Председник Америке, Доналд Џ Трамп

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Или можда јеси такав али то не схваташ?

Šta znam, dude... Samo govorim šta mislim.

Ne odobravam gotovo ništa što je radio nacional-socijalistički režim.

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Трамп је учинио услугу трансексуалцима... како испада у овом тексту?

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Vojska ubija ponos

 

Dizajn: Emily Wicks

Poslednjih nekoliko dana zatečen sam ogromnom podrškom koju institucija američke vojske dobija od strane američke (ali i međunarodne) LGBT+ zajednice i njenih saveznika i ne mogu da ne pitam: Gde smo pogrešili?

Sve je počelo sa nekoliko tvitova Donalda Trampa u kojima on najavljuje mere protiv transrodnih osoba unutar američke vojske. Tramp na njih svaljuje teret troškova hormonskih terapija i hirurških intervencija koje navodno opterećuju vojni (a time i državni) budžet. Ovo poniženje on produbljuje tvrdnjom da „transrodne osobe unose nemir u redove američkih trupa“. Ovakve izjave kontinuitet su Trampove homofobične/transfobične administracije, koja rešenje ovakvih problema vidi u rezanju budžeta za zdravsto. Naravno, na štetu građana Amerike.

Pomenute Trampove izjave podstakle su reakcije. Podrška trans osobama se nije zasnivala na kritici njihovog nejednakog pristupa zdravstvenom sistemu, zapošljavanju ili stanovanju, već se svodila na veličanje trans ljudi kao dela ponosnih američkih trupa. Za samo nekoliko sati od objave Trampovih tvitova, omalovažavanje trans zajednice je stavljeno u službu afirmacije američkog militarizma i imperijalizma. Vrednost života trans osoba tako je svedena na njihovu odluku da štite državne interese i daju svoj život u ime američke spoljne politike. Glavni argument glasi: Zar i mi, LGBT+ vojnici, nismo jednako spremni da činimo sve što čine i ne-LGBT+ vojnici u ime odbrane interesa naše zemlje?

Upravo u ovoj tački se postavlja pitanje: Da li je postojanje LGBT+ osoba unutar vojske ravnopravnost kojoj smo težili? Da li je učestvovanje LGBT+ osoba u ratovima deo vizije sveta jednakih, sveta vladavine ljudskih prava na koja se LGBT+ osobe neprestano pozivaju? Da li smo kao marginalizovana zajednica koja teži tome da bude prihvaćena na putu ka jednakosti izgubili ideju o svetu u kome strah, nasilje i ratovi odlaze u istoriju? Kako se u Americi izgubila ideja o oslobađanju LGBT+ zajednice od sistema koji je tlači?

Odgovor ćemo naći u militarizmu kao sistemu. On se ne ogleda samo u postojanju rata, vojske ili industrije naoružanja; militarizam je kompleksni sistem koji održava homofobičnu i transfobičnu represiju živom. Kada se LGBT+ zajednica bori za svoja prava u vojsci, ona sebi puca u nogu oružjem na kome piše – jednakost. Jednakost za LGBT+ osobe u vojsci ne znači napredak za ljudska prava, već znači perfidnu inkluziju marginalizovane grupe u represivni sistem, i to sistem koji tu istu grupu nužno ponižava i ukida joj sva prava. Dugotrajno.

Rat kao vrhunac militarizovane svesti nužno podiže stepen homofobije i transfobije. On je utemeljen u jakom nacionalističkom sentimentu, a nacionalizam je opsesivno heteroseksualan i nužno reproduktivan. U lažno otvorenoj instituciji vojske LGBT+ vojnici i vojnikinje su dobrodošli samo kao topovsko meso i kao saučesnici u zločinima protiv čovečnosti. Biti LGBT+ osoba i biti vojnik znači oduzeti sebi glas i poništiti sopstvenu bol u ime prihvatanja od strane tlačitelja. Nas, LGBT+ ljude širom sveta, militarizam nužno stavlja na listu za odstrel: on nam govori čiji se životi čuvaju, a čiji uništavaju. Prihvatanjem da budemo deo bilo koje vojske, dajemo saglasnost ruci koja nam daje orden za hrabrost da i nas upiše na listu za odstel.

U viziji sveta u kome su svi ljudi jednaki i žive dostojanstven život nema mesta ratu, nema mesta vojsci, niti bilo kakvoj ideji militarizma. Dokle god pristajemo da budemo deo takvog sistema u ime ravnopravnosti, pristajemo na produžetak agonije i na sužavanje prostora u kome možemo da delujemo i podižemo svoj glas protiv homofobije i transfobije, jer će odgovor biti: Zar ovo nije bio vaš izbor?

