#being xenophobic is bad for you

[aditheursula]

Something I keep thinking about that irks me

The whole "rice is bad for you" thing is just remanufactured "MSG is bad for you" rhetoric and I think it needs to stop. Rice is a food staple for billions of people for thousands of years…like…shut the fuck up.

#rice #rice is amazing #rice is life #rice over racism #staple food #MSG is not bad for you #stop being racist #stop being xenophobic #rice is so good #rice is not bad for you #racism is bad for you #being xenophobic is bad for you #staple crop

[bonefall]

tall shadows line of "she was only a kittypet" kinda reminds me of the line "they were only slaves" from the prince of egypt.

What kills me about it is that like, at that point in the movie, the Pharoah Is Bad. Him saying that a billion babies where fed to crocodiles is A Bad Thing. It's the point where Moses realizes he can't be part of the royal family without being complicit.

But Tall Shadow says "calm down, Bumble was less than human anyway" and Gray Wing nods along (complete with the jiggly clicking noise that comes with shaking a can of spraypaint) and this is an example of them being reasonable. Level-headed, even, not getting swept away by the passion of the angry mob.

There are so many levels to how fucked up the Bumble Debacle is that you can't explore every floor all at once. It is an onion. It has layers.

#I don't take potshots at liberals too often but like. I have to here #Because GOD they are bad at defending their positions #They can't defend nonviolence because they don't actually believe in it #They believe in STATUS QUO #They're not antiracist. They're just pro-decorum and being racist/xenophobic/bigoted is rude #Very very rarely do they reach their position through introspection and thinking through their beliefs #So you see it in their art. #Unable to examine WHY bigotry is bad or what's so insidious they just repeat it #Or try to justify it #She was too fat/useless/not part of Our Bonds and thus her life is lesser #And thats why they have the theme of predestination making everything forgivable imo #And it not actually mattering what you did #It's the ultimate status quo. Change doesn't ACTUALLY happen because of people or our actions it's all just fate. #And this ironically makes them very susceptible to smooth-talking fascists #...also my lover told me im Bumble's Lawyer and made me an AA style talk sprite so I've got that going for me now

[kidfur]

is it just me or is the sheer venom towards ppl who genuinely like yaoi/BL media just homophobia now

#wishy speaks #also xenophobic? #like it sounds like theyre saying japanese people cant make queer stories without it being Problematic #and anyone who likes those stories is also problematic #idk its weird it smells bad i dont like it #everyones allowed to make yuri jokes all day but as soon as someone genuinely likes a gay boy visual novel theyre the worst guy ever #its dumb!!!! #anyways cody u are the coolest ever and you have unlimited swag

[zannolin]

(re-ish)watching ncis in 2023 is like came for the murder and crime solving, stayed for the absolutely unhinged tiva plotline

#zanna talks #ncis you beautiful mess of a show #like yeah it's blatantly nationalistic and Very post9/11 and us military propaganda #it likes to be misogynistic and xenophobic and try to play it as a joke #sometimes gibbs will do things that make me feel ill #and also it looooves praising cops and idolizing the maverick mentality and villifying defense lawyers #um point being it's got a lot of flaws and if i hadn't associated it with childhood nostalgia i'm not sure i could have made it far enough #in my rewatch to hit the point where it actually feels worth it past being a good distraction when i feel bad #like the point where you watch tony really start to grow and the plotlines get better and the relationships deepen etc #but man when it hits it hits #wild to watch it as an adult and realize actually the tiva stuff was there all along with effort put in and it wasnt just me making it up #75% of the time theyre just sniping at each other and being annoying coworkers but sometimes they give u a glimpse #not just of how good thye are as a dynamic but just the mcrt in general? #tony burning the letter from jeanne and trying to let go after realizing his team is like his family?? #them being the ones to get ziva out of somalia and not her shitty bio dad and sticking up for her when she wants out??? #them always believing in each other when they get framed ?? thanksgiving together?? #coworkers as family is highly unrealistic in this day and age and maybe just in general but im willing to allow it bc man. they care. #sorry this got. away from me. what was i even talking about #ncis

