#“are jews really a race or an ethnicity” shut the FUCK up

[rustchild]

are gentiles aware that you can speak out against genocide without trying to legislate the complex nuances of jewish identity from a place of total ignorance. like

[starlightomatic]

god i dont wanna start more drama but everyone is so fuckign annoying so 

YES, CONVERTS ARE ETHNICALLY JEWISH

YES YOU CAN CONVERT TO AN ETHNICITY

ETHNICITY IS NOT A PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTIC OF YOUR BODY

YOU ARE THINKING OF RACE SCIENCE CONCEPTS OF RACE

ethnicity means a group of people with a shared cultural or national identity

its not about your DNA

by the way shut up about your DNA

dna tests are useful to learn things about your family but there is no such thing as ~jewish dna~ and your dna does not MAKE YOU jewish

parentage and/or CONVERSION make you jewish

no parentage is not the same as dna

because

in reform its literally just based on. who has a parental relationship with you. yeah sometimes adopted kids have to get converted but NOT ALWAYS

in conservative and orthodox its based on WHOSE HOO HA YOU CAME OUT OF which is a literal physical measurable thing that has NOTHING TO DO WITH UR GENES

even people who say it goes by egg not gestation base it on the LITERAL PHYSICAL EGG NOT THE DNA

STOP DOING RACE SCIENCE IM TIRED OF IT

RACE SCIENCE KILLED A THIRD OF OUR PEOPLE

THROW IT AWAY

“converts are religiously jewish not ethnically”

first of all shut up this is exclusionary bullshit meant to create a separate category through which you can define converts as not really jewish

second of all “relgiously but not ethnically jewish” IS NOT A THING

CAUSE THE DESIGNATION OF JEWS AS A RELIGION AND NOT AN ETHNICITY WAS CREATED BY GOYIM TO TRY TO MAKE JEWISHNESS DIE OUT

and i know y’all think that’s exactly what im doing

y’all think i’m saying we should STOP defining jewish as an ethnicity 

and that i’m saying we should define it only in terms of religion

IM LITERALLY SAYING THE OPPOSITE OF THAT

ITS NOT THAT NO JEWS ARE ETHNICALLY JEWISH

ITS THAT WE ALL ARE

cause again. it is not about. your genes your dna your olive skin or whatever. these do not. MAKE you jewish or make people have other ones NOT jewish.

no i am not saying that we should not care about antisemitism based on common traits among jews like being forced to have nose jobs or straighten your hair. or that we should not take pride in those traits

WE SHOULD CARE ABOUT THAT

AND WE SHOULD TAKE PRIDE

but we should also

stop fuckign self-defining based on nazi concepts

we are a PEOPLE

a TRIBE

we fucking predate all of these goyish concepts anyway

we fucking define our own borders and for GENERATIONS we have defined those to INCLUDE converts

and no im not saying pretend converts who dont have jewish ancestry have it. and im also not saying that your jewish ancestry doesn’t matter. IT MATTERS. it connects you to places you’ve been and who you are and its IMPORTANT TO THE STORY OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE

BUT ALSO

CONVERTS

ARE NOT ANY LESS

PART OF THAT STORY

[antifainternational]

How much does George Soros pay your organization to join and create violence at protests?

Let’s take a minute to break down this fucking fascist asshole’s question: “George Soros” - is apparently a Jewish billionaire that survived nazi-occupied Hungary when he was a child.  We of course don’t know any billionaires (and can’t imagine we’d have a lot of common ground with one if we did), so we’re going with what his wikipedia entry tells us.   What we do know is that there is a loooong history of anti-Semites singling out particularly wealthy Jews and blaming them for all kinds of secretive schemes to control the world through sinister machinations.   The consequences of this latest round of anti-semitic scapegoating?  Well someone tried to bomb Soros.  And anti-semitic terrorists like the Pittsburgh synagogue mass shooter clearly bought into and were motivated by it.  So this is just the latest sad re-tread of the same old anti-semitic bullshit that has been literally pedalled for centuries and has led to real-life bloodshed and death. “pay your organization” - like most of them, this conspiracy theory fails the Iron Test of Conspiracy Theories: if George Soros is paying us and the thousands of anti-fascist organizations around the world, which consist of hundreds of thousands of people, how is it that not a single person has come forward with a shred of credible evidence to support this assertion?  Why, for example, would The International Anti-Fascist Defence Fund continue to rely on donations, if Soros was paying the bills?  Why would there be a need for a Defence Fund at all, if Soros is paying all anti-fascists?  How exactly would the hundreds of thousands of anti-fascists apply for and receive this money without a single credible document ever coming to light?  This anti-semitic conspiracy fails on a balance of probabilities - meaning that any reasonable person, upon examining the “evidence” would rightly conclude that it’s a pile of horseshit. “your organization” - it’s really pitiful how limited the imaginations of fascists are.  They can’t conceive that something as powerful as the anti-fascists that have consistently confronted them and shut them down around the world can happen without leaders, or a hierarchy, or a formal organization structure. Anti-fascism is a movement.  Like environmentalism.  Like feminism.  Like all those movements, there are thousands of groups and organizations within it, but there is no singular anti-fascist organization and antifa is arguably the least hierarchical movement around today. “create violence at protests” - anti-fascists exist to oppose, confront, and shut down fascists.  Fascists exist to do violence against people based on disability or ethnicity or gender or gender orientation or language or migration status or race or sexual orientation, etc.  Last year, we documented 576 violent attacks by fascists that killed 372 people and injured 1153 others  So when you feign concern about violence but ignore the very serious violence fascists are responsible for, it ain’t hard to tell what you’re really all about. Maybe you’re talking about all the “violence” at recent Black Lives Matter protests?  Which maybe you heard about from the fake antifa social media accounts set up to make it appear that anti-fascists were calling for violence at BLM actions.  Apparently, even Trump was dumb enough to fall for it (or willing to go along with it.)  This is particularly ironic given how BLM events have been targeted by white supremacists for violence.  Like last weekend in Dallas.  Or the BLM protests in Las Vegas this past week.     But what about all the “violence” at BLM protests in DC?  Sorry, nope,  the FBI found zero evidence of any connection between antifa and “violence” there.  Minneapolis?  Nope, arrest records show that just ain’t the case.  Well, what about the video of cachés of rocks & bricks that “antifa” had hidden to use in their evil property-destroying riots?  The White House tweeted out that one, so it had to be true, right?  Nope, every example shown was debunked and the White House - ON THE FUCKING OFFICIAL WHITE HOUSE TWITTER ACCOUNT - had to delete the video out of sheer embarrassment.  Guess you’re still a true believer though, huh Anon? Final point: the protests are happening because the police continue to regularly  abuse, attack, and murder black people.  Suddenly trying to shift that discussion to “outside agitators” or “evil antifa” causing “violence” at protests (and especially at protests where the levels and severity of police violence against peaceful and unarmed protestors has been beyond appalling) is a classic fucking bait-and-switch tactic designed to derail attempts to achieve racial justice and save the lives of black people by holding a racist and horrifically violent institution accountable.  In the words of Dr. Yohuru Williams, “in a lot of communities, southern sheriffs and politicians would raise the spectre of outside agitators to deflect from the legitimate concerns of local activists.  The Communist Party, for example, is one of the favourite whipping boys of the southern segregationists who claimed that it was communist influences that were really stirring up civil rights protests.We’re now focused singularly on the issue for these outside agitators. And that bait and switch historically has been detrimental to social movements because it then becomes all about catching the so-called bad guys. It has a damning effect on the message because, ultimately, it takes the attention away from the core issue here in Minneapolis right now. This is a question of police brutality.“ Now fuck right off, Anon.

