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atopvisenyashill · 9 months

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“why would elaena marry a dornishman when they’re nasty evil people who murdered her poor innocent brother daeron”

maybe because once elaena grew up she realized that there were better ways of bringing dorne into the realm than violent conquest, and that daeron got the death he deserved from not just a nobility that is valid for fearing subjugation from valyria but also a smallfolk sick and tired of these people showing up every few decades to set their principality on fire, and put aside any anti dornish sentiments she may or may not have harbored as a child to see the way her family had directly attributed to their suffering, eventually even falling in love with and marrying a dornish man??

also, considering daeron ii attempts a type of proto-reparations act in bringing dorne into the kingdom, it’s not out of the realm of possibility that someone as intelligent as elaena would recognize the inherent racism in the targaryen conquest of dorne and especially considering the very loud anti-dornish, deeply anti intellectual faction in the blackfyre rebellions, realized they wouldn’t be kind or understanding of an intelligent woman like herself and had no interest in herself or her daughters (of which she had four!!) getting shoved back into the maidenvault again?

like, daeron i is on some andrew jackson manifest destiny shit, and if it makes me an asshole for thinking “god i wish someone had merked jackson before he genocided & displaced my ancestors, good on the dornish for realizing you can’t negotiate with imperialists” than i am perfectly comfortable being considered an asshole right next to my girl elaena.

#everyone discoursing about the young dragon. listen. they should have tortured him before they killed him too.#anti daeron i targaryen #valyrianscrolls #anti house targaryen #idk just in case. clearly i’m not anti everyone i’m complimenting elaena & daeron ii #elaena targaryen #daeron the good #daeron ii targaryen #getting on my soap box #dorne #also when i say ‘my ancestors’ i mean that jackson passed the indian removal act specifically to remove my tribe (and several others) bc #white people in the midwest didn’t like that we wouldn’t leave.#my tribe managed to work somethjng out and only had to move a couple miles away from our homelands. others in our area were forcibly mkced #*moved. look up the potawatomi trail of death. they marched them thru illinois’ capital. dozens including children died.#also read about the fort dearborn massacre. and rising up from indian country which makes the argument that it wasn’t a massacre #but a battle bc white americans had been raiding potawatomi villages for weeks. so the potawatomi struck back and people to this day insist #it was a massacre just bc the potawatomi were better at fighting than the americans. nah.#u don’t get to wage a war of conquest on an innocent and indigenous population just to turn around and say they were mean for fighting back.#i’m sorry i woke up today and decided to choose violence. i’m in an awful mood aksjdjd

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even-more-pro-fiction-jellicle · 2 months

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Antisemitism is an inherent and essential part of Nazi ideology. Nazis target other demographics as well, but the antisemitism is a main, essential component. If someone isn't antisemitic then they're not a Nazi. If an ideology doesn't include antisemitism then it isn't Nazi ideology. There is literally no such thing as Nazi ideology that doesn't revolve around antisemitism. You can not separate antisemitism from Nazism, they go hand in hand. Someone who is queerphobic but not antisemitic is not a Nazi. Someone who is ableist but not antisemitic is not a Nazi. Someone who hates other ethnic or cultural groups but not Jewish people is not a Nazi. There's no such thing as a Nazi that doesn't hate Jewish people. You are helping no one by throwing the word around for any and all forms of fascism or discrimination, and you are harming people by acting like antisemitism isn't an essential part of Nazism.

#hey it's not exactly the same but the kkk target other demographics other than black people #but they formed specifically in response to the abolition of slavery and the freeing of black slaves #and the anti-black racism has always been a primary part of their ideology #imagine going up to black americans and screaming at them that other people are hated by the kkk too #or just trying to act like the anti-black racism isn't important #why would you do that right?#so why would you do it to jewish people?#or people being allies

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prussianmemes · 2 months

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a white english anti-war socialist wins a seat in parliament and the next day the hindi PM says that this is an alarming sign of rising rabid-antisemitism, far-right politics, and islamic fundamentalism.

