because you’re stereotyping a country with something incredibly incredibly negative and acting like it’s what represents them in the world.
associating colombia with cocaine and the cartels is like associating every single muslim with ISIS. do you get how racist that would be? because the cartels are literally ISIS in colombia, they were the biggest users of modern day terrorism originally. bombs, kidnappings, public killings, they’ve used it all.
it’s also a very personal situation.
you know how nobody makes any jokes about 9/11 in the US? that’s because 3,000 people were killed.
over 500,000 people have been killed in colombia over the drug wars.
because what cocaine for colombia is is a “war”. it’s not a drug, it’s actual warfare that has been going on for over 60 years. there were over 5 million refugees having to flee their homes at one point because of it. the people most impacted are indigenous people who live in the mountains and jungles (a good place to originally hide from the conquistadors) but are where the drug traffickers hide.
one of our own players cuadrado had to hide under his bed when guerillas came and shot and killed his father in another room. that’s something he lived through.
so i know westerners think it’s cute and funny and seem to enjoy this idea we live in these weird backwards ways and do nothing but fight each other for drugs because we’re “monkeys” and “animals” and “thugs” according to tweets i saw yesterday, but this issue has had a huge impact on colombia and we don’t think it’s funny. we’re not proud of cocaine, we don’t use it the way england does (third on the list of users and we’re somewhere at the bottom), and if you think think it’s funny it only shows you’re really ignorant and have no respect for the devastation it’s caused our country.
“Are
all of the apartments smoking weed?” Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez asks on a
fourth-floor hallway of Elmback Houses in Queens, where indeed the
smell of marijuana does seem to waft from one long end of the corridor
to the other.
Ocasio-Cortez
has come to this block of red-brick apartment complexes in the Elmhurst
section of Queens on a quixotic mission: She is running to dethrone
Congressman Joe Crowley, who has represented the district for two
decades, rising to the fourth spot in the House Democratic leadership,
all while serving as the head of the Queens County Democratic Party.
And
so Ocasio-Cortez, a 28-year-old Bronx-raised former Bernie Sanders
organizer, is searching for votes wherever she can find them, hoping to
bring millennials and first-time voters out to the polls tomorrow in a
race that if she were to win, would upend the entrenched New York
political establishment, never mind the country’s. At nearly every door —
she avoids the dope-stenched ones — voters seem surprised to see
Ocasio-Cortez, and quite pleased that she has made the trek.
“We
got you, we got you. I tell everyone here to vote for you,” one elderly
woman says, taking a stack of palm cards from Ocasio-Cortez’s hand.
“People ask me who to vote for, I say ‘Vote Alexandria,’” says another.
“I
see you in the street all the time,” says a third who came to the door
on this bright Friday afternoon in nothing but his T-shirt and
underwear.
This
recognition stems in part from the fact that the Elmback Houses are
down the street from the Ocasio-Cortez campaign headquarters, which is
bedecked out front with campaign posters featuring her face looking off
into the distance, and that a Ocasio-Cortez truck has been circling the
neighborhood all week blaring “Despacito.”
Absolutely champion of an MP. Her script from her speech in the House of Commons.
Get bent. You are just sore that England is independent again, and you wish you could be too.
Mooslims are the third largest group in Scotland today. Indigenous people are seeing their lands taken over at an alarming rate all over the globe. It is not wrong for people to reject the hostile take over of their lands. It is not wrong to want to preserve your heritage. It is wrong for the political leaders to ignore their people and force policy down their throats that ultimately means their demise. Brexit is an obvious rejection of these policies. People are waking up and seeing clearly the devastation that comes with a mass immigration (read: invasion) of a religious group hell bent on domination.
“Europe awake before it’s too late”
Fuck me, you are one dense cretin.
Muslims are great though. Like have you ever actually met a Muslim? They’re sense of humour is wild.
I was at The Stand comedy club one night. There was a local guy there doing his act, he was talking about his teenage years in Glasgow. For many people, that means indulging in some… recreational activities.