[romaisamaria]

I'm so tired of explaining the same shit but seems like people dont fucking get it.

To all the obnoxious people with the "ALL LIVE MATTERS" and wait for it..."WHITE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN ENSLAVED TOO" and then come up with the jews, irish, Scottish, etc...

FUCKING UNDERSTAND ONCE FOR ALL THAT THOSE GROUP OF PEOPLE WEREN'T OPPRESSED BECAUSE OF THE COLOUR OF THEIR SKIN BUT BECAUSE OF DIFFERENT IDEOLOGIES, NATIONALITY, OR RELIGION.

COMPARED TO BLACK PEOPLE WHO WERE SLAVED FOR THE ONLY PURPOSE OF THE COLOUR OF THEIR SKIN REGARDLESS OF THE COUNTRY OR RELIGION THEY BELONGED TO BEFORE GETTING KIDNAPPED AND TAKEN TO AMERICA YOU FUCKING IDIOTS.

Do you think colonisers were like "Oh this one is from Ghana he doesnt count, we just take black people from Mali or Kenya, the others doesnt count". No bitch, black person they find, they just put a metal collar and force to get into boats because for WHITE COLONIALISM all black people were the same regardless. Hmm I wonder why is that?.... AAH yes! Because they only saw their skin colour.

AND MATTER FACT, MOST OF THE SLAVE OWNERS WERE IRISH, SCOTTISH, BRITISH, SPANISH, FRENCH, BELGIAN, GERMANS, AND GUESS WHAT? JEWS TOO. SO SHUT THE FUCK UP, TURN OFF THE TV AND READ SOME HISTORY BOOKS FOR ONCE IN YOUR LIFE.

You want to talk about the jews, then fucking also talk about all the muslims that are kept in China in concentration camps. Talk about Christians who slaughtered thousands of people in America and Asia to convert them to christianity.

ALSO, JUST BE HONEST. DO YOU THINK THE REST OF EUROPE OR USA WOULD HAVE GIVE A DAMN IF INSTEAD OF 6MILLION JEWS, IT WAS ACTUALLY 6 MILLION OF BLACK PEOPLE? DO YOU REALLY THINK USA WOULD HAVE BOTHERED TO CROSS CONTINENTS TO SAVE BLACK PEOPLE INSTEAD OF WHITE JEWS? WHEN THEY STILL HAD APARTHEID IN USA AGAINST BLACK PEOPLE AT THE TIME?

You want to talk about nationality, talk about the Irish and Scottish being oppressed by the BRITISH!!

LEARN THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN RACE, RELIGION, NATIONALITY AND ETHNICITY. MAYBE ONCE YOU DO YOU'LL BE ABLE TO OPEN UP YOUR THICK SKULL A LITTLE BIT AND STOP SAYING RIDICULOUS NONSENSE.

[roidespd-blog]

Chapter Three : THE DESOLATION OF THE GRINDR USER

« Grindr is a sociopath nest », Anonymous 

Grindr was launched on March 25, 2009. About a month or so earlier, I lost my virginity to the sweetest guy you could imagine. I met him on what we could consider one of Grindr’s ancestors, Gaypax— I still have that account, out of nostalgia. The design is so ugly I wonder now how I did spend so much time on it (we weren’t picky back then…) So Grindr was born at the exact time my sexual and romantic life was unfolding. It means that, except for the few years I’ve spent frenetically masturbating to La Redoute’s underwear catalogues and downloading dirty pictures of Brad Pitt naked with a very slow wifi, I’ve always been accustomed to gay apps.

Recently, the new and improved french magazine Tétu published an article called « Faut-il brûler Grindr?». Though not as detailed as I was hoping it would be, it did not changed my general opinion about the dating app paradigm. 

FLASHBACK France, 1971. A young gay man living in a beautiful city called Paris. Mike Brant just released his first major hit, Rock’N’Roll is slowly dying and Les Bidasses en Folie is this year’s biggest success at the box office. Unfortunately for him, the Gay Rights Movement is just at its infancy, homosexuality is still considered a mental illness and sodomy is punishable by law. So he shut his mouth and do his dirty business privately. he spends time around Place de Clichy and finds very discreet bars that can welcome him without too much judgement. He takes long walks toward the Tuileries bushes and sucks a stranger’s dong without any verbal exchange. He ends up marrying that fine young Marie, daughter of a friend of his dad, makes a couple of kids and from time to time, goes back to those places, shameful of himself.

That was the life of a gay man in France. If he didn’t get killed along the way. CUT TO 2009. Grindr is the first official gay dating app launched around the world. In France, the ban on sodomy disappeared in 1981 and since 1992, you are no longer considered a crazy person for being attracted to a person of the same sex (well, not from an official medical point, anyway). The app came to fruition through a simple question asked by its creator, Joel Simkhai : « WHO ELSE IS GAY AROUND HERE? ».

By 2012, 4 million people were using the App. 27 million as of 2017. Tinder followed in 2012 — you are welcome, straight people. Then SCRUFF, GAYROMEO, HORNET, BLUED, … What is wrong, then ? You damn well know something is wrong.

SMARTPHONE, 21st CENTURY’S NEW BACKROOM

If you go to a bar, you have to talk to the bartender, exchange a least a fews words with strangers, even dance as your look around and are being seen by others in the flesh. If you go to a gaybar, the same thing happens. If you go to a gaybar then the gaybar’s backroomn, rules change.

