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[samwisethewitch]

TW: This post contains explicit discussions of white supremacy and the alt-right, including mentions of racism and antisemitism.

One of my most impactful recent library reads was Sisters In Hate by Seyward Darby, and I want to take a moment to encourage other white Americans to check it out as we prepare for next years' presidential election and all the shit it's going to kick up.

Sisters In Hate is a book about the role of women in American white supremacist movements and specifically in the alt-right. Darby does a really excellent job of showing just how critical white women are to these hate movements. The book also gives us a detailed look at what radicalization looks like and how that process can be different for different genders.

The book is divided into three sections, each of which follows a real woman through her radicalization into the alt-right. I especially want to draw Tumblr's attention to the story of Ayla, a self-proclaimed "polyamorous, raw foodist-vegan, feminist, pagan" whose radicalization started in college with natural living and homebirth and ended with her running a popular tradwife blog and speaking at the Unite the Right rally.

I think a lot of leftists and liberals feel that we're too smart, or too educated, or too savvy to fall for white supremacist recruitment schemes. We are not. Intelligent, college-educated, left-leaning people are radicalized every day. Some of them are less overtly hateful, like your college friend who starts voting Republican in their 30s. Some of them are like Ayla, and their radicalization takes them all the way to the other end of the political spectrum until they're openly and genuinely calling for a white ethnostate with the same passion they once used to advocate for feminism, racial equity, and queer rights. And we need to remember that any one of us intelligent, college-educated, left-leaning white folks could be in her position, which is why it's so important to learn about radicalization tactics so we can recognize and resist them.

I'm not gonna lie -- this book is hard to read. The text contains racial slurs, white supremacist rhetoric, antisemitism, and anti-Black racism. All of this is condemned by the author, but Darby doesn't shy away from showing just how vile this movement is. I had to take a lot of breaks from this book and read it over several weeks, but I'm very glad I did because I feel like I needed this information.

White supremacist recruitment efforts are going to pick up in the next year, especially if Tr*mp is the Republican nominee for president. Stay informed and stay ready.

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[Image descriptions: 1. Cut-off Tweet from 4 September 2018 that says, ‘did i read this sentence right?’ This quotes a Tweet by OkayPlayer @ OkayPlayer that says, ‘Teenager #LakeithSmith is sentencedto 65 years in prison for the death of his friend whom was shot and killed by an Alabama police officer. [link to article].’ Attached is a photo of Smith in court. 2. A Change.Org screenshot of a petition started by Amania Galloway to the United States Supreme Court ad 4 others. The description reads: Lakeith Smith, now 20, was charged with the murder of his friend, A’Donte Washington when he was ontly 15—a crime he did not commit. A’donte died at the hands of a policement, after the police fired 4 rounds into him – and he currently walks free. Smith, Washington, and a few other boys were participating in two break-ins of Millbrook homes in 2015. When authoritios were called, there was a alleged shoot-out between Washington and the unnamed officer. Lakeith, the one charged, was found described as “scared” and “hidden.” Ultimately, A’Donte Washington was shot and killed by the officer. Despite Lakeith not having any participation in the shoot-out, under Alabama’s accomplice liability law that states, Smith and the other three men participating in the break-ins were found liable for the death of Washington. He was tried as an adult and was sentenced to 65 years in prison (which only recently got reduced to 55). The unnamed police officer who fired four shots into Washington walked free and remains anonymous. Smith did not participate in the act that ended A’Donte Washington’s life. Both men need their justice! \End ID]

Please sign the petition!!!

