If you buy something from a store I work at, and that store gives me a paycheck, you and every other person who’s purchased something at that store are 100% in alignment with my opinions in all things.
Sorry, I didn’t make the rules, that’s just what the clowns still pretending that playing a video game makes you transphobic came up with.
I don't get this. People were barbarically slaughtered, families were erased, children saw their parents murdered, and were taken hostage. Women were raped and bodies were desecrated. No life was spared. It was one of the ugliest, scariest exhibitions of the pure evil humans are capable of. This is not resistance.
And all they do in this video is a memorial ceremony, that's all. Just plain human pain and grief. What kind of messed-up belief system makes a person stand next to it, yelling it was justified? Do these people think they are somehow moral? What is this.
Please make sure your support of the Palestinian people does not blind you to the celebration and glorification of murder on your side. Because you are playing perfectly into the hands of a terror organization.
truly nothing is more American than being like "yay I love the Marvel films yay I love the Captain America films" until the Captain America film has an Israeli superhero character who works with the Israeli military. and then we have to boycott it. but before this it was fine to support films about Captain America, an American superhero character who works with the American military!
our wholesome and universal commercialized nationalism vs their sinister child murdering nationalism!!! lmfao
ive made this unrebloggable but just in case someone gets up in my face I will make this crystal clear: I am not telling you to hate Israel less I am TELLING YOU TO HATE AMERICA MORE
Vetoing Palestine being invited to the UN gives me another reason to hate your country. I hate America and I hate anything to do with America, including you.
I finally watched the Scarlet Pimpernel period drama, and I'm kind of obsessed with how Percy manufactures moments so he can live out every swashbuckling adventure cliche imaginable.
My men have overpowered the enemy soldiers, stolen their uniforms and their guns, and by extreme good fortune, their commander hasn't noticed that none of them have the same face anymore? We could defeat my nemesis right now, but it'd be way cooler to have them use the bullets in their fully-loaded guns to stage my execution just so I can dramatically reappear just as my nemesis thinks he's won.
We've overpowered this guy and have him completely outnumbered, but I want to engage in a completely unnecessary one-on-one swordfight with him, because I will live out my swashbuckling dreams.
You overly dramatic idiot, I love you so much, but why are you like this?
a friend of mine, who is turkish and had a bigger bump in her nose, recently got rhinoplasty done and i was so, so, so SO mad at all the men that told her her nose was 'too big' or that she'd be prettier with a smaller nose, once almost clocked a guy for that comment when we were out clubbing, because her nose was SO SOS SOSOSO beautiful and ofc i'm glad she's feeling happy with it now but!!! yeah
There are a lot of plastic surgery procedures whose very concepts make me incredibly angry, but this is genuinely one of the most heartbreaking aspects of it all to me. Distinct nose bridges and strong profiles are one of the most beautiful things on earth to me and the fact that we have an entire industry built on destroying them (and justifying it in such an insidious manner, and no one bats an eyelid to it all) is just.....it really truly does anger me so deeply and because of that I'm just overcome with profound and unspeakable sadness every time I think about it. I remember seeing an artist's impression of the Cheddar Man, the oldest known human remains in Britain, which they reconstructed based on his skull and DNA (I think) and then they found he had descendants still living in that area. And one of them, after literally thousands--thousands--of years, had his nose. Still. I want ethnic rhinoplasty to die a quick but painful death.
Could we please all keep in mind that the concept of "The Jews In General, or A Specific Type Of Jew, Controls Education, Government, Media, and/or Banking", is a longstanding antisemitic trope?
And most of all, that it is false??
No, a marginalized group does not also control education, the government, the media, and/or banking?
No, Jews do not secretly control these things and just pretend to be marginalized? No, Jews have not secretly been accumulating power since the Holocaust, granted by too-generous gentiles, out of pity?
No, it isn't better if you just mean a specific subgroup or kind of Jews. It's still specifically Jews.
It's like when people who hate trans/queer people are fine with rich white cis gay men. So they think it's not bigoted to blame "people with blue hair and pronouns" for the downfall of society.
We all know this means, "I only see some of you as human like me. You have to speak and act a certain way to count. Everyone in your group has to pass a test to get into the Good group."
Doesn't work.
Sure, it gives them plausible deniability to the people who matter to them. But everyone else can see exactly how they feel.
We've all known for years that it's bad to think of a marginalized group as having some "good ones." Rein it the heck in, please.
Because YES, all of those examples are ones I've seen implied, or stated outright, over and over, within the progressive community. This month alone.
Seeing the same people who just a year ago were complaining about the wizard game being antisemitic now gladly sharing anti-semitic posts completely uncritically is certainly... something.
I wanna rant about how people will use the term "seperate the art from the artist" and then talk about fucking JK Rowling however I think I'll sound too much like an asshole so I'm just going to say I think it's super fucked up when people say "seperate the art from the artist" when talking about a bigot who is alive and whos bigotry is so ingrained in their works that even when they aren't actively involved in something it is still present. It shows a misunderstanding of what the term means and a disregard for the people that person is harming and in the case of Harry Potter has become an excuse for people to continue supporting and funding a known transphobe and all round bigot and her works that aren't even that fucking good.
What's crazy about the Harry Potter thing is how many people already knew liberals were closer to accepting fascism than fighting it and now not only are they proving us right, but they're still trying to convince us that their actions don't represent them somehow.
They want us to swallow the same logic they use to engage with JKR in the first place "separate the art from the artist" separate the consumer from what's being consumed.
Hold nobody accountable for anything that exists.
FUCK that.
Like babes, you can justify buying a transphobic white-supremacy game for some nostalgic dopamine but justifying Not owning it for the sake of trans, Jewish, and disabled lives is going too far?
Well Normal People who are not apologetic to Nazi-ideology and white supremacists don't think there's any justification for partaking in a book based in Nazi ideology just for dopamine. Especially when the author is still alive and breathing and using money from the white supremacy book to support white supremacist policies and TERFs that she "admires."
Do you hear yourselves? How are you trying to justify this? Who are you even trying to convince that it's okay? "I know I bought and love the Nazi game but only because it's so personal to me, so that should be allowed"
Like the fact JKR's views are common knowledge, they are easily found in relation to Any news at all about HP, and that the HP klan has had years to get over this and they just haven't.
ngl i hate it when u bring up how fucked up the show and fandom treats jermy and ppl respond w/ "he makes out w/ his dog" like idk how to tell you that jermy is not A Real Guy who made out w/ his dog the same way Dolph was not a kid who happened to look like hitler.
like both of those things are deliberate choices made by the writers to justify shitty, bigoted choices in the story and i need all of you to stop falling for it when people bring up the fact that it was fucked up.
also, other hot take that i think should be cold: people doing fucked up things does not justify bigotry. if the writers put in a trans caricature, misgendered them every step of the way, and then threw in a "they kiss dogs" ya'll would know thats bullshit. (or at least i hope you do) so put in the same fucking energy.
seems you don't know what words mean. transphobia is when trans people are oppressed. transmisogyny is the specific oppression trans women face that paints them as dangerous predators. transandrophobia is a word that tme people made up because they were jealous trans women had a special word that describes the specific intersection of misogyny & transphobia they experience
sorry, but by TME you mean transmisandry applicable, right? the whole fucking TMA/TME binary will only divide the community further. call me a transandrophobia truther or whatever other anti-semitic dogwhistle you prefer, but at the bare minimum trans men deserve to have something describing their oppression, just because we're, and get this, a community, and we shouldn't infight like you are currently doing, calling all the trans men jealous and saying they "made up" a word. you're using TERF arguments.