Whitewashed.

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We are crashing. We're crashing hard. Texas conservatives have won the vote to rewrite history in their textbooks. Not only are they eliminating Thomas Jefferson and instead replacing him with “religious right icon John Calvin.” -Huffington Post, but they are also doing away with church vs. state which is VITAL to the direction our country is headed. They have also decided to drop references to the slave trade and have begun referring to it as the Atlantic triangular trade. Cool! Let's just pretend there was no such thing as the slave trade. Let's just not take responsibility for one of the most hostile, brutal, and inhumane acts in all of human history. Yeah, that's a great idea. The more we erase, the better we appear. Which isn't even true. The more we erase, the stupider we look. The less educated we become. The further back we recede.
Can I just say that America, it seems, has the largest population of ignorant, hateful, oblivious, and uncultivated humans on the planet? And stupid people like to breed more stupid people. They like to teach them ridiculously insignificant information, and this is where our country is headed. White. Conservative. Religious. Hateful. How can we just rewrite history? It happened, there is no escaping that. It's so embarrassing. It's shameful.

I feel like the comment left by Westdale on that Huffington Post article I linked to was very right on:

"We are quite sincerely at a critical hingepoint in history. The country that boasted it represented the standard of liberty for the entire world, and usually lived up to that claim, is disintegrating as the rest of the world watches. I'm Canadian, and the open lies told about our (and others') national health care system by the right-wing/Republican faction are appalling - not just because they are being made but because no one challenges them. Listen, people - it's not just the Texas school book situation, it's multiple facets of your political, social and economic culture. Change it now or a generation in the future the U.S. will be assessed in a similar vein to Botswana and Albania. Really."

Who you gonna call?

I've been watching a bunch of videos of people going out of their way to make others smile. One of which I really love because it not only has to do with one of my FAVORITE movies of all time, but was made as a result of the $37 MILLION dollar city budget cut. You know, I understand that a lot of Americans thinks "socialism" is the worst thing to ever grace this planet (which is utterly ridiculous and greedy) - but really? Taking away library funding is just going WAY too far. This video was made by a local improv group who wanted to cheer up the New York Public Library despite the unfortunate greed that is the American government. This was the actual library where the famous library scene is Ghostbusters was filmed. I love New York. The entire time I was in New York I wanted to see "the ghostbusters library" but never got around to doing so. I WISH I had been there during this!



So adorable.

Brontë Sisters Power Dolls

This is like, one of the best things ever.

Bad Bad Hotels.

Leave it to the gays to know how protest in the most effective way possible! This video was made in San Francisco (my home!) when a flash mob PROTEST (awesome!) kicked off in the middle of the Westin St. Francis hotel to "a boycott called by the workers of the hotel who are fighting to win a fair contract and affordable healthcare."

Pride is a HUGE event in San Francisco drawing in thousands upon thousands of people from all over the United States every year. This protest was put together by LGBTQ activists as a "creative way to tell the hundreds of thousands of LGBTQ people from all over the country coming to San Francsico in June for Pride to stay out of the boycotted hotels." It's extremely clever and also fun to watch which is such a great way to really get people to pay attention. I've been in TONS AND TONS of protests in my time, most of which have been marching down the street holding signs. This is a whole new spin on things and I really admire what they are doing to get their point across.

Fuck You Very Much.

In the spirit of what I've been writing about recently, this video is so right on -I couldn't NOT post it.