[genderkoolaid]

another black trans man was murdered on Thursday, February 29, 2024. his name Righteous Torrence "Chevy" Hill. we currently do not know any details other than that he was murdered.

his friend posted two days ago on instagram:

our beautiful black trans brother, 35 year old Righteous Torrence “Chevy” Hill, was murdered in Atlanta, GA this weekend. he went by his nickname ‘Chevy’. he was originally from Macon, GA. he owned Evollusion, which is a black/queer owned LGBTQ+ salon in Atlanta that provided and dedicated full service to specializing in hair, nails, barbering and makeup. growing up as young black queer boys/kids , the barbershop experience can sometimes be a tricky space to occupy, this was something that Chevy understood and wanted to cultivate a space of safety where you can also get the affirming look and style you want, and he did exactly that. Chevy was a beloved son, brother, partner, and father. one of his last posts that had a photo of himself said : “if you truly know me, you know i am a humble, modest, private man, that i love my community, i have the love of God in me and will give the shirt off my back to any soul in need, also i never post pictures of myself, i never give myself credit, that stops today, i am my legacy!” (a close friend of Chevy asked if i could share more then one photo of Chevy, since he never posted photos of himself and in recent years he got the confidence to want to share more photos and now he won’t get the chance to) Chevy, hey king, hey brother, hey angel, thank you for everything, i lové you, we lové you, i’m so sorry. there are a lot of photographers in heaven who will be able to photograph you as the glorious black trans angel that you are. there will be a homegoing service/memorial for our brother

[newsfromstolenland]

In one private chat group conversation, a Mountie was accused of saying a new female employee "was overweight and insinuating that the shape of her vagina was visible through her clothing."

In another, a second RCMP officer allegedly bragged about "Tasering unarmed Black people" and called a sexual assault investigation "stupid" — drawing comments from other members of the online group who "made fun of the victim" and said, "she's a dumb Mexican c--t."

An investigator with the RCMP's professional standards unit detailed those allegations and many more in a search warrant sworn to obtain evidence now being used to call for the firing of three Coquitlam Mounties for violating the force's code of conduct.

The CBC has obtained a copy of the search warrant — which recounts behaviour which led the officer who sparked the investigation to complain to RCMP brass about what he saw as "atrocious" and "racist and horrible" activity in a private group operating on the Signal messaging app.

Full article

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

More from this article below the cut, because I think it's important to understand just how much fucked up shit they were saying:

(tw misogyny, domestic violence, racial profiling, anti-Indigenous racism, racism)

The documents reveal that investigators also reviewed 600,000 messages posted to the RCMP's internal mobile data chat logs — finding evidence of "frequently offensive" usage by the three officers facing termination of "homophobic and racist slurs."

"The reviewers had identified a variety of comments that were 'chauvinist in nature, with a strong air of superiority, and include flippant or insulting remarks about clients (including objectifying women), supervisors, colleagues, policy and the RCMP as a whole,'" the warrant says.

Code of conduct hearings against Const. Philip Dick, Const. Ian Solven and Const. Mersad Mesbah had been slated to begin in Surrey this week but have been adjourned until March of next year. All three officers have been suspended since June 2021.

Although Dick, Solven and Mesbah appear to be the only Mounties currently facing code-of-conduct hearings, the court documents say seven other officers were also part of the private chat group — including two supervisors.

Among the details contained in the search warrant are allegations one of the officers facing discipline joked about a domestic violence victim, calling the victim "a dumb f--king bitch, should've worn a mouth guard."

The whistleblower — Const. Sam Sodhi — claimed that outside of the private chat group, members of the group also "belittled Indigenous people, talking about how they were 'stupid' or 'drunk' and saying they have 'unfortunate bodies' and all have fetal alcohol syndrome."

"They would say, 'We're not going to the reserve,'" the search warrant claims Sodhi told investigators.

"We're not going there because we're not going to help those people."

According to the court documents, Sodhi was posted to Coquitlam in 2019.

"As part of that process, he wrote a letter about wanting to work in an urban centre and help at-risk youth that didn't have role models," the warrant claims.

But Sodhi claimed that on his second day at work, Dick — his trainer — asked him: "Are you a cool brown guy, or are you a Surrey brown guy? Because in that letter, you're whiny, like, 'Ooh, I want to help brown people.'"

Sodhi claimed there were two chat groups for members of the Coquitlam detachment assigned to Port Coquitlam — one for all members of the watch and a second private group that began on WhatsApp but then moved to Signal. He said he was told once he was "worthy" of the private chat group, "we'll add you to it."

