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Okay I was simply scrolling because Sri Lanka is fucking trending but as usual international media is exoticizing our struggles and focusing on the “people swimming in the president’s pool” instead of informing the world about why an entire fucking country (amidst an economic collapse) stormed to Colombo and asked the president to step down.
First things first. Know the context.
There is an economic crisis going on in Sri Lanka. We have declared bankruptcy.
I’ve already made a post about what this means for the country. This means high inflation. No electricity. Prices are sky rocketing.
No fuel. I repeat. No fuel. People are fucking dying in queues.
But even without fuel, people came to Colombo. People fucking walked to Colombo for miles and miles to join the protest.
There were attempts to stop the protest. We have the right for assembly. We have the right to freedom of expression. But no. The government stopped fuel dispense (as if we had fuel lol) to stop people. They imposed an unconstitutional “police curfew” to stop the protest. Why is no one talking about this shit??
But people still came. I don’t see the international media reporting about the effort and energy and passion that went into this.
We built a city. Do you fucking know that? We built a city called “GotaGoGama” (loosely translates to: Gota-Go-Home-Ville). We built a city months ago since the country collapsed.
Recap of May 09th when GotaGoGama was attacked by Mahinda Rajapaksha (then PM) and his goons.
I repeat. The protest on 09th July is not the first.
We’ve been asked the president to step down so more competent people can take over and do something to help us. This protest yesterday was not new. It’s not random. It’s an act of people giving up. The storming of the presidential palace is not anger. It’s taking back of power.
As for the swimming pools? And People making fun of the protestors for working out in the president’s gym, eating the food in his kitchen and swimming in his pool?
What about this?
For people making fun of the youth who are taking a dip at the swimming pool or playing the piano at the president’s house…For those are the condemning the ‘protestors’ who set the PM’s house on fire (we still have no visual proof this happened) - all I have to say is this:
THIS -
These leaders we asked to step down today (who still haven’t btw. No. Not yet. Nothing official yet), they are corrupt beyond compare. The president had “said” he “will” step down not he 13th. But we don’t know anything yet.
These are people who not only brought the country to economic collapse. But the Rajapaskhas are responsible for millions of lives that were lost during the civil war. These are people who have taken from my country until there is nothing more for us to give.
I’m really grateful that you are all finally “talking about us”. I’m glad the international media and the whole world is finally watching. But your view is narrow. It is is short sighted.
International media. People of the world.
Do better.
Do fucking better.
Because we, Sri Lankans, are doing our fucking best right now.
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sri lankan protestors throwing a pool party at their president’s house? good for them love this energy
#just wanted to point out as someone from Sri Lanka that the only people who can do this sort of stuff is the majority in Sri Lanka#if Tamil or Muslim people did this phewww the consequences would be shit#not to mention if women went around bathing society would shit on the#so the only people who can do these sort of things is men neglecting their families#Sinhalese men* because they most likely won’t be punished as much as a Tamil or Muslim man if they did the same thing#so it’s similar to the capitol raid in that way but I’m assuming it’s less violent#hopefully these guys are subtly ruining things tho cause that shit head deserves no home
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Calling all Umis! Team UmiZOOMI! My son LOVES to watch Team Umizoomi. I’ve become quite familiar with all the characters and wanted to draw them. I made up an alternate future in which the team of tiny superheroes are forced to grow due to the threat of the gizmo army that rises up to destroy Umi City. THIS IS WHAT I DO WHEN IM SICK
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I'm bisexual which means I have both the limp wrist condition and the I'm gonna lift all those chairs by myself if it kills me syndrome
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You know, I keep seeing all these posts going around lately about “being a daughter” that, frankly, as an eldest daughter myself, I find… Pretty horrifying?
I want to make something very clear: Being a daughter is not inherently a tragedy. If your parents treat you like shit and try to convince you that’s just how life is for girls, if your mom treats you as a therapist, if your mom never apologizes when she mistreats you, if you’re “inheriting” your mom’s trauma, those are signs of abuse. You may have been manipulated into believing they are normal, whether intentionally or not, and it’s likely that both you and your parents should seek therapy.
I promise you, those things are not normal, and you should not stand for them. Demand better for yourself! And most importantly, stop talking as if these are normal things. For every post about the “tragedy” of “being a daughter”, there is likely a girl out there who will think “Well, I guess the way my parents treat me is normal and ok, then,” and continue on believing that the abuse she suffers is normal or even justified.
Instead of telling victims of abuse that this is just the fate they’re doomed to, we need to make it clear that what they’re going through is not normal, not ok, and that they can and should fight for better lives for themselves.
If you truly find yourself relating to many of those “daughter trauma” posts, I’m so sorry you had that experience. Please know that it’s not normal, it’s not your fault, and if you need to please seek help. Women are not a tragedy- Your mom just sucks ass, and that’s on her, not humanity.
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I thought that you might miss emotions and fairy tales. I brought you emotions and fairy tales.
Guys from the timeline of my book (+ some years to the canon). Red-haired Gee plays for the Harpies, George is learning to smile again, Charlie left his dragon skin jacket on the chair and stayed in his shirt, and Pansy the cat thinks what she had forgotten in this picture with Weasley.
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my mother just exposed me and my roommate and my roommate’s severely ill (wagner’s and cancer) father to covid-19. she walked into our home and then told us that my sister, who she’s been living with, and her friend tested positive. if u have anything to spare pls donate so we can get groceries and deliveries etc while we quarantine.
c: $literaltortoise / $katmoneyhoney
v: @literaltortoise / @inola-Wood-65
(3/2 edit: more information for anyone who might want it.)
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Anonymous asked:
the only type of edits I think are weird are the ones where the poster specifies that the character is just not Japanese anymore cause what actual reason do you have to do that??? though fyi Japan *does* have groups native to japan in case u didn’t know
yes but you don’t specifically call them japanese. You call them japanese in that they are native to the island of japan but their ethnic name isn’t “japanese” it’s Emishi or Ainu or Ryukuan or Yayoi or Jomon and so on.
The people you think of you think of when you think of “Japanese” generally are ethnically the Yamato who make up 89% of the country. Other ethnicities are still Japanese - be they mixed or born to Japanese parents or foreign parents born in Japan.
Just like how the stereotypical appearance of Chinese is the Han who make up 98% of the populous. This is an intentional over simplification but you don’t have to be Yamato to be Japanese. There are thousands of Black, Peruvian, American, Brazilian, Japanese people.
I plea for people both in fandom and in real life to recognize the difference between ethnicity and nationality. It’s messy but that’s what’s so amazing about it.
All of these people are Japanese.
so it makes me so angry when editing a Japanese character to have a difficult skin tone is bashed. You’re not erasing them being japanese, you’re showing the expanse of the definition of Japanese. Same goes with ANY character.
Ethnicity and Nationality are fluid concepts. Denial and erasure are harmful to that. That’s why “whitewashing” is offensive but other forms of racial/ethnic washing are nonexistent.
White is not an ethnicity. Practically every other label is. Black can encompass ethnicity. Asian can. Latino can. White can’t. That’s why there’s no such thing as white pride.
There can be Nordic Pride, Gaelic Pride, Italian Pride etc. Bc those encompass ethnicities. “White” doesn’t.
And I get it. That’s a lot to make sense out of. Especially on a post that just started as an excuse for nerdy anime edits.
I’m just asking people to try.
That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
