#“racist to white people” shut the fuck up

[cryptidfuckery]

Hey guys. Whitey to whitey. You know if you have an opinion on rap you can just not fucking say it right? You can just listen to the black people around you and not say something fucking stupid and racist right? You know we can just shut the fuck up right? I'm white, you reading this is white. It isn't our place to be fuckin talking guys

[lastoneout]

I know I keep dying on the "modern country isn't all pro-america racist garbage" hill but I did want to say; the other day I got bored(I'm in bed recovering from surgery) and decided to listen to every single song on the Billboard Top 100 Country Songs of 2024 list and there were only FOUR that fit that description. Out of ONE HUNDRED SONGS. ONLY FOUR THAT WERE LIKE THAT.

More ranting about this under the cut but TL;DR country really has changed. Recognize that or at the very least shut up about how you'd like it more if it was [xyz thing it already fucking is] please. It's okay if you just don't vibe with it, you don't need to validate your taste with political grandstanding, you can just not like it! That is possible!!

If you say all modern country is racist maga garbage you are simply incorrect. You're legit just wrong. So can we stop doing it now?? Please?? 'Cuz I keep seeing people say this even after Cowboy Carter won all those awards and Shaboozey had a song DOMINATE the charts and then was in TWO Super Bowl Halftime Shows featuring country music AND after Luke Combs, one of the biggest white men in country rn sang on stage with Tracy Chapman, a black woman, uplifting and supporting her and her work, and didn't even change the pronouns in the song, and like, this dismissal and refusal to engage is quickly moving from irritating to legit infuriating. Especially given how man diverse artists that attitude erases.

If you mean certain fans or the mainstream industry or an awards show or a specific artist (fuck you Jason Aldean you bigoted shithead, every single queer person living in a small town in a red state could eat your worthless ass for breakfast and still have room for more, you're an embarrassment and I hope one day you realize that) SAY THAT. Because the music itself, and a lot of new artists? They're different now. And I HATE to see progressives and leftists who don't even like country whine and complain about it being terrible maga garbage and not lift a finger to help support the people who are putting everything into creating the change these people keep saying needs to happen.

It's happening, so show up on the front lines or sit down and shut up.

[smolandweirdwriter]

wow ok letty being angry about babel’s cruelty towards women and assuming almost that the others, by fighting against racism, are ignoring sexism is just,,,baffling. they’re intertwined, babe. oppression feeds oppression. colonialism is a snake that consumes itself— that’s the point of the book!! fighting for an end to the imperial domination would work in tandem with bringing down the gendered domination AS WELL. because it’s CIRCULAR.

[butwhatifidothis]

I need the people who look at posts talking about Wyll's treatment in both the actual game and especially the fandom and respond with "but i don't like him and I think he's boring" to know that shutting the fuck up is 100% the better option 100% of the time. Him being the only origin character to not have at last 10 hours of content and the existence of mods that literally whitewash him and his dad - among everything else wrong with how Wyll is treated - are not suddenly okay because you, personally, as an individual, don't find him interesting, and your personal individual feelings about him are irrelevant to the issues surrounding his treatment in the bg3 community at large, so like. Stop barging in with your unwanted, unhelpful opinion

[deathsmallcaps]

I need advice.

I’m a white intern working in a mostly white southern(ish) high school. Students of Color number at under 2%, perhaps even lower. It’s a very white, rural community - I grew up in a fairly mixed, suburban northern community, and part of my family is Black.

Several of my white students say rude things to my Students of Color. I’ve told them to knock it off *as appropriately as I can* but I’m probably one of the few adults that actively discourage that behavior.

I don’t want to let this shit fly under the radar, but I also know that if an adult of authority *who will only be here for a couple more weeks* interferes, and then doesn’t stick around, it could make things worse. Additionally, I know these kids are probably very very very used to this ‘system’ and that making a short-term change could be more harmful than helpful.

I asked one of my senior students after a very racist incident *where she was laughing along with the perpetrator but I told him to stop anyway* that I can move him, or her, so she could be more comfortable (admin either does nothing or slaps wrists, especially for seniors). She said it was fine and that he was always like that.

I must emphasize, I think they were bantering (they talk so much I think they consider each other friends?), but it was also wayyy fucking out of line, especially in a school setting. And the guy says so much out of line shit I’m surprised he isn’t rocking a full set of dentures to replace the teeth he ought to have lost by now.