The officer claimed he was admitted to the private chat group in March 2021 but left after a few days because of the "constant negativity." He said he was then accused of "not being a team member" and encouraged to return.

According to the search warrant, Sodhi complained to his superiors in May 2021, and a chief superintendent mandated an investigation into five Mounties — including a corporal who was accused of failing to take measures to prevent misconduct.

The probe initially focused on text communications between the RCMP's own laptops — known as Mobile Data Terminals. Investigators reviewed messages between the five men from January 2019 until May 2021.

"When members of the [Signal] chat group realized there was an investigation, they opined that the investigation was probably about 'MDT chats' ... since the private chat group was kept 'amongst the trusted' and 'there's no way this got out,'" the warrant says.

Examples cited from the RCMP computers include statements like, "Why do brown guys have unusually high pitched voices." "As an idiot woman would say ... 'toxic,'" and, "I just racially profile pulled over a car."

A review of the chat logs also allegedly found the three officers facing termination "appeared to use 'goldfish' as a slur for Asian people."

"For example, they talked about how 'goldfish' have 'bulging eyes' that 'can't see anything,' how a Korean church in the detachment was a 'goldfish church' and how 'goldfish' were bad drivers (a common Asian stereotype)," the warrant says.

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[Gif descriptions: Jones, a Black woman with dyed red hair in braids in a bun, stands outside in front of a building with ‘ACAB’ spray painted on the side. She gestures emphatically as she says, ‘So when they say “Why do you burn down the community? Why do you burn down your own neighborhood?’ It’s not ours. We don’t own anything. There is – Trevor Noah said it so beautifully last night. There is a social contract that we all have. That if yu steal, or I steal, then the person who is the authority comes in and they fix the situation. But the person who fixes the situation is killing us! So the social contract is broken! And if the social contract is broken, why the fuck do I have a shit about burning the fucking Football Hall of Fame, about burning a fucking Target? You broke the contract! When you killed us in the streets and didn’t give a fuck. You broke the contract for 400 years, we played your game and built your wealth. You broke the contract when we built our wealth again, on our own, by our bootstraps, In Tulsa, and you dropped bombs on us. When we built it in Rosewood, and you came in and slaughtered us. You broke the contract, so fuck your Target. Fuck your Hall of Fame! As far as I’m concered, they can burn this bitch to the ground. And it still wouldn’t be enough. And they are lucky, that what black people are looking for is equality, and not revenge.’ \End descriptions]

[Video transcription: So, I was obviously at a lot of things talking of the people making commentary. Interestingly enough, the ones I've noticed that have been making the commentary are wealthy Black people making the commentary about you should not be rioting, you should not be looting, you should not be tearing up our own communities, and then there's been an argument of the other side of, ‘we should be hitting them in the pocket, we should be focusing on the blackout days where we don't spend money, but you know I feel like we should do both, and I feel like I support both, and I'll tell you why I support both. I support both because there's—when you have a civil unrest like this, there are three types of people in the streets. There are the protester,s there are the rioters, and there are the looters. The protesters are there because they actually care about what is happening in the communities. They want to raise their voices, and they're there strictly to protest. You have the rioters who are angry, who are anarchists, who really just want to fuck shit up, and that's what they're gonna do regardless. And then you have the looters and the Looters almost exclusively are just there to do that to loot.

Now, people are like, ‘What did you gain? Well, what did you get from looting? ‘I think that as long as we're focusing on the ‘what,’ we’re not focusing on the ‘why,’ and that’s my issue with that. As long as we’re focusing on what they’re doing, we’re not focusing on why they’re doing. And some people are like, ‘Well, those aren’t people who are legitimately angry about what's happening; those are people who just want to get stuff.’ Okay well then, let's go with that. Let's say that’s what it is. Let’s ask yourselves why in this country, in 2020 the financial gap between poor blacks and the rest of the world is at such a distance that people feel like their only hope and only opportunity to get some of the things that we flaunt and flash in front of them all the time is to walk through a broken glass window and get it. But they are so hopeless that getting that necklace, getting that TV, getting that change, getting that bag, getting that phone whatever it is, they're gonna get, is that in that moment when the riots happen, and if they present an opportunity of looting that’s their only opportunity to get it. We need to be questioning that ‘why.’ Why are people that poor? Why are people that broke? Why are people that that food insecure, that clothing insecure, that feel like their only shot, that they are shooting their shot by walking through a broken glass window to get what they need. And then people want to talk about, ‘Well, there’s plenty of people who pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and got it on their own. Why can't they do that?

