version.

Geez, I’m really tired of people trying to spout false shit all over tumblr. Like, this post has 37K notes, But I assure you, that like many other false posts, ¾ of the notes are from people who saw the false bit and prefered to reblog it that way and be mad, instead of just making a simple google search

Hi Darling Friends of Tumblr.
I’ve been taking too long to do data entry and I’m not good at actually doing analysis so it’s time to start naming and shaming.
@thatpettyblackgirl is a blog that I’ve been observing for a while that has a really interesting pattern of behavior. 
Namely, posting a bunch of shit like this. 
Remember that tweet about Olive Garden supporting Donald Trump that was debunked? Well when it circulated on tumblr two weeks ago it was because of @thatpettyblackgirl
You know the misreported post about the school lunch program that refused donations from a local businessman? That was a different blogger but thatpettyblackgirl has circulated another version of it. 
That other blogger has a posting history that’s full of the same kinds of things thatpettyblackgirl posts - lots of reposts from twitter, lots of screenshots from other sites, not a lot of commentary, and things that are decontextualized enough to make them seem worse than they are or to totally misrepresent the actions depicted (like this reposted video and tweets indignant about a man being arrested when the very specific purpose of his protest was to get arrested).
It reminds me of that post about coconut husks as a wood alternative that’s been circulating recently - a screenshot of a white man above a news article is posted with the complaint that white people “discovering” coconuts after disregarding them as useless when the article is about a new method of processing coconut husks that allows them to be put to new uses. 
That blog is fascinating. And has a lot in common with thatpettyblackgirl - both of them reblog their own posts at a rate that’s higher than I’ve seen on most tumblrs (btw, you should know that a while back I asked for volunteers who would let me explore their tumblrs and while my research sample isn’t random it is a collection of small and large blogs and none of them have *checks notes* reblogged their own post of a bunch of screencaps of a tweet storm five times in the last couple of days). Both of them tend to post screencaps, neither one really writes much. They reblog a lot of memes, and both have some pretty big textposts that are just straight rip-offs of tweets (”bi folks have you eaten today? answer quick and iced coffee doesn’t count” is one of thatpettyblackgirl’s recent popular textposts and it’s ripped off from twitter.) They also reblog eachother a fair amount - along with @whyyoustabbedme and @endangered-justice-seeker, who ALSO have really weird posting patterns.
Also all four of those blogs are part of a group of nine blogs that were created in a three-week period of 2017 that I’ve been watching that don’t seem to follow a pattern of normal tumblr behavior and that also post an awful lot of incorrect viral posts and are staggeringly popular (for clarity: blackqueerblog is not one of the nine created in that time period). 

ANYWAY this is all reminding me very strongly of bellygangstaboo and lagonegirl. 
I know I probably sound like this image:
But there are excellent, thoughtful bloggers who discuss police brutality, racism in the US, class warefare, and institutional bias who aren’t ALSO unflaggingly committed to having their own dedicated Snopes pages. @odinsblog, Franchesca Ramsey, @antifainternational, and @mostlysignssomeportents might be a good place to start. 
My dudes, I don’t want to be depressing so I’ll let Vanity Fair do it for me:

That Russian operatives could so effectively engage Americans with 
tactics as simple as Facebook ads, fake-news postings, and Twitter 
trolls, shows how dangerous misinformation is in the social-media age, 
when propaganda can be so easily amplified. More important, it 
highlights how primed Americans already were for manipulation. 
When the ICE raids started up again a few months ago thatpettyblackgirl was posting about how shameful it was that there was nothing that could be done. A lot of these blogs are writing about how it’s impossible for black people to succeed in America, they’re writing about how voting is always rigged and you can’t fight the system.
And you know what that goes against every fucking principle of my cold little anarchist heart. These blogs are full of despair - they look like they’re full of cute memes and fresh news but they’re a poisoned pill telling you not to bother because you can’t fight the system. They’re not offering help, they’re training you not to bother fighting for your rights (there was a popular post about how the Hong Kong protesters are light years ahead of US protesters - that post didn’t talk about mutual aid or sharing tactics, it just said “people in the US would never” and left it at that, like we can’t learn from each other and share information across borders)
Fucking. Anyway. I’ve been fairly quiet about this because I’ve been trying to be all good and data sciencey about it but I’ve seen this post on my dash fifty times this week. 
Keep your eye out for @thatpettyblackgirl  @uncommonbish @whyyoustabbedme and @blackqueerblog - all of them have large followings and are known to post tweets and news articles out of context and if you’re considering reblogging information from one of their blogs please make a point to fact-check the post yourself. 
Not everything they post is wrong. I don’t know if these are real bloggers who don’t care about the potential negative impact of their tweet thievery or if they’re weird psyops blogs that are intended to make you feel hopeless about your place in the political process. Whatever they are it doesn’t matter when they continually post misinformation and don’t seem to care about stopping so please be cautious.
Anyway, I’m cataloguing these sorts of posts at @psyops-redux so if you want to keep an eye out for stuff that’s debunked I’ll tag by originating blogger over there.
Stay safe, buds. 

