Daniel Radcliffe discussing how he has racist friends but won’t end a friendship over their racist beliefs is exactly why we have a hard time trusting white “allies” and why we’re sick and tired of hearing white “allies” talk about how THEY aren’t racist.
Radcliffe’s exact quote is: “And I’m still friends with them because I don’t think that friendship should be drawn along those lines.”
And like… This is exactly what we mean when we talk about how being an ally means you have to actively help dismantle racism, especially within your communities and with other white people. If you’ve ever said “But I’M not racist so what do you want me to do??????” then this shit right here is what the fuck you’re supposed to do.
Pretending like your white friends holding racist beliefs is just some minor thing you disagree with like what toppings go best on pizza or if Coke is better than Pepsi is, to be quite honest, fucking disgusting.
And if you think that severing a friendship over racism is going too far then you perhaps need to re-evaluate how much of an ally you actually are.
It’s a huge goddamn privilege for racism to just be a minor inconvenience to a friendship and I can guarantee that your friends of color are wondering how you can be an ally when you sit there and allow your other friends to actively dehumanize them
“Up to a thousand refugees are feared to have drowned in recent days while trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea. The United Nations say this marks one of the highest weekly death tolls since the migrant crisis began in 2014. UNICEF says many of the victims were youth fleeing war and violence in their home countries.
The majority of the refugees were from Eritrea, Nigeria, Somalia and South Sudan.”
“An innocent boy is lured to his death by the one person that should have protected him. Someone knows the truth about his disappearance; his little sister, Obele, a child that hears a secret voice which tells her terrible things no child should know about. Obele knows too much and must be killed.
Her salvation lies in the hands of her new friends, a group of giggling little girls she meets at an abandoned “cursed house.” Except their friendship comes with a terrible price. And suddenly, Obele starts to ask herself who exactly…or rather, what exactly are her new friends. Worse, how can she free the tormented ghost of her dead brother, trapped by a witchdoctor’s curse?”
What would you do if the price of your everyday prescription rose 5,500%? That’s exactly what happened to Daraprim (pyrimethamine), a drug originally developed over 60 years ago, that helps immunocompromised HIV and cancer patients. After Martin Shkreli, a former hedge fund manager, acquired the drug for his company, Turing Pharmaceuticals, he raised the price by 55 times overnight. Shockingly, this type of gouging is fairly common.
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If literal children and teens come to you for help because they are afraid of having sex and you tell them they’ll “come around” or that they’re “transphobic”, then you’re a rape apologist. No ifs, ands, or buts about it.
You wouldn’t call women ‘the bitch community’ why the fuck do u think it’s ok to call LGBT people ‘the queer community’. Just because some individuals have “”“reclaimed”“”“ it does not make it ok to use it as an umbrella term and force it on others against their will
the amount of non-intersex people who horribly disrespect our wishes pulling us into the LGBT community - simply for BEING intersex- despite the fact that we made our own community, for our own struggles since they are very different from LGBT people, is astonishing.
also considering, there can be - and in fact are - cishet intersex people? and ya know, cishets don’t belong in the LGBT community?
if you claim that there is in I in LGBT and that it stands for Intersex, you hate intersex people and our wishes to be separate from the LGBT community.
Protesters expressed outrage at the Committee’s recommendation to
remove sex-based protections for women and girls by erasing the
protected category of ‘sex’ and replacing it with an undefined category
of ‘gender identity’. The proposed change would eliminate the ability of
women to seek redress under law for sex discrimination and sex
inequality. Such violations would no longer be recognized by the state
as the category of ‘sex’ itself would no longer exist.
If the Equality Committee’s recommendations go forth as planned, the
elimination of legal sex as a protected class will be replaced by an
individual’s declaration of their subjective and internal gender-based
“feelings”. This would give men who proclaim such gender feelings the
legal right to expose themselves in women’s locker rooms and other
single-sex facilities where public nudity occurs and where women are
particularly vulnerable. Convicted male prisoners who proclaim gender
feelings will be housed in cells with confined female prisoners who will
have no legal grounds to object. Men will have the right to compete in
women’s sports, apply for women’s scholarships, and the right to serve
as female proxies by occupying affirmative action slots which formerly
served to address sex inequality in women’s representation in public
life. Single-sex rape crisis services, women’s refuges, lesbian public
events, will become illegal on the grounds they discriminate against the
gender feelings of men.
