#king jim supremacy

[honeyxmonkey]

Dark Excalibur Jim for @bluheaven-adw

A handsome boi!

[navree]

The truth of the matter is that both Targaryen and Velaryon are of the Valyrian race. That’s all Showrunners Ryan and Sara are considering. They are not viewing it as a racial issue of the white family targeting the black one and trying to steal their land.

Yeah that's, like, kinda the problem. In the book the Targaryens and the Velaryons are both Valyrian, so issues between them cannot be viewed through a racialized lens beyond Valyrian supremacy vs the whole of Westeros (which doesn't show up on the Velaryons' end in the book anyway), so that critique cannot exist. But the showrunners changed that, they deliberately changed that by making the Velaryons Black and the Targaryens decidedly not. Which fine, go nuts, but when you're doing that kind of "race bending", especially when adapting a property that already exists, you need to be conscious of that.

I've talked about it before in my discussions on why a lot of "color blind casting" for historical dramas tends not to work out (the 2021 Anne Boleyn show cast Black Boleyns without thinking about the implications of sexually aggressive, dirty nailed, Black Anne Boleyn not only being rivaled by but also literally forcing a kiss on sweet, demure, lily white Jane Seymour, or of giving Black George Boleyn a story about abandoning a child he has with a woman and then of being murdered by his white king due to his white wife fabricating false accusations of sexual impropriety against him, so instead of whatever the Hell they wanted to do, we just had a boring TV show with some really racist implications). And that exists when it comes to adapting race from one story to the next. If you're going to turn white characters into characters of color, that's all well and good, but you need to acknowledge that the way they live their lives and look at the world and are viewed BY the world is going to subsequently change. And more importantly, you need to be aware that how those characters and their storylines are perceived by the audience is going to change as a result of that switch as well.

Because suddenly, it's not two different families of white people fighting over some rock in the ocean. Suddenly, it's a white family, with significantly more social capital and influence in their world, attempting to dispossess a Black family of their longterm, ancestral homeland, that is the only piece of land that they have, for that white family's gain. And that is something that comes with a lot of historical context and historical implication (we're STILL dealing with the ramifications of white-run cities and wealthy white people straight up stealing land and property from Black people during Jim Crow), and that's going to be on people's minds, especially in a show made by an American company and aired on an American network. You have to be aware that you're now not just writing characters, you're writing Black characters, and even in a fantasy world that might not have our history of anti-Black racism, that doesn't exist in a vacuum, especially to the consumer, and that there are going to be implications that might not have existed before that you need to be aware of and take into account.

And this doesn't even touch on my issues with the fact that, out of all the characters, the Velaryons absolutely got the fucking shaft writing wise. And I'm not sure how much you can divorce building up Rhaenyra and Criston or Harwin but not Daemon and Laena, or spending time developing fully fledged personalities for Aegon and Aemond but not Baela and Rhaena, or attempting somewhat consistent motivations for Viserys but not for Corlys and Rhaenys, from the fact that one half of those pairings is Black, and one is white.

They might not view it as a "racial issue", but when they made the change to the Velaryons' race, they made it one, at least in the eyes of the viewers and the context we grew up with and the knowledge that we have. Because creation doesn't exist in the aether, it is influenced by humanity here and it influences how we take it in once we put it out in the world.

[jorgielua101]

WEEK 7// Blog Post 10/10

In what ways does white supremacy online impact people in real life?

White supremacy online impacts people in the world because it brings harm to minorities. White supremacy online leads to violence, harassment, intimidation, and racial terror. White supremacists spread discrimination from the virtual world to damage the real. An example was in August 1999 Buford Furrow armed himself walked into a Jewish daycare center in Los Angeles and opened fire, wounding five people, including three small children. Furrow told authorities that the shooting was “a wake-up call to America to kill Jews.” He reportedly drew some of his inspiration for this attack from white supremacist websites. White supremacy online leads to harm in real life causing real threats and attacks to people in marginalized groups. 

How can white supremacy online be harmful to young people and children? 

