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black-is-beautiful18 · 4 months

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Reading is political and I don’t get why ppl, namely yt ppl, don’t get that. You don’t wanna read diversely cuz you don’t wanna read about politics…as if that’s all diverse books talk about. Like y’all are really stupid and show every day that you think that Black and Brown ppl don’t lead normal lives. Yes we are oppressed but we’re literally still ppl. Authors of color also write in many different genres but you’d rather read the book where the MC has to stop their home from being taken over and literally oppressed by the big bad….The only difference being that the MC is white so the plot somehow doesn’t read as political to you 🤔

#reading is fundamental #reading is political #white readers #white people #art in general is political #diverse books #no one is saying that you absolutely have to read them #we’re just saying that it tells us who to stay away from #unique writes

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her-satanic-wiles · 27 days

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The way this girl on BookTube started her building and organising her dream library video with a bible quote and I immediately switched off lmao. I was like, I can tell we don't have the same reading tastes, queen. But live your truth I guess.

#reading is political #and we definitely don't agree on politics #therefore i trust nothing you say #mel rambles

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londondziban · 3 months

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Stop labeling YA authors as creeps for depicting sex in their novels.

Depicting sex and sexuality in young adult literature is not a bad, harmful thing. In fact, it is beneficial for teens to be able to read books aimed toward their age group that discuss and depict sex in a non-judgmental, positive way. Sex and sexuality within YA novels open the conversation for teens who may otherwise feel shame for the feelings they experience and the things they have an interest in, or already do. YA novels that depict sex and sexuality can discuss the complicated feelings that surround both experiences and help promote more accurate information and views of sex and sexuality than are presented within television, film, and online.

Teenagers can and do have sex. Whether they should or not is a matter of opinion that does not change the fact that it happens.

No, authors are not "creepy" or "perverts" for writing about teenagers experimenting with sex and sexuality. Writing sex into young adult novels doesn't make an author a creep. An author doesn't have to be a teen themself in order to ethically write sex into young adult literature.

And no, sex does not need to be framed as something negative for it to be "okay" to write about in young adult literature. Authors shouldn't have to write about bad things happening to their teenage characters after they've had sex. Teens don't need, and shouldn't, see sex as something that will always lead to diseases and social ridicule. Yes, sex can lead to consequences and yes teens should be well informed of that. No, depicting teens never having safe, positive sexual experiences is not a good idea. Fostering fear around sex and sexuality within teens does nothing but harm.

Your push of purity culture harms kids more than it helps them. Creating safe, open outlets for them to learn and feel seen is the best thing to do when helping teenagers. Ridiculing authors for writing sex and sexuality into their young adult novels is not only harmful, but it is censorship.

And no, I'm not saying adults should be writing full-on smut about teenagers. I can't believe I have to clarify that but the reading comprehension on this site has always been, and will always be, piss poor. I'm saying complete censorship of discussions of sex and sexuality within literature for teens does the opposite of what you all seem to think it does; It is harmful.

Stop feeding teenagers the narrative that sex is inherently negative. Stop trying to pretend like teens don't experience sex and sexuality. Stop shaming the adults who are attempting to change the narrative for teens. Stop shaming the adults who are attempting to create safe, open conversations and spaces for teens. Stop trying to censor authors.

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captainjonnitkessler · 2 months

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Me: In November, either Trump or Biden will win. There is no third outcome, so we should vote accordingly for the option that will mitigate the most harm.

The people in my notes: Oh, so you think direct action is bad? You think voting is literally the only thing we can do? You hate activism? You love Biden and endorse everything he does and think nobody should criticize him ever? You think voting will just magically solve all our problems? You think protesting is wrong? You love the status quo and think everything is fine?