Dammit, I got all fired up and I forgot to add:

THERE’S A GAME THAT HELPS YOU RECOGNIZE WHEN PEOPLE ARE POSTING MISINFORMATION AND MAKES YOU LESS SUSCEPTIBLE TO THIS KIND OF PROPAGANDA AND YOU SHOULD ALL GO PLAY IT.


Ah.  The number reposts from their own blogs had puzzled me in the past.  I assumed it was something to do with the way Tumblr runs that I wasn’t tech-savvy enough to understand.  But this makes a lot of sense.  Unless someone tells me otherwise, I’m gonna go ahead and unfollow the blogs listed.  Any recommendations for actual historical/current affairs poc blogs to follow instead?

                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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        The Unforgettable Tale of Evil Chancellor Traytor: feynites.tumblr.com
 minesottafatspoollegend
 i love in fantasy when its like "king galamir the mighty golden eagle and his most
 trusted advisor who would never betray him, gruelworm bloodeye the treacherous
 When my sister and I were kids we had this one action figure, who was actually a brutalized
 batman doll without his cape (the dog chewed half his head, too), who we dubbed 'Evil
 Chancellor Traytor'. The idea was that in the fictional society of our toys, 'chancellor' just
 came with the word ‘evil, in front of it, as a matter of ancient tradition. Like grand, or high, or
 something along those lines
 Anyway, the running gag was that the king (an old Power Rangers knock-off doll) had
 absolute and unwavering faith in Evil Chancellor Traytor, who basically comported himself
 like a mix between Grima Wormtongue and Jafar from the Aladdin movies. Everyone was
 always sure that Evil Chancellor Traytor had something to do with the nefarious scheme of
 the day. The dude even carried around a poisoned knife called 'the kingslayer
 The additional twist on the joke, though, was that he never was behind anything. The king
 was actually right. Evil Chancellor Traytor was the most devoted civil servant in the entire
 Action Figure Dystopia. He spent his nights working on writing up new legislature to ensure
 that broken toys had access to mobility devices, was always on the lookout to acquire new
 shoeboxes for expanding city infrastructure, and drafted a proposal that once got half
 the 'settlement' in my sister and I's closet moved to the upper shelf so that vulnerable toys
 were less likely to be snatched up by the dog
 The knife, as it turned out, was as symbolic as the 'evi in his name. See, Action Figure
 Dystopia had a long history of corrupted monarchs getting too big for their thrones and
 exploiting the underclasses. The job of the Evil Chancellor was to always remain vigilant, and
 loyally serve a good ruler or, if the regent should became a despot, to slay them on behalf
 of the people
 But since killing the king would be a terrible crime, the Evil Chancellor had to be the kind of
 person who would willingly die to spare the people from the plight of a wicked leader
 because the murder would be pinned on them, in order to keep the 'machinery of politics
 working as smoothly as ever
 Anyway, Evil Chancellor Traytor had a diary, in which my sister I would take turns writing out
 the most over-the-top good shit he'd done behind the scenes. Usually after everyone else
 had finished talking shit about him. I don't know why but we got the biggest kick out of being
 like
 Barbie With the Unfortunate Haircut: Oh that Evil Chancellor Traytor! Why can't the king see
 how wicked he is?!
 Charmander From the Vending Machine: Char!
 Jurassic Park Toy of Jeff Goldblum With Disturbingly Realistic Face: At least if someone puts
 a knife in the king's back, we'll know where to look!
 Evil Chancellor Traytor's Diary: Today I was feeding ducks at the park when I noticed another
 legless action figure sitting by the benches. I put a hundred dollars into his bag while he
 wasn't looking. I really need to increase budgeting to the medical treatment centers. If only
 we had enough glue, I think we would see far fewer toys trying to get by without limbs
 insert iconic evil laugh
 Anyway, Evil Chancellor Traytor eventually fell victim to one of my mom's cleaning sprees
 and she decided he was too busted up to keep and tossed him out. My littler brother, who
 tended to follow my sister and I's games like he was watching a daily soap opera, cried so
 hard that we had to do a special 'episode' where one of the toys found the Evil Chancellor's
 diary, and so he got a big huge memorial and the king threw himself into the empty grave
 and then ordered the toys driving the toy bulldozer to bury him so that Traytor's grave would
 have a body' (this seemed very important for some reason)
 And then we had the Quest For a New King. Somehow or another that ended up being a
 giant rubber snake called Tyrant King Cobra
 (via besiderunningwaters)
 #my apologies for rambling #but it has been a long time since i thought about traytor
 #and that suddenly reminded me of him
 H APR 201
 SOURCE SWEETBABYRAYSGOURMETSAUCES 78,236 NOTES
The Unforgettable Tale of Evil Chancellor Traytor
        

