happy inaugural labru day to all who celebrate

i come to you tumblerinas from twitter hell to give you DOAWK hilson. use it wisely

not to sound Like This but maybe we should think about culling straight ""radfems"" because what the fuck is this

liking yosuke is harder than liking akechi tbh. like akechi’s crimes are entirely fictional but yosuke’s homophobia and misogyny and other general shittiness is genuinely uncomfortable for real people for very understandable reasons. ultimately i could never blame anyone for not being able to stand yosuke’s issues, and no one’s obligated to like the characters i like nor in the specific way i like them, but it’s sooo annoying to read nuanceless takes on either end of hating him based on an extremely shallow reading of the text or liking a squeaky clean sanded down version of him. and that does apply to akechi too, but i think it’s overall harder to overcome the instinctual disgust of yosuke’s actions to grapple with a sincere analysis of his character than it is for akechi, cause even without having hard stats to back this up, i’m pretty sure the demographics of people who like persona include more queer people and women who have faced any sort of prejudice than people who have been murdered, y’know?

so like, free my man. he did all that shit but he’s complex about it

Eugene mayoral candidate Douglas Barr, a FOOD for Lane County driver, has lived in the community for decades. 

A resident of the Bethel district, Barr, 59, has been involved in various community organizations.  In 2020, he ran for city council in Ward 7, where he lost to incumbent Claire Syrett. 

Barr is also a convicted felon, he shared with the Daily Emerald. Upon further review, the Emerald found that in 1984 at age 19, Barr was involved in a self-described hate crime — referred to as “gay bashing” by the prosecution. Barr and three other men were charged of the beating and murder of John O'Connell, 41, a man who they believed to be bisexual.

Barr’s three co-conspirators were convicted of second-degree murder in the case; however, Barr was found not guilty in the murder, court records show.

Barr and his friends assaulted three other men in the same evening in San Francisco, a night prosecutors in the case referred to as a night of “homophobic rage.” Barr pled guilty to assault charges in the other beatings. He was sentenced to seven years in a California prison for his role in the attacks, but ultimately did not serve the full sentence. 

After his release, Barr married his wife of 34 years, and said he has “educated” himself, though he did not elaborate on his education.

Barr said he has since “strived to be better,” citing that he has become an active member of the Eugene community. Until 2020, he was an executive board member for his neighborhood association, Active Bethel Community, and recently joined the board of directors at Burrito Brigade, a food pantry for the unhoused.    

“We have to give people a second chance, especially if they're trying to do good. We have to reach back and include them. If they have ideas, we need to know that we need to participate,” Barr said. “[Despite their pasts] we want to uplift them anyway.”

He hopes to convince voters that reform is possible ahead of the upcoming election, but acknowledged that many Eugene residents may be hesitant to vote for him. 

“Being mayor a lot of people want to frown upon [me] because I was a felon. [But] do we want to frown? Do we want to stop people who come out of prison, [from] helping our community?” Barr said. “I have a lot of good thoughts about how to cure the homeless. Should I just be on the sidelines and not step up?”

"felon" this man wasn't arrested for having weed, he hate-crime gang murdered

do yall think they explored each other's bodies

a really racist and insidious thing zionists have been doing recently is making memes of gay people being thrown off buildings and saying that this is hamas in gaza. they've been using this as a means of pinkwashing: if you support palestinians in any way, then you MUST support these barbaric hamas members throwing gay people off buildings in gaza.... right?

the images they use, however, are years old images of ISIS in syria, an entirely different islamist group in an entirely different country. this reveals their racist biases immediately and their desire to use these racist biases to their advantage: to them, all of the middle east is one nation, every islamist group is the same (including enemies such as ISIS & hamas!), and every middle eastern life taken is a terrorist life taken. that's vile in itself, but what i find most revealing? they use images of presumed gay people being thrown off buildings by ISIS and practically memeify it. "pride month in gaza" they say, as they share images of people being killed by ISIS. some examples, im censoring the bodies as the images are graphic and i find it extremely disrespectful using the dead bodies of primarily gay syrians to further your movement:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-persecution-gay-men-murder-lgbt-muslim-society/

these people are not allies to gay people and especially not gay people in the middle east. they are using our oppression to push us into supporting other peoples' oppressions and laughing at the deaths of gay people while doing so. they stereotype palestinians as all homophobes who are also hamas members who are also ISIS members- therefore, if you do not support israel killing palestinian civilians, then you are supporting hamas killing gay people. they do this while ignoring that gay palestinians are going to be just as impacted by the killing of civilians as straight palestinians, and ignoring israel's history of blackmailing gay palestinians to achieve their goals, despite pretending to be the beacon of gay rights & humanity in the middle east.

