#It’s just racist

[medvedevvs]

have y’all seen the photo of badosa? because there’s no defending that. this whole time i thought it was stefanos that was the problem but it’s both of them

[love-and-books320]

ANTISEMITISM IS NOT OKAY ANTISEMITISM IS NOT OKAY ANTISEMITISM IS NOT OKAY

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[circumpolarvampire]

Fantasy books stop having arctic kingdoms of all blond hair blue eyed white people.

[time-to-write-and-suffer]

I love how on Tumblr, "media literacy" has become "Um, just because someone writes about this doesn't mean they're endorsing this. I hate all these media puritans ruining everything."

I'm sad to inform you that knowing when and whether an author is endorsing something, implying something, saying something, is also part of media literacy. Knowing when they are doing this and when they're not is part of media literacy. Assuming that no author has ever endorsed a bad thing is how you fall for proper gander. It's not media literacy to always assume that nobody ever has agreed with the morally reprehensible ideas in their work.

Sometimes, authors are endorsing something, and you need to be aware when that happens, and you also need to be aware when you're doing it as an author. All media isn't horny dubcon fanfic where you and the author know it's problematic IRL but you get off to it in the privacy of your brain. Sometimes very smart people can convince you of something that'll hurt others in the real world. Sometimes very dumb people will romanticize something without realizing they're doing it and you'll be caught up in it without realizing that you are.

Being aware of this is also media literacy. Being aware of the narrative tools used to affect your thinking is media literacy. Deciding on your own whether you agree with an author or not is media literacy. Enjoying characters doing bad things and allowing authors to create flawed or cruel characters for the sake of a story is perfectly fine, but it is not the same as being media literate. Being smug about how you never think an author has bad intentions tells me you're edgy, not that you're media literate. You can't use one rule to apply to all media. That's not how media literacy works. Sorry! Sorry! Sorry! Aheem heem. Anyway.

[lilacpaperbird]

american tiktok refugees have flooded rednote/xiaohongshu and this is how chinese wincesties are responding to the antis lmao

Translation:

To Wincest Haters

1. All foreign Destiel shippers must add honorifics when addressing Wincesties.

2. Foreign Destiel shippers are not allowed to interrupt conversations between Wincesties

3. Foreign Destiel shippers must greet Wincesties every morning and evening.

4. Posts by foreign Destiel shippers must not exceed 14 characters, must include punctuation, and cannot include include any offensive or disrespectful remarks. Posts with emojis ranked first in Xiaohongshu are prohibited.

5. Foreign Destiel shippers are forbidden from using stickers/memes.

6. Foreign Destiel shippers must obtain permission from Wincesties before sending images or voice messages.

7. Foreign Destiel shippers can only post 10 comments per day; exceeding this limit will result in a ban.

8. Foreign Destiel shippers are prohibited from posting any information that defames Wincesties.

9. At 10 PM a curfew will be imposed on all foreign Destiel shippers.

[pigswithwings]

kind of interesting to me how people are only now figuring out (?) rediscovering (?) finally understanding (?) that chinese people are actual? people? like its really fun to see more chinese stuff come across my dash but some of the comments keep reminding me of what people were doing before this happened. "people are learning chinese and figuring out that chinese people are actually funny" thats great dude we were always funny. because we are also humans who have the capacity to joke around. quick question what did u think of chinese people before u downloaded 小红书 im so so curious

[alistair-blackwood]

if you've got a fictional guy you like who sucks you have to be his biggest hater. his high school bully, his sworn enemy. the first to walk to mordor and cast him into the fires of mt doom. the editor-in-chief of his smear campaign. the special witness in the prosecutor's case and they're calling for the death penalty.

[butchvamp]

veilguard is maddeningly racist and we have got to have this conversation outside of "fantasy racism" terms. we are not talking about fantasy elves. it is anti-indigenous racism, the elves are intentionally indigenous coded as previously stated by Gaider (and it honestly doesn't matter if it's been "confirmed," it is obviously true, no matter what Weekes tries to argue now) and insinuating that your indigenous coded characters 1. are deserving of their oppression, 2. are in any way responsible for it, 3. should feel guilty about it, 4. are foolish and dangerous for wanting to reconnect with and preserve their history, and 5. are "stuck in the past" and "too traditional," (why don't they just assimilate already?) are all insidious, racist ideas that this game perpetuates. and there is very little pushback from the narrative that the player can engage in, which is what a lot of the criticism is discussing. we're not talking about "fantasy racism" or fantasy slurs, we are talking about the real world racism this game is perpetuating.

[rubysevens]

anyway in the past week the irish government has voted down two motions which would have condemned the genocide in gaza.

i need everyone to stop lionising ireland as if its not also a european government with strong ties to the us. american weapons pass through shannon airport and will continue to, because yesterday the motion to stop that was voted down 83 to 50.

other governments have done much more but somehow people still act as though ireland is the ultimate palestinian ally and exempt from criticism on its handling of palestine bc it was once colonised, even though that past experience clearly isnt being taken into account by the irish government when creating policy.

i live here i know there’s a lot of public support and sympathy for palestine, which is great, but that isnt reflected in government, and i think ireland should be treated like other countries whose governments have done nothing.

[bixels]

Why the hell, shit, you damned bastard son of a bitch

[lem0nademouth]

according to the replies on this tweet literally every tv show has Zionist Propaganda™️ so i guess the hamasniks are just going to have to twiddle their thumbs for entertainment

edit: some of the nonsense from the replies

do not call yourself progressive or inclusive or revolutionary or anticolonial or whatever other fucking “I’m A Good Person” label de jour you’ve chosen if you say shit like this. you cannot talk like a Nazi and then insist you’re just an antizionist.

[un-pearable]

idk i get why some people like to use it for angst but i dont think (game) eggman is the kind of character to go for bigotry-level personal insults. i dont think he'd be blatantly sexist/ableist/etc. its just not relevant to him. even the rodent/hedgehog stuff is more just a kid-friendly way to insult sonic specifically - not a indication that dr. ivo robotnik as a person has a literal and specific hatred of hedgehogs as a species

[casscainmainly]

It's interesting how Batfanon tends to weaponise anger against characters of colour. Damian is either always unjustifiably angry ('feral', 'demon', etc.), or his anger is consistently trivialised as childish/cute. Duke and Cass are on the other end of the spectrum, where they're not even allowed to be angry. They are 'perfect good children', who are perpetually soft and kind. In canon, all three have been justifiably and unjustifiably angry; they've been irrational, they've been righteously mad; and (aside from racist Damian writing) they are angry without being villainised. If our conception of Damian, Cass, or Duke strips them of their right to be angry, then we need to reconsider the way we view characters of colour. Anger is a human emotion - by removing it, or by demonising characters for feeling it, we are dehumanising them.

[wilwheaton]

What, and I can't stress this enough, the ACTUAL fuck.

[just-aro]

*sigh*

I'm seeing variations of this meme around again, so to today's (un)lucky 10000:

the "inside you there are two wolves" meme is racist. full stop. it was invented by a Christian pastor in the late 70s and attributed to the Cherokee nation, despite being completely made up. every native american / indigenous page I've ever followed denounces it as made up and racist, using their imagery to sound mystical and wise while ignoring the people themselves.

please consider using another format. try to use your guilt productively: I'm not calling you out, this is aimed at educating. You can't erase not knowing in the past, but you can elect to 1) not reblog these in the future, 2) delete any that are easy to delete, 3) help to spread education by following native people's accounts and news so that you hear this from them, not me.