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malwen-sosialaidd · 9 months

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#uk politics #wales #cymru #llanelli #stand up to racism

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b0bthebuilder35 · 2 years

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I will not now or ever, on any platform, “tread lightly.”

When something major (and horrific) happens in this country, so many times we hear and see, “THIS ISN’T OUR AMERICA.”

But it is.

You see, these are the type of people we have making laws in our country. These people did not get into the positions on their own - they have a voter base that put them in office. That voter base is made up of doctors, nurses, lawyers, educators, police officers, military, a variety of public service workers, and so on. The very people who have “control” in so many situations, walk around in their every day life with beliefs just like Senator Cornyn.

White supremacy is woven into every thread of this America - historically and presently. The proof is in the disproportionate number of Black women who die during childbirth. It’s in the disproportionate number of Black and Brown people who are currently behind prison walls for non-violent offenses. It’s in the glaring difference between quality of education in predominantly white schools versus schools that are predominantly POC. It’s on display when a white mass shooter is apprehended, very much alive, but a traffic stop of an unarmed Black man ends in unnecessary tragedy. I could go on but you get the point.

You can continue to believe that “this isn’t your America” all you want to but it is. It always has been. Pretending that you don’t see it only perpetuates the problem and you can’t solve a problem that you pretend doesn’t exist. Acknowledgment is the first step of problem solving, and for some, that is the hardest part.

The reality - This isn’t the America that you’ve glorified in your mind. The question is, are you ready and willing to do the work required to make it the America that you want it to be?

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spaceshipsandpurpledrank · 1 year

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#talkin #tik tok #roy wood jr #stand up #comedy #racism #white people

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hussyknee · 4 months

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I just want to make one thing very clear. Black and brown people, especially Muslims right now, don't owe white people for your allyship in racial justice. Not even those who are themselves systemically marginalized in some way. Not white Jews, not white queers, not white disabled, not white working class, not white poor.

Whiteness is the most lethal kind of oppression because it built the current colonial capitalist, imperialist world order. Every white person benefits from and is complicit in its systems in some way because white supremacy is global. Whatever marginalization has white people in it can be and is easily weaponized against the mellanated. When charged with your racist, exclusionary and oppressive behaviour you hold up Black and brown people of the same marginalizations as tokens. This is the only time they are ever visible; more often than not you profit off their labour, hoard their gains, throw them under the bus and make them part of your iconography for liberal progress points once they're dead and have no inconvenient opinions about your conduct.

This is why it's very hard for Black and brown people to take accusations of bigotry towards you in good faith. We also have a duty of care towards others but more often than not it feels like you want us to do what you want while holding a knife to our necks. Even when you don't do it directly, you issue demands like "if you don't do x and y you clearly don't care about my people and deserve the worst!!!" without considering for a moment that the full brunt of that policing will always fall on Black and brown people, because punitive justice exercises itself first and foremost on the vulnerable. If your demands for allyship carry disproportionate punishment for Black and brown people should we refuse, you're just on some power trip and never needed our help in the first place. This also obfuscates the needs and disenfranchisement of Jewish, queer, poor, disabled BIPOC and Global South people, especially because, without racial justice, few of your gains will ever materialise in their lives. It's always trickle down liberation for the rest of us.

Your allyship is supposed to be the work of conscience, a recognition of injustice and a drive towards privilege equal to your own. For white people, it's an individual reparation on your part. It is not an act of kindness, or benevolence, or a transaction that must be repaid in kind. The worst of us deserve the same rights the worst of you already have. That's the meaning of equality. If you're willing to let us get fired, deported, or brutally murdered for bad behaviour, then not only were you never an ally, you were also just waiting for the opportunity to use that weapon you claim you never wanted. There is no justice in an asymmetry of power.

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oh-my-damn · 5 months

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Chris Evans, who (used to) play Captain America and (used to be) politically active and run a political platform comes back to Instagram after a summer long hiatus to sell his dog food brand.

These are just a few of the comments so far. Proud of people for calling bullshit on this one tbh.

#chris evans #racism #cevans #captain america #palestine #free palestine #i stand with palestine #speak up #genocide #politics #asp #israel #zionism

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thevioletcaptain · 1 year

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do fandom people realize that gleefully firing off mean little zingers at the socially accepted online target of the week for clicks is functionally identical to the way high school bullies use cruelty for clout, or do they lack that level of self awareness?

#i am TIRED #i have unfollowed/blocked so many fandom people lately #because the way they sling nasty comments around as soon as they think they can get away with it #tells me everything i need to know about the kinds of people they are #like it's always obvious when someone has cruel impulses they've just been waiting for the chance to indulge without consequences #when they can pretend that they're ''punching up'' because their target is ostensibly higher up the social foodchain #but the insults/comments/meanspirited jokes are all rooted in queerphobia or racism or ableism or misogyny or classism etc #and therefore do more harm to others than to the person they're theoretically aiming at #like... i see you #(this isn't about anything current or specific btw)#(wrote this post a month or two ago and just found it in my drafts)#(but the point stands because i've definitely continued to encounter the same shit)#fandom problems #wank adjacent

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genericpuff · 6 months

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lmfaooo pressed as hell because an actual indigenous person is standing up to your cracker ass nonsense girl stfuuuuuu

bruh you're the one in my inbox getting mad at me for talking about being indigenous on my own blog, go outside 😂 like damn with that amount of internalized racism, what country are you indigenous to ?? England??

