boys in primary school kept pushing my things off the desk, continuously for several school years. one year i broke into tears (again, i often cried at how people treated me) and a TA took me aside and said "he's doing it because he can" (...)
I'm trying to imagine Muslim kids chanting something similar about the Jewish or Christian faiths at a rally in London. The Prevent folks, counter-terrorism police, the entire British media would be all over the story, asking why Muslims are so extreme & brainwashing their kids.
Out of ten men, one makes a sexual joke at a woman, two laugh, three fake a chuckle to fit in, and four stay silent. None of them speak up. Later, nine of them still believe they're the "good guys." But from the woman's perspective, the laughter, the silence, the looking away, it all creates the same environment. So when women say"most men are the same," this is what they mean: not that every man harasses women, but that most men help protect the system that does.
A Tamil refugee family in Scotland were attacked in their own Home Office accommodation in an act of racism. Police were called multiple times and not one officer showed up.
On this day 15 years ago, Sri Lanka declared the final No Fire Zone.
Tamils were forced into a small strip of land. Sri Lanka would then bomb it repeatedly.
As many as 169,796 were killed.
This was a genocide.
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https://t.co/qv90Xmv1rP
May 5, 2009.
This is what the ‘No Fire Zone’ looked like.
Hundreds of thousands are sheltering in a tiny strip of land, with only tarpaulin tents for protection.
Sri Lanka would drop bombs on them. Again.
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Read more at https://t.co/qv90Xmv1rP
#nofirezone#tamilgenocide
Iconic Black British poet and author Benjamin Zephaniah dies aged 65 ✍️🏽 https://t.co/fpakCbBPaI
His second novel Refugee Boy, was inspired by a young Tamil refugee he had befriended, who had fled to London after his parents were killed by the Sri Lankan Army.
In 2002, Zephaniah wrote:
I know what an asylum seeker is because many of them are my neighbours in my part of London. They are all very different, with very different stories to tell. They have in common great suffering. Like the boy from Sri Lanka I met who was having problems at school. He was a Tamil and his family became caught up in the civil war. Sri Lankan soldiers shot his mother in front of him. They then forced his father to committed a sexual act with the body, and then they shot his father. The boy ran away, and then met some Tamil Tiger guerrillas. They gave the boy a choice; join the guerrillas as a boy soldier or accept their help to go into exile. He became a refugee and I defy anyone to say there is anything bogus about his plight.
The death of this young girl weighs heavy. Stabbed to death at 15 because you said “no.” We need the mandem to pay attention to Red Pill & incel culture, point it out & talk it down. Young men are being radicalised, & people pretend it’s not happening because “boys will be boys.”
This tourist witnessed a massacre of Tamils.
It took place on the streets of Sri Lanka’s capital city, 40 years ago.
Imagine what they did when she wasn’t looking.
#BlackJuly#genocide