            
            

                
                
                    The Unforgettable Tale of Evil Chancellor Traytor: feynites.tumblr.com
 minesottafatspoollegend
 i love in fantasy when its like "king galamir the mighty golden eagle and his most
 trusted advisor who would never betray him, gruelworm bloodeye the treacherous
 When my sister and I were kids we had this one action figure, who was actually a brutalized
 batman doll without his cape (the dog chewed half his head, too), who we dubbed 'Evil
 Chancellor Traytor'. The idea was that in the fictional society of our toys, 'chancellor' just
 came with the word ‘evil, in front of it, as a matter of ancient tradition. Like grand, or high, or
 something along those lines
 Anyway, the running gag was that the king (an old Power Rangers knock-off doll) had
 absolute and unwavering faith in Evil Chancellor Traytor, who basically comported himself
 like a mix between Grima Wormtongue and Jafar from the Aladdin movies. Everyone was
 always sure that Evil Chancellor Traytor had something to do with the nefarious scheme of
 the day. The dude even carried around a poisoned knife called 'the kingslayer
 The additional twist on the joke, though, was that he never was behind anything. The king
 was actually right. Evil Chancellor Traytor was the most devoted civil servant in the entire
 Action Figure Dystopia. He spent his nights working on writing up new legislature to ensure
 that broken toys had access to mobility devices, was always on the lookout to acquire new
 shoeboxes for expanding city infrastructure, and drafted a proposal that once got half
 the 'settlement' in my sister and I's closet moved to the upper shelf so that vulnerable toys
 were less likely to be snatched up by the dog
 The knife, as it turned out, was as symbolic as the 'evi in his name. See, Action Figure
 Dystopia had a long history of corrupted monarchs getting too big for their thrones and
 exploiting the underclasses. The job of the Evil Chancellor was to always remain vigilant, and
 loyally serve a good ruler or, if the regent should became a despot, to slay them on behalf
 of the people
 But since killing the king would be a terrible crime, the Evil Chancellor had to be the kind of
 person who would willingly die to spare the people from the plight of a wicked leader
 because the murder would be pinned on them, in order to keep the 'machinery of politics
 working as smoothly as ever
 Anyway, Evil Chancellor Traytor had a diary, in which my sister I would take turns writing out
 the most over-the-top good shit he'd done behind the scenes. Usually after everyone else
 had finished talking shit about him. I don't know why but we got the biggest kick out of being
 like
 Barbie With the Unfortunate Haircut: Oh that Evil Chancellor Traytor! Why can't the king see
 how wicked he is?!
 Charmander From the Vending Machine: Char!
 Jurassic Park Toy of Jeff Goldblum With Disturbingly Realistic Face: At least if someone puts
 a knife in the king's back, we'll know where to look!
 Evil Chancellor Traytor's Diary: Today I was feeding ducks at the park when I noticed another
 legless action figure sitting by the benches. I put a hundred dollars into his bag while he
 wasn't looking. I really need to increase budgeting to the medical treatment centers. If only
 we had enough glue, I think we would see far fewer toys trying to get by without limbs
 insert iconic evil laugh
 Anyway, Evil Chancellor Traytor eventually fell victim to one of my mom's cleaning sprees
 and she decided he was too busted up to keep and tossed him out. My littler brother, who
 tended to follow my sister and I's games like he was watching a daily soap opera, cried so
 hard that we had to do a special 'episode' where one of the toys found the Evil Chancellor's
 diary, and so he got a big huge memorial and the king threw himself into the empty grave
 and then ordered the toys driving the toy bulldozer to bury him so that Traytor's grave would
 have a body' (this seemed very important for some reason)
 And then we had the Quest For a New King. Somehow or another that ended up being a
 giant rubber snake called Tyrant King Cobra
 (via besiderunningwaters)
 #my apologies for rambling #but it has been a long time since i thought about traytor
 #and that suddenly reminded me of him
 H APR 201
 SOURCE SWEETBABYRAYSGOURMETSAUCES 78,236 NOTES
The Unforgettable Tale of Evil Chancellor Traytor
                    
