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Detainees at the Northwest ICE Processing Center in Tacoma were subjected to tear gas, had guns pointed at them, and were physically restrained during a hunger strike last year for better living conditions.
Advocates for the detainees released footage Thursday of what happened to several protesters after chemical agents were used on them at the privately run facility.
The 41-minute video from Feb. 1, 2023, shows heavily armored guards entering the common area of Unit F4 at the processing center with rifles drawn, and then taking away one of the detainees in plastic cuffs."
#pnw leftists#acab#fire to the prisons#death to america#prison abolition#pnw anarchists#pnw#tacoma#anarchism#anticapitalism#antifascism
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Protest for Palestine in Tukwila, Washington today!
#palestine#israel#free palestine#gaza#from the river to the sea palestine will be free#seattle#tacoma#pnw#olympia#tukwila#washington#washington state#leftist
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actually fighting for my life rn against my mother who is absolutely convinced that every single person living in conservative states is the devil... like HOWWW do you not understand how fucked the voting systems are in these states and how gerrymandered to hell most of them are the governments are not representative of the will of the public at all and a majority of their actions are incredibly unpopular with their constituents. I am going to break something
#this post is so irrelevant to everything I just love complaining about my life on the internet#my mom is so textbook ''white moderate liberal from the pnw'' its unreal#thank god I was exposed to leftist theory from a young age almost went down a DARK PATH imagine if I was like this
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Eat ass, punch nazis, 🖤 tetres
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Lacey, Washington is getting a new police station. It's bigger than the current police station and included new areas for training. They are also going to destroy 12 acres of forest to build it.
Leftists here are calling it a second Cop City because of that which is Deeply misleading.
They are NOT building mock cities like the facility in Atlanta is, but "Lacey is building a second cop city!!" Is still starting to gain traction on tiktok. Google now shows me that's it's a topic on Reddit and people have quickly written news articles about it as well. This is a bad thing.
Who said they were building a cop city and why nobody is fact checking this is beyond me but here is a screenshot of the new plans including a size comparison with the old station. But if you wanna check their site yourself then here is the link.
By all means protest the police station, it's ACAB everyday around here but ffs can we do it without stealing language and spotlight from another BIPOC movement and one that's gotten people killed??? Especially when its the ONLY movement that's actually protesting an actual Cop City?
Do not water down that movement by including non-Cop Cities in the call to action to stop Cop City.
Honestly, my concern is it's a psyop to take attention from the actual Cop City. This area of the PNW is a hotbed for Nazis and white supremacists in general. I do not like that a bunch of pissed off "leftists" are co-opting language and fucking with Google searches for the only actual Cop City. Especially when the plans for the Lacey police station are EASILY found on their site and nobody seems to care enough to fact check.
If y'all see this, please correct it
Also if you're in the area and wanna harass some government employees about it: They have public city council meetings coming up on Feb 13, 14, 20, and 21.
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I think what really gets me about the pnw is the way so many people here especially in young/gay/leftist circles approach "social justice" "activism" with a level of self-righteousness and sanctimoniousness that is absolutely in no way warranted considering how many of them have made it to adulthood having never actually encountered any of the "issues" they claim to know so much about face to face. Which of course is down to luck of the draw in terms of location but you can at least acknowledge that you live in an environmentalist bubble instead of feigning worldliness. It's adjacent to when people up north talk about racism in southern states
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leftists in the pnw on dating apps love to say 'looking for a cutie to ride out the coming end of the world with' and idk, what a deeply sad form of doomerism, personally.
#also yeah im on dating apps now. i said i would try them for 2 weeks and then uninstall#kaia.mypost#kaia.oversharing
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Forward: This post isn't meant judgmentally, targeted at anyone in particular or as a gotcha and I write in entirely good faith.
A question I have for white folks in particular (but also abled people, cis people, etc, but also everyone in general who votes) when engaging with electoral politics is, are you taking measures to protect the rest of us from your candidates? There's no perfect candidate for sure, but that means people will be hurt, and as voters we have a responsibility to call out and prevent harm that our candidates do; if we aren't then we're directly complicit in that harm. Are you willing to put your bodies and minds on the line to protect those who aren't going to be protected by those candidates? Because of the nature of US politics, our own candidates need to be challenged just as fiercely as if someone else got elected.