White supremacy online exposes children to violence. Even the overall meaning of what it is informs children that a group of people wants to cause harm to minorities. An example is when a sixth-grader reporting on - Martin Luther King Jr. to a disaffected, potentially violent skinhead—can find white supremacy online (White, D.). This can impact children or young people to either spread white supremacy or educate themselves on it. Even at a young age this type of violence can be a lot for a child to understand actually. Having access to the internet at a young age can be harmful but also can help people be informed of the danger of the internet when it comes to online discrimination. 

How does race work as a tool in technology?

Race can be a tool for both oppression and empowerment. Race is a type of technology. One designed to separate, stratify, and sanctify the many forms of injustice experienced by members of racialized groups but one that people routinely reimage and redeploy to their ends (Benjamin, R. 2020). This can be algorithms being built and made to spread knowledge on racism or hatred towards racism. This ties in with not having enough representation in tech development spaces to have accurate information being spread about marginalized groups. Having different races when building these online websites, software, and algorithms is highly important when it comes to shaping accurate perspectives on racial discrimination. 

How does the algorithm play a part in constructing race online? 

Algorithms play a major factor in shaping the perception of race online by deciding what people can see and interact with. Algorithms can do this when we search and use social media to analyze our behavior and know our preferences. When these systems know our preferences they may only show us content based on these existing patterns. For example, a white supremacist can create an algorithm to misidentify minorities in photos or ads based on racial assumptions. Overall these algorithms can spread hateful content and racist movements in society. It is important to understand that algorithms are biased.

Sources:

Benjamin, R. (2020). Race after technology abolitionist tools for the new Jim code. Polity.

White, D. White Supremacy in the Digital Era.

#wgst320f24

[ausetkmt]

Biden condemns white Supremacy at site of church shooting in South Carolina

CHARLESTON, S.C. (AP) — Courting Black voters he needs to win reelection, President Joe Biden on Monday denounced the “poison” of white supremacy in America, declaring at the site of a deadly racist church shooting in South Carolina that such ideology has no place in America, “not today, tomorrow or ever.”

Biden spoke from the pulpit of Mother Emanuel AME Church, where in 2015 nine Black parishioners were shot to death by the white stranger they had invited to join their Bible study. The Democratic president’s speech followed his blunt remarks last Friday on the eve of the anniversary of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol, in which he excoriated former President Donald Trump for “glorifying” rather than condemning political violence.

At Mother Emanuel, Biden said “the word of God was pierced by bullets of hate, of rage, propelled not just by gunpowder, but by a poison, a poison that has for too long haunted this nation.”

That’s “white supremacy,” he said, the view by some whites that they are superior to other races. “It is a poison, throughout our history, that’s ripped this nation apart. This has no place in America. Not today, tomorrow or ever.”

It was a grim way to kick off a presidential campaign, particularly for someone known for his unfailing optimism and belief that American achievements are limitless. But it’s a reflection of the emphasis Biden and his campaign are placing on energizing Black voters amid deepening concerns among Democrats that the president could lose support from this critical constituency heading into the election.

Biden’s campaign advisers and aides hope the visit lays out the stakes of the race in unequivocal terms three years after the cultural saturation of Trump’s words and actions while he was president. It’s a contrast they hope will be paramount to voters in 2024.

AP AUDIO: Biden condemns white supremacy in a campaign speech at a SC church where Black people were killed.

AP correspondent Jennifer King reports.

Biden also used his second major campaign event of the year to thank the state’s Black voters. After an endorsement by Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn, one of the highest-ranking African Americans in the U.S. House, the state made Biden the winner of its Democratic presidential primary in 2020. That, in turn, set him on a path to become the party’s nominee and defeat Trump to win the presidency.

“I owe you,” he said.

Biden was briefly interrupted when several people upset over by his staunch support for Israel in its war against Hamas called out that if he really cared about lives lost he would call for a cease-fire in Gaza to help innocent Palestinians who are being killed under Israel’s bombardment. The chants of “cease-fire now” were drowned out by audience members chanting “four more years.”

The president also swiped at Republican presidential candidates Nikki Haley, a former governor of South Carolina, and Trump, without naming either one.

Haley was governor at the time of the shooting and gained national attention for her response, which included signing legislation into law removing the Confederate flag from the state Capitol. But she has been on the defensive recently for not explicitly naming slavery as the root cause of the Civil War when the question was posed at a campaign event. Her campaign responded Monday with a list of comments attributed to Biden that it said showed he’s racially insensitive.