Let me explain to you something about economics in America, and I'm so glad that as a child I got an opportunity to spend time at push where they taught me this: is that we must never forget that economics was the reason that Black people were brought to this country. We came to do the agricultural work in the south and the textile work in the north. Do you understand that? That's what we came to do. We came to do the agricultural work in the south and the textile work in the north. Now if I right now, if I right now decided that I wanted to play Monopoly with you, and for 400 rounds of playing Monopoly, I didn't allow you to have any money, I didn't allow you to have anything on the board, I didn't allow for you to have anything, and then we played another 50 rounds of Monopoly, and everything that you gained and you earned while you were playing that round of Monopoly was taken from you. That was Tulsa, that was Rosewood, there are places where we built Black economic wealth, where we were self-sufficient, where we owned our stores, where we owned our property, and they burn them to the ground. So that's 450 years, so for 400 rounds of monopoly you don't get to play at all. Not only do you not get to play, you have to play on the behalf of the person that you're playing against. You have to play and make money and earn wealth for them, and then you have to turn it over to them. So then for 50 years, you finally get a little bit, and you're allowed to play, and every time that they don't like the way that you're playing, or that you're catching up, or that you're doing something to be self-sufficient, they burn your game. They burn your cards, they burn your monopoly money, and then finally at the release and the onset of that, they allow you to play, and they say okay now you catch up. Now at this point, the only way you’re gonna catch up in the game is that the person shares the wealth, correct? But what if every time you share the wealth, then there's psychological warfare against you to say, ‘Oh you're an equal-opportunity hire, so if I play 400 rounds of Monopoly with you, and I had to play and give you every dime that I made, and then for 50 years, every time that I played I if you didn't like what I did, you got to burn it like they did in Tulsa and like they did in Rosewood, how can you win? How can you win? You can't win. The game is fixed, so when they So when they say “Why do you burn down the community? Why do you burn down your own neighborhood?’ It’s not ours. We don’t own anything. There is – Trevor Noah said it so beautifully last night. There is a social contract that we all have. That if you steal, or I steal, then the person who is the authority comes in and they fix the situation. But the person who fixes the situation is killing us! So the social contract is broken! And if the social contract is broken, why the fuck do I have a shit about burning the fucking Football Hall of Fame, about burning a fucking Target? You broke the contract! When you killed us in the streets and didn’t give a fuck. You broke the contract for 400 years, we played your game and built your wealth. You broke the contract when we built our wealth again, on our own, by our bootstraps i Tulsa, and you dropped bombs on us. When we built it in Rosewood, and you came in and slaughtered us. You broke the contract, so fuck your Target. Fuck your Hall of Fame! As far as I’m concered, they can burn this bitch to the ground. And it still wouldn’t be enough. And they are lucky, that what black people are looking for is equality, and not revenge. \End transcription]

[communistkenobi]

Historically, the fact that zombies originated in Haiti, as an expression of the terror felt by enslaved people towards the idea that they would remain enslaved even after death,makes the fact that nowadays, zombie narratives have become synonymous with "white dude (usually cop or adyancent) fantasy where you get to unleash your violent desires on a mass of homogenous dangerous people who are coming for your kid and wife next" makes it sooooooooooo much worse. Zombies have always been political

ok I looked this up bc I don’t know very much about it and this NPR article has a good excerpt:

Suicide was the slave's only way to take control over his or her own body ... And yet, the fear of becoming a zombie might stop them from doing so ... This final rest — in green, leafy, heavenly Africa, with no sugarcane to cut and no master to appease or serve — is unavailable to the zombie. To become a zombie was the slave's worst nightmare: to be dead and still a slave, an eternal field hand.

