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Hey I know this is weird to send but I'm starting to worry this isn't getting enough attention. Net neutrality is on the chopping block again - it appears the meeting where the vote happens is May 18th. Repub majority committee is voting - It looks very likely they will start dismantling the classification we won and the FCC's ability to regulate in the future. Apparently I can't link articles in asks, buuuuuut the news broke yesterday so it should be easy to verify.
I’ve been flogging this on Twitter as much as I can. I’m glad you brought it up.
https://www.indivisibleguide.com/ is the very best resource you can use to organize and fight back against all of the radicalism and lawlessness of this administration.
For this issue, specifically, I recommend this Take Action page from EFF, and also make a call using this guide from r/technology:
Calls and messages are more effective than e-mail.
Please take 2 minutes to call the FCC at 1-888-225-5322. Once connected, the following will get you to an agent; press 1 then 4, then 2, and finally 0 to get to an agent.
Hour to speak to an agent are 8-5pm EASTERN. Leaving a message appears to not be an option, the line disconnects. It took me 2 minutes and 3 seconds to call and have my opinions logged.
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I got into an argument with someone because they were being mean about the Bill Nye gender episode and tried to say that there are only two genders what should I do
In my experience, someone who makes that argument is either ignorant (meaning they aren’t aware of current research as it evolves) or they’re just a bigot who doesn’t want to let a person be who they are. I don’t understand why another person’s gender identity is in any way threatening to anyone else, and I can’t help but feel like someone who freaks out when they encounter a transperson is just insecure about themselves.
I don’t think gender is a big deal, which is very easy for me to say because I’m a cis white hetro male, and I get the luxury of not having people threaten or attempt to minimize my basic existence. Because it’s not something I have to think about, I don’t have a good answer for you. I hope that someone who is not a cis white hetero male can answer you, because I would also like to know how I can be the best ally I can be.
Until then, though: I think it’s important to treat people with kindness and compassion, until they give you a reason not to. A person’s gender is, as far as I am concerned, not my business to judge or even care about.
Is this helpful at all? I feel like maybe it isn’t helpful.
The confusion is over this meme which is an outright fabrication:
@wilwheaton It became popular after being circulated on alt-ri– i mean Neo Nazi circles. I went and checked out the Bill Nye the Science Guy episode on genes where the left image is from, which you may find on Vimeo. Gender is not discussed once within the entire episode.
I know that the Deplorables lied about what Bill did on the show, and the Stupidsphere picked up the lie and ran with it like they always do.
The question I’m hoping someone who is more qualified than me will answer is: what’s the best way to be the best ally I can be? How can I use my privilege to help make life easier for my trans brothers and sisters?
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6th-grader Xavier Davis was threatened with suspension all because of his haircut
- If you saw a picture of sixth-grader Xavier Davis’ hair, you probably wouldn’t understand what all the fuss is about.
- At first glance, it looks like many other young boy’s haircuts, but with two razor cuts in the side. It’s a popular style worn by celebrities, including soccer star Cristiano Ronaldo.
- But when Xavier arrived at Cedar Bayou Junior High School in Baytown, Texas, on April 20, he was told: Fix your hair or face suspension.
- “I was walking into class, and then she saw my hair and said, ‘You can’t have two lines in your hair. Go to the office,’” Xavier told Houston-area TV station KPRC.
- It wasn’t that Xavier had razor cuts in his hair. It was that he had two. Those two tiny lines are what led to threats of suspension. Read more (4/27/17 10 AM)
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Jesus Christ. STOP BEING SO FUCKING RACIST, AMERICA.
EDIT TO ADD: I didn’t realize this was Texas, but of course it’s Texas. Please keep fighting and don’t let up, Good People of Texas. I know the good people are really close to outnumbering the shitty people in Texas. I salute those of you who are fighting to end shit like this.
- If you saw a picture of sixth-grader Xavier Davis’ hair, you probably wouldn’t understand what all the fuss is about.