Again, I'm not against voting at all! I literally vote blue every time and in every election. I think there's strategic value in it, but we have to actually strategize, which hasn't been getting done. Are we actually engaging with why people are hesitant to vote? People use the "you're damaging your own cause!" whenever people seen as "scary leftists" participate in their actions, but it's never applies to liberal and electoral politics even though the same can be said. Trying to harp on and guilt people into voting when without engaging with why that is just damages the cause and pushes them further away. Also note that the majority of people critical of the way electoral politics are done are BIPOC; this is important to think about.
The democrats are objectively better for more people than the republicans, but there are people who are destitute to the point where those two parties are the same. Palestinians for example! Democrats also fund police measure against homeless folks as we see in the PNW, which is strongly blue. Indigenous people here are another similar group– the way indigeneity is legislated here, they're literally programmed to eventually go extinct from a legal standpoint due to the colonial law of blood quantum. Not to mention that reservations are literally, in their words, concentration camps.
Are you going to make things better for yourself and leave others to fall through the cracks? Or are you going to use that to lift everyone else up? This traditionally hasn't been the case, so if you want BIPOC voters to trust you, you have to demonstrate that you won't get attached to you candidates and hold them on a pedestal.
How are you going to assuage fears when people get anxious (and they will!) without also invalidating their fears (which is common under electoral politics votes). Can you do this without a lot of the manipulative tactics a lot of outlets use? (Blaming disaffected BIPOC for when things go wrong, using the "well the other guy is worse!" line.) Folks ask for 1000 step plans when talking about non-electoral political elements, but when engaging with electoral politics people treat it like magic, and if anyone falls through the cracks and complains, they're just being cantankerous. This is only a small percentage of the things that need to be considered.
Election season is also really retraumatizing for folks who have colonized backgrounds. Are you making sure we feel safe? Are we being thought about as real people, instead of just abstracts or as a resource to generate votes, but who are just being obstinate? (As opposed to again, real people with real motivations)
As a final note, people also comment on "Why abstain anyways when you know it's going to be bad either way?" for particularly marginalized people, and I think the answer (folks in those situations can correct me here) is that it's more cathartic to watch the people who let you slip through the cracks fall with you, than slipping through the cracks and watching those same people have brunch and pretend you and your problems don't exist. It's like being trapped in a room with only crumbs to eat while the people on the other side of the door throw a dinner party, and if you complain, yell at you saying that the other guys wouldn't even give you crumbs.
#Ad nauseum mention that I vote blue every time#I'm just the messenger here so direct any angry words at the people running electoral campaigns#Being upset isn't going to change anything#us politics#Sorry if this is jumbled I threw this together in a shabbat half-asleep fugue
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Seattle, at Bruce Harrell's personal urging, is deploying new police surveillance around the city, including the nefarious and notoriously its unreliable Shotspotter, which police regularly use in other areas to justify deadly force and police response, as well as evidence tampering. Shotspotter allows police to update, modify, and delete its files and triggers on the fly as police decide.
"As an alerting system, ShotSpotter exacerbates police violence by sending police on high alert into our neighborhoods. A 2021 report by the Chicago Office of Inspector General showed that “evidence of a gun-related crime” was only found in “9.1% of CPD responses to ShotSpotter alerts”.
But for each of the other 90.9% of alerts, police are still dispatched. A video from 2023 showed a heavy SPD response to a 911 caller alleging shots fired, showing officers pointing their rifles toward an unarmed man in crisis. Officers finally left after a tense standoff with intervening community members. Every false positive is another possibly deadly encounter.
In Chicago, a ShotSpotter alert has already led to an officer shooting and killing 13-year-old Adam Toledo in 2021."
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Just as concerning though, are the other two technologies the City is requesting: CCTV cameras and Real-Time Crime Center (RTCC) software.
The SIR proposes to not just install city-owned CCTV cameras, but also to allow “privately-owned security systems […] to voluntarily share video of storefronts and areas where the public has access” with the City. This would be a massive expansion of police surveillance, giving police potentially real-time surveillance video from any/every business concerned with petty theft or houseless people.
These feeds would then be integrated into Real-Time Crime Center software, which “provides a centralized location for real-time information and analysis” and “integrates dispatch, camera, officer location, gunshot detection, 911 calls, records management systems, and other information into one ‘pane of glass’ (a single view).”
