#because they always sound racist

[pulchrasilva]

Sigh I need to rant about certain people and how there is a background noise of discomfort with every interaction after particular incidents that made me go "bitch you live like this???" but all my typical vent spaces are ones where they might see it and the only ones that they wouldn't see it in are like discord channels that are not for this topic of vent or friends who would be uncomfortable with the topic etc like,,, what do I even do? Stew in it?

#catch me very carefully not saying any details about them or the incidents because i dont want them to knowww #i suddenly understand so much better why my dad stays friends with people who are racist/islamophobic to his face #like yeah theyre fun to talk to and they enjoy the same silly shows as me #qnd when were not talking about The Things its easy to forget about The Incidents #but every conversation feels like im hiding part of myself. it feels like if i stop hiding I'll be crucified #theyre fucking scary bro wtf. i didnt know people like that were real that was always abstract fandom drama stuff #and its not THAT scary but also im terrified after only brief glimpses it could be so much worse but if we dont talk about it I'll never #need to know #im like. king of letting go of the incident anf never talking about it but endlessly rotating it and stewing in it and holding a grudge #ummm. ya. fun times 👍 #shout out to my brother for letting me talk about it though they're cool as fuck for that #i need more non-white friends who arent online #or at least arent online in the same circles as these people #tbf i need more non-white friends full stop 😭 #i need more friends who are freaks also #if i dont go 'theres something wrong with you' at least once a week then theres something wrong #wait that sounds funny lmao #but yeah i need people who are weird and gross and disturbing. not people who are normal with rancid vibes #uhh whatever. I'll get over it <- lying #vent post #if you're wondering if this post is about you it's probably not. probably #sobbing i hate vagueposting it's so mean but what else do i do here #gotta start making people fill out a questionnaire before i allow them so deep into my life istg

[bancaishi]

didn't want to put this rant in the tags of that last post but honestly i feel like a lot of people hate toshiro disproportionately compared to what he actually did in-story. and if we're being real it's most likely because of racism

#xyx.txt #because so much of his misunderstanding of laios comes from a cultural angle #and because his mannerisms are strongly coded as japanese especially relative to the other characters in the story #i think a lot of people's implicit biases have them reading this as an inherent and unchangeable aspect of his being #rather than being just one aspect of him that originates from a particular context and is fully changeable #like any other trait on anyone else. #part of this is just because of the fact that the story is told from laios and his party's perspective #but i think a lot of people's perspectives on him are probably informed by racism #not all east asians are quiet and polite. i know this myself as a kind of loud and awkward and easily excited east asian person myself #but generally cultural mannerisms from east asia tend to be more subdued overall than western ones #so it's. not uncommon. for western people to read east asians as being rude or cold or aloof just for behaving like this #the 'oriental inscrutability' moment... #like he doesn't need to 'get rid of the stick up his ass'. he just needs to not put such heavy expectations on other people #(and also divest himself of his family and whatever the hell they were doing with inutade and izutsumi because Jesus Christ) #but yeah i think a lot of people are way more unsympathetic to him than they would have been if he were not so distinctly asian-coded #which is ironic! a lot of people being really mad at him for ableism specifically in the social expectations he holds of others #while applying the same kind of judgment to him but through the perspective of race instead of neurodivergence. suspicious. #blah blah blah it's because he's 'neurotypical' or whatever #predicting how some of you people would behave toward neurodivergent asian people and the outlook isn't good #also if we're on the subject of microaggressions. #laios repeatedly and insistently calling him 'shuro' to the point that everyone else calls him that too #that's not 'funny autism bad with names' moment that's a racist microaggression #someone misnaming me because of my distinctly ethnic/foreign-sounding name doesn't automatically become funny and relatable #just because you're neurodivergent lol #can we maybe have more empathy toward characters and people of color in fandom #instead of always using them as punching bag side character trope #thanks.

[tariah23]

Hi I hope this question makes sense but how would I call out friends use of what might be aave? Im worried about being wrong and it not being aave/sounding like a white knight but I dont want to ignore it.

Hi! And no, you’re fine. If you’re not black, it’s always best to look up terms and listen to what black people say to begin with, that’s the most important thing and if you’ve seen black people talk about a specific term that you might recognize as being aave, simply let your friends know that they shouldn’t really be using such terms in the first place since at this point, viewed as antiblack and micro aggressive because Black people have grown tired of having to talk about this same problem over and over again. Especially when they use such terms directed at Black people. If they continue to use the terms despite being told not to, then you already know what they are.

