So Arizona launched an “education hotline” that allows “concerned parents” to report “””critical race theory””” and other things like ~gender identity~ being taught in the classroom
It would be a shame if the number and email were spread to bad actors looking to prank call the AZ Department of Education
and for the love of god, don’t just spam it with memes or le funny shrek jokes or whatever, they’ll just hang up
make plausible-sounding reports for things that don’t actually exist, so that they actually have to waste time/resources investigating false leads - the goal is to waste time they would otherwise be using to do their jobs, not to get tumblr clout for being an epic troll
So apparently the internet article said the superintendent wouldn’t be deterred by the prank calls because they would ‘taper off eventually’. It’d be a real shame if this post stayed in circulation via queues so they get a consistent list of prank calls to filter through. 😇
walkable cities also means sittable cities send tweet
some people are responding to this like its a joke and im going to assume u are the type of people to say “its only a 3 minute walk” when i tell them the nearest bench is too far away
also anyone who thinks “3 minutes isnt THAT bad” you will be old one day. and you will wish the bench was closer
I hope that when the day comes that Palestine is free, people don’t expect everything to suddenly be alright overnight, because that won’t be the end of it. There’s this thing called intergenerational trauma that as an Indigenous person on Turtle Island, let me say, can fuck a People up for a long time. It will take generations to recover from such catastrophic and longstanding colonial violence. And when current leftist allies start back-peddling on their support and villainizing Palestinians if they aren’t “perfect citizens” (a measurement that is highly westernized anyway), remember that trauma, especially on such a large scale, does things to people. What I’m saying is, the support shouldn’t end there.
seeing people criticize bernie sanders for commemorating the victims of the tree of life synagogue shooting in pittsburgh, pennsylvania, as a ‘display of zionism’ makes me despair over people’s ability to separate the state of israel from jewish people. it is not good enough just to tell me that they are not the same (they aren’t)—you have to show me you believe that. you have to define your fucking terms.
and no, mourning the death of israeli civilians is not inherently expressing support for the actions of the israeli government. mourning the death of palestinian civilians is not inherently expressing support for the actions of hamas. fuck you.
there is a difference between a disabled person saying “in my perfect world, I wouldn’t be disabled”, and someone saying “in my perfect world, disability doesn’t exist”
the first is understandable. being disabled can be really fucking hard. pain is not fun. fatigue is not fun. meltdowns aren’t fun. relying on constant medical intervention is not always great, either. there’s nothing that says a disabled person HAS to love themselves, and it’s not inherently ableist for a disabled person to wish that they were different
the second is eugenics. that’s the long and short of it. you wish disabled people didn’t exist? well we do exist. oh but you wish they didn’t? how do you plan to achieve that, bud? it’s just straight-up eugenics
One is “I wish I weren’t in pain” and the other is “I wish I didn’t have to see you and your pain”
Supernatural fans are next level in terms of brain worms. Someone will be like “well we all know the show’s production designer Jerry Wanek and how he named the Margiekugel beer that Sam and Dean drink after his mother and so you can see them drink this beer during family bonding scenes–” and everyone is nodding like “yes we are familiar with Wanek and his beer symbolism”