Additionally, the RTCC software for CCTV cameras 'can also provide in-application video analytics that use machine-learned algorithms to analyze camera feeds and, using object recognition, locate specific items, people based on clothing, or vehicles based on description.' "
Harrell, a proud Trump supporter, is entrusting a massive panopticon to the same police department that sent the most number of police officers to participate in the 1/06 insurrection and is one of the most brutal PDs in the US. SPD is a threat to Seattle, and with its regular training exchanges with the IOF, a threat to Palestinians as well.
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Some shit has come across my dash that reminded me about this talk* between David Baddiel and Toby Lichtig that discusses his book Jews Don't Count. (There is also a documentary of the same name, which I have not been able to find. Supposedly it's on iTunes, but I'm not downloading it to find out.)
It discusses the duality of antisemitism wherein Jews are seen as both powerful but also "the usual" tropes we associate with non-Jewish marginalized people. It's all tangled up with white privilege (because some Jews are white), the idea of passing, and the conflation of Jewishness** and Judaism.
This is instructive and useful for everybody, but especially people who consider themselves leftist or progressive. I very much hear (or not hear) the silence on the left when antisemitic stuff comes up, from the left or the right. (And it's amazing how that shit sounds exactly the same regardless of which side it comes from.)
As a goy and somebody who considers myself progressive, this is something I find extremely fucking concerning. If a group of people are being attacked and marginalized because of things they can't control, they should be protected. I don't see how proximity to whiteness*** (and some Jews benefit from white privilege) changes how we approach the issue.
Like. This article from 2020 talks about how Tottenham Hotspur uses a word considered to be a racial/ethnic slur to describe their fans and players. I substituted the n-word or the c-word and it became extremely clear how offensive this is.
It is enraging to hear people say it's reclaimed when they were the ones who made it a slur in the first place. A dominant group can never reclaim a slur that is leveled against a marginalized group. That's called, uh, using a slur to describe a marginalized group. You would never do this with anybody other ethnic/racial group today, but it's acceptable because antisemitism is baked into western culture.
One of the things I have been most surprised and appalled by is how very little I know about Israel and how that affects what I know as an American. I was in my 30s before I learned there were non-zionist Jews. I had never met or heard of one.
[Part of this might be where I grew up. The PNW has a very small population of Jews (~1%), and I knew exactly three: my 2nd grade teacher, the annoying kid, and the annoying kid's dad (who was a rabbi and came to talk to my high school class). My primary exposure to Jewish culture was Kornblatt's and Mel Brooks.]
So maybe my knowledge of Jewish (and Israeli-American) politics is kind of remedial. I can't recall a subject where I continually learn something that makes a lot of things fall into place. And sometimes I wonder if other people have this experience too.
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* "BAME" is a term that comes up a lot in the video, which is an abbreviation for "Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic". It is now an outdated term, but it takes time for that to filter into everyday consciousness.
** As Baddiel bluntly puts it, "It doesn't matter if I'm an atheist, that wouldn't have gotten me a pass out of Auschwitz."
*** Honorary whiteness is a whole different can of worms which is not quite relevant here.
#antisemitism#david baddiel#jews don't count#pear text#word vomit#i didn't mean to make the post that long sorry
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if you think it's safe to live in the pnw as a poc, jew, and/or lgbt+ person because leftists in portland are loud about living there, just know that this is what the majority of people in cities/towns outside seattle and portland are like. i want out.
