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Me and bestie are having a conversation about what whiteness even is and we reached the point where even I had to reread the conversation once or twice and be like wait.

And I’d love for to include y'all in on this (especially white people) cuz it seems fairly profound to me and I’m wondering if anyone has anything to add (even on anon, like this convo is so interesting to me rn and I’m so genuinely invested in hearing y'all’s thoughts).

And when I say whiteness I mean the construct of whiteness, not necessarily white people. Just wanna clarify that.

So Whiteness -after this talk- at it’s core really just seems like it’s about being seen as better than others. It’s almost defined more by everything white people don’t want than what they Do want to be. Not much else.

And what they don’t want is to be like the poor, the savages, those icky colored people, the gays, and those gd annoying mentally ill people. And whiteness means separating yourself from them by any means necessary. Shitting on poor people, stigmatizing mental illness, calling poor whites White Trash, trying to eugenics/genocide everyone you dont like out of existence, “luxury food”, 1st class seats, comparing dicks and country GDP, measuring success by numbers and accomplishments, hoarding more and more billions of dollars just because you can, having the newest/latest gadget to prove how trendy and well off you are, children’s pageants, punishing everyone who can’t meet the standards of whiteness with shame and passive aggressive “well if you tried harder…”

Everything is centered around being better than someone else in any way you can measure.

And following that same line of thought… Whiteness can’t count generosity. It can’t tally how good your music taste is to determine your artistic value. It can’t break down how much you care about your community into a braggable percentage. There is no way to prove that you support human rights more than anyone else. Supporting BLM and Landback doesn’t increase your social currency. You can’t argue and prove with evidence that you’re the funniest person in the room. You can not add, subtract, debate, or use logic to make someone understand and accept you’re a Nicer person than them. There is no I’m An Objectively Loyal Friend test that you could humble brag about passing to your #positivevibes insta followers. Being happy and content with your life doesn’t make you morally better than anyone else. Being there for people when they need you isn’t how you get on a magazine cover- so that’s not success. And most importantly Whiteness has no measure for when you’ve been a good enough person, let alone better than anyone else. You’re eternally building yourself up with no sense of relief or accomplishment.

Imo, whiteness happens when you take every natural thing about being human and make humans hate it.

And that’s just my take after some discussion. Look at the golden truth bombs bestie is illuminating on whiteness though. Because damn.

Y'all really live like that???

All seems to boil down to the fact that perhaps white people struggle so much to dismantle whiteness because you have no sense of self or clue on how to behave outside of it.

How many of my white followers would agree with that? And if you do… Are you discussing this with other white people or is this something most don’t even think about? Or is this like a thing you all Feel but never talk about? And if you disagree with the post… Can you tell me why?

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The tags on my whiteness post said to me that white people (at least those that are racially aware) and colonized natives perhaps have more in common than most people think. Or at least more than they talk about it in public.

Not that they're the same. Misogyny and transphobia are not the same, but they are both veins of oppression in a patriarchy. Similar.

In the same way, that empty hollowness white ppl feel where your culture should be is not unlike what I feel as a native, from what I've read of your accounts. Learning your ancestors chose whiteness and safety and comfort over culture and identity. That now you have nothing because of the colonization and assimilation your grandparents experienced when they got to the USA. Because of whiteness. Because of the power it has even just as a concept in the US.

We experience these for much different reasons and at least your loss bought you privilege.

... but they aren't total opposites either. A hollowness where you know rich history used to be? Having culture but feeling a disconnect where you know More used to be? Feeling like you only have scraps of the culture your family used to have? Clinging to what you can get your hands on? Feeling like it's so detached that it's not really yours?

I get that and I bet I'm not the only one.

The USA's habit for white supremacy, racism, and colonization hurt all of us.

And it will benefit all of us to discard the systems those things built. They're still there and still hurting every one of us.

We can build a future that benefits us all instead as soon as we all start working on that together.

But we can't do that if some of us refuse to admit the system is what's hurting us. If we refuse to acknowledge that even with perfect politicians our Systems would still prevent progress because they are built on outdated and white supremacist ideals we'll just continue to suffer together under those systems instead.

We can't keep attacking each other just because some of us refuse to look at the ideologies fueling our current reality.

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Characters being compared to dogs always use terriers or pitbulls or something for their metaphors. “They grab on and they don’t let go” “They keep worrying at it until it’s dead” etc.

Anyway, I want to see collies used as metaphors. Albert Payson Terhune style. “He was like an attack dog–making slash-and-run attacks, cutting them up worse every time, never staying in range long enough to get hurt but circling back over and over.”

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Ernie Bushmiller kind of predicted the Internet in this early 1950's Fritzi Ritz comic

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goes hard

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mary magdalene: jesus has risen from the dead!

thomas: no he hasn't.

jesus:

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Love this strip

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*opens the oven after preheating to 400*

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saw this post and got inspired

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hot take: the reason Lord of the Rings doesn’t go much into Aragorn’s tax policy is bcos Lord of the Rings is not about Aragorn. Lord of the Rings is about hobbits.

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judas was probably like "jesus has pulled off so many wacky things, he'll get out of this one lickity split, and i get three shiny coins out of it, too"

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Look the only thing you should be by age 30 is

✨Sick of This Shit✨

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Petition for Collaboration

This is my official petition for @burnwater13 and @keethus-arts to do some collab work!

I would LOVE it if @keethus-arts would illustrate a moment or two from BurnWater’s fics. Might I suggest “Grogu Teaches the Mandalorian to Meditate” or “Grogu and R2-D2 Pick Up Take Out”?

I would also LOVE it if @burnwater13 would (with permission, obvs) include a cameo of Keethus’ Mandalorian OC, Keera Torealiis (description found in the embedded link and in all posts with the hashtag #Keera Torealiis).

You two are my favorite Mandalorian fan creators, and I’d just really love to see you two collaborate!! 💚💚💚

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