Home imprisonments via mandates. Kamala Harris as VP, who kept people in prison and death row when they should’ve been released. Attacks on the 2nd Amendment. Taxing people into poverty.
Also didn’t he cite events that could have been mitigated with the application of the 2nd?
You think that felons should have guns in order to resist being sent to private prisons? That Japanese Americans could have stopped the Japanese concentration camps if they had guns? And shot whom, exactly? The cops? The army? How many soldiers would the Japanese American citizens need to shoot before the concentration camps ended? How many prison guards do the convicted felons need to shoot before the prisons close down?
Because you know what happens when *People of Color* start carrying guns to protect themselves from cops and the government?
Ronald Reagan passed the Mulford Act with the support of the NRA. That’s what happens.
You are an absolute clown if you think that the 2nd amendment has ever benefitted anyone except white men who want to play vigilante and the conservative politicians who leverage it for your vote.
Various BTAS! Rogues having their secret relationship exposed on the news.
Started watching Harley Quinn, and even though I hate how dirty the boys have been done, there are some things in it I really liked. The media talking about relationship stuff especially inspired me. In a way the rouges really are celebrities. Anyways, have some hcs about the BTAS rogues having their secret relationship get blasted on the news.
Scarecrow (Jonathan Crane)
-Jonathan would be embarrassed that it isn’t his latest crime that got him back in the news, but rather him holding you tight in a what should have been a very intimate and private moment.
-If he bothered to keep your relationship a secret, then he must have done so for a reason. Either he didn’t want you tangled up in his villainous affairs, despite how much he would have preferred you to stand at his side, or he was concerned you would be targeted.
- He makes arrangements for you to move immediately. With how careful he thought he was being he really didn’t see this coming, and now here is having to deal with his own “nightmare” scenario. He’d never show you that he is scared for you life though. Even if the whole city knows that the Master of Fear has someone he fancies, he is going to do his best to keep you safe from anyone especially Batman.
Riddler (Edward Nygma)
-Edward is pleased that they finally caught on. After weeks and weeks of leaving hints, paper trails, and semipublic appearances with you, they FINALLY aired the story about the two of you together.
-While he should be more worried that all his enemies now know about you, he already made arrangements. Eddie loves attention, and the story that he had been keeping you all to himself increased the buzz and allure surrounding the two of you.
-You know that under the façade of triumph, Edward is terrified. He starts to hold on to you a bit tighter at night because he is so scared that if he lets go you’ll be stolen from him too. This was never what he wanted. Why would he plot to make you an easy target? He would lie and make the blunder sound like some elaborate scheme. At the very least his paranoid contingency plans would be good for something.
Mad Hatter (Jervis Tetch)
-Jervis’s reaction all comes down to whether or not they think he is mind controlling you. They can call him any insult, say that you are too good for him, but if they think for even a second that you are somehow coerced into spending time with him, he will be pissed.
-This is why he wanted the relationship secret. He knows he has a reputation, but Jervis tried so hard to change! Can’t they see that his devotion is only so deep because it is reciprocated?
-He would card and kill as many reporters as needed to get it all straightened out. No one will ever accuse him of forcing you to be with him again even if that is indeed what is going on.
-If they don’t try to slander him, he will be extremely pleased with basically all of Gotham knows you’re his.
Penguin (Oswald Cobblepot)
-Similar to Jonathan, if your relationship wasn’t public knowledge before it was to either protect you or, unlike Jonathan, to keep you to himself. Oswald believes that you could have your pick of men so he can’t help but be a bit jealous when other people stare at you. He is obviously frustrated by the reveal not being on his terms either. However, the two of you looked like a matched pair in the photo presented to the world. He can’t be too mad about that.
-Despite his seemingly nonchalant attitude, you will be required to either be with him at all times, or have a hand selected bodyguard with you when he cannot. He might act as if he is untouchable, but he knows that if anyone wanted at him, you’d be dead so fast.
-If you didn’t already, you’d be living with him now too. Just another way to make sure his love bird stays safe.
I had been waiting so long to run free, but that goodbye was harder than I ever imagined. I’ll never forget that boy, and how we won back our freedom together.
