"Omg, I can't believe my daughter became a leftist, this is so sad, I'm so disgusted, whaaaaa-"
Michelle, use your brain for once, your child listened to they don't care about us on repeat in 2021 & 2022, do you really think a 13 to 15 year old who listened to the biggest anti-racism and anti police brutality anthem of all times would become a right winged pro Bolsonaro? Goddamnit-
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What do you think about the controversies surrounding how Michael filmed a clip in a favela? Not paying people or asking their permission to have them in the video and ignoring how many didn't want him there at all? Making a deal with freaking drug lords to let him film there?
Okay, let's get one very important thing out of the way: the folks that were unhappy with Michael filming "They Don't Care About Us" in a favela were NOT the people who actually lived there, but the goverment of Rio - aka the people who are to blame for the favelas and their terrible living conditions existing.
They were worried that this was gonna expose their complete failure to do their job, and reinforce Brazil's/Rio's image as a very dangerous place, and would ruin their attempts of hosting the Olympics here - oh, when we did host the World Cup and The Olympics, years later, plenty of people here were mad because it meant even less money was gonna be put on basic stuff the population needs to live. There protests everywhere in the country for months.
Compare that to people being absolutely excited for Michael's arrival that they follow him and his car around everywhere, standing outside his hotel for hours in the hopes to see him. To the people in the Santa Marta favela watching him dance for hours, cheering him on from their balconies, waving at him and at the cameras, dancing along to the beat, putting banners and posters of "King of Pop" everywhere, and making a life-size statue of him that is still there.
Can you REALLY tell me they didn't like having him there? That they didn't want to be in the video? That this was not one of the coolest things ever?
And he did give people money, not for the right to use their image, but to help out (hence the statue) - something the government itself doesn't do, which is the whole point of the song. And it wasn't just charity, he even randomly gave a kid ten dollars on the spot just to be nice.
And that's just the stuff in Rio. He went to the city of Salvador too, in the majority black state of Bahia - he ate the food, stayed in an actual house there instead of in a hotel, was constantly waving at the fans and even invited a fangirl over to his room, and, more importantly, did research on Olodum (the guys with the drums that you see in the video) MONTHS in advance and was having a fucking blast with them, and chose them in particular because of the influence of african rhythms in their beats.
The overwhelming sentiment of the people here in Brazil - especially those that were in the video and were interviewed many times through the years - is that Michael was extremely respectul and downright awesome. How about we don't speak over them and act like they're too stupi-I mean, naive to understand they were "exploited" just because they have no money and are mostly people of color?
As for him asking permission to the drug dealers to film in their territory: there are favelas in Rio in which people have to use specific signals/codes to the be allowed back in if they leave even for a little while, to prove they live there, otherwise they're shot on sight.
If Michael went up there without permission from the dealers, he would at best have to deal with being followed and lowkey threatened by the drug lords that are not sure what he wants there. At worst, he'd get someone killed, because while the dealers likely knew him, they don't know the crew and could immediately shoot because they think it's a rival gang or undercover cop.
That's not the same as him just casually being buddies with criminals, that's just not being too stupid to live.
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i should've gotten to see john winchester throwing up at least once ):
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God, the whole Stanley cup stuff just makes me laugh so much
I have a 1ltr flask-cup I got for like £20. It doesn't have a handle and it's definitely not leak-proof, but whenever it has leaked it's coz I've jostled that fucker around or the lid wasn't on right
I got a lil bag to carry it to work coz 1ltr of tea is fucking heavy when you're carrying it
I knew if I got one with a handle it was likely just gonna break coz again, 1ltr of fucking liquid is heavy
So long as it keeps my tea warm for when I'm at work, I don't care. It only has to last until noon anyway then all that tea's gone
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Tell me, what has become of my life?
I have a wife and two children who love me;
I am the victim of police brutality, no.
I’m tired of being the victim of hate;
You’re ripping me of my pride, oh, for God’s sake.
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy - set me free.
Michael Jackson - They Don’t Care About Us
*still so damn relevant
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Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, aggravation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Bang bang, shot dead
Everybody's gone mad
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Beat me, hate me
You can never break me
Will me, thrill me
You can never kill me
Sue me, Sue me
Everybody do me
Kick me, kick me
Don't you black or white me
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Tell me what has become of my life
I have a wife and two children who love me
I am the victim of police brutality, no
I'm tired of bein' the victim of hate
You're rapin' me of my pride oh, for God's sake
I look to heaven to fulfill its prophecy
Set me free
Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Trepidation, speculation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Black man, black mail
Throw your brother in jail
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Tell me what has become of my rights
Am I invisible 'cause you ignore me?
Your proclamation promised me free liberty, no
I'm tired of bein' the victim of shame
They're throwing me in a class with a bad name
I can't believe this is the land from which I came
You know I do really hate to say it
The government don't wanna see
But if Roosevelt was livin'
He wouldn't let this be, no, no, no
Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, speculation
Everybody litigation
Beat me, bash me
You can never trash me
Hit me, kick me
You can never get me
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
Some things in life they just don't wanna see
But if Martin Luther was livin'
He wouldn't let this be, no, no (no, no, no)
Skin head, dead head
Everybody gone bad
Situation, segregation
Everybody allegation
In the suite, on the news
Everybody dog food
Kick me, kick me
Don't you wrong or right me
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
(We're deep in the fight)
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
(I'm here to be mad, we're deep in the fight)
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about
All I wanna say is that
They don't really care about us
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Il y a 28 ans, Michael Jackson était au Brésil pour enregistrer le deuxième short film du titre They Don’t Care About Us. Petit voyage sur les lieux de tournage !
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I don't know who needs to hear this, but as a creator -
I am fine with "the audience" -
downloading my fics
printing my fics
copy/pasting or screenshotting my fics
sharing your saved copy of my fics with anyone else who might want them in the unlikely but never impossible case that my fics are no longer available on ao3
making a book of my fic(s) and running your fingers across the pages while lovingly whispering my precioussss
doing these things with anything I create for fandom, such as meta, headcanons, au nonsense like 'texts from the brodinsons,' etc
I am not fine with "the audience"
doing any of the above with the purpose/intent of plagiarizing my work or passing it off as their own in any capacity
feeding my work into ai for any reason whatsoever
Save the fandom things. Preserve the fandom things. Respect the fandom things.
Enjoy the fandom things.
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"Tell me, what has become of my rights? Am I invisible 'cause you ignore me?"
All I wanna say is that "they don't really care about us."
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