Biden called it a “lie” that the war was about states’ rights. “So let me be clear, for those who don’t seem to know: Slavery was the cause of the Civil War. There’s no negotiation about that.”

Haley, speaking at a Fox News Channel town hall on Monday, pushed back that it was “offensive” for Biden to give a political speech at the church. She also raised Biden’s ties to Democratic segregationist senators early in his career.

During his successful 2020 run for the White House, Biden faced criticism from fellow Democratic contenders for alluding to his work with Sens. James Eastland of Mississippi and Herman Talmadge of Georgia while trying to make a point about lost civility in national politics.

“I don’t need someone who palled around with segregationists in the ‘70s and has said racist comments all the way through his career lecturing me or anyone in South Carolina about what it means to have racism, slavery, or anything related to the Civil War,” Haley said.

On more current events, Biden noted the scores of failed attempts by Trump in the courts to overturn the 2020 election in an attempt to hold onto power, as well as the former president’s embrace of the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.

“Let me say what others cannot: We must reject political violence in America. Always, not sometimes. Always. It’s never appropriate,” Biden said. He said “losers are taught to concede when they lose. And he’s a loser,” meaning Trump.

It was June 17, 2015, when a 21-year-old white man walked into the church and, intending to ignite a race war, shot and killed nine Black parishioners and wounded one more. Biden was vice president when he attended the memorial service in Charleston.

Biden’s aides and allies say the shootings are among the critical moments when the nation’s political divide started to sharpen and crack. Though Trump, the current Republican presidential front-runner, was not in office at the time and has called the shooting “horrible,” Biden is seeking to tie Trump’s current rhetoric to such violence.

Two years after the attack, as the “Unite The Right” gathering of white nationalists in Charlottesville, Virginia, erupted in violent clashes with counterprotesters. Trump said merely that “there is blame on both sides.”

Biden and his aides argue it’s all part of the same problem: Trump refused to condemn the actions of the white nationalists at that gathering. He’s repeatedly used rhetoric once used by Adolf Hitler to argue that immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are “poisoning the blood of our country,” yet insisted he had no idea that one of the world’s most reviled and infamous figures had used similar words.

And Trump continues to repeat his false claims that he won the 2020 election, as well as his assertion that the Capitol rioters were patriotic and those serving prison time are “hostages.”

At Mother Emanuel, Biden revisited themes from the Jan. 6 anniversary speech he delivered Friday.

Biden has repeatedly suggested that democracy itself is on the ballot, asking whether it is still “America’s sacred cause.”

Trump, who faces 91 criminal charges stemming from his efforts to overturn his loss to Biden and three other felony cases, argues that Biden and other top Democrats are themselves seeking to undermine democracy by using the legal system to thwart the campaign of Biden’s chief rival.

South Carolina is the first official Democratic nominating contest where Biden wants another strong showing.

In an interview with The Associated Press before Biden’s appearance, Malcolm Graham, a brother of Charleston church victim Cynthia Graham-Hurd, said the threat of racism and hate-fueled violence is part of a needed national conversation about race and American democracy.

“Racism, hatred and discrimination continue to be the Achilles’ heel of America, of our nation,” said Graham, a city councilman in Charlotte, North Carolina. “Certainly, what happened to the Emanual Nine years ago is a visible example of that. What happened in Buffalo, years later, where people were killed under similar circumstances, shows that racism and discrimination are still real and it’s even in our politics.”

After the speech, Biden met privately with religious leaders and family members and survivors of the church shooting. He also dropped in at Hannibal’s Kitchen, a soul food restaurant, to shake hands.

Later Monday, Biden flew to Dallas to make a brief stop at a memorial service for Eddie Bernice Johnson, the influential former Texas congresswoman who died on New Year’s Eve. Johnson was 89.

Biden said in a statement last week that he and Johnson had worked together during her 30 years in Congress and he was grateful for her friendship and partnership.

[lkkuntuoasare]

NOT ONLY IN FEBRUARY (POEM)

We don't need the government to tell U.S. that only in February

The birth month of, Frederick Douglas, one of greatest abolitionists, in memory

That it will reluctantly and hesitantly teach U.S. a watered-down version of our glorious Black History.

