Pondering over the value of being outraged and staying outraged vs using outrage as the fruition of action.
i definitely needed to read this today.
For fuck sakes!!! I *HATE* Debeers so much it makes me sick to my stomach. The worst part is that people wouldn’t have ever known these things if not for the current media shitstorm happening. i’m glad this is all getting out there, it certainly shows these organizations for how much they value profits over people.
If you didn’t have enough reasons to hate DeBeers and the diamond industry already, here’s another one! Ugh.
Presented without commentary.
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In late 2010, Liliana Fontes approached Toronto Police after being violently attacked by an ex-partner. Police handed her details to Immigration Enforcement who initiated deportation proceedings. A Toronto Star expose and public pressure forced CBSA to place the deportation on hold.
On June 26, 2010, Syed Hussan, a No One Is Illegal-Toronto organizer was arrested on trumped up charges related to the G20. Soon after his arrest, his work permit application was rejected and deportation proceedings initiated. An access to information request showed National Post articles connected with his G20 participation in his Immigration Enforcement file; proof that Immigration Enforcement was tipped off by Police or Prosecution. Immense public pressure forced CBSA to delay the deportation proceedings and CIC to issue him a year long study permit. If convicted on these charges, Syed Hussan faces deportation.
These cases are just a few examples of a widespread problem that is a daily reality for people with precarious status across the country, and highlight the need to separate Policing and Immigration Enforcement. In 2006, after tremendous community-labour pressure, Toronto Police passed a ‘don’t ask’ policy for immigration status from ‘victims and witnesses’ of crime, unless there is a ‘bonafide reason’ to do so. This partial policy has been whittled down so it protects no one - people stopped while being racially profiled are not considered victims or witnesses – and as can be seen in the case of Liliana, it is not being enforced.
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i was reading this article with great interest… and then felt sick as i read these parts. hussan is a former co-worker of mine.
i can’t believe how much fucked up shit goes down in the name of “justice.” when people talk about “police brutality” it isn’t always about a boot to the face or a physical act of violence: it is about a blantant disregard for humanity and the mindful ignorance of basic human decency… like trying to get a woman deported when she came to the police for help after being attacked by an ex-partner. how is that not violence.
tavi’s response
to all the broohaha over her hat. oh by hat i mean bow. by bow i mean you could see through it. there has really been far too much made of this. my stance on the blogger/editorial relationship is no secret and tavi’s thoughts are very much in line with my own.
i also feel obliged to consider other teens out there these days. whenever i hear people criticizing somebody tavi’s age for taking an incredible opportunity (like haute couture week in paris, or something completely unique) i always recall the pregnant girls at my high school. they got pregnant because they were drunk and stupid, or worse. tavi has actually made something of her teenage exploits, something real and something that will serve her future. so lets at least acknowledge that tavi is not a casualty of high school antics and be thankful she’s not being cast for teen mom, or sixteen and pregnant or true life i’m a teen mom or some crap like that.
and also to tavi’s point…if she’s obstructing your view, fucking ask her politely to move. sheesh. read the whole thing hereThis textbook person’s blog was “recommended” to me by tumblr and I just want to log in here to say that I think that this is misogynist bullshit. Not the part about tavi and her hat (right lady? kick as much ass as you can!) The part about teen moms.
Here is the thing. Teenagers have sexual desires. So they have sex. Sometimes they have sex with someone who can get them pregnant. (So nice of you to not mention the dads of these babies who have “stupid” “drunk” young mothers, textbook, you douche.)
GUESS WHAT THOUGH
ANYONE who has sex that involves putting a penis inside a vagina can get (someone else) pregnant. ANYONE.
Sometimes condoms or the pill or whatever just fails you. And it doesn’t matter how smart or drunk or whatever you are, sometimes birth control just fucks up. Sometimes you are young but you want to be a parent. I am not here to say that young moms aren’t great moms, or young dads aren’t great dads.
I am here to say SHUT THE FUCK UP if you think that attending fashion week is somehow a “better” accomplishment than having a child. Those things do not compare to each other. At all.
Also, a baby is “real” - really. I mean, so is a blog, but what are you thinking? - a baby is real.
So fuck you for implying that women who drink in highschool are not worthwhile.
Fuck you for implying that getting pregnant when you (maybe) didn’t intend to makes you stupid, instead of just unlucky.
And fuck you for shaming young women who are sexually active. Fuck that right the fuck up. That last one is a fuck you with a big pink non-view-obscuring bow right on the top. Sex is awesome, however you do it, whoever you do it with, and if you get pregnant, or get someone else pregnant, it is definitely way the fuck out of the purview of some asinine blogger to presume that you made a mistake and should stay a virgin forever and ever.
HAVE SEX WEAR BIG HATS GET DRUNK BE HAPPY ABOUT YOUR LIFE AND DON’T APOLOGIZE TO THIS “TEXTBOOK” DOUCHEBAG, whatever you do.
Dear Iris,
Please blog more.
Love,
Katie
ONCE AGAIN I SECOND KATIE’S MOTION. also all of iris’s statements. what a load of garbage, textbook. i totally read it as sarcasm at first, i can’t believe how shaming their statements are.