??? what

#am i missing something here #it is hilarious btw that the most unhinged and deranged tories in the UK right now are british asians #iirc the tory foreign minister who tried drafting up that plan to stop 100% all migration whatsoever by deporting everyone to rwanda #under bojo #was also a british asian #they act like complete spastics trying to put forth policy and saying things that no other group in the uk would ever try #where's that picture of the 'fuck off we do not want your kind around here' where it's the one brown guy next to another brown guy #they're in the political ruling class for barely a year and they've already completely destroyed their party LOL #the english obsession with fascism and anti-semitism (akin to american fears of socialism) despite it being mostly a farce is already funny #but the people actually enacting the most deranged xenophobic policies not being white british alt-right weenies #but other british asians wanting to keep out other colonials they hate from their homeland is beyond hilarious #txt

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i-have-the-best-url · 2 months

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GET #STOP KOSA TRENDING PLEASE

#i can’t sign shit or anything because I’m not American #but at least we can get this trending #stop kosa #fuck kosa #anti kids online safety act #anti kosa

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dougielombax · 2 months

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KOSA is so fucking stupid it’s actually obscene!

Get rid of it!

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rithmeres · 7 months

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they’re gonna kick me out of bible study

#i am not even joking acts 4:34-35 says there was not a needy person among them #for as many as were owners of lands or houses sold them and brought the proceeds of what was sold #and laid it at the apostles feet and it was distributed to each as any had need.#the american church is doing an abominably poor job at being a church. letting americanism (heresy) and the party line gut the bible #i can already tell what the discussion is gonna be. the leader is gonna reassure the group that this doesnt mean socialism #and just encourage everyone to give a little more money to charities :)#how about we become radically sacrificial and anti materialistic instead.#stop buying thing stop consuming things cancel your amazon subscriptions and welcome a struggling family into your giant suburban house #wealth and materialism are so so evil :) and i see christians praising them all the time :) you cannot serve god and mammon :)#put away the gods of your fathers :) or else :)

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hussyknee · 6 months

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Now that we're having conversations about the way the US has weaponized the Jewish identity, we can also look at how it weaponizes the Black American one. @ryan_ken_acts breaks it down hilariously.

Ryan is specifically satirising this interview with Obama that the Dems trotted out in response to the mass protests against Israel, and Amy Schumer pulling out a cherry-picked interview of MLK during her deranged Zionist cringe posting. (Although we all expected someone to do it well before then, because white people are too predictable.) The fact that nearly every bald-faced, shameless bureaucratic stonewalling in response to the ceasefire campaign for Gaza has come from a Black female representative also hasn't been lost on the Black community. It's something they're well used to, from the Bush Administration's use of Condoleeza Rice to the Biden Administration and Kamala Harris.

Please go give the videos a view on Ryan's own page, and check out their other content. They're one of the funniest and most incisive political TikTokers I've ever seen.

Diversity and Inclusion War Crimes

Daddy O is back

It Is Me, Martin Luther King Jr.!

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ausetkmt · 8 months

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A former FBI counterterrorism agent, Dave Gomez, told The Washington Post he thought that a fear of being seen as targeting President Donald Trump's base was muting the agency's response to violence by white nationalists."There's some reluctance among agents to bring forth an investigation that targets what the president perceives as his base," Gomez told the publication.The comments followed an attack on Saturday by a gunman at a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, that the FBI is treating as a domestic terrorism incident.Investigators have said the gunman left a racist manifesto on the messaging board 8chan ahead of the attack.

FBI agents are hesitant to investigate white nationalist extremists because they don't want to be seen as pursuing investigations against President Donald Trump's base, a former FBI counterterrorism agent told The Washington Post.

The former agent, Dave Gomez, said he believes that FBI Director Christopher Wray "is an honorable man, but I think in many ways the FBI is hamstrung in trying to investigate the white supremacist movement like the old FBI would."

"There's some reluctance among agents to bring forth an investigation that targets what the president perceives as his base," Gomez said. "It's a no-win situation for the FBI agent or supervisor."

He said that Trump's repeated criticism of the FBI and its investigation into Russian election interference and collusion were likely factors as well.

The FBI declined to comment to Business Insider on Gomez's claims. An FBI representative told The Post that the comments were not accurate and that the agency distributes resources according to its assessment of the threat posed by domestic terrorism.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the FBI says about 40% of the domestic terrorism cases it is investigating involve racism.

Gomez's comments followed Saturday's shooting in a Walmart in El Paso, Texas, that killed 20 people. Investigators have told media outlets that shortly before the shooting, the gunman posted a racist and anti-immigrant screed on the messaging board 8chan, known as a hub for white nationalists. Authorities have identified Patrick Crusius as the suspect in the shooting.

That shooting was followed hours later by another mass shooting in Dayton, Ohio, that investigators have not tied to racist ideology. Authorities have not publicly identified a motive in that shooting.