#I won’t deem everyone who isn’t black a full blown racist for continuing to use aave but it does show that they don’t respect us at all #and that being merely told about how harmful and uncomfortable it is for them to continue on using them while ignoring what black #people are always saying about such topics… well 🗿 #meh #anonymous #tkf replies #what can you do #people still make fun of how black peoples talk but as soon as our terms go viral and turned into stupid internet slang all of a sudden #there are white kids and nbs from the suburbs and across the world running them into the ground and misusing them like hell #and in the same manner #they don’t even realize that they just end up embarrassing themselves in the same way old people try to act ‘hip’ and with the times by #using slang #it’s very… #this is literally how it looks to black people whenever nbs and white folks use it #it’s just very uncomfortable #and it’s even worse when you have them explaining terms and adding their own twists and definitions to terms that they never understood to #begin with #it’s rather unsightly lol #makes me cringe #sometimes I don’t even say shit anymore because I’d see mutuals use aave and I’d go ‘um…. 🧍🏾‍♀️?’ like it’s so… #it always comes back to nbs and whites thinking that the way that black people talk is “’funny’ and when they want to act tough irl or over #the internet they start throwing out all sorts of aave terms like a baby learning it’s first words #the most incomprehensible string of words pulled together in hopes of appearing either ‘cool’ or ‘intimidating’ #it’s… 👎🏾 #funny thing is #the lot of these people don’t even have black friends or talk to black ppl in rl #a lot of them act like they’re afraid of us for some reason and would pull a 60’s white woman crossing the street so fast but be on the #internet talking about some ‘don’t get caught lackin!’ like oh brother #you get how this sounds right 😭!? it’s ridiculous

[bird-of-eternia]

I think a hard part of writing is making sure you're not writing a character based off of bias, stereotype ideas you might not even have.

Like making a new creature/species and not wanting to base them off of real life people. At least not in a way that could be offensive.

#im always worrying about this #i ask all the time #does this sound okay? #like i don't want to make a species and some day someone thinks im racist because its similar to a real lofe culture #how do you vet your writing? #orcs/goblins have a rough history embedded in racism #but now they have become something new and moved past that #do i sound crazy? #scifi #theprophet #writer #space #author #originalstory

[just-rogi]

I just had the single most uncomfortable phone call of my LIFE !!! Someone run my phone over with a TRACTOR and then SHOOT it with an GUN!!

#basically I was talking to a coworker asking for advice on how to handle another coworker of ours who had said some vaguely racist shit #fairly regularly #like she’s older so her heart is in the right place but it’s…. uncomfortable yk ? #and this coworker set up a meeting with admin to talk about how I feel victimized and am afraid to speak up (I’m not) #but I had my meeting and basically said ‘I want it on paper that I talked to y’all and asked for advice but I’d rather try to approach this #on my own and solve it person to person without attacking her or having her reprimanded’ #and admin was like cool so we are actually totally gonna let you do that and also have a meeting where we do the opposite of that tehe #so I got a call from my coworker today that was like ‘UHHHH DID YOU GO TO ADMIN AND TELL THEM YOU ARE UNCOMFORTABLE IN MY CLASSROOM BECAUSE #YOU THINK IM RACIST??’ #like bro #I eat one meal a day and I get this shit during my dinner time #fuuuuuuuccccckkkk #like I was completely blindsided with this and thank god I can talk normally while crying bc I was fuckjng sobbing from anxiety #like yeah you did say some racist shit but working with you is better than working with any of the other people who don’t have their shit #together #as shitty as it sounds I’ve kinda come accept a certian level of micro aggression (and macroagressiom bc tbh Glenda girl you go too far) #like I’m always uncomfortable and always unhappy and I’m always gonna be like that but NOW I’m uncomfortable because I’m getting #a phone call during MY dinner bc admin did exactly what I did not want them to do #like I wish there was a way that I could be like ‘yo I’m formally reporting that some shady shit is happening- I wanna handle it peacefully’ #‘but if it can’t be resolved I want to cover my ass and not get my words twisted #I like working with Glenda most of the time… just not when she’s talking about white privelage or lack there of… #no Gelnda the teacher shortage isn’t caused by bps only hiring poc teachers and not giving jobs to white people #I promise reverse racism isn’t the root of why we can’t get coverage for music health or financial literacy or seventh grade ELA or math #idk idk I’m not doing it Justice #like I was uncomfortable in the classroom before but now I’m gonna be MORE uncomfortable bc all this shit blew up in my face #all this taught me is to never speak up about microaggressions and never go to administration with concerns of how to solve issues- #you know: the exact WRONG takeaway because everything is so fucking messy #fuck me I can’t wait to apply for work outside of the US #also not to have a cynic victim mentally but none of this shot would’ve happened if I was white… :/ #but yeah.. whatever … middle eastern people don’t experience racism ig