[simcardiac-arrested]

as a russian who doesn't talk to russian people online what the shit is happening there hello

look man i myself have put in the effort to Not talk to online russians for like (checks hand) 7 or so years (of course i’ve met some really great ones but this isn’t about them and they probably know it) but i’m sure the community didn’t change much. actually from the glimpses i see it seems to have gotten worse. don’t even get me startedddddd man

#Like okay first we have the misogynist dudebros. not a category exclusive to online russians but #there are so many it’s fucking crazy. homophobic to hell and back and Will hate on you for no reason #alpha male type mfs who hate women but will still harass them because of course they will #the second category of course is weird unironic fujoshis who are also usually proshippers #and they are either 12 (forgivable) or 25 and the thing is you can NEVER tell. But it’s kind of fucked how #acceptable it is to just straight up fetishize gay men (hell probably not only them) in online russian communities #and listen to me. the secret third category is that there is no third category. Both of these categories are racist #deer was right i have never seen a community more racist or xenophobic than fucking online russians #you draw a character one shade darker than their usual skintone and suddenly you got annoying as fuck russians in your comments going #BRO BURNT IN THE SUNNN 🤣🤣🤣 ENGLISH FANDOM LOOK WHAT YOU’VE DONE !!! <- in recent times they have taken to blaming the english fandom for #‘wokefying’ their sacred online russian spaces. Of course we can only be woke enough to fetishize gay men. god forbid black people exist #now the actual third category is the online russian tеrf/radfеm community. it seems recent to me but also as i said i have not really #interacted with russian comminity as a whole for a long while. But yea anyways they’re crazy i dont think i have to explain this one #but they’re somehow more evil and miserable than the ones you’re used to #another recent one is the russian twitterians … i’ve only seen glimpses of them as well as i dont use twitter #but you will not believe the shit these mfs try to pull. They try to get you to stop swearing at all bc they find a way to make every #russian swear word offensive. AND they speak fucking … englussian. rusglish. Half of their sentences are just english words written in #russian letters. all the same buzzwords english speaking twitter users like to say! #if you’ve never seen a russian talk about feminization or gatekeeping or being woke or yadda yadda. Well i have #it’s bad. they’re just very very terminally online #and don’t worry the last two categories will also always be racist/xenophobic even if the last one tries to seem Progressive #don’t know if i missed anytning but those are just the Specific Types of annoying asf online russians that i have noticed and have been #observing from a safe distance like a scientist #my point is keep not talking to russian people #cramswering #edit: I FORGOT BUT DONT EVEN GET ME STARTED ON HOW ONLINE RUSSIANS TREAT TRANS PEOPLE #YOU CANNOT IMAGINE THE WAY THEY REACT TO TRANS HEADCANONS IT’S LIKE THE END OF THE WORLD TO THEM. OR TRANS CHARACTERS #OR GOD FORBID ACTUAL REAL LIFE TRANS PEOPLE. it’s actually quite incredible how bigoted online russians are

[yuridovewing]

To be completelyyy fair to Graystripe (I mean he still sucks there, I think that last comic is easily the worst of the trilogy for that reason) there is actually a narrative reason for him to be a cunt in that last comic. In the previous two comics, he was hanging out with a kittypet and getting along with her and helping out other kittypets, while being super close to twolegs along the way, and suddenly that got upended when he saw that the twolegs had completely destroyed the entire forest. His shitty attitude and dismissiveness towards Millie and being around twolegs at all stems from him feeling distant from his heritage and hurt that the twolegs he was getting close to would destroy his life, and that hes losing himself by entertaining it so much, and he’s taking that out on Millie, which throws a wrench into their dynamic where he’s been perfectly understanding and respectful of her up to this point, and is suddenly being so resentful of her past as a kittypet who doesn’t entirely drop her past without a second thought. It serves to drive the two apart and bring conflict to the relationship for them to overcome.

