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prideandpen:

maneth985:

alltheladiesyouhate:

alltheladiesyouhate:

A teacher at my former high school has been suspended for drawing connections between Trump’s platform and historical fascist regimes so if you could maybe check out this petition that’s being sent to the principal that’d be coolio thnx

In Mr. Navarro’s words, “I feel strongly about this: to stand quiet in the face of bigotry and to turn your eyes away from it is to back up the bigotry, and that’s not what I, or any history teacher, should be doing in our work.”

and so it begins…before you know it, teachers will “go missing” for speaking out

onemuseleft:

geekdawson:

A thing about “The Safety Pin”:

An identifying marker like that is not symbolic. An identifying marker like that is to say to people who are regularly in REAL danger “I am safe. I will help you.” 

This is not a small thing you are undertaking. If you pin one on yourself, and a guy is harassing me in a bathroom, I am going to turn to you for back up. Please get yourself in a mental place for that possibility, this is not an abstract mark of solidarity. If you can’t do that, that’s ok, but then don’t wear the pin because I’ll suddenly be turning to someone who can’t help me. 

If you have never been in physical danger for living your life, understand that a lot of people have been. Get your head around the reality that they are now going to expect you to step up, they’ll be relying on you as a safety net. You are now in danger by association. That is brave and beautiful and I hope what you intend. Don’t mistake this thing for a symbol, it is not. It is a weapon you have drawn against the status quo.  

I have a scar on the back of my head from ten stitches and general weather ache in my ribs and lower back because I’m queer and trans and I’ve been beaten for that. If you want to stand in solidarity with me and mine….know what you are getting in to. Be mentally prepared for that. 

iammyfather:

evilelitest2:

If you are trying to find dirt on Trump to try to reveal him for the horrible person that he is, focus most of your energy on Pence.  Removing Trump will only lead pence to take more power, which is far more scary because he is far more in lockstep with his congress and will work with them much easier than Trump ever would.  If we could find some way to discredit Pence so much that it woudl force him to resign that would be ideal, because not only would Trump weaker, it would also force him and his congress to waste time selecting a new VP rather than passing horrible laws.  The goal of the next 2-4 years is to waste the GOP’s time long enough for the Democrats to get back into power. 

But if you find Dirt on Trump, try to make it before December 19th, its unlikely but might as well take a shot.  

The Nixon Strategy for you youngins.  Force the VP (Agnew) to resign and replaced him with Speaker Ford who was quite innocuous.  Then threatened to impeach the Pres, who in this case resigned, and was pardoned by new Prez and business moved forward.  Main problem is if Ryan hangs on to Speaker, if he would be a safer president than Trump.

cuddlemnstr:

i haven’t seen this on tumblr yet so i thought i would put it here. maybe you’ll laugh at me, maybe it’s futile, but it literally cannot hurt to try. it’s fast and easy. enter your zipcode and it spits out the letters that you can email with the simple click of a button. please. try anything. i know this could go viral.

nationalpopularvote.com 

link to RT on twitter

everypaneofglass:

kat2107:

v1als:

A quick note based on my post-Brexit experience in the UK – in the time period after the election, your biggest threat will not be Trump and his government. It will be your newly validated bigot neighbours. After Brexit, hate crime shot up by 60% in the UK nearly overnight and it still hasn’t returned to its pre-Brexit level. I imagine the same will happen in America. Be careful. No matter who they are, Trump voters are not your friends. Be safe. Your biggest enemy right now is the neighbour you went to church with and the people you pass on the street every day. Lock down. Go to ground if you have to. Look out for one another. Please, be careful.

THIS is what you can do tight now if you are white and desperate in America right now: 

– Cook your Latino, Black, Native, LGBT, Muslim and Asian neighbours a casserole tonight. I can assure you, they are much more afraid than you today and maybe they should not get out of the house. 

– Offer to take them or their kids wherever they need to go when they have appointments and maybe school.

– Go over and say hi, say: I know you are scared. How can I help you?

– If you see a woman wearing a hijab on the subway, sit next to her and smile.

– If you see a man wearing a turban, a kippah do the same. 

– Watch out for your kids non-white class mates. 

– If you see someone hollering racist shit at another person in the streets and it feels relatively safe. CALL THEM OUT ON IT.

It is not that more people suddenly are racist. But many people suddenly feel validated and allowed to abuse others. Those people? Are cowards! As soon as someone stands up to them, they shrink back into their little holes!

RACISM IS A PLANT THAT GROWS IN FERTILE DIRT. 

iF YOU NIP IT IN THE BUD OFTEN TIMES IT WILL WITHER AWAY. 

Wehret den Anfängen! 

I was actually coming home to make a post about this very thing this morning.  Possibly the worst thing about Trump’s election is that it has legitimized and normalized the bigotry and hatred he built his campaign around.  People who supported him did so because they supported those ideas and now, with his election, those ideas have been validated.

While that’s absolutely going to lead to a lot of overt violence, you’d better believe that it’s going to lead to even more lowkey bigotry.  People are going to be testing these waters, seeing how much bigotry they can get away with out in the open.  That’s why, in addition to the things above, it’s more important than ever to push back against that kind of lowkey hate when you hear it.  

In your home, in your school, in your workplace, in your “friendly” spaces, people are trying to find out “who’s with me”, they’re trying to figure out “us” and “them” and that’s how they’re going to do it.  By saying things and seeing who agrees, who pushes back, who stays silent. I know it’s so hard to stand up to people you like, people who you want to like you, people you have to spend time with pretty much every day whether you like each other or not.  I know it is, but I can’t stress enough how important it is right now to not let bigotry go unchallenged.  Be smart about it and keep yourself safe, but please please please stand up if there’s any way you can.

A thing which has apparently been happening in Britain (which I can’t vouch for as I’m not there anymore) that is potentially useful is that people who support people who are immigrants/muslims/people other than cis-white-het are wearing a safety pin on their clothing / bag / backpacks to indicate that they are a person who can be trusted and gone to in the event of problems.