The only history books about Black folks in which the joke of a Governor, Ron Desantis, would approve of, is a history that's "anti-woke".

Like the Rage Against The Machine song-Bulls On Parade:

"They don't gotta burn the books, they just remove em"

Not just because the books make their "snowflake" children feel guilty, about the harsh realities of slavery, Black Codes, Jim Crow, red lining , and for-white-profit and black-agony penitentiaries, where like cattle, inmates are kept behind barb wire fences and are kept in check by armed sentries

The books are removed to control the minds of the youth and future policy makers for another century.

Forgot about black history lessons that will inspire the adolescences

No true stories of how Harriet Tubman , like a black woman Moses, spread justice through treacherous enemy lines, like it was the red sea and freed her fellow woman and man from white brutality, chains , whips , and rapes of Antebellum southern slavery, Or how she became a union spy who risked her life behind crimson soaked bloody earth to bring clandestine information to the union to help save northern army lives.

I'm sorry, but in American public pre-schools to universities, in deeply and devilishly red states run by makers of political policies like "anti-woke" lady Arkansas Governor, Sarah Huckabee, in class your babies, young men and ladies will never learn about great men like Pan-Africanist and black freedom fighter, Marcus Mosiah Garvey .

No information on Egypt's 25th Dynasty, that's when in 744 BC Nubian King, Piye, conquered Egypt, and reunited the two African lands of splendid gold jewelry and granite stone pyramids into one Nile Valley Monarchy .

No revolutionary history from the year 1804, that's when a bunch of poorly treated and trained, self-freed maroons, brought black doom and apocalyptic misery upon the Napoleon's Imperial navy and Army in Haiti

This defeat forced the Empire of France to sell its remaining remaining 15 states in "louisiana purchase" territories for for a meager 15 million dollar fee

Creating much of the land in the country of the land of the free that you currently see from sea to shining sea.

At an "anti-woke" elementary, high school, or university, they might let you hear about MLK's "I Have A Dream", but you never hear that that the dream was also anti-Vietnam war or that the dream included reparations for the descendants of the blacks who suffered the world’s worst froms of brutality, lynchings, Jim Crow and slavery.

No student research paper inquiries on how in 1999, in a court in Tennessee, the King family won civilly against Jowers, and several U.S. government agencies, for their part in the Dr.King assassination conspiracy.

If we leave it to the Alt-Right, Matt Walsh and the Ben Shapiro types to rewrite black history, it will read and only in February:

Blacks were put in Antebellum slavery due to their mental inferiority, and kept in modern slavery (mass incarceration) due to their criminality.

No mention of systematic white supremacy, mis-education, and over-policing and poverty.

#Poetry #BlackHistory

[rometoney]

Martin Luther King did not fight for peace.

He was not trying to “bring people together”. He was not reasonable. He was not accommodating and most Americans during his lifetime did not see him as an admirable public figure. That’s because Martin Luther King’s primary goal was not peace, it was justice. Martin Luther King was a revolutionary who wanted to radically reshape America so that it would live up to its ideals of freedom and equality. He was part of that great American tradition of abolitionists and women’s rights advocates and labor activists who fought to reshape American society to make it more equitable and just.  

Martin Luther King fought for justice and white America despised him for it. Most people misunderstand Martin Luther King because they mistakenly believe that nonviolence is somehow peaceful. Nonviolence is not peaceful. It is fundamentally confrontational. King and his fellow civil rights activists said, we are going to nonviolently confront you and your racism and your violence. We will nonviolently provoke you to expose your violence, your hatred, your racism, your unconstitutional Jim Crow laws, your white supremacy. That’s why they were met with so much violence. That’s why Martin Luther King was arrested 30 times. That’s why in 1963 60% of Americans opposed the March on Washington where king delivered his famous, I Have a Dream speech. That’s why in 1968 Martin Luther King had a 75% disapproval rating. And that’s ultimately why he was assassinated.

Peace and brotherhood were long range goals that would happen after justice was achieved. That’s the whole point of the I Have a Dream speech. Kings says he looks forward to someday eventually when a man will be judged by the content of his character and not by the color of his skin.

So, this weekend beware of people trying to present Martin Luther King as a harmless advocate of peace, love and understanding. People like that Hallmark version of Martin Luther King because it’s so much more palatable than the actual revolutionary, confrontational, truth telling, justice seeking Martin Luther King.