…… Of course though the book fails to actually have a decent conclusion to this plot cause it just keeps moving til they get to the clans. Graystripe begrudgingly gets on the truck because “well I guess I HAVE to.” And doesn’t realize that Millie’s closeness to twolegs and loner cats was what helped them there. He never actually realizes that he’s not a fake warrior for Millie’s help or anything. The closest we get is his proposal where he just says “Well I know I’ve been kinda difficult”.

It’s an interesting conflict that makes sense but fails to reach any decent or satisfactory conclusion and just makes this last book a slog to get through.

#a weird thing is that literally on the same spead graystripe is like ‘’ugh a stupid kittypets a better hunter than me’’ #and i kid you not it leads directly to him saying’’god i have feelings for millie im so lucky how can i ever tell her’’ two panels later #like he doesnt criticize his earlier thought he doesnt even put a ‘’but’’ in between. he’s xenophobic to her then immediately says he loves #her #its…. so strange and awkward and ugh it feels so bad for their relationship #gray doesn’t actually have to learn that his treatment of her is wrong or that hes being unreasonable. the plot just moves forwards #wc im begging you to have decent conclusions to interesting conflicts

[perenlop]

beating a dead horse but people can be soooo weird about wc deaths. i know we are kinda desensitized to it but like.... some of the things people say are just strange like “russetfur actually deserved to die and lionblaze was right to kill her even if it wasn’t an accident because she was old and brittle at the time anyways. also she mocked a baby stuck in a trap in one book so she deserves death and much more. her clanmates are actually so stuck up and entitled and stupid for being upset lionblaze killed her. they should have expected her to die next time a clan raided their camp and attacked them because she was old. what a bunch of brats. its so stupid when a character who isnt the protagonist is upset their clanmate died and that manifests as anger towards their murderer, idiot should know better.”

#all of this is actual word of mouth from the fanbase btw #its weird how people go ''OH erm russetfur deserved to die bc she mocked a baby'' like yes that was fucked up of her but uhhh #i hate to break it to you but thats every character in this series LMAO #what about all the cats that said to leave cloudkit out to die in THUNDERCLAN. whatabt when mousefur said the clan was getting too mixed #hell frecklewish has a whole group rallying for her that she did nothing wrong and shetraumatized literal children for being half clan #and rallied to make them homeless which ended up killing them. #all of this is fucked up yes but all characters involved in those incidents are fan favorites #mousefur gets called an epic girlboss for that meeting. every single cat in this series is xenophobic towards children im sorry #and random murder when they invade HER territory should not have been a ''punishment'' #and yeah this extends to lion too technically like every cat in this series has at least one victim at this point #so it wouldnt be fair to say ''hes a bad character bc he killed someone'' (not that thats stopped these same fans but whatever) #but like its weird how people are like ''yeah he was right to do that and he should do it again'' #echoed voice

[nunap]

The day I stans (Americans 99% of times) will STOP applying their culture and mentality to Asian cultures will be too late

#u always preach about cultural appropriation and racism and i see so many people jumping to conclusion being hella xenophobic and #disrespectful and when asian people from asia(including mostly china Thailand japan and korea) explain nicely nope u misunderstood it's xyx #people are like yeah idc bc in america it's bad and u gotta be educated by us and find things yucky bc I say so #get a fucking grip gringos you ain't better than anyone w ur imperialism and close mind and sense of superiority #and I'm not talking about shit such as colorism or idk assaults I'm talking about strictly cultural stuff u DON'T KNOW #stans are the reason I hope kpop crushes and burns or goes back to be cringy nerdy weirdo music in the west #cause half of kpoppies would've bullied kpop fans in the 2000s they don't now bc somehow they made it cool #seriously can't stand people who don't listen to a certain group and act like white saviours being ignorant af

[hexmaniacchoco]

Re: OTW Tiffany racism.

For real, I saw a comment to the original post reading, "some y’all are really going off with the xenophobia. / i bet you wouldn’t be reacting this way if tiffany was just a white anti/from a predominantly white country."

As someone who read all of the chat transcripts, all of the comments (as of 12 hours ago) on the transcripts, all the comments, AND all of the comments and replies on the original post, that person is full of shit.