Trampove izjave samo su dokaz da lažni napredak ljudskih prava u vidu otvorenosti oružanih snaga za LGBT+ osobe ne vodi ničem drugom nego sve gorem položaju LGBT+ zajednice, jer nasilje u kome smo prihvatili da učestvujemo produkuje nasilje koje je protiv nas.

Možda bi vodeća ljudsko-pravaška scena u Americi nešto mogla da nauči od LGBT+ pokreta na prostorima bivše Jugoslavije, koji je utemeljen na snažnoj antimilitarističkoj politici. Kao aktivista ovog pokreta nisam se zalagao samo za partikularna LGBT+ prava u Srbiji, već sam učestvovao i u akcijama koje su osuđivale rat, ratne zločine, genocid u Srebrenici, silovanje žena u ratu, kao i homofobično zlostavljanje zatvorenika od strane američke vojske u Abu Graibu.

Žao mi je što veliki deo američkih LGBT+ aktivista poziva tamošnju vojsku na poštovanje prava LGBT+ osoba i žao mi je što vrhunac jednakosti vidi u tome da se LGBT+ osobe osećaju sigurno u okrilju vojnog sistema. Militarizovanim jezikom rečeno – to nije naša bitka.

Zar ne bi bilo korisnije tu energiju posvetiti zahtevu za ukidanje vojnih troškova i usmeravanje tog novca na mnogo važnije potrebe od one za naoružavanjem. Trans ljudima, kao i svim drugim ljudima, pre svega je potreban bolji obrazovni i bezbedniji zdravstveni sistem; potrebni su im dobri uslovi za rad i stanovanje, za unapređenje njihovih talenata. Ako već zahtevamo, zahtevajmo najviše.

Zar se LGBT+ pokret u Americi i širom sveta već decenijama ne bori protiv predrasuda bez utemeljenja u realnom životu. Zašto onda ne jačamo ideju o tome da svi ljudi žive u miru, gde se svi resursi investiraju u mir. Vojska ne daje ponos – ona ga oduzima.

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Žao mi je što veliki deo američkih LGBT+ aktivista poziva tamošnju vojsku na poštovanje prava LGBT+ osoba i žao mi je što vrhunac jednakosti vidi u tome da se LGBT+ osobe osećaju sigurno u okrilju vojnog sistema.

Да... војску чији је посао да штити државу и друштво који омогућавају трансексуалцима да живе слободније него било гдје друго у свијету...

Како се само усуђују...

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nacionalizam je opsesivno heteroseksualan i nužno reproduktivan.

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НУЖНО РЕПРОДУКТИВАН! ОХ НЕ, ОНИ МИСЛЕ ДА СЕ ЉУДИ ТРЕБАЈУ РАЂАТИ!!! ТО ЈЕ ТАКО ХЕТЕРОНОРМАТИВНО!!!

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Топ кек? Топ кек.

 

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Aha!

Dakle to je ono sozercavanje Platonovih objektivnih ideja.

 

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When Progressives Embrace Hate

By BARI WEISSAUG. 1, 2017

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From left, Bob Bland, Linda Sarsour, Carmen Perez and Tamika Mallory, organizers of the Women’s March in January, in Washington last month protesting gun violence. CreditJonathan Ernst/Reuters

A mere half-year ago, before collusion and Comey, before Mika’s face and Muslim bans and the Mooch, there was a shining moment where millions of Americans flooded the streets in cities across the country to register their rage that an unapologetic misogynist had just been made leader of the free world.

Donald Trump’s election was a watershed moment. Even those like me, who had previously pulled levers for candidates of both parties, felt that Mr. Trump had not only violated all sense of common decency, but, alarmingly, that he seemed to have no idea that there even existed such an unspoken code of civility and dignity. Now was the time to build a broad coalition to resist the genital-grabber with the nuclear codes.

The Women’s March moved me. O.K., so Madonna and Ashley Judd said some nutty things. But every movement has its excesses, I reasoned. Mr. Trump had campaigned on attacking the weakest and most vulnerable in our society. Now was the time to put aside petty differences and secondary issues to oppose his presidency.

That’s certainly what the leaders of the Democratic Party, who applauded the march, told us. Senator Charles Schumer called the protest “part of the grand American tradition.” The House Democratic leader, Nancy Pelosi, offered her congratulations to the march’s “courageous organizers” and Senator Kirsten Gillibrand gushed about them in Time, where they were among the top 100 most influential people of 2017. “The Women’s March was the most inspiring and transformational moment I’ve ever witnessed in politics,” she wrote. “And it happened because four extraordinary women — Tamika Mallory, Bob Bland, Carmen Perez and Linda Sarsour — had the courage to take on something big, important and urgent, and never gave up.”

