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When the 2016 dates were announced for 221B Con many people were concerned about it starting on April Fool’s Day. Last year John Oliver had his audience take a No Prank Pledge and we here at HN want to encourage you to do the same. We used his pledge as a basis for the below.
By reblogging this post you pledge the following:
“I solemnly swear that on this April Fools’ Day, I will not perpetuate a celebrity death hoax like some kind of a–hole, because that makes people sad. I will not post fake engagement or pregnancy announcements on social media. I will not hide anyone’s personal property. In fact, I will not play any practical jokes. And if I see someone planning a prank, I will say to them: ‘Hey… you’re being a dick right now. Stop being a dick. Stop being a dick. Seriously, stop being a dick.’”
Yes and Thank you!
As someone with major trust issues born of childhood trauma, April Fool’s day is a horrible holiday dedicated to eroding friendships with suspicion and hostility.
Please be kind; you don’t know what mess your fun will kick up.
It is SO annoying when people go “har har har Islam isn’t a race.” Yeah, Islam isn’t a race, I’m not gonna argue that it is. But I know what you’re saying when you say you hate Muslims. You’re not imagining white, blonde, pale people– you’re imaging brown and black people. You’re imaging POC. And since the average person in the West seems to equate Muslim with Arab, you’re also probably thinking of an Arab.
Islamophobia is racialized. Yes, if you say you hate Muslims, I’m going to assume you’re racist. Fucking deal.
Obama visits Cuba, and it’s the end of the world. But when Ronald Reagan visited Russia, and George H. W. Bush visited China and George W. Bush visited Viet Nam, it was “leadership” apparently. When will Republicans finally admit that they hate President Obama so much because he’s Black?
The other day at school, I told a girl I liked her umbrella, and it surprised her so much, that she loudly blurted “they’re on sale at Target!!!” and it was just funny and cute.
Yesterday I was boarding my plane home and I just had to tell the stewardess that I loved her hair! Glorious, multicolored curly natural afro and just as I’m telling her she stops me and tells me how much she loves my jacket.
This is created for recent trending #whyIsign. #whyIsign was started by Stacy Abrams. She wanted to spread knowledge about sign language, how it helped so many deaf people and families, like myself, and to encourage more people to learn and use sign language, especially with deaf children.
I am eternally thankful for American Sign Language.
You can find #whyIsign on facebook, twitter, and instagram.
Dan Baum, writing in support of drug legalization at Harper’s, has unleashed a frank 1994 quote from former Nixon policy advisor John Ehrlichman, and as inadvertently salient an argument for legalizing drugs as any I’ve ever seen:
The boldness with which some people share these these historical discriminations is both frightening and fascinating.
Look at those demons. I hope they are rotting in hell.
Yep
At the time, I was writing a book about the politics of drug prohibition. I started to ask Ehrlichman a series of earnest, wonky questions that he impatiently waved away. “You want to know what this was really all about?” he asked with the bluntness of a man who, after public disgrace and a stretch in federal prison, had little left to protect. “The Nixon campaign in 1968, and the Nixon White House after that, had two enemies: the antiwar left and black people. You understand what I’m saying? We knew we couldn’t make it illegal to be either against the war or black, but by getting the public to associate the hippies with marijuana and blacks with heroin, and then criminalizing both heavily, we could disrupt those communities. We could arrest their leaders, raid their homes, break up their meetings, and vilify them night after night on the evening news. Did we know we were lying about the drugs? Of course we did.”
