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Kinda crazy how any post I make about my experience of antisemitism — whether or not it mentions Israel — immediately becomes inundated with comments about Palestinian pain and suffering. Do you really not see how inappropriate that is, people?
When Black People post about their experience of racism, it’s not OK to come in to that space and talk about, idk, war in Sudan.
When Asian People talk about their experience of racism, it’s not appropriate to come into that space and start talking about China’s treatment of Uyghur people or North Korean aggression.
When Muslim people talk about their experience of Islamophobia, it’s not OK to come into that space and start talking about all the horrible things Isis or Al Qaeda have done.
When a trans person starts talking about their experience of transphobia, it’s not OK to come into that space and start talking about the latest horrible thing Caitlyn Jenner said.
Why are you able to understand this when it comes to every other group, but posts about Jewish pain are always filled with arguments about Palestine that blatantly imply that actually—my group, Jews—actually deserve the hatred we receive?
Spoiler alert: It’s because you’re antisemitic and will double down on your beliefs 100000 times to prove to yourself that you’re not, because actually confronting that you have hateful beliefs is too scary for you.
I’m sorry if it messes with your sense of self righteous inherent goodness, but you have and perpetuate systemic antisemitism just like you have all other forms of systemic bigotry. And if you don’t address it, that makes you a bigot on purpose. Deal with your hatred and stop being horrible to Jews.
#antisemitism#leftist antisemitism#systemic racism#bigotry#i/p#Israel#Palestine#anti-black racism#anti-Asian racism#islamophobia
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The Supreme Court of Canada is being accused of engaging in anti-Black and anti-Palestinian racism.
Three Black delegates were invited to the Supreme Court as a part of a delegation presenting to clerks of the court about the 2022 Halifax Declaration for the Eradication of Racial Discrimination and anti-Black racism in the justice system.
The delegation had been organized by former governor general Michaëlle Jean.
Three members of the delegation, El Jones, Derico Symonds and Benazir Erdimi were told only hours before the meeting that they would no longer be allowed to attend. The reason given by Supreme Court Registrar Chantel Charbonneau was because of “controversial” social media posts made by these three members of the delegation.
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TW: Anti-Black Violence + Murder:
It was 1 October when Carter sent an ominous text message to his mother.
Carter, a welder who lived in Fayette, Mississippi, had gotten a short-term job as a contractor around 100 miles away in Taylorsville.
His mother Tiffany Carter said that he was saving money to try to get his seafood restaurant back up and running after it was shuttered during the Covid-19 pandemic.
But Carter reached out to his mother telling her in a detailed text message that he was having issues with his coworkers and feared for his life, Ms Carter said at a press conference on 13 March.
“Me and the owner of this company are not seeing eye to eye,” the message read.
“If anything happens to me [he] is responsible for it… he got these guys wanting to kill me.”
Holy fucking shit, no foul play? The cops are so damn brazen.
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Lindsay Graham saying he doesn't know if Voodoo is legal in New York and calling Trump's indictment "legal Voodoo" is a perfect illustration of ingrained anti-Black racism in the US.
#Voodoo is a literal religion dumbass#Freedom of religion includes closed African American religions that you're too much of a dumbass to understand#Anti-Black racism
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"The creator of the Dilbert comic strip faced a backlash of cancellations Saturday while defending remarks describing people who are Black as members of “a hate group” from which white people should “get away.”
Various media publishers across the U.S. denounced the comments by Dilbert creator Scott Adams as racist, hateful and discriminatory while saying they would no longer provide a platform for his work.
Andrews McMeel Syndication, which distributes Dilbert, did not immediately respond Saturday to requests for comment. But Adams defended himself on social media against those whom he said “hate me and are canceling me.”
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“Based on the current way things are going, the best advice I would give to white people is to get the hell away from Black people,” Adams said on his Wednesday show."
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The Satanic Temple's co-owner "Lucien Greaves" makes his case for fascism
Via The.Satanic.Wiki
On Sept. 11, 2003, future co-owner of The Satanic Temple Doug “Lucien Greaves” Misicko, his friend and collaborator Shane Bugbee, and Shane Bugbee’s wife Amy Stocky hosted a 24-hour Internet radio stream with guests and callers to mark the release of their new edition of the proto-fascist manifesto Might Is Right.
