The other piece of this is that WM murderers get treated better in the media than Black victims. They will make the W murderer the “fun loving dad” while they called George Floyd everything but a child of God. It’s so fucking racist fuck the media!!!

America, we have a problem a wall won't fix.

Today’s mass shooting in Buffalo was a modern day lynching. The 18 year old gunman drove 3+ hours to shoot up a Black neighborhood using a rifle with “nig*a” etched on it. It was live-streamed for a reason all Black people in America know. #BuffaloHateCrime#BlackLivesMatter

“Killer Mike”…

where the “Killer” part means

“killer of children’s dreams”.

Keep him away from the children especially mine

A biracial stepdaughter makes him not a racist?

Jefferson Davis was married to technically a white passing black woman and no one is going to argue that that meant he wasn’t really a racist. He was the president of the confederate states of America FOH!!!

i originally added this to this post and then realized it was almost entirely off topic so:

people more eloquent than me (@chuplayswithfire comes to mind) have talked about racism within the context of the show and how izzy exemplifies a version of it that’s subtle enough to be realistic, obvious to POC and almost invisible to a lot of white people

i don’t think the writers wrote izzy intending him to be a racist the same way the badmintons or the british navy are. but saying he’s not racist at all, despite clearly living in a racist world, misses the point that i — and many other POC — have been trying to make. even stede is racist (see s1e2) and he’s our romantic hero

my point is, white people tend to perceive “that’s racist” as an attack on their moral integrity rather than a description of patterns of behavior, and it’s important to acknowledge when that happens so we can have actual productive conversations. i think some white people are afraid of calling something out when it seems like bullshit, and i’d encourage y’all to just……read more. read about anti racism. read about microaggressions. read about the history of racism in your country and the backlash that always follows progress

it’s going to take time and it’s going to feel uncomfortable, but i promise you’ll be vastly less afraid about fucking up if you just arm yourself with information

Aimé Césaire saying that colonization works to decivilize the colonizer truly lives in my head rent-free

Zelda brainrot has begun! I was thinking about how comfy the Ordonian clothes looked and wanted to try my hand at giving Zelda and Midna some. Honestly criminal that we only got that outfit on Link during the tutorial and sumo scenes and never saw it again, I would've played the whole game like that.

It's always "You can't judge what people enjoy in fiction!" and never "Maybe being critical of what societal stereotypes and narratives we feed into with the content we make is a good thing, actually". Sometimes it's not about whether you're a bad person or not, sometimes it's about the giant pile of garbage propaganda you add onto. 🤷🏻‍♀️

jelix gets so much hate and people act like it's truly problematic. It's so funny to me. you can hate its fans and not have to justify it with acting as if the ship itself is somehow offensive.

sorry y'all can't see the beauty in 70s repressed homosexual adultery and the consequences of it being tragedy. i forgot the kids these days haven't even seen brokeback mountain.

WHOOPI IS A QUEEN!!!

She just refused to use the word ‘allegedly’ as she was reading the teleprompter. We know Ahmaud Arbery was hunted down by these men. They are guilty of murder. Not allegedly. They murdered ahmaud arbery in cold blood for being black while jogging in a neighborhood. It doesn’t get any clearer than that. We all know it, you know it, i knew it everyone and their momma knows it and God knows it. It is NOT allegedly. We all saw it.

Thank you Whoopi for speaking the truth.

Willie Bennett, I don’t know if you’re still alive or not but if you’re reading this, I’m sorry that you had to endure such hatred and a false accusation because yt folks have disgusting thoughts and imaginations about black people, I hate that yt people never cease to be hateful and racist and not taking responsibility for their own evil deeds. You deserved better than this and if you haven’t forgiven the Boston police for what they did to you simply because you never will ever bring yourself to forgive them I don’t blame you I would’ve never forgiven them either if they did that to my dad .

Peace and love

not to get into discourse mode on here but the recent shit w/ ao3 being once again called out for being run by racists/genocide supporters and seeing so many fucking Absolute Gormless Shitheads blindly defend OTW and going " dOn'T bRiNg FiCtIoNaL PoLiTicS iNtO tHis!!!111!1 " as if they are not immune to propaganda is wild . my siblings in sin , ao3 is literally The Racism Fetish Fanfiction site , and propaganda via fictional work is exactly how racism perpetuates. ao3 and the otw are a part of the problem whether you choose to acknowledge it or not because they contribute to the cycle of violence , fetishisation and colonisation of marginalised groups via complacency (and sometimes even blatant PASSIVE ENCOURAGEMENT) , and then they cover it up by using soft cutesy buzzwords like " anti-censorship " and " free speech " and their dumb ass complex tagging system to appeal to white people , so when Actual Minorities and people affected by the shit they put on there speak up about it they're met with all kinds of bullcrap about "jUsT bLoCk ThE tAg If It'S a PrObLem1111!111" or "YoU'rE jUsT bEiNg a fAnDoM cOp!11!!"

You're a part of the problem if you support ao3 and actively continue to use it & donate to them , especially in the wake of the OTW being actively chockful of zionists who will , ironically , silence those who speak up and rally with Palestine for liberation . And If you decide to take this as me being hostile towards you or trying to " bring fiction into real world issues " , remember that at Any point in time you can go on ao3 for yourself and find thousands and thousands of raceplay fics and other various works that glorify and condone racism , and that the otw and their large userbase (primarily composed of white people!) has a track record of trying to shut up POC when this issue is brought to light .

Idgaf if ao3 is for " anti-censorship " , because there's a difference between anti-censorship and HIDING BEHIND the concept of free speech and the 1st amendment to do and say awful , horrendous things and believe you're above critique , punishment or consequences for it .

tl;dr: fuck ao3, fuck the otw, free palestine, and most importantly: you are NOT and will NEVER be immune to propaganda if you choose to ignore it because it benefits you.

I sometimes think people who aren't from parts of specifically the US with a very large wealth gap don't quite understand in a concrete way how absolutely fucked college admissions are here.

Please know that my mom and I just bumped into a family friend. And this lady straight up starts talking about how a lot of people pay people to write college essays for them. As if that's a common thing everybody does. And then she started talking about how she didn't know any asian kids that got into Ivy Leagues. What the hell was that interaction who wrote her dialouge options