as a middle eastern lesbian, i do not feel that my rights as a lesbian are being fought for when you share these images of (presumably) gay people being murdered by ISIS and then joking that it's "pride month in gaza" or "gay pilot training". instead, i feel like our oppression as gay people in the middle east is being laughed at, while simultaneously partaking in the racist dehumanisation of middle easterners by framing all of us as islamist ISIS or hamas members that throw gay people off buildings. to these people, gay people don't exist in palestine and when they do, their existence does not matter enough to call for israel not to kill innocent civilians in gaza. our deaths and oppression as gay people is only used as a propaganda piece to push for zionism, nothing more & nothing less.

So I hope all the people accuse the elite of booking themselves to win all the time finally please shut the fuck up

Cannot believe I had to watch the entire elite lose their matches at the show THAT THEY INVENTED THAT LEAD TO THIS ENTIRE COMPANY EVEN EXISTING

Actually the implications of John also being bisexual are so fucking tasty to me because like. OG John has no support system and no protection against the world except his own perceived strength so he learns to ferret out anything that can possibly be seen as weakness to those around him and that includes any affection or attraction he might feel towards men because nothing screams "stay in your fucking closet" like spending all your time around a fringe subculture of serial killing doomsday preppers in the Midwest during the Reagan era.

By the time he notices Dean starting to look a little too long at boys his age, he's probably convinced himself that whatever he felt (still feels but ignores) was a temporary youthful indiscretion, and of course Dean can't afford those, doesn't get to have those, he's got to be a soldier. He's got to be a better soldier than John, even.

I dunno I've just had enough conversations with family members who are loudly but somehow also mildly homophobic and yet say or do things that make me *eyeballs emoji* not to think this is not only possible but arguably likely.

The fact that Wilson’s proposal to House didn’t result in House playing into it and kissing him full on the mouth in front of everyone in that restaurant is a hate crime against me specifically

i’m actually surprised supernatural and destiel are THE ship of this site when house md and hilson are right there

also it really is shit how several popular bloggers were like. Horribly bigoted towards ace people when it was cool, but once it stopped being trendy they 1) deleted those posts so receipts couldn't be pulled 2) maybe put up claimed "redactions" or said "omg its been years if you really wanna know wether i still hate those people dm me" but never apologized for their behavior lmao. I don't think any of the people who did that actually changed, I just think they know it's not such an acceptable/fun target to bully anymore. It's really sick how that type of bullying was encouraged for years and how few people repented for their behavior.

Hey I saw some people sharing an infographic with this logo on it and, uh, I’m assuming you don’t know much about this group?

Stop Zionist Hate is a neo-nazi organization and platform. If you see the SZH logo do not spread their posts. They’re using your sympathy for Palestine to lead you into agreeing with their white supremacy. Don’t fall for it. Fuck Zionists. Fuck Nazis.

hey, what happened to the left believing in second chances? what happened to the belief that if somebody's tangibly doing better, they deserve that chance? you guys realise how common problematic beliefs were when the internet was younger? like, when gamergate was a thing? not that long ago? you guys realise most people on the internet are not from the same moral background as you? you guys realise keeping people out who have changed their beliefs, is only going to discourage more people from doing better? are you guys crazy? why are y'all bringing moral purity into this? it's a powerful thing to recognise things you've been taught were wrong & to then move away from it, especially when you're in a community around it either irl or online. being in a community is such a powerful force in most people's lives. not everyone had the perfect background & not everyone had access to being as educated on social issues as you did. it's fine to personally not forgive someone's problematic history & not interact with them, but to actively exclude them from the cause? get off your high horse, you're harming the movement by gatekeeping it to those with a perfect moral background.