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listening to shlohmo and i feel so chill. :)
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i’m pretty sure I’m in the top 45,000,000 people that ever existed.
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We don’t know how to reblog questions but Yo, Is This Racist? is the best blog on tumblr and really hit a home run with this latest post.
oh god this is great
I’m going to write that last post properly and send it to my uni’s newspaper. I’m not sure whether to increase and expand on the casual racism or get rid of it. I really want to troll people at my uni but I’m already disliked by the freshers and I can’t be bothered to get more of a reputation. hmm.
"It would be better if there were nothing. Since there is more pain than pleasure on earth, every satisfaction is only transitory, creating new desires and new distresses, and the agony of the devoured animal is always far greater than the pleasure of the devourer."written by Arthur Schopenhauer (via forceofthought)
Sugar and Fundamental Human Problems
On Saturday I was in Morrisons shopping with my mum and brother. When we found the sugar isle I automatically picked up the first packet of demerara sugar. Just as I was about to put it in my basket I stopped and read the packaging. When I saw it was not Fairtrade I put it back and started looking for the Fairtrade demerara but there wasn’t any. No big deal… another first world problem, yes?
No. This is definitely counts as a fundamental human problem. The problem of how we choose to treat each other.
I don’t understand why we are given the choice whether to exploit someone or not. Why can I choose to save 30p and underpay someone or pay more to give someone what they have worked for? It’s fucked up that we need Fairtrade products. In this context I am given the choice to underpay and exploit someone but I don’t get the choice of exploiting a chef in restaurant, the driver on a bus or the workers in Morrisions by paying less for their services. There isn’t an option to pay a hairdresser the “exploitative” price or the higher “Fairtrade” price when getting a haircut. So why do I get the choice to underpay someone just because they’re far away and I don’t have to deal with them in person? Why are we okay with treating someone badly so a company can profit or I can save money? It’s not worth making other people suffer just so I can have tea the way I like it.
Ughh I shouldn’t be too surprised though as this is the same bull shit white people have been doing for hundreds of years. They’ve just changed the language and the emphasis.