It's like saying, "Tiffany's from China therefor voting against Tiffany is racist". Sorry hun, but no.

This has just highlighted how very grateful I am to be in a (non majority white, lol) country that does not have such profound censorship laws that are violently enforced as China.

People are just crawling out of the wood work to unabashedly look like idiots on this one.

Yes! I saw that same post, and then I saw the other one that tried to sprinkle the xenophobia accusation into an agreement by saying they agreed and then put the "but" followed by their accusations. It's possible those people might have gotten the mistaken idea that so much as talking about someone being from another country is "xenophobic", but they would be absolutely wrong about it. Likewise to you having read the comments and replies and such, the only comments I've seen regarding her country were at worst "We shouldn't have Ao3 censoring itself according to other countries’ policies" and at best "English probably isn't her first language, so maybe she's not an anti but rather doesn't understand the questions being asked or how her answers are coming across with the same nuance as a native or near-native English speaker would". I’m glad also that you mentioned being from a non majority white country, because antis love trying to say inflammatory things like the comment in the post you mentioned. And then you had at least one reply saying OP was “encouraging a pile-on”(which may have been in the one you referred to actually). Telling people to vote in an upcoming election if they’re able to and expressing actually reasonable concerns which do not involve misinformation about a candidate is NOT encouraging a pile-on. I’d like to think this was an honest (though major) misunderstanding, and it’s still possible that it is. However, considering the inflammatory language being used in general, it makes me more inclined to believe that those are antis. TL;DR: I absolutely agree with you. People are trying to reasonably inform others that one of the candidates running for a position on Ao3′s board at best sounds too inexperienced to qualify and too evasive to trust, and at worst sounds like an anti and that regardless, you shouldn’t vote for her. Some (probable) antis are mad about it (as they are wont to be), and pulling the usual fallacious crocodile tear act by claiming everyone explaining why NOT to vote for Tiffany are just Racist And Xenophobic White People From Predominantly White Countries.

#important #ao3 #of course if someone who says they're not going to vote for her because of her mentions of censorship says they're not white #clearly they must be lying and secretly a white person just trying to make innocent not white people look bad #and therefore unless you want to be accused of being a Secret Racist And Xenophobic White Person #you should just agree with them and start making the same accusations against others mentioning not voting for Tiffany #in fact you SHOULD vote for Tiffany to support a Not White Person trying to get into a position of power #never mind if you disagree with her--what's more important? A little censorship or supporting a Not White Person? #unfortunately that's not even really an exaggeration of the sorts of manipulation tactics they use

[weaver-ant]

berryheart is so homophobic. all the phobics actually

#bad kitty!! stop being xenophobic to fringewhisker she has done absolutely nothing to you!! #sky #wc #asc

[bonefall]

How will you handle the breakup of ShadowClan? While the rebellious apprentices made sense always felt that Darktail should have done more to actively help the rest of ShadowClan and appeal to them as a better leader choice, because in canon it seems they completely arbitrarily decide that they like him as a leader better without explaining why the older cats are going against their xenophobic culture. 

@halogenwarrior

I don’t have a STRONG direction for ShadowClan breaks yet besides knowing that every problem ShadowClan faces, should be related in some way to WindClan refusing to help them. I have strong ideas for how it ends, but the rising action is a bunch of puzzle pieces I haven’t put together yet.

But I DO know that there is a specific problem I want to fix with the rise of the kin; that the ShadowClan apprentices were completely inconsistent.

Darktail first courts them with ANTI-xenophobia, then, a book later, those same apprentices were totally on board with the usual Evil Atheist messaging that WC keeps doing; not feeding elders, training kits, killing indiscriminately, blah blah blah.

One could argue that’s because he started them off on something good, then lead them to bad ideological positions... but I think that’s a stretch. It was weak writing. It’s more of the narrative propping up the Warrior Code as this bizarrely infallible guideline that, without which, cats descend into total lawlessness.

So... what AM I thinking?

