newwavefeminism:

ladyatheist:

jalwhite:

A student at Wesleyan University has apologized after posting fliers on campus that read “No Colored People” were allowed in the school’s student union.

The fliers were posted Friday during an international celebration on the Middletown campus Friday. The University’s South Asian Student Association (Shakti) presented the celebration of Holi, a Hindu holiday observed in India, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Nepal.

Known as the “Festival of Colors”, the holiday is often celebrated by people throwing colored paint and powder at each other.

Organizers were concerned that students covered in the paint and powder could make a mess inside the student union, known as Usdan at Wesleyan.  So, senior “Katherine Y.” posted the fliers that read “No Colored People in Usdan: but seriously if you’re covered in colored powder you can’t come in”.

Katherine issued an apology on a blog over the weekend.

“This was my fault and I want to take 100% responsibility for it,” she said. “Shakti was asked by Usdan to put up posters telling people who had participated in Holi not to enter Usdan in order not to make a mess of colored powder everywhere, and the above poster occurred to me as a joke. I’m not sure why the obvious offensiveness of it didn’t hit me in the face immediately, and I am deeply, deeply regretful that I ever printed these.”

The fliers sparked outrage from some students at Wesleyan, which is considered one of the more liberal schools in the country.

“The obvious offensiveness was the joke. How could that not hit you in the face?” posted one anonymous student on the blog.

A spokesperson for Wesleyan initially said the fliers were a “communications problem” but then said it was more of a case of bad judgment by the student and that there was no malicious intent.

srsly? get your shit together, wesleyan.

umm… what? “The fliers sparked outrage from some students at Wesleyan, which is considered one of the more liberal schools in the country.”

I go to a school that’s in the exact league (literally, the NESCAC) as Weslyan. Being liberal does NOT automatically mean they still aren’t racially insensitive. New England Liberal Arts Colleges are full of the generation of “i don’t see race, but i’ll make all these ironically racist jokes and get mad at you for being offended” aged college students.

don’t get it twisted. Not surprised at alllll

shakingthelawbythetail:

Eddie Veder, MTV Unplugged 1992

Why didn’t we see some pretentious white rocker guy scrawling free birth control access all over his body a the Grammy’s? Instead we got Chris Brown.

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racismschool:

stfuandlistenwhitepeople:

fiendmovement:

Let’s spread some truth

All Black people look alike to the shooter.

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A small number of these guinea pigs have been found within the radiation zone surrounding Chernobyl as it became gradually safer to return.  They were found by the first scientists who had entered the fallout zone to test soil and water supplies to inspect the rate at which radiation was dropping.

They are believed to have originated from an animal testing lab and are presumed to have managed to break free of their cages.  They now reside in Moscow zoo and are considered an endangered species due to their severely low population.

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most-awkward-moments:

A blog for your entertainment.

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grey-eyedathena:

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feministhistorian:

iheartslb:

feministhistorian:

[TW: child abuse and violence]

daskannnichtsein:

sourcedumal:

karnythia:

moniquill:

Unpopular opinion time:

No.

This is not ok.

If you have fucked up so badly at parenting that your kid is making posts like the above, property destruction and implied violence aren’t appropriate responses. This is not how functional adult people behave.

Hannah, in the video, doesn’t respect her father.

Given that her father invades her privacy, undermines her personal agency, and doesn’t have basic trust for her….I fully comprehend why she doesn’t. Respect is earned and taught. If Hannah posts giant, frustrated rants about her chore load, it probably implies that she doesn’t feel that her efforts are appreciated or that she’s an integral member of the family or household (alienation and over individuation is a huge problem for teens; it’s part of the formation of adult identity separate from parents and kind of a huge trap.

Teenagers are frustrated because their lives are absurd. They’re expected to have adult behavior with no adult agency. Maturity and decision making are learned skills. If parents don’t like the way their teens are behaving, they need to ask themselves where that behavior was learned. If she feels entitled, what have you been doing -her entire life- to communicate the real value of what she has and should be grateful for? If she refers to the woman who cleans for you as ‘the cleaning lady’ is that because she’s noted that you treat that woman that way? Asking for payment for work is not unreasonable; it’s an understanding of capitalism. A less asshat response than ‘are you out of your mind’ would be a basic rundown of the costs of the household in terms of food, heating, etc and what percentage of that Hannah should reasonably be responsible for. Given that she has no economic agency of her own, expressing to her that her chores are a means of repayment for that.

I grew up -poor- and my parents were still giving me an allowance by the time I was ten because that’s how you teach kids how to manage earned income. I received a dollar a week (upgraded to five dollars a week when I was 12) for completing a list of chores. If they weren’t done, I didn’t get paid. Just like you don’t get paid at a job if you don’t show up. My parents also stopped buying luxury items for me around that age and made me buy them myself with earned and saved income from my chores, babysitting, recycling cans, making crafts and selling them, whatever. My parents helped me find jobs and gave me suggestions about what I could so to earn money. If Hannah is fifteen, she cannot legally obtain most forms of employment; has she been educated as to what economic opportunities are available to her? Because as a parent EDUCATING HER IS, IN FACT, YOUR JOB. You got her an application and made her apply? Did you take her with you and teach her the process of how to obtain applications and where to look for places that are hiring? Did you make sure the place you got the application from accepts underage employees (most do not) or walk her through the application process in terms of how to make herself an attractive applicant?

