Hey do y’all fucks remember two years ago when just before the election all these “don’t vote both parties are bad” or “vote independent!” Posts were going around and then Trump won and now two weeks before midterms there’s all these “don’t bother voting, revolution is the only way!” And “your vote isn’t gonna matter and is an ineffective way to protest” posts are going around? Yeah knock that shit right the fuck off, don’t fall for it and get your ass to the polls, we are not doing this again.
The home ethnicity DNA test industrial complex is causing real harm to Native American communities, refugees, Jewish people, and like other forms of “forensic science”, will mainly harm already vulnerable people if it becomes more cemented as a science instead of as biometric astrology, and yet, I’m supposed to tolerate it because white people are getting bit in the ass by their own construction of whiteness as supplanting culture and heritage in favour of dominant power, and it hurts their feelings that they “don’t know who they are”?
it’s also being used to exploit the experiences of disconnected diasporic groups, such as African Americans, by promising a connection to their home culture that they cannot actually be given. The tests themselves are fraudulent at best, but it’s even worse when you’re telling people whose cultures and histories have been forcibly erased that it will restore what (the creators of) these institutions robbed us of.
There’s also the ADDITIONAL fine print that allows these companies to “own” the DNA samples that are submitted, and to use them for nefarious purposes, such as supplying DNA to police for targeting criminals and their families.
It’s an entirely garbage institution that does no good to anyone.
i’m a jew whose family was torn apart in the decade before the holocaust and i was hoping i might be able to use one of these things to find and connect with lost relatives… hearing that these things are scams is heartbreaking. they shouldnt be able to present themselves as legitimate. and “owning” your dna?? wtf
PETA: They’d rather spend their money on publicity campaigns than on the animals in their care. PETA killed 73.8% of the animals in their care in 2015 (x)
FCKH8: Is a for-profit company that exploits oppressed groups for money. They’re also wildly uninformed, and spread misogyny, cissexism and bi/panphobia, as well as stealing their posts/designs (x)
Autism Speaks: They spend most of their money on researching a way to eliminate autism, heighten the stigma against autism and don’t have a single autistic person on their board (x)
Please support other, better charities, and feel free to add any others you can think of to this.
Susan G. Komen for the Cure: CEO makes insane amounts of money, they deny a lot of requests for wigs/help with treatment/etc., and have attempted to sue other charities that use the color pink as part of their anti-breast cancer campaign. ( xxx )
The Salvation Army: They promote the hatred of LGBT+ people, work with fundamentalist Christian groups to support conservative politics and rip off and exploit workers. ( xxx )
Wounded Warrior: They take money that should be spent on veterans and blow it on huge opulent parties for the company bigwigs. 26 million in 2014 alone wasted! ( xxx )
^ Important reminder to NOT waste any money donating to these groups
Reblogging because of the added info about Wounded Warrior.
A good way to know if a nonprofit you’re donating to is allocating their money in the right way is to check out their Charity Navigator rating: http://www.charitynavigator.org
Signal boosting, the bell ringers are out in force, and this info is too important.
Depending on where you are, charity budgets may be public. There’s a good chance you can find out exactly where the money is going.
Woke up to this. If you are unaware, Nationalist is code word for Nazi. White Nationalists are Nazis with a different name. They are for “ethnic cleansing” which means Genocide. Nazi announces he is a Nazi.
And he wants to get rid of trans/non-binary folks. The same thing first happened back then when Nazis took down the Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute of Science of Sexuality). They had so much data about trans folks in general and Nazis burnt it down with all the records and data. This is how a fascist regime starts.
Go out and vote. Vote in everything. Your vote fucking matters.
Your vote matters, and at the rate things are going You might not get any chances to again after the next election if he wins it and if Republicans keep the house. If history really is repeating -and the parallels are too clear now, there is almost no time left to stop him before things get even worse.
Parents need to stop staying in loveless marriages just because they have kids. Stop sacrificing your happiness just so your kids can grow up in a 2 parent household. It’s toxic for the kids to grow up watching a dysfunctional marriage because it warps their perception of what love actually is. I know they think they’re doing what’s best for everyone, but it’s really not.
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