#g talks#the responses don't even make sense#but what else is new#tired tired tired#i hate living here surrounded by people like this#homophobia#transphobia#racism#antisemitism#mine#/mobile#/okay to reblog
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DisorderlyTrans intro post:
about me:
• my name is Olive 🫒
• i use her/him/them pronouns and im nonbinary/queer
• i live in the PNW USA
• i’m about to be 27 years old (feb 2nd lol)
• i’m an aquarius ♒️ sun, pisces ♓️ rising, and sagittarius ♐️ moon
• focused on recovery with BPD, still healing ❤️🩹
• Autistic af and ADHD haver
• Leftist/anti racist/anti zionist/anti xenophobia/pro covid mitigation/pro vaccines/pro science/pro queer rights/pro trans rights/all around “radical” leftist who hates the two party system
• cannabis user
• tattoo collector (yes its a face tattoo (brown sparkles on my cheek ✨)
what i post:
• cute/sexy pics of myself
• my hand built/hand painted ceramic art
• mental health vents/rants
• general life updates
• AuDHD stuff
• reblogs of funny stuff
• Covid info/vents/rants
• reality TV musings
• smoking weed videos
• gay/horny shit (nsfw)
• (left) political shit/rants
follow me if:
• ur gay/trans
• you want to be pals
• you think i’m cute
• you think i’m relatable
• you think im funny
• you’re autistic and or ADHD
• you have BPD
• ur sexy
• you wanna see the dumpster fire that’s my life
girl mode: boy mode:
#myself#intro post#introduction#get to know the blogger#blog intro#queer#trans#nonbinary#bpd#audhd#autistic#adhd#my writing
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just realized your username is a play on jack off
Yup! Immediately pre-pandemic I was starting to get into drag & it was just enough of a pun to work as a drag name. Drag kings also have kind of A Thing naming themselves after booze (Andro Gin, Landon Cider, etc) and I was doing kind of an evil cowboy character so I figured basically calling myself Jack (Daniels) Badguy worked for that, too.
I only got to perform once in february 2020, then just...didn't get back into the amateur hobby-end side of the art form after I moved to the PNW. I've found generally that drag scenes are a little less radical in more liberal/queer-friendly places - most of the leftist trans folks in my tiny Missouri college town were involved in drag in one way or another, while here, if the tranarchists are involved in drag it's mostly standing outside drag shows with [redacted] to fend off threats from fascists. Kinda miss how weird and low-budget DIY small town red state drag was.
I think I've seen one other guy actually using the name for drag on instagram since, and good on him.
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Lol. lmao even.
Thank you so much for proving my point.
Like forgive my "holier than thou" and "fake leftist" attitude about it but I think if you want change you have to take risks, risks that upset the status quo. Like voting 3rd party, especially when nobody (including historically blue labor unions and states) wants Biden to be president.
If there's a chance to change things for the better then leftists and progressives take that opportunity. Every time. If you don't take that opportunity then you aren't even a progressive, let alone a leftist ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Conservatives are called conservatives cuz they don't want things to change. You know why? Progress always threatens privilege and their privilege is something conservatives care about maintaining. "Things are fine the way they are, not perfect but be reasonable."
Also since you asked about my praxis; The last 4 years I have: protested/taken tear gas to the face across the entire PNW, organized for BLM, helped create a police alternative in my area so people don't have to call the cops, built mutual aid networks that cross state borders, and then I caught COVID the first time. At which point I became too disabled to keep doing the same level of praxis. So then I spent a Lot of time at the doctor trying to get my new COVID-caused chronic illnesses diagnosed. I couldn't handle activity like that anymore so I shifted gears to accommodate my body. I changed my passively political Tumblr to be my main source of outreach for radicalizing that would double as a political resource for leftist newbies.
Additionally, I've posted about this before and even showed y'all my ballot but I live in Nazi Territory. There is nobody who runs for any office here that isn't a Republican or libertarian and most of the time they're unopposed, too. I regularly don't vote because I don't have anyone to vote for, let alone have a 3rd party candidate to support.
"decolonize your own nationality privilege"
I'm literally Ojibwe, first off. Secondly, you think decolonizing the USA looks like re-electing a colonizer actively commiting genocide? l m a o
Like I said....people like this are closer to being conservative centrists than any kind of leftist. There's No Way someone who supports liberty and self determination would vote for Biden when there are other options ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ and if I did NOT call out this clearly co-optive behavior then I would Not be decolonize the left.
Centrists and conservatives will not be allowed to water down leftist beliefs as long as this blog is here.
I literally came here to be holier than thou and judgey and to hold leftists to a higher standard after I shared so many online spaces with leftists who did Not support Landback, hated IDPOL, and thought class reductionism would lead to a revolution.
So if my posts strike a nerve: good, tbh
Ps;
"real leftism is when you vote for capitalist genocidal Democrats to maintain the peaceful status quo and if you disagree you're a privileged liberal" and "how come you as a famous Tumblr blogger haven't materially affected our elections the last 4 years???" are takes I'd be embarrassed to say out loud so I've hidden your URL, lmfaoooooo
Pps:
You could open any of the books I've suggested on race or colonialism or imperialism or native history :) or join one of the unions I've posted about. Watch one of the videos about building mutual aid networks. You could even learn about presidential candidates on my page. And if you think you can do a better job than me then do it. I'm literally begging.