[nexus-nebulae]

ok i know that elder scrolls lore is kinda really not great at times but the Redguards (aka The Only People Of Colour) literally being the only human race in the elder scrolls to not share any common ancestors with the other human races (aka, All Of The White People) feels really fucking racist.

#disclaimer for this i'm Very Fucking White so i might be really stupid about this but #i may talk about the elder scrolls a lot but i will never fucking agree with it bc they do shit like THIS #i mean the whole thing with the dunmer (literally the Dark Elves) being the One elf race that's considered 'the Bad One' is bad enough #and i mean the fact that in skyrim you literally have to be a racist against dunmer to pick one of the faction options isn't fucking nice #also racist against argonians i mean the city has literal segregation going on #but also the way they treat Redguards in the games almost always makes me really uncomfortable #especially because Redguard is LITERALLY THE ONLY POC OPTION IN THE GAME #and certain aspects of khajiit and argonian culture reflecting real-world cultures #which i wouldn't know which cultures because i genuinely don't know how to connect anything to any specific culture no matter what #everything blends together in my head i just Don't Know Anything About People #but i KNOW THEY SURE AS SHIT AREN'T BASED ON WHITE CULTURES!!!! #and making the only representation for non-white be 'human that might be a different TYPE OF HUMAN' or 'FUCKING ANIMAL' #SOUNDS PRETTY FUCKING RACIST #THAT SOUNDS TO ME A LOT LIKE HOW EUGENICISTS IN REAL LIFE WOULD TRY TO PROVE THAT BLACK PEOPLE WERE A DIFFERENT SPECIES #WHICH IS PRETTY FUCKING RACIST

[feywildfox]

Mm i left bandom space a long long time ago. I mean I'm not that old but ten years ago is still pretty long. And frankly if i overstep lemme know.

Honestly at this point i shouldnt be surprised so many people are actually still inherently racist towards Ray, but also i think, i should be. Because i genuinely expected better from mcr bandom, but again, left bandom spaces a decade ago...

It's pretty sad? Like. I'll admit, I didn't realize Ray was actually a man of colour when i was younger. I think i realized right around the time i left at 15 or so. Which also really goes to show that racism towards him and making him seem as white as possible which definitely i think was a thing. Like in comparison, I knew pete wentz was mixed long before i figured out Ray was a poc. It says a lot about the space at the time and i had honestly thought it'd be better now.

I've loved mcr for years, but i havent been IN love with them for a while. It happens, relationships and feeling wax and wane. But this tour, the excitement and love recently ignited in not just Gerard with all their gender fuckery, but the whole band, has brought a love and joy back into my life for music that hit me in the heart as a preteen and teenager.

And none of that would be possible without Ray Toro putting his all into the feelings and conveying of in his music. Mikey made the band, but ray MAKES the band. He is absolutely fucking integral and it is disgusting & disheartening to see him treated such a way. What the fuck even, hearing that streamers are zooming in on frank during Rays solos?? Like do the fuck better? I'm honestly disappointed as fuck in that shit. Like I know this whole thing is a little disjointed stream of consciousness type post but really. White people do better challenge! Its literally SO fucking easy. The real camera guys are RIGHT THERE showing what to fucking do!

You can love the others as much as you want but jesus fuck give Ray the same fucking courtesy. Stop ignoring your racism, start recognizing the issues that plague you from being white and growing up in white privilege. I sure as fuck still have plenty of shit to work on but at least i can say i can do the bare fucking MINIMUM of giving Ray Toro the respect and attention he absolutely fucking deserves.