which I think reinforces the reading of zombies in american pop culture as these racialised non-persons, although the perspective on them has shifted drastically

[sayruq]

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[Image descriptions: 1. Screencaps of Alok Vaid-Menon saying, ‘One of the things that people don’t realize is that 19th century European and US American scientists were explicit in believing that only white people could have the gender binary. They would argue that the reason that Black people, Indigenous people, and other racialized people across the world were “less human” was because they were, quote unquote, their words, not mine, “sexually ambiguous.” And so they would say, as you evolve as a civilization, you move into these binary categories of male and female. So homophobia and transphobia, it’s part of this larger racial project of white supremacy.’ As they speak, images appear onscreen showing a sketch of a white man, some comparative drawings of the top halves of human skulls, and some drawings of four different types of skulls as seen from above. The visible labels on these are ‘Caucasian’ and ‘Mongole.’ The camera also cuts to Jonathan and some other guests on the show as Alok talks. \End description]

[Caption plain text: Alok Vaid-Menon / Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness 1x03 (2022) \End PT]

[Image descriptions: A series of squares titled, ‘the racist history of the sex binary.’ The accompanying art shows a person whose face is divided vertically into a blue half and a pink half. The blue half has flowers growing out of a pool coming from the person’s eyebrow, and the pink half has flowers growing up the person’s cheek and around their eye. Long descriptions follow.

1. Text reads, ‘The sex binary [start underline] (the idea that there are only two, distinct, opposite sexes) [end undeline] is a 19th century colonial invention. While some cultures across the world had previously divided society into men and women, scientific developments particular to this time period enabled Western scientests to argue that sex difference (once considered energetic) was anatomical (different brains, skeletal systems, nervous systems). [start underline] Sex dualism (two sides of the same coin) became seen as a dichotomy (two distinct and opposite things).’ Art in the upper right shows a drawing of a sun shape and a moon shape floating in the sky above clouds. Art in the lower left shows drawings of two people, one with long hair and one with short. They are drawn with their blood vessels showing and their abdomens and heads opened to show their organs. 2. Text reads, ‘Scientists argued that white people were superior because of their unique ability [start underline] to display a visual difference between males and females [end underline]. Black people, Indigenous people, and other people of color (BIPOC) were regarded as sex indistinguishable. When using the word “women” scientists spoke exclusively about white women. Terms like “lower races” were used without reference to sex because scientists believed there were not significant sexual differences in BIPOC communities. In 1886 German sexologist Krafft-Ebbing wrote: [start underline] “The higher the development of the race, the stronger the contrasts between man and woman.” [end underline] In 1897, William Thomas echoed: “the lesss civilized the race the less is the physical difference of the sexes.” [end underline]. Art in the upper right shows a drawing of two people in traditionally gendered Victorian clothing. A photo in the lower left shows Krafft-Ebbing in a suit. 3. Text reads, ‘Scientists did not believe that men and women of different races shared the same nature. Instead, they maintained that sex was race-specific. The belief was that [start underline] as societies progressed from “savagery” toward “civilization” over time, the physical distinction between males and females increased. [end underline]. White people were seen as constantly evolving toward becoming the ultimate civilization on Earth, but Black people (in particular) were seen as stuck in primitivity/animality, unable to achieve sexual differentiation.’ Art in the upper left shows two people in traditionally-gendered Victorian clothing. A diagramme in the lower right shows a progression from ape to human as the latter learned to walk upright. The human depicted has light skin.