Saturday's shooting was the latest in a long series of deadly attacks by white nationalist extremists in the US and abroad. In March, a gunman killed 51 people in mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, and livestreamed the attack on social media.

At a Senate hearing in July, Wray said an increasing number of domestic terrorism incidents were motivated by white supremacist and white nationalist ideologies.

Law-enforcement responses to violence by white nationalists have long been the focus of fierce bipartisan disputes. Republicans in 2009 reacted furiously to a Department of Homeland Security report that described right-wing extremist violence as a rising threat. They accused the agency of a bid to smear conservatives.

Trump's political opponents have accused him of deliberately stoking racist divisions in the US and actively courting the support of white nationalists during his 2016 presidential campaign.

In a March op-ed article for Time, the director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University linked a rise in white nationalism to "a coarsening of mainstream politics, where debates on national security and immigration have become rabbit holes for the exploitation of fear and bigotry."

The president last week claimed he is "the least racist person anywhere in the world" and on Sunday linked the El Paso attack to a "mental-illness problem." In the wake of the New Zealand attack, he said he didn't see white nationalism as a growing global threat.

Under US law, while it is a crime to provide support for foreign terror groups like ISIS, there is no equivalent for domestic terrorism organizations, The Post said.

The FBI is investigating the El Paso attack as a domestic terrorism incident and possible hate crime. In a statement on Sunday, it warned that Saturday's attack could inspire copycats.

#FBI agents are reluctant to pursue white nationalist extremists because they don't want to target Trump's base #former counterterrorism official says #honegrown hate #white supremacy #fbi #american hate #race soldiers with qualified immunity #anti terrorism act

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russilton · 1 year

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I really just listened to my mother imply with her entire chest that maybe it was the MMR vax that gave me autism.

Sure mum it was the completely harmless shot both your kids got, not my almost certainly autistic father and definitely autistic grandfather

#I’m so fuckin mad #she’s not an idiot and she’s not been this ignorant before #she’s started acting like this since she started watching American news and getting invested in it more #she got mad at me for being angry with her for this #‘alright mark alright calm down’ No I fucking will not #tw: anti vax

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rebelwithoutabroom · 9 months

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#this whole thing with spnp is wild #everyone on twt acting like this is a huge moral failing when in reality hes like... a white cis man whos a millionaire #even tho the communuty around him is super diverse he will never be able to fully grasp what it means to go there #i dont agree with it but its also shitty to see how many stans are acting like entitled little gremlins dictating what he can or cant do #he has a right to choose to do what he wants and its up to us to watch it or not #(i wont)#this is not a personal attack it is a business decision and he will deal with the consequences whatever they are #one thing i always talk abt with friends is how much of this energy should be directed at actual queer/women/poc creators #they are white cis male americans i dont go here expecting a masterclass in anti-capitalism and class awareness #we all gotta also take a step back sometimes and gauge why we're expecting so much from a bunch of mncrafters

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intelligentchristianlady · 1 year

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“...as presented, the content of this course is inexplicably contrary to Florida law and significantly lacks educational value...”

Inexplicably? That word, I do not think it means what you think it means.

#Florida #DeSantis #CRT #African-American Studies #Anti-WOKE Act #somebody needs a dictionary

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demospectator · 2 years

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A sample of weaponry seized in New York Chinatown during the conflict between Hip Sing and On Leong Tongs, c. 1922. Photographer unknown (from the collection of the NYPD).

Disarming Chinese America: The Exclusionary Politics of Gun Control

“The gun is mythic in the American imagination… . The gun in America is unique because it has defined, and will continue to define, membership and belonging in the polity.” – Prof. Pratheepan Gulaesekaram

The widespread use of guns in Chinese Americans communities has been lost to historical memory, and almost a half-century has passed since San Francisco Chinatown’s last mass shooting. However, in the wake of a flood of news stories about the victimization by Chinese in California and elsewhere in the US – whether by hate or criminal predators – Chinese Americans have begun asking why relatively few in their communities bear arms for the protection of persons and property. Although the acquisition of personal firearms by Asian Americans has increased, particularly in this decade of Asian hate and criminal victimization, popular consciousness generally does not associate Chinese American communities with heavy firearms usage.

Ironically, the lack of firearms in California’s Chinese communities can be traced to century-old legislation aimed at directly suppressing the Chinese community’s ownership of guns and, in a larger sense, the deepening the notion of exclusion and, specifically, Chinese exclusion, from the right to bear firearms in America.

