I was reading a book (about interjections, oddly enough) yesterday which included the phrase “In these days of political correctness…” talking about no longer making jokes that denigrated people for their culture or for the colour of their skin. And I thought, “That’s not actually anything to do with ‘political correctness’. That’s just treating other people with respect.”
Which made me oddly happy. I started imagining a world in which we replaced the phrase “politically correct” wherever we could with “treating other people with respect”, and it made me smile.
You should try it. It’s peculiarly enlightening.
I know what you’re thinking now. You’re thinking “Oh my god, that’s treating other people with respect gone mad!”
Matthew Hodson:
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20 years ago, 2 years after the arrival of combination therapy that effectively treated #HIV, the Bay Area Reporter, San Francisco’s LGBT newspaper ran ‘No Obits’ as its headline.
It was the first edition not to report an AIDS death in almost 15 years.”
Y’all need to appreciate that this was practically fucking *yesterday*.
Black Friday is over and my manager slapped me with $10,000
reblog the money gamestop to get beat over the head with cash
When I watched Friends as a kid (I was around 8~9 years old), Ross was my least favorite bc I didn’t find him as funny as the others, and rewatching it now on my 20’s makes me wanna maim that fucker.
the most recent ep of the good place had tahani in a dress which showed prominent stretch marks and it made me so happy and here’s jameelas pov making me even happier !
[Jameela is a trans postitive feminist, TERFS don’t interact]
Hard to swallow pills: the jedi need their new padawans to be very young/Anakin is deemed “too old” for jedi training because the younger they are/the earlier they are taken from their families, the easier it is to brainwash them and have them never question their orders.
Point in case, Ahsoka and Anakin didn’t “not care at all for clone lives”, they simply were raised by adults that taught them that fighting and dying was all they were made for. Anyone forced into a religion full of absolute truths know how insidious these teachings can be.
I’m not saying all jedi raised in the order was innocent. They’re complicit in the clones’ enslavement, and they should think for themselves. Still, their brainwashing should be accounted for.
Obi-Wan, was 35 years old when he stumbled upon the clone army and decided (along with the council) to use those human men in their war. Mace was 50. Yoda was 874.
Ahsoka was a baby/toddler when she was taken by the Jedi, and 14 during the clone wars, and all the adults around her were a-okay with using the clones.
The clones, also victim of brainwashing themselves, would also affirm to everyone around them that they were proud to serve under the Jedi.
The adults from the Jedi order (especially the older members of the council) should be held accountable to a much higher degree than Ahsoka.
She was a teenager. The order stole her from her family and culture; they had her trained to fight and kill, they manipulated her and they abandoned her when she needed them the most.
Sorry, I’m not done talking about those old fucks. Y’know the “no relationships, no sex, no attachments rule”? It doesn’t have jack shit to do with one’s power/force sensitive/degree as a force-wielder.
It’s about cutting off the person’s relationship to anyone outside the temple.
Yeah, like abusers do to their partners when they cut them off from family/friends or anybody that might tell them that “hey just a thought, not everybody gets hit by their spouse. I hate to tell you this, but they’re abusing you”.
The more isolated a victim is, the easier it is to abuse, gaslight and manipulate them. They have no alternate point of view but their abuser absolute truths. They’re trapped in the abuser’s reality.
Think about Obi-Wan and Satine, or Anakin and Padmé. Both these women had issues with the Jedi order – Satine called Obi-Wan out on the conflict of his status as a peacekeeper and his duty as a general of the republic; Padmé was adamantly against the war and it’s costs. Both wanted to reach compromises, to invest in culture rather than war. Their differences with Obi-Wan and Anakin might’ve lead into interesting debates.
Debates that the Jedi order did not want their members to have, ever.
Anakin was 100% ready to pack his shit and leave to be a stay-at-home dad if it wasn’t for all that “chosen one” talk. Obi-Wan canonically said that “had [satine] said the word, I would’ve left the Jedi order.”
But the Jedi laws forced them to either cut these relationships off (obi-wan) or to be destroyed trying to keep them (anakin). Why?
Because a Jedi’s place is in the temple. Worshipping their only deity (the force) and following their strict laws to the letter and taking the council’s words like absolute truths.
Force forbid them to “go out and see the world”. Next thing you know they’ll be signing petitions for clones human rights, aiding worlds like mandalore in their own particular business or even (gasp)..
Even realizing that the awful way the bad, bad Sith take force-sensitive children from their parents never to let them see each other again and mercilessly train them to fight from infancy is the same thing the soft-spoken Jedi do.
So they build their tall walls, and they seclude the babies and children they gently kidnapped in their classrooms and their librabries where so many books are forbidden.
By the time they become tweens/teenagers, they already barely have minds of their own. Then they’re send out to fight and die for the Order. They have nothing outside of there. The thought of leaving is terrifying. They’re entirely cut off.
As a final thought: Palpatine’s sneer and the lightining he would hurt Darth Maul with and Obi-Wan’s sharp tone as he would scold Anakin for any display of affection are both forms of abuse.
Sometimes the smiling abuser is even more scary than the angry, screaming one because no one would guess they’re an abuser.
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