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RiverClan Refugees
Gorseclaw and Lizardtail want to join ThunderClan because they watched Harelight, their only other family, get publicly executed in front of them
They are trying their hardest to be useful and polite while being refugees in ThunderClan, and get mistreated for the effort-- having their food preferences mocked, getting told they're taking up space, hearing a steady stream of slurs, etc
After one more mass shaming session where Squirrelstar asserts they won't be accepting new cats, Sunbeam and Fernstripe join in on condescending them, and we get this;
"It would have felt bad turning them away, but if they chose to go home (AFTER BEING BULLIED FOR SEVERAL CHAPTERS) then there was no need to feel guilty"
This does not come across as these two earnestly missing home and choosing to go back; it comes across like they're accepting the fact that they are unwanted and getting out of dodge before it gets worse.
Honestly, I'm at the point where I can't call this a lack of self awareness. The difference between ThunderClan's treatment of Gorse and Lizard vs RiverClan's treatment of Wasp is obvious to me. The narrative is straightforwardly pro-xenophobic as long as it isn't overtly violent.
Social bigotry is fine. Good, even, to separate the "desirable" immigrants from the "undesirable" ones. What defines those categories? A good one will assimilate fully and leave their culture behind; a bad one only wants safety and a better life for their family.
Terrifying, imo, considering how the irl overton window has shifted on migration at the time of writing this in 2025. Does the spectre of the times loom over these words as I speak them? I hope not.
#Bones reads asc#Just in case this is stumbled across in the future and the context is unclear;#I am writing this as an American who watched the democrat's campaign for presidency completely buckle on immigration issues#The conservative position is mass deportation on the scale of ethnic cleansing#The liberal position had shifted to defensively citing their toughness on border/migration issues#There is essentially no opposition in the mainstream democratic party. The ground has been utterly ceded.#This is a notable change from (empty but present) liberal sentiment that 'diversity makes us stronger'#Life being reflected in art i suppose
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I wish I had the audacity of the non-jew goyspaining to me that Ireland just want to expand the legal definition of genocide so it will protect Palestinians by classing the current situation as a legal genocide instead of what it now which is not one (otherwise they wouldn't be expanding it).
Ireland and even Amnesty Internation both state that it does not meet the criteria for genocide. I'm not saying war crimes haven't happend, they have and should be punished accordingly.
Maybe, instead of trying to turn Israel into the new Original Sin, Ireland could put their effort into trying to broker peace, remove Hamas, free the hostages they've NEVER mentioned and set the stage for a sustainable, two state solution where Israel and Palestine can co-exist in peace.
I want everyone in the middle east to live in peace but clearly a lot of people don't because in my vision of the future, we don't ethnically cleanse anyone or force them to be second class citizens; Jews, Palestinians and Arabs etc. can live in peace in Israel and Palestine.
#jumblr#im gonna be clear. if you dont support a two state solution then you support discrimination and ethnic cleansing#the status quo is bad and has been intolerable for far too long#and a one state will never work#to pretend otherwise is to avoid difficult decisions and to be a child#either discuss difficult topics or shut up#if you wont talk to jews about jewish issues then you need to maybe learn a little about colonialism and racism because youre the problem
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Could you not blackwash characters? Idk why you suddenly started doing this but its incredibly annoying.
Could you educate yourself ? Idk why you suddenly decided spit your ignorant opinion but I don't care if you are annoyed.
#the term of blackwash appeared as a slang to contest apparition of blackactor in movie. it contrast the term of whitewash#since you can't educate yourself anon let me tell you with my poor english. deal with it you literally ask.#while “whitewash” because it erases ethnicity and it is problematic considering how ethnocentrism was occidental (colonialism slave etc etc)#“blackwash” is just because black are being more represent on media and it scares white.#yes. so the used of term “blackwash” ans you being annoyed by a character drawn as black just demonstrate#how racism and snowflake you are !#skill issue.#oH nOOOO whIte bEinG leSs rEpresentAted iN mEdIa 😱😱😱😱 tHeY sTeAl eVeRytHiNNG !!!! 😱😱😱😱😭😭😭😱😭#i aM sO oPPRessEd bY soCiety 😞😞😞😱😱😱‼️😞😭
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the genocide of palestine is a mass disabling event. if you said this about COVID, you need to be saying it now, too. you cannot only care when there are dead. you must care about the living - the suffering and the disabled, too.
this is one of the most grave examples of what disabled activists mean when we say that our suffering does not mean we do not deserve to live. giving voice to suffering and uplifting those speaking on it does not mean disabled people should not exist.
from the river to the sea, palestine will be free. and so will all her disabled people. they will live - even the dead will live on in the survivors. we must do everything in our power for there to be as many survivors as possible.