The following year, Doug Misicko continued to appear on Internet radio streams with Shane and Amy.
“The ABCs of the Alphabet” was one such program.
This is an excerpt from one of those recordings.
CW: anti-Black racism, n-word slur, white nationalist symbolism, fascism
Full transcript:
12:01 Doug Misicko
Well, I gotta tell you, the f-word still has 'em all beat. (Shane Bugbee: What?) F-word still has 'em all beat internationally. I go to other countries, I still see "fuck" on the wall. I never see "[n-slur]" written on a wall.
12:13 Shane Bugbee
Interesting.
12:14 Doug Misicko
When I was in Italy, I didn’t see "[n-slur]" anywhere.
12:17 Shane Bugbee
But you went to the fascist leader’s house. (Doug Misicko: Actually, I was in a fascist-) The guy who started the fascist-
12:21 Doug Misicko
I was in a fascist neighborhood, right outside the Vatican, and it was a real nice, clean area, but you would see swastikas spraypainted. You know, like the crosshairs. I don’t know what you call that, you know, but it was a fascist symbol. A circle with just the crosshairs in it. With… little fascist logos or anything else. It was a clean area, nice area. If you went to the shitty side of town on the wrong side of the tracks in Rome, saw little hammers and sickles painted on the walls and shit like that. That was the difference.
12:54 Amy Bugbee
Wow, that’s crazy.
12:56 Doug Misicko
Well, I think it says a lot, and I think it stands to reason...
13:01 Amy Bugbee
And you bought that T-shirt. What did your T-shirt say?
13:04 Doug Misicko
Uh, in Italian it says “you’re with us, or you’re against us.” And it was- it’s a- It’s a fascist shirt. It was a fascist logo on it. I actually got it at a little fascist kiosk outside of Gabriele D’Annunzio’s palace.
13:19 Shane Bugbee
And who is that again?
13:21 Doug Misicko
He was a- y’know- he was like the first fascist. He was the godfather of fascism. Italian World War One hero that occupied the promised territories, after the First World War. With the Blackshirts. One of those- One of those hidden heroes. People should look him up. Look him up on the internet... Good deal.
#the satanic temple#lucien greaves#anti-Black racism#slurs#n-word#fascism#satanic temple#doug mesner#doug misicko#the satanic wiki#fuck fascism#fuck the satanic temple
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Freaky Facts: King Kong (1933)
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Through drug raids, police also work to remove resources from communities, with or without regard to profit extraction. During the Dalton raid, while purportedly searching for drugs, officers dismantled washing machines and refrigerators. One threw a vacuum cleaner out a window. For these wanton acts of destruction, a few cops were ultimately charged with “vandalism.”
Across the country, raids have resulted in, among other things, the loss of food, clothing, and shelter, which can be devastating to working-class people. Gloria Flowers and her neighbors were robbed of more than just personal property. They were deprived of essential tools of social reproduction: the work of caring and nurturing that makes all social and economic life possible. A washer means not having to send your kids to school in dirty clothes. A vacuum may make the difference between an orderly home and a “dysfunctional” one, in the eyes of Child Protective Services. Raids work in lockstep with CPS, which, as Dorothy Roberts has explained, serves as another structure of control that facilitates the destruction of Black families.
At Dalton, police made sure to destroy family photo albums and other precious keepsakes. It was these personal artifacts that residents often grieved more than any other possession: Onie Palmer lost her only photos of one of her daughters, who had passed. She lost items belonging to her grandmother, and mementos from her life in Mississippi, before she came to California. For Palmer and other victims, even the $3 million they received in damages could not restore such losses.
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Interesting passage from an article about blacks who fled Oklahoma for Alberta, Canada.
They became alarmed when more than one hundred black settlers arrived.
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There's a PR push to celebrate the new romance between Chelsea Handler and Filipino American comedian Jo Koy. But Handler has a history of being racist and using her dating life with men of color as a shield from facing repercussions—and Koy seems happy to let her do it again.
Handler used this tactic in the Black community. Her response to backlash was to create content that talks around her racism without truly addressing it—and still profit from it. Ironically her "acknowledgement" of anti-Black racism is how I got exposed to her anti-Asian racism.