[cheonmayasudasayo]

Understanding the context of how the USSR unfortunately couldn't achieve communism, let alone rid itself of religion or religious institutions and right wing influences in nearly 100 years time, it feels utterly insane that white people in usamerica managed to convince themselves that they ended racism or some shit in less than half a century since Martin Luther King Jr got assassinated by the FBI. Like, they didn't even change anything fundamentally about the very institutions that invented and upheld race, racism, and white supremacy beyond taking their time getting rid of jim crow laws in the south and not even desegregating beyond that region as they killed over their white children being bussed. They really kept the very economic system that led to the enslavement and apartheid of black people, saw a black man gave a speech and some neoliberal become president and thought "wow guys, racism is really over" after a mere 400 years, just magically whisked a way. Shit, if that were true, maybe the USSR could have achieved communism and all its goals by the 1960s if Lenin gave more "I hope capitalism ends someday" speeches and be done.

[militantinremission]

MLK Day- Are We Losing Focus?

2day, Al Sharpton & Co. R celebrating the 60th Anniversary of The March On Washington. Sharpton is also pushing a Kumbaya Hate Crime Bill. My problem, is EVERY GROUP has specific Hate Crime Legislation, except ADOS. Yelling @ Asians, European Jews, & LGBTQ... is a Hate Crime; but Police Officers can beat on little Black Girlls, & White Men can shoot Black Boys in the back w/ No Reprisal. Rafael Warnock can get 'Jim Crow' Joe Biden 2 speak @ Eberneezer Baptist Church, but couldn't get him 2 address a Black Agenda, or Reparations specifically 4 American Descendants Of Chattal Slavery.

Instead, Biden spoke about supporting Dr. King's legacy of 'Faith'... Really??! Joe Biden was a disciple of Robert Eastland & Strum Thurman- both HATED Dr. King! R We supposed 2 believe that Biden didn't share their sentiment? It's an insult of the Highest Order 2 have an architect of Benign Neglect Policies speak @ Dr. King's Church; let alone on his Birthday. I can't blame Joe Biden, he's doing what he has always done w/ Blackfolk. He tells Us that he supports 'Opening Doors of Opportunity'; meanwhile, he's working on legislation that will keep those Doors 'Closed'.

Raphael Warnock & Al Sharpton R the individuals that I blame. Both espouse the virtues of Dr. King- 'The Dreamer', but never speak of MLK- 'The Warrior'. Why didn't Warnock remind Biden that Dr. King was 'Coming 2 Washington- 2 Collect Our Check', when he was betrayed & assassinated? Why didn't Al Sharpton have the Courage 2 single out Anti- Black Racism as the #1 Hate Crime in AmeriKKKa? We have a Historical Record that justifies specific Hate Crime legislation; We don't need 2 ride on ANYONE'S coattails 2 make a legitimate argument.

It looks like Our Political Leaders R fine w/ phasing Blackfolk out of Civil Rights. Warnock seems beholden 2 Biden, despite the role that Black Georgians played in his Election. Al Sharpton seems beholden 2 his 'Memorandum Of Understanding' w/ Comcast/ NBC. In return 4 their treachery, R both 'Reverends' getting their 30 Pieces of Silver? This blatant disrespect of Us only tells me that The Powers That B have been forced into speeding up their Time Table. We're gaining momentum faster than They expected. Their Agents of White Supremacy R getting neutralized.

-In a nutshell: It's Coon Hunting Season!

[butch-pyrate]

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Cor or Andy. He/Him/His. 25y/o. 18+ (minors do no interact).

I am very much into pirates and gay shit. I follow back from @dogboy-butch.

This blog is mostly Our Flag Means Death and Pirates of the Caribbean Fandom content.

I don't typically do discourse, but I might occasionally reblog a post that discusses discourse. All of theses posts will be tagged as "#disk horse".

I'm not an Izzy apologist, becouse he has nothing to apologize for. I believe in FTM!Elizabeth Swann supremacy. I live and die for bigender transfem Black Beard.

Tag List:

#jugo de naranja - Jim, Jim/oluwande

#King of Pirates - FTM Elizabeth

#meta - what it says on the tin, usually OFMD.

