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I said three or four years ago that the rapid ballooning of the word "queer" with all its "i'm reclaiming it!" nonsense was going to lead to some bad, bad times when people started trying to do it to the word "faggot" too, and lo and behold, every other post Tumblr thinks I need to be shown involves some clueless clown whining about how nobody wants to let them say fag faggity faggot fagotte all day and how they keep losing friends over it, sometimes with a veneer of "fuck u imma keep doing it im so liberated and cool yo" to hide the pain.

like, yes, choosing to use a violent slur will make you unpopular among the people that slur has been used against. no, choosing to try and "reclaim" it as justification won't magically make that go away.

and you're always going to display how bothered by it you really are when you choose to make clickbait posts about it. you're the problem. change your behavior and the mean ol' gays might tolerate being around you.

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i need people to stop telling me “queer isn’t a slur because X amount of gay people said so in an online survey!” like i’m sorry but you guys need to take a statistics class and learn that surveys/polls do not provide accurate data. polls and surveys are so fucking easy to skew and it happens all the time.

and even if the ~grand majority~ decided that queer isn’t a slur anymore, you still fucking respect those who don’t want to be called queer. shaming people who do not like being referred to as queer makes you no better than the oppressor.

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another day, another “only terfs and exclusionists don’t like queer” post put on my dash

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posts that tell you immediately that someone's entire knowledge of 'gay history' comes from inflammatory tumblr accounts.

real talk, people like this need to be smacked upside the head. the people you want to upset so badly are just gay people who made that acronym and that historical alliance because the types of people who called them dykes, faggots, trannies, and queers, were also the types of people killing them.

#q slur #f slur #d slur #t slur

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It sets the stage for the US occupation of Gaza

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I have just watched the entirety of the original video of Aaron Bushnell's final protest. Here are my takeaways.

One, I do believe that if you can handle it, you should watch it. At least a censored version. It is one thing to stand with him in theory. It is another to hear him, to feel how visceral it is, to know why he is doing it.

Two, he is a hero. There are a lot of people saying he was a bad person for x or y or z, but the truth is he made the suffering unignoreable. When he was told to follow orders and keep quiet, he screamed with everything he had in him.

Three, the police showed their incompetence. Shocker. The police officer screaming "Get on the ground! Get on the ground!" later points a gun at Aaron's charred body as they extinguish it. It sounds almost cartoonish because the action *is* cartoonish and ridiculous. Aaron collapses prior to their approach and is very clearly dead by the time they put him out. He poses no threat.

Four, he was *not* an idiot for his actions. Self immolation is a recognized form of protest.

Five, he was not mentally ill for doing this. It was a premeditated act of protest.

In the words of Aaron himself, this is what our ruling class has decided will be normal. If it happens to Palestinian children and you ignore it, somebody will make sure you have to see it.

Do not avert your eyes. Do not cover your ears. Do not pretend he was a lunatic lighting fires for fun. He was a hero. He *is* a hero. It is appalling that it had to come to this, and even more appalling that he was not the final casualty, because that *is* what he is. A casualty of Israeli aggression.

Rest in Power, Aaron. I hope one day the children of a liberated Palestine will hear tales of your bravery. I hope your actions will make somebody, anybody listen. Most of all, I hope your name stays on the lips of everyone who claims to support human rights.

Free Palestine. For Palestinians, for Aaron, for the world.

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Growing up is realizing Flesh by Simon Curtis isn't about vampires...

#lmaoooooo #simon curtis #music

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From: The Only House Left Standing. The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall, Foreword by Robert Fisk, Trolley Books, London, 2012

«Rachel, who came to Rafah to stop the tanks. We remember her with love and honour as an inspiration.»

Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003) Thomas Hurndall (November 27, 1981 – January 13, 2004)

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Let Me Stand Alone. The Journals of Rachel Corrie, W. W. Norton & Company, New York, NY, (2008-)2009 [The Rachel Corrie Foundation for Peace & Justice, Olympia, WA]

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Rachel Corrie (April 10, 1979 – March 16, 2003)

«Rachel, who came to Rafah to stop the tanks. We remember her with love and honour as an inspiration.»

«This has to stop. I think it is a good idea for us all to drop everything and devote our lives to making this stop. I don't think it's an extremist thing to do anymore. I still really want to dance around to Pat Benatar and have boyfriends and make comics for my coworkers. But I also want this to stop.» – Rachel Corrie, excerpt from an email to her parents [in My Name is Rachel Corrie, taken from the writings of Rachel Corrie, edited by Alan Rickman and Katharine Viner, with the permission of the Corrie family, in collaboration with the Royal Court Theatre International Department, Theatre Communications Group, New York, NY, 2006, pp. 49-50]

(initial quote from: The Only House Left Standing. The Middle East Journals of Tom Hurndall, Foreword by Robert Fisk, Trolley Books, London, 2012)

(image: Rachel, (2009, 1h 40m), (still), Directed by Simone Bitton, Cinematography by Jacques Bouquin, Edited by Jean-Michel Perez and Catherine Poitevin. Palestine Film Institute)

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Rachel Corrie, an American citizen, was murdered, repeatedly run over by a bulldozer as she stood in defense of Palestinians.

Her family was threatened and anyone who spoke about her was smeared as an antisemite including Alan Rickman who wrote and directed a play about her.

To this day she is remembered and honoured as a martyr in Palestine.

While, at the time, her death was mocked in Israel by putting her face on pancakes.

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rachel corrie’s letters

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The censorship of the WSWS and all other left-wing outlets must be opposed. As world capitalism descends ever further into barbarism and dictatorship, all democratic rights are under relentless assault. Only the building of a revolutionary movement of the international working class can stop these processes and overthrow this outmoded social order, creating the conditions for a vast expansion of social and democratic rights internationally.