#ethnic segregation

[bitchy-peachy]

A bunch of "activists" are trying to make us all in the lgbtqia community look like a bunch of sexless virgins. Even making ourselves "sexy' is seen as crime against humanity. This is one of the reasons why these extreme sjw movements are crashing.

Some edgy fucks are also playing their hand at being modern day segregationists regarding marriage/relationships and sexuality.

Yall morality policing is also going as far as seeing interracial dating as "cultural appropiation" or a "fetish". Yes, some of you ignorant pathetic tryhard fucks are also telling adults what ethnicity/race to date. {I'm apparently a kpop "hag" fetishiizing GROWN Asian men cos my husband is half Korean according to desperate white girls that want an oppa so bad. I don't even care much for the genre and my husband makes fun of these pathetic horny brats that keep trying to compare him to a celebrity he doesn't give a fuck about because HE HATES KPOP. I said what I said. Yall need to calm your cunts and stop being fake sjw nuisances to every Asian man you see holyshit.

A friend of mine got accused of "jungle fever" which is racist as fuck cos she married a black man)

oh and raising biracial children is seen as a crime by some fucks too. And I don't mean among just white people either.

Oh and heaven forbid if you like the opposite sex. You're evil for that even if you're not straight cos bisexuals/pansexuals ain't gay or "woke" enough. Bisexual men are either "gay men that hate themselves" and bisexual women are "straight women that wanna be special".

Also gotta love the stereotypes. Apparently my first spouse was hetero even though they were into drag and got paid pretty good at clubs as well as were bi and my second husband is "straight" even though he's bi as well. I don't fuck with straight men so much that I'm called "heterophobic" for it and i'm still bi despite the girl I almost married cheating on me with her fucking ex (another effing terrible life lesson cos WOMEN CAN BE AS BAD AS MEN. GET YOUR HEAD OUTTA YOUR ASS). I could have sworn off all women then but sexuality ain't that easy cos we're still attracted to the genders/sexes we're attracted to. That's why its called a damned "sexuality". Do you stop being gay or straight when you're not dating anyone? No? Starting to get it now?

Kiss my fucking ass with your bs "LOLgic" behind your shitty movements. Some of you are just as bad as cisgender xphobic ass people these days.

And I mean only some cos thankfully I've met plenty of people tired of your bullshit and they're not all cisgender, straight or young and moronic as you nuisances. Yall really went outta your way to make us look like morons demanding stupid shit that isn't covered by equal rights.

[lacewise]

The same time the Brits caused the chaos that happened in 1948, the rest of the Middle East saw as an opportunity to expel their Jewish populations to Israel (to oversimplify, think about the reservations in Canada and the US—that’s how they envisioned Israel and how they expelled Jewish people while seizing all their belongings. A huge part of the reason many Middle Eastern countries are mad is Israel thrived anyway.)

Poland got rid of their Jewish population by literally committing the Holocaust

When you say, “Israel shouldn’t exist” or “Jewish people need to go back to Poland” what I hear is “we can have world peace if all Jewish people die” which is straight out of the “Protocols of Elders of Zion” (think “Birth of a Nation”) and “Mein Kampf”—this is also where ideas about Jewish people or a theoretical state of Israel wanting to “take over” the Middle East come from (they don’t, and you guys are ignoring actual Middle Eastern colonial empires engaged in society-wide human trafficking to scapegoat Jewish people. It’s weird, and I’m sure the victims find your callous disregard creepy, because they’ve actively said so—they would not feel safe in a room alone with you. Consider why that is.)

I have no idea if you guys realize you sound exactly like Adolf Hitler (who was inspired by “Protocols of Elders of Zion”) or Donald Trump (who kept “Mein Kampf” on his bedside table for years)

I’m frankly scared to ask

You cannot discuss Nakba without also discussing expulsions of Jewish people from both Europe and the Middle East—it’s disingenuous and I will not only assume you also support the Trail of Tears, I will tell other people you support the Trail of Tears

Think long and hard about if that’s something you want to be associated with, because I promise you, if other people look it up, they will see the similarities—they’re glaring—and they’ll also probably start asking questions like “why are you downplaying the Holocaust? Isn’t that Holocaust denialism?” (The answer is yes, by the way)

Depending on what else you say, I may also assume you support the enslavement of Black people by the tribes

Argue with your mirror, not with me

Regardless of what you know, some of the most prominent voices on antisemitic Tumblr and TikTok have almost certainly read “Protocols of the Elders of Zion”, and have been promoting hateful and baseless conspiracy theories found there, and either you haven’t noticed or you agree.