#disk horse - petty fandom drama

[honeyxmonkey]

@bluheaven-adw letting me color more of her Jim things!

The Once and Future King!

[fallenangels95]

hii i am so late (as usual) thank you bestie @venusmoon for tagging me<3

i honestly have been a bit 'bored' with music lately but simply because i tend to repeatedly listen to the same albums over and over again (hi frank ocean... im not including Blonde 'cause otherwise the whole list is gonna be the album) and idk why i guess i like the sense of comfort it brings me but at the same time i'd like to be stimulated with new music so if any of you reading this has recommendations i'll gladly take it!

Anyway enough talking here's the top 5 of what i think are my most played song atm (im too lazy to check stats.fm)

zaza - leto > lmao yeah so.... this is a rap song, i mostly listen to it when i work out (which is alot lately) and what i'm about to say is gonna sound weird jajaja but i feel like a man when i listen to it and i love it 'cause it makes me feel powerful basically... i also love this artist bc he has the most addictive gimmicks

block hug - jim legxacy > i quoted this song specifically but it couldve been the wole project, the instrumentals are so soothing and satisfying for my brain! i've been following his work since the beginning and his productions are always on point i am rooting for him, i hope he makes it far in the industry.

king of nothing - gretel hänlyn > ok so changing register. this song is my jaaam i looove the production and it probably has to do with mura masa being involved in it cause it slaps. i really enjoy the wry-ish tone of the lyrics and gretel hänlyn's voice is so amazing and versatile. same as earlier ; i quoted this song but both of her projects are bangers (honorable mentions to wiggy, dry me and connie)

youth+ - jean dawson > listen. ive never disliked ANY of this artist's releases. the lil' electric guitar bridge in this makes me go craaazy. nice fun fact : the producer on this song Ray Brady also works with Kilo Kish! anyway jean dawson supremacy.

lovely sewer - yves tumor > i simply cannot get sick of it and diana gordon is my girl. i thank yves tumor everyday for his music and im so lucky to have seen him and his musicians perform live, its a memory i'll cherish forever and i hope to see them again!!

im not tagging anyone specifically but everyone feel free to do it if you want to, i will be reading :)

[warsofasoiaf]

Despite an appropriate holiday, the inspiration for this question is Cle's inquiry. Since you loathe populist movements and their leaders, what's your view of the Civil Rights movement, Dr King, and the other leaders of said movement?-TBH

That's a bit of a jump to a conclusion, because of specifically what I said about why I dislike populist movements and their leaders. I don't like them in that their chief aim is to make the opposing side suffer. In pursuit of those aims, no policy is too stupid or self-destructive, provided it hurts the other guy. That wasn't the aim of the Civil Rights movement, by my understanding (I'm not an expert, but I don't think I'm off-base), so that criticism does not apply.

Similarly, given my stated beliefs that individual people have merit in and of themselves, that all people have an inherent human dignity that should never be shamed or shuttered, and my disgust at the idea that an entire subset of people would be considered to be subhuman, I'm actually very sympathetic to the Civil Rights movement. I mean, heck, I criticize LBJ for delaying effective Civil Rights legislature because he wanted to take credit for it! Difficult discussion follows below the cut.

If I might be so bold, and because I think of you better than to try a cheap "gotcha," I believe what you're asking me is my opinion on civil rights advocacy that adopted Marxism as a movement, an intellectual movement I despise, as a means by which to advocate for greater equality. In this, I actually do thank you, because you are asking me to square the circle - do I support those who are advocating the movement, or do I criticize them and risk condemning the movement as a whole. That's not a question you ask of someone for a gotcha, it is a recognizable struggle in an imperfect world and you respect me enough to see where I stand when I'm put to the fire, even if to put me to the screws later - a blade must be tempered. To this I say, I consider Marxism to be a betrayal of the ideals of the civil rights movement. It is, at its core, a movement that denies humanity to others, exhorts the supremacy of its followers, and rationalizes a hierarchal system of rulership based on adherence to dogma in the vein of theocracies of eras past. I can respect the struggle for racial equality and see an ideal future where distinctions between skin color and ethnic origin are considered superfluous even as we all acknowledge and celebrate our pasts (I particularly love to celebrate my Irish heritage and I do not begrudge anyone who wishes to celebrate theirs), and criticize those who adopt an intellectual movement that specifically identifies others as subhuman and rationalizes their subjugation and extermination.