As the dating apps was closing in on worldwide domination, it became clear that the natural human kindness and respect would ultimately have no effect on the way people would communicate with one another on Grindr. I’ve been working in a bookstore for the past four years, you see. I expect a “hello”, “goodbye” and a smile during any interactions with clients — from them and myself. So there’s nothing more annoying that someone coming up to you, barking what they want to and leaving without any civility whatsoever. The Grindr equivalent would be Step 1 : A DICK PICK (or ass pick. I once had a fisting commemorative photo sent to me) straight up. Step 2 : A terribly convenient “cc sava tu ch?” or a “cho?” Step 3A : If you are polite enough to answer something, a conclusive “tu reçoi” or “tu bouge” Step 3B : you did not answer a singe word and the guy either sends you a “????” or insults the shit out of you. I sometimes do not answer impolite clients at work. Guess what ? Bitches say hello if you stare down at them long enough. On the internet, never gonna happen.

I remember the first couple of times I went on Grindr. I tried to answer everyone, even a “no, thank you”. There was always some “Hello”s, “How are you?”s, a few “My name is”s. But as the years went by, gay men (as I mostly talk to gay or bisexual cis men on these apps, I can only give my opinion on that category of people) adopted a series of unofficial rules to talk to each other.

1. If we are on this app, we are ready to fuck. 2. We do not have time for small talk. 3. We do not need your name, but dick size and multiple nudes are welcome. A picture is worth a thousand blablablahs. 4. We need to be very precise about what we want, so as not to waste our precious time. 5. Seriously, give us a full diagnosis of your body shape through pics, boy. 6. Chems ? 9. There are no rule 7 & 8, because 6 & 9. Now, turn around.

There are also lots of personal rules users seem keen on sharing them publicly as to implement unofficial rule number 4.

NO FEMS, NO BLACKS, NO ASIANS

“Pretty chill guy here. Very open minded and friendly. I love men from different cultures. Just no Asians. Asians leave me alone. I’m not racist” “Don’t message me. I’ll message you :). No Blacks Asians or fems. Love it when fats call themselves masc. hahahaha.” “Tell me if top/btm. Don’t really believe in “vers”. […] Attracted to Latin & White (trying to sound PC)” “Chill masc sane… just described nobody on here… Over 35, Asian or fem = block.. haha” “99% of you are losers. I’m the top 1%. So prove yourself first” The last one was written by a white male, by the way. They all were.

In our modern society, we’re not fools enough to believe that racism disappeared and everyone is accepting of others. Just look at the whole series of events called “while Black” where white people called cops on black folks for getting out of their airbnbs, talking in a Starbucks without ordering or falling asleep in a communal room at college. Nevertheless, you don’t see parades of racists proudly marching with “NO BLACKS” signs on the streets — you see another type of marches, yes. Free speech and stuff, sure. So why has it become acceptable in people’s minds to shade light on their racism in their profiles, barely hiding behind the “sexual preference” bullshit excuse ?

In an article dated September 2018 called “Why is it OK for online dates to block whole ethnic groups?” (2), the Observer related the appalling anecdote of an elderly white man who responded to a Grindr user of asian descent : “Asian, ew gross”.

I myself was told that I was too fat, too small, too twinkish, then not enough of those, or too white (but so we’re clear : RESERVE RACISM IS NOT A THING. STOP TRYING TO MAKE IT A THING!).

Racism also works with the beliefs that if you look or act a certain way, you obviously are what someone’s fantasy is. You are a black man so I assume that my hole will expand by ten once you’re inside me. You a blond light weight with feminine traits. You’re a submissive bottom and a real whore.

The world works on assumptions (ex : the myth of the BIG BLACK DICK or the for-sure global instinct that Tom Hanks would never have to face any #MeToo accusations) and apps follow that same path but without any policing. The absence of ramifications from someone’s actions further implement a feeling of unapologetic mindfulness — the same way being in a dark backroom with strangers you can’t see does not seem to add any consequences to what you’ll do next.

Recently, Grindr tried to course correct its past errors by creating “Kindr” (3). Was it a new app that would prevent people from actively using hate speech ? WELL WHY DON’T YOU PREVENT IT ON GRINDR THEN ? Was it a new platform to exchange ideas and experiences so that we can find another way to communicate together ?

Here’s how they introduce Kindr on their official site : At Grindr, we’re into diversity (MONEY), inclusion, and users who treat each other with respect. We’re not into racism, bullying, or other forms of toxic behavior (YOU ARE THE TOXIC BEHAVIOR). These are our preferences, and we’ve updated our Community Guidelines to better reflect them. Same app. New rules (DID YOU THOUGH?) Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Their type. Their tastes. But nobody is entitled to tear someone else down because of their race, size, gender, HIV status, age, or — quite simply — being who they are. (AS LONG AS IT DOES NOT PUT YOUR BUSINESS IN A RISKY POSITION) Join us in building a kinder Grindr. (DO YOUR OWN DAMN WORK). Express yourself, but not at the expense of someone else (OR US). Report discrimination when you see it (LIKE WITH THE JEWS BACK THEN. ALSO, WE THE USERS, ALREADY DID THAT). Use your voice and share your story to call out prejudice and spark change. Together, we can amplify the conversation and take steps towards a kinder, more respectful community (SEE, WE AT GRINDR ARE WOKE).

There you have it. A marketing scam to ease the pain of millions of users whose relationships and self esteem were affected by Grindr’s lack of interest in their consumers. How many years did it take for a simple statement from the CEO ? What’s actually concrete about these actions ?

in the community guide lines, it is stated that they “will remove any discriminatory statements displayed on profiles. […] Profile language that is used to openly discriminate against other users’ traits and characteristics will not be tolerated and will be subject to review by our moderation team”. FINE. So, if someone says “no short fat asians”, theoretically it would be removed from the profile. But if it says “more into vanilla and spice than chocolate and rice. So hit me up if this is you” (an actual Grindr profile, by the way), what can a Grindr moderator do about it ? The racism is still there. Are we to believe that EVERY single profile is being reviewed in detail ?

#deletegrindr was a popular hashtag over a year ago. I’m not on twitter and I still heard about it. Was it a cultural shift in the way gay people wanted to treat other gay people ? Were we on the verge of a revolution ? Nop. Grindr released data informations of thousands and thousands of profiles about HIV status (something that you can put on your Grindr profile) to third party companies. Since then, Grindr released the Kindr initiative and rewrote its policies.

I’m not against dating apps. I think it was a wonderful tool back in the day to extend one’s horizon, explore and experiment with love, sex and adventures. It no longer works that way. I didn’t even talk about the spreading of drug using through profile description and the real danger of stimulants in someone’s sex life.

#deletegrindr should come back and this time, it has to work. Silicon Valley, go make an app from scratch. One that would implement actual kindness to the machine, not based on popularity. Think of what people need, not what they want. People are shitheads. I’m a shithead. What I want is never good for me.