Him and his three pals were in his car. He was Muslim so he wasn’t getting fired into the three-litre bottle of Pulse cider. Bad for him to drink-drive, even worse for him to drink alcohol. However, he would have a wee bit of a smoke of the marijuanas that was being passed around.
The car is looking a bit foggy after a while, they’ve still got plenty of weed, but they’ve ran out of filter paper. One of the guys in the back finds a book and rips out a couple of pages and starts making filter paper for the joints. It gets passed around again and this process goes on for a couple of hours. He looks down at the joint and notices the filter paper.
“Is that… my Quran?! Mate, we’ve been smokin’ my fucking Quran! My maw is gonny kill me! Fuck sake… I’m gonny go to the big fire for this one.”
The crowd were loving it. It was funny. It was the sort of thing a Glaswegian crowd would laugh about it. Self-deprecating Glaswegian Muslim humour.
proof that the idea of “if you aren’t successful by your 20s it’s already too late for you” is the biggest bullshit in the universe
I’ve spent 28 years of my life in near poverty, making some really bad decisions during my teenage and young adult years and in a constant whirlpool of things during my childhood contributing to my severe anxiety and depression. People in my life – family, people who bullied me – tried to /actively stunt me/ from making art because they were convinced I’d never make a living from it. but I just kept dedicating my time to my passion for art and polishing my knowledge and skills and making the active decision to improve myself as a person and im JUST NOW making my very first comic series that is looking like it might be successful
I’m nearly 30 let your passion for what you love pull you through the times that fucking suck, and your break will come. realize that people who are very successful at young ages either have money/privilege, or EXTREMELY lucked out. they aren’t the norm.
Reblogging for the comment at the end
Colonel Sanders didn’t reach success until 73 years old, when KFC began to pick up. His original shop even closed. Now it’s an international restaurant. Just because you aren’t successful in your 20s doesn’t mean it’s over.
Not 70 yet, but close; there’s absolutely NOT one reason why I shouldn’t smoke weed. As for “prettier” than anyone – a matter of personal preferences 😉
maybe disaffected white people looking for a cosmic experience should just stick to doing acid in their fucking backyard and maybe go to church once in a while.
But no, instead they travel around the world, disrupt communities and sometimes commit literal murder, and I’m supposed to feel sympathetic because he cried for his mama shortly after killing a medicine person?
Her name was Olivia Arévalo. At 81, she was not only an Elder but the spiritual mother of the Shipibo-Konibo Nation. This wasn’t a one-off occurrence. Indigenous spiritual leaders are being targeted and assassinated throughout Latin America.
Indigenous leaders & spiritual figures are murdered for political reasons, for capitalist reasons, and generally both where land or water disputes arise— particularly where human rights violations come into play, as well. And there’s your “standard,” local anti-Native hate crimes and violence. And then there’s this.
Tourism to consume and use pieces of a culture to ~decorate / enrich~ paying visitors, particularly “visitors” with colonial intent or privilege, often walks hand in hand with racialized violence & exploitation, whether it’s sexual in nature (“sex tourism” or out and out sexual assaults & abuses) or non-sexual violence— like these kind of targeted murders, tantamount to & continuing legacies of both physical and cultural genocides, fulfilling tourists’ fantasies of conquest or supremacy; or just reinforcing the disposability of “visited” peoples whose reliance on tourism makes them easy targets for abuse by people who will never face the consequences of their actions.
When indigenous peoples must turn their culture into a sideshow & open themselves up to vulnerability to the highest bidder just in order to subsist, that is a kind of occupation.
It is an inherently neocolonial capitalist racial violence, with a very real body count.
I hope Olivia Arévalo’s surviving family finds peace in the wake of the injustice & violence they endured and avenged. I hope Olivia’s spirit finds a kinder fate in her next life than this.
Also it mentions in the article that the community tried to report the tourist to the police on several occasions for other bad behavior but the police didn’t do anything. The MP to the region called the community “savages” as well. I understand why the community wanted to take matters into their own hands considering how little institutional support they get because they’re indigenous.
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