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righteouspussypower:

radianthour:

class-snuggle:

Dawkins then went on to create an objective view of reality free of ideology, social context, ethnocentrism, and all that other sociology bollocks using the one truly unbiased and universal method of analysis: liberal Western European positivism.

Dawkinsgate 2013 has been one of the funniest Twitter-facilitated self-ownings on record

BUT HIS WORDS ARE CONTRADICTING HIM OMFG

righteouspussypower:

radianthour:

class-snuggle:

Dawkins then went on to create an objective view of reality free of ideology, social context, ethnocentrism, and all that other sociology bollocks using the one truly unbiased and universal method of analysis: liberal Western European positivism.

Dawkinsgate 2013 has been one of the funniest Twitter-facilitated self-ownings on record

BUT HIS WORDS ARE CONTRADICTING HIM OMFG

nezua:

dansphalluspalace:

magic-murder-bag:

youmissyouroldfamiliarfriends:

class-snuggle:

tombomp:

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/337968073522946048

I can’t believe this.

OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHAHAH

It got better

uhoh and defenders are already derailing like
SOCIOLOGY IS NOT A ~RRRREEEAL SCIENCE!!ONE!11!~
do you know how much shit was considered real science until subsequently debunked?
Alchemy.
Holy water.
The earth being flat.

what is all this CONTEXT nonsense??
to be real, this is sad. very, very, sad. a human can get this old and basically be babbling aloud. “what’s so great about truth?” very, very, sad, that a fool like this can have even one fan, even one fellow collaborator in his very small plot to become less and less sentient.

nezua:

dansphalluspalace:

magic-murder-bag:

youmissyouroldfamiliarfriends:

class-snuggle:

tombomp:

https://twitter.com/RichardDawkins/status/337968073522946048

I can’t believe this.

OH MY GOD HAHAHAHAHAHAH

It got better

uhoh and defenders are already derailing like

SOCIOLOGY IS NOT A ~RRRREEEAL SCIENCE!!ONE!11!~

do you know how much shit was considered real science until subsequently debunked?

Alchemy.

Holy water.

The earth being flat.

what is all this CONTEXT nonsense??

to be real, this is sad. very, very, sad. a human can get this old and basically be babbling aloud. “what’s so great about truth?” very, very, sad, that a fool like this can have even one fan, even one fellow collaborator in his very small plot to become less and less sentient.

Refugees ‘facing rising dangers’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22622467

Refugees ‘facing rising dangers’ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-22622467

itswalky:

thecholma:

itswalky:

Fix’d!
time to start deleting new stuff out of my inbox
EDITED to include White Jesus because HOW THE FUCK DID THIS NOT HAVE WHITE JESUS IN IT

David Willis is an evil genius and I bow to him. What is thy bidding, my Master?

make my hand stop cramping, i have to draw silverbolt in an obama poster tonight

itswalky:

thecholma:

itswalky:

Fix’d!

time to start deleting new stuff out of my inbox

EDITED to include White Jesus because HOW THE FUCK DID THIS NOT HAVE WHITE JESUS IN IT

David Willis is an evil genius and I bow to him.
What is thy bidding, my Master?

make my hand stop cramping, i have to draw silverbolt in an obama poster tonight

Government assistance in America is invisible until black people receive it. Then it becomes racialized, demonized and stigmatized.

Melissa Harris-Perry and Karen Finney (paraphrased), commenting on a recent New York Times editorial wherein black farmers were all but vilified as ‘lazy takers’ who gamed the system —for winning an historic discrimination lawsuit against the USDA: Pigford v. Glickman (via odinsblog)

So true. In fact, the entire capitalist system — all banking, all corporate operations, all military industry — is built on and based upon government assistance; or rather, much more than “assistance”, more like extreme government largesse by granting public funds from taxes and public resources to private interests.

Private banking relies entirely on credit, loans, underwriting, insurance, and political-military protection from the government. All corporate merchandise in the USA is moved and distributed on highways and roads built and maintained using public money. The telecom companies sell you mobile phone service using radio spectrum which belongs to the public and is granted to them by the government. Agribusiness is well-known to be subsidized. Big pharma relies on publicly funded research to isolate its private profit makers. There are no major areas of corporate America which are not entirely reliant on government assistance. And that’s not even getting into corporate tax breaks.

Yet god forbid Black people get any benefit from the government whatsoever, amounting in total to the tiniest trickle in relation to the government largesse extended to corporate America. Suddenly that is seen, within the prevailing racist US political discourse, as a burden upon society and sign of an imaginary racial pathology of laziness and dependency. Good one, white America.

