More recently, the media has speculated that Adam Lanza was motivated by bullying he experienced during his time as a student at Sandy Hook Elementary. Conversely, not a single person has inquired about the mental wellbeing of the Boston Bombing suspects. Experts in psychology, violence and mass murder haven’t appeared on cable news or written op-eds for the New York Times and Washington Post with insight into what causes people to snap. No one has speculated about bullying that Tamerlan and Dzhokhar’s may have experienced, particularly Tamerlan, who was in middle school when he immigrated to the United States, an age when bullying is at its peak. Of course, all of these questions are rhetorical since we already know the answer: Adam Lanza and James Holmes are Christian white males whose names have the appropriate number of consonants. Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev are Muslim (which cancels out white) males who immigrated to the US from a region of the world where names are difficult to pronounce (for us).
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James Holmes, Adam Lanza, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Double Standards (via azspot)
Rania Khalek on point.
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Those guys were Russian Muslims? Anyway, their mental states probably didn’t come into question probably because they were foreign, which probably leads to some sort of nationalist reason for killing. They could have been brainwashed by their leaders, just like many other civilian-turned terrorists. What say you?
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Burgers and Advertising: Social Beast
If you haven’t noticed, Facebook made the single-column change earlier this week with a bunch of other changes that affects the way your personal information is presented.
With its single-column format, your personal posts/personal feed is to the right on a wider column (the main column) with…
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Got this done at Old Town Tatu: 1313 W Irving Park Rd. Chicago, IL 60618 Done by Shawn Hughes aka “Hollywood.” I got this because Reptar has always been a nickname of mine, 90’s cartoons dominate over the irrelevant ones they play today, and who doesn’t enjoy a dinosaur on his suit and tie, suit and tie!!
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JANUARY 2013 - SoulCiety BRIDGE to P.I.
CHARITOxFUNKCH3N are working extra hard to GIVE BACK to something greater than themselves.
Through Soulciety’s BRIDGE Program, FunkCH3N and I, as well as a handful of other talented artists, will be going to 15-Poverty-Stricken-Provinces of the Philippines.We aim to improve the academics, health, and creativity of these children and help them to develop the skills and knowledge that will improve their chances to get out of poverty.
However, FunkCH3N and I have to raise $3000/each to get ourselves to the Philippines to do this…..your help is needed!
THERE ARE MANY WAYS YOU CAN HELP US!!!!!!
Donald Glover talking about the comments he received during his campaign to be the next Spider-Man (x)
“I was talking about it with Dan Eckman, who directed my Bonfire video. Can you imagine that trailer? That would be dope. Like it makes sense… a poor black kid in Queens. Like it just fits.”
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THIS PHOTOSET OMG
WAS RUINING A PERFECTLY GOOD COPY OF ALICE’S ADVENTURES IN WONDERLAND WITH WATER DAMAGE REALLY WORTH GETTING 8,000 NOTES?!?!?
TREAT THAT BOOK WITH RESPECT, GODDAMNIT. IT DOESN’T NEED TO GO FOR A NICE SWIM, IT NEEDS TO BE FUCKING READ.
GO TO THE TIME OUT CORNER AND THINK ABOUT YOUR CHOICES
It’s a book. A book still in publication in many other formats.
Those formats can be read and enjoyed.
The book isn’t the story. This isn’t “disrespecting” the book.
This particular book was used for another, very valid, form of art.
And it looks amazing.
Coming from someone who LOVES reading, I think we need to stop putting books on a pedestal like this.
Ok.
Agreed. Calm the fuck down.
A story is just a story as long as it remains solely in a book. You’re confining it into the pages and it is just a story.
A story never comes alive unless it lives in your minds, and you know it intimately like the back of your hand, like an old friend whom you’ve already forgotten the name of, but remembers and will always welcome back with open arms. When the form is dead, what remains is the essence of it, and its work is done. Its up to you now.
A second reblog because cross is amazing.
As both a lover of books (someone who won’t even dog ear her pages) and a photographer, I find these photos gorgeous. And, I fully approve the use of this book to capture a beautiful scene.
I’m sure that person wasn’t serious.
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