California’s Gun Law of 1923 contained two major provisions: (1) the requirement of a permit to carry a concealed handgun anywhere in California (and that statute is the direct ancestor of California’s current concealed weapon permit law); and (2) the prohibition of non-citizens from possessing concealable firearms. The handgun ban by non-citizens was upheld by the California Supreme Court in the case In re Ramirez (1924) 193 C. 633.

A July 15, 1923, a San Francisco Chronicle article supported the racial dimension of the legislative intent, and at whom the legislation was directed:

As the Chronicle reported, then-Governor Richardson had approved of the Gun Law largely on the recommendation of R. T. McKissick, president of the Sacramento Rifle and Revolver Club. Although McKissick acknowledged that banning resident aliens from owning handguns might pose a constitutional problem, McKissick indicated that ”it would have a ‘salutary effect in checking tong wars among the Chinese and vendettas among our people who are of Latin descent.’”

By invoking the specter of tong violence, the proponents of the law had invoked seven decades’ worth of fears by the white population of armed Chinese in California and throughout the American West.

The field of historical archaeology may lead to the revision of the stereotypical view of early Chinese communities as meek and victims, usually of white racist violence. The stereotype, however, has always been undermined by contemporary accounts of violent gunplay by Chinese in the gold fields and other frontier towns. Continuing excavations of old Chinese settlements by the Southern Oregon University have uncovered firearms and related accoutrements and provided evidence of Chinese use of guns to defend themselves.

However, the relatively small, legal firearms culture in the Chinese community can be attributed to the ascendancy and use by the “hatchet boys” or 斧頭仔 (canto: “fu tau jai”) of pistols, among other concealable weaponry, for advancing tong interests and conflict resolution.

“Highbinders’ Retreat” undated photo taken in San Francisco. Photographer unknown (from the Cooper Chow collection at the Chinese Historical Society of America).

The early gun control laws in California reflected the white community’s desire for safety from, and control over, the use of lethal force by nonwhites in their midst on the urban frontier. San Francisco enacted a gun control measure as early as 1847 to reduce violence. Coincident with the rise of anti-Chinese sentiment, the city singled out the Chinese as a focal point of violence for the balance of the 19th century and the first two decades of the 20th century, particularly Chinatown’s fighting tongs.

“The Yellow Terror In All His Glory” (1899) depicted an anti-colonial Qing Dynasty Chinese man standing over a fallen white woman, who represents the Western world. The cartoon made explicit the white community’s fears of innocent white women killed by gunplay in the Chinese community.

In 1879, California first enacted legislation to prohibit non-citizens from bearing arms. The law was fueled in major part by white perceptions of the Chinese as violent and unassimilable and thousands of lurid newspaper reports about tong violence.

“The Highbinders’ Favorite Weapons,” Harper’s Weekly of February 13, 1886 (Vo. XXX, No. 1521) from the collection of the Bancroft Library.

For example, the Daily Alta California published on January 18, 1887, an article titled: “A Bold Highbinder,” which detailed the removal of a girl from a “Chinese den” and her attempted recapture. One of the Chinese men attempting to take the child “slipped and fell on the pavement, at the same time drawing a revolver.” The man, Wong Bing Lin, was arrested and charged with carrying a concealed weapon. When searched, the police found a knife. “He also wore a coat of mail made out of compressed paper pulp, which could turn a bullet.”

Coat of chainmail used by highbinders. Photographer unknown (from the collection of the Bancroft Library)

Increased gun violence by tong soldiers induced the city of San Francisco to enact local legislation to ban concealed weapons in 1890. As reported by the Daily Alta on February 5, 1890, Chief of Police Patrick Crowley recommended that shooting galleries be removed, “in the Chinese quarter, where nearly every Chinaman is the owner of a pistol and is handy in its use.”

San Francisco police photo of weapons seized from Chinese “highbinders” c. 1900. Photographer unknown.

Violence by Chinese began to slacken, particularly in the aftermath of the federal Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882, its extension by the Geary Act of 1892, and the disruption of the 1906 earthquake and fire. Chinese rarely committed homicides against non-Chinese, as the violence usually occurred between Chinese by competing organized criminal organizations.

News account of a homicide allegedly committed by Hop Sing tong gunmen against a Chinese carpenter (and reputed Suey Sing tong member) located at 28-1/2 Waverly Place as reported in the The Call of Monday, January 7, 1900.