WELL, I think I actually want to start the apprentices out as being completely right. Their grievances are probably rash, DEFINITELY not well-spoken, but they ARE born out of compassion. A hard bend towards the Fire Alone ideology. They’re sick of not helping other clans, and of not being helped in turn. When Darktail shows up, he exploits this compassion to get the power he wants.

And by EXPLOIT I mean that he never believed this in the first place. He tells them he named The Kin for being an antithesis to Clans and their emphasis on bloodlines, when he only did that for his own daddy issues. He doesn’t want to take care of the weak and vulnerable. He just needs more cats for his army.

A bunch of cats with similar grievances from other clans join him. Ex-DF trainees, half clan cats, even outsiders who previously would have been excluded from Clan society... and, of course, find themselves unable to leave.

So, many of his ex-followers, like Berryheart, end up taking away the WRONG message here. That outsiders are dangerous. That their institutions will fail them unless they re-commit to their old traditions, reviving the popularity of Thistle Law and setting the stage for The Broken Code.

(and on that note several ex-kin members will probably end up joining the various clans, I do want to try to be clear the problem in this case WAS Darktail and his enforcers, NOT a systemic issue... barring that Onestar’s utter failure created him of course)

#You can probably see that there are problems with this... #Problems that are very difficult to avoid because the bottom line is that Clan Culture HAS to have evolved by this point #They HAVE to be less xenophobic and The Kin is inherently a rogue and malicious group #It's a very very fine line I have to walk #With BloodClan it took work but I was committed to making them neutral and ultimately friendly #exactly because i knew I would have to deal with The Kin later on #AVoS is... and I don't say this lightly... an arc that is VERY pro-xenophobia #It says very loudly that you SHOULD be skeptical of foreigners #And YET I'm still TRYING to keep the massive problem with the arc (scary foreigner group) while still saying Xenophobia Is Bad #it's difficult #I really really need to work more on Darktail himself to display HIM as a person who shouldn't have been trusted #But people DID because they were desperate or lonely or yearned for massive change #The way that Nightwhisper was lead astray by Tigerstar because the Clans wouldn't have accepted him otherwise #OH there will also probably just... end up being waaaay less unrelated outsider Kin #With the bulk of the Kin being made of ex-Clan cats #Brokenstar will probably kill the bulk of Darktail's forces in the gorge making Darktail have to start over with like... 5 or 6 cats #So the majority of The Kin isn't actually Scary Foreigners #Can you see why this is hard to deal with? #Bonefall AVoS #Darktail

[fatsmyname]

i am just so fucking bewildered someone sent YOU an ask accusing you of pretending to be Mexican. Like. HUH???????????? HUUUUUUHHH????

I can only guess it has something to do with the ever ongoing debate surrounding Latine people and what experiences dictate how Latine you are as if you can/have to prove to people that sort of thing… like I acknowledge my Mexican American experience but that doesn’t make me any less Mexican 😭 if anything it’s simply a different experience than what my parents lived in rural mexico lmfaooo

#or it could be cuz I don’t look Mexican #which is also strange cuz there is so much physical diversity in mexico #and I also acknowledge my privilege as someone who is pale so I benefit from colorism #but I have never been clocked as white to my white peers #white people have consistently questioned my ethnicity and etc #but benefit still from not outright being perceived as Mexican? if that makes sense #America is extremely xenophobic #anyway yea #anon is stupid #like what do you want me to do #lemme just delete my entire family out of existence sorry for pretending to be Mexican my bad

[xylitolnovaslover]

may god take all of the suffering bipoc endure and give it to white russians in triple amount

#currant neg #related to my last reblog. i checked her telegram channel and i want to vomit #it's bad ! really bad ! #but at the same time am i suprised ? no ! #if you call them out on slur usage #being it xenophobic ones or racist ones they will think you are an sjw lol #ugh

[dubiousdisco]

my mom really didn't want isa to be the leader this time because she was worried isa would get into the radar of the other participants and that the ones she would pre indicate to the elimination zone/paredão would want revenge, so mom was siding with davi when he said isa shouldn't be leader because nobody in the house had it out for her, and she's really happy cause she feels isa is protected now, i wanted her to be the leader for the parintins themed party she would choose cause it would be so beautiful but i do think that if fernanda, for example, comes back from elimination (which i think she will if she is against rodriguinho) she will now focus on bia instead of 100% on isa. but also.... #isa leader.... :'(