In 2016's Chelsea Does Racism, Handler claims to be "egalitarian" with her jokes about race. But it’s clear she’s made choices on which groups to appear empathetic to and which groups she feels safe to dismiss with a laugh—such as Asian men. And she's unapologetic about it.
Fast forward to Handler and Koy’s media tour touting themselves as a power couple. This matters because Jo Koy is currently being celebrated as major Fil-Am rep with his soon-to-be released studio film, Easter Sunday. Proudly pairing with an anti-Asian racist sends a message.
Jo Koy was not only the most frequent guest on her past show over the years (meaning he knows who she is), but invited her to play a role in Easter Sunday. This serves to rehabilitate her image, bring her into Fil-Am/AsAm spaces and let her profit from it.
Handler's recent IG video says it all: She wants a Kardashian empire, where Filipinos are swapped in for Black people as accessories to her whiteness. She's talking like a textbook sexpat yet repeatedly describes Filipinos and Black people as infiltrators.
Jo Koy's decision to partner with Handler makes more sense knowing he's guilty of peddling anti-Asian stereotypes too. In one special, Koy publicly body shames his son—ignoring his pleas not to. This is the same special that got Steven Spielberg to greenlight Easter Sunday.
You can guess the elevator pitch for Easter Sunday: "Think Crazy Rich Asians, but take out the rich so they're just crazy." White-mixed Asians like Jo Koy are granted more humanity than monoracial Fil-Ams due to the legacy of colonization, and Koy seems to be leaning into that.
Jo Koy is hardly the only example of an Asian with media power choosing whiteness over the AsAm community. Far more often, the pattern consists of white men partnered with Asian women (a legacy of racist U.S. policies like the Mixed Marriage Policy)
For ex, AsAm Chloe Bennet—who's half-white like Jo Koy—proudly defended Logan Paul after he mocked and exploited a dead Japanese man. Yet Bennet is centered in campaigns about anti-Asian hate. Asians who hurt their community aren't punished by white Hollywood—they're rewarded.
The legacy of the MMP is so strong that white men feel entitled to speak on Asian issues in AsAm spaces—and Asians with media power let them. This causes severe harm, as seen by the erasure of AAPI men from hate crime data and narratives.
Back to the film Easter Sunday, there are no Fil-Ams credited on the creative team. I'm all for pan-Asian progress, but not at the expense of specific ethnic groups. It's the first studio film to center on a Filipino American family. This pattern of erasing Fil-Ams in AsAm spaces needs to stop too.
Overall, Easter Sunday is supposed to be a "first," but with so much racism embedded in its creation, I don't feel like celebrating. The idea of seeing either Jo Koy or Chelsea Handler on a red carpet for a major Fil-Am milestone is awful. It's a win for them—not us.
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#jo koy#chelsea handler#easter sunday#filipino american#anti-asian racism#anti-black racism#asian american#fil-am#filipinos#josh luna#joshua luna
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What are you doing to help black people?
Several things! (A Note on My Personal Limitations: I am not black. I am unable to protest for health reasons. I do not have much money at all)
I elevate black voices whenever I can
I joined an anti-racism book club where I can learn how to be a better ally and unlearn as much systemic prejudice as I can
I do not tolerate anti-black racism from anyone in my life for any reason. I call it out every time, publicly.
I donate (when financially possible) to several causes devoted to both long term and immediate aid to to black people including: various bail funds in my current state and my home state, the southern poverty law center, the Homeless Black Trans Women gofundme, the ACLU, and others.
I consistently educate people in my life about the goals of BLM — including defunding the police — in order to reduce their knee jerk reactions and foster better understanding.
I shut the eff up unless I can help. I’m no savior; I know this. I don’t break into conversations that don’t involve me. I just listen. Most of my public advocacy is amplifying black voices on issues that affect the black community without adding my irrelevant opinions as white-passing person.
Privately, I have and continue to reach out to the several black people in my life to let them know I support them and that I am listening. I listen to them vent to me about their pain and suffering. I let them tell me if I’ve fucked up somehow without getting defensive. Then I apologize sincerely and onboard the new information and don’t do whatever the offending action was again. I have not had anyone tell me I’ve fucked up in that way in over a decade, though. I did, however, realize (during my continuing journey of learning how to be anti-racist) that I’d held problematic opinions as a teenager (nothing crazy. Just ignorant teen bullshit borne from growing up as a liberal in a red state and thinking I was more progressive than I actually was at the time) and proactively reached out to the black friend I’ve known since my teenage years to say that I know I was an idiot back then and I’ve learned a lot since then and I will continue to learn and to apologize.