And YOU. You, little queer boy reading this. Don’t go on Grindr before going to bed to check the hotties in your area. Forget about that 6'2 monster cock Swedish god that lives nearby and offered you a quick hump for the ride. Ask him for a drink, put down your phone, get to know him a little and then fuck his brains out. You’re still gonna fuck but you’ll find humanity where there was once none.

That’s my preaching for the night. I gave up long ago on apps. I delete them all and stay away for months. Then, I feel lonely and get back to one or two. I met this new guy that way (4).The nice thing about it was that we did not talk dick sizes, favorite positions or any sexual desires until way after we actually met (and we’re talking two full weeks of messages). I’m not on any dating apps now.

(1) https://tetu.com (2) https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/sep/29/wltm-colour-blind-dating-app-racial-discrimination-grindr-tinder-algorithm-racism (3) https://www.kindr.grindr.com (4) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezra_Miller

[suizhou]

hey i’m a nonwhite jew could you please not make white genocide jokes? like yeah theyre funny and white people need to shut the fuck up but jokes about the genocide of any race is like... really bad... especially when you consider the damage genocide has done (and to a lot of white jews as well). i’m missing half of my family. no matter who it’s referencing, it’s not a word that should be thrown around like that. it’s one of those things you just can’t joke about, like rape, and it sickens me

considering white ppl were the ones committing actual genocide against ethnic minorities as acts of racism/xenophobia/antisemitism, idk why me joking about the race perpetuating all this dying out is that extreme a thing. u do u and unfollow and im sorry about ur experiences, there’s not much more i can say about that. but white ppl and their regime broke my country apart, set my ppl against each other, tried to commit ethnic genocide against us thru occupation, war, and famine, and have inserted deep-rooted colorism, homophobia, and hatred between my own ppl and pitted us against each other for more than a century now. im not sorry and they can all die out thanks

[vetinchandgi1985-blog]

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[afrosocialism]

A letter to the Sanderbots

Dear Sanderbots, stop being so fucking pathetic when actual leftists or black folk/POCs criticize your leader. I’m so tried of you Sanders cult followers not accepting any criticism of your leader.

“He’s a socialist…” FULL STOP. He’s a social democrat. A liberal. Socialism is anti-capitalist, not reforming capitalism. That is what Bernie Sanders is. He wants reform capitalism. We should learn from 150 years that social democracy exists to make the capitalist state more comfortable. I’ve fucking warned y’all about fauxcialist liberals, and Sanders is one of them. He barely has any socialist ideas. All it’s nothing but social programs. They’re fine, but they ain’t socialist because you’re still living under capitalism with these programs intact. They’re essentially just scraps. Yes, socialist countries like Cuba has social programs, but it was already implemented as part of the socialist system, rather than passing out legislation for em. Also, he’s essentially anti-socialist because he opposes Castroism and Chavismo. He called Hugo Chavez a dead communist dictator and supported US intervention in Venezuela. Another thing, he never attacks capitalism, he goes like reforms, reforms, reforms. He ain’t anti-capitalist, he’s an European style social democrat and liberal.

“But he’s going to bring change to America and…” Shut up. All he’s gonna do is bring FDR style reforms to America. Another thing, how can you consider a man radical when he, in all those in years in the Senate, never/barely criticize the leaders running this country? He barely went after Bush with his mess and so with Obama. Before anyone say anything about Iraq, he only opposes it because Bush was doing it. He oked Clinton war crimes and same with Obama. He’s ok with imperialism along its a Democrat. He also was thinking about working with Trump, but idk what happened with that. We need to understand that social democrats only bring partial change. How many social democracies became socialist nations without a revolution? When social democrats took over the Weimar Republic, what happened? They collaborated with the far right militias and destroyed actual socialists, which includes Rosa Luxembourg. They exists to pacify socialists or allow a peaceful transition to capitalism and (at times) fascism.

“He marched with MLK…” Full stop. I’m so tired of that shit. Y’all really wanna push white saviors on us. This happened over 50 fucking years ago. There were people who marched in that march who changed their political perspective and some who moved to the right. His involvement in the march doesn’t earn him any entitlement. Another thing your civil rights leader was the senator of whiter than white Vermont. I wonder how many times he stood for black people in Vermont who’s 1% of the population, but 10% of the prison population. He barely wants to do something about racism, only when it’s convenient for him. Why he’s so easily went after Trump because Trump is the racist one. He doesn’t support reparations for slavery. He never spoke of racism under Obama, Clinton, or even Bush. He opposes open borders and mum about abolishing ICE. Also, how many times he stood for black victims of institutional violence and why he only goes to predominantly white liberal cities and neighborhoods? It makes me wonder. He barely appeals to the underclass, as he’s seen talking to white petty bourgs. “But he got nonwhite voters and supporters and…” So does the Clintons. Bill appealed to white Southerners. These two locked up numerous black people. They stole funds meant for Haiti and made money from it. It doesn’t mean shit.

“He’s not white, he’s Jewish” STFU. He can be both. Jew is an ethnicity, not a monolithic race. You can be of any race and be Jewish. There black Jews, Brown Jews, Yellow Jews, and white passing Jews. Him being a Jew, doesn’t limit his whiteness. He benefits from whiteness regardless. He’ll never face the marginalization of nonwhite Jews. Before anyone says anything, go to Israel and see how they’re treated, especially Black Jews. Making people like him the face of Jews, erases nonwhite Jews.

“Do you want x candidate to win?” What fuck is this logic. I ain’t supporting x candidate. I’m not telling you who to vote. Just because I don’t trust Bernie, doesn’t mean the other options are better. All these politicians that ran or running against him like Killary, Trump, Harris, Booker are all fucking trash and don’t deserve support. You think I give a fuck who you support? No. If you gonna support Bernie, go and leave me the fuck alone.

Another thing I wanna add is his cult supporters. They are fucking garbage. They’ll be like social justice and shit, but critique Bernie and they’ll be like the Trump Supporters of the left. For example, when black women went after Bernie after realizing he’s another charlatan, his supporters went after em like a bunch of rabid dogs. When status being shared of Azaelia Banks rightfully critiquing Sanders of only opposing racism when it’s Trump, his supporters got so fucking offended, citing that a black (now formerly) Trump supporter said this. However, her vote was a case of misguidedness and she acknowledged her mistakes, but they wanna go hard on her, but not their Kave Klan Kin who supported Trump and will benefit from him. Some of them even supported Trump when Bernie lost. One thing, Bernie bros fuck off. I don’t support Sanders. Fuck him, and if you gonna be an ass kisser for him, fuck you too. Fuck you, you waste of gentrified hipster avacado toasts.

