When Ferguson etc happened, we Europeans educated ourselves, we cried with you. When Charlie Hebdo and Germanwings happened, what do you do? You devalue our mourning by saying “blablabla white guy YOU’RE ALL ISLAMOPHOBIC”.
NO. STOP IT.
I am so fucking angry.
wut
When I see things like this, I sometimes wonder how Europe has a “dumb American” stereotype when people from Europe say shit like this.
“shit like this”. Wonderful. You know what? The only words of understanding I have seen the past few day on my dash were from Germans and French people. I have gotten a few American asks expressing their condolences after that rage post I made went viral.
This post stems from the simple fact that 80 fucking percent of the posts about the tragedy I saw were things like “Oh, they’re only checking for mental illnesses bc he is white”
Not a single fucking word about the victims. 150 people were killed. An entire high school class, babies, people who were in that plane and were looking forward to see their loved ones again.
This tragedy has hit Germany so fucking hard. You know what many of us did? We have put flags outside. Half mast. With black ribbons. You
might not know it, but flags in Germany mean shit is getting serious.
We don’t put flags outside. This may seem weird to literally any other
country of the world, but, outside the world cup or really really bad
tragedies, you don’t see flags. You DON’T. Schools don’t have them, courts don’t have them, our fucking POLICE STATION does not have them. Normal people don’t have them. The
last time I remember that we have put some up was Winnenden. A student
went on a killing spree in his school and killed 16 people, including
himself. And let me tell you: Our country was paralized. So yeah. A
good method to measure the extent of shit going down here is to look at
the number of flags. The more flags. the worse. And let me tell you, I have been drowned in flags and black ribbon while walking the streets of my city. And what do we get? No ounce of sympathy. No one talks about the innocent victims.
Instead,
we get told that we’re islamophobic because we don’t say that that
pilot was a terrorist. Oh yeah, “because he was white.” The definition of terrorism is violence against civilians to achieve political, religious or ideological goals. Nope, nope, and nope. He did not want to achieve any goal beside killing himself. That he took all those innocents with him is so fucking awful, but this is not terrorism. So please, stop trying to make this a thing about terrorism or racism, because it is NOT.
Yes,
racism, islamophobia and sexism is awful. I, as a history/political
science major who actually really involved in fighting all this,
wholeheartedly agree. But it is a complete different area and has
nothing to do with this tragedy. (”fun” fact: The first thing that was
checked was whether he had any terrorist motives like Breivik (a
Christian terrorist btw)).
So yeah, I as someone from Europe, may
have not said “shit like this” if more people from outside here had
expressed a little sympathy, if
more people had grieved with us, if more people had actually thought
about the victims instead of trying to twist this tragedy into a thing
that it is not, just to fit their crusade.
Please, stop making this tragedy about yourselves. A few words of sympathy, a bit of empathy for a country that is SHOCKED. Is that to much to ask for? Maybe I wouldn’t write “shit like this” then.
the best part about pacific rim is that for the rest of human history there’s just gonna be that section of time known as “those few years we had to use giant robots to beat giant interdimensional lizards”
how come Steven Universe like spews out episodes every week or so but then Gravity Falls episodes only air every three months after a total lunar eclipse on friday the 13th
Because Cartoon Network has a little thing called respect for its programs and Disney Channel is the worst
Sorry that was mean…
“iF WE HAVE CARTOONS THEN WHERE WILL WE PUT THE SITCOMS?????????”
I think cis men overall just don’t understand that we cannot stop the blood. If there’s nothing to collect it, it’s going everywhere. Everyone can hold a shit, can hold a piss, and can hold back sex, until it’s convenient. When we bleed there is just no stopping it. It doesn’t matter if there’s nothing to catch the blood, it will keep coming.
That’s why this free-tampon discussion is over your heads. You don’t get it. You can compare it to toilet paper or condoms all you want but we all have control over those things. When we bleed, we keep bleeding until it’s done. There’s no clenching or muscle training that will keep us from bleeding everywhere.
So stop talking about what you don’t understand. If condoms can be free, so can tampons.
Also, toilet paper is free in public restrooms. Everyone would lose their shit if they had to buy toilet paper at work.
