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USAmerican with ACAB in bio: not all US soldiers are bad 🥺 some of them are poor sometimes 🥺 there is nothing wrong with murdering brown people if it means you can get free college out of it 🥺

to be clear, it is simply not true that US soldiers are mostly poor. The US military recruits from all tax brackets, and most recruits come from middle income backgrounds. US soldiers are nothing but imperialist scum who murder, rape, and pillage the third world for their own personal benefit, their own personal pleasure, and so the US can have cheap gas and cheap bananas. If you can understand that all cops are bastards, you can understand that all soldiers are bastards too. It is a good thing when US soldiers die. Happy memorial day.

so many people in europe and the united states, particularly those with power, were totally fine with hitler for years because they thought “bolshevik terror” and the threat of more revolutions succeeding across europe was worse than fascism and it drives me crazy how completely absent this historical reality is from most peoples perceptions of world war 2

What I need for White Americans (ppl in general really, but I'm talking to the U.S.) to understand about Americans of Color is that You don't know Us, but We know YOU.

We've spent generations upon generations of our entire lives learning YOUR social norms, forced to assimilate to YOUR idea of society. We live and learn entirely separate cultures, but we also learn from birth what it means to have to cater to Whiteness in America. It's why I can name so many famous movies with white casts, but most white people didn't even know where "Bye Felicia" came from. It's why I was raised to professionally Code Switch from childhood, but grown white people struggle to even grasp the basics of the grammar of AAVE. It's why people who speak different languages think they have to give up their own mother tongue just to function in this country.

It's why you all are so uncomfortable with the idea of people of color questioning and rejecting what seems "normal" to you- and to be honest, I actually think older white generations are better at admitting this than younger ones. It's because what you know as normal is usually not "normal"- it's White. Whiteness is just as loud as any other presentation of race in this country, you just don't see it that way because everyone else has been forced to maintain your comfort. The entire system is built around it, and you don't even know it.

It's why it frustrates white Americans of some marginalization- queer, disabled, neurodivergent- because you do not have access to the "norm" as it is shown to you. But that frustration- literally everyone of color (who shares those identities btw) lives under that understanding.

Idk, I didn't really have a direction. I just think it's wild how so many conversations require this... Constant Verbal Leveling of the Playing Field simply because Whiteness blinds white people to what things ACTUALLY look like out here.

I don't know which transfem needs to hear this but:

Thinness isn't sexiness.

Youth isn't sexiness.

Whiteness isn't sexiness.

Hairlessness isn't sexiness.

Society chooses what features of bodies get to be sexy and which ones don't. We don't have to follow those rules! Society used to think fatness was sexy once upon a time.

Please don't build your self-worth around what a patriarchal, heteronormative, white supremacist society thinks is beautiful. Love yourself, love your community because society at large wasn't looking out for you in the first place. Who gives a single, solitary fuck what they think.