Here’s the receipts for anyone who disputes this:

https://newrepublic.com/article/149378/bernie-sanders-not-left

https://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/16/blood-traces-bernies-iraq-war-hypocrisy/

http://venezuelatoday.net/u-s-senator-bernie-sanders-hugo-chavez-is-just-a-dead-communist-dictator/

https://fusion.tv/video/255113/bernie-sanders-reparations-answer-iowa-forum/

https://www.google.com/amp/s/vtdigger.org/2018/10/22/racial-disparity-vermont-prisons-little-changed-report-says/amp/

[meteor-star]

Alright, the screenshots are being uploaded to google drive as I type this. This post has all the proof in it.

First off, I don't know their current url for 100% certain, but previous ones they've used and/or are friends of theirs with the exact same typing style are bonsaiikitten, pokedex3d, tokyodriftin, cocoapebbles. kittyshackie, kittyshacky, and sapphiclesbianism. The most recent, and currently active one is @/shadowpokemon, as he responded to my post earlier. Not reblogging that version because to be honest I'm not really here to get into a fight with him unless he's really gunning for it.

Also, note that the pronouns I use for BM switch from they/them to he/him part way through because it wasn't until I was about 100 screenshots in that I realized he uses he/him (since his original intro in the server was deleted.) So I deeply apologize for the accidental misgendering there. I defaulted to they/them because I didn't know the right pronouns.

Drive folder with all the screenshots:

Warning, mentions of rape, csa, cp, pedophillia, and blatant antisemitism https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1lC5EUfV08l7ka7hSgkkxU3sh0Dorkjzx?usp=sharing

Links to tumblr posts (the ones that still work anyway.)

https://bonsaiikitten-remade.tumblr.com/post/652033192938897408

Warning: Antisemitism https://archaiccatpuns.tumblr.com/post/651185737430073345/psa

Warning: Mentions of Rape, CP, and CSA https://clarith.tumblr.com/post/651837621641920512/you-tell-someone-with-evidence-why-prn-hub-is-bad

Warning: Mentions of Rape, CP, and CSA https://clarith.tumblr.com/post/651830464791937024/we-get-it-you-support-cp-and-sexual-abuse-for

Warning: Mentions of Rape, CP, CSA, and suicide https://clarith.tumblr.com/post/651830811391328256/lord-what-debunked-claims-when-there-are-lawsuits

Warning: Mentions of CP, https://clarith.tumblr.com/post/651833317600133120/omg-why-are-people-trying-to-support-ph-when-it

Warning: Mentions of Rape, CP, and CSA https://clarith.tumblr.com/post/651833838217084928/mocking-rape-victims-isnt-hip-buddy

Warning: mentions of rape, abuse, and miscarriage: https://shadowpokemon.tumblr.com/post/656881653036318720/yallre-fucking-stupid-loki-isnt-even-a-real-god

Articles:

Warning, mentions of CP and child exploitation

https://www.wksexcrimes.com/can-minors-be-convicted-of-possessing-or-distributing-child-pornography/

No warnings for this one. https://www.myjewishlearning.com/article/sephardic-ashkenazic-mizrahi-jews-jewish-ethnic-diversity/

No warnings for this one. https://www.pewforum.org/2021/05/11/race-ethnicity-heritage-and-immigration-among-u-s-jews/

Discusses antisemitism: https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/12/are-jews-white/509453/

And now onto shadowpokemon's post.

Screenshotted because if he IS the same person, he'll probably end up deleting it as soon as he starts getting backlash for it.

[Image ID: A post from @/shadowpokemon, made in response to my own post. It reads: "this aint your post king, and youre mocking a delusional child (at the time). i literally watched you guys egg him on and cause him to become more manic. people from the server also threatened to doxx him as well. not to mention invalidating kin memories (such as being to new york) and peoples trauma (such as the memories of his grandmother) isnt okay. denying the existence of his kid in this life due to rape isnt okay, just because he had a miscarriage doesnt mean the child never existed. the child in his headspace is just as real as you and i, even if she is an alter. youre quite literally mocking someones rape and miscarriage trauma. i understand you like to harass poc children into showing their mental illness to the public but i also am not going to sit around and let you drag people through the mud and straightforward lie about what happened. go ahead, show the screenshots of you and your friends saying shit like “oh so all jewish people are caricatures?” and him going “yeah sure” to shut you guys the fuck up. you were harassing an at the time delusional child because they were having a fucking delusion. i encourage you to show the entire fucking conversation, and ill know if you left shit out because i was there watching. please, show the world you mocking a rape victim, show the world you mocking an abuse victim, lets see it."/ End ID]

My response to the post

1. We literally never threatened to doxx BM. How would we be able to doxx him when we still to this day have no idea what COUNTRY he's in let alone have his legal name and address?

2. We never knew about a miscarriage. We only knew about the alter.

3. You claim we were knowingly harassing a minor when he kept saying he was 18 throughout the entire conversation.

4. We didn't know we were pushing him to become manic because he DIDN'T TELL US.

5. We are not mocking his rape or his trauma. In fact, nothing in the original post was mocking him.

6. We were not harassing him. We asked him to clear up some descrepancies, very politely might I add. It wasn't until he became rude towards the rest of us, and had been rude for SEVERAL messages, that we started following suit.

7. If he was uncomfortable with the conversation, he could have either left or asked if we could take a break. He never did either of those things.

8. Also keep in mind that a majority of the people in that server are also victims of rape, abuse, and CSA, so your claim that we're making fun of him for that is frankly ridiculous.

9. We also didn't know that the new york thing was a kin memory. Because he didn't tell us. And even then, something happening to you in a past life does not mean it happened to you in this one.

10. Also, may I also point out here. If we are to believe his claim of being a sex worker for Pornhub, AND your claim that he was a MINOR during that conversation, then that means that he was DISTRIBUTING CHILD PORNOGRAPHY. Which is still a federal crime, even if it's pictures/video of himself, and even if he was a minor.

11. Also, you act like we baited him into saying antiemetic things. He was the one who started saying antiemetic things, not us. We called him out for it, and then he said even more antiemetic things on top of that.

12. I also want to point out how, BM is always an adult when he talks about engaging in sex work, but any time anyone says anything against him, suddenly he's a minor who's being bullied. The age of his alters does NOT change his legal age, and acting like we're harrassing a minor when he claimed to be an adult throughout that entire conversation and claimed to have done sex work in the past which again would be ILLEGAL IF HE WERE A MINOR. It's a little ridiculous don't you think?

Since you're so certain you'll catch me hiding evidence, I've screenshotted the ENTIRE conversation. So please, feel free to point out where I lied. 'Cause luv, every word in this post of yours is faker than the Oppa Homeless Style post. :) <3

To everyone reading this, please do not harass this person. Just block and move on.

