#systematic violence

[isaacsapphire]

The poisoned Skittle problem, from the perspective of a non poison Skittle

The metaphor of the bowl of Skittles, some percentage of which are poison, and how many of those Skittles you want to eat, has been used by feminists about men, and republicans about immigrants. I'm increasingly devoid of shits to give about what kind of vile things I'm going to be called, so what the heck, I'll use it too for this.

With class and housing in the US, there is a poisoned Skittle problem; the lower income you go, the higher the percentage of assaults George type people are in the mix. (Please note now that I am Not claiming that the elite are not prone to being assaults Georg, or that there's no assaults Georg in higher income brackets) For added fun, the poorer you are, the more you have to be in physical proximity to others who live in your area, while walking to the store or taking public transportation, increasing your vulnerability to being assaulted, etc. In the suburbs, a lot of the time, the guy who lives three houses down from yours and you have literally never seen each other, so it doesn't matter if he would immediately grab your crotch if he was in crotch-grabbing range, because the two of you have never been that close together. If you live in a more dense environment and travel by foot, your chances of being in crotch-grabbing range are much higher, so a crotch-grabber, etc. in your area is a more concerning problem for you.

Most people very reasonably prefer to live somewhere further away from assaults Georg. The thing is, other people also prefer to live further for assaults Georg, and if you were just living next to assaults Georg, you are a Skittle of indeterminate poison. So when a nice redlined Blue suburb with a great school district is considering if they're going to permit some affordable housing, they are going to look at the income bracket that will be living there and say, "There's too high a percentage of poison Skittles in that income bracket. We don't want to live in a community with assaults Georg, or invite assaults Georg Jr into our nice school, so we don't want affordable housing here."

So now you, as an innocent non poison Skittle are left trying to figure out how you are going to communicate your non poison status so you can get the heck away from the poison Skittles. The current way this information is conveyed is by convincing a higher paid job to hire you, making more money, and buying your way into a better neighborhood. This is a rather lossy way to sort, and shit like constantly disrupted sleep at the weekly hotel from all the shitty people who live there with you doesn't help with better job thing. There's plenty of non poisoned Skittles in that bowl, but how to extract them safely?

The obvious next question is why we as a society don't seem to have any solution to the problem of getting assaulted by assaults Georg other than to individually just try to scramble away from where such folks are statistically and to price the entire category of people who are statistically more likely to be assaults Georg out of certain areas. And now it's a criminal justice system problem and I'll leave that for another day, but overall, the criminal justice system seems a lot more interested in hassling people based on statistical similarities to assaults Georg than doing fuck all about stopping assaults Georg.

#artisanal violence #systematic violence #government housing #housing #original post #class in the us #assaults georg #American is the richest third world country #criminal justice system #and nobody who isn't a crime lord actually wants to live there #criming #i'm so tired #race and class

[lastcatghost]

Capitalism robs us all of our humanity and any real human experience. Not just the people who didn't live as long as they should've, but also from the amount of people who could do something amazing in art or science or any area of life, but instead had to work fields, factories, or lumpen street hustling just to make ends meet.

Shit if I could've followed my dreams and natural interests, I would've wanted to work at the jet propulsion lab like carl Sagan, but even with my ability to understand the science in anyway, I never had any chance to get the education needed to do that kind of work. And i know it's not only common for this shit to happen as children grow up, it's almost universal except with the wealthy

#capitalism #poverty #classism #fuck capitalism #late stage capitalism #communism #class warfare #systematic violence

[ceoofcrimes]

A 15-year-old Noongar boy, Cassius Turvey, was getting off the bus with his mates on his way home from school when he was assaulted by a 21-year-old white man named Jack Brearley and his accomplices on October 13th. His is believed to have been bashed with a metal pole and attacked with a machete while being called racial slurs. His mates were also victims of the attack. Cassius was sent to hospital after the attack, returned home, and after eight hours, had a seizure. He was taken back to hospital, put in an induced coma, underwent brain surgery and had two strokes before he died, all as a result of the attack against him. He was ruthlessly murdered by adult white men, and his murder was the second recent case of an assault by white men against a young Indigenous boy in the area. Jack Brearley has been charged with murder, but the local police are saying we shouldn't "jump to conclusions of racism" as a motivation for Cassius' murder. We've seen young Indigenous people, especially young men, murdered by members of public and figures of authority, motivated by white supremacy and xenophobia, since the beginning of Australia's colonisation. Young Indigenous women are raped, beaten and killed every day without a blink of an eye from law enforcement and media. None of this is news to anyone, especially not the survivors and deceased victims of these acts, as well as their families left to grieve with little to no support or effort into bringing the perpetrators of this violence to justice by law enforcement. Cassius deserves justice. It's time to demand it.