From a flyer distributed at the protest:
Women’s voices are being ignored and our rights eroded in the
name of ‘transgender equality’. Current policy recommendations
regarding transgender rights have a potentially adverse effect on women
in a number of ways:
The pressure on parents to accept a trans diagnosis for a gender non-conforming child, based on gender stereotypes
of clothing and toy preferences; or in the case of teenagers, to give
in to the social media contagion to which they might be susceptible.
The threat to current sex-based rights, which keep
males and females segregated in public places where women and girls
might be physically vulnerable. These include toilets, changing rooms,
rape crisis centres, refuges, hospital wards and prisons.
The inclusion of male-bodied, male-socialised people,
into areas of success and achievement where women currently have their
own space in order to make competition fair or to level the playing
field. These include sports, prizes and awards, shortlists and quotas.
The negative affect on the lesbian community of the
pressure on young women to identify as trans rather than as lesbian.
There is also pressure to accept male-bodied self-identified ‘lesbians’
as sexual partners.
The skewing of national statistics regarding crime,
due to the higher rate of offending by male transitioners as opposed to
women, with possible knock-on effects on funding for women’s services.
The effect on the ‘trans widows’ of men (and it
mostly is men) who transition in middle age. There is nowhere for these
women to turn: all the help and support is directed towards the ‘trans’
person.
The changing of language pertinent to women and
girls in order to make it more trans-inclusive, thereby making ‘women’s
issues’ impossible to talk about. This includes the use of such terms as
‘pregnant people’ by health providers.
No women’s groups were invited to testify at the 2015 Women’s and
Equalities Committee hearings on the largest proposed rollback to the
legal status of women since the birth of the Suffrage Movement.
The Independent covered the growing outrage in January of this year, reporting on Committee Chair MP Maria Miller: “The
former Culture secretary said she was taken aback by the
“extraordinary” hostility from a minority of women “purporting to be
feminists”.
“The only negative reaction that I’ve seen has been by individuals purporting to be feminists,” Miller went on to say.
Fellow committee member, Labour MP Jess Phillips, was quoted as saying: “Some feminists prioritise gender equality above all else, but I think we should also do our bit to promote general equality.”
Today’s public forum at Congress Centre in London was organized by
the same individuals behind the proposal to erase legal sex-based
protections for women and girls. From the event page:
We are delighted to include at this seminar keynote addresses from Jackie Driver, Director, Funded Programmes, Equality and Human Rights Commission; Will Huxter, Regional Director of Specialised Commissioning (London) and Chair, Gender Identity Task and Finish Group, NHS England and Ade Rawcliffe, Creative Diversity Manager, Channel 4. Helen Belcher, Trustee, Trans Media Watch; Dr Polly Carmichael,
Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Director, Gender Identity
Development Service, Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust; Peter Dawson, Deputy Director, Prison Reform Trust; Dave Frost, Vice-Chair, LGBT Committee, Equity; Susie Green, Chief Executive Officer, Mermaids UK; Dr Debbie Hayton, Head of Physics, King Henry VIII School, Coventry, West Midlands; Member, NASUWT and Member, TUC LGBT Committee; Delia Johnston, Specialist Diversity Consultant, Trans in Sport; Anna Lee, Vice President, Welfare and Community, Lancaster University Students’ Union; Megan Key, Equalities Manager, National Probation Service; Steve Mulcahy, Headteacher, Richard Lander School, Cornwall have also agreed to speak. Baroness Barker, Vice Chair, All-Party Parliamentary Group on Global Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights and Ruth Cadbury MP, Member, Women and Equalities Committee have kindly agreed to chair this seminar.
Women’s groups represented at the protest include the Women and Girls
Equality Network, Transgender Trend, UK Lesbian Rights Group, and
Parents Campaigning for Sex Equality for Children, among others.
Another flyer from protesters:
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