one of my fave things about australian politics is that it’s almost entirely made up of old white men who have no idea what they’re doing, no-one trusts them, they’re all racist fools who put us in debt, every single one of them has been thoroughly humiliated on tv at least once
and then there’s penny wong, a left-wing malaysian lesbian who is quite literally the only australian politician i know of never to have made a fool of herself. she’s never lost a debate. she is five feet of rage, climate change action, and whoop-ass. everyone i know wants her to be prime minister but she’s literally said she doesn’t think australia could handle it. i love her
– antisemitism is often veiled as “combating white supremacy” – lack of focus on mental illnesses besides depression – honest mistakes tend to be poorly dealt with – “callout culture” (people looking for others to mess up, solely in order to defame them) – in-depth education on terms tends to be scarce, leading to people having only a vague understanding of terms, and using them – bigots are able to redefine these (poorly-defined) terms in ways that hurt the oppressed – emotional manipulation / guilt-tripping (“i see my followers ignoring this”; “why is nobody talking about this?”)
re-reblogging cause i thought of things
Excessive and abusive punishment of young teenagers over mistakes made in discourse they don’t completely understand by bloggers much older than they are
US-centrism
Reliance on fear of retribution for spread of information (contributes to rapid spread of misinformation)
Moral absolutism – the line between “perfect innocent angel” and “disgusting shit trash” can be as thin as one mistake
Reliance on followed blogs for education about social issues
I absolutely despise the guilt tripping. Manipulative asf. I’m not willing to spread awareness for something if you’re just going to guilt trip me into it.
November 7 2014 – Farmers in France protest government agricultural policies by covering government buildings in manure and pelting police with apples. [video]/[another video]