One of the main organizers is implicitly pro-other genocides and constantly spreads barely concealed hatred and bad paraphrases of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion” as threats directed at specific Jewish people and organizations. I have no idea how you all missed that, but I’ve always found people filled with gleeful hatred are easily distracted from both the particulars and the main facts

And you know what they say about Nazis—if one Nazi is welcome to a seat at your table, it’s a table of Nazis

The Nazism is not misguided. The calls for the death of every living Jewish person are not accidental. The flags calling for genocide did not appear out of overzealousness. It’s the point. Nazism, theocracy, fascism, and eugenics do not value mercy, and they will not give any to you, no matter how much you beg them. If you don’t quickly find your way out, you’ll find yourself dragged down, the rest of your actions discarded as tainted, and your names inscribed in the history books next to the rest of them. Decide if you want to be the shame of your families and cultures for decades to come.

May the memories of all those lost be a blessing, and may we find a way to stop repeating the mistakes of the past.

—signed a non-Jewish woman who knows how to read. You should really try it sometime.

Find a way to deradicalize yourselves.

P.S. In my offline research, I’ve found that in almost every subject, the popular information going around online is not just misinformed, but counterfactual. Especially on social media, it is the exact opposite of what every respected expert and researcher says. It’s often exact opposite of what primary sources say. If you’re getting a lot of your information from the internet, then the first thing you need to do is find offline sources. I didn’t have the information literacy to recognize how terrible the situation actually is before I started, and chances are, you don’t either. I would also recommend talking to people who spend time offline and getting some hobbies.

[andthespidersfrommars]

you might not think it’s hard to be a soc fan artist on tumblr, but let me tell you about the time I called someone out for drawing inej with light skin, so they blocked me and then wrote a long post about me that I couldn’t see, along with colour samples taken from my art as examples of how inej is “too dark” in them, and then they end the post with “I’m disappointed in you” 💀

[rainn-dropz-world]

[usauthoritarianism]

OK So Context

I kind of progressively lost my mind in college. What with the learning about the specifics of what is going on and how it relates to what has happened in the past. -and subsequently took the time to develop a series of presentations about why the US sucks.

Specifically, the interventions in Latin American, just the astoundingly predatory nature of American Capitalism domestically and The Police, like, as a concept.

Fast forward to the Summer of 2022 and I realized that working with an editor and publishing a book is hard and expensive but its measured in thousands not tens of thousands so I committed to doing that at some point in my life with this project, and began working on adapting the presentations with more research and more connections between these different expressions of White Supremacy.

I let the research balloon. There's just so much.

Anyway, the whole social media campaign thing was to distract me from pinning all that down. -and last month one of the members of my subreddit, u/acebush1, self immolated in the time it took to get around to responding to his most recent comment. That made this all very real. The US' support for Israel and it's foundation as a settler colonial state are critically relevant.

Right, so,. Last month someone asked me how to buy the book and that was the thing I had said to myself would mark the transition back to a writing and research focus rather than just research and learning social media.

Site is up. Its an email submission form with a set your own price stripe link.

[thefisherqueen]

Dutch racists: those immigrans Just Don't Integrate into our society!

Dutch agency for statistics: actually rich white Dutch people integrate the least of all

Not a surprise for those who know anything about social science, and I know factual studies like this won't do much for those who already are deep down in racist retorics, but it's still good this study is widly reported on here in the Netherlands

[zoobus]

I remember seeing a chart that listed AAVE words and phrases and recommended substitutes for non-Black people. I get the intent, but it had stuff like "replace 'cool' with 'neat'" and the entire list made you sound like a 1950s milkman like that.

Lmao

[zozoubbb]

it drives me mad how US has so so so much influence on how the midia and the general population of the world perceive everything happening at the moment, war, conflicts, genocides and etc. i live in brazil, and in here you could say that most people support the state of Israel. that as it is is already a problem, but the bigger problem is that most of these people have no knowdlege of the formation of Israel or anything involving the opression palestinians have faced for DECADES. they are purely driven on what the big midia supports, and it of course, supports american interests. it is sick that so many people in brazil, a country that is not even close to the middle east, are so consumed by zionist propaganda and label palestinians as "terrorists". basically no one even considers that what is happening on israel is a form of segregation, apartheid. and yet some people try to deny that US is an imperialist country who pushes its interests on other countrys, mostly latam ones.

