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modharvest · 4 months

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In another universe

#ochako uraraka #toga himiko #togachako #wlw #my hero academia #my hero acadamy #boku no hero academia #any racist will be obliterated #harvs art

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evilwizard · 1 year

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Thanks for posting about the goblin/antisemitism debate. It's such a nuanced topic and I've already learned a lot from just your posts (and asks). It's great to hear everyone's opinions and I'm loving how civil and understanding everyone is being. It's refreshing to see x

Thanks! I’ve received enough responses to my post about antisemitic tropes in goblins (all very respectful, thank you) that I don’t really have the time/energy to respond to them all. So I’m going to take some time to compile all the responses I got into a Google doc so that people can use these responses in research. Feel free to keep sending them in! Adding details about your particular perspective (as a Jew/Gentile, Western/Non-Western background, etc) would be really helpful.

#evil academia #<- new tag for conversations about history/mythology/etc #evil inbox #lost some followers for this but big fucking deal I don’t like racists in my notes anyway

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alatismeni-theitsa · 1 year

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https://twitter.com/Nervana_1/status/1646262493482811392?t=O3lpnJa8SR06sP2HiW3svg&s=19

*big sigh* again they decided to make a Cleopatra documentary by casting a black actress instead of a Greek or at least Mediterranean.

No hate on the actress she just did her job!, it's the producers fault for deciding that they prefer skin colour diversity or ethnicity.

I am sorry...... are Mediterranean skintones something like a canvas or a "default" color to the USAmerican producers of the movie and the platform itself?? Are we a coloring book or something to them?? We are not a people but an idea or something? The mindset behind this change is disgusting! As a Macedonian Greek I feel so repulsed by how they erase us every fucking time because they refuse to do a one-minute Google search.

Did they COMPLETELY ignore how North Mediterranean people look (Cleopatra's family was North Greek) in order to give some hollow Black "representation?" Cleopatra wasn't even Black! (And we don't consider her Brown either!) If we are at a point where racebending historical figures who were most famously Not Black is widely accepted, we really need to examine how this "historical revision" is spiraling.

Next time you hear USian media "respects culture" and it's "inclusionary" please know that this is a load of bullshit. They are ignorant and entitled still, but with a performative goodness as a cover.

On what grounds do the producers and the actors feel comfortable taking representation away from Mediterraneans? A representation we need, mind you, because as it's APPARENT, people don't know how we look!

Especially USAmericans who produce worldwide media and are responsible for the image of the Greek culture and people around the world. They have no freaking idea. They don't know how to spot us or recognize us! And they still insist on racist stereotypes from the 1920s-1940s because of almost nonexistent Greek representation (and North Greek representation)!

The Tweet is made by an Egyptian btw! And Egyptians do well to speak for the USAmericanization of their culture because they are at the same boat as us Greeks when it comes to how we are perceived worldwide due to USAmerican media.

Also since there's an overlap on how Greeks and Egyptians look, it would be fine if an Egyptian or any other Mediterranean would play her honestly. But for Cleopatra, the first person you consider is a Greek woman! (North Greek woman specifically, if you want to accurately capture the mixes of that area)

The trailer is even worse because there's a Caucasian (for a lack of a better term!) Egyptian guy saying "I imagine her like me, with curly hair" while he doesn't have Black hair. Yet the documentary pretends they somehow fulfilled his wish by casting an actress who has Black hair.

Also I think we have depictions of Cleopatra so the way you imagine her, even if you are Greek or Egyptian, you need to take this into account as a guideline. "I imagine" is not how you respectfully depict historical figures!

The point is they relied on that comment to decide she must have curly = aka Black hair. Which..... is not the case. If you go around in Curly Hair circles there are different types. And Black people also know that protective styles for their hair won't protect the curly hair of Caucasian people. I knew a few North Greeks who have this type of hair - as this guy - and they are definitely not Black.

Oh, and the actress doesn't have a skin color like this guy, he is much lighter and, according to USians, he is Brown, not Black. (I hate using the terms but whatever) The actress who plays Cleopatra, Adele James, isn't even partly Egyptian or Greek from what I know?

And the fact that the documentary depicts the Ptolemys (North Greeks) and North Egyptians as Black USians (African Americans)?? The people in these lands.... don't look like this! Just GO to these places and see the people living there, SEE their ancient depictions that give us images of people in these lands thousands of years back! The fucking audacity and the outright racism to assume things about how people look just from stereotypes, and then sell that for money!

Then we have this random woman from the US... They use a quote from her "No matter what they tell you in school, Cleopatra was Black". Sure... Sure fam

How tf is it acceptable to take a shit on the effort of the Greek and Egyptian huge archaeological teams and expertise by saying "ACTUALLY, you guys don't know your own history! You are primitive and you cannot POSSIBLY have the tools or the knowledge to examine how Cleopatra looked!"

