#Racial insensitivity

[alwaysbewoke]

the idiocy is killing kieran lmaooo

[randimyles2go]

6th Graders Give Black Students Racist Cards At School

This is LEARNED Behavior! Ugh! Please Help Me Understand!

A group of sixth graders passed out handmade cards, with racist remarks on them to Black students at their school. But that’s not all… Upland California School officials said the children will be disciplined and “Although students may not understand the deep meaning of their words and actions, it is vital to emphasize that hate speech, discriminatory behavior and racial slurs have no place their…

[shiftythrifting]

I'm trying to submit but its giving the error of "missing tumblog_user_ID" ?

Tumblr app submissions have died and support had no solutions, you have to use a browser to submit photos one at a time, join our Discord and dump your photos there, or e-mail them to me at submissions@shiftythrifting.com for the moment. You can also attach images to asks, but it's not ideal because it just makes one giant line of photos that we can't edit.

The team is having to manually queue a lot of things now, and I miss when the app worked.

[sindee19]

Just so everyone is aware, this is gonna be this season’s AFP. It doesn’t matter whether or not you like Quinn, this behavior is disgusting.

[dollsahoy]

Not only posting this because Dinosaurs! but also because you can clearly see the catalog cover uses 'carousel' and 'merry go round' interchangeably, which I suspect is the general usage, and any reasons people give for distinctions are misguided even if they are sincere (an opinion that I acknowledge may also be Discourse™)

[bastart13]

I find the Astoria characters a bit bland or incohesive when it comes to their designs so as some design practice, I gave them redesigns

Except for Alex. They're basically perfect

[feral-and-chaotic]

I was chatting to my friend about Baldur's Gate 3. And during the conversation we came to the horrific realization: That Magistrate!Astarion would had defo been a Tory/Conservative/Republican.

He was awful enough for the gur to snap and beat the shit out of him.

He without a doubt would jail a gnome for possession of drugs just because he didn't like them. Bonus points if he planted those drugs on them himself.

He's like if Ben Shapiro got beaten to death and then turned into a Sad Vampire Boi:

Do with this information as you will.

Additionally:

[binch-i-might-be]

this is so fucking funny looking back. I was working on this project when I was a teenager, and in hindsight Most Things about it were incredibly telling, but this is a personal favourite of mine.

I remember I told my therapist at the time that the two main characters here were both supposed to be. Me. Ray (notice anything lmao) was supposed to represent who people saw me as (she even fully looked like me like I was NOT subtle about it) and Jawin was who I perceived myself to be on the inside. I was 100% aware of this and doing it on purpose. and somehow I didn't realise what the fuck I was admitting in this scene.

get you a guy who will write a low fantasy story about two traumatised unhealthily codependent assassins who are both supposed to be Her and have a whole conversation that's basically just "sometimes I want to fucking kill myself dead" - "noooo don't kill yourself you're so sexy haha"

[spineless-lobster]

I think it’s interesting that the Captain loves Gilbert and Sullivan so much because not only is it musical theatre, but I e noticed there are some common themes in most Gilbert and Sullivan operettas. (Especially the ones Cap mentions, The Pirates of Penzance and The Mikado)

The Pirates of Penzance (as well as HMS Pinafore) focus on themes of forbidden love, in PoP it’s because the main character is a pirate. In HMSP it’s due to class differences.

I can imagine a young Cap, wondering why the feelings he’s having towards other boys is so frowned upon. And seeing those concerns reflected in the opera.

The Mikado is a satirical take on capital punishment, the crime in the opera that’s punishable by death is flirting. Now, I’m not saying Gilbert intended that to be some Victorian commentary on gay rights; but being sentenced to death for loving someone is not an exclusively heterosexual problem.

The fact that the Captain (along with Fanny) canonically praised the opera for it’s comedy regarding this theme kind of says a lot about him. He puts up this front of a stiff upper lip perfect English gentleman but reality he despises the establishment of his era.

The last thing I want point out is that (as far as I know) every Gilbert and Sullivan opera ends with a happy ending. The forbidden lovers manage to beat the system via some sort of loophole and they get to live happily ever after.

I think the Captain loves these operas so much because he gets to see people who cannot love who they want to due to an oppressive system; people like him, receive the happy ending he wishes he could have.

He gets to have second-hand queer euphoria along with catchy songs and funny jokes, all while presenting himself as socially acceptable. And I think he deserves that happiness.

[diamantdog]

me: let me see what netflix’s american version of “3 body problem” is all about.

tudum: from the creators of game of thrones…

me: NOPE!

[justsomeguy-cassavetes]

DANNY KAYE as BUZZY BELLEW and EDWIN DINGLE (yes that rly is his name) in WONDER MAN (1945)

[izzyspussy]

tfw u kinda wanna make a post about how frustrating it is to try to find racial identity and the pressure of not really having a good answer to "what are you?" because 75% of your ethnicity is stuff that is sometimes considered white or sometimes considered something else or sometimes considered its own race and you've got pale skin and only speak english but you've been discriminated against for your cultural values and facial features but only some of the time in some places and you demonstrably have white privilege in most contexts but not all the time and how much white privilege equals whiteness and on the other hand isn't that awfully similar the concept of racial dilution which is just pc genocide anyway and if you self determine as white is that the right thing to do or is it just assimilation but if you self determine as not white is that respecting and claiming your heritage or is it appropriation/brownface and also what do you do if you self determine one way and then get treated the other way and you know based on the reality that race is socially constructed it can be true that the same person can sometimes be white and sometimes be not white but if you actually say that out loud to people they think you're trying to be a snowflake for woke points based on a technicality-

but also u don't wanna post about that because. if you actually say that out loud to people,

[randimyles2go]

On The 1st Day of Black History Month School Vendor Changes Menu To Chicken, Waffles & Watermelon

People need to learn how to read the room. #IJS

On the first day of Black History Month, the planned hot lunch menu was changed by the food vendor, without notice. Instead of the Philly cheese steak, broccoli and fresh fruit that was originally on the menu, the students at a New York middle school were offered chicken and waffles, with watermelon as the dessert. Nyack Middle School’s principal said that “We are extremely disappointed by this…

[fearandhungies]

i am kind of deeply fucking haunted by the way some autistic people on here seem to think that being autistic means you get to be rude to people and never get taken to task for it

[cometrose]

jihyuk has to be one of my favorite mls so sweet so respectful and i can’t believe jiwon proposed anyway i briefly read the manhwa i probably got half way through and i don’t remember why i quit anyway the drama was nice very nice i had fun

[khiphop-discussions]

I'm just praying Jay Park doesn't do anymore stupid shit cause he eats DOWN when he's on his A game. I REALLY wanna root for him!