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it’s VERY strange how moonlight is one of the greatest films of our lifetime but also the film that gets the most responses when I bring it up that people haven’t seen it because they “know it’ll wreck me” as to opposed to understanding it as a BEAUTIFUL GIFT of a gay coming of age romance with a tender and forgiving ending! the reputation that has been cultivated around it as a difficult, traumatic movie is literally just racist. treating gorgeous and poignant art like an off-putting anthropology assignment is vile. just say you are scared of stories about poor black people.

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Songs for Purim, Sakhiz, Iranian Kurdistan, early 20th century

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Julia de Burgos, tr. by Jack Agüeros, from Song of the Simple Truth: The Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos; "Dawn of my silence"

[Text ID: "In you I have silenced myself... / The heart of the world is in your eyes,"]

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Wood pigeon/ringduva. Värmland, Sweden (March 21, 2020).

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when the article is titled "17 unknown facts I bet you didn't know" but i already know five of those:

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The female goat herders of Hadhramaut, Yemen

Goat herding is traditionally done by females in Eastern Yemen. The women cover all their skin from the heat and sun, protecting themselves from dehydration and skin damage, the socks and gloves keep their hands and feet soft despite the unforgiving desert sun. The hat (made from dried palm leaves) besides being a drip by itself serves an important role, it insulates air on top of their head thus keeping it cool, besides providing the obvious shade. The layered clothing also helps with the desert changing mood, where it can shift from hot days to cold nights.

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Académie des Beaux-Arts, Kinshasa, Congo 1970 by  Eliot Elisofon

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snoopy on tour by Paul Ceely on flickr (2012)

⭒ via star4gardens

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Grandma Moses

A Beautiful World, 1948

Oil on pressed wood

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Dmitry Kochanovich (Russian,b. 1972)

Ideal, 2019

Oil on canvas

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My son egg n his brother cheese

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White cow on a black background, Niko Pirosmani

Medium: oil,cardboard

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Sharon Ellis (American, b. 1955)

Messenger, 2016

Alkyd on paper

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Claudia Rankine, from “Some years there exists a wanting to escape… ”, Citizen

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Holocaust education failed when people went away thinking that the Holocaust

a) Was a surprise

b) Wasn't preventable

c) Can never happen again.

They also seem to think that they would be the heroes saving people and fighting back in the scenario, but y'know....those people were a tiny minority. The majority of people truly believed that Jews and Rroma were a disease on their society and wanted them exterminated. And yes, they believed these things with sugar-coated social justice terms.

Jews weren't Christ-killers anymore, they were "greedy outsiders who have dual-loyalty and corrupt the economy, disenfranchising the poor."

Rroma weren't devil-worshipping heathens anymore, they were "wandering people with no morals who prey on vulnerable people and trespass."

Killing and torturing disabled people wasn't exorcism anymore, it was "furthering society by eliminating the burdens on it" and "sparing those poor souls the horror of living" and "advancing scientific research."

Many progressive and leftist and liberal people ended up being complicit and even active members of the Nazi party because of the way the xenophobic and bigoted ideologies of the parties were painted in "progressive" vocabulary.

Think about how many times you've uncritically reblogged and shared posts about the "global elite" or "secret pedophile ring" or "X country eliminated Down Syndrome" or "scientists are so close to finding the autism gene" or "religion is poison" or "overpopulation".

You are not immune.

Not everyone may have personally manned the gas chambers, but they certainly didn't stand in Hitler's way.

Holocaust education isn't enough until it teaches that.

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The title of this is “From producer to consumer direct”. Postcard from my collection, undated.