My work involves public communications. In my role, I continually advocate for anti-racist, black-affirming language in our company guidelines and publicly disseminated materials, even when that means confronting my boss—who is a white man.
I vote in every election in which I am able, researching every politician and bill thoroughly from multiple sources and voting as leftist as possible and educating people in my life about these bills details and the politicians platforms and records.
I am not perfect and don’t claim to be. I only claim to try my best to continually improve.
I don’t make a habit of sharing private communique and am only doing so now because this post asks for receipts. Here are some excerpts from conversations had during 2020 when tensions were a little higher. I decline to share receipts from more recently, as those conversations include more private and more identifying information. The pictured conversations involve friends I’ve had since pre-school, high school, and college. Again, this is not something I would normally share, because saying “I have black friends” is tacky and gross. But I am trying to respect your request for my commitment to the black community, which does of course include my friends. It feels wrong not to mention them in this context, even though I feel awkward saying it at all. Im also sharing only the start of longer conversations, as my friends’ pain and concerns are not for public consumption.
Idk if replying to your question alerts you, so tagging you just in case. @phantomdiebe
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A Montreal-area mother is expressing rage and horror about an alleged racially motivated attack against her 18-year-old daughter and three other young women.
Lyndia Barthold says the four women were sitting in a parked car in Terrebonne, north of Montreal, when a man started swinging an axe at a closed window and screaming racial slurs.
She claims Terrebonne police initially did not take the case seriously because the victims are black.
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on a more serious note about enola holmes, i feel like the race-blind casting really works to its disadvantage sometimes ngl
i thought it was slightly awkward that we have typical victorian sexism but not typical victorian racism, though i was willing to look past that because lbr it doesn't matter that much, but Moriarty's whole speech about how she's treated unfairly because she's a woman just felt so awkward because they completely ignored the fact that she was a black woman specifically and. well. it's not like black people in victorian england were treated that fairly either. so that whole scene just came across as a bit weird and i was going "are they going to mention it...?" the whole time
#idk it's just. awkward.#i'm not saying it's a Bad Thing but it's awkward yknow#enola holmes#enola holmes crit#i suppose#kind of#racism#anti-black racism#sort of#it's mentioned#enola holmes 2#enola holmes spoilers#mira troy#og
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Okay, but the way some of these people are like, "What about Mami Wata?" when they didn't even know who Mami Wata was or care before they cast a young Black actress to play Ariel lol.
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Do you think Asian Americans need to work on anti-black racism in their communities? It seems like some Asian Americans are against affirmative action, even though it benefits them too. And some seem happy it was overturned. Which seems a little racist.
oh absolutely, anti-blackness is rampant in asian communities
opposition to affirmative action from asian communities has been a problem for as long as affirmative action has been in place. it's hypocritical, because many implementations of affirmative action have provided opportunities for asian people as well
it also ties in to the whole "model minority" concept, and the extremely racist idea that asians are the good, smart, hardworking racial minorities and that black people are none of those things
when in reality, non-black people of colour like myself have a leg up over black people for multiple reasons. colourism is a huge factor. also, the stereotype of the "smart nerdy asian", while racist in it's own right, does provide an advantage in accessing education and finding jobs. and then of course there's the fact that many black people in canada and the united states are descended from slaves, making them significantly less likely to have family wealth being passed down to them, because their ancestors didn't own property, instead they were considered property. while all people of colour face systemic racial injustice, there are specific and heightened systemic injustices that black people face and that the rest of us do not
and those are just the systemic factors! there's also cultural factors among asian communities, including my community as an indian person. colourism is rampant in asia and among asians all over the world. stereotypes about black people are shared between white people and non black people of colour, and we are absolutely complicit in their oppression
a few years ago it came to light that the government in india had as a part of its education curriculum for children an extremely racist concept floated by the hindu nationalist government. the story that was being taught in schools was that when the deities created the first humans, they constructed them and cooked them over a fire. and that the first attempt was undercooked, and those were white people. then the second attempt was "overcooked and burned", and those were black people. then the third attempt was "perfect" and when they "got it right", cooked the right amount, and that was indian people.