In practice, I understand where they are coming from, because in the context of the 1950's and 1960's America, stepping out from the political norm in the United States that accepted Jim Crow laws was necessary to rationalize the Civil Rights movement to an intellectually coherent whole, particularly in the context of American society which not only rationalized treating African-Americans and other racial groups as inferior, but rationalized violent backlash to tear them down and enforce the hierarchy. I simply don't see Marxism, a movement which explicitly identifies both a subhuman class deserving of extermination (the bourgeoise) and the non-converted as delusional that must be converted before they're permitted to exercise political power, as a solution. Some may have been ignorant, some may have been ideological, some may have been unsavory, but in the end, I am comfortable with criticizing their method. From an ideological perspective, an ideology that mandates uncontested dictatorship from its adherents as necessary is not a means by which to promote an equal and just society. From a practical perspective, Marxist societies typically exemplified racial division as a tool of state power, so I can't respect it as an ideology by which to promote racial equality, because it wasn’t very successful as alternative methodologies. As an individualist, I am comfortable in criticizing the method while acknowledging the ideals.

Thanks for the question, TBH. Thanks for putting up with me as well.

SomethingLikeALawyer, Hand of the King

[general9chaos]

So as a gentile, I agree that antisemitism does exacerbate a bunch of other forms of bigotry. However, your post doesn't have enough background to have convinced me on its own. I was convinced of this point by Siderea's post Why Nazis Hate Jews, which lays out the whole train of logic for why bigots rely on antisemitic conspiracy theories to defeat their own cognitive dissonance, including a worked example of how british terfs fell into bed with outright Nazis.

The civil rights movement in the US in the 1950s and 1960s poses a conundrum for white supremacists. For one thing, it was tremendously successful – at pushing back at white supremacism, no less – and thus pretty dramatic demonstration that Black people are not, contrary to white supremacism, unable to self-organize and self-govern. It revealed on the national stage what were clearly Black geniuses of oratory and theory and political savvy. From the non-violent protests of Dr. King to the Black Panther Party to Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam, it demonstrated large groups of Black people, en masse, acting with discipline and industry and self-reliance and physical courage – all things white supremacism was deeply invested in insisting were alien to Black people, being the sole property of "white" people, and constituting their supposed superiority. How then could white supremacy maintain itself in the face of such profoundly confounding and abundant evidence?

Easy. Blame the Jews.

Here's Eric K. Ward – a Black man who did undercover work among white supremacists in the US (!!!) – again:

The successes of the civil rights movement created a terrible problem for White supremacist ideology. White supremacism—inscribed de jure by the Jim Crow regime and upheld de facto outside the South—had been the law of the land, and a Black-led social movement had toppled the political regime that supported it. How could a race of inferiors have unseated this power structure through organizing alone? For that matter, how could feminists and LGBTQ people have upended traditional gender relations, leftists mounted a challenge to global capitalism, Muslims won billions of converts to Islam? How do you explain the boundary-crossing allure of hip hop? The election of a Black president? Some secret cabal, some mythological power, must be manipulating the social order behind the scenes. This diabolical evil must control television, banking, entertainment, education, and even Washington, D.C. It must be brainwashing White people, rendering them racially unconscious. What is this arch-nemesis of the White race, whose machinations have prevented the natural and inevitable imposition of white supremacy? It is, of course, the Jews.

Since the way that antisemitism is organized is around this concept of Jews being a nefarious group of shadowy conspirators pulling strings behind the scenes to attack Christendom/Western Civilization/etc, "the Jews" provide a universal plug-and-play explanation for any other minority group that is proving too successful for white supremacy's comfort at resisting oppression.

This is how we went directly from a white supremacist murdering nine Black people in a church, to antiracist activists demanding the removal of monuments of the Confederacy in response, to angry white men marching through Charlottesville, brandishing torches, chanting, "Jews! Will not! Replace us!".

