Silver Tongue

kendallroy:

thehours2002:

kendallroy:

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this tweet is such a perfect encapsulation of what the brain trust on twitter considers activism at this point, i swear to god

  1. she was a child
  2. she was a child trapped in a legendarily abusive studio contract where she was being pumped full of drugs and sexually abused by producers
  3. what is the point? “think about this the next time you watch the wizard of oz”? and do what? this tweet is so pointless
  4. not for nothing but she was also a lifelong advocate of the civil rights movement and held a whole press conference to denounce white supremacist terrorism after the 16th street baptist church bombing
  5. there are politicians who did blackface in office right now
  6. judy garland has been dead for 50 slutty, slutty years

If you want to use this information to actually learn about minstrelsy I would recommend the chapter “Past Imperfect: Performance, Power, and Politics on the Minstrel Stage” from Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts by Brenda Dixon Gottschild. Gottschild covers the Africanist dance influence in minstrelsy, the re-appropriation of and resistance in minstrelsy by Black performers, the legacy of minstrelsy, and much more.

In a similar vein I would also recommend the Marlon Riggs documentaries Ethnic Notions, which covers anti-Black stereotypes in popular culture from the antebellum period through the Civil Rights movement, and Color Adjustment, which covers the representation of African Americans on television from its advent through the 1990s.

You’re not going to raise your consciousness by watching The Wizard of Oz and feeling bad that Judy Garland did blackface (in not just Everybody Sing, but also Babes in Arms and Babes on Broadway, for the record) because she was a minor under the thumb of her abusive stage mother and legally obligated to perform in these films because of her contract with MGM. Engage with the work of Black activists on the subject instead and think about or criticize how the stereotypes from minstrel performances still manifest in popular culture today in different forms.

this isn’t showing up in my replies because of the links so i’m boosting it, tumblr user thehours2002 is smart and thoughtful as always

queerlychristian:
“ 1dietcokeinacan:
“Oh wow…………….say that
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ID: a tweet reading “just a quick reminder that a society exists to serve the people within it. there’s no such thing as a person being ‘useless’ to a society, only a society that is...

queerlychristian:

1dietcokeinacan:

Oh wow…………….say that

ID: a tweet reading “just a quick reminder that a society exists to serve the people within it. there’s no such thing as a person being ‘useless’ to a society, only a society that is useless to a person”

space-sword:
“Well look at that!
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space-sword:

Well look at that!

darcyolsson:

starfleetacademy:

starfleetacademy:

Desire paths are just the best human invention because cities will spend millions on sidewalks and yet. Our little foraging brains will think ‘too far cut thru grass for food’ and others will be like ‘other human have good idea. I follow’ until there’s a beaten path when there’s perfectly acceptable sidewalks to either side

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For example

these are called “olifantenpaadjes” in dutch (little elephant paths) (remember this for later it’s important) and there’s a whole facebook page dedicated to it, where people can send in pictures of these “elephant paths” all across the country and they get rated with stars.

apparently, a city renovated its park, and ended up putting a tree branch over a beloved path:

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of course, this meant the path had become unusable, which is an utter tragedy, so an anonymous citizen did the rational thing and got up in the middle of the night, went to the park, and cut the branch in half using a chainsaw. 

so like.. this citizen should probably get arrested for destruction of public property right???
nah. the city just thought it was funny and even made a joke about it when the renovated park got-re opened. the only thing to come out of it was this photo, posted by a local news site:

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and that’s the story of how dutch people really, really, really love their little elephant paths.

hatingongodot:

hatingongodot:

This whole cyberpunk 2077 thing is bullshit but also almost comedic in its continual incompetence, like they’re just slowly turning a dial labeled “Trans??” in different directions while frequently glancing back at the audience to see how they’re reacting

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On one level this seems unrelated, but actually I think that the whole “Making up answers while looking hopefully at an increasingly unimpressed audience like an uncomprehending kid trying to do math homework in front of their dad” approach is very commonplace among clueless groups trying to be progressive

femmushroom:

Little My with a gun

@demon-space-boi

hypothetical-menace:

tits-n-trix:

Boys will absolutely destroy their living space for a joke and I’m glad they take the time to film it

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how could you leave this in the replies

jamisings:
“ missanthrory:
“ deathcomes4u:
“ frommetrunui:
“ frommetrunui:
“ scaliefox:
“ post-office-box-847:
“ scaliefox:
“ diarrheaworldstarhiphop:
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This is a serious issue though.
Ferrai has this bullshit agreement that if you buy one of their...

jamisings:

missanthrory:

deathcomes4u:

frommetrunui:

frommetrunui:

scaliefox:

post-office-box-847:

scaliefox:

diarrheaworldstarhiphop:

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This is a serious issue though.

Ferrai has this bullshit agreement that if you buy one of their cars new off the lot, you have to sign a contract saying you basically don’t own the car and have to uphold their brand standards with it.

It’s sets a startling example of not owning something despite buying it and the court needs to use this as a chance to strike it down as unethical.

This shit again? And I thought it was bad enough with ford and john deer telling farmers they didn’t own the tractors they bought from them….

Yeah, they have this really unethical clause in the purchase contract you can’t modify the car or do anything with it that they’d consider “unbecoming of the brand”, which is why they were able file this suit.

It seems kind of bizarre at first until you realize how horrifying that is in the age of “do you own what you buy?” being a huge a debate (especially in tech).

This is pretty much Ferrari’s philosophy from the start, they are extremely prideful of their cars like if they were made from God’s hands or something. They are very snobby, infact the owner of Ferrari doesn’t like the people who buy their cars since because they are bought for “status”. They also never test their cars on public tracks in comparison with other racing cars like when they wanted to test out the Porche 918 Spyder vs The McLaren P1 vs LaFerrari. Take a guess who bailed out on the performance test.

Just an update

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Lambo are the perfect people to jump in on this because they make insane cars and they are never above clowning them up because Lambo are all about THE DRAMA ™

It’s worth noting that Ferruccio Lamborghini, the founder of the company originally only made tractors. His company became successful and at some point he bought a Ferrari, but had a complaint with the car. He ended up taking this complaint to Enzo Ferrari, himself, who told the man he did not take advice from a mere tractor maker. Four months later the first Lamborghini sports was birthed out of pure spite. I’d like to this somewhere he’s enjoying this immensely. 

So basically what I’m hearing is Ferrari is Anish Kapoor and Lamborghini is Stuart Semple, but with cars. 

freckledoctopus:

freckledoctopus:

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Showing off the assets

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