With the decreased perceived threat from Chinatown, the discourse shifted to include firearms themselves and the ease in which they could be acquired. However, in 1912, San Francisco saw a string a murders of young white women, killed by young men with easy access to firearms.

“Peace Meeting in Chinatown, San Francisco, Feb. 1921, bet. the Hip Sings and Ping Koongs”. Photographer unknown (from the Jesse B. Cook collection of the Bancroft Library). The photo shows police officials mediating treaty talks between the warring Hip Sing (協勝堂) and Bing Kung (秉公堂) tongs.

Although San Francisco police and merchant associations repeatedly mediated “peace treaties,” between fighting tongs, the ceasefires inevitably broke down.

The San Francisco Call, March 13, 1913, reports on gunplay as part of a statewide conflict between the Suey Sing (萃勝堂) and Bing Kung tongs. The Suey Sing Tong traced its establishment to San Francisco in 1867 when merchants formed a fighting arm to protect their property interests.

Homicide rates in the Chinese community began to spike in the second decade of the 20th century.

Chinese and white homicide rates compared (1860-1930). Chart by historian and Deputy Chief Kevin Mullen (ret.).

“Race continued to play a role in the discourse of gun control in California, as judicious men worked to disarm non-whites they viewed as threatening,” according to Josselyn Green (a.k.a. Huerta) in her monograph “ Control of Violence, Control of Fear: The Progression of Gun Control in San Francisco, 1847-1923″ (Spring 2015 Master’s thesis). “In 1923, the California State Legislature passed a second gun control bill … Most notably the new statutes stated, ‘no unnaturalized foreign born person … shall own or have in his possession or under his custody or control any pistol, firearm capable of being concealed on the person.’ Because the Chinese Exclusion Act had been extended permanently in 1902, thus denying Chinese Americans citizenship. California’s 1923 gun control law effectively disarmed the entire Chinese community.“

The denial of the Chinese community’s access to concealable firearms would remain in effect for a half-century until it was declared unconstitutional by a California Court of Appeals in People v. Rappard (1972).

As for the wider conflict between the criminal tongs, conditions began to change during the 1920′s. Crime historian Paul Drexler wrote as follows:

“The overthrow of the Manchu dynasty reduced the flow of tong members from China. As a result, Chinatown was becoming a more middle-class area. Community leaders realized they could make more money from legitimate commerce than from vice and became more supportive of The City’s government. Additionally, the Chinatown Squad, under the leadership of Sgt. Jack Manion, changed tactics and used community policing to win the trust of the Chinatown population.”

This same image from The Call newspaper would be reproduced for the cover by a FBI intelligence report during the 1970′s. The gun had not only shaped California gun control legislation but its use by organized crime forever shaped US society’s perceptions and stereotypes of the entire Chinese community into the modern era.

If the way of the gun represents a badge of a community's membership, and even its rights, in American society, then the denial of the Chinese American community's access to firearms a century ago was emblematic of its exclusion. Law professor Pratheepan Gulaesekaram has written about the gun as a badge of membership in the American polity as follows:

“Access to, and use of, firearms has helped define ideas of membership in America. The gun played a vital role in the genesis tales of the Republic itself. It was a bullet fired into a British officer by a militia man in Lexington, Massachusetts on April 19, 1775, that is credited with igniting the war for independence; it was the gun that helped tame the wilderness and battle American Indians in stories of the expanding nineteenth-century frontier; and firearms were credited with shoring up the struggle for political and racial equality during Reconstruction after the Civil War. In all of these manifestations—as a tool of resistance to tyranny, an instrument of imperialism, a method of survival and self-protection, and a pathway to political inclusion—the gun facilitated formation of, and inclusion in, the American polity.

“Concomitantly, however, the gun has also demarcated the borders of exclusion as well. …”

(Gulaesekaram, P., “Guns and Membership in the American Polity,” William & Mary Bill of Rights Journal, vol. 21 (December 2012).

San Francisco Chinatown would not see a return to pervasive gunplay by any segment of its community until the 1970’s, but that is a story for another day.

[updated 2023-5-20]

#Gun ownership by Chinese Americans #California Gun Law of 1923 #tongs #Hip Sing Tong #Bin Kung Tong #On Leong Tong #highbinders #Chinese Exclusion Act #Disarming Chinatown #anti-Asian hate and firearms acquisition #Suey Sing Tong #Hop Sing Tong

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