Like I do hope this is understood I am not trying to speak over anyone but simply say from one white to another: you need to do better. If that's how you treat a member of supposedly one of your fav bands, i genuinely fear for the poc you encounter in your life. The harm you cause by staying blind may be incremental but it builds up until it's a mountain. Do fucking better.

#not the picturesque emo #fans #its 1 am so this is not. the modt coherent thing but i hope it gets the point across as someone who has been outside of bandom space #i mever realized how big an issue it was but honestly i should have known #im not going point at myself as a pure example of what to do because honestly ive loved mcr from a distance for a while #i have always loved them all but literally its ridiculous coming back ten years later #and finding out that yeah no. rays apparently or whatever the fuck #like uh what. emo is a style #its a sounds a love language a voice for people an expression #sure there are certain clothes or jewelry or makeup that can play into it but NONE of that actually means shit #because it can be turned corpo and ripped up and spat back all sanatized. ray is emo. ray is a man of colour. he's a rock god on the guitar #NONE of that is mutally fucking exclusive! ray toro is just as important as anyone else in the band #ray toro deserves SO much respect and he does NOT deserve to have people claim they are of mcr then treat him like that #you are not an mcr fan you are a pretentious racist asshole who needs to check ther privileges at the fucking gate thank you #fox squawks #im tired and angry now and im sorry to all the poc in the fandom who have to deal w this on a constant basis you all deserve a lot better #im sure yall feel way worse than i do and i genuinely hope people can realize the shit theyve been doing. #i am always happy to go toe to toe w other dumbass white ppl and call them out on their bs #i dont see it because i curate my dash to the point drama is usually a mild breeze at best but i am more than willing to #weaponize my whiteness to force other white ppl to think. if you gotta point me at em do it idc. like a lil attack chihuahua or something. #idk #im lagging now but my fingers dont want to stop typing bc i am nervous abt posting this but yknow. whatever if i fuck up i learn & move on! #we Do Not succumb to white guilt we gracefully say im sorry for that thank you for pointing it out even though you didnt have to i know its #exhausting to do constantly i will keep that in mind and then we do! and we modify our behavior! and we DO. BETTER

[xbuster]

Saw a post whining about how anime voices sound now and saying they missed when anime voices were deep and like... you are wishing for a time that has never existed. Since the dawn of anime there have been characters with squeaky high voices. This has always been the case. Just stop being stupid and watch good shows. Just a completely nothing post.

#the people replying and reblogging the post were also being horribly racist because of course they are #anime is always seen as a free pass to be racist towards japanese people #these people would probably hear a japanese person talking normally and think they sound annoying

[mx-paint]

Some of you really go read a book that is about the authors experience with racism and trauma and...are surprised...when the book...is about racism and trauma???

#'she was always mentioning how people were racist towards her' #yeah cause people were being racist towards her???? #yall are so annoying #'i walked into bensons steakhouse and was immediately appalled at the fact they served steak 😱' #thats how you sound like seriously #like its about experiences of racism and trauma and generational trauma #and to top it all off the reason the school she went to accepted her and her friend on the fact they didnt Have any people of color #And the secret society that she is a part of try to kick her out because shes black and a girl #like. wtf #these types of reviews are the stupidest ones ive ever seen #'they showed no signs of being gay' harold theyve been flirting since the first interaction #just bc they werent wearing rainbow pins and praising judy garland doesnt mean theyre not gay #'they mentioned her hair and she cried racism' they were touching her wo consent and were saying how she looks exotic #besides the scene where they Only mention her hair they make a comment on the texture as well #and she only thanks them and moves on #im glad the other commenters had some sense and commented on it bc like. what

[zuble]

idk why but it bothers me when people pronounce the obey me characters names in a very english way. no baby that’s not lee-vye. that’s leh-vee.

