Watch: When Mitt Romney makes the same points as John Oliver, you know shit’s gone south.
this is ‘the villain helps the heroes take down a more evil villain’ trope come to life
*looks outside to see if pigs are flying*
people forget that mitt’s platform when running for gov. of mass. was that of a semi-moderate pseudo-progressive. he had to amp up the republican image for his presidential race, but as gov of mass. he was kind of an alright guy
“alright guy” ok isnt this the same guy that assaulted one of his fellow highschool students just because he was gay
April is “Autism Awareness Month”, so here are a few reminders for you to keep in mind:
- Autism Speaks is a hate group.
- The reasoning behind “Light It Up Blue” (that there are more autistic boys than girls) stems from a tendency in doctors to base their autism diagnoses on stereotypes and sometimes refuse to diagnose girls.
- Most autistic people don’t want a “cure” for autism and don’t support Autism Speaks.
- Autism Speaks has given abusive/ableist parents legitimacy by portraying autism as a terrifying, life-ruining affliction and sympathising with parents who have contemplated killing their children, or actually killed them.
- The views of autistic people are more important in this topic than the views of our allistic family members and peers.
- Autism is not a disease.
- Very little (about 4%) of Autism Speaks’ proceeds go toward supporting autistic people. More of it goes toward catering.
- Autism is not a tragedy.
- What autistic people need is acceptance, not awareness.
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do people seriously think dreadlocks are cultural appropriation?? tf? y'all know where dreadlocks originated from right? the greeks and vikings were the first to popularize the hairstyle long before black people. black people started using that hairstyle in the 1930s. correct me if i’m wrong.
The Greeks never had dreadlocks, and neither did the Vikings, they both had braided hairstyles.
Rastafarianism the religion was created in the 1930s, dreadlocks have been a style in Africa for thousands of years before that, Rastafarians chose it as their religious hairstyle as a purposeful protest of Eurocentric beauty standards.
i actually corrected myself before by saying it originated in India. black people didn’t invent the hairstyle. they invented the word “dreadlocks”, but the actual hairstyle exists in many cultures and it originated in India called jata. research. dreads never belonged to a single culture but ok.
Jata require using ash from sacred fires in the hair to matt it, so they are not the same thing as dreadlocks at all. There is archaeological evidence of the style in Africa thousands of years before they were used in India.
As I said & provided evidence for above, no other cultures have had dreadlocks.
look up the sadhus. they are the earliest people with actual known origins of dreadlocks. and explain to me why using a different technique suddenly makes it NOT dreads? this argument is getting ridiculous.
also while i’m at it, even if they didn’t originate the hairstyle, they popularized it, and Rastafarians adopted it from Hindu culture seeing as some of their main beliefs are also adopted from Hinduism. Jata is like a religious symbol to Hindus.No, jata is a religious symbol only for worshippers of Shiva who choose to give up all earthly possessions and beg for the rest of their lives, it is not a thing used by most Hindus.
Rastafarians did not adopt jata from Hindu culture, they just used their ancestral cultural styles from West Africa, because black people living in Jamaican is a consequence of the slave trade. If anything, they took inspiration from the Old testament literally and interpreted the Nazarite vow of not cutting hair to mean they should wear dreadlocks. Way to prove again you know nothing about what you are discussing.
Real dreadlocks on afrotextured hair don’t require putting ash in them to make the hair lock together. And LOL if something is called by a different name, is created by a different process and looks different, they are not the same thing. You are pretending like different traditions from different cultures with different processes, with different names are all the same thing. THAT is ridiculous. It’s like asking why a pie and a cake are not the same thing, when they have different names and are made differently.
ok so if we’re going to assume “real” dreadlocks need afrotextured ( this isn’t even a word y'all ) hair for it to actually be dreadlocks, then i guess when any other race tries to imitate dreadlocks, it isn’t ACTUALLY cultural appropriation because they don’t have this afrotextured hair and the methods they use to attain this hairstyle is different, therefore the end result is a distinctly different hairstyle, yeah? see how that makes no sense? also, the only thing i’ve read about dreads originating in Africa is actually in Egypt, where hieroglyphics depict egyptians wearing this hairstyle. so by saying black people own this hairstyle culturally you’re automatically saying all black people have ties to egyptian culture.
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2015/02/27/dreadlock-history-zendayaOF COURSE you’ve never heard about the word afrotextured (which is totally a word https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Afro-textured_hair), YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT DREADLOCKS or black hair.
If a Hindu follower of Shiva has jata and puts ash in their hair and calls them jata, obviously that is not appropriation.
If an Irish or Celtic person matts their bangs into a beaver tail, shaves the rest of their head and calls it a glibbe, that is obviously not appropriation.
If a Greek person braids their hair and calls it whatever that style is called in Greek, obviously that is not appropriation.
If a descendant of the Vikings elaborately braids their hair and call it whatever their language calls it, obviously that is not appropriation.
If a non black person neglects, damages, puts toothpaste or glue in their hair, etc with the intent to imitate dreadlocks and calls them dreadlocks THAT IS appropriation.
Is that simplified enough that you can understand?
I’m saying dreadlocks have an African origin and Egypt is in Africa sweetie.
“The Greeks and the Vikings”
Wasn’t it proven that the Vikings never wore dreads and neither did the Greeks???
Like the Vikings literally carried combs with them. And this person clearly been watching too much 300 and campy 90s sword and sandal shows to think that Greeks wore dreads as an actual hairstyle.
She’s trying so damn hard to be ignorant it’s astounding
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this tip tho!!!!!!!!
I need to try this for trips I only bring a carry-on to.
I use to do this all the time in the military. Just forgot how to over time o.o
I wish I’d known about this when I was homeless.
I could’ve taught it to all the other ladies at the shelter and Darlene could’ve sucked a sour one because she never would have been able to bitch at us for “having too many clothes.”
reblogging this to have it forever because holy god damn
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