Another student took me up on my offer to move people, but I ended up moving him, which sucks because he was the victim in this situation. Unfortunately, I have to keep his aggressors in their spots, as they are highly rowdy in all the ways and require a lot more supervision than he did. And the class is really full. These were also all freshmen, so I wouldn’t be surprised if that affected the victim’s reaction.

So I’d really appreciate advice as to whether I should let it be, or continue as is, or step it up even more, from People of Color in largely white, especially rural, communities. Like any advice from current or previous educators, especially Educators of Color would be appreciated, but specifically southern/rural ones would be wonderful. I’m going to talk to my family members about it, but they’ve lived in more Northern settings their entire lives and they may have less … applicable (?) experience to the situation.

Again, I’m an intern, I’m going to only be there until winter break 2024, and I don’t want to fuck things up for these kids in the long run with my northern ally ‘sensibilities’. Thank you!

[thedreadvampy]

The thing is. Bad/gross food is rarely a DISH - when food is bad it's because it's been badly made, whether because of skills or available ingredients. but a dish p much only exists recognisably and has a name because someone likes at least one version of it.

which is to say. there isn't really a way of naming a dish, school of dishes or specific food culture and going EW ISN'T THIS DISH UNILATERALLY CONCEPTUALLY DISGUSTING without denigrating quite a lot of people.

like you don't have to like it in any form. but it's eaten and shared because it's good to a not insubstantial number of people when cooked right.

(and I don't really understand how you approach that with total incuriosity when it's a dish you haven't tried like. ARE rocky mountain oysters good? Maybe! I would very much eat some to find out!!!!)

this is actually something the British food poll did in a way the American ones I've seen haven't really - they described how the food they're imagining is, specifically, badly prepared (grey meat and veggies; unseasoned shepherd's pie). which is wildly tipping the scales by calling it British Food but. like. that is an on point definition of why that food is gross.

(this also applies to American chocolate, which like. Broad category but I think most of us understand this refers to low-cocoa high-sugar chocolate, probably with bucolic acid. so we are being invited to imagine Badly Made Chocolate not. the concept of chocolate)

personally I just think it's very rarely a good or funny idea to shittalk how gross any given food culture is. partly because food is important and culturally evocative for most people, partly because it's very...alienating? to be like WHO COULD EAT SUCH A THING? just because you wouldn't, and largely because to be frank it says more about you than about the food that you have so little imagination or curiosity that you can't imagine why a food might be enjoyable to folks who aren't you.

yes this includes jello salad, I would like to try it. ONCE. if it wasn't appealing to someone it wouldn't be so widespread.

[rosesradio]

”oh boo hoo annabeth is still black in the show (even though it’s been like 2 years since the initial announcement)! wahh why can’t we just have book accurate—“

the show is badly written. the show is badly written! it just is! they replace important book moments with weird new ideas that don’t quite pan out, it’s shallow, the dialogue is weird, the characters are flat. it’s very rushed, with stakes built up to an anticlimax. it arguably doesn’t retain any of the previous themes that the books did. it’s not a good adaptation. a 12 year old black girl trying her best despite the writing she was given is not to blame. if you’re gonna complain about the show (as you should), at least do it right.

[goldenspringmornings]

sjm’s idealized abusive romances are not comparable to the fandom being fucking racist about the Illyrians

[knifeslidez]

will never forget the "transracial native american" who tried to "educate" me, an actual indigenous person, on "native american culture"

[ratbastarddotfuck]

am I wrong? genuinely, I'm asking. would it not come off extremely condescending?

[bijoumikhawal]

one dumbass tweet about how white "and Black" actors are "incorrectly" cast as MENA characters and it unleashes race scientists, antiBlack Imazighen, and a guy trying to argue there's a trend where Alexander Siddig would not be cast as African today vus 20 years ago because of woke I guess

Alexander Siddig. Who has self described as Black and only has been cast as an explicitly African character a few times in his 30 year career.

[autistic-katara]

u ever see a mildly iffy post and look at the comments and just think “wow, everyone here is so fucking unpleasant in their own special way”

[angeltism]

"spar.kle is fictional who cares" I have seen people praising her for her racist anti-romani comments what the fuck kind of world do you live in

[outlying-hyppocrate]

being the only poc in my class is. an experience.

[pirates-and-ninja-lover]

fuck politics btw <3

[surpriserose]

People have to stop defending sandman like even if it wasnt transmisogynist (it is and also generally misogynist lol) it is extremely antiblack like have you read the damn thing?