To read more:

#violence tw #racism tw #white supremacy #auspol #Australia #cassius Turvey #perth #systematic racism #systematic violence #murder tw

[genderkoolaid]

ive seen people make the connection between anti-transfemininity and homophobia & how a lot of homophobia is inherently anti-transfem. & while i disagree with the idea that homophobia is like, anti-transfemininity Lite, its um. interesting to me that the people who will say that gay men are attacked because of their proximity to transfeminity don't say the same about lesbophobia and anti-transmasculinity. because a lot of lesbophobia is inherently anti-transmasc; a lot of lesbophobic violence is done under the assumption that lesbians "want to be men" or "think they are men" (and some do). that's clearly anti-transmasc. it's clearly about punishing perceived transmasculinity, regardless of whether the victim identifies or would have identified as transmasc/a trans man. and yet i've never seen anyone make this connection or point out how so much lesbophobia involves the punishing of perceived transmasculinity. hmmm i wonder why. anyways.

#m. #to be clear i dont think lesbophobia is lesser than or solely the product of anti-transmasculinity #but like homophobias and transphobias are inherently connected #so the fact that ppl who theorize on the relationship btween ATF + homophobia #dont do the same for ATM + lesbophobia #well it once again points to how ATM violence is systematically erased #to quote an early feminist: its the problem with no name #transmasculinity is hated but we can never actually say what is being hated #transandrophobia #transmisandry #anti transmasculinity #transunity

[crow085]

Average day at LOV headquarters

#yes i know this is ooc #Fucked up dabi's jacket on the first page but im not fixing that shit lol #the cover took at long to make as an entire comic page #also can you tell what pages i drew first based on how i get better at drawing the mha style #at least i feel like i can see that #my fav panel is the younger brother cold read one #its the last one i drew #mha dabi #touya todoroki #tw domestic violence #my hero acedamia #this is the art tag #boku no hero fanart #also i started reading MHA because i matched 1:1 with shiggy on every personality test (MBTI enneagram rulen shit like that) #and was looking on a personality databse for what character matched me to most #add mha to the list of series in which the good side are those seeking to preserve the status quo and the villains are people with #legit grievances and a desire to make society better but then have the villains inexplicably like. fight children so we know they are bad #and the end resolution is that society is fine and everything was an individual problem not a systematic one #also fuck endeavor redemption arc #and while enji may SAY it doenst matter if hes forgivven the story SHOWS that it does matte #In the manga Shoto literally explicitly says that if he didn't forgive Enji then he would be as bad as Dabi #and Deku says that what enji did in the past donest matter cause he was nice to him #and the only thing Natsu says against endeavor is that he neglected his kids when thats literally the least of his crimes #and while people see this as a Get Endeavor moment the way the whole arc is framed you're supposed to see Natsu as unresonable #it's why hes shown to be angry and hitting walls and endevor is perfectly calm #the narrative of the story brushes all the truly awful shit away and pretends like it didnt happen #i seriously doubt the fact the Endeavor human trafficked his wife then beat her to the point she was afraid of her own kids for looking like #him will ever be adressed #Rei literally bowed in apology to Hawks for what Touya did shes treated like shit by the narrative #also the fact that Deku explicitly states that none of the shit Enji did in the past mattered because he was a good mentor is such bullshit

[fucklestat]

"The World According to Narcissus" by Teresa Leo / Narcissus by Johann Heinrich Tischbein the Elder / Interview with the Vampire

#iwtv #interview with the vampire #iwtv amc #loustat #lestat de lioncourt #louis de pointe du lac #web weaving #abuse cw #domestic violence cw #blood cw #gore cw #the way he fell in love with louis (at least in part) for his spark and strength and stubborness #and then proceeds to systematically chip away at those very parts of him #swamp swamp maim maim burn burn kill kill.

