thegeekyblonde:

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thecollegeboardofficial:

The SAT was created by a noted racist and anti-immigrant activist who had previously written difficult, biased exams intended to prevent immigrants from becoming citizens. Happy test day!!

source, and the full text of his work that was later used to fuel anti-immigrant sentiment and prove the superiority of the “Nordic” race.

specifically jewish immigrants who were too smart and filling up the ivy leagues http://m.dailykos.com/story/2014/03/19/1285854/-The-SAT-s-Anti-Semitic-Roots

(Source: thecollegeboardblog, via ourwakingsoules)

marxvx:

Gay marriage became a demand so that partners of those with AIDS could have adequate visitation rights in hospitals. Gay people fought against housing discrimination because people with AIDS and their partners would be evicted to literally die on the street when they contracted HIV. Laws against distributing information about homosexuality to children were passed in many cities when gay people handed out information about safe sex outside of high schools because the government wasn’t teaching kids how to avoid HIV.

Remember that our history almost always goes back to the AIDS crisis. AIDS does not begin and end with Rent. Remember that the generation of young gay people directly before us, who would have been our friends and fellow bar patrons now, was almost entirely wiped out by AIDS. Contrary to what the gay media would now have you believe, gay marriage/etc was not fought for as a symbolic metaphor for public acceptance for gay lifestyle; these things were practical real-life demands made by gay people with AIDS, their partners, and their lesbian friends who became their caretakers and political allies. We are the first generation of gay and lesbian people since the AIDS epidemic and we need to honor our history because the HRC and President Obama are not going to. If we let them write our history, we are leaving victims of AIDS - and all of our culture that came from the AIDS crisis - by the wayside. AIDS forced gay people to leave the closet and fight in public for their lives and for their lovers’ lives, and that’s our history. Gay people as a culture come from the rebellious “out” culture of the 1980s and 1990s. We weren’t created by the HRC, celebrities in the early 2000s, or Democratic Party politicians.

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horsepuppies:

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