I also want to make it clear that I do not condone the belief that systems and kins aren't real. They are real, but kin memories do not equate to events within this current life time. (Example: I am not a victim of [x thing] just because my kin was a victim of [x thing]. I am not a member of [x race] because my kin was a member of [x race]. etc.) I also do not want to invalidate the experiences of alters, but you have a level of responsibility to deal with anything your alter says or does. And that the age of your alters does not affect the age of your body or when you can legally do things restricted to adults. Being a 26 year old alter in a 17 year old's body doesn't give you the right to distribute sexually explicit images of yourself, and being a 16 year old alter in a 19 year old's body doesn't automatically absolve you of all wrong doings because you're a minor.

This is the last addition I'll make on this post. Come to your own decision on who's in the right.

yall're fucking stupid loki isn't even a real god HE is a transmasc angel and is the angel of death. grow up crackers

Anon how does it feel to have sent the funniest ask I've ever received

[othercat2]

fic: (they flow from form to form) 11/?

==>Karkat: see a girl who wasn’t there

Going back to school is weird, for exactly the reasons Karkat thought it would be weird. Instead of being slightly unpopular nobody in the high school class system, he’s now notorious everyone-stare-at-him nobody. (This is a thing that has not happened since the never-to-be-mentioned Frog Incident in first grade.) Karkat survives the first two classes with only moderate “overhearing” of conversations he was definitely meant to hear. (“Karkat’s one of the witches?” in American History, quickly hushed up, followed by a debate over whether or not “warlock” was the correct term for a male witch. The debate is settled by the teacher, who says, “We prefer to call ourselves Believers.”)

It’s a little bit of a surprise that one of the teachers is in the cult, though it probably shouldn’t have been. Karkat brings it up to Sollux during lunch. “Yeah, a lot of the teachers are ‘believers,’” Sollux says.

“I’m trying to formulate a response that doesn’t sound like the punchline of a ‘funny you don’t look, Jewish’ joke. That is to say, Mr. Turton did not seem like a cultist until he said a thing about it,” Karkat says.

Sollux snorts. “Your dad lets you tell ethnic jokes? He almost literally tore Mike Watkins a new asshole for using the phrase ‘jew them down.’”

Karkat rolls his eyes. “The joke format literally makes fun of expectations of what a ‘Jew’ should look like. It’s an inverted ethnic joke because it makes fun of stereotypes and assumptions. That’s a paraphrase of what my dad’s friend Jean told me to say anyway.”

“And you didn’t mention she was Jewish, leading to the phrase ‘some of my best friends are Jewish and they think it’s okay,’” Sollux says with mocking admiration.

“Oh my god, shut up,” Karkat says.

Sollux snickers. “Nope, and watch the ‘my-godding,’ seriously.”

“Casual blasphemy a bad idea?” Karkat asks, feeling a little more cautious suddenly. (And self-conscious.)

“Yeeeeaaah,” Sollux drawls out. “You could say that.”

Karkat asks questions about the teachers, and which of them were “believers.” He also learns that Sollux’s grandmother was Jewish. (“Was she okay with--?” Karkat asks, waving his hands to indicate the town, the cult, all the weirdness. Grandma Della apparently was okay with it, though Great Grandma Corrinne on the maternal side was definitely not okay with it, and very outspoken about it, though it turns out she was not very clear on what “it” actually was. “Family reunions are still kind of tense, even though we get along with most of the relatives on that side,” Sollux explains.)

Karkat is one his way to Chemistry from lunch when he realizes he hasn’t seen Terezi all day. He usually sees her before school, and she’s in his Lit, American History and Chem classes. He hadn’t seen her before school, or in Lit, or in History, or at lunch. She is also not in her seat by the window. Pausing in the door way to take this in gets him pushed from behind as other students try to get around him. Hastily he heads for his seat.

He takes notes and listens to the lecture but he’s distracted by the girl in front of him, to the right. She’s a blonde with short hair held back by a black kitty-ear head band. She’s dressed in a short blue skirt, a blue ruffled blouse, blue fingerless gloves that go all the way to her elbows, blue and white checked stockings, and combat boots. She’s chewing bubble gum and blowing bubbles, but otherwise seems to be pretty fascinated by the chemistry lecture. She’s sitting leaned forward at her desk, tapping the surface with long indigo nails. Mr. Ross should be pretty disapproving of the bubblegum and probably also the skirt, but he hasn’t said a word all through the lecture.  

No one else sees her, either, if the stray comment of “what is Vantas looking at?” is any indication. The comment makes the girl turn slightly, and Karkat flinches. The girl doesn’t have eyes, just something that looks at first like a pair of black holes, but are actually something like thin short black hairs grouped together in what might be an eye-shape if seen at a distance. In a dark room.

It’s not dark, and he can see the black hairs moving. Karkat feels hot all over suddenly, and there is a pressure at the back of his throat, like he might throw up. Karkat quickly looks away, and tries to breathe. Black Eyed Kid, he thinks frantic and slightly nonsensical, remembering a ghost story and his heart speeding up, even as he recognizes Void. Who wasn’t really the type to give him a jump scare; that was mostly a Breath thing, so what the hell?

(He gets a sense that this wasn’t Her intent at all.)  

“He looks like he’s going to puke,” someone says.

“Karkat, are you all right?” Mr. Ross asks, coming over to Karkat’s desk.

“I’m okay,” he says. “I’m sorry,” this is more toward Void. He’s been unsettled before, but he’s never really gotten sick at how any of the Gods looked before. Disturbed plenty, but the black not-eyes had hit some unforeseen “nope” button, and now he’s trying not to throw up.

“It’s all right, Karkat,” Mr. Ross says. “Do you need to go to the nurse’s office?”

He stares blankly at Mr. Ross. “I--my stuff.”

“I can help him get to the nurse’s office, Mr. Ross,” Void says. The math teacher startles at the unexpected voice, but otherwise doesn’t react to Void’s appearance, which hasn’t changed as far as Karkat can see. (Or not see, he can’t quite look at Her.

“Thank you, Katie,” Mr. Ross says. It’s the name of a girl who was absent today.

The girl--Void--grabs his books, and Karkat manages to shuffle after Her, out of the classroom and down the hall. “Hey, should I change my optical configuration?” Void asks. “I didn’t think it would give you the screaming meemies?”

“There are no meemies, screaming or otherwise,” Karkat says. He leans against the wall, which is nice and cool.  “You do you. It was just. Okay there’s this site that has various stories about ghost hauntings and hoaxes. And one of the stories is about black eyed teenagers who seem really invested in getting you to let them into your car or house or something. And um, maybe I was thinking of that?”

“That definitely doesn’t sound like screaming meemies,” Void says with mild sarcasm. “Nope.”

“Trying to be a gentleman here,” Karkat says defensively. He manages to swallow the fuck you. He looks up, and makes it as far as Her mouth, which is smiling at him. She has dimples.