Or yeah, I guess you could keep doing whatever this is *gestures to the post* instead.
That's obviously very useful.
#not to be mentally ill on main but why do people ALWAYS assume im just preachy???#i went to the PDX BLM protest after ppl said i didnt have enoughy IRL experience to be a “real” leftist#i hate being dismissed lmfao yall have no idea the things Ive learned and done out of spite to “earn” my voice#so yeah nobody can tell me shit cuz i stay on top of business and thats why i act holier than thou in my posts#its just so aggravating to be literally fucking disabled and VISIBLY doing more work than “allies” who just make posts like this#“why isn't decol radicalizing more people or being useful” thats called a projection worstie#the real question is how have you followed me this long and STILL believe voting for Joe is a decolonial action....#unless you haven't actually internalized any of the free education and resources on my blog#rant#vent
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2023 book recs! (to read and to skip)
inspired by @deanmarywinchester's incredible rec list and general reading reviews!
RECOMMEND:
The Murderbot Diaries by Martha Wells: I love you autistic androids. forever and ever. I'm pretending the adaptation is not happening bc I don’t think the screen can do it justice so I’m simply enjoying every single page of these books before there’s inevitable show Discourse. I love the plots and the dialogue and just like murderbot I too wish I could be left alone to watch my shows.
Something That May Shock and Discredit You by Daniel Lavery: this book has a couple excerpts on here that make the rounds and piqued my interest and holy shit. if you are trans and queer and probably autistic. read this book as fast as you can. I felt seen in every word and also. Absolutely read to filth.
The Traitor Baru Cormorant (the masquerade series) by Seth Dickinson: I think I finally started this series because of my bestie @ofbowsandbooks (as is the case with so many things) but who's to say. either way I read this towards the beginning of the year and have not stopped thinking about it since. if you read it. please listen to so much (for) stardust by fob. I cannot recommend the specific kind of damage it does to you while rotating baru and tain hu in your mind. just. tailored to me in so many ways (fantasy story about imperialism and masks and lying and the terrible power of math) so I do admit bias there.
Settlers by J Sakai: If you can only read a book or two about understanding why colonialism/capitalism is at the root of all evil...read this book. It's at the top of my general list of political nonfic recs (next to capitalism & disability by marta russell and border & rule by Harsha Walia). I like to describe it as a leftist pov of us history that pulls apart some of the liberal/white "optimism" of People's History of the US.
They Can’t Kill Us Until They Kill Us by Hanif Abdurraqib: I think this was also based on an excerpt I saw on here. I finally started getting into memoirs/essay collections this year and WOW. I mean, even if that genre isn't your thing, you should still read this book. It's just so so good, and utilizes unique topics (particularly music, I love his FOB essay) to explore both small personal moments and larger existential issues.
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon: This is considered a staple of anticolonial movements & education for a reason. Definitely helpful for understanding the global decolonial revolutions of the 1960s.
Decarcerating Disability by Liat Ben-Moshe: An incredible study of abolition from a disability lens. Clear (if a bit repetitive at times) but overall an engaging read that definitely brings a much needed addition to larger abolition texts.
Chain-Gang All Stars by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah: I read this one after seeing @deanmarywinchester's posts about it. I read it in two days and it knocked me so hard on my ass. Especially as someone who was obsessed with the hunger games in middle/high school. Just. Wow. holy shit. we knew this already but abolish prisons police etc etc and also we have GOT to be done with tiktok. and alexas. and just being okay with casually reposting/consuming videos and images of violence against people of color and and and -
Exile & Pride by Eli Clare: transmasc disabled PNW crew rise up!!!! the trauma of growing up as all these things in a small rural town!!! I have very rarely felt so deeply seen and understood as when I was reading this book. It's heavy emotionally & topically, so warnings there. I did struggle a bit with it but only because of how deeply some of his story reflects my own.
Innocence & Corruption by Aiyana Goodfellow: This book and its author demand a fundamental shift from how we as a society view and treat children. If you are planning on having kids, have kids in your life, are a teacher, etc etc, cannot emphasize enough how important this book is to remind us that kids are people now, and they deserve autonomy, respect, and support.