#'standing up to my cracker ass nonsense'#i gotta say i gotta give you credit #this is the first time i've experienced the kind of racism that my siblings usually experience #i've NEVER gotten bullied for being 'too white'#and by someone who's also indigenous ?? that colonization got to you fam because you're sounding awfully white #“yOu'Re sO oFFeNdEd aFtEr i aNtAgOniZeD yOu”#“cALm dOwN”

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chalkeater · 5 months

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sorry i woke up today and said “i dont think that frisk and kris should be drawn yellow because asian people (especially living int he west) have argued about how its too close to yellow peril and racist stereotypes and as an asian its gross to see people ignore us”

#we need to stand together not just asi me 50 questions to try and trip me just so you have an excuse not to look this up on google #sorry your Deltarune Artist (me) on your dash doesnt draw Kris and Frisk yellow for a REASON #talking #racism #im sorry if youre uncomfortable! if you see me talk about this maybe you should do some inward thinking #because im not the first to talk about this #sorry if i sound like an angry POC #im being sarcastic btw. can you imagine watchinng people ignore this for years?#why wouldnt i be a little sarcastic #ive seen friends get called slurs over this #ASIAN SLURS TOO. man.#Also i fucking read one of yall say ‘when did anyone say theyre asian’#TOBY DID NOT. because theyre so fucking close to a visual asian stereotype is why people HC as ASIAN #do you see the dots?? wtf??#Yellow Humans Discussion

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booasaur · 1 year

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NCIS: Hawai’i - 2x14

#ncishawaiiedit #ncis hawai'i #jane tennant #jim carter #jesse boone #vanessa lachey #jake weber #noah mills #ncis hawai'i 2x14 #always the coolest #for an ep with no lucy or kate I actually really liked it #it's one of the very rare times I've seen in these shows when the antagonist is someone like this #not even for out and out corruption--those we've had #but just...incompetence and bullying driven by pretty obvious misogyny and probably racism #honestly guys like this are usually leads #maverick white guys who do anything to solve the case and can't stand authority because no one else knows what to do like them #so it was just really interesting to see him treated like this #and the escalation in his behavior #and jesse's admission that the team let it go before because it didn't seem that bad #even though it kept on adding up

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queerbauten · 4 months

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It’s supremely weird that the Tally Hall fandom sent Ross hate for apparently posting pro-Israel things (things he has taken down, mind you) but is just… staying silent on Andrew continuing to like pro-Israel (and outrightly anti-Palestinian) content

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celestial-narwhal · 23 days

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On Stereotypes and Aventurine

Gotta get this out of the way before I start using my Aventurine more because it is an important part of how I will play his character.

Aventurine is rarely ever genuine. He plays to the role people expect him to be, or to the role that will get him the best cards in the deck. If people expect him to be a flirt, he will flirt. If people expect him to be frail and naive, he will be frail and naive. If people expect him to be intimidating and a threat, he will be a threat.

He is a social chameleon, and no, it is not because he is Sigonian, but because he grew up in an environment that forced him to be like this.

Stereotyping will always have a profound effect on a developing person, and when a child grows up hearing that they are scheming, untrustworthy, and manipulative without any other lens to say otherwise, it is highly likely that they will grow into said lens. It becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.

There must be a reason people look at them and assume so, after all. Their words must be true. Why would the majority say so otherwise?

So, just as a child who's been reminded constantly that they are bad, Aventurine became "bad".

It's tiring to a waste your breath and prove otherwise. Especially without a community left to uplift and support you. To remind you that you are more that what people assume you to be. A person. A person who's culture is fated to be written over by the winners of a war, and those who held grudges against them.

"Aventurine" plays up to stereotypes, because that is what got him to where he is now, and is what everyone told him he had to be. It keeps people at arm's length, keeping them far, far away from █████████.

█████████ can't be hurt anymore if he doesn't come up to the surface, after all.

#AventurescentReflections (Aventurine HCs)#InclusionsofGold (Aventurine)#((me ringing my thematic racism in Aventurine's story bell))#((They write it well and it hits a lot of personal notes for me as someone who has been at the receiving end of many many stereotypes))#((If anyone calls Aventurine weak for not standing up for himself when such shit happens i will smite you))#((imagine being the only person left of your entire culture and having to defend it on your own))#((after years and years of systematic abuse))#((It's not as simple as you would think))#((especially when you were conditioned for a majority of your life to hate yourself))#((survival's guilt is a nasty disease and Aventurine is barely keeping himself above the surface))

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spaceshipsandpurpledrank · 5 months

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