                
            

            
            
        

    

    

        
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 ,d 40%. 11:52 PM
 minesottafatspoollegend
 i love in fantasy when its like "king galamir
 the mighty golden eagle and his most
 trusted advisor who would never betray him,
 gruelworm bloodeye the treacherous"
 es
 When my sister and I were kids we had
 this one action figure, who was actually a
 brutalized batman doll without his cape
 (the dog chewed half his head, too), who
 we dubbed 'Evil Chancellor Traytor. The
 idea was that in the fictional society of our
 toys, chancellor just came with the word 'evil
 in front of it, as a matter of ancient tradition
 Like 'grand' or 'high' or something along those
 lines
 Anyway, the running gag was that the king
 (an old Power Rangers knock-off doll) had
 absolute and unwavering faith in Evil Chancel-
 lor Traytor, who basically comported himself
 like a mix between Grima Wormtongue and
 Jafar from the Aladdin movies. Everyone was
 always sure that Evil Chancellor Traytor had
 something to do with the nefarious scheme
 of the day. The dude even carried around a
 poisoned knife called 'the kingslayer
 The additional twist on the joke, though, was
 that he never was behind anything. The king
 was actually right. Evil Chancellor Traytor
 was the most devoted civil servant in the
 entire Action Figure Dystopia. He spent his
 nights working on writing up new legislature
 to ensure that b
 mobility devices, was always on the lookout
 to acquire new shoeboxes for expanding city
 infrastructure, and drafted a proposal that
 once got half the 'settlement' in my sister and
 I's closet moved to the upper shelf so that
 vulnerable toys were less likely to be snatched
 roken toys had access to
 the dog
 The knife, as it turned out, was as symbolic
 as the evil in his name. See, Action Figure
 Dystopia had a long history of corrupted
 monarchs getting too big for their thrones and
 exploiting the underclasses. The job of the
 Evil Chancellor was to always remain vigilant,
 and loyally serve a good ruler-or, if the regent
 should became a despot, to slay them on
 behalf of the people
 But since killing the king would be a terrible
 crime, the Evil Chancellor had to be the kind
 of person who would willingly die to spare
 the people from the plight of a wicked leader,
 because the murder would be pinned on them,
 in order to keep the 'machinery of politics
 working as smoothly as ever
 Anyway, Evil Chancellor Traytor had a diary
 in which my sister I would take turns writing
 out the most over-the-top good shit he'd done
 behind the scenes. Usually after everyone else
 had finished talking shit about him. I don't
 know why but we got the biggest kick out of
 in
 Barbie With the Unfortunate Haircut: Oh that
 Evil Chancellor Traytor! Why can't the king see
 how wicked he is?!
 Charmander From the Vending Machine: Char!
 Jurassic Park Toy of Jeff Goldblum With
 Disturbingly Realistic Face: At least if
 someone puts a knife in the king's back,
 we'll know where to look!
 Evil Chancellor Traytor's Diary: Today I was
 feeding ducks at the park when I noticed
 another legless action figure sitting by the
 benches. I put a hundred dollars into his
 bag while he wasn't looking. I really need to
 increase budgeting to the medical treatment
 centers. If only we had enough glue, I think
 we would see far fewer toys trying to get by
 without limbs... insert iconic evil laugh*
 Anyway, Evil Chancellor Traytor eventually fell
 victim to one of my mom's cleaning sprees,
 and she decided he was too busted up to keep
 and tossed him out. My littler brother, who
 tended to follow my sister and I's games like
 he was watching a daily soap opera, cried
 so hard that we had to do a special 'episode
 where one of the toys found the Evil
 Chancellor's diary, and so he got a big huge
 memorial and the king threw himself into the
 empty grave and then ordered the toys driving
 the toy bulldozer to bury him so that 'Traytors
 grave would have a body' (this seemed very
 important for some reason)
 And then we had the Quest For a New King
 Somehow or another that ended up being a
 giant rubber snake called Tyrant King Cobra
 Source: sweetbabyr
 aysgourmetsauces
