The opposite of love is not hate, it's APATHY

Poet Taylor Steele captures the problem with appropriating Black slang.

In her poem “AAVE” (which stands for African-American Vernacular English) Taylor Steele explains why appropriation of Black slang is the worst.  African-American culture is being popularized on a daily basis and while Black people are judged and mistreated for using something they came up with ages ago, White people come off as cool and original when they use it.

Full video

>White people can't learn or use AAVE, that's cultural appropriation, it's racist

“My friend decided to replace her old carpet and she found a cellar door and a cool surprise”

What the term POC is NOT supposed to do:

 Replace the word black when you’re talking SPECIFICALLY about black people

Allow non black POC to make their struggles and black struggles interchangeable

Allow non black POC to be anti black under the guise of “solidarity”

Also, POC is NOT a noun, it's an adjective, which modifies a noun, according to the example above:

POC actor- noun, actor; adjective, POC. The adjective POC modifies the noun, actor, telling you WHAT KIND of actor is the subject of the sentence.

When used alone, the P in POC is the noun and the OC is the adjective Noun - Person; adjective - Color (of is a conjunction used to connect the noun and adjective) The conjunction+adjective Of Color modifies the noun Person, telling you WHAT KIND of person is the subject of the sentence.

Why is there silence and even support for Alison Rapp, who used to work for Nintendo as a PR employee until this week, even though she has publicly expressed questionable opinions about legalizing pedophilia on social media? 

*Context added below by dearfeminists staff*

Alison Rapp was a Nintendo PR employee who was fired for moonlighting with another job which is a violation of company policy. 

Afterwards many feminists on twitter claimed she was really fired because anti-feminists/white supremacists within gamergate secretly convinced Nintendo to fire her since they were offended that Nintendo would allow women to work in their company. 

Afterwards it was discovered that Alison Rapp had frequently tweeted in support of pedophilia, legalizing child pornography, lowering the age of concent, and defended men accused of sexually assualting children.

After these tweets were discovered websites like Kotaku and Tech Times either ignored them and continued to report she was fired because anti-feminists don’t want women in the work force and Nintendo is copable. Or (as some feminists even argueed) the reason why anyone would be offended with a person advocating for the legalization of child porn is because they don’t beleive women should have freedom of speech.

I think that inheriting racist institutions comes with certain obligations.

Like, things were set up in the US to give white people unearned power at the expense of black people. Which means that as a white person in the US, I *have* unearned power. I have less unearned power than most white people because I am also disabled, but I am still white and that still matters.

I don’t want things to be unequal. I don’t want to have unearned power and I don’t want anyone to be oppressed.

But the fact of the matter is that I *do* have unearned power.

And that may not be my fault, but I do think that it is in some sense my responsibility.

so what is it?

they are leaked documents that contain information from Panama based Mossack Fonseca, “a law firm that specializes in the creation of off shore accounts designed to hide wealth in tiny island tax havens”

this video sums up what is in the documents (tw: sex slavery, death)

which news outlets are reporting the information?

full list here

The Guardian has a series of very good explanations and in depth articles

Reddit is “doing their thing” and has a detailed live thread

the German newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung that first exposed the leak

wait, okay, so how is the data leak important?

mostly because it incriminates some of the world’s top politicians and key wealthy individuals as they engage in off-shore laundering, tax evasion, and other crimes (x) 

Vladimir Putin 

Sigmundur David Gunnlaugsson, prime minister of Iceland

the implications of his activities 

Petro Poroshenko, president of Ukraine 

a FIFA ethics committee member (inc. Lionel Messi) 

HRH Prince Salman, King of Saudi Arabia

numerous relatives and associates of political leaders 

and other very important people

are there any *insert notable Americans/Canadians/(citizens of your country)* involved?

as of now, only 149 documents have been released (publicly) out of 11.5 Million, so it’s guaranteed that more incriminating evidence will surface

“editor of Süddeutsche Zeitung responded to the lack of U.S. individuals in the documents, saying “Just wait for what is coming next"” (x)

other important links

glossary for offshore banking terms

the wikipedia page

shell companies explained, in “simple english”

a video explaining the potential illegality of offshore comapanies 

client announcement sent by Mossack Fonseca

video: so how does a person hide a billion dollars?

possibilities to what will happen in Panama

this is going to change the world as we know it.

“iceland’s prime minister walks out of interview over tax haven question”

the indian express: list of indians in the papers, including amitabh bachchan and aishwarya rai bachchan

tax authorities in australia and new zealand begin their investigation

best video I’ve found that explains everything in 1 minute

an interactive map of “the money trail” 

the twitter hashtag is #panamapapers and r/panamapapers on reddit

Why are we relying on the press to read and interpret these documents for us

FUCKIN

I never quote got the hang of it myself, but that's probably because they kept changing cars on me.