In light of the recent attack upon an elderly Muslim gentleman in India, who was assaulted by Hindu extremist sanghis on a train for carrying beef, here are more essays to read, demonstrating how the concept of "pure vegetarianism" in India cannot be separated from ideas of caste hierarchy, oppression of marginalized groups and how foods and diets of different groups are shaped as much by economic disparities as by belief and spirituality:
Note: I know this shall breach containment soon but yeah, white vegans, "pure" vegetarians, and sanghis don't touch this post.
i think about this at least five times a day
source: nottheworstmom on IG
Yeah, these would do numbers at the ren faire. I'm giggling about how her boobs come in like the nose of the star destroyer in A New Hope
I don't know how people came to think that "the banality of evil" means "evil people are people too".
That's also true but it's not what the banality of evil means.
The term was coined by Hannah Arendt in her report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the architect of the "final solution" in the Holocaust.
It describes the way in which the Nazis at large and Eichmann in particular have turned the horrendous act of mass murder into just another job, disconnecting themselves morally and emotionally from their actions.
Before the death camps and gas chambers, Nazi soldiers simply shot Jews into mass graves by the hundreds of thousands. It was a lot cheaper and faster, but it caused great psychological distress for the murderers who pulled the trigger.
The leadership's solution was a massively upscaled version of the "gas vans" they used to mass murder hundreds of thousands of Germans with disabilities and mental health issues.
Shooting bound civilians in point blank range over and over is something you can't just pretend you're not doing or is no big deal. But if you're just the guy who sorts people into groups. Or just the guy that funnels them into a room. Or just the guy who opens a cannister on the roof. It's much easier to distance yourself from what you know is happening.
The same principle applies to much lesser evils, like soldiers operating drones from a distance, or insurance workers denying coverage for life-saving treatment.
FELIX & HYUNJIN for COSMOPOLITAN
Rihanna in 2005 ・゚゚・。☆
“why do you have a gap in your resume” idk why is there a gap in your staff. worry about that
Good Girl and Other Yearnings, Isabelle Correa
i need yall to know that the whole “dildos/strap-ons are nothing like penises” debate was started by terfs. a couple decades ago, it was totally switched around — the common terf opinion was that lesbians shouldn’t use dildos or strap-ons BECAUSE they’re penis simulacra. like, you can even find old Dykes To Watch Out For strips about Bechdel’s self-insert Mo beiung dumbstruck over the fact that other lesbians use strap-ons. As soon as it was obvious that straps and dildos are here to stay in the cultural lesbian zeitgeist, all the terfs pivoted to how strap-ons are nothing like penises at all and you’re an evil male interloper if you point out “that isn’t even what you were saying thirty seconds ago?”
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