The image of this fearsome foursome, echoed in more than a few flattering profiles, was as seductive as a Benetton ad. There was Tamika Mallory, a young black activist who was crowned the “Sojourner Truth of our time” by Jet magazine and “a leader of tomorrow” by Valerie Jarrett. Carmen Perez, a Mexican-American and a veteran political organizer, was named one of Fortune’s Top 50 World Leaders. Linda Sarsour, a hijab-wearing Palestinian-American and the former head of the Arab-American Association of New York, had been recognized as a “champion of change” by the Obama White House. And Bob Bland, the fashion designer behind the “Nasty Women” T-shirts, was the white mother who came up with the idea of the march in the first place.

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What wasn’t to like?

A lot, as it turns out. The leaders of the Women’s March, arguably the most prominent feminists in the country, have some chilling ideas and associations. Far from erecting the big tent so many had hoped for, the movement they lead has embraced decidedly illiberal causes and cultivated a radical tenor that seems determined to alienate all but the most woke.

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Start with Ms. Sarsour, by far the most visible of the quartet of organizers. It turns out that this “homegirl in a hijab,” as one of many articles about her put it, has a history of disturbing views, as advertised by . . . Linda Sarsour.

There are comments on her Twitter feed of the anti-Zionist sort: “Nothing is creepier than Zionism,” she wrote in 2012. And, oddly, given her status as a major feminist organizer, there are more than a few that seem to make common cause with anti-feminists, like this from 2015: “You’ll know when you’re living under Shariah law if suddenly all your loans and credit cards become interest-free. Sound nice, doesn’t it?” She has dismissed the anti-Islamist feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali in the most crude and cruel terms, insisting she is “not a real woman” and confessing that she wishes she could take away Ms. Ali’s vagina — this about a woman who suffered genital mutilation as a girl in Somalia.

Ms. Sarsour and her defenders have dismissed all of this as a smear campaign coordinated by the far right and motivated by Islamophobia. Plus, they’ve argued, many of these tweets were written five years ago! Ancient history.

But just last month, Ms. Sarsour proved that her past is prologue. On July 16, the official Twitter feed of the Women’s March offered warm wishes to Assata Shakur. “Happy birthday to the revolutionary #AssataShakur!” read the tweet, which featured a “#SignOfResistance, in Assata’s honor” — a pink and purple Pop Art-style portrait of Ms. Shakur, better known as Joanne Chesimard, a convicted killer who is on the F.B.I.’s list of most wanted terrorists.

Like many others, CNN’s Jake Tapper noticed the outrageous tweet. “Shakur is a cop-killer fugitive in Cuba,” he tweeted, going on to mention Ms. Sarsour’s troubling past statements. “Any progressives out there condemning this?” he asked.

In the face of this sober criticism, Ms. Sarsour cried bully: “@jaketapperjoins the ranks of the alt-right to target me online. Welcome to the party.”

There’s no doubt that Ms. Sarsour is a regular target of far-right groups, but her experience of that onslaught is what makes her smear all the more troubling. Indeed, the idea that Jake Tapper is a member of the alt-right is the kind of delirious, fact-free madness that fuels Donald Trump and his supporters. Troublingly, it is exactly the sentiment echoed by the Women’s March: “Our power — your power — scares the far right. They continue to try to divide us. Today’s attacks on #AssataShakur are the latest example.”

Since when did criticizing a domestic terrorist become a signal issue of the far right? Last I checked, that position was a matter of basic decency and patriotism.

What’s more distressing is that Ms. Sarsour is not the only leader of the women’s movement who harbors such alarming ideas. Largely overlooked have been the similarly outrageous statements of the march’s other organizers.

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Ms. Mallory, in addition to applauding Assata Shakur as a feminist emblem, also admires Fidel Castro, who sheltered Ms. Shakur in Cuba. She put up a flurry of posts when Mr. Castro died last year. “R.I.P. Comandante! Your legacy lives on!” she wrote in one. She does not have similar respect for American police officers. “When you throw a brick in a pile of hogs, the one that hollers is the one you hit,” she postedon Nov. 20.

Ms. Perez also expressed her admiration for a Black Panther convicted of trying to kill six police officers: “Love learning from and sharing space with Baba Sekou Odinga.”

But the public figure both women regularly fawn over is Louis Farrakhan.

