Another Complaint We Get Is That When We Plant Trees, We Only Plant Small Trees Which Isn't Equivalent

*nsniff*

really?

grabs your hand. you've had enough plot and exposition and character development lately im taking you to the beach episode

Middle East Eye

'It's just racism': Eurovision roiled in controversy after criticising Palestinian scarf

Competition organisers said Eric Saade's keffiyeh 'compromised the event’s non-political nature' while supporters of the pop star underlined

The Eurovision song contest is facing intense scrunity and accusations of discrimination after it rebuked Swedish-Palestinian pop star Eric Saade for wearing a Palestinian scarf in the opening act of the semi-finals. Saade, whose father is of Palestinian origin, kicked off the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest in Malmo, Sweden on Tuesday evening with a keffiyeh, a traditional Palestinian and Arab male headdress, wrapped around his wrist. [...] In response, the organisers of the contest, European Broadcasting Union (EBU) released a statement saying it "regretted" that Saade wore the scarf. "The Eurovision Song Contest is a live TV show. All performers are made aware of the rules of the contest, and we regret that Eric Saade chose to compromise the non-political nature of the event," it said. [...] Eurovision later posted clips of the performances of the other two opening acts on its social media pages, but did not share Saade’s, prompting social media users to share the performance on their personal pages to show support for the artist.

Waving Palestinian flags, wearing traditional Palestinian garments, or if we're being honest, just being Palestinian, is now officially "too political" for Eurovision.

Literally, all Saade did was wear a keffiyeh around his wrist—while being Palestinian—and that was enough to get a statement from the EBU, and have his opening performance scrubbed from Youtube.

If you're not already boycotting Eurovision this year, then what the fuck is wrong with you?

Below are two statements from Saade. The first one, giving his reason for participating, was posted a few days ago, and the other was in response to the EBU accusing him of 'compromising the non-political nature' of the Genocide Song Contest:

Reminder again to BOYCOTT EUROVISION 🇵🇸

Easily my favourite moment in Epic

there is something horrifically grim to it, but illustrations for gaza and palestinians tend to catch more mass attention that actual photos of people. this made me feel incredibly helpless for a long while, seeing both how people would rather look at a neat drawing of red black green and white than look a human in the eyes, and how online platforms would rather push a viral drawing while suppressing those begging for help at the same time.

a way to cope with this feeling has been taking advantage of it to directly guide people to helping palestinians.

if art gets better traction, then there’s an incredible amount of good that can be done by creating art that immediately links to fundraisers. creating art of the many images of those who are asking for help.

within hours of posting my drawing, there has been jumps in the thousands for bashar from gaza’s fundraiser. it’s a small effort in the grand scheme of things. it’s not a fix it. but it’s something good. please take care of each other and do what you can. i think this could help a lot of people if a lot of people did it.

here is bashar. i’ve drawn him, spoken to him, and known him now for a few months. any shares help, any art helps. draw who you see, draw what you see. thanks all

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What do *I* bring to the family picnic? Pictures of boys kissing

I'm so deep in the house brainrot I thought this was Hugh Laurie

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*combusts into a pile of star stuff*

Donkey. He's a happily married man and a father and OP failed to recognize his beautiful family

Support group

9/10

My name was dope as hell, but apparently every single one of my teachers was illiterate so I constantly had to correct them. Also I had a neat nickname

Trans people should rate their deadnames on a scale of 1-10. Mines a 2/10, dogshit name, cant imagine birthing a baby looking at it and naming it that

@poppytheaxolotl @moreover-clover @aceing-on-the-cake

On Friendship.

HOLY SHIT THIS IS SO GOOD

This if fucking HARD. The arms just keep clipping through the coat.