#softspoonie#free palestine#mass disabling event#covid#covid 19#palestine#palestine genocide#genocide#eugenics#disabled#disability rights#disability activism#disability advocacy#ethnic cleansing#israel is a terrorist state#israel is an apartheid state#israel is committing genocide#indigenous rights#indigenous issues
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A huge problem with antizionist activists at the moment is that so many of them are just absolutely itching to see more violence. They don’t want to stop the violence. They don’t call for a ceasefire and peace anymore. Instead they call for Israelis/Jewish people to be ethnically cleansed from the region instead of Palestinians. Like they literally just think the “wrong people” are being murdered right now. They’re a bunch of western spectators with nothing on the line agitating for more violence in a region thousands of miles away so they can root for their “team.” It’s a game to so many of these people, and a game they want to end in even more violence than has already been perpetrated by the Israeli government and Hamas.
#like call me crazy but i think ethnic cleansing/genocide is Bad no matter what group of ppl you’re doing it to#ultimately everyone needs to realize the only way forward is peaceful coexistence with equal rights and freedom of movement#because neither the israelis nor the palestinians are going anywhere nor should they have to#i/p#miri’s thoughts#i’m just. tired#antisemitism#i think the world could benefit from having LESS violence actually#anyways i left twitter so i wouldn’t have to keep being subjected to antisemitism/being expected to comment on this issue 24/7#so i’m not really going to talk about it here very much#but i wanted/needed to get this off my chest
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#it’s Cus sensory issues#THE brother sister duo of all time#my blorbos I love them#also take my Tim ethnicity hc#pry it outta my cold dead hands#cassandra cain#tim drake#dc comics#batman comics#black bat#bat girl#dc robin#dc red robin#ambrose art
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It's kind of crazy how many accounts there are that are constantly like "you just think I support Israel because I'm Jewish and you're anti semitic!" and yes unfortunately sometimes that's the case. But also if your entire thing is pitching yourself as a radical anti-imperialist leftist and you reblog informational and donation links for every other world event happening but conspicuously only ever mention Palestine when you're making posts talking about anti-semitism you can see how that might look suspicious right.
#see this happening a lot#like i dont think youre obligated to comment based on your religion or ethnicity because that is indeed weird and youre entitled to be#bothered by thst#but like dont pitch yourself as the ultimate radical anti-imperialist leftist who is progressive on every social issue#if this one thing is Conspicuously Missing
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hey btw why have i heard nothing about google adding a "romani translator." do u guys... know what this means. thats fucked up. ur putting hundreds, thousands, of different dialects that can probably be considered languages on their own and mashing it into one thing ? and calling it one big language? you do guys realize that's like taking one continent's different and diverse languages that each country, county, sector, whatever has and calling it European, Asian, Etc? Tumblr. Please. Speak up.
#romani people#romani dick grayson#google#fuck google#do not support or use google translate it fucking sucks#romani#today's issues#societal issues#people try and take shit from ethnic groups once again#sel shhhh
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okay so.
i have seen a pattern lately and i am not gonna let it slide. i know that fancasts in general are a way bigger debate than they should be in this fandom, and i’ve loved the spike in diversity between them thats come up recently! i genuinely don’t care about fancasts or have any real faces in mind when i picture these characters, but if you like to, good on you.
here is where i have been very frustrated lately: some of y’all seem to really struggle understand that asian ethnicities are not interchangeable. its become a really popular (and very lovely!) hc to picture sirius and regulus as asian. i love to see it! but i have seen people throw together a korean and a vietnamese person and go: “ta-da! sirius and regulus!” i have seen them defend their choices to asian people by saying some variation of “it doesn’t matter” “they look similar enough” or even just straight-up “well, they’re both asian” and like. it makes my fucking blood boil.
it’s one thing if it’s an honest mistake. it is entirely another if an asian person calls you on it and you decide that it truly doesn’t matter to you.
i could get into the harm that the cross-race effect has, but really i just need to say that perpetuating the idea that all asians look the same is inherently problematic. if you are the kind of person to declare that you see no difference or that there is no difference between different asian ethnicities: you are promoting a long-standing racist ideology and i’m sick and fucking tired of seeing it.
i (again) genuinely do not care about fancasts. picture whenever you’d like as whomever you’d like! but the moment that you cross the line into “whatever they’re both close enough”, that is where i will take issue with it. if that’s an idea that you carry with you outside of fandom spaces: THAT is what the problem is.
japanese people, vietnamese people, chinese, korean, philippine, desi, north south east west fucking ALL OF US have deep and rich cultural backgrounds and distinct features that differentiate us and make us all beautifully unique.
it matters to people. it matters in characters. in the media. in life in general. don’t fucking erase that because you can’t differentiate. do not knowingly and willingly erase us.
either take the time to learn and recognize that or stay in your fucking lane.