On May 11, Ms. Mallory posted a photo with her arm around Mr. Farrakhan, the 84-year-old Nation of Islam leader notorious for his anti-Semitic comments, on Twitter and Instagram. “Thank God this man is still alive and doing well,” she wrote. It is one of several videos and photos and quotes that Ms. Mallory has posted of Mr. Farrakhan.

Ms. Perez is also a big fan. In the fall, she posted a photo in which she holds hands with Mr. Farrakhan, writing, “There are many times when I sit with elders or inspirational individuals where I think, ‘I just wish I could package this and share this moment with others.’ ” She’s also promoted video of Mr. Farrakhan “dropping knowledge” and another in which he says he is “speaking truth to power.”

What is Mr. Farrakhan’s truth? Readers born after 1980 will probably have little idea, since he has largely remained out of the headlines since the Million Man March he organized in 1995. But his views, which this editorial page has called “twisted,” remain as appalling as ever.

“And don’t you forget, when it’s God who puts you in the ovens, it’s forever!” he warned Jews in a speech at a Nation of Islam gathering in Madison Square Garden in 1985. Five years later, he remained unreformed: “The Jews, a small handful, control the movement of this great nation, like a radar controls the movement of a great ship in the waters.” Or this metaphor, directed at Jews: “You have wrapped your tentacles around the U.S. government, and you are deceiving and sending this nation to hell.” He called Hitler “a very great man” on national television. Judaism, he insists, is a “gutter religion.”

In one of the several widely available YouTube videos he’s made about the Jews, he told black Americans that “the control of the Synagogue of Satan over our people must be exposed.” He adds: “These satanic ones have not only controlled hip-hop but they control, according to their own words, the very messages that are brought to the public.” He goes on to offer a truly remarkable analysis of the hip-hop industry in which “intelligent” rappers are rejected by the “satanic minds” who insist that they “want filth” and encourage “vulgarity” and “savagery.” This is the first 10 minutes of an hour.

Mr. Farrakhan is also an unapologetic racist. He insists that whites are a “race of devils” and that “white people deserve to die.”

Feminists will find little to cheer in his 1950s views of gender: “Your professional lives can’t satisfy your soul like a good, loving man.” Recently he told Jay-Z that he should make Beyoncé put on some clothes. He also opposes gay marriage.

If that wasn’t enough of a rap sheet, Mr. Farrakhan also loves Scientology and believes 9/11 was a false flag operation.

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I can already hear the pushback. What’s a few impolitic tweets and photos compared to the horror show of this administration? Save your outrage for the transgender ban in the military, for the lies that spew forth daily from the press briefing room, for the cuts to Planned Parenthood, the shady business with Russia, and, and, and.

But the nightmare of the Trump administration is the proof text for why all of this matters. We just saw what happens to legitimate political parties when they fall prey to movements that are, at base, anti-American. That is true of the populist, racist alt-right that helped deliver Mr. Trump the White House and are now hollowing out the Republican Party. And it can be true of the progressive “resistance” — regardless of how chic, Instagrammable and celebrity-laden the movement may seem. Recall that only a few months ago, Keith Ellison, a man with a long history of defending and working with anti-Semites, was almost made leader of the Democratic National Committee.

Will progressives have more spine than conservatives in policing hate in their ranks? Or will they ignore it in their fury over the Trump administration?

I am sure that Linda Sarsour, and perhaps the other leaders of the Women’s March, will block me for writing this. Maybe I’ll be accused of siding with the alt-right or tarred as Islamophobic. But what I stand against is embracing terrorists, disdaining independent feminist voices, hating on democracies and celebrating dictatorships. If that puts me beyond the pale of the progressive feminist movement in America right now, so be it.

 

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Crybullies - polovinu vremena plaču zbog gluposti, drugu polovinu te spopadaju da si rasista i nacista

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Новинарство у свом најчистијем облику.

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Новинарство у свом најчистијем облику.

Znaš da su rekli da je rasistički zahtevati ID na glasanju? 

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Znaš da su rekli da je rasistički zahtevati ID na glasanju? 

СКонтао сам шта више значи "расистички". Оно што је прије било "bigot" сада је "расиста". Само су узели ту ријеч јер има јачи призвук. Али превише су дували у прдаљку, па се истрошило.

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СКонтао сам шта више значи "расистички". Оно што је прије било "bigot" сада је "расиста". Само су узели ту ријеч јер има јачи призвук. Али превише су дували у прдаљку, па се истрошило.

Pa da...

"Rasizam" je univerzalna reč za nešto što im se ne dopada.

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Pa da...

"Rasizam" je univerzalna reč za nešto što im se ne dopada.

Кругдвојкашу сендвичарски.