“The cilia aren’t black now, want to look?” Void asks.

He steals a glance up, and the hairs--the cilia--are a bright pink now, and glowing, so he can’t really make out individual hairs. There’s movement still, but it isn’t quite as disturbing. “Okay that’s--” okay he’s not going to say that’s better. “Thank you,” he says.

She grins a bit wider. “You’re welcome! Let’s get you to the nurse’s office.”

She takes him by the hands and pulls him through a black hole into…not the nurse’s office. It’s not a room, really, just a bright shifting haze. “What the--?”

Life is a girl his age, wearing an old fashioned nurse’s uniform, with a little hat that barely controls Her short, wildly curly hair. Her eyes are a vivid blue from corner to corner, and red fractal shapes flicker beneath her skin. “Void,” She says crisply. “What are You doing?”

“Taking him to see the nurse,” Void says innocently. “Hellooooo, nurse!”

“You are ridiculous,” Life says. She sounds stern, but there’s a smile underneath it. “Come here, Karkat,” she says, and indicates an examination table that wasn’t there before. “Have a seat.”

Karkat obeys, a little nervously. “I’m okay, just a little queasy,” he says.

Life mm-hms, like She’s listening, but is paying attention to something else. She asks him questions and examines him. (He feels brief pressure against his skin, multiple contacts from things that don’t feel like hands or fingers.) He gets the sense that She’s also talking to Void. “If any of Us make you sick, tell Us immediately,” Life says.

“Not like We wouldn’t notice,” Void says.

“Hush,” Life says. “Tell Us,” She repeats.

“Okay,” Karkat says. He wants to ask about the urgency in Her voice. Was getting sick something that happened a lot, with Spouses? He doesn’t ask.

“How do you feel now?” Life asks.

“Better,” Karkat says. “It kind of started fading once I was out of the classroom.”  

One of Her hands touches his cheek. Her hand is cool, and he kind of wants to lean into it. “Let me take care of the rest,” She says, and waits.

It takes Karkat a minute to realize what She’s waiting for. “Sure, go ahead,” he says. There’s a blue glow, and the sick queasiness fades away. “Thank you, I feel a lot better,” he says. She starts to lower her hand, and impulsively, he grabs it. (His pulse racing a little fast.) She gives him a startled look, but doesn’t look upset so, go him. She also doesn’t pull away. He bends a little and kisses her knuckles, and lets her go.

She smiles at him. “You’re a sweet boy.”

“I’m not sweet,” Karkat says automatically. “I’m salty as f--a salty thing.” Somehow he felt really reluctant to swear at Her. He looks toward Void, whose eyes are still glowing and pink, with a shimmer of movement that he tried not to think of as something that should not be on a human face. “Is there a reason you were hanging out in my chemistry class?” he asks Void.

“I’m always hanging around,” Void says. “You just saw me that time.”

“Okay,” Karkat says. As I was going up the stair I saw a girl who wasn’t there! “I have no idea of how to feel about that.” It was kind of creepy, but it went with a name like ‘Void’ he supposed. He takes a breath. “I was wondering if there might be trouble and that’s why you were there.”

“Maybe a little? But mostly, I’m all over the place,” Void says.

“There’s danger, but you’re safe for now,” Life says. “Void wasn’t the only one watching.”

“You?” Karkat asks, and wonders about the other gods.

Life smiles. “The junior priests,” She says. “So in a way, also Us.” Life takes him by the hands and guides him off the table. “You should go wake up now,” she says briskly.

“I’m awake?” Karkat asks, confused. He’s suddenly lying in a bed, staring up at the ceiling. The light is dim and mostly coming from the window. The “nurse’s office” was split into two: a cubby where the desk and student prescriptions lived, and a small infirmary with four beds. He sat up slowly and squinted at the clock. He was missing Comp. “Urgh.”

“Karkat? How are you feeling?” Ms. Tyler asked from the cubby. There was the sound of a chair being pushed back, and the nurse entered the room. She was a dark skinned woman with a splash of freckles across her cheeks and startlingly blue eyes. (For a moment Karkat thought of Life.)    

“I’m okay,” he says. “I’m missing Comp though.”

“What’s your next class?”

“Spanish,” Karkat says.

“Do you think you feel well enough to go to the next class, or do you want to go home?” Ms. Tyler asks.

“Dad’s in the middle of class,” Karkat says. “I don’t want him to have to come get me.”

Ms. Tyler gives him a faintly exasperated look. “That’s not the answer to the question I asked, hon,” she says.

“I think I can go to class,” Karkat says. “I just kind of don’t want to after having a fainting princess moment.”

“I wouldn’t call it that,” Ms. Tyler says with a slight smile. “What’s your class after Spanish?”

“I have Study Hall after Spanish,” Karkat says.

“I guess I could write you a pass for an early Study Hall,” Ms. Tyler says.

“That would be great, thanks,” Karkat says.

Armed with the pass, Karkat takes his things to the library, shows the pass to the librarian, and finds a quiet corner to sit. This is harder that it would seem, since there were at least twenty freshmen also having Study Hall. (Study Hall seemed to require a lot of talking and giggling.) Karkat spends a minute wishing he’d brought his iPod and headphones and started working on his homework.

About fifteen minutes into his Algebra homework there’s a whir of wings and the skidding of claws on the table. Karkat startles, and sees that a brown and white pigeon has landed on the table. There’s a little black tube tied to one of its legs. A carrier pigeon? Its beady reddish eyes stare at him with a weirdly expectant expression. “What the hell?” Karkat asks it. The pigeon of course has nothing to say in response to his query, though it does decide to perch on his textbook, and peck at his pencil. “Okay, okay,” he says, and figures out how to get the black tube off of the pigeon. (The pigeon is very patient with his fumbling.)

The note is written in brown marker:

tHANKS FOR YOUR CONCERN, tO SHOW THERE ARE NO HARD FEELINGS MY PESTERCHUM ID IS ADIOSTOREADOR --TN

“Huh,” Karkat says. He starts to scribble a note back, but the pigeon flies off. He has no idea of what he’d say to the kid. (Did Nitram expect him to apologize for thinking he needed to be rescued? Also, carrier pigeons: really?)

The rest of the afternoon is uneventful, except for the appearance of Feferi, who slips into a seat next to him. “Are you feeling betta?” She asks.

“Yeah, pretty much,” Karkat says. “I got kind of woozy in Chemistry.”

“A little bird told me something gave you the screaming meemies,” Feferi says. She’s perched on the edge of her chair with her elbows on the table and her chin cupped in her palms.

“Was it a pigeon?” Karkat asks, and flicks the message tube (sans message) toward her.