4. Text reads, ‘Physical sexual differences were regarded as evolutionary products of the social roles of each sex. According to Social Darwinist Herbert Spencer, [start underline] the reason that white women looked so different from white men, is because unlike their “primitive” counterparts, they were homemakers. [end underline]. The understanding was that if “civilization” (binary gender norms) were brought to “primitive” peoples then they would eventually develop sex differences over time. This “scientific knowledge” was widespread and informed public policy. [start underline] Even 19th century white feminists saw womanhood as “an advanced state of mental, physiological, emotional, and anatomical specialization only achieved by the civilized.” [end underline]. Art in the centre right shows a white child piling apples into their mother’s apron as she sits on the ground. Art in the lower left shows a human head with smaller drawings inside. These show a hat, letters, a couple, a gold wedding band, a dress, a cigarrette holder, a couple, a dog, and a baby. 5. Text reads, ‘Surgeon Dr. Mary walker defined womanhood by genitalia and reproductive capacity because [start underline] “the vagina served as the linkage between the body and the race” [end underline]. The vagina was discussed as one of the last remnants of animality in the white race that had to be managed by women for the future of the race. Because other orifices (like the mouth and the anus) were not linked to racial reproduction, [start underline] oral and anal sex were dismissed as uncivilized. [end underline] Scientists referenced newly substantiated sex differences (like brain and pelvis size) as evidence that women were inherently hyper-emotional and men inherently rationaly. [start underline] They justified denying rights to white women, [end underline], arguing that their only role was to be racial conduits and birth children.’ A photo in the upper right shows Dr. Mary Walker in a dress. Art in the lower right shows two people facing each other. One has a line from A to B in their head. The other has a similar line but with a large loopy squiggle cloud drawn over the line. 6. Text reads, ‘Suffragists organizing for the right to vote were met with formidable backlash because [start underline] their campaign challenged the sexual separation of spheres [end underline] (the idea that women should remain in the private realm and men in the public realm), a feature regarded as a unqiue civilizational accomplishment of the white race. White men feared that granting white women the right to vote would cause the “effeminization of men and the masculinization of women,” and that [start underline] this blurring of the sex binary would lead “the civilized race to slide back down the evolutionaly timeline back to primitivism.” [end underline] Photos in the upper left show various suffragettes in white dresses and hats marching with signs. Art in the lower right shows a person leaning over a washing bin while a cat and a child sit on the floor. 7. Text reads, ‘We are still informed y this legacy today. Rather than fight alongside trans/nonbinary/intersex people, mainstream feminism continues to deny this history and rely on a binary framework of male or female. There is nothing feminist about the sex binary, a tool that was created to naturalize sexism and racism.” A photo in the upper left shows a Time Magazine covor with a pink knitted hat and text that says, ‘The Resistance Rises: How a March Became a Movement.’ Art in the lower right shows a Black person with rainbows painted down their face. 8. A photo of a book with a person leaning on their elbow in a chair. The book is titled, ‘The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race, Sex, and Science in the Nineteenth Century’ and is by Kyla Schuller. The caption says, ‘Duke University Press (2018).’ \End descriptions]

ALOK VAID-MENON Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness 1x03 (2022)

[five-thousand-loaves-of-bread]

not know how share instagram post on tumblr n not feel great about repost someone else work (a Black autistic woman at that) while get notes for self so please check out n interact with @/ nigh.functioning.autism & original post if can (linked)

[id: screenshot from nigh.functioning.autism on instagram. their image is screenshot of her facebook post. read “Creating this video is making me physically sick. There are so many Autistic kids going to jail straight from school.

Look up Marquis Baccus, Jadon Ringland, John Benjamin Haygood and others. All of these kids were experiencing dysregulation or scripting. All in the Southern United States. All felonies. All ages, from elementary school through high school. WTF” end id.]

their caption to this post:

My next video has been pushed up by a current event: special education to prison pipeline. A Florida 17 yr old will now be serving a full ass 5 years of hard time for a meltdown in school. He will then have a whopping 15 years probation. So basically 20 years because probation provides a high likelihood of getting sent back.

This irks me so much for two reasons: I am taught, as a paraeducator, to never do what his did and that was threaten to or snatch away an electronic device from a kid. These are seen by ALL people, including kids, that our devices are felt like extensions of ourselves. I was specifically taught in our mandatory training that this is provoking the very thing that happened. So, in my view, it's the paras fault. She didn't deserve the injuries but this is definitely the school not meeting the needs of the student.