#lot of people bringing a LOT of baggage to my notes #the reading comprehension on this website is a true indictment of humanity #us politics

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grandmasbiscuits · 6 months

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#reading is political #free palestine #booktok

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smashing-yng-man · 1 year

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#stephen king #twitter #reading #literature #banned books #2023 #library #libraries #books #novels #politics #us politics

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shesnake · 1 month

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“Monkey Man” was shot and completed in 2021, and Netflix soon after acquired the rights for around $30 million, but it’s been on the shelf for three years and they‘ve all of a sudden decided to get rid of it? What gives? It turns out, according to an in-the-know source, that it was the portrayal of a fictional right-wing Hindu Nationalist character in the film that worried Netflix about their future dealings in India. And even though they had paid more than twice the production cost, they decided to give the film back to the producers, which is what caused the long delay. Universal and Peele eventually took a particular liking to the film, so much so that they suggested possible editing changes and delayed the release until what they thought would be the right date. It’s as simple as that. In the end, it was all about politics and optics for the streaming giant, especially since India has become the current top growth market for Netflix. Co-Founder Reed Hastings has mentioned that a majority of the service's next 100 million subscribers would most likely come from India.

Universal/Jordan Peele's "suggested possible editing changes" in question:

#monkey man #dev patel #jordan peele #film #i have to laugh!!!!#also have read some south asian critics on twitter saying the way it's edited renders the politics of the film vague and incomprehensible #i'm still looking forward to it of course but it's just a shame!!

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avelera · 4 months

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PSA: You should question news articles that make you not want to vote

Hey Tumblr friends, but especially young Americans in this, the year of our Lord 2024.

Unfortunately, it is an election year.

Unfortunately, a US election year becomes everyone's problem, and yes everyone else, we are very very sorry that you have to deal with our nonsense.

But in all seriousness, the level of propaganda that's going to be flung around on all sides is going to reach peak levels this year for the English-speaking internet in particular. There's going to be a lot of influence operations, on all sides, and yes including on sides you agree with but they are still influence operations.

Source: I am speaking as a cybersecurity professional who also did a great deal of work in election security.

So, here's what I am going to ask you to do. What I am going to beg you to do: be careful of any article that makes you think there's no point in voting.

That's it. I'm not going to tell you who to vote for, or how to think, or that you should trust or distrust every article out there. I don't care about that. I care about whether or not it makes you think you shouldn't vote.

A lot of influence operations are about making you feel like there's no point. That both sides are just as bad as the other. The the election is falsified. That you can "protest" by not voting (false: you will simply not be counted and your voice will be ignored). All sorts of reasons not to vote.

No matter what you do, what you believe, or who you trust, you really really have to vote this year, and every year, and you need to not listen to articles that say there's no point because among those articles are in fact active foreign influence campaigns trying to promote one side or the other for their own reasons, I am deadly serious right now.

(More context, sources, and examples sources below the cut.)

In 2016, Russian influence operations were focused on tearing down Hillary in order to specifically depress voter turnout among young men of color in the belief that this would help Trump get elected.

From the article: "“Buried literally in the middle of the indictment is a paragraph that should jar every American committed to the long fight for voting rights,” Anders wrote in a statement. “The Russians allegedly masqueraded as African-American and American Muslim activists to urge minority voters to abstain from voting in the 2016 election or to vote for a third-party candidate.”

This is the flavor of influence campaign that has been proven, that does exist, and is the sort of thing that does numbers here on Tumblr.

Things like the situation in Gaza, for example, are incredibly fraught situations. Articles don't even need to lie about facts on the ground there to make people feel hopeless and angry. Again, I am not telling you who to trust or not trust when it comes to news sources. But if an article about this event, for examples, makes you think or even outright tells you, "There's no point to voting, both sides are awful, I just shouldn't bother." You need to pause and at least consider that this might be an influence operation. You need to think critically. You need to check sources. You need to think about the world you want to live in, to vote for, and who might not want that world to happen for any variety of reasons.

Protesting by failing to vote isn't a real thing.

Old politicians ignoring young voters because they famously do not bother to vote is absolutely 100% a real thing. It is why so many policies that are popular with young people are low priority for politicians: they are not afraid of losing the young vote because no one plans on having it in the first place when it's never there in big enough numbers to matter.

So please, please, read what you want. Believe what you want. Follow your heart and your brain and whatever other organ you want to think with. I'm not here to tell you who is right, wrong, trustworthy, good, or bad. I'm just here to tell you that despite all of that, whatever you read, you must vote in your elections, no matter where you are in the world and you must not listen to voices that tell you not to as a protest.

