In case you missed it, there's a movie being made in which white liberals go to South America to "protest," only to end up getting kidnapped and eaten by a tribe of Brown savage cannibals.

sumney:

In 2013. Directed by Eli Roth, who said:

“So I wrote about these student activists who want to save these un-contacted tribes in the Amazon… They chain themselves to trees and protest and stream it and hash-tag, and it works… Then on their way home, their plane crashes. And the very people they save are like ‘Ah, food – that’s great!’ It’s like a free lunch, and they are brought back into the fold of absolutely barbaric, primitive man. People that have had no contact with the outside world.

    “So when we shot it, I wanted to film somewhere that was really, really, really in the Amazon. Really, authentically off the grid. We scouted in the summer-time and went up the river for hours and hours and found this village where there was no electricity, no running water, grass huts. Ten people in a shack. And it looked incredible; it looked like a village from another time, so we asked if we could film there. But I was told that we have to tell them what a movie is because they have no idea. They’ve never seen one. They’ve never even seen a television. So they went back with a television and a generator and showed the village Cannibal Holocaust, which I couldn’t believe. And the villagers – thank god – thought it was a comedy. The funniest thing that they’d ever seen. And they wanted to play cannibals in the movie. So we had the entire village acting in the film. And they speak Quechua – which is like another language from another time.”

I don’t have much commentary, but I want you to pay close attention to the coded language he uses. You might think “this is inappropriate” or “this is rude” or “this is racially insensitive,” but let’s not beat around the bush. This is what white supremacy looks like in 2013 — the idea that a group of people not living by Western standards are automatically “primitive savages.”

The mere fact that he was taken in by an indigenous village, unharmed, and decided to turn around and portray the people who opened their home to him as cannibalistic savages is a disturbing effort to create colonial propaganda. The fact that he listened to a current language spoken by an existing people and called it “another language from another time” proves that he doesn’t view them as real, equal human beings, but as a concept to be exploited for a cheap film.

I’m done.

farahhhh:

imperfectwriting:

I went to the mall, and a little girl called me a terrorist. 

My name is Ela.  I am seventeen years old.  I am not Muslim, but my friend told me about her friend being discriminated against for wearing a hijab.  So I decided to see the discrimination firsthand to get a better understanding of what Muslim women go through. 

My friend and I pinned scarves around our heads, and then we went to the mall.  Normally, vendors try to get us to buy things and ask us to sample a snack.  Clerks usually ask us if we need help, tell us about sales, and smile at us.  Not today.  People, including vendors, clerks, and other shoppers, wouldn’t look at us.  They didn’t talk to us.  They acted like we didn’t exist.  They didn’t want to be caught staring at us, so they didn’t look at all. 

And then, in one store, a girl (who looked about four years old) asked her mom if my friend and I were terrorists.  She wasn’t trying to be mean or anything.  I don’t even think she could have grasped the idea of prejudice.  However, her mother’s response is one I can never forgive or forget.  The mother hushed her child, glared at me, and then took her daughter by the hand and led her out of the store. 

All that because I put a scarf on my head.  Just like that, a mother taught her little girl that being Muslim was evil.  It didn’t matter that I was a nice person.  All that mattered was that I looked different.  That little girl may grow up and teach her children the same thing. 

This experiment gave me a huge wakeup call.  It lasted for only a few hours, so I can’t even begin to imagine how much prejudice Muslim girls go through every day.  It reminded me of something that many people know but rarely remember: the women in hijabs are people, just like all those women out there who aren’t Muslim. 

People of Tumblr, please help me spread this message.  Treat Muslims, Jews, Christians, Buddhists, Hindus, Pagans, Taoists, etc., exactly the way you want to be treated, regardless of what they’re wearing or not wearing, no exceptions.  Reblog this.  Tell your friends.  I don’t know that the world will ever totally wipe out prejudice, but we can try, one blog at a time.  

this is so perfect in absolutely every single way.

samaralex:

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The Rain Room is a 100 square metre field of falling water which visitors are invited to walk into. Sensors detect where visitors are standing, and the rain stops around them, giving them an experience of how it might feel to control the rain.

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darksugarvenom:

Your wonderful Mitt Romney:

• laid off thousands of workers as head of the investment company Bain Capital.
• set up shell companies in the Cayman Islands and Bermuda to avoid U.S. taxes.
• calls Obama’s payroll tax cut that would save middle class/lower income families $1,500 a year “temporary little band aids.”
• plan for a “middle class tax cut” would provide zero benefits to 73.9 percent of the middle class.
• called for taxes on the poor, saying low-income Americans having no income tax liability is “a problem” that will “kill the country.”
• would repeal the Dodd-Frank bill, which regulates the risky practices that led to the 2008 crisis.
• said he wants to “get the federal government out of education”
• As governor,  vetoed a minimum wage increase to $8 an hour. 
• said he “cannot see that a Cabinet position would be justified” for an American Muslim.
•  opposes troop withdrawal from Iraq.
• said that catching bin Laden would be “insignificant” and it’s “not worth moving heaven and earth.”
• supports drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge.
• supports penalties for doctors who perform an abortion.
• would “absolutely” support a state constitutional amendment to define life as beginning at conception, which would restrict women’s right to an abortion.
• pledged to expand a Bush-Era policy of permitting doctors to deny women access to contraceptives.
• drafted a bill to exempt a religious group from nondiscrimination rules, allowing it to ban gay couples from adopting children.
• refused to condemn the booing of a gay soldier at a GOP debate.
• blamed pornography for the Virginia Tech shooting. (WTF?)
• first act as president would be to allow all states to opt out of health reform through executive action, which would be illegal.
• feels Americans’ pain because he’s “also unemployed.” Romney was worth $250 million in 2008.
• won’t release his tax returns.
• “loves” george bush
• thinks windows in airplanes should open
• believes that rapists should have parental rights over children resulting from the rape they committed.

So no, YOU do your research. If that last three, especially, don’t make you think Romney is a complete idiot, then you’re on some other shit.

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thethinkingdreamer:

When the dog is getting hit, she’s like, ‘Hey stop that. Stop. How about if I do it to you?’

But when the cat is getting hit, she’s like, ‘OH YES! MEEEEEOOOOOOW FUCKIN MEEEEOOOOOOOW’.

LOL mrow

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