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elle-nereid:

lovenerdeen:

Saudi student Talal al Rouki (pictured) was questioned by FBI agents after neighbours saw him carrying a pressure cooker. FBI are vigilant after Boston bombers used a pressure cooker to make an explosive.

“‘They asked me about my major, when I arrived in the US and what I do in my spare time’ he told the Saudi newspaper.

Officers said that two days earlier that a woman had seen him walking out of his apartment carrying the pressure cooker pot, which was described as ‘bullet coloured’.”

Who else saw this coming? I sure as hell did, still amazed at how the woman described the pot as “bullet colored” Next a Muslim wearing red lipstick will be called blood colored, a Muslim driving a black car would be grenade/gun colored, and anything green will be “Jihadi colored”. 

This is racism, racial profiling, and islamaphobia. Full stop. Nothing anyone says can change my mind about this issue. 

Who else saw this coming? I sure as hell did, still amazed at how the woman described the pot as “bullet colored” Next a Muslim wearing red lipstick will be called blood colored, a Muslim driving a black car would be grenade/gun colored, and anything green will be “Jihadi colored”. 

(^Included here because I didn’t want to bold and change the original) But those are my thoughts exactly. Why did she use such a violent word to describe the pot? The vast, vast majority of pots are silver, and she chooses to use that word of all? And lovenerdeen really made a good point about the rest, soon all these colors will be switched out for more violent sounding words. 

(via black-culture)

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1. White terrorists are called “gunmen.” What does that even mean? A person with a gun? Wouldn’t that be, like, everyone in the US? Other terrorists are called, like, “terrorists.”

2. White terrorists are “troubled loners.” Other terrorists are always suspected of being part of a global plot, even when they are obviously troubled loners.

3. Doing a study on the danger of white terrorists at the Department of Homeland Security will get you sidelined by angry white Congressmen. Doing studies on other kinds of terrorists is a guaranteed promotion.

4. The family of a white terrorist is interviewed, weeping as they wonder where he went wrong. The families of other terrorists are almost never interviewed.

5. White terrorists are part of a “fringe.” Other terrorists are apparently mainstream.

6. White terrorists are random events, like tornadoes. Other terrorists are long-running conspiracies.

7. White terrorists are never called “white.” But other terrorists are given ethnic affiliations.

8. Nobody thinks white terrorists are typical of white people. But other terrorists are considered paragons of their societies.

9. White terrorists are alcoholics, addicts or mentally ill. Other terrorists are apparently clean-living and perfectly sane.

10. There is nothing you can do about white terrorists. Gun control won’t stop them. No policy you could make, no government program, could possibly have an impact on them. But hundreds of billions of dollars must be spent on police and on the Department of Defense, and on TSA, which must virtually strip search 60 million people a year, to deal with other terrorists.

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Juan Cole, 08/09/2012

Juan Cole actually wrote this 4 days after a white terrorist, yes, terrorist, murdered 6 and injured 4 people at a Sikh gurdwara in Wisconsin. The terrorist who committed said crime spoke of an impending “racial holy war” beforehand and was a member of white supremacist/neo-Nazi hate groups.

(via sailorfemme)

Obviously white people deserve ALL THE SYMPATHIES.

(via thedollydamnllama)

(Source: juancole.com, via thokozane-tkzat)

Brilliant movies and antagonists

thokozane-tkzat:

A characteristic of a brilliant movie is that intrinsically, it will have you rooting for the antagonist

In American Psycho, the antagonist is the protagonist. It’s a quest to fight himself.

doctor-loki-holmes:

GREECE TO WIN

THAT IS MY PROFESSIONAL OPINION

Well we all know the UK isn’t going to win.

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andreii-tarkovsky:

Mysterious Skin