#politics #us politics #maybe I'll regret this maybe no one will read it idk

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berniesrevolution · 1 year

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You’re Lucky You Have a House, Peasant!

A history of company towns

by Joyce Rice and Kevin Moore

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#politics #the left #the nib #comic #webcomic #labor #Labor Unions #organized labor #history #capitalism #economic inequality #oppression #poverty #working class #long post #long reads

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jdragsky · 4 months

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i'm gonna go one step further and say it's actively good to engage with media you have fundamental ideological disagreements with, especially when you use that as a testing ground to conceptualize your own worldview and help you crystalize your perspective on things

#i read book of the new sun over the summer and it really helped me understand my politics better #also my favorite video game is cities skylines which is just horrifically anti-homeless

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vyeoh · 15 days

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(The Washington Post)

For those who don't know, the US Supreme Court just ruled that states are allowed to enforce trans healthcare for minors. Undoubtedly, this will trigger a wave of other states that either hope to pass or have already passed policies to do the same. This is going to kill children, and harm more in long-lasting ways.

So, how can you help?

FUCKING VOTE. I don't care if you don't like Biden, he's not the only one on the ballot. Vote representatives into your city council who will turn our city into a sanctuary city. Vote for governors and state reps who will, even if they don't pass new protections, oppose bans being pushed through. Chsllenge and kick out conservative incumbents who are banking on their races being obscure enough for people to not vote in.

Anyone telling you voting is useless is either lying to you or grossly uninformed and think saying this is the edgy new take that will make them look hip and informed. Yes, the system is broken. But short of burning the whole thing to the ground (which personally I'm not a fan of as I quite enjoy having like. Roads and the FDA) what we can do is to change it for the better, by starting with the local races and working our way up.

#vio.txt #politics #us politics #lemme tell you when i read this story and my heart sank #the supreme court has set the tone on ruling on trans healthcare #the best thing we can do is ensure those decisions never reach them #this is your reminder that state court justices are an elected position #but god. im deeply worried for the upcoming election #transgender #lgbtq #lgbt #also on another note please vote for biden????? like trump is currently in several trials we cannot give him the power to pardon??????#also im hoping he'll keep erasing student loans

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zoobus · 4 months

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I'm sure the stay at home girlfriend thing is abrasive and inescapable on tiktok, no doubt compounded by female edgelords begging society to retvrn because they have finals next week, but I don't think beautiful gold diggers flexing the spoils of their hunt or teen edgelords miscalculating the offensiveness of their jokes are new or as culturally impactful as they're being credited. The revulsion is instinctual, I know, but these are internet-assigned villains of the week, not evidence that society is regressing and definitely not evidence we need to blow up the world and everyone in it. Stop hate-watching these videos, stop making screenshot compilations of strangers that anger you, they're distorting your perspective of the world.

#all the commentary reads like #Unfunny 21yo says Offensive‚ Stupid Shit for Attention: Political Analysts Weigh in - 'Expect the Handmaiden norms by early 2026'

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wherestoriescomefrom · 1 year

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rian johnson took all that time, put in all that effort to make glass onion a fantastic period piece to the first four months of pandemic, a prescient narrative that anticipates the stupidity of rich billionaires, and then pulled the rug from under us because the world of benoit blanc just straight up doesn't have the mona lisa anymore

#Some geniuses in the notes are talking about how it wasn't the real mona lisa #And I'm editing my tags because tumblr is a website with minimal reading comprehension #But the POINT is that he went through all that effort to make the world canon complaint with ours #Only to DESTROY a cultural artefact real or not #Having massive political implications for the world #And that's what I was pointing out. Here and in another reblog that presumably no one will care to fish out #It's in the replies for those looking #Anyway I hope rian johnson makes ten of these without the mona lisa #Also as a side note. So many movies have ignored covid #Not this man. He's like no we'll include it. But if we divert from canon reality #We're going to destroy the mona lisa #Love that for him. Icon #hello void this is ridiculosity #knives out #glass onion

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mysharona1987 · 2 years

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This honestly sounds like a very dark comedy skit.

