March of Tigers

March of Tigers: Tumblr Essay Assignment →

edwardrmurrowstuck:

marchoftigers:

edwardrmurrowstuck:

marchoftigers:

Name one group of oppressed people who were able to end mass genocide and institutional ans systemic oppression by being nice.

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Mahatma Gandhi.

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There’s a person I follow who’s not on right now that I’d LOVE to direct…

My point is that the major civil rights movements of this century were inspired and used Gandhi’s techniques. Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela used his techniques. The reason why groups like Al Qaeda and the Taliban will never succeed is because violence only begets more violence. You cannot force people to change because it is not just. The change you instill will eventually be rebelled against because it was not gained through just means. Malala Yousafzai will succeed because she is a real fighter, in that she is willing to face the threat of death and live, while the Taliban will lose because they have lowered themselves to attacking schoolgirls.  Even if Gandhi’s methods were “flawed”, they still WORKED. The methods were undertaken voluntarily, and Gandhi succeeded because the people were behind him. You cannot change society without first changing the hearts and minds of the people, and you cannot do that through violence.

Yes, but what if i were to tell you that non-violence actually didn’t put an end to violence, but only made people step it up in order to obscure it. Institutional Racism still exists. So does Systemic oppression of all sorts. And you cannot change the heart of someone who has no heart or capacity to change in the first place. That was my initial point.

Also the fact that people have to sacrifice their lives in order to make change MAY sound noble, but when you think about it, it’s still not the best idea. I’m not saying that Ghandi was absolutely wrong, but if you have to die in order to invoke sympathy from people, how much sympathy does that person really have?

And at the end of the day, I will always value someone’s self-persevation over nobility any day. If you feel like you need to hang on to justified anger in order to make it rather than swallowing emotions down, then so be it. in the long run, I want my folks to survive, and if yelling is the way to do it, so be it.

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The specter of “rape as punishment” behind the rape apologia around Steubenville →

ami-angelwings:

askatransqueerwoman:

Ami Angelwings:

What scares me about the comments/reactions to Steubenville articles (and this is not unique to this, it pops up all the time about rape) is just how important it is for people that a girl/woman being drunk must be “punished” (TW in link).  That’s at the core of a lot of this, the idea that if we make rape of unconscious people a crime, then there’s no “consequences” to girls drinking a lot/being slutty/etc… Rape as corrective tool is at the heart of a lot of rape culture attitudes, including that prisoners deserve to be raped, rape to punish/fix queer people (“rape you straight”, etc), rape as a tool of torture, rape as part of ‘hazing’, and that women who are “bad” (sex workers, “slutty”, drink a lot, wear few clothes, etc) deserve “consequences” for their behavior. Behind a lot of rape apologia is the undercurrent of “but if we stop this, how will these people get punished for acting against how I think they should?”

Oh hay, stuff I wrote a while back on my Rants blog is on tumblr! :3  I’ll just reblog it. >_>

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