[cupiare]

this school really deserves its impending doom bcs management is soooo tone deaf “but why do our students choose to go to uni in their own city and out of the 2 they choose the non russell group one why aren’t we doing something to support them to aim higher 🤔” could it possibly be that this school is in one of the most deprived areas of the city/nationwide and thats a significant factor affecting academic achievement so students default to the uni w lower entry requirements theyre likely to get into? or maybe that our predominantly immigrant students and their families don’t share the culture of moving out and living independently at 18? that their immigration status and overseas qualifications affect their entry requirements ? that many of them are responsible for their families and don’t want to leave them? that its more affordable to stay home and not be in even more debt by taking out a maintenance loan to stay alive? the girls who aren’t allowed to leave home before marriage? what a truly confounding phenomenon that our students don’t go to a russell group uni it must be a very bad look that we get 90% students in higher education or formal training after college but not the ‘best’ choice. But what do i know i guess !

[handweavers]

saw mahathir's statement on palestine and it's like 'heartbreaking: worst person you know just made a great point' because what he says is true and right and needs to be said (calling out US's vested interest in israel as a proxy state, their funding of israeli apartheid, US lying about WMDs to justify iraq war and biden lying about seeing photos of beheaded babies to justify anti-palestinian ethnic cleansing) but his and other malaysian pm's support for palestine past and present will forever feel hollow to me considering mahathir and co are also proponents of ketuanan melayu which enshrines its own kind of racial apartheid system in malaysia like... hello

[sapphistvampyr]

Read something recently about how we’re taught to rely on authority for information rather than seek it out ourselves. Parents and teachers as kids, then the government and state media as adults. 

That plus never being taught: 

how to actually identify fascism or why it’s bad

anything about history from a perspective that isn’t a cis-white-rich male imperialist 

about imperialism or colonisation without some ��we brought democracy and industrialisation to the uncivilised” propaganda 

It has created a whole bunch of people that can watch genocide occur in real time on their phones and think it’s perfectly fine and reasonable. I couldn’t imagine a dystopian novel this dystopian  

[ck2k18]

I was talking to my friend @eggothemusicalwaffle about how the idea that “race doesn’t matter” became so harmful. People will say race doesn’t matter and use that mentality to invalidate POC experiences. that’s how you get white feminists talking about how black women are trying to “segregate” the female experience. as if black women talking about they are treated differently to white women in society because they are black is somehow a threat to the ‘greater’ war on misogyny. the colorblind mentality leads to a refusal to recognize intersectionality and how people are affected by it, and that's dangerous.

my race is an important part of who i am. when people straight up say it doesn't matter, it feels like a cop-out. it's important to acknowledge how my experience as a black person have affected how i see the world and how i am treated by others. it is important to recognize that people of different races have different experiences, and it is important to realize that we are all different, and that is okay.

and race isn't just a divider. someone's race, and the culture that comes with that, can be a beautiful part of who they are. people shouldn't have to be a monolith of cultures, thoughts, and ideas for there to be equality. someone's race is not a burden that you need to erase. 

so i just think that, instead of ignoring race, we should say, “race shouldn’t divide us.” instead of saying race isn't important we should say, “race doesn't make someone superior or inferior.” instead of saying that we don't see color we should say, “i see you, and i see the parts that make you who you are, and that is beautiful.”

and we should also say, “my race shapes my experiences and the experiences of others, and we should learn from that.” we should believe, “race does make us different, but not in a bad way. not in the way we’ve been taught.” 

[ciderjacks]

wish there were more ndn creole blogs on here, it’s all recipes and history pages, like we’re still around and being a creole ndn is way different to a non creole ndn experience, I know we’re around cause I met one a few weeks ago irl just by chance, but everyone acts like we’re either only in Louisiana and not worth acknowledging or just gone altogether.

[pikminapplebloom]

this is a HUGE part of why I hated mean girls.

[chenxhen]

Why Social Media Doesn't Actually Connect Us

What is our life? A play of passion;

Our mirth, the music of division,

- Raleigh, "On the Life of Man" 1-2

Social media. This term and the digital entities it describes have become ubiquitous with daily living. Similar to “listening to music” or “eating”, it now comes naturally to us, to use it in daily conversation, and just to use it daily. However, it can’t be more unnatural. 

