Here’s a thought, maybe people’s growing irreverence for 9/11 is because it was a long time ago and younger generations weren’t as affected by it, or maybe they are so sick of the way it has been basically commercialised by politicians and used as a device to justify incalculable pain and they are tired of it being cynically trotted out every year and told to never forget while every year they are also told to all but ignore mass shootings and US humanitarian crimes.
And like, I dunno, maybe it isn’t about disrespecting those who died but refusing, for any number of reasons, to be a part of the governmental hallmark industry that has built up around it.
I take students to see the 9/11 memorial all the time. More and more of the students I get were either so young or not even born yet.
And every time, I ask them, what do you think? What are you feeling? And many of them are hesitant to respond so I’ll prompt, “Was it sad? Was it boring?” And as soon as they know I’m not gonna judge them for it, 100% of the time, they respond, “I feel bad that I don’t feel as moved by it as you. You cried when you told us about it and I get that it was such a horrible day and so many people died, but I can’t really think of what life was like before or just after that time.”
That really struck me the first time I heard it because these kids really don’t remember a time when things were so carefree and relatively quiet. Little to no security screenings. Almost zero school shootings. Kids stayed outside by themselves until the street lamps came on.
Because they grew up in a post-9/11 society, all they’ve ever known is mass violence and distrust of everything. Kids expect a plane to crash into a building, a truck bomb to go off at a big event, a student shooting up a school. And they’ve just got to deal with it and keep moving on or they won’t survive.
The
Trump administration is unable to account for the whereabouts of nearly
1,500 migrant children who illegally entered the United States alone
this year and were placed with sponsors after leaving federal shelters,
according to congressional findings released on Tuesday.
The
inability to track the whereabouts of migrant children after they have
been released to sponsors has raised concerns that they could end up
with human traffickers or be used as laborers by people posing as
relatives.
Currently, the
Department of Health and Human Services calls sponsors to check on the
children 30 days after they are placed. It also says that it is not
legally responsible for the children after they’re placed.
The
findings were accompanied by legislation introduced on Tuesday by
Republican and Democrat senators to clarify the department’s
responsibility for ensuring the safety of migrant children.
The
legislation would require HHS to run background checks on sponsors and
notify state governments before placing a child with a sponsor. HHS
would also have to make sure that sponsors care for the children
properly and appear at their immigration hearings. Interestingly, it
would also increase the number of immigration judges.
Edit: The article mentions there are records of migrant children being forced to work on an egg farm in Marion, Ohio. In June 2016, Aroldo Castillo-Serrano was sentenced to 15 years in prison for trafficking children to work on his farm.
He falsely promised them good jobs and a chance to go to school, then
had them work 12 hours a day, 6-7 days a week on his farm for as little as $20 per week. They had to live in dilapidated trailers on the farm, sometimes with no heat or running water.
This is human trafficking by a government. This is human rights violation.
Figured that out when the videos came out of little girls being smuggled, hooded, into private cars at 1am.
We are going to have a geberation.of children who are going to come back and bite you in the ass an as adults will not let any history book any conservative need channel or any narrowminded person forget what America has done. Don’t fucking forget it .
Once we stop denying colorism, address it on it’s head, and stop dismissing dark skin individuals especially dark skin women who vent about the affects of colorism this stuff can stop happening.
The thing that’s so disgusting about the murders of Trayvon Martin, Mike Brown, Sean Bell etc (a very long list) is that it’s not like we’re trying to figure out who killed them. We know perfectly well. We’re just trying to figure out if that black kid deserved to die. Their humanity is put on trial, like being a person wasn’t enough. Black people literally have to prove that we’re worthy of living.
another reminder that white supremacy and capitalism are intrinsically linked
“I mean, we built the database systems the nazis used to organize their death camps to run efficiently, but surely this time constructing a racialized database for an increasingly violent police state will have no negative consequences for anybody, you guys!”
I realized that the only people who truly get offended by Cultural Appropriation are Americans. Ask a Jamaican if you can wear dreadlocks and they’ll most likely say they don’t care. Go to Japan wearing a Kimono and no one will be offended. Please remember that these people have voices too and can speak for themselves. You the SJW may be well meaning, but you getting offended for these people is incredibly patronizing to them because you are speaking for them. They don’t need that, they can speak for themselves. Remember that.
“I realized that the only people who truly get offended by Cultural Appropriation are Americansoppressed people living in America.”
Fixed that for you.
The fact that the people complaining are American doesn’t invalidate their complaints. They are complaining BECAUSE they are American, and when America isn’t trying to steal their culture, it treats them like shit.
Of course Jamaicans don’t care if you ware dreadlocks in Jamaica. In Jamaica, a black guy with dreadlocks is your next door neighbor, the guy at the beach, your taxi driver. In America, a black guy with dreadlocks is “a thug,” “a criminal,” someone you cross the street to avoid walking past.
But then a WHITE person wears dreadlocks…lord almighty, they look so cool, they’re so exotic, it’s so fresh and exciting.
Of course they don’t mind if you wear a kimono in Japan. It’s common there. It’s part of the dominant culture, the one in power. A Japanese woman wears a kimono and she’s not particularly out of place. But a Japanese woman wears a kimono in America, and she’s doe-eyed, passive, submissive, gives a boy that “yellow fever.”
But then a WHITE person wears a kimono…it’s so cool, so exotic, they’re so cultured, isn’t it wonderful how good their tastes are?
Let people in other countries speak for themselves in those countries.
Let cultures in America speak for THEMselves in America.
You have to take an immense logical turd to call minorities in America “patronizing” and telling them other cultures can “speak for themselves,” while DIRECTLY talking over them and trying to explain—with shitty, small-minded, poorly-thought-out arguments—why they need to shut up and listen to you, another fucking white guy.
When I was younger, I didn’t want to wear my hanbok to school because I was afraid I would get made fun of. I was ashamed to take part in and learn about my birth culture because I felt it was othering, that it was distancing myself from my peers. I was constantly stereotyped and treated differently because I am Asian. I didn’t want to stand out, but I didn’t have a choice.
At the end of the day, white people can shed whatever culture they’ve taken from, but I still remain Korean. And I still exist in a place where people make fun of Asian accents, where the standards of beauty favor white women and not people like me with “squinty eyes” and round faces, where I, a person and not an object, am considered “exotic” and am highly fetishized.
So yes, it is incredibly insulting that white people treat my birth culture like a costume while simultaneously degrading the people who created it.
How CNN manipulates its audience/narrative by cropping images.
Bitch the government is literally putting kids in cages nobody gives two dicks if these prisons put Ferdinand on in the background to disguise the fact that these children are going through hell.
those kids could be in a fucking mansion and it would still be horrible because they’ve been stolen from their fucking parents you jackass if someone lures your kid into a van with candy it doesn’t fucking matter if it’s really good candy or a very well-maintained van it’s still kidnapping
“it isn’t as bad as it feasibly could be” or “they’re not locked in a torture dungeon on a skull-shaped volcano island” shouldn’t be your standard here
These women must not get away with it. Here’s the link to the article.
Spread it like wildfire!
I am learning from this. I am not aware of ever doing this thing, the “cry to win” strategy, but now I’m aware it’s a thing, I can try and stop it.
By the way, to people who know more than me, is trying to be a “ally” a good thing, or should I stop trying to play white saviour and keep myself to myself?
wupacing 