#i am all for more asian rep in this fandom#all for it!!#but the amount of willful ignorance and micro-racism i have seen baffles me#and it’s totally okay to not be able to tell the difference! that’s not what the issue is#the issue is when people say that the difference doesn’t matter#and i quite frankly do not want to see it!#don’t put someone who’s chinese next to someone who’s khmer and tell me it doesn’t fucking matter that they’re different ethnicities#because you think they’re close enough#knock it the fuck off
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Colonial law and the erasure of Palestine w/Noura Erakat | The Chris Hed...
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#colonialism#colonial violence#israel#israhell#palestine#free palestine#freepalastine🇵🇸#ethnic cleansing#free gaza#gaza strip#gaza genocide#gazaunderattack#gaza#genocide#no pride in genocide#benjamin netanyahu#fuck netanyahu#netanyahu a criminal of war#fears of new front in hamas war as hezbollah chief issues chilling threat to israel and netanyahu says ‘don’t test us’#bibi netanyahu#ausgov#politas#auspol#tasgov#taspol#australia#fuck neoliberals#neoliberal capitalism#anthony albanese#albanese government
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Some people should know that it isn't just black people who face racism
#vent ish#bea updates#tw racsim#racism#issue#obviously it's terrible for black people as well#like i know my dad has struggled#but it isn't just blavk people it's a huge issue for almost every ethnicity
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#wwf#world wildlife fund#conservation#green#genocide#ethnic cleansing#social justice#current events#environmentalism#environmental#environment#indigenous rights#indigenous solidarity#indigenous issues#indigenous communities#spreading awareness#human rights#congolese#congo genocide#free congo#congo#dr congo#democratic republic of the congo#save congo#help congo
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maybe I'm just projecting my own stuff onto The Acolyte, but it's kinda frustrating seeing people take Qimir's "I don't wanna follow the jedi's rules" and see that his interpretation is "I can do whatever I want even if it hurts people" and stop there. Safe and comfortable in their bubble of "so that means anyone against the jedi are like him and the jedi, once again, are prefect and above reproach!"
Qimir is the person who chafes against the Jedi's rules that we see - because those without power or strength have already been crushed underfoot.
It's similar to the whole idea of "Why are all the gays so angry and mean? Because you killed all the nice ones, so us angry mean ones are all that's left"
Just because what Qimir is doing is wrong, doesn't make what the Jedi do right. There's nuance here. There's ethnic cleansing here. There's re-education and generational trauma here.
We NEVER see the witches do anything remotely evil. Yet the Jedi chased them out of the galaxy and forbade them from teaching their culture to children. Do you know what that's called? Ethnic cleansing. It happened to indigenous children all over the world, and you can see it specifically in boarding schools for native american children. Tribal cultures were squashed - their children stolen and re-educated to fit the white standard and forbidden from speaking their native language, wearing their hair in their indigenous ways, and worshiping they way they had for generations. (Notable here is the fact that due to WHITE people's over-hunting of bison and whales, indigenous people were legally barred from hunting them as well - something that was very integral to their practices. White people caused the problem and indigenous people's cultures suffered all the while white people get to act all holy and 'eco-friendly' about it)
To place your culture above that of others and force everyone else to either adhere to your ways or do their thing quietly in the dark where no one can see them - and no children can exist - is BAD. The point is to remove a culture from existence as no new members can be taught traditional ways. That is a part of ethnic cleansing. (Stealing indigenous babies from their families and placing them with white, christian families where they'll never see people from their birth culture again is a whole ass thing)
This also causes a lot of generational harm where those who have been 're-educated' from a culture sometimes look down on their native family and see them as 'less civilized, savage, backward, and less-than' the white culture they were indoctrinated in as children. That's the point of getting children so young - they're malleable and raise them with enough propaganda, and you can get them to look their own family in the face and denounce them.