(via zuky)

Fitzgerald scholar Matthew J. Bruccoli has one answer. “Because it’s mishigas! If Fitzgerald wanted to write about blacks, it wouldn’t have taken 75 years to figure it out. If that’s what Fitzgerald wanted, he would have made it perfectly clear in April 1925. Great works of literature are not fodder for guessing games. This kind of thing is bad for literature, bad for Fitzgerald, bad for ‘The Great Gatsby’ and bad for students who get exposed to this kind of guessing game.

but weren’t we dying anyway?: sad young cardinals: Jay Gatsby was black: an explanation  

how //dare you// expose young minds to //dissenting viewpoints//.  if they doubt everything they’ve been told about literature WHAT WILL THEY DOUBT NEXT.

nextyearsgirl:

“Agree to disagree” is white guy speak for “I understand you have an opinion but unfortunately, me.”

pursuant to earlier.

girljanitor:

karnythia:

thehoneyinthelion:

girljanitor:

thehoneyinthelion:

menophiliac:

girljanitor:

innocent-bystanders-inc:

nudiemuse:

princelesscomic:

girljanitor:

Self Evident Truths

S. Ross Browne

Ummm…I am so VERY into this right now!

But Black people in period or fantasy settings totally makes the stories unreal.

Also holy shit I love these.

How come I don’t run across this stuff regularly?

Because of racism and the retroactive erasure of POC in Medieval Europe. Pretty much the same reason you almost never see these works of art either unless you’re already looking for them:

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um yes

almost all of those pictures are recognisably early modern tho 

i mean yeah there’s an amphora  and a couple of classical-looking statues in the collage one but apart from that they look late-c15th at most like

it’s a gr8 bunch of artworks but it doesn’t look medieval sry

you know, I’m fucking sick and tired of people thinking I don’t know what I’m talking about. Did you notice that the DATE 1744 is right ON one of the paintings I posted? Or maybe that a few of the “paintings” are actually urns and sculptures that date well before the Medieval era? I swear to fucking god you people

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Koninklijke Bibliotheek Den Haag Hours of the Virgin: Sext

circa 1300s

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Heironymus Bosch circa 1490s

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Armorial de Gelre 1370 –1414

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Gaudenzio Ferrari circa 1480s

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Mostaert, circa 1480s or 90s

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portrait of Alessandro de Medici, 1530s

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Armorial of Gelre 1370-1395

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Anonymous Adoration of the Magi c. 1450

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Jean, Duc de Berry, about 1410

From Esther Schruder’s Essay ‘Propaganda and consolation: ‘blacks’ in court culture in the period 1300-1900′:

The first introduction to black people in the ‘Low Countries’ almost certainly occured between AD 200 and 500 when black Africans came to the region in the service of Roman armies.

Research at the University of Newcastle has revealed that black Romans were found in all ranks of the army and that most Roman armies were multi-ethnic. Some Roman emperors, such as Septimius Severus (145-211), were North African in origin. Severus probably marched through the Low Countries with his army in 209 and died in England in 211.

While he may not have been a black African himself, the Historia Augusta does mention a black Ethiopian who served in his army in England. Objects on which black Romans are depicted have also been found in England, although not in the Netherlands as far as is known.

In later Netherlandish art there are certainly many representations of black Romans and black Roman emperors.

The following phase in European history, the Middle Ages, is considerably more important in establishing the roles and image of black people at courts. From the eight century onwards there was a real danger that the Moors, or Muslims, who included many blacks amongst their numbers, would conquer and colonise Europe. They proved formidable opponents.

In subsequent centuries the Moors held sway over the Iberian peninsula, Sicily and Corsica. Both negative and positive representations of black people appear in northern European art and literature from this period of Moorish threat and conquest. Initially these images were chiefly negative, as in the Spiegel Historiaelby Jacob van Maerlant from circa 1330. ( picture Charlemagne )

Positive representations of black people were inspired by the crusaders’ discovery of Christian Ethiopians living in Jerusalem.

When it further emerged that both Ethiopia and Nubia were ruled by Christian kings who were also fighting the Muslims, European crusaders and potentates became increasingly interested in these two lands, believing that they had finally found strong black Christian allies to help them against the Moors.

This idea persisted in art. In Les Très Riches Heures du Jean Duc de Berry(c. 1416) for example, an illumination by the Limburg brothers features three realistic black monks at the foot of the holy cross.

Esther Schreuder

that is literally the exact point I was making, that maybe one or two of those artworks was actually medieval

i mean you were talking about “the retroactive erasure of POC in Medieval Europe”- that hardly made it clear that you knew those artworks weren’t medieval

your wording was very unclear, and considering the amount of people on this site that can’t distinguish between between medieval and early modern i was hardly going to give you the benefit of the doubt like

And yet now that you know Girljanitor knows exactly what the fuck they’re talking about you’re still determined to make this post about you and not the actual topic at hand. You should ask yourself why you feel the need to be pedantic and wrong instead of shutting the fuck up. Or apologizing. Or anything useful at all.

I didn’t even get into how eras in art history aren’t like rolling clay and cutting it off in chunks according to linear time period-they also exist in SPACE in regards to geographical origin, as well as styles and influence, and calling a painting this particular “style” isn’t the same as saying “it is from this year until this year”.

But I’m sure you can imagine why I don’t even fucking bother-the important thing is trying to undermine my supposed ~credibility~ because a thing is true that they obviously don’t like.