‘When I was your age I’d moved out of the house, lived on my own, went to college while in highschool, worked two jobs, was a volunteer fireman’…. Uh….huh. And you didn’t manage to impart any of this work ethic on your children, apparently. Also: You grew up in a very different economy, as a man. I’m willing to bet you had parents or other helpful adults who made you aware of the opportunities available to you. You are judging your daughter for having a different outcome than you had, when she sure as shit didn’t have the same input. 

Hannah is acting out in the most trivial of ways: Ranting and commiserating with friends. and even THAT outlet is being denied her. All the people above who liked and lauded this: Would you think it was awesome if Hanna was an adult woman who’d posted a frustrated rant about her significant other, and this was the significant other’s response? Or would you consider this to be emotional abuse and a redflag for accelerating relationship violence? Because that’s what this is: Emotional abuse. This is abusive parenting (looks like it’s in the wake of/a response to earlier emotionally negligent parenting, too).

If your kid is a spoiled brat? It is not the kid’s fault. Kids aren’t born spoiled brats. Parental behavior causes this. This man is reaping the seeds he has sewn, and because he’s unsatisfied with what his efforts have yielded, he’s responding with aggression and punishment and social humiliation.

That is -fucked up-. You are a -shitty parent-. You are not training your child to be a functional adult.If you child lacks life skills, if your child does not respect you, if your child cannot think critically or understand the value of money or comprehend the importance of maintaining a household THAT IS YOUR FUCKING FAULT. This kind of extreme behavior is SERIOUSLY too little too late, and an act of aggressive desperation because YOU FUCKED UP.

If I were advising Hannah in this situation? I’d be helping her figure out ways to get the fuck away from these people and hook her up with resources that would teach her actual life skills.

Worth noting? This dude is shooting in what is clearly a residential area. That is unsound (though not necessarily criminal in his locality) behavior. This is not something to be celebrated. Property destruction and implied violence are not things to be celebrated. Emotional abuse in response to shitty teen behavior that results from bad parenting in the first place is not something to be celebrated.

This whole fucking family needs to get to family counseling STAT.

I don’t believe shit this dude is saying for a host of reasons including the bullets he put in her computer. Applaud if you want to, but I bet a video camera focused on her day to day life would tell a very interesting (and fucked up) story about unrealistic expectations.

^^^ Agreed. Especially with what Monoquill is saying. Shooting at a laptop? Who is to say that he won’t go further and introduce violence against her???

Instead of fleshing out the real reasons why she is angry, you simply shoot her belongings? Really? Say goodbye to any sort of healthy communication whatsoever.

BLESS THIS ENTIRE POST.

I watched the video and was appalled by him and the comments on the video. He is clearly very abusive and overprotective. He has absolutely no respect for her daughter and in the video he even said she would probably never see it. He did this so he could publicly embarrass her in front of her friends. That is beyond fucked up, that is fucking abusive behavior. His daughter is going to need a lot of therapy in the future to correct the mess he made. If she speaks to him after she moves out, I will be shocked. He has no respect for her or her boundaries and wonders why she makes post ranting about him on facebook…

He’s her parent.

There’s no privacy when you’re living in your PARENTS’ house, using the internet THEY bought, the computer THEY bought. 

Also- if she had it so rough, they wouldn’t be living in a nice house, with nice things. 

I agree with the father, she’s completely disrespectful. I don’t agree with shooting the computer, but that’s just me. I’d be beyond pissed at my child if they wrote something like that about me after I bought them nice things/upgraded their computer, etc. 

She sounds like a brat that deserves to be punished.

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Um, what? Teenagers don’t deserve privacy because they are living with their parents? Teenagers aren’t allowed to have boundaries, secrets, things they keep from their parents because they live with them? That is beyond fucked up. I don’t know about you, but I have had my parents snoop around my room and violate my privacy. When you set privacy settings on YOUR facebook and your dad snoops around them/hacks into it, that is violating his daughters privacy. I don’t care if she is living at home or is 40 years old, that is a violation of privacy. 

“if she had it so rough, they wouldn’t be living in a nice house, with nice things.” is the biggest crock of shit I have ever heard. You don’t have to live in an run down house to have an abusive father. He could be a billionaire and still be abusive. He clearly solves his problems with violence and public humiliation. He did not try talking to his daughter and asking why she felt like that, he shot up her computer. God only knows how he treats her if he can do something like this. Sorry, he is violent and an abuser. Her step mother didn’t sound any better when she asked him to shot her computer for her. That girl is living in a fucked up environment, no wonder she is writing passive aggressive posts on facebook. Its the only outlet she has and he took that away from her. 

Assuming she deserves to be punished for writing how she feels, he had no reason to shoot up her computer. He should have talked to her and asked her why she feels this way. He should try to have a relationship with her instead of grounding her for using facebook as an outlet to process her feelings. She clearly cannot talk to him because he will pull shit like this. 

I don’t even know where to start with this.

He’s a shit dad; I agree with all of the commentary pointing out how fucked up this is.

The “she’s a brat,” “she deserves it,” “she’s disrespectful” stuff is bullshit.  Like people have said, this was her only outlet and this ridiculous form of punishment is just… terrifying.  I have to agree that this seems like a rather scary, abusive situation.

I tried to bring this up on my facebook account, and people still defended this dad. Said I had no leg to stand on when saying this man was abusive, or that Hanna didn’t do anything all that horrid.

This video made my physically ill. Guns, Public Humiliation, insulting your child, and destroying her things make you a shitty and abusive parent.

This post is comforting, at least some people out there know abuse when they see it.

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