Honorable Mentions:
he who drowned the world by shelley parker-chan : this was moved down a category only because the book before this one (she who became the sun) is literally just setup for this sneaky gut punch. So as a duology, could be stronger. this book as a standalone? Wow. There's some banger lines and concepts and characters in there. (Wang baoxiang. Just. Oh boy). Definitely fascinating in convo with baru cormorant, and I think a reason it's lower for me as well is because the lens of hwdtw is much more of an internal power turmoil than a study of imperalism, which I'm biased towards interest-wise. I read this purely because of @ash-and-starlight's incredible art, so please go check that out if you read the book - It is absolutely worth the read for their art.
the Black Jacobins by C L R James: I'm a french revolution bitch. it was a special interest of mine as a kid and got me invested in history. that said, we gotta talk about france's fuckery. which is to say, slavery/genocide/colonialism etc etc. This book is somewhat tricky to read at points, especially in keeping track of who's who, but a really incredible explanation of the beginning of Haiti's fight for independence. If you enjoy French or Caribbean history, anticolonial revolutions, and some of the nitty-gritty details of history textbooks, this is for you.
life under the jolly roger by Gabriel Kuhn: who here has seen black sails. (thee gay pirate show. Original edition.) strikes a good balance between an understanding of what pirates have/can/could represent, and absolutely clarity about their actual violence, legacy, and politics. Informative without being drawn in by the romanticism or dismissing its power completely.
the essential June Jordan: Politically relevant and also just lyrically beautiful poetry.
hell followed with us by Andrew Joseph White: trans horror fans w/ Christianity beef, this is for you. I am NOT a horror fan, but it was so well done and resonant with me that I stomached the gore for it and do absolutely recommend. if that’s your thing
DO NOT RECOMMEND:
the invisible life of addie larue by ve schwab: I love VE and am a bit of an apologist for her prose over plot bc her worldbuilding is always so cinematic to me, but this was such a frustrating waste of a brilliant concept. It was just...boring? Neither Addie nor Henry are particularly interesting (Henry's relatable, but again, not engaging as a character) and for someone who's been alive for a long time, I expected more unique flashbacks and worldbuilding. I expected the ten thousand doors of january, but this was not that, although I think at its soul it wanted to be.
the lies of locke lamora by scott lynch - Been meaning to read this forever since it was recommended a lot on here if you liked six of crows. I would say a similar setup (dickension fantasy) but that's about it. Characters aren't that likeable or clever, the action is slow, and I take issue with the ending.
unwieldy creatures by addie tsai - I so badly wanted this book to be good. It was not.
a day of fallen night by samantha shannon - It was fine, it's just such a long book I think time is better spent elsewhere, ya know?
provenance - second ann leckie book that i've finished unimpressed. despite murderbot being top of my list, this similar vibe of sci-fi did not strike me as one with such a unique clear voice. It just felt like a more inclusive version of many average space books.
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One thing that I absolutely despise in general with controversy is “he should have known better”- which I was thinking of because it seems to only ever apply to Dream. I think some people forget that the dsmp streamer audience is extremely queer and female, and many have a general understanding of liberal/leftist politics because of social media.
I know so many people who did not receive historial education outside of state-mandated guild lines (usually in southern conservative states who had Native American genocide, the history of slavery, Japanese internment, etc. downplayed), who were not in a position where they ever thought to educate themselves outside of their family values because that’s what they grew up believing. There is a level of geographical privilege for many people when it comes to education (being that the west and the east coasts tend to learn a less, though still very, downplayed version of historial atrocities), and there is also a privilege in not being taught about racism/anti-semitism/colonialism/etc. by family who has lived and died by it. I grew up liberal because my mother is a person of color who faced racism every day in our Midwest town and made herself involved in politics. My white friends grew up more conservative leaning because they did not have that type of figure. My friends from the PNW are more liberal than my southern friends despite growing up on the same media because of differences in teachings.
It’s good that you knew better, but there are a million deeply-rooted systemic factors as to why someone else wouldn’t. As long as they are educating themself and have not directly harmed another person out of their ignorance, let them grow. Disallowing people the chance to change pushes movements back. Educate one person and they will educate their children, and their friends, and then their friends will educate their children, and so on so forth.
And my thing about it is well tough shit Dream didn’t know better then and if you expected perfection or him to invent time travel well he can’t offer you that. Like Dream said all he can offer is his best right now. That’s all anyone can do
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