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Yes, It Is Just Like The Nazis

Hey so remember Anne Frank? The Jewish young girl who hid in an attic and was killed by the Nazis? The emblematic person we think of when we think of victims of the Holocaust? 

She did not die in a gas chamber or in a death camp. She died in a ‘temporary’ detention center for the mass deportations which preceded the death camps. She was in that camp because a patriotic neighbor ratted her out to the German deportation force. She died, not of a bullet to the back of the head or choking on gas, but of typhus. She contracted typhus because the Nazis couldn’t realistically deport people at the rate they wanted to, because before the death camps their infrastructure couldn’t handle the sudden influx of ethnic minorities they had decided to imprison, and because they didn’t care about the consequences of that so their deportation detention centers were unhygienic and prisoners were underfed and overcrowded. 

And she was picked up by the deportation force not because she was an illegal citizen but because, just like the US is doing with asylum seekers, she was part of a formerly recognized class of citizens who were legally redefined to lack citizenship by a new administration. 

Anne Frank is exactly like the children who have already died in the United State’s detention camps. Exactly. Down to the very last detail. There. Is. Not. A. Single. Difference. 

So unless you want to fucking tell me that Anne goddamn Frank was not a victim of the Holocaust, y’all can shut the fuck up with that “stop making concentration camp comparisons, you’re diminishing the suffering of the Holocaust” bullshit. 

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lana del rey said hot girl summer is over. it is now sad girl autumn

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Disappointed that they didn’t include the luau but satisfied with the Beauty and The Beast substitute

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I hate you, you hate me

Let’s get together and kill Barney

With a big shot guy and shoot him in the head

Sorry kids, Barney’s dead

remember when we were kids and we used to all sing that demented version of the barney song where it was like “i hate you you hate me let’s go out and kill barney”

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He was so abusive to the children at Hogwarts that he was Neville Longbottoms greatest fear. He joined a blood supremist group that actively hated and killed the woman he supposedly loved. He only asked Voldemort to spare Lily, as if he thought that Lily would have been okay with letting her child be killed in front of her so that she could live. He was unfairly biased for the Slytherin and gave them points for getting an answer right while simultaneously taking away point from Gryffindor for doing the same thing. He did not care that a child would have been murdered when he delivered the prophecy to Voldemort. It was only when he realized that he unintentionally put Lily in harms way that he went against the Death Eaters. It was only when the horrible actions and ideologies of the supremist group started to effect him did he switch sides. He did nothing for morally right reasons, but for purely selfish ones.

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Gringo - Hi, where are you from?

Mexican: - Hi, I’m from Mexico

Gringo - Ah! The land of Chapo Guzmán, narcos, marihuana, crime and extortion.

Mexican -I’m sorry, are you a drug addict or a TV junkie?

Gringo - No!!! Why?

Because if you were an athlete or sports fan, you would have identified Mexico with Ana Guevara, Hugo Sanchez, Julio Cesar Chavez, Finito, Chicharito Hernandez, Canelo Alvarez, Rafael Marquez, etc.

If you were an educated person, you would have asked about the Aztec empire, the Mayan culture, the Olmecs or any other of the great mesoamerican cultures.

If you were a well traveled person you would have talked about our majestic archaeological sites, our tourist-friendly colonial cities, our megalopolis or our exotic beaches… the astonishing biodiversity of our rainforests, mountain ranges, deserts, conifer forests…

You could have identified Mexico with our great painters, Diego Rivera, Rufino Tamayo, Frida Khalo, José Clemente Orozco; our composers: Agustín Lara, Consuelo Velázquez, Armando Manzanero, Juan Gabriel Jose Alfredo Jimenez, our writers and poets: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Juan Rulfo, Octavio Paz, Juan José Arreola, Elena Poniatowska, Amado Nervo, Jaime Sabines;

our inventors or scientists: Manuel Mondragón, Guillermo González Camarera, Luis Ernesto Miramontes; our cinematographers: Ismael Rodríguez, Emilio Fernández, Alfonso Cuaron, Guillermo del Toro, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Emmanuel Lubezki, and even Luis Buñuel, who, being originally from Spain, chose to adopt the Mexican nationality...

If you were a gourmand, you would have asked about Tamales, Cochinita Pibil, Mole, Adobo, Chilaquiles, Chiles en nogada, Guacamole, Pan de Muerto, etc. Or our traditional beverages: Tequila, Mezcal, wines and beers.

However, I can see, the only thing you can relate to Mexico is the provider to American drug addicts...

