#inherent racism

[joy-the-poet]

I was raised racist

If you asked my family, they would likely deny it. The thing that they're really not grasping is the bigger picture. Just because you don't want to be racist Phil, doesn't mean you're not part of a racist culture. Let's accept it so we can move on to fixing it.

[haridraws]

Excuse the format (I made this for instagram since that's what the publisher wants, rip) but this is basically a shorter, easy-to-read version of the history section at the back of my new book.

(Part 2 || The book)

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Disclaimer: I'm extremely not an expert, and this is only scratching the very surface of complex topics that are hard to simplify. I mostly made this to EXTREMELY rec these books and podcasts, and would urge you to go check them out if you're not familiar!!

This stuff might seem obvious to some of you, but let me tell you, I do NOT think it's widely known in the general UK population.

Imo a lot of the general (especially white) public think that the Windrush generation - Caribbean migrants brought in to help rebuild postwar Britain in the 50s - were the first Black communities in the UK. And yet there's deliberately not much focus on why the Caribbean has links with northern europe. HMMMM

(Britain loves, for example, to celebrate the abolition of slavery without mentioning WHAT CAME BEFORE IT - Britain being the biggest trader of enslaved people, with more than 1 million people enslaved in the British Caribbean. They literally just did it overseas.)

Telling the truth about history or British imperialism gets this massive manufactured backlash at the moment. There are so many ideas prevalent in UK politics - anti-Black, anti-refugee, anti-trans - based on going ‘back’ to some imaginary version of the past. Those are enabled by a long tradition of carving parts out of the historical record, and being selective about whose histories get told and preserved. Even though the book I was making is a fun rom-com, by the time I finished researching, I decided to make an illustrated history section at the back too (this is a mini version). My hope is that readers who haven’t come across these histories might get an introduction to them - and some pointers of what they could read next to get a clearer view of our past.

[bixels]

I'm not explaining why re-imagining characters as POC is not the same as white-washing, here of all places should fucking understand.

[uncanny-tranny]

Medical racism isn't important to address just because it's mean to be racist to patients (I mean, it is mean), but because medical racism kills people. It contributes to systemic suffering of those deemed non-white, and the disinformation that spreads about non-white people.

[piratecaptainscaptainpirates]

I am once again begging white fans of OFMD to consider why they assign more weight to Ed's violence than anyone else's. If you look at Ed's history as a pirate and compare it to Stede's, especially when they do many of the same things (leading violent pirate raids, getting boats set on fire) and Stede is quite honestly much more delighted by violence and a much happier participant on said raids, and you come away with the take that Ed deserves moral judgment for those things but Stede does not, then please just think about why you feel that way.

OFMD rejects simple dichotomies. It is careful to show its protagonists as people with flaws who make mistakes, and sometimes these mistakes hurt people. If you come away from the show with the take that Ed is fundamentally a bad person and he can only ever try to be influenced by Stede's goodness, despite their actions being very very similar and the show going out of its way to tell us about how Ed's history of trauma informs his actions, then you are reading against the text and you really need to consider why you find that idea so compelling.

[exasperatedoctopus]

Bajoran: I love my cardassian (derogatory) son and would never do anything to hurt him despite his Evil, Evil roots and inherent badness due to being a cardassian

Sisko, a Dad: Your fatherhood has been Revoked, please proceed to the nearest runabout

[ahalliance]

American-validated Frenchge 🥖

transcript below

[Video Transcript begins:

[Video starts mid-sentence]

Etoiles: —and you put this face— next to the camera! Like this!

Foolish: (laughing) You’re so French!

Etoiles: I’m so French, that’s my main problem. Like I’m so French, I try sometimes to nerf myself and be like, less French

Etoiles: But that feels good to hear this because you say I’m so French and like, some racist people in France think I’m not because I’m Arabic too, so—

Foolish: Ohhhh

Etoiles: —that feels good too, you know

Foolish: No dude, you seem like a French ass French person—

Etoiles: (laughing)

Foolish: I don’t know how else to put it. Simply put

Etoiles: That feels good, man. I was saying hello to Tarik and all his chat was saying like Frenchge, the emote they are putting—

Foolish: Oh yeah

Etoiles: —the emote they are putting. Yeah, yeah, yeah

Video Transcript ends.]

[hairtusk]

not sure there has ever been a worse time to be a woman or girl in the uk. random stabbing attacks, crimes on trains increased by 50% in the last few years, 50 women murdered by men since the start of the year ... and absolutely no urgency whatsoever. it's terrifying.

[satellites-halo]

still crazy I mean neurodivergent to me that people keep tryna make new 'inclusive' 'non-problematic' terms for being in a privileged group and "mentally being an oppressed group". when are you guys gonna accept that no matter what you do to try and 'reclaim' trans-abled and trans-racial, it's going to be ableist and racist?

[k0rnym0thafucka]

The F in TERF doesn’t stand for Feminist, it stands for Fucking piece of shit 🩵🩷🤍🩷🩵

[anistarrose]

On the note of the last "disability rights to do fuck all" reblog: I don't know what environmentalist/vegan needs to hear this, but "humans are parasites" is literally Ableism 101, regardless of whether or not you claim you're only talking about "the capitalists" and not the disabled community when you say it.

I'm not just talking about the harm that phrase does to disabled people who can't support themselves on their own — I'm also talking about disabled people who need things that aren't considered "environment/animal-friendly" in order for them to live with dignity, or live at all.

If you're willing to resort to dehumanizing language when you see someone using a plastic straw or eating an animal product, then I don't fucking trust your plan for a post-capitalist solarpunk utopia or whatever to be a safe place for disabled people, of any form.