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 ,d 40%. 11:52 PM
 minesottafatspoollegend
 i love in fantasy when its like "king galamir
 the mighty golden eagle and his most
 trusted advisor who would never betray him,
 gruelworm bloodeye the treacherous"
 es
 When my sister and I were kids we had
 this one action figure, who was actually a
 brutalized batman doll without his cape
 (the dog chewed half his head, too), who
 we dubbed 'Evil Chancellor Traytor. The
 idea was that in the fictional society of our
 toys, chancellor just came with the word 'evil
 in front of it, as a matter of ancient tradition
 Like 'grand' or 'high' or something along those
 lines
 Anyway, the running gag was that the king
 (an old Power Rangers knock-off doll) had
 absolute and unwavering faith in Evil Chancel-
 lor Traytor, who basically comported himself
 like a mix between Grima Wormtongue and
 Jafar from the Aladdin movies. Everyone was
 always sure that Evil Chancellor Traytor had
 something to do with the nefarious scheme
 of the day. The dude even carried around a
 poisoned knife called 'the kingslayer
 The additional twist on the joke, though, was
 that he never was behind anything. The king
 was actually right. Evil Chancellor Traytor
 was the most devoted civil servant in the
 entire Action Figure Dystopia. He spent his
 nights working on writing up new legislature
 to ensure that b
 mobility devices, was always on the lookout
 to acquire new shoeboxes for expanding city
 infrastructure, and drafted a proposal that
 once got half the 'settlement' in my sister and
 I's closet moved to the upper shelf so that
 vulnerable toys were less likely to be snatched
 roken toys had access to
 the dog
 The knife, as it turned out, was as symbolic
 as the evil in his name. See, Action Figure
 Dystopia had a long history of corrupted
 monarchs getting too big for their thrones and
 exploiting the underclasses. The job of the
 Evil Chancellor was to always remain vigilant,
 and loyally serve a good ruler-or, if the regent
 should became a despot, to slay them on
 behalf of the people
 But since killing the king would be a terrible
 crime, the Evil Chancellor had to be the kind
 of person who would willingly die to spare
 the people from the plight of a wicked leader,
 because the murder would be pinned on them,
 in order to keep the 'machinery of politics
 working as smoothly as ever
 Anyway, Evil Chancellor Traytor had a diary
 in which my sister I would take turns writing
 out the most over-the-top good shit he'd done
 behind the scenes. Usually after everyone else
 had finished talking shit about him. I don't
 know why but we got the biggest kick out of
 in
 Barbie With the Unfortunate Haircut: Oh that
 Evil Chancellor Traytor! Why can't the king see
 how wicked he is?!
 Charmander From the Vending Machine: Char!
 Jurassic Park Toy of Jeff Goldblum With
 Disturbingly Realistic Face: At least if
 someone puts a knife in the king's back,
 we'll know where to look!
 Evil Chancellor Traytor's Diary: Today I was
 feeding ducks at the park when I noticed
 another legless action figure sitting by the
 benches. I put a hundred dollars into his
 bag while he wasn't looking. I really need to
 increase budgeting to the medical treatment
 centers. If only we had enough glue, I think
 we would see far fewer toys trying to get by
 without limbs... insert iconic evil laugh*
 Anyway, Evil Chancellor Traytor eventually fell
 victim to one of my mom's cleaning sprees,
 and she decided he was too busted up to keep
 and tossed him out. My littler brother, who
 tended to follow my sister and I's games like
 he was watching a daily soap opera, cried
 so hard that we had to do a special 'episode
 where one of the toys found the Evil
 Chancellor's diary, and so he got a big huge
 memorial and the king threw himself into the
 empty grave and then ordered the toys driving
 the toy bulldozer to bury him so that 'Traytors
 grave would have a body' (this seemed very
 important for some reason)
 And then we had the Quest For a New King
 Somehow or another that ended up being a
 giant rubber snake called Tyrant King Cobra
 Source: sweetbabyr
 aysgourmetsauces
 79,144 notes
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        mysharona1987:
This is great.: OLD NAWY

