#Opression

[headedfawns]

you’ve got to throw yourself upon the gears and upon the wheels! Follow the apparatus and make it stop!

[phobic-human]

We Will Return to Palestine

May 15, Day of Palestinian Struggle

Artist: Marc Rudin/Jihad Mansour

Circa 1981

[pomacanthidae]

Be A Voice

Say the things they are not safe to say. Make sure the communities who cannot speak safely are heard. Needless to say, I am not telling you to take credit for their words but to make their voices heard above the noise. If you can afford to be arrested, get yourself out there. Stand up before there is no one to stand up for you.

Change is not achieved by peace when the policymakers are not giving us the option to be peaceful.

Protest. Protest. Protest.

[wiserebeltiger]

“Western art has been getting worse since the end of the Middle Ages.” Yeah, because you shut up all the gay people.

[lucytears]

hello tumblr. I am in sorrow over the UK supreme court ruling today, and the viciously dismissive and manipulative nature of every news outlet reporting on it. I cant believe trans people have to fight for the right to live over and over again.

[sponsored-deactivated20210106]

Hitler Witnesses Military Parade

Ooips—that's not it, silly 🥇🏅🎖️ 🪖 how'd that get there?

Here's the video of the self-enamored Commander-in-Chief pinning made-up medals on his cadre of sycophantic jack-booted thugs:

↑ recommended as urgent viewing for the proper development of your sense of historical context.

#crititcalthinking

[unwelcome-ozian]

[thelandswemadeofpaper]

Alien Stage reminds me of The Hunger Games with the 'oppressed group are exploited as celebrities' plot

Its such a underrated idea

[moontheoretist]

Funny that you are the one saying this, Erik, when this is exactly what you were forced to do by the writers all this time. Always "the terrorist" never "a revolutionary". Always the bad guy, whose demands are "too radical", forced to want to exterminate all humans for mutants' peace of mind, when the only thing you ever wanted was to keep everybody safe from what you yourself suffered at the hands of your opressors.

To be clear: I'm not making fun of him. I'm glad he can say this.

Considering what is happening, doesn't this sentence remind you of some Middle East country that commits genocide right about now?

TELL THEM OFF, MAGNETO!

Yeah, are you ready to step onto this path, Erik? A path where you no longer strive to exterminate those who exterminated your own, but a path to build a better future for all of the people on this planet? To let them learn how to coexist in harmony just as Charles always wanted?

Don't take me wrong, Charles also had his flaws. His ideas were more often than not reinstatement of the status quo rather than pushing it, but it's better than falling back into the circle of hate that Magneto did. So, will we finally see the de-radicalization of Magneto? Will we see him abandon genocide of the humanity and finally embrace the non-fascist approach that was denied to him since the time immemorial?

[starkitsune]

Ahou Daryaei was kidnapped today from the streets of Tehran for simply not wearing headscarf by Iranian security forces and now being tortured by IRGC officials, please spread this news because we should help voices of opressed to be heard

[chaoticpersontale]

Monkey Man

[surrah698]

Modern day slavery..

[diariodeunrincondemi]

Why, in my opinion, Arnheid is the true heroine of Vinland Saga season 2

I think I never talked about Vinland Saga here in tumblr, although I've been mulling over the events of this last season (season 2). I've read complaints, from the beginning, that it's a very slow season and that it doesn't contribute anything, but I suppose that comes from people who only likes teenage Thorfinn.

From the beginning there's this idea that in war there is no honor or glory; because there can be neither honor nor glory in something that consists of shedding blood and taking the lives of other people.

Thorfinn is a boy, a male kid, and as a boy, he grows up with very defined expectations and a role in a warrior society; therefore, when it happens what happens, it is he and not his sister (even though she is older), who has to carry out revenge, even if he is only a child.

And that leads him to have to grow on the battlefield. His pride and position, as a Norseman, depend and fall on war and violence; and he is not aware of all this until he loses his only reason for living.

And that's when the second season begins and we find a different Thorfinn, depressed and without any ties to life, an empty shell. And that's when Einar and also Arnheid come in.

Until that moment we have seen war from the point of view of male warriors. And through Einar we have seen the war from a farmer's point of view. But it is with Arnheid that the story changes: because she is a woman.

We don't know what Thorfinn's evolution or life was like in those 2 years of slavery until Einar arrives; and we don't know because that doesn't matter. And it doesn't matter because this arc is about the consequences of war (and not just in the form of Thorfinn's PTSD).

There is also gender bias in war. We see it in Thorfinn, he grows up in the war, and in his sister, who stays at home with his mother. We see it, implicitly and more subtly, in Einar and his sister. And we see it in Thorfinn, Einar and Arnnheid.

The three of them are war victims: a child soldier and two people who lost their homes and families. The three of them ended up as slaves. The line between war and slavery is very thin.

But even as slaves, Thorfinn and Einar's life is much simpler than that of Arnheid: physically hard work, yes, but they are given the opportunity, when the time comes, to buy their own freedom. Arnheid has no such freedom: she is not only a servant, she is also a sex slave. Because she is a woman. And as a woman she is only good for doing domestic work and serving as a sexual object.

It is she, along with her story, the true protagonist of this season. The heroine. Who shows us what awaits women in contexts of war and slavery. And this is not just a thing of the 11th century: currently women in war conflicts are also victims of trafficking and sexual exploitation.

That is why Thorfinn's evolution in those 2 years in which he was alone doesn't matter. That's why his reunion with Leif doesn't matter. That's why, even though he hasn't interacted with Arnheid that much, he is willing to help and protect her, to get her out of there.

Thorfinn knows the tactics of war better than anyone, he spent most of his life on the battlefield. But that also implied that the context in which he grew up was especially male-dominant.

Arnheid, from my point of view, gave Thorfinn a new perspective (a perspective he may not have considered before) on the consequences of the war.

[null-entity]

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[cegodaltonico]

"As pessoas vão passar a amar a sua opressão, a adorar as tecnologias que lhes retiram a capacidade de pensar."

Aldous Huxley

[whiteingale]

It's because they don't have fear.

The reason why they're treating you this way is because they are not afraid!

Do not be kind to people who won't hear you. They are not scared, make them fear and they will listen.

Only by oppression, women and other men can feel love. Only through fear, they listen to us. Fear is what the world desperately needs and something it will get, maybe not my era but it will happen on their era. One day there will be fear in the world, justified fear towards "family men" with children and other sewer hypocrites. That fear wiill turn them to kindness and they won't toy with souls for a little moment. But I dream of the fear that is far worse. That which humans cannot recover from and that connects my pain to theirs to complete extent.