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Yes, and he was also a genocidal, white supremacist.

He does not deserve any monuments in Canada in my opinion. Put him in museums, but not glorified in statues. Let his full history be on display in Museums not monuments which are built to glorify an awful man.

He did this:

When Canada used hunger to clear the West

And this:

John A. Macdonald was the real architect of residential schools

And this:

John A. Macdonald’s Aryan Canada: Aboriginal Genocide and Chinese Exclusion

And this:

Commentary: John A. Macdonald’s white-supremacist views were shocking, even by the standards of his time

And this:

“During the American Civil War (1861 to 1865), Montreal served as refuge to Confederates — southern Americans who wanted to keep slavery and secede from the United States union. The Southern slavers found a friend in John A. Macdonald.”

And this:

“ All women are beautiful”

but what you probably mean is:

“All women have value.”

“We are volcanoes.  When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.” -Ursula K. Le Guin has died, via @nytimes #Portland

- Ann Curry

Ursula K. Le Guin, Acclaimed for Her Fantasy Fiction, Is Dead at 88

“We live in capitalism. Its power seems inescapable. So did the divine right of kings. Any human power can be resisted and changed by human beings. Resistance and change often begin in art, and very often in our art, the art of words.”   ― Ursula K. Le Guin

@realphilosophytube , “The Philosophy of Antifa”

If you’re a fascist and anti-fascists come for you, you have a choice. You can give it up. You can renounce what you said. You could go on with the rest of your life and stop turning up to fascist rallies. Anti-fascists probably aren’t going to be your best friends, but they’ll move on.

But if you’re a person of color, if you’re trans, or a person with a disability, or gay, or Jewish and fascists come for you, there is nothing you can do to make them happy except stop existing.

Feinstein: You’re a big, powerful man. Why didn’t you [gestures pushing motion]?

Crews: Senator, as a black man in America [sigh]…

Feinstein: Say it as it is. I think it’s important.

But this isn’t Dianne Feinstein’s story, which is why she said the second part of her statement (”Say it as it is.”). Terry Crews needed the opportunity to tell Congress and the world that sexual assault is not a problem confined to one gender, one race, one body type. It’s something that can happen to anyone, and fighting back is not always the option. He was forced to endure and to remain silent because otherwise, every door in Hollywood would have been shut to him.

its a musical play from the 1800s about a kid called Fredrick who’s been interning on a pirate ship and he’s just turned 21 so he’s leaving them to be a Law Abiding Citizen and vows to slay them all, to which they reply ‘yeah fair enough’

But first he’s got to become a Real Man and get married, and because he’s never seen a woman in his life except for his 47 year old nursery maid Ruth, he’s fine with marrying her, which is great for her because she’s a bit past Prime Marrying Age, but the minute he sees a group of like 12 young women having a private party on the beach he immediately calls her an old ugly bitch and spends the next 10 minutes begging each one like a little gremlin to marry him.

They all say no because they’re not stupid. Except Miss Love Interest Mabel, who enters stage right and shatters everyone eardrums with her singing voice. She publicly shames her sisters for not marrying the little beach gremlin and says that she will Do Her Duty and marry the literal stranger. So thats great.

The pirates then come back to see the group of women and immediately capture them with the intention of taking them back to their ship and……marrying them, of course, but in the nick of time their doddering old father arrives and persuades the pirates to let them go because he’s a poor orphan boy (he’s rich and like 70). The pirates are moved to tears by this and let everyone go after singing about how beautiful poetry is (?).

In act 2, Fredrick has hired some policemen and is about to march against the pirates when Ruth, bitter af about getting ditched, appears with the pirate captain and tells Fredrick that according to his intern contract he’s technically still a pirate because it was supposed to be until his 21st birthday and actually he was born on the 29th of February on a leap year, so TECHNICALLY he’s only had 5 birthdays.

Fredrick is SHOCKED AND APPALLED, and tells Mabel that they can’t marry after all and he HAS to go back to the pirates, to which Mabel says “you know thats literally the stupidest thing ive ever heard” and he says “but its my DUTY Mabel, bye I’ll see you in 1940″ so she says “aww kk bye”

Also because he’s a pirate again, he reveals that the father isn’t an orphan at all, and he lied about it, and the pirates are SHOCKED AND APPALLED, and so they set about sneaking into the father’s estate and shanking him, so after a lot of singing and dancing about they arrive at the estate and confront him

“PLease save me Fredrick” says the father. “I literally can’t,” replies Fredrick, “There’s just no way i can stop doing what I’m doing.” At this point the policemen, who have done nothing so far except sing about how much they hate their job, arrive and fight the pirates, losing in about 0.005 seconds. 

“BUT WAIT” says the police sergeant. “what if i told you……you’re making Queen Victoria sad”. “o shit” replies the pirates, surrendering immediately. 

“BUT WAIT” says Ruth,”what if i told you….theyre all the sons of Noblemen, theyre just in their pirate phase”. “o shit” replies everyone, letting the pirates go immediately. 

The play ends with Frederick marrying Mabel, the pirates-turned-noblemen getting off scot-free and marrying her sisters, and Ruth marrying either the police sergeant or the pirate captain or nobody depending on the version.

“the gay community was never racist”

Around the same time, the Asian Lesbian and Gay Alliance (ALGA) conducted an informal study of various S.F. gay bars. One of the organizers later recalled, “White guys could sail through with no restrictions, but once color was added to the mix, the barriers went up.” The Midnight Sun and Castro Station were Castro bars particularly notable for their anti-Asian discriminatory practices. When confronted, the owners rationalized their multiple ID policies by claiming that it was difficult to visually discern Asian men’s age.ALGA picketed the Midnight Sun, attracting media coverage with placards such as“Discrimination in the Gay Community Demeans Us All.” During a KPFA radio debate,one participant recalled a bar owner claiming, “Your people don’t drink,” and “It’s a cruise bar; we would lose other clientele because they don’t want to cruise your type.”