socialistexan:

White collar workers and executives: “Hurray, it’s labor day weekend! 3 full days off! We are so fortunate to live in a Great Country that Cares about it’s Workers!”

Service industry workers who know labor day weekend is one of the busiest 3 days of the year which means double or triple shifts and not seeing family all while being forced to be not only polite but cheerful:

felicityjcnes:

The National Museum in Rio is burning to the ground. 200 years of history – not only Brazilian history, but international – is turning into ashes. Countless researchers lost their works of years. 

This week we celebrate the Independence of Brazil. And we just lost almost all of our history.

I’m speechless. And devastated beyond words.

China Declared Islam a Contagious Disease — and Quarantined 1 Million Muslims

aka14kgold:

spicyratatooie:

neuroticpantomime:

vybewitme:

vfpalestine:

“Reeducation Camps”

Should sound familiar. 

Smh

Because I know a lot of people wanna claim anything critical of China to be Western propaganda:

https://www.alaraby.co.uk/english/comment/2018/7/9/the-uighur-muslim-crisis-is-worse-than-you-think

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2018/08/china-state-media-defends-xinjiang-muslim-crackdown-180813055304359.html

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/8/13/headlines/un_china_is_detaining_over_1_million_uighurs_in_massive_internment_camp

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2018/05/xinjiang-uyghur-china-repression-surveillance-islamophobia

https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2018/07/xinjiang-surveillance-model-expands-to-non-uyghur-muslims/

https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/asia/arrests-skyrocketed-in-china-s-muslim-far-west-in-2017-10561938

Note that this isn’t just about Islam: the Uyghurs are an ethnic minority in a Han-dominated state and the government does not have a great track record with non-Han minorities

The UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination condemned the detentions/camps/etc. a couple days ago. Obviously it won’t do any good (see Myanmar), but that should signal that it’s not a regional/proxy matter: people who know, know it’s (pre-)genocidal.

China Declared Islam a Contagious Disease — and Quarantined 1 Million Muslims