Second, I had another Black Autistic Nonspeaking friend who also went to jail from having a meltdown in high school. He was put there for a year without his AAC device and no communication accommodations at all. He had to be in a system with murderers and other violent people. His crime was considered a violent assault so that's why. But, a meltdown is NOT the same as a violent offender or murderer.

Then, police don't have to follow an IEP or restraint laws and educators can't save a kid after they get the cops involved. And nobody can save them once they're in the criminal system.

So, I am not going to wait as long as I planned to do this video. I don't see enough people talking about students of all races being Disabled and dysregulated forced into the criminal system. It's not a rarity whatsoever. And parents of Disabled kids aren't taking it seriously enough, especially if they are not Black. Y'all kids can have a bad day that ruins their lives too. Maybe all of y'all should be fighting against police violence along with the rest of us instead of pretending it's just a BLM thing.

again. if you can please check out their instagram & interact with original post if you interact with this (tumblr) post

[thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra]

Blackface is blackface. You aren't "transrace", you're racist.

more racism from this mf under the cut

Gross as hell. Please block this racist piece of shit.

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[Image descriptions: 1. Tweet by Amy A @lolEnnui that says, ‘I love “rizz” because gen z came up with the most 1920s hardboiled detective sounding slang possible for some reason.’ 2. A Google search for ‘rizz slang origin’ that shows a snippet from a Vox article that says: “Rizz,” short for “charisma,” comes from Black culture, as most American neologisms do. In this case, the word “rizz” was popularized by streamer Kai Cenac. (Cenat, incidentally, is old-person-famous for inciting a riot by offering free video game consoles to his followers in New York’s Union Square.) 3. Tags that read: #man the notes are a mess #my 2 cents is that people who don’t understand why black people get so upset about ‘meaningless’ things like #who slang is attributed to are proving our exact point #we’re tired of using language and slang and being ridiculed and parodied for it #but when it enters pop culture vernacular and gets popularized by #white and white passing people it’s a fun haha thing to say and everyone loves it #then it gets killed into the ground and then when black people are still using these terms and quips bevauS #um! it was part of our dialect #it circles back around to us being ridiculed and mocked but the insults are repacked #from uncouth ghetto uneducated to #in modern terms; cringe #terminally online #tiktoker/Twitter user #like that shit is mad annoying #yall killed slay yass girl centy hunty bruh #and so many other words and then stated using them as funny haha jokes once they entered cringe territory #and then you make fun of people for unironically using those words #it’s like. insidious. #like yes tjays why we get pissed when people misattribute where slang comes from #because it becomes yet another excuse to put us down for using or #also this gois for everyone and every dialect btw #saw some Jewish people saying that some of their slang and dialect gets misattributed #I see you and I understand \End descriptions]

[tocomplainfriend]

TW: Rape, SA, Racism

????

Why automatically go to people of color when talking about r*pe??? That's on you, bro.

Racism affecting people in the law do to how the system and the police works is not the same as: R*pist getting treated like they just make an oopsie. Like this people want so much.

Resume:

Btw, this Elcee person also said:

Again this people care more for the safety of real life r*pist, over victims of r*pe btw. All of this came in because they like HH and love the rapist character Val.

This people are awful:

[drbased]

A guide on how to be a radfem AND an actual leftist!

So say you see this comic shared by a radfem online:

OK, so straight off the bat we have a kind of... suspicious portrayal of a trans person. In my experience, if a comic has this kind of overly polished art style, well, it's probably not made by a radfem, and it's probably made by a man. In fact, the comic style this reminds me of the most is stonetoss, a barely covert neo-nazi, whose comics I have seen, once again, shared on radblr!!

(fyi this isn't the exact comic bc I couldn't find the one i saw on radblr a while ago, but you get the idea)

If you're an actual committed leftist, you probably don't want to be platforming outright neo-nazis.

And unfortunately for us feminists, a lot of neo-nazis are also anti-trans. So if you're about to share something from outside the radfem bubble, you just might wanna check first to see if it's thinly veiled hate speech that this guy MrPumpkinFace (whose name is in the comic, just to make searching easy for you!!) supports and -

oh - oh god -

Yeah, doesn't take much of a search to find out exactly what kind of politics this guy supports. I repeat:

It doesn't take much of a search to find out exactly what kind of politics this guy supports.