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The streets of NYC are safer today because this porcine police officer is on the beat. He’s “New York’s Swinest” and he’s ready to save the city’s bacon.
Actually he’s just a really cute little pet pig who was out for a stroll on a bright red leash while wearing a teeny-tiny police uniform, complete with his very own badge. When the pig and his human passed a pair of human police, the officers were so taken with the littlest copper that they posed for photos with him.
[via the New York Post and NBC New York]
(via wilwheaton)
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Everyone got cool, majestic patronuses like stallions and eagles. I got Giant Hairy Dog.
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this still cracks me up like can you imagine you’re 130 years old and suddenly a gigantic alien baby starts following you around
(via wilwheaton)
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Trump started an anti-immigrant hotline. People are trolling it with tales of aliens.
- On Wednesday, Trump administration launched the Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement Office.
- With the launch of VOICE also came the opening of VOICE’s official hotline, which fields calls from those who allege they are the victim of a crime carried out by a immigrant.
- According to BuzzFeed, since the hotline’s launch, the phone lines have been tied up with calls about undocumented aliens — from outer space.
- Given that the launch of the hotline coincided with Alien Day, people put two and two together and launched a plan to inundate the hotline with stories of alien abductions. Read more (4/27/17 10 AM)
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I love how activists are fucking with this supremely racist idea.
Don’t forget that the Nazis set up similar programs encouraging people to report alleged crimes by Jews.
Trump is a fucking racist and a vulgar affront to everything that is good about America.(via wilwheaton)
- On Wednesday, Trump administration launched the Victims of Immigrant Crime Engagement Office.
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A New Hampshire Republican State Representative anonymously created the “Red Pill” subreddit.
Wow.
these aren’t just bullshitter dweebs in their mom’s basements trolling the internet, these are men who formulate the way we implement laws and who govern the way we live our lives.^^^ Hello, yes, everyone needs to see this. It’s not always a bunch of nobodies trolling around on 4chan. It’s, doctors, lawyers, judges, businessmen, bankers, law enforcement, etc. People who have pulls on society. They literally don’t see other groups besides themselves as human or equal
…holy shit like this is bad really really bad but so much clearly so if you’ve ever read the scum that floats to the top of the Red Pill. Like basically he was just outed as the creator of a neo-nazi misogynist pro-rape forum explicitly to recruit online loners and groom them like it’s EVERYTHING we’ve been saying these people do but this is like, the hive.
For the anon asking why not trust red pill guys
Fuck Conservatives
Fun fact: the Red Pill was 90% of the reason I left reddit. I think it’s important everyone understands why, without having to subject yourselves to actually looking at the subreddit.
The Red Pill is a confluence of gross misogyny, rape culture, and vile social darwinism, all tied up under the banner of it being the “truth” behind some grand lie that is PC culture; that is to say, taking the red pill to withdraw yourself from the Matrix, a metaphor nearly as dated as the ideals they espouse.
If you think I’m exaggerating, I’m not. I spent nearly two years on reddit before toxic bullshit like this drove me out. These people build an elaborate construct about treating women like property and sexualizing children because ~evolution~ programmed them to like it, and ~evolution~ can’t possibly be wrong, as though club-wielding Neanderthal brutes are something to aspire to and not something we left behind millennia ago.
They’ve created an incredibly detailed fantasy about how women are evolutionarily predisposed to react to certain behaviors of “alpha males” (another false equivalence; the theory of the alpha male comes from a since-disproved theory about wolf behavior), and how the trick to success in sex is about taking on these characteristics which, spoiler alert, explicitly encourage treating women like garbage.
I cannot overstate how incredibly toxic the Red Pill is and how disgustingly large the community became by the time I left reddit. I wish I could say I was surprised that a Republican senator founded it, but this is the kind of shit they’ve been legislating for years.
(via wilwheaton)
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