I don't think I need to explain how racist that concept is and how it negatively impacts how indian people treat black people, and is outright claiming that we're genetically superior in some way
when it comes to affirmative action, a lot of asians have bought into the "pulling yourself up by your bootstraps" bullshit, and view it as giving unfair "handouts" to black people. of course, the truth is that affirmative action is nowhere near enough to balance out the injustices faced by black people, and any asian who thinks that it is too much is both a hypocrite and a racist who has decided to side with the oppressor and throw black people under the bus for their own benefit
#asks#anonymous#mine#affirmative action#racism#anti-blackness#anti-black racism#slavery#colourism#systemic racism#racism tw#anti-blackness tw#anti-black racism tw#slavery tw#colourism tw#systemic racism tw
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The Satanic Temple's co-owner "Lucien Greaves" on [r-slurs]
Specifically: how to trick intellectually disabled people for entertainment, their sexual performance, and why such people should be the first targets of another genocide
Via The.Satanic.Wiki
On Sept. 11, 2003, future co-owner of The Satanic Temple Doug “Lucien Greaves” Misicko, his friend and collaborator Shane Bugbee, and Shane Bugbee’s wife Amy Stocky hosted a 24-hour Internet radio stream with guests and callers to mark the release of their new edition of the proto-fascist manifesto Might Is Right.
This is an excerpt from that recording.
CW: r-slur and other ableist slurs, antisemitism, n-word slur, anti-Hispanic slur, call for genocide, ableism, eugenics, sexual assault mention
Full transcript:
Hart Fisher: Been like a little cripple time down here at the RadioFreeSatan.com.
Doug Misicko: Yeah, we love the [r-slurs].
Hart Fisher: Oh, very important. "Kids of Whidney High."
Doug Misicko: Right. Make some beautiful music.
Shane Bugbee: First ones in the fuckin showers.
Hart Fisher: [Mimicking] "The fuckin showers."
Shane Bugbee: First go the retards and then go the Jews.
Doug Misicko: The retards are entertaining.
Shane Bugbee: Next is the [n-slurs] and spics and then more Jews.
Hart Fisher: ...right.
Doug Misicko: You can tell a [r-slur] it's got a bug on the back of its head and watch it spin in violent circles, and everybody has a good time.
Hart Fisher: While I was growing up, I had this friend of mine he had a cousin that had Down syndrome and he moved in with his with- with his grandma and that- the Down syndrome chick, and her bedroom was next to his and he said he used to have to listen or masturbate at night.
Doug Misicko: He had to, huh?
Hart Fisher: Well, yeah, you know, he's just living in a fucking trailer. Some fuckin' [r-slur] is masturbating and making all this noise. Ain't no way...
Doug Misicko: I heard [r-slurs] have quite the sexual appetite, too.
Hart Fisher: Oh, yeah. And then I was dating this girl and she had an older aunt that was a, uh, a [r-slur]. And she she got knocked up by the mailman. 'Cause the mailman would come and sweet talk his way in until eventually he knocked her up. And that was in Texas. Friendly.
Doug Misicko: Yeah, it doesn't even sound like the [r-slurs] are at a loss to find somebody to do it with them. What is going on!? That's dysgenics.
Hart Fisher: That's pretty desperate. I'd say. Yeah, it is. What's going through your mind when you're looking at that mongoloid fuckin face and you're going, "Mmm, yeah, that's some butter for me."
Doug Misicko: I don't know what is going through your mind.
Shane Bugbee: Pure perversion. It's all about perversion.
Doug Misicko: Having a submissive.
Hart Fisher: Definitely all about perversion. That's why I would do a book called "Sex Crimes".
Doug Misicko: Any [r-slurs] in any of these stories?
Hart Fisher: I do not believe that there's any [r-slurs] in that particular anthology. No, no [r-slurs].
Doug Misicko: I'll write you a [r-slur] story.
Hart Fisher: Well, we got tons of rape and torture and murder and maiming stories.
Doug Misicko: Hold the presses! I'll give you a [r-slur].
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