#maybe it’s because their names are said so often in the series? #i can’t tell you how many times i’ve heard ‘le vee a tan’ and ‘lu shi fa’ #so that’s how i say them too #also pronouncing satans name as ‘say ten’ reminds me too much of my christian years. so ‘sah tan’ it is #like i hope this doesn’t come off as racist or me trying to hard to be accurate to japanese pronunciation #that’s just how i’ve always heard it pronounced so everything else sounds wrong to me

[theorderofthetriad]

i'm pretty sure it's not intentionally malicious, but god damn some fanfic writers do not know how to write about black people in a way that's normal

#just read something that made me go 😬 😬 😬 #people list so many reasons to avoid epithets but always forget the obvious: because you might end up sounding racist AF #santagno

[tariah23]

Coughing

#I’m not familiar with the movie and have never heard of it until this tweet but apparently it’s a generic movie that plays off of black #stereotypes and it’s apparently a romcom for mixed ppl idk that already doesn’t sound appealing to me #the magical negro thing is so… it’s always had racist connotations I don’t care man #and treating black people like idiots just because we say that we aren’t of fan of something is also #very condescending and racist as hell like #I’ve said that I didn’t like certain pieces of literature before simply because it wasn’t funny or entertaining to me to a teacher back in #the day and got treated like a dumbass who couldn’t comprehend the nuance within the text before like I know how this feels #and to see this sentiment perpetuated by other black ppl… well #rambling

[e-the-village-cryptid]

my first reading in my African history class this year is about why using “tribe” to refer to ethnic groups stems from a racist desire to make African conflicts sound primitive or stemming from a desire to pretend that these are just ancient conflicts that have always existed. great article and I also feel like I’m vicariously experiencing the bullshittery that this author has been subjected to from people they’ve tried to talk to about this. like the article remains extremely professional but you can just hear in the tone that they’re talking through gritted teeth, you can practically see the customer service smile

[ID: a screenshot from a section of the article titled “But why not use ‘tribe’? Answers to common arguments.” Under the bullet point for the argument “Africans talk about themselves in terms of tribes” is written, “Commonly when Africans learn English they are taught that tribe is the term that English-speakers will recognize. But what underlying meaning in their own languages are Africans translating when they say tribe? Take the word isizwe in Zulu. In English, writers often refer to the Zulu tribe, whereas in Zulu the word for the Zulu as a group would be isizwe. Often Zulu-speakers will use the English word tribe because that's what they think English speakers expect, or what they were taught in school. Yet Zulu linguists say that a better translation of isizwe is nation or people.” /end ID] 

translation: “ ‘Oh ho ho but some Africans themselves say tribe!’ You dipshit. You fucking donkey. When someone has a word that means “nation” or “people” in their own language but then when they learn English YOU TELL THEM IT TRANSLATES TO “TRIBE” then THAT WILL BE THE WORD THEY USE. Maybe if you LISTENED TO THE LINGUISTS OF THAT GROUP you’d have more accurate information. Asshole.”

each point is repeated over and over with like five different examples because you just know there are dipshits out there who will keep arguing.

to the anonymous author of this article for the Africa Policy Information Center I hope you have a good day every day and experience fewer people being assholes about this, your patience is actually legendary

#idk if this is the best example from the article but throughout it you can just hear the pained patience #you just know people have been Like That #i just wanna bring this author a warm cup of their favorite beverage #an e original

[5qu1dink]

is shaggy not a stoner anymore .

like they call him norville now. no funny guy with his goofy dog ?

#HOT TAKE i think it might have something to do with the fact they made him black ? now that they changed is race giving him the same traits #he’s always had might seem racist or something ??? #you know - lazy cowardly literally shaggy that’s his name and also very heavily implied a stoner #i’m turning the gang into my own ocs #ok watched the trailer HE DOESNT EVEN SOUND LIKE ORIGINAL SHAGGITHY #like ok maybe the drug part wasn’t taken out but he’s very obviously not a. like. silly man #also fred bashing STUPID YOURE ALL STUPID #just because daphne and fred were the prep characters does not mean they have to be the big assholes of the show #squid.txt

[ghostscribble]

Zionists really be like "well Jews were killed 83 years ago so its totally okay for us now kill Palestinians!" <- zionists who dont really care about Judaism but only wanna use it for their gain. Also we are not living in the 1900s anymore so maybe genocide should not be reasonable.

Zionists are not Jews, they are only using Judaism to do horrible things because they know that they can always just use the antisemite-card. Like grow some balls and just admit that yall are islamaphobes and racists.

Also what about those Jews who are against the genocide in Gaza? Why do zionists harrass those Jews huh?? That sounds pretty antisemetic if you ask me.

#free palestine #israhell #palestine #gaza #free gaza #israel #fuck israel #boycott israel #israel is a terrorist state #stop israel