Auto-Segregation vs. Artificial Segregation

What social media has done has created something I’m going to call artificial segregation. Or I should say, it has propelled it to uncontrollable lengths. Segregation has occurred naturally among the human species - it is the process by which humans have separated into distinct religious, ethnic, and racial groups (aka, auto-segregation). These divisions are all based on evolutionary pathways. The basic knowledge needed here is to know that our species - the homo sapiens, have one common ancestor, and that our lineage begins in Africa. Eventually due to the branching off of different groups of our species, different skin colours developed, different cultures arose, and with that also came different languages and religions. Further, I will also be including personality differences. Although it’s not generally associated with the term, it will be touched upon as I go further into my explanation of artificial segregation. Artificial segregation is a derivative of auto-segregation. I call it artificial because it’s not solidified by evolutionary realities, and is a product of the human mind, and our species’ collective imagination. Here I’m referring to stereotypes and prejudices that are a result of the division of humans into separate groups. Sure, it’s a direct result of our species’ tendency to categorise things, but the connotations derived from it are not always the case. It’s based on assumption, and taken as truth in many scenarios when it is not. For instance, when a woman says that she is Christian, certain terms and images come to mind. One might picture a modest feminine figure, wearing a dress with frills, who doesn’t want to have sex until she’s married. She’s soft-spoken, and devoted to her boyfriend/husband. However, are all Christian women like this? No. And the reason this isn’t the case is a complicated result of both auto and artificial segregation. Natural religious practices arose, due to the natural ways people behave. Over time the culture and language has changed, different races have started intermingling, and how different religions are practised have changed as well. However, the stereotypes based on the “original” way are still propagated as well. Tensions have arisen, and the stereotypes which used to hold truth, and no longer do, are still stuck in people’s minds. Here is where social media comes in. 

Social media and Artificial Segregation

Social media, originally created to connect humans, has now developed into an evil that has done the exact opposite. It has mainly worked to enable stereotypes and prejudices. And this process involves more human psychology. It takes the natural instinct of the human mind to categorise to the next level. Take Instagram for example - the most widely used social media platform for gen Z and millennials. Everyone is influenced by other people, and create pages and post photos that put them into a certain category of people. It could be “the Instagram baddie”, the “booktok girl”, or the “alpha male”. Now yes, there’s no problem with the idea of categorisation, but these terms all bring about a certain superficial image of a type of person. It’s in no way related to natural personality differences. People can be a combination of a myriad of different online social media terms. It has become difficult to see this truth, however. 

What social media has done is that it has created a drastic increase in information intake for the individual. The volume of information we receive each day through our phones is not something our human brain has been prepared to do. Evolutionarily, our brains are still in the hunter-gatherer stage. Chances are, most people wouldn’t be able to describe one post or video they came by the previous day. We are now constantly intaking, yet not reflecting or processing the information. This with a combination of the existence of stereotypes has resulted in the most divisiveness we have ever seen. People feel something from a certain piece of information they see, don’t have the time to fully process the information, and react a certain way based off of relicked knowledge. And even this, most people are not aware of. Then, we speak and act based on these feelings, further creating division. Take for instance, the comments on Instagram reels. This is where people release their irrational thoughts. Others are then privy to these thoughts, resulting in the propagation of more irrationality. It has been detrimental to people's self-perceptions, as the only thing we do reflect somewhat more on is ourselves. We’re around ourselves all the time, and are driven by our inner worlds without the ability to escape from it. I’m certain we’ve all questioned where we fit in within all of the aforementioned "artificial categories" at multiple points throughout our lives. Most don’t fit into any. We are a social species; everyone wants to fit in with everyone else, and so it has caused many to retreat into ourselves, resulting in the individualism and divisiveness we see today. 

Is There Anything We Can Do About It?

It’s evident, if we take into account the history of humans, the end to our species’ path is globalisation. And to do this, groups of people need to come into agreement with each other. Political parties, religious groups, different cultures, and various ethnic groups need to find common ground. And it’s not as if there isn’t common ground. We are still the same species, and all these groups of people arose from one group of people. If you were to take a look into different religious texts, you’ll see that the basic ideas being preached are the same. I’m not here to get into the specifics of religion, so I’ll just say that broadly, our faith as a species lies in “being a good person”. But, with the existence of social media, we’re losing what that means. Everyone’s constantly questioning whether they should or should not do something, and using confirmation bias, which has led to useless arguments and clashes in perspectives. 

We need to cultivate community again, based on shared faith. The intangible ideas, and immaterial virtues of every single civilised being is what will bring us together again.

On a more practical level, practising detachment, focusing on our loved ones, carrying out discernment on the information we receive, and taking moments to reflect on what we value and how we see the world, are what each person can easily do. I’m sure you’ll realise that people aren’t so different after all, once you take a step back from the algorithm. 

The different groups of faith may not be what we used to know of them as anymore, but are the material aspects really something to hold onto?