Also, here's a bonus stonetoss comic for ya:

So that's your definitive guide for not being a

complete fucking moron

In the name of 'owning the transes'!!

All you have to do is use that famous radfem pattern recognition and the equally famous radfem common sense and the equally famous radfem ability to check sources - all of which goes out the window when it comes to this subject apparently!!!

(Sorry, did I say this was a guide on how to be a 'leftist'? Sorry, I mean this was a guide on how to do the BARE. FUCKING. MINIMUM.)

Please, please, please don't leave it to random idiots like me to have to keep doing basic google searches for you all, and good fucking luck getting your average mainstream leftist to have any sympathy for you when you're uncritically sharing literal nazi comics on your supposedly feminist platform!!!

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[Image descriptions: Two screenshots with the water filter applied. These read: #james baldwin sounds like he’d do numbers on tumblr #in that he’s not wrong #but he knows how to word things into the most obnoxious guilt trips imaginable #he”s absolutely right #but he sounds like he’d be kind of an insufferable cunt irl if he actually talked like this #so yeah #about average tumblr essay posting blog

For the record, I do not actually know who James Baldwin is without looking it up. If you’d posted that unattributed, I would genuinely mistake it for the average tumblr user I agree with on many things but would avoid interacting with like the plague. \End descriptions]

great story in two acts

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WARNING: This story contains references to sensitive matters including violence, racism, self-harm and harassment

A government-funded report released to CTV News highlights 'systemic racism' against dozens of Black executives within the federal public service, including allegations of abuse, violence and harassment that, in some instances, led to suicide.

The internal report titled 'A Study on the Black Executive Community in the Federal Public Service,' published by Dr. Rachel Zellars for the federal Black Executives Network and released Nov. 4, interviewed 73 current and former Black employees working in the senior ranks of the federal government between October 2023 and February 2024.

It found the interviews "reveal patterns of anti-Black discrimination marked by differential treatment, abuse, cruelty, refusal, and subjugation."

Several Black executives interviewed in the study spoke of 'complaints and threats' used to punish them for their mistakes, including one person "witnessing racial harassment that led to the suicide of a Black colleague."

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"One former executive shared how a white colleague raised a chair at him and threatened to “beat the [N-word] out of him” during a meeting with other participants,' reads the report.

Full article

I know this comes across as a "water is wet" type of study, but it's useful in proving to people that systemic racism is a real and current problem.

It will also provide leverage for Black federal employees when they take action against systemic racism in their workplace.

Having a professional study on systemic racism makes it possible for people to prove that their personal experiences with anti-Black racism in the workplace are part of a larger pattern rather than being isolated incidents.

People are always trying to argue that workplace racism happens because of a few bad people instead of systemic problems. Studies like this provide proof that racism, and especially anti-Blackness, is ingrained in our culture and systems. And enacting meaningful change requires addressing systemic racism.

There's actually an example of a situation where this kind of study is useful that's mentioned in the above article:

The report is released as an advocacy group representing roughly 45,000 present and former Black public servants -- dating back to 1970 -- are laying the groundwork for a potential class-action lawsuit against the federal government.

A Federal Court hearing taking place in early November is looking to gain clearance to move ahead with the lawsuit, seeking $2.5-billion dollars in compensation -- as well as, a diversity plan to ensure the public ervice is representative of Black Canadians at all government levels and a Black equity commissioner to oversee the implementation of diversity measures.

This study can be used to help support that lawsuit! This is important work.

Read more about the lawsuit here

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

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[Image description: A three-part meme of a light-skinned person saying, ‘I made a new linguistic trend.’ A second person asks, ‘Gen Z slang or AAVE?’ The first person responds, ‘AAVE.’ \End description]

Studying linguistics is actually so wonderful because when you explain youth slang to older professors, instead of complaining about how "your generation can't speak right/ you're butchering the language" they light up and go “really? That’s so wonderful! What an innovative construction! Isn't language wonderful?"