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[girlofprey]

1. The government are trying to get rid of the Human Rights Act again, and I just don't understand or get it or what or how. How is it even a possibility? They want to replace it with a 'British Bill of Rights', as if being British is better than being human, or like people who aren't British aren't human. Which, in fact, is what a lot of the changes seemed to be about. But also obviously they can just slightly change the law to make a lower level of healthcare acceptable or not a fundamental 'right', or lower standards of food safety so things can be produced more cheaply, or put people in prison for nothing, like protesting little things like taking the Human Rights Act away. laskdjalskfhnskldjfhn. My dad, whenever I bring this up, tells me I'm just being ridiculous and overdramatic, but the government had pretty much been found guilty of human rights abuses already by the UN, because of their handling of disability and unemployment benefits, and he's the one being naive, of either of us.



2. Leslie Jones is still being horribly, horribly harassed online. I don't even want to speak about it. But the guy who did it - leaked a bunch of her personal information after hacking her personal site - has admitted it and said 'this is for ruining Ghostbusters'. Because that saga's never allowed to end, the fact the film came out and was pretty good proved all of those cunts wrong, but they can't attack all of the women in the film over it or else maybe people will just think they were being misogynistic, all along. But you can just be racist to the one black woman, and pretend it's her 'not being able to take a joke' that's making it worse, and just try to make her every waking moment a misery and maybe that will make you feel a little bit better. I just feel so, so bad for her.
   
   There is a guy among the Let's Players I watch, and he was one of the main people I heard being negative about it before it came out, because the original was 'so important' to him. He literally said 'the cast is terrible', and 'that movie is probably not going to be very good'. Since it has come out, he has seen it and said he enjoyed it, but he has not said he was wrong. And the news channel for the company still now say the problem over Ghostbusters came from that one trailer being bad and everyone disliking it, and then the director throwing a 'hissy fit', and people turning against him because of that. When no. No. That news channel, who were happy to report how badly the trailer was doing, because that was internet news, are now casually not reporting on the horrible racist and sexist abuse Leslie Jones is experiencing. Because who needs to know about that?