I just want you to realize that México is a lot more than what ignorant people and fear-mongering media knows or chooses to propagate.

There are millions of honest Mexicans, who even without knowing you, will open the door to our homes, and that if you care to visit, you will love to get to know us and to visit us. Mexico is even more than I can possibly tell you!

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To Whom It May Concern,

I’ve spent the past three days in Washington DC for a national competition called the Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition. I’ve spoken to various attorneys and law students when participating in the competition and spent countless hours to prepare my arguments. As a reward for my efforts that sent me to this competition and the time and energy I put into this competition, I was treated to being forced to check my bag despite not wanting to, having my connected flight delayed an hour, then after finally boarding my flight, I sat patiently in the plane that would never take off. All this, I could understand. There are forces that cannot be controlled, and I was booked for a flight the next day, 12 hours after my initial connecting flight was supposed to take off. This is where the problems began that could have been fixed if any American Airlines staff in Chicago O’Hare International Airport would have bothered to at least have some decency and care for its customers.

First, we were not provided hotel vouchers because no one was answering or giving us a straight answer about whether or not the vouchers were available. After multiple attempts to gain more information about hotel vouchers, we were left with nothing. We, 9 high school students and the 10 faculty staff members accompanying us, were left to sleep inside the airport. The only thing offered to us was a $12 meal voucher that would only be available to us the next day.

Second, we had to retrieve our bags that we were forced to check due to the important medication in the checked bags. This meant all 19 people were forced to leave the safety of the gated area and forced to reside near the baggage claim, a public area, where any person, man or woman, could walk in without being checked by security and the cold, hard, dirty floor.

Third, there was almost no adequate security where we were forced to take shelter and this allowed for a man to station himself near our group, a group of 13 females and six males and of those females, seven were high school students including myself and of the males, one was a high school student. He threatened to assault a female in our group when she asked him politely to move. After complaining to staff members, the man was escorted to the other side of our group but still close enough for him to stare unabashedly at us. Unnerved and terrified, sleep was no longer an option for me. It took calling the police to take the man away for me to feel even remotely okay, but that did not and still does not erase the thoughts of potential harm and the feeling of panic and trepidation I felt in the airport.

Finally, TSA had open again at 3:30 am and our group was finally able to pass through security and head to our gate for our upcoming flight. There was no apology for our troubles, there was no concern for our safety, and there was no help, especially when we needed it the most. I now know how to describe American Airlines. Disgusting, uncaring, and cheap.

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Remove the White Supremacists

Dear Tumblr @staff, 

In light of the recent white supremacist terror attacks worldwide: 

We, the Tumblr community (your community), implore you to change your previously passive policy against white supremacy and white nationalist extremist ideologies. 

Every major news station, social expert, and experts on extremist ideologies have identified that these extremist ideologies are spread and grown on online platforms: specifically social platforms. They have identified the major ways that communities can confront these violent extremist views; the biggest one being for social media groups to actually start removing user accounts that post and spread extremist white nationalist dog whistles, memes, and rhetoric.

Your users are begging for your help in stemming the rising tide of xenophobic violence. As has become evident by the recent terrorist attack in Christchurch, New Zealand, these ideologies don’t begin with violence, but with strategically spouted rhetoric and hate speech that riles up others who are vulnerable to being persuaded by their subtle methods. 

Please.  If you support the safety of your users.  If you support the Muslim Community. If you support the Jewish Community.  If you support People of Color.  If you support your users regardless of color or religious background. 

Then it’s time to start taking a proactive stance against extremist white supremacist and nationalist ideologies and remove them. 

The signatures and reblogs below should serve to show you how strongly your userbase feels about this. We all stand for a world without Hate. Do you?

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Giveaway Contest: We’re giving away fifteen trade-sized paperback classics! Won’t this collection look lovely on your shelf? :D To win these classics, you must: 1) be following macrolit on Tumblr (yes, we will check. :P), and 2) reblog this post. We will choose a random winner on February 24, at which time we’ll start a new giveaway. And yes, we’ll ship to any country. Easy, right? Good luck!

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Have anymore questions on the Enlightenment or Mary Wollstonecraft? Don’t be afraid to drop em’ in my inbox!

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Taught from their infancy that beauty is woman’s sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of the Rights of Woman” (via girlinlondon)

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8th graders with 6th graders

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I believe in aliens but not like in the conspiracy theorist sense more like in the “the notion that in this infinitely-huge universe our planet is the only one with life on it is fucking absurd” sense

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Where Would We Be Now Without That One Period?

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Guilty dog desperately asks for forgiveness