 Josh Clark
 Something has been weighing pretty heavily on me the past few days. I have had a few
 small discussions on the issue, but haven't gotten too far into it. I wanted to share this, not
 for attention, but because I thought it needed to be done
 It's no big secret to my friends that I love to hunt, fish, camp and do pretty much anything
 outdoors. I have always considered myself to be a country boy stuck in the city. One of
 the ways that I used to show pride for my lifestyle was wearing t-shirts with the
 Confederatel Rebel flag on them. In high school, I even had a bumper sticker on my truck
 that read "Keep It Flying". I had grown up seeing the flag regularly, and although I had
 seen it used in negative ways on occasion, I chose to accept the "Heritage not Hate" and
 "Pride not Prejudice" interpretation of the flag. If you had asked me back then, I would've
 told you that it was a symbol of southern pride and had nothing to do with racism
 I was raised pretty close to downtown Nashville and grew up with kids of all races with all
 kinds of backgrounds. I played baseball, basketball and football on teams where
 sometimes whites were minorities. I am very thankful for this. As I continue to grow and
 learn, I realize that we tend to fear things just because we don't understand them
 Because of where and how I was raised,
 background. I was able to realize that we are all the same underneath. I have had white
 friends, black friends, Asian friends, Middle Eastern friends, Latino friends, Christian
 friends, Muslim friends, Atheist friends, etc. Thankfully, I have never had a racist bone in
 my body
 I never feared people of other color or
 It wasn't until well into my college years when I began to start thinking for myself. I no
 longer let the people I was raised by tell me how to view every issue and tried my best to
 be more open-minded. I believe that one of the most important things for us to do as
 humans is to try putting ourselves in others' shoes before we make any kind of
 judgement.
 Although I never meant anything racist by sporting the Confederate flag, I couldn't help
 but think of what some of my black friends thought about it. I really can't think of a time
 that I was confronted about it. Did it not offend them? Were they too nice or afraid to
 confront me about it? The more I researched about the history of the flag, the worse I felt.
 What I had been told about its history was wrong. Thousands of southerners still fly the
 flag with no racist intent. They still defend the good things they've been told about the
 flag. They, like I once was, are WRONG. The flag is a symbol of a way of life that was
 wrong. Not that it needs to be stated, but slavery is one of the most evil and cruel things
 this world has ever seen. The Confederate flag represents this evil. Where is the pride in
 that? The Confederate flag is also a sign of division. How can you truly be a patriot of this
 country and fly this flag? Do we really need to fly a flag to show that we are southern, or
 that we like to hunt and fish, especially when it's offensive to so many? It is not a kind
 thing, a good thing, or the right thing to do

 To those against removing the flag, I do not think you are a bad person. I know what it
 once meant to me. I do, however, challenge you to do your research. Step outside of what
 your family taught you and be open-minded. Even if you believe in a different history
 lesson, is flying a flag worth the pain it causes others? Please try to view these issues
 from the other side of the argument.
 To those I may have offended in the past, who never confronted me, I apologize. I was
 WRONG
 As our country continues to move forward on equality issues, I believe the only place for
 the Confederate flag is in our history books
mysharona1987:
This is great.
        

            
            

                
                
                    mysharona1987:
This is great.: OLD NAWY

 Josh Clark
 Something has been weighing pretty heavily on me the past few days. I have had a few
 small discussions on the issue, but haven't gotten too far into it. I wanted to share this, not
 for attention, but because I thought it needed to be done
 It's no big secret to my friends that I love to hunt, fish, camp and do pretty much anything
 outdoors. I have always considered myself to be a country boy stuck in the city. One of
 the ways that I used to show pride for my lifestyle was wearing t-shirts with the
 Confederatel Rebel flag on them. In high school, I even had a bumper sticker on my truck
 that read "Keep It Flying". I had grown up seeing the flag regularly, and although I had
 seen it used in negative ways on occasion, I chose to accept the "Heritage not Hate" and
 "Pride not Prejudice" interpretation of the flag. If you had asked me back then, I would've
 told you that it was a symbol of southern pride and had nothing to do with racism
 I was raised pretty close to downtown Nashville and grew up with kids of all races with all
 kinds of backgrounds. I played baseball, basketball and football on teams where
 sometimes whites were minorities. I am very thankful for this. As I continue to grow and
 learn, I realize that we tend to fear things just because we don't understand them
 Because of where and how I was raised,
 background. I was able to realize that we are all the same underneath. I have had white
 friends, black friends, Asian friends, Middle Eastern friends, Latino friends, Christian
 friends, Muslim friends, Atheist friends, etc. Thankfully, I have never had a racist bone in
 my body
 I never feared people of other color or
 It wasn't until well into my college years when I began to start thinking for myself. I no
 longer let the people I was raised by tell me how to view every issue and tried my best to
 be more open-minded. I believe that one of the most important things for us to do as
 humans is to try putting ourselves in others' shoes before we make any kind of
 judgement.
 Although I never meant anything racist by sporting the Confederate flag, I couldn't help
 but think of what some of my black friends thought about it. I really can't think of a time
 that I was confronted about it. Did it not offend them? Were they too nice or afraid to
 confront me about it? The more I researched about the history of the flag, the worse I felt.
 What I had been told about its history was wrong. Thousands of southerners still fly the
 flag with no racist intent. They still defend the good things they've been told about the
 flag. They, like I once was, are WRONG. The flag is a symbol of a way of life that was
 wrong. Not that it needs to be stated, but slavery is one of the most evil and cruel things
 this world has ever seen. The Confederate flag represents this evil. Where is the pride in
 that? The Confederate flag is also a sign of division. How can you truly be a patriot of this
 country and fly this flag? Do we really need to fly a flag to show that we are southern, or
 that we like to hunt and fish, especially when it's offensive to so many? It is not a kind
 thing, a good thing, or the right thing to do