“A pigeon? Oh, Tav’s pigeons!” Feferi says. “No it was Angie, she told Aradia, who told me that you were staring off into space and then turned white as a sheet in Chem and almost fainted. Was it a presentiment?”

“No, just Uncanny Valley,” Karkat says.  

“Void, then you traveled, and saw Life,” Feferi says, her eyes shifting as if she’s looking at something.

“Are you looking at my aura or something when you do that?” Karkat asks.

“Kind of,” Feferi says. “Aura is kind of New-Agey, though. I can show you how to look though!”

“Okay. First though, what you do mean when you say ‘traveled’?”  

What Feferi meant was something that was kind of, but not really astral projection. (“We don’t really use the terms occultists or New Age types do, it’s a thing!”) It was traveling into the dimensions where the Gods (and other things) lived. It was apparently possible to do on your own, but the times it had happened, it had been because one of the Gods had taken him. (“So we don’t know yet if you have the ability or not.”)

Feferi tries to show him how to see what she’s seeing. It’s surprisingly easy to catch on. There’s a kind of shadow surrounding Feferi, though he isn’t sure where the light source is coming from or what it is. There are similar shadows surrounding most of the people he looks at, just slightly to the left or right, and lets his eyes unfocus. There is also a kind of glow. (Feferi is fuchsia but also bright blue. He’s a sort of rusty red, with traces of the bright blue that was Life’s color, and a pinkish color that reminds him of Void’s “eyes” when She’d changed their color. There are other colors too, a bright orange, a blue darker than Life’s, a bright red, a darker purple-pink.) She explains what the glows and colors mean, and he ends up taking notes in his History notebook.

“How is finding out whoever set me and Dad up going?” Karkat asks at the end of the lesson.

“We have leads,” Feferi says. “Well, we already had leads, but now we have more. Adept Pyrope will have a report for you and your Dad pretty soon.”

Karkat nods. “Okay.”

Feferi continues the lesson, and talks about people she’s going to introduce him too.

“Why?” Karkat asks.

“Because you need to meet them, and they need to meet you?” Feferi says. “It’s part of…” she makes a hand opening gesture with both hands. “Being part of the community?”

“Being part of the cult,” Karkat says.

“Even if you aren’t part of the cult,” Feferi says. “You don’t have to join. You don’t even have to go to the Temple, but you have a connection, so you shouldn’t be…apart.”

“Si…Mr. Captor said there were things that only Spouses can do,” Karkat says.

Feferi nods. “There are certain rituals that can only be performed by a Spouse. There are certain blessings and mediations.”

“And I don’t need to go to the Temple to do them?”

“Nope! Not if you don’t want to,” Feferi says. “Well, my Great-Gran would have made you, or tried to, but I don’t think you have to. I asked for an indication about it and everything!”

“But I do have to learn these rituals?” Karkat asks.

“It would be really, really helpful if you did,” Feferi says.

Note: Random reference to the poem “Antigonish” by William Hughes Mearnes

Note 2: Karkat should not read Obiwan's UFO-Free Paranormal Page late at night, and specifically not about Evil Kids. 

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[thelyd]

White Supremacy; It’s Time to Stop

Let me preface this - I’m biracial. Black and white mix but I look white. Only obviously black thing about me is my hair. Raised in a Christian home. Leftist. Also language.

Good lord almighty. What a fucking mess the United States has become. It’s actually always been this way, it’s just rearing its ugly head and spreading terror. Just watched the Vice video on Charlottesville and while I know the video has brought about some controversy, the thing that scares me is that there are people out there that are truly willing to eradicate anyone that isn’t like them or doesn’t meet their standards. “Jews will not replace us”? They aren’t trying to, hon. “Whose streets our streets”? First of all you’re a selfish brat, second our entire country is built upon our ancestors taking this land from the Indians and Native Americans that lived here. Technically it’s THEIR streets so check your damn privilege and shut the fuck up. No one is trying to replace the whites. White people can’t even begin to imagine the fear that marginalized groups face every day from systematic oppression and hatred. This issue isn’t exclusive to race, either. These so-called “true Americans” seem to think that the only way of living is being white, Christian, straight, neurotypical and able-bodied. Shut up brat, not everyone is like you. The entire human race is full of thousands of different cultures, languages, ethnicities, religions, sexualities, etc.. It’s scientifically and religiously proven that not all men are created equal and that “Love thy neighbor” is the golden rule. God doesn’t want us to go killing people we don’t like. You can’t call yourself a Christian and be a white supremacist.

At the same token, there is absolutely nothing wrong with diversity. When I was in elementary school, we were studying the cultures of different countries. But when we got to our good ol’ USA, we were taught that we are a melting pot of cultures and such and dammit we’re proud of it! We’ve been the place to go for people facing problems in other countries. We were supposed to be a place to go and be welcomed with open arms. But what are you white supremacists doing instead? Trying to eradicate all the non-whites. I heard people in that rally saying the “niggers” need to get out of our country. Um...didn’t we literally FORCE them here in the first place?? And they were forced into SLAVERY?!! And now that they’re not your slaves you want them out because they’re “violent” and “filth”. Wow. Some “peace-keeper” YOU are.

Their views on the LGBT community irk me too. Oh yeah, I’m going there. Guess what asshole? Other cultures welcome homosexuality and everything in between. It’s scientifically proven that being anything other than cishet is normal and not harmful. But you don’t care, huh? Only YOUR culture matters. Oh wait, you stole bits and pieces of other cultures, turned them into a Frankenstein monster and called it your own. 

Humanity. Human beings. We are all human beings and we all just want to be happy. Everyone is different and that’s okay. The beauty of the human race is our differences. Some have different skin, some like to do different things, some think differently than others, and not all think or express themselves the same way.

The PROBLEM is when a certain group of humans think they’re superior and try to eradicate everyone else.

Trump didn’t help things, either. Yeah I know he’s trying his best as president and honestly I’m so uneducated on his activities since he got elected that I don’t want to discuss his actions as President. HOWEVER: his campaign trail is where I have a problem and I know lots of other people agree. He said some really fucked up shit at his rallies. He made fun of disabled people, members of the LGBTQ+ community, women, African Americans...basically anyone that is NOT a white supremacist or doesn’t meet white supremacists’ standards. Lots of people have used the old “Trump is President now” to excuse their racist and bigoted actions. I don’t CARE what Trump did or is doing that’ll be good for America. The negative impact of his campaign have SERIOUSLY damaged America. Those who fail to meet white supremacists’ criteria are now being discriminated against, abused, and killed. All because Trump’s actions during his campaign seem to have excused this kind of behavior. 

Honestly, I’m just venting and getting my opinions out there. This “alt-right agenda” has GOT to stop, but excessive violence on the left needs to stop as well. No one’s going to listen to us if we act like they think we do.

God bless.