[turins-inbred-child]

Nienna about to strangle anyone who says that orcs are unredeemable or shouldn't be pitied.

seeing wayyyyyy to many so called “fans” on twitter saying that orcs are “ontologically evil”. Tolkien was catholic and ontological evil doesn't exist according to catholic doctrine, since evil is defined as the absence of good so pure evil is just nothingness.

also orcs have souls and only God/Eru can create souls according to the silm, and all souls have some amount of free will to choose between good and evil.

and God/Eru loves all his children, he wouldn't create a soul that is going to be evil with no hope of redemption and salvation. that would be a Calvinist heresy.

that is why Tolkien struggled with the origins of the orcs so much in his later writings and regretted how they had been written.

there are a LOT of things to criticize in rings of power, but humanizing the orcs is not one of them.

[uncanny-tranny]

I'm actually so done with people (including "allies") using trans* men in order to attack trans* women. There is no trans liberation without all of us.

"Oh, you don't see trans men doing [x], but you see trans women doing it!" Actually, that just tells me that you intentionally leave trans* men out of this specific bias against trans people. It tells me everything about your attitude about trans* men and trans* women.

[rjalker]

can white and nonblack people please just figure out already that if a ~quirky new viral~ word ~suddenly~ shows up on the internet and gets popular especially among white people, it's probably not actually new at all and is in fact literally just bastardized AAVE?

Like how many times does this have to happen for you people, who are adults, to finally recognize the pattern and start refusing to fucking contribute to it?

You do not have to steal every single ~viral~ word you see without thinking about it at all. You can in fact use critical thinking skills. You can in fact figure out the pattern of antiblackness and choose not to contribute to it. Especially when Black people are taking the time to explain over and fucking over again that what is happening is antiblackness and cultural appropriation for the bajilionth fucking time.

When will you all learn? Especially if you're already an adult??? You cannot just say you've never seen this happen before. Not if you actually care about fighting antiblackness. You have an obligation to pay attention to repeating patterns of appropriation and ridicule and listen to the Black people who take the time to explain this shit over and over again.

Stop going "yeah I'll incorporate that into my vocabulary" with every ~funny haha quirky viral new word the teenagers came up with~ and actually do 5 seconds of research to see if it was actually something white kids on tiktok came up with, or if they literally just stole it from Black people and are now once again bastardizing it and turning it into something to be mocked and derided as "a ridiculous cringey [insert youngest generation currently visibly on the internet here] phrase".

And no, it does not magically become okay for you to perpetuate this because you're Queer and you think it makes you look fashionable.

It's 2024. Many of you are fully grown adults. You have the ability to recognize patterns. You have a moral obligation to recognize this pattern of repeating appropriation and bastardization of Black language and refuse to contribute to it.

And if you're thinking, "is this post about [insert your ~new~ favorite ~viral~ word]?"

Yes. It is. Actually do the bare minimum level of research and listen to the Black people who've probably been saying since the "new" word went viral that it's actually AAVE and you're all using it completely wrong and making a mockey of it.

You cannot fight bigotry you're unaware of and especially if you are an adult you have a moral responsability to stop being ignorant about this. Especially if you're going to call yourself antiracist. That requires actually doing work, including not just mindlessly repeating any ~viral tiktok [insert youngest generation]~ words you hear.

[matutito]

Hamato Shen - TMNA

Older sister to hamato yoshi and powerful figurehead of the hamato ninja clan. She and her brother were kidnapped and mutated in a clandestine laboratory owned by oroku saki, the shredder.

Her DNA was used in the mutation of the turtles. When they later escaped with the help of a group of mutants (previous experiment subjects), she took the turtles with her and raised them for three years as her children.

[edwardallenpoe]

the conflation of Zionism, the state of Israel, and Judaism is the worst thing on the planet, actually. Saying that supporting Palestine is antisemitism not only makes the struggle against genocide worse but it also makes the struggle against antisemitism worse! The more we conflate antizionism with antisemitism the less we will be able to spot actual antisemitism and the more we will harm the Jewish community and it is the greatest betrayal to Jewish people of all. Zionists (and 'leftists' who's hate for antisemitism is stronger than their love for jewish people and therefore inact alienation and conflation themselves) are doing a huge disservice to Jewish people (especially Jewish people who support Palestine and are being attacked by zionists and face so much antisemitism from zionists) and it's sickening.

I'm saying this as a non-jewish black person. You can SEE how much ACTUAL antisemitism is affecting the Jewish community but zionists are trying to conflate that with pro-palestinian protests and it's so frustrating.

How can zionists say that "from the river to the sea" is more colonialist than "we want '48"?

This post was inspired by an interview on MSNBC about the book "uncomfortable conversations with a jew" and seeing how they're also trying to frame antizionism and anti-Israel protests as equivalent to the civil rights protests and efforts towards freedom from the black community is sickening. This is an actual conversation to be had about antisemitism, antiblackness and intersectional activism and class solidarity between the Jewish community and the black community but the way they frame it in this lense is the biggest disservice, not just to the black and Jewish community but to every marginalized community. You CANNOT say that Israel's efforts to ethnically cleanse and genocide Palestine is the same as the African diaspora's (but specifically African American's) fight for rights and freedom, especially since the two biggest faces of the civil rights movement (Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X, who was a pan African) were for the Jewish community AND for Palestine.

please. We can be pro-palestine and support Jewish people. That is something you can do. And I ENCOURAGE it.

Zionism ≠ judaism. Israel ≠ judaism. We understand this the same way we understand that nazi ≠ German citizens and that the state of russia ≠ russian citizens.