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ihatemcu:

If you didn’t get the hint, I really, really hate MCU. I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade, but what Marvel has done is way too personal for me to be quiet. The one thing I will force upon you with all my heart, is my pure hatred of the Doctor Strange movie. I’m begging you, please boycott Doctor Strange.

What Marvel is doing with this film is inexcusable. I’m Tibetan, and I grew up in America as a child of refugees. My father was a fan of Marvel comics as a child, and one of his favorite stories was Doctor Strange’s, because of his connection to our homeland, Tibet. The Ancient One was a high Tibetan lama who taught Doctor Strange the art of magic. You might think Marvel’s only crime is whitewashing him, but its a lot worse then that. tl;dr Marvel blatantly turned the Ancient One into a white woman, as well as changed Doctor Strange’s original setting of Tibet to Nepal, in order to avoid any involvement with Tibet’s current politics (aka oppression) with Communist China. 

The reason my parents are refugees is because of the Chinese genocide of Tibetans. Tibet is a country occupied by China, and is one of the most oppressed countries in the world. You probably don’t know much about it because China’s position as a global superpower as well as the government’s complete control of media and news. There is no freedom of speech in all of China, therefore national censorship is extremely common and no one who isn’t involved really knows anything. China pretends that all Tibetans are happy and they really do not like anyone even mentioning the Tibet situation, especially outsiders. 

Marvel knows this, one of their main markets is their viewers in China. China has banned a lot of foreign films for long periods of time because of even slight implications of Tibetan oppression (ex: the Avatar the Last Airbender movie). Doctor Strange could get banned if they included Tibet, meaning millions lost. Why bother risking loosing money from China when you can just whitewash everything to cover it up? This is Marvel’s direct statement that they care more about money then human rights, and I’m honestly not surprised. This has always happened, and it will happen again. Literally no one gives a fuck about Tibetans, I’ve seen it happen all my life. Westerners and the Chinese government alike want to hide our oppression, hide our culture until it makes them money, and hide our millions of deaths and losses. If you do happen to be one of the few who do care, please, please, do not support this film and boycott Doctor Strange. 

artepen:

queen-rey-kenobi:

desiree-rodriguez:

afro-elf:

ztrek808:

artepen:

hennessyhuracan:

artepen:

when dr. strange flops:

Why do y’all want dr strange to flop? What I miss?

it’s racist! more at 11

Hold up, how??? I really need to know because I want to go see this movie but I’m not spending my money to go see it if it’s racist. Can someone explain?

1) b*nedict c*mberbatch

2) it’s a story heavily influenced by asian culture and there ain’t a damn asian in this shitshow but they are being used as part of the backdrop

3) the costumes are racist, like shyamalan’s the last airbender level racist

4) an explicitly tibetan character being played by a white english actress

For @ztrek808: 

• Another Day, Another White Guy at Marvel: Benedict Cumberbatch to play Dr. Strange

• Another Day, Another Whitewash: Tilda Swinton in Talks with Marvel to Play Asian Character in Dr. Strange

• Not Your Asian Ninja: How the Marvel Cinematic Universe Keeps Failing Asian-Americans 
• Hollywood’s Strange Erasure of Asian Characters

These help sum up some of Marvel’s overall problems with Asian characters and help outline how Dr. Strange contributes to racist stereotypes about East Asian peoples, cultural appropriation, and whitewashing. So far, in MCU the only decent Asian representation is on Agents of SHIELD where Daisy Johnson (a major character in the comics) isn’t acknowledged in the larger universe. Other than her and Melinda, Marvel’s Asian representation is truly reprehensible. 

Do not pay money to see this. Do not.

in honor of the shitterific trailer being released today, let’s bring back the receipts :)

shadesofmauve:

tinierpurplefishes:

shadesofmauve:

There’ve been two Xerox techs in my office all day, trying to figure out what the heck is up with our brand new printer and it’s print server. One of them, Incompetent Guy, is our usual service tech. The other one, poor dear, knows what he’s doing. Watching him attempt to keep his patience has been the highlight of my day.

Meanwhile, Incompetent Guy keeps asking me to send print jobs for his troubleshooting and then bringing the resulting prints to me as if I’m supposed to do something with them. Half of them are obviously screwed up and all of them are things he requested.

It feels rather like when the cats bring me half-dead rodents. 

He’s trying.

Is this also the guy you had the discussion with about hiding kittens and baby goats in the printer?

Nope, that was a different tech! I think nearly all the xerox tech and sales people have visited us in the past month.

That guy who thought the kittens and baby goats were funny but clammed up as soon as we started talking about hiding baby babies. Amusingly, the guy here last week thought hiding baby babies in the printer was a brilliant idea, and mentioned that when his kid had been little sometimes the only way to get her to go to sleep was to set her on the washing machine. :P

pacificnorthwestdoodles:

I would really, really like to no longer live in a world where educators keep food pantries in their classrooms because their students are food insecure.

I’d love for food insecurity to be a thing of the past. UNFORTUNATELY: Every single teacher I have ever worked for has a food/snack pantry in their classroom for students experiencing food insecurity.

One of the districts I work in gives away backpacks and bags full of food to food insecure and homeless students during the weekend because we know many kids don’t eat outside of school.

My parents and most of my other relatives work in education. They’ve been buying snacks OUT OF POCKET for their students for the past 40 years. I’m continuing this trend because apparently one of the schools I work in is too small to give breakfast to its students.

I can bring snacks easily because my landlord is a vendor at the farmers market and gives us boxes of ‘ugly’ fruit. The kids in my class get to eat after school because of this.

(Thank you, by the way! And a huge thanks to all of the other wonderful Olympia Farmers Market Vendors who have donated snacks to my class!)

I work in more than one school district. From the well funded to the underfunded.  Both have populations of students who are going hungry. However, most are in the underfunded school districts that have high rates of poverty.  Hungry kids are tired. They can’t focus. They can’t learn. Often times their ONLY meal is at school.  Their housholds are chronically food insecure with multiple adults working more than one job. Many area jobs don’t want to hire folks full time, which leaves adults to cobble together wages and employment from multiple part time sources that rarely give a steady schedule.

Food insecurity is a huge issue. It’s a BIG reason it’s part of my gardening curriculum.

Everyone should always have food. No one should be going hungry. The truth is, many people are every day.