LITTLECREEK in SPIRIT:STALLIONOFTHECIMARRON ↳ requested by @thesparksbro
if you think men wearing dresses is a totally normal thing and not groundbreaking at all you should also act normal when you see a man wearing a dress you think is ugly and not like, cry and piss and shit your pants about how it’s a homophobic hate crime against you personally. just say “i don’t like it” and move on like a normal person.
So, yesterday, I got into a rather stupid internet argument with someone who was peddling what seemed to me to be a rather insidious narrative about slur-reclamation. Someone in the ensuing notes raised a point which I thought was interesting, and worrying, and probably needed to be addressed in it’s own post. So here we go:
The word ‘queer’ itself seems to be especially touchy for many, so let me begin to address this by way of analogy.
Instead of talking about “queer”, let’s start by talking about “Jew” - a word which I believe is very similar in its usage in some significant ways.
Now, the word “Jew” has been used as a derogatory term for literally hundreds of years. It is used both as a noun (eg. “That guy ripped me off - what a dirty Jew”) and as a verb (eg. “That guy really Jew-ed me”). These usages are deeply, fundamentally, horrifically offensive, and should be used under no circumstances, ever. And yet, I myself have heard both, even as recently as this past year, even in an urban location with plenty of Jews, in a social situation where people should have known better. In short – the word “Jew”, as it is used by certain antisemites, is – quite unambiguously – a slur. Not a dead slur, not a former slur – and active, living slur that most Jews will at some point in their life encounter in a context where the term is being used to denigrate them and their religion.
Now here’s the thing, though: I’m a Jew. I call myself a Jew. I prefer that all non-Jews call me a Jew – so do most Jews I know. “Jew” is the correct term for someone who is part of the religion of Judaism, the same way that “Muslim” is the correct term for someone who is part of the religion of Islam, and “Christian” is the correct term for someone who is part of the religion of Christianity.
In fact, almost all of the terms that non-Jews use to avoid saying “Jew” (eg. “a member of the Jewish persuasion”, “a follower of the Jewish faith”, “coming from a Jewish family”, “identifying as part of the Jewish religion”, etc) are deeply offensive, because these terms imply to us that the speaker sees the term “Jew” (and by extension, what that term stands for) as a dirty word.
“BUT WAIT” – I hear you say – “didn’t you just say that Jew is used as a slur?!?”
Yes. Yes, I did. And also, it is fundamentally offensive not to call us that, because it is our name and our identity.
Let me back up a little bit, and bring you into the world of one of those 2000s PSAs about not using “that’s so gay”. Think of some word that is your identity – something which you consider to be a fundamental and intrinsic part of yourself. It could be “female” or “male”, or “Black” or “white”, “tall” or “short”, “Atheist” or “Mormon” or “Evangelical” – you name it.
Now imagine that people started using that term as a slur.
“What a female thing to do!” they might say. “That teacher doesn’t know anything, he’s so female!”
Or maybe, “Yikes, look at that idiot who’s driving like an atheist. It’s so embarrassing!”
Or perhaps, “Oh gross, that music is so Black, turn it off!”
Now, what would you say if the same groups of people who had been saying those things for years turned around and avoided using those words to describe anything other than an insult?
“Oh, so I see you’re a member of the female persuasion!”
“Is he… a follower of the atheist beliefs? Like does he identify as part of the community of atheist-aligned individuals?”
“So, as a Black-ish identified person yourself – excuse me, as a person who comes from a Black-ish family…”
Here’s the fundamental problem with treating all words that are used as slurs the same, without any regard for how they are used and how they developed – not all slurs are the same.
No one, and I mean no one (except maybe for a small handful of angsty teens who are deliberately making a point of being edgy) self-identifies as a kike. In contrast, essentially all Jews self-identify as Jews. And when non-Jews get weird about that identity on the grounds that “Jew is used as a slur”, despite the fact that it is the name that the Jewish community as a whole resoundingly identifies with, what they are basically saying is that they think that the slur usage is more important than the Jewish community self-identification usage. They are saying, in essence, “we think that your name should be a slur.”