 To those against removing the flag, I do not think you are a bad person. I know what it
 once meant to me. I do, however, challenge you to do your research. Step outside of what
 your family taught you and be open-minded. Even if you believe in a different history
 lesson, is flying a flag worth the pain it causes others? Please try to view these issues
 from the other side of the argument.
 To those I may have offended in the past, who never confronted me, I apologize. I was
 WRONG
 As our country continues to move forward on equality issues, I believe the only place for
 the Confederate flag is in our history books
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        A sephora is a chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16.: nicejewishguy
 Wtf is sephora
 It sounds scary
 elasticlove
 isn't that the guy with the long white hair from
 final fantasy
 venatus
 no your thinking of sephiroth,
 a sephora is an angel belonging to the highest
 order of angels
 punlich
 No you're thinking of a Seraph
 A sephora is a second year college or high
 school student
 one-eyed-pom
 No, you're thinking of sophomore. A sephora
 is when you use your phone to take a picture
 of yourself
 lethalneuroses
 no, you're thinking of a selfie. a sephora is a
 calm breeze
 waffle-sorter
 No, you're thinking of a zephyr. A sephora
 is one of those Greek vases with the two
 handles and the pictures
 leeshajoy
 You're thinking of an amphora. Sephora is the
 web browser you have to use on iOS devices.
 animatedamerican
 You're thinking of Safari. Sephora is an
 informal term for the seven-week period
 of counting the days between Pesach and
 Shavuot in the Jewish calendar
 hhertzof
 You're thinking of Sefiras. Sephora is a bright
 blue gemstone best known for combining
 with Ruby to create Garnet and lead the
 Crystal Gems, training Pokemon, and/
 or assisting Steel to fight against time's
 intrusions into our realm.
 rareandradiant-maiden
 No, you're thinking of sapphire. Sephora is ac-
 tually a part of a flower, it protects the flower
 in bud and supports the petals in bloom.
 jewishdragon
 No, you're thinking of sepal. Sephora is the
 wife of Moses, who lead the Israelites people
 out of Egypt
 osheamobile
 No, you're thinking of Tzipporah. Sephora was
 an ancient Greek poet who inspired a lot of
 lady-lovin'
 princelesscomic
 No, you're thinking of Sappho
 Sephora is the youngest of the five Marx
 brothers.
 optimysticals
 No, you're thinking of Zeppo
 Sephora is the Heimdall's sister
 flatbear
 No no no guys, you're thinking of Sif. Sephora
 is a venereal disease that turns your brain
 to swiss cheese, going so far as to destroy
 external features like the nose. Famous
 gangster Al Capone suffered from sephora.
 corruptinnocent
 No, you're thinking of syphilis. Sephora is that
 radiant feeling you get when you have found
 perfect peace and happiness.
 mettatonsbutt
 No, you're thinking of euphoria. Sephora's a
 fucking makeup store you dipshits.
A sephora is a chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16.
        