Many will not have the power to fight back, so they'll have to abide by the new rules and everyone will say "see? they're still alive! That means we're not oppressive!" But others will speak truth to power and try to stand in defiance of those rules - many peacefully, just by embracing their native traditions. Did the witches attack the Jedi? No. They removed themselves from the Republic sphere of influence and bore children. Yet the Jedi still came and told them they weren't allowed and forced them to 'present' their children for Jedi judgment.
Does that mean every aspect of a culture that's not the majority is automatically going to be good? No. But NO culture is 100% good. Why do the Jedi get to work towards being better while no one else gets that opportunity? Why are minority cultures held to an impossible standard of perfection while the majority gets to skate by training child soldiers, stealing toddlers, and enforcing their religion on the whole galaxy?
When you push other cultures down, the ones who rise up in violent opposition aren't going to be nice about it. But note how even though Qimir's actions are awful, he only ever has killed enemy combatants. The Jedi are soldiers, cops, invaders. They are able to perform state-sanctioned violence against anyone they choose (not sure if it was intentional, but look how they treated those arrested for crimes in episode 1 - none of those people had gotten trials yet, none had been proven guilty, but they were treated as guilty without a second thought).
We understand Frank Castle's motivations even if we don't condone them - because he's fighting back against incredible systems of power that hurt people and he doesn't see another way to hold them accountable. To me, Qimir (and Mae and the witches) fall closer to that category than Vader or Palpatine.
Look at how quick people were to scream that the witches were brainwashing Osha, yet ignore how the Jedi do practically the same. Now imagine if the witches went around to children only 4 years old throughout the galaxy and tried to get them to come join the coven - never to see their families again. It'd be horrifying. Yet the Jedi do the same, but because it's the 'majority', it's 'the norm', we assume it must be right because "Hey, the Jedi are the good guys!"
Idk, I think the Acolyte is doing a wonderful job of 'not taking sides' and just presenting each side's arguments without judgment rather than saying 'so they're right and you should side with them'. To me, NO side is 'right', they're all just people and the situations are messy. Qimir might be wrong, but so are the jedi - just because Qimir is wrong, doesn't mean that the jedi are automatically right and above reproach.
There are others suffering under jedi rule that have long been snuffed out or subjugated so fully that it will take the rise of the empire in order for them to have the space to stand up again. And I think dismissing those people because 'Qimir is worse' is a disservice to the message and discussions the acolyte is trying to promote.
#the acolyte#the acolyte spoilers#jedi critical#i mean i'm ACAB and anti-establishment so you'll never force me to ignore all the issues the jedi organization has#because ALL organizations/institutions have horrific sides to them because it's their nature#no matter how noble the intentions when a group decides they know best for everyone - bad things happen#just because you disagree with the jedi doesn't mean you're pro-baby murder now#idk both are wrong - both have points#tw cultural genocide#tw ethnic cleansing
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there’s something so grotesque about companies’ mental health programs/providers being like ‘with the war going on people may wanna consult’ — it’s being sold a product to cope with something that is being aided and abetted by people who created and invest in this product in the first place. but also just the sheer ridiculousness of looking at ongoing genocide and saying ‘did the news make you sad? we have a product to sell you’. i don’t have words or a specific explanation, just anger and disgust
#just taking the shitty co-opted and liberal approach to mental health to its logical extreme#the only ppl whose mental health i worry about are the ones who are being ethnically cleansed — and they’ve already issued demands!#grotesque#makes me sick
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I don’t think people posting “I’m not going to cry about it” [the deaths of anyone] in regards to what’s happening in Palestine and Israel right now realize how fucking callous that is. Well, maybe you aren’t, but some people very much are, and the fact that you don’t hold any emotional, cultural, or familial connections to the victims of violence and can just shrug it off under broader ideologies is a sign of your incredible privilege and remove, not of sensitivity and solidarity
#It is a PRIVILEDGE to be removed I don’t think you realize how callous (to say the least) this sounds#I’m not going to cry ok over the deaths of people ok good for you!#Some of us will be and that doesn’t make us any less reliable or neutral on these issues#As a Jew I feel intense emotional and physical connection to all Jews. I feel we are a singular. ‘Am yisrael#As a supporter of Palestine I feel intense rage and hatred in what has been done in our name and offer anything I can do in this period#As a member of a very small ethnic group im waiting to#Hear how the shoe drops in regards to if anyone I know or that my friends and family knows has been killed#Sorry that my conceptions of emotion and peoplehood lie outside acceptable western boundaries of the nation state
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