#however with that trade she got 44 mil reais so i think it's worth it #unless she earns more than that than yeah so sorry girl. can you give me that money tho #bbbblogging #maybe davi should have told her to insist on being the leader like i think he was thinking like my mom but she rllly wanted the leadership #on another level however if viewers didn't like her as the leader the bad publicity we would get here in amazonas would suck #they're already saying we don't have jobs here (???) and that parintins has no internet (???) for no reason #these things are so complex cause she deserves more but the representation she provides needs to be handled with care and also people #are very xenophobic so she might also suffer if she gets too much spotlight without care and i dont think globo will protect her like they #like they do with wanessa #can she just get leader and everyone stops being xenophobic for a week. come on guys promise me

[yuridovewing]

Feel like one of the best ways you can convince someone that no, villains with compelling motives that have sad backstories are not terrible writing compared to straight up born evil villains who just want to kill everyone and be done with it, is to tell them that Warrior Cats writes born evil villains constantly while literally preaching “That’s how evil works, you can’t CHANGE, you’re either touched by demons at birth or you aren’t!” and it blows chunks

#brokenstar tigerstar hawkfrost darktail one eye etc etc would all be so much more interesting if they werent so one note #and just had ‘’born evil’’ slapped on as their explanation for being evil #‘’ew why are you woobifying tigerstar’’ because i think a villain who feels emotion besides ‘’evil’’ and ‘’angry’’ and actually does care #about his clanmates but is also a bigot that deserves to be beaten down is more interesting than canon #to get like real world political here… abusive people and bigots like. are not one note born evil demons #they have loved ones and reasons for turning out the way they did. and im not saying that to go ‘’so you need to give them grace!’’ #im saying that because the line of thinking that every bad person is a super obvious mustache twirling villain with no soul #makes it so that people justify abuse and crimes from REAL people. like ‘’oh my friend says some racist things but he isnt BAD! he loves me! #would an abusive person be nice to his wife in public? of course not!’’ #and its rhetoric like that that lets abuse and bigotry thrive. if you put the world in categories of born evil and born good #then you will dismiss all the ‘’good’’ people in your life who have done horrible things with ‘’but she donated to charity once’’ #i mean. hell this LITERALLY happens in wc where the ‘’born good’’ characters are abusive and murderously xenophobic #where characters like clear sky and blackstar just get a sticker like ‘’oh you cant be TOO mad at them! theyre good at heart!’’ #‘’ignore all the times they killed vulnerable people for the crime of being born somewhere they didnt like! they were nice to a kid once!’’ #the message there is literally ‘’bad people cant REALLY be bad if theyre nice to people sometimes’’ #like. im not even mad at clear sky being motivated by witnessing his loved ones starve to death for why hes such an abusive control freak #thats an interesting reason to become a villain especially since the change happened when he was put in a position of power #the problem is not him having a sad backstory. the problem is the erins think his sad backstory means he was never that bad #and anyone who’s upset at him can go eat shit and die cause he looked sad #like. i get this line of thinking often comes from writers doing this for abuse apologism and just wanting to see abusers be held accountabl #accountable #but how exactly does it help victims of abuse to portray abusers and bigots in a christian ‘’touched by the devil’’ light

[katya-goncharov]

ugh, why are the youtube comments sections for certain fandoms so ANNOYING

#this isn't a vague about any show i post about on this blog don't worry! #it's one of the soaps i watch where the same group of people seem to comment on every youtube clip and they all seem to have these #weird right wing tory vibes and make bad jokes about characters being too ''woke'' #and i just KNOW they voted brexit and would be xenophobic to me in real life if i ever had the misfortune of meeting them. but instead i #just have to read their annoying bad jokes whenever i want to watch a clip from said soap and it REALLY makes me wish you could block peopl #on youtube