            
            

                
                
                    A sephora is a chemical element with symbol S and atomic number 16.: nicejewishguy
 Wtf is sephora
 It sounds scary
 elasticlove
 isn't that the guy with the long white hair from
 final fantasy
 venatus
 no your thinking of sephiroth,
 a sephora is an angel belonging to the highest
 order of angels
 punlich
 No you're thinking of a Seraph
 A sephora is a second year college or high
 school student
 one-eyed-pom
 No, you're thinking of sophomore. A sephora
 is when you use your phone to take a picture
 of yourself
 lethalneuroses
 no, you're thinking of a selfie. a sephora is a
 calm breeze
 waffle-sorter
 No, you're thinking of a zephyr. A sephora
 is one of those Greek vases with the two
 handles and the pictures
 leeshajoy
 You're thinking of an amphora. Sephora is the
 web browser you have to use on iOS devices.
 animatedamerican
 You're thinking of Safari. Sephora is an
 informal term for the seven-week period
 of counting the days between Pesach and
 Shavuot in the Jewish calendar
 hhertzof
 You're thinking of Sefiras. Sephora is a bright
 blue gemstone best known for combining
 with Ruby to create Garnet and lead the
 Crystal Gems, training Pokemon, and/
 or assisting Steel to fight against time's
 intrusions into our realm.
 rareandradiant-maiden
 No, you're thinking of sapphire. Sephora is ac-
 tually a part of a flower, it protects the flower
 in bud and supports the petals in bloom.
 jewishdragon
 No, you're thinking of sepal. Sephora is the
 wife of Moses, who lead the Israelites people
 out of Egypt
 osheamobile
 No, you're thinking of Tzipporah. Sephora was
 an ancient Greek poet who inspired a lot of
 lady-lovin'
 princelesscomic
 No, you're thinking of Sappho
 Sephora is the youngest of the five Marx
 brothers.
 optimysticals
 No, you're thinking of Zeppo
 Sephora is the Heimdall's sister
 flatbear
 No no no guys, you're thinking of Sif. Sephora
 is a venereal disease that turns your brain
 to swiss cheese, going so far as to destroy
 external features like the nose. Famous
 gangster Al Capone suffered from sephora.
 corruptinnocent
 No, you're thinking of syphilis. Sephora is that
 radiant feeling you get when you have found
 perfect peace and happiness.
 mettatonsbutt
 No, you're thinking of euphoria. Sephora's a
 fucking makeup store you dipshits.
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 history that the sudden reappearance of the noose at Jena High was so jar-
 ring, and its intent so unmistakable
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 ican Americans in the Southwest, were lynched in large numbers during
 roughly the same period when lynching of blacks ran rampant. Few people
 know this. Every school child knows that blacks suffered that fate. Why do
 so few know about the lynching of Latinos This Essay wi attempt to
 answer that question. Part II reviews the hist of Latino lynching. Part III
 explains why it is so little known. Part IV suggests that English-Only move-
 ments are a present-day form of lynching for Latinos.9 The Essay concludes
 by urging that scholars broaden their search for mechanisms for nonblack
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 [TW Latinxs were also lynched in large numbers during the Jim Crow Era as
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                    Symbolic: WE SERVE
 WHITE'
 NO
 /PANISHet MEXICANS
 tired @highkeychildish -30m
 Hispanic/Latinx struggle during Jim Crow, should be talked about
 more
 わ
 t. 218
 ★155

 tired @highkeychildish 12m
 well
 17 2616

 298
 Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review
 [Vol. 44
 history that the sudden reappearance of the noose at Jena High was so jar-
 ring, and its intent so unmistakable
 ans? Jews? Gypsies? Prob
 not carry the same impac
 blacks. Other symbols-a
 "kikes-might, but not a
 with this one group alonc.
 its malevolent historv.?
 To whom else would a noose carry the same meaning Gays and lesbi
 the symbol may be, t does
 se groups thatt does for
 r an epithet like ag" or
 s linked in the public mind
 Copy
 or bet
 w
 unc, blacks own the symbol an
 d
 Yet, that seening singularity invites farther examination. for example
 recent research by reputable historians shows that Latinos, particularly Mex
 ican Americans in the Southwest, were lynched in large numbers during
 roughly the same period when lynching of blacks ran rampant. Few people
 know this. Every school child knows that blacks suffered that fate. Why do
 so few know about the lynching of Latinos This Essay wi attempt to
 answer that question. Part II reviews the hist of Latino lynching. Part III
 explains why it is so little known. Part IV suggests that English-Only move-
 ments are a present-day form of lynching for Latinos.9 The Essay concludes
 by urging that scholars broaden their search for mechanisms for nonblack
 tired @highkeychildish 12m
 [TW Latinxs were also lynched in large numbers during the Jim Crow Era as
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