Anyways, take some faithful reconstructions of Cleopatra, based on her depictions, where she looks Mediterranean and Greek!

#Again sorry for the use of “Caucasian”! But I'd rather use it than use the USian terms which in my culture are overly racist #like.. i am not comfortable with them and i just use them so people can understand internationally what i mean #Please suggest a better term if you have it!#Cleopatra netflix #answered #xenoi doing bs #representation #history #academia #archaeology

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coffeeandcalligraphy · 7 months

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my how to write a short story video hitting the algorithm and gaining 4.5k views in a month is soooo important to me like that “formula” is one of my best pieces of writing theory I’ve put out!!!

#that video FLOPPPPEEEDDD when it came out which I didn’t rlly care abt but I kinda did cuz I put a lot of effort into it LOL #BUUUUT goes to show how random algorithms are!#it randomly hit the algorithm in May and TOOK off in august! I think I posted it in December !!#like what’s most exciting isn’t the views to be clear lol BUT the fact that more ppl know this writing theory #I’m so passionate about it I shared it with my workshop & my prof asked if he could share it with the intro writing class LOLLL #Rachel really should be a prof but I hate academia bc the institution is racist and ableist etc & I would die <3333 #I EXPANDED on what was in the video ACTUALLY I should post the updated memo here!

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hiriaeth · 2 months

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Twitter has been eye opening to say the least, like black folks are just as cooked as the yts they want approval from which I knew, just had no idea how many of you are getting fucked and willingly. I'm in my Joker era so its sad but also kinda funny to me.

#black mormons and black ppl being recruited through trad videos on tiktok and instagram????#black women marrying racist ass yt men in academia and media and for what....#black nerds that primarily form their identity through media are into some real house handmaiden shit like wtf....#black ppl whose identity revolved around being blue maga or maga gag #anyways

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maxellminidisc · 2 months

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The way other nb Latines (and non black people in general) on this site stay calling Black people (and mind you not only Black people in the US) "yankee" and shit for their upset... why not just be direct and refer EXACTLY to who and what you're refering to without being a pussy....

Like in reference to debate on the Motaz video possibly being taken out of context or mistranslated, most of the people I saw upset were Sudanese as well, not just Black Americans. It's not some great fucking conspiracy of "cancel culture" to come to the possible conclusion of antiblackness when your community is consistently used as the worlds fucking punching bag despite many of us as nb poc denying that and perpetuating that behavior.

Plus multiple of the people I saw addressing this never said Motaz deserves anything bad happening to him, or talked about dismissing his experiences, work, advocacy for his people or that of all Palestinians, or talked about throwing him to the wolves or whatever. They simply were just expressing dissapointment or reminding people of the importance of Black and Palestinian solidarity despite the issue. But to act like Black people collectively got together to "crush" him is fucking insaaanneee.

Like its unfortunate if it was a mistake and its upsetting that it could've caused others to think negatively of him; he doesn't deserve that if so. But being an antiblack loser yourself in your attempt to correct the issue is fucking stupid and disgusting.

Edit: The shit that spurred this has been given some more context as to who made it, so I wont comment further. But I want to keep this up for non black people who will probably and inevitably use the posts I saw that prompted this and the issue with Motaz to perpetuate their own antiblack agenda. That's not your fucking right to come in and use this issue to shit on Black people for their hurt or efforts to address that hurt.

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misssclumsy · 7 months

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These aunties are talking about successful merriage like "arree ladki to bahut Gori hai, ekdum safed,sabse sundar bahu hogi" "Haan or suna hai ladka ka Ghar bada shandaar hai tiles marble ka Ghar hai, AC bhi hai Ghar mein to" like WHAT THE ACTUAL HELL C'MON BITCHES THESE F THING IS NOT HOW A SUCCESSFUL MERRIAGE LOOKS LIKE

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hussyknee · 1 year

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She's an Asian scientist and this was in response to Richard Dawkins insisting that the indigenous knowledge of Aotearoa was unscientific. But also pretty universally applicable to privileged white academics and cis dudes.

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shigithulu · 1 year

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The LoV would kill you if you were a bigot of any kind.

Thats not a headcanon. It’s canon.

#no terfs or racists or homophobes or misogynists or any bigots in this fandom every #you are not safe here #league of villains #my hero academia #dusting

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defsiarte · 4 months

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after seeing the replies of a truly horrific AITA. Need to say this again here:

If you unironically use the phrase “fandom police” in any form, get mad at the idea of applying moral analysis to fiction, or anything along those lines I’m blocking your ass.