*waves gun around wildly*

“BAN THOSE BOOKS FROM THIS BUILDING! YOU ARE DESTROYING AND INDOCTRINATING OUR KIDS.”

“Sir, we don’t even have those books in our catalogue.”

*awkward pause*

“Oh, We, uh, didn’t check for that.”

#Books #news #lbgtq #democrats #republicans #politics #donald trump #ron desantis #transgender #trans #librarians #reading #cnn #Wtf #wtf is this

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heritageposts · 2 months

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Podcast w/Rania Khalek and Nima Shirazi, link + transcript above ↑

#worth reading/listen to rn seeing how western politicians and the media keeps relying on the 'Big Scary Iran' narrative #to justify the ongoing genocide in gaza #(with iran presented as this 'puppet master' dictating the actions of non-US aligned groups in the region)#before the words 'iran-backed' leaves your mouth you should at least be able to identify who the axis of resistance is and why they exist #also... what happened in iran in 1953? who was mosaddegh? what were his political goals and achievements? and so on #anyway...#palestine #axis of resistance #iran #ansarallah #hezbollah

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c-rowlesdraws · 3 months

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(Note: I’m writing this in good faith and not trying to come across confrontational)

Have u forgotten u can vote 3rd party? I know there will likely not be enough people voting independant party for a non red or blue president to be elected THIS voting cycle. But. If enough people vote independent maybe america will wake up and realize there are more than 2 shitty options. (It takes time to change, and change for the better)

Look the problem with the blue no matter who mindset is that these people know you are going to vote for them no matter what. Not because you necessarily like them but because at least they aren’t the other guy. Which gives dems absolutely no incentive to not be a piece of shit. Like do you get it? They will be awful and endorse genocides and all other terror because they know you will let them get away with it. Maybe biden isn’t as bad as a republican would have been but he is still pretty fucking bad. Personally, morally, I cannot in any way justify voting for him again.

voting for someone as damage control in an election does not mean you can't heckle the shit out of them once they are in office. You elect the officials you think you and groups you belong to have the better chance of pressuring into better policies, and who will do the least amount of damage in the meantime.

Democrats are relentless towards their elected officials-- at least the ones I know who are actually politically active are. They call, they protest, they campaign. Plus, as you're demonstrating, people on the left do not blindly vote (that's the other guys). It's totally unrealistic to say that elected Democratic officials just think they have an easy ride.

people can and should vote for whoever they want to in local elections, primaries, etc. But in the big one, the president one, the one in the fall, voting third party is like drawing up plans for a nice new extension on a house that is actively being set on fire. Voting for president is damage control. Voting is your hard-fucking-won civil right. Voting in smaller elections can also be damage control; when there is no-one to feel "good" about voting for, you vote for the less-worse one, because maybe that one is more receptive to the idea of climate change being real than the other one, and you can work with that.

Sometimes you get to vote for the option you align with the most. But sometimes voting is about picking the option with the cracks that you can dig your fingers into and pull open. Or at least the one who won't start taking a sledgehammer to civil rights and environmental protections (and, and) with all his buddies while you work to build support behind a candidate you can feel good about voting for in four years.

Biden has shown he can change his policies over time, with pressure. Democrats can be swayed in ways Republicans cannot. One major party can be pushed more left. The other one will drag us into a darkness that I don't even want to think about. The presidency is about so much more than just the individual sitting in the Oval Office.

Voting is strategic. It is strategic. It is not negative moral karma to vote strategically. It is one action amidst all the other actions you can take to fight for the future you want.

#please read my original post again if you're still unclear on my political stance #us politics #ask #catie talks #i don't want to publish more of these asks but I feel compelled to reply to at least some #this website was a fucking waking nightmare in 2016 and I'd feel sick scrolling through tag after tag on a political post #of people saying that hillary was a warhawk and a monster and just as bad as trump and they couldn't #morally justify voting for her #and seeing that attitude showing up again makes me want to throw plates

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