wodneswynn:

So a lot of American xenophobia is informed by the fact that our news over-reports crimes committed by immigrants in Europe to such an extent that if you watch a lot of cable news you’ll deadass get the impression that every major European city is full of gangs of immigrants who just run around killing people all day and the European cops just watch it happen like “Alas, because of political correctness I can do nothing, if we try and stop and bloodbath we’ll be executed for racism.”

Which is of course, like, not true even a little bit, but it’s such a strongly-held belief that I’m not sure how to combat it.

I got into it the other day with a dude who was all like, “Yeah, it’s horrible that ICE is putting babies in baby jail and selling them for money, but isn’t it a necessary step to prevent the streets running red with blood like what’s happening in Europe??”

And you can’t just be all simplistic high-school-debate-team about it and just tell the poor fool that, no, that isn’t happening, because real-world political work is more complicated than that, but I ain’t yet got the hang of it.

California too for non-Californians. News reports California like it’s an apocalyptic wasteland. California also is “minority-majority” and conservatives link the two even if they’re not explicitly linked in the reporting.

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jadewolf-writes:

PRAISE THE FIC GODS!

I have been waiting for an option to exclude those mass-crossovers for YEARS.

Now, if only I could find a way to exclude Coffee Shop AUs and Human!Tamatoa. XD (Tag exclusion only works if consistently tagged, but damn it’s a good start!)

I wonder how much SGU drama 3 years ago could’ve been ignored if that was around…

diocletianscabbagefarm:

Trump is probably gonna say he’s draining the swamp because Pruitt is finally gone. After 17 months.

I almost wonder if he was done in because of the scandal where he didn’t pay the interns back. Those are children of upper and upper middle class parents that probably have a lot of influence.

garashirs:

me when i go clothes shopping: *immediately heads for the menswear section*

diocletianscabbagefarm:

Scott Pruitt finally fucking resigned

oh-glasgow:

ayeforscotland:

Harry Potter and the cauldron of lies

JK Rowling is at it again with her utter shite against Scottish nationalism.

She was able to selectively crop tweets that she believes paint ‘Scottish’ nationalists in an evil light.

Ethnic nationalism is abhorrent. Everyone knows this, but this user doesn’t actually claim to be a Scottish nationalist. They just say they are Scots. As a matter of fact…

One look at the profile though and this ‘Scottish Nationalist’ seems to take pride in flying the Union Jack which is something I can’t imagine a Scottish nationalist doing. Sorry JK, think they are one of yours.

Next up she thinks that’s she got the Yes campaign pinned by selecting tweets from an account called ‘Alba Rising’ who has posted white supremacist and anti-Semitic tweets.

Again…not a Scottish nationalist. Actually someone advocating for Corbyn…rather telling.

In short, JK Rowling tried to attack the Yes campaign over something twitter accounts with about 20 followers posted. And then failed to realise they were on her side.

Of course, if one of her 14 million followers hold any abhorrent views…we wouldn’t automatically assume JK Rowling is a racist, would we?

See also this response;