#also if you’re white and do this. please know that you are soooo susceptible to racist propaganda #bc like. bro look at me. fandom is for fun right? why does any sort of deeper analysis than ‘omg I ship these characters XD’ piss you off?#the stance that media should not be analyzed or critiqued is one based in privilege.#I genuinely feel that if you are such a person I don’t want you in my circle bc you’ve never had to defend yourself or loved ones from—#the damage that racist/otherwise bigoted propaganda can do to one’s community.#if you cannot understand that every action has an impact. however small. I genuinely want nothing to do with you #and no this doesn’t mean I hate any morally dubious characters/media. anyone who knows me knows I like weird shit #HOWEVER! I also focus a lot of my time in academia on media analysis. I spend a lot of my time in therapy on character analysis.#bc if I watch a show about a guy who kills people. I want to also think/talk about why he’d want to kill people and what the greater meaning #of that would be.#you dumb fuck.#anyway lol lmao turning off reblogs bc I don’t want to bait people into arguing #honking

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jvzebel-x · 1 year

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"I hate how they have the power to kill my future-- kill me. They treat my black skin like a gun or a grenade or a knife that's dangerous and lethal. When, really, it's them. The guys at the top, powering everything."

x. "Ace of Spades", Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

#Ace of Spades #Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé #📚#so. as a rule i usually dont like books that center around school for extremely obvious reasons lol.#a young protag is one thing but a plotline that heavily revolves around school life is. issa no for me lol.#BUT i got recd this book&when i went to go look for reviews the first one listed ripped the book apart.#the language the reviewer used was... questionable seeing as systemic racism was the primary theme lol.#the next review i read however was by a reviewer who LOVED it. in fact the reviews i saw were split basically down the middle.#seeing as the primary theme was systemic racism+antiblackness (w a strong focus on microaggressions) in higher acedemia specifically #&socioeconomics in general it wasnt difficult to guess WHY the split was there lmao&i read the book&yeah lol.#anyway it wasnt like. a perfectly plotted book; like there were certain sideplots that were never really given closure #but its also the debut novel of a Nigerian British author who v specifically wrote a whole authors note #to detail the fact that she wrote the book during a v dark time in her life when she was dealing w systemic racism in academia #so the lack of closure on certain points sounds&feels like she wrote this book for a purpose&those themes werent it.#&the purpose&allegory she was trying to make was really well done. i hope she keeps writing.#... as an aside i was recd this book bc i was recd donna tart first&realized while reading the goldfinch that like.#theres a reason why i see her work clipped&out of context everywhere lmao shes racist as fuck.#nothing like being punched in the gut by the n word out of nowhere spoken by a yt character written by a yt author lmao.#... cannot understand why this woman is like. The End Word in dark academia fiction??? shes terrible???#so yeah i went looking for a better dark academia book lmao.#also found several articles about this issue w donna tartt so i guess i should have just googled it first LMAO.

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gradling · 4 months

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I know I’m behind on the news but both the University of Wisconsin and the entire state of Oklahoma cutting/banning DEI this week 🙃🙃🙃

#like dei initiatives are so far from solutions to racism but the backlash against them is also so explicitly racist #academia

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aint-thata-bitch · 2 years

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I dont even ship bakudeku but an anti decided to be a little bitch in my dms for liking one of their posts so guess what this page is now on bakudeku lockdown for the foreseeable future because if I'm going to be found annoying then it will be on purpose.

#bnha #boku no hero academia #bakugou katsuki #bakugou #kacchan #bakudeku #bkdk #they also called me racist for having a blm profile pic lmao #if you see this you know who you are and yes the next few months will be dedicated to you and only you <3

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the-iron-fjord · 1 year

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>tfw you’re safe because it’s Black History Month and you have death immunity for 2 more weeks

#toonami #my hero academia #Unless Hori is racist

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alyensmemoir · 8 months

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I'm not that regular on social media, but lately I've been witnessing so much of hatred between religions in my country. I'm ashamed to share this, but I was concerned. the youth of my country are wasting their most important years of their lives in promoting religious beliefs around and increasing hatred against other religions, which is very sad. and this name changing agenda... I don't know what good it will bring. it may lead to various misconceptions inside the country for various groups of people(it's already happening.) all I ask is, handle with care. this subject is kinda sensitive and fragile. just provide the awareness about the situation to people around you who are acting like racists. we are educated young people of the country. taking care of our country is our responsibility. UNITE WE WIN. DIVIDE WE FALL.

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etherealacademia · 2 years

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dakota warren blocked me on tiktok <3

#dark academia #personal #it was after i told one of her fans that hemingway (the racist misogynist) was not worth reading #although i think me questioning why she recommends bukowski to people also contributed to this event

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