Now, at the top I said that the word “Jew” and the word “queer” had some significant similarities in terms of their usage, and I think that’s pretty apparent if you look at what people in those communities are saying about those terms. When American Jews were being actively threatened by neo-Nazis in the 70s, the slogan of choice was “For every Jew a .22!″. When the American Queer community was marching in the 90s in protest of systemic anti-queer violence, the slogan of choice was “We’re here, we’re queer, get used to it!” Clearly, these are terms that are used by the communities themselves, in reference to themselves. Clearly, these terms are more than simply slurs.
But while there are useful similarities between how the terms “Jew” and “Queer” are used by bigots and by their own communities, I’d also like to point out that there is pretty substantial and important difference:
Unlike for “queer”, there is no organized group of Jewish antisemites who are using the catchphrase “Jew is a slur!” in order to selectively silence and disenfranchise Jews who are part of minority groups within Judaism.
This is the real rub with the term queer – no one was campaigning about it being a slur until less than a decade ago. No one was saying that you needed to warn for the word queer when queer people were establishing the academic discipline of queer studies. No one was ‘think of the children”-ing the umbrella term when queer activists were literally marching for their lives. Go back to even 2010 and the term “q slur” would have been basically unparseable – if I saw someone tag something “q slur”, like most queer people I would have wracked my brains trying to figure out what slur even started with q, and if I learned that it was supposed to be “queer”, my default assumption would be that the post was made by a well-meaning but extremely clueless straight person.
I literally remember this shift – and I remember who started it. Exclusionists didn’t like the fact that queer was an umbrella term. Terfs (or radfems as they like to be called now) didn’t like that queer history included trans history; biphobes and aphobes didn’t like that the queer community was also a community to bisexuals and asexuals. And so what could they possibly say, to drive people away from the term that was protecting the sorts of queer people that they wanted to exclude?
Well, naturally, they turned to “queer is a slur.”
And here’s the thing – queer is a slur, just like Jew is a slur, and no one is denying that. And that fact makes “queer is a slur so don’t use it” a very convincing argument on the surface: 1) queer is still often used as a slur, and 2) you shouldn’t ever use slurs without carefully tagging and warning people about them (and better yet, you should never use them at all), and so therefore 3) you need to tag for “the q slur” and you need to warn people not to call the community “the queer community” or it’s members “queer people” or its study “queer studies” – because it’s a slur!
But the crucial step that’s missing here is exactly the same one above, for the word “Jew” – and that step is that not all slurs are the same. When a term is both used as a slur and used as a self-identity term, then favoring the slur meaning instead of the identity meaning is picking the side of the slur-users over the disadvantaged group!
If you say or tag “q slur” you are sending the message, whether you realize it or not, that people who use “queer” as a slur are more right about its meaning than those who use it as their identity. Tagging for “queer” is one thing. People can filter for “queer” if it triggers them, just like people can filter for anything else. Not everyone has to personally use the term queer, or like the term queer. But there is no circumstance where the term “q slur” does not indicate that you think queer is more of a slur than of an accurate description of a community.
If I, as a Jew, ever came across a post where someone had warned for innocent, positive, non-antisemitic content relating to Judaism with the tag “J slur”, I would be incensed. So would any Jew. The act of tagging a post “J slur” is in and of itself antisemitic and offensive.
Queer people are allowed to feel the same about “q slur”. It is not a neutral warning term – it is an attack on our identity.
This entire post really resonated with me. Especially the part where you say:
“When a term is both used as a slur and used as a self-identity term, then favoring the slur meaning instead of the identity meaning is picking the side of the slur-users over the disadvantaged group!”
In case someone doesn’t know how to make a “keep reading” on mobile:
I’ve seen some nerve-racking 10k fics that don’t have the cut and in their worst, they’re also full of media like “this is a picture of what you’re wearing, this is the view you’re seeing from your hotel room, here’s a gif how x looks at you in this scene” = Tumblr app struggles to load that wall of text and media and then Tumblr app crashes and when asked to put the cut, people are like “I’m on mobile and can’t put the cut” so here’s a little tutorial video for you guys.
I know this is a problem with all characters but tagging some popular ones to gain exposure for this post.
