Compassion and wisdom are the two wings of the spiritual life. Without one or the other there will be no liberation from suffering. No truly lasting peace. Which is our goal. A sustainable future for each individual and the world as a whole. It's time to follow your heart and do and live as you feel is right. Let's take back the reigns on our lives and live in accordance with all that is true. In love. In peace. In wisdom.
In regards to my race I am white. This is not a colorblind blog, race is integral to the discussion. Intersectional awareness is of utmost importance to the dialogue.
What is patriotism? Is it loyalty to a spot on a map, marked off from others spots by blue or yellow lines, the spot where one was born? But birth is a pure accident; surely one is in no way responsible for having been born on this spot or on that … Does patriotism mean loyalty to a political system and its institutions, constitutional, autocratic, republican or whatnot? But if history has made anything unmistakably clear, it is that from the standpoint of the individual and his welfare, these are no more than names.
I strongly dislike this idea that progression in countries is measured by their imitation of western society.
The world is divided politically, but ecologically it is tightly interwoven. There are no useless threads in the fabric of the ecosystem.
—Carl Sagan, Cosmos Episode 4, Heaven and Hell (via perscientiamlibertas)
In the past few days, there have been at least 162 Islamophobic hate attacks in the UK, and nine mosques have been targeted with kives, petrol bombs and graffiti. That’s a 900% increase, according to the tracking group Tell Mama UK. Petrol-bomb attacks on mosques are not reported as terrorism, and nor are individual acts of anti-Muslim violence; we are expected to understand this quasi-organised campaign of fear as something else, as a ‘backlash’.
Hey first world dipshits:
- Third Worlders have internet
- Third Worlders have running water
- Third Worlders know what punk rock is
- Third Worlders aren’t cavemen
- Third Worlders can have “first world problems”
- Third Worlders are tried of being treated like we are primitive
(Source: shadowmaggotmaster)
Cultures where rape is a joke are cultures that foster rape.
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Amy Richlin, The Garden of Priapus: Sexuality and Aggression in Roman Humor (via brute-reason)
They don’t hear you, though.
(via sonofbaldwin)
That’s why we have to keep pointing it out, so it can and will be heard.
(via feminist-space)
We are told ‘if you work hard, you’ll succeed’-but if that were true, black people would own this country.
—Stokely Carmichael (via thechanelmuse)
(Source: elegantly-tasteless)
Muslims make up just 6% of the population of Europe, and have consistently committed less than 0.5% of the terrorist attacks over the last 5 years. Much is still unknown about the attackers, yet already there has been a widespread consensus that this is the result of Islamic extremism. Today all Muslims in Britain are being blamed for the actions of two men. Particularly shocking was the BBC’s Nick Robinson rushing to say the men were of “Muslim appearance”, and the reporter on ITV news describes it as the “day that Baghdad style violence came to South London.”
The media’s repeated scapegoating of the Muslim population and its continual ‘clash of civilisations’ narrative must be challenged. It is time we recognise and fight against the distorted depictions of Muslims we see every day in the media. When a Muslim murders a white man it is denounced as terrorism and considered worthy of rolling news coverage but when a Muslim is killed in a racist attack, like the one on 75 year-old Mohammed Saleem in Birmingham earlier this month, it is treated as a one-off murder and largely ignored. These blatant double standards are not acceptable.
Calling out racism and sexism puts you in more of a position of danger or dislike than being racist and sexist. How is that ok?