As a white chick, I think I’ll pass but thanks. I’m so done with being told I’m evil because of my skin color.

underthestarssofaraway talking about n.k. jemisin’s the broken kingdoms 

someone told a lie one day.

“Somebody told a lie one day.

they couched it in language.

They couched it in language.

They made everything black ugly and evil.  Look in your dictionary and see the synonyms for the word black.

They made everything black ugly and evil.  Look in your dictionary and see the synonyms for the word black.

it's always something degrading, low, and sinister.

it’s always something degrading, low and sinister.

look at the world white, it's always something pure, high, clean.

Look at the word white.  It’s always something pure, high, clean.

well, i want to get the language right tonight.

Well, I want to get the language right tonight.”

[the mlk that’s never quoted]

jackpowerx:

acornfarm:

defilerwyrm:

AHAHAHA NOT QUITE, OP, NOT QUITE


FUCKING NAILED IT

A+ commentary!

also bc of this:

[xkcd :: how it works]
bc the white dude telling a white dude ‘you’re worthless’ meant ‘you, personally, are worthless’ whereas the white dude telling a black dude ‘you’re worthless’ meant ‘you, and all other black people, are worthless’

jackpowerx:

acornfarm:

defilerwyrm:

AHAHAHA NOT QUITE, OP, NOT QUITE

FUCKING NAILED IT

A+ commentary!

also bc of this:

xkcd - how it works

[xkcd :: how it works]

bc the white dude telling a white dude ‘you’re worthless’ meant ‘you, personally, are worthless’ whereas the white dude telling a black dude ‘you’re worthless’ meant ‘you, and all other black people, are worthless’

note-a-bear:

kohenari:


Seems like an important question for our elected officials tonight, in light of this news.
I’ll await word from public safety exemption experts on why we’re trotting it out in this case but didn’t, for example, in the McVeigh case.


You know, the detached academic in me is sort of having fits of laughter/sympathetic embarrassment/epic schadenfreude over how massively the WHITENESS machine is showing its gears.
This is 900000% “Ignore the man behind the curtain.” 
Everyone’s sinking their claws in to figure out a way to either delegitimize or enshrine the whiteness of the Tzarnaevs in this massively transparent Big Top show.
Like, the whole indignation and righteous fury that’s cropping up is…
I don’t even have the words. There’s an opera in this.
It’s truly horrifying.

i read the tweet and i was all GOOD POINT, then i was all OH WAIT BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT SHE MEANT.

note-a-bear:

kohenari:

Seems like an important question for our elected officials tonight, in light of this news.

I’ll await word from public safety exemption experts on why we’re trotting it out in this case but didn’t, for example, in the McVeigh case.

You know, the detached academic in me is sort of having fits of laughter/sympathetic embarrassment/epic schadenfreude over how massively the WHITENESS machine is showing its gears.

This is 900000% “Ignore the man behind the curtain.” 

Everyone’s sinking their claws in to figure out a way to either delegitimize or enshrine the whiteness of the Tzarnaevs in this massively transparent Big Top show.

Like, the whole indignation and righteous fury that’s cropping up is…

I don’t even have the words. There’s an opera in this.

It’s truly horrifying.

i read the tweet and i was all GOOD POINT, then i was all OH WAIT BUT THAT’S NOT WHAT SHE MEANT.

chameli:

coquelicots-et-jonquilles:

altonym:

apparently fox news specified for their confused viewers at home that “chechens are not caucasian”, which is perhaps the most succinct summary of why it’s a stupid term I have ever seen in my life

#chechnya is literally in the caucasus #that’s the joke.jpg #keeping the tags

nikkotine:

Donald Glover talking about the comments he received during his campaign to be the next Spider-Man (x)

“I was talking about it with Dan Eckman, who directed my Bonfire video. Can you imagine that trailer? That would be dope. Like it makes sense… a poor black kid in Queens. Like it just fits.”

thepliablefoe:

warlocksmith:

manuwar:

Lol @ godless savages

lol buddha said nothing about tattoos and did not really care about peoples cultures cause he was above that shit via enlightenment he actually wanted people to follow his teachings thus this is not #whitegirlsinheadresses, I get the feeling this dude probs pissed some people off but it was something he could not be deported for so they just came up with some bullshit about his tatt. what eves who cares

also country of colour = coc = cock=lol

Man, fuck you pricks. Seems like a nice enough guy, why do you have to make a bunch of fucking noise because he’s white?

more people working //extremely hard// at not caring about sri lankans.

i do love all the kids all ‘don’t you talk to me about buddhism like you’re some kind of expert, boy, I’LL TALK TO //YOU// ABOUT BUDDHISM LIKE //I’M// SOME KIND OF EXPERT’.  apparently buddha was way into disciples and spreading The Word but didn’t give a shit about being nice to people or giving up worldly attachments?  OH WAIT YOU’RE THINKING OF WHITE JESUS OH SHIIIIII-