[constantvariations]

Frothing at the mouth thinking about how Adam could've been our Scar (FMA) if ShawLuna weren't clowns

#rwde #you want a nuanced take on violence and revenge? fma #you want siblings who care abt each other? fma #you want a story where its clear the author did a fuck ton of research on systematic corruption and the overlapping racism? fma #an immortals soul attached to a teenager and its a complicated complex relationship? fma #an all powerful god being a huge dick but in ways that make sense? fma #damn i should rewatch it

[spitblaze]

I made this post before a bazillion years ago but it can't hurt to say it again

I do not believe thay systemic violence and systematic violence are not interchangeable terms or concepts. 'Genocide' is a very potent word for targeted violence, but it’s not a catch-all.

This isn't to say that victims of systemic violence aren't suffering 'enough' or whatever. Both cause real, tangible harm, it's just that one is an orchestrated attempt to eradicate certain groups of people, and the other is widespread (but generally uncoordinated) violence on certain groups due to failure of the state.

#spitblaze says things #like. rounding up immigrant refugees and sterilizing them? systematic violence. an attempt to eradicate or at least eugenicise the problem #police indiscriminately targeting black people? systemic violence. it sucks immensely but there is no grand plan here besides general racism #im happy to discuss and answer questions unless ur gonna sealion or whatabout me. bad faith takes begone

[redphienix]

Is there anything more absurd than "Person who makes it their youtube career to provide overviews and share thoughts on horror projects that are... ON YOUTUBE, and they censor every other word, say 'I won't show you this here', and generally ad-revenue PG-ify something that's ON YOUTUBE"

or am I just angry?

#my posts #I have ads I hate ads I hate ads #I hate the systematic sanitation of the internet so much I'm going to kill maim violence kill kill kill

[lastcatghost]

Bad things do happen for a reason, most of the time the reason(s) are directly tied to capitalism.

And even when its a person doing bad things to others without needing to do so in order to survive, they'd still most likely not do the same shit if community intervention was realistic and humane, and if our collective resources were secure.

I don't believe any human is born inherently "evil" and that our external material conditions influence our internal circumstances that drive our behavior.

#human rights and civil liberties #capitalism #poverty #classism #fuck capitalism #late stage capitalism #communism #class warfare #abolish private property #private property created crime #fuck the system #systematic violence

[uptownthots]

I was going write out this big long post about harm the patriarchy does to women vs the "harm" patriarchy does men but idk. I think the fact that there aren't large-scale male-led movements dedicated to fighting the patriarchy proves my point perfectly

#LIKE if men are legitimately oppressed by the patriarchy who come they'd be the only marginalized (lol) group to not have like. at least one #if not multiple political movements about it #women did it black ppl did it disabled people did it I can go on and on and on #the only group of people who cannot advocate for themselves are literal children. like if men were oppressed they'd say something about it! #being a man means sometimes the patriarchy makes them Feel Bad(tm) but they'll never face legit systematic violence #and the world we live in literally proves men are willing to Feel Bad(tm) if that means being allowed to enact violence on women daily #^ this also isn't me saying men cant be feminists its saying if men were oppressed they would have started a movement separate from feminis #*that isn't a right wing org in a trenchcoat. because there's plenty of 'men are oppressed' right wingers. for some reason. gee I wonder wh

[luminalunii97]

Faranak Amidi, an Iranian feminist, tweets about morality police and forced religion. It is brought up by the recent catastrophe in Iran. A 22 year old woman, Mahsa Amini, was killed by morality police for not wearing her hijab "properly". She was beaten brutally that resulted in brain injury. This is the thing we deal with on a daily basis in Iran. This is a bold example of freedom and human rights violation. This dystopia is not fictional.

#islamic republic of iran #feminism #misogyny #sexism #forced religion #mandatory hijab #morality police #tumblr #mahsa amini #hell #religious trauma #propaganda #religious radicalism #freedom #human rights #politics #handmaid's tale #feminist #systematic oppression #gender based violence #choice #human integrity

[vvanessaives]

truly wish life was all about that feeling of comfort of falling asleep in the back of the car as a kid while your parents drive but truth is it's all a constant first day of school where you have to introduce yourself to the evilest species the world has ever seen: middle schoolers

#rena.txt #i was laying in bed with my bestie and we saw a movie and i went i used to fall asleep a lot in the car as a kid and idk i thought of this #it's 1:21am akcjskfsjck also i will never be scared of anyone ever in my life as i'm scared of those middle schoolers truly when the evil #runs rampant. idk about you all but italian kids at middle school...terrible the systematic bullying and shit and violence bro. never #want to live through a middle school ever again. i was fucking depressed in high school but nothing hit as much as middle school wkfjskf