Any time a minority group which white supremacy has been insisting is incompetent, stupid, lazy, irrelevant, child-like, unsympathetic, etc is successful at organizing and agitating for its collective well-being in exactly the way that white supremacism insists they couldn't, white supremacy has a convenient explanation: the Jews must have put them up to it. Rich Jews must have funded it, intellectual Jews must have plotted it, powerful Jews must have used their political power to facilitate it.

so being jewish, i know that antisemitism primary hurts jews. it's us. we live with the most threats from it.

but no one seems to notice how many terrorists, school shooters, bombers, hate groups, harassment campaigns, hate ideology: sexist, racist, homophobic, transphobic, xenophobic, fuck pretty much all of the worst brain worms you can get or be effected by: are powerfully charged, explained, accepted because of and linked through jew hatred.

the dyke march hates jews, but so do trad cath men's rights groups. black hebrew israelites hate jews, but so do flat earther, Qanon, and the KKK. so do incels. so do the anti israel leftist. both the far right and far left have vast theories about how jews are involved in world affairs. so do pretty much any color or creed of goyim that has fallen down the rabbit hole into la la land where violence becomes a political solution.

all the big hate group networks use jews as a uniting big tent to find common ground to work together. no joke. brown and black christian nationalist and islamist pro terrorist speakers are routinely used by white supremesists online and at in person conferences.

no one seems to acknowledge that the jew hate is the core principal behind conspiracy narratives globally and that conspiracy narratives are the destabilizing force that lets a person go from "i want to change the world for the better!" into "things can only get better by mass violence!"

and everyone kinda ... ignores it. not even that it's a warning sign but like... that it's pretty critical to convince someone that they need to cause mass death? i just feel so crazy sometimes.

i'm not even just worried for jews, i'm trying to warn goyim that antisemitism is why schools and concerts aren't safe FOR THEM, and it's like... crickets. no idea.

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How did FDR's New Deal impact American politics and the success of conservative candidates? Was it a significant factor in the rise of conservatism during Reagan's presidency?

COMMENTARY:

The New Deal basically kept Republicans out of power until LBJ bailed out as POTUS, Because of the Trotsky-inspired political stategy of the Port Huron Statement of the Students for a Democratic Society, America was as close to blowing up in a Russian Revolution kind of way in 1968 as we needed to get until Project 2025 and January 6, And LBJ reaslized that just his re-election could be enough to set it off in exactly the same way Project 2025 is threatening to do if Trump isn’t installed as dictator.

The Plumbers were a consequence of the New Deal. The New Deal was their first head-on assault of DEI performance technology to replace the white supremacist culture of Woodrow Wilson in DC and the corporate cultues of the Fortune 500 as they woud have been constituted in 1933, The Be All You Can Be culture of the military is DEI performance technology, It’s the business I’m in, The Democrats were replacing the lingering elements of the Tory Socialism of the Crown that persisted with the failure of Reconstruction and expressed culturally as domestic terrorism crimi,nal organization and political deviancy such as Project 2025 and the Nazification with which Putin is contending,

I’m related to Woody, I am from the League of Nations, BLM side of the family, Wilson federalized the Negro Problem William F. Buckley presented in rebuttal to Jamens Baldwins Critical Race Theor proposal, Conservatives hate Critical Race Theory because it identifies the source of the Negro Problem as being the original sin of the Presbyterian Church USA, Willaim F. Buckley’s defense of Woodrow Winson’s Jim Crow Birht of a Nation Racism as a Mental Illnesss bigotry and structural racism,

We cannot eliminate whie supremacy, We can neutralize its spiritual poisons and limit its occurance, It’s Free Will: the law of averages perscribes it,

The anti-DEI campaign by Elon Musk and his cronies is a defense of white supremacy to the challenge of DEI as the intended social contract of the Declaration of Independence, We left the Tory Socialism of English white supremacy behind at Yorktown and replaced it, by law, with the Democratic Sociialism of the US Constitution as an instrument of the Pursuit of Happiness of We, the People, the Philospher Kings of the American Republic,

DEI performance technology is what FDR and the New Deal brought to the dance and the whit supremacists couldn’t keep up, They still can’t They are trying to force Biden to resign and challenging Harris’s credentials, They have no answer for the future,

William F. Buckley famously portrayed himself; in a Neitzsxhean Heroic conceit of standing on the wave of the future, declaring “STOP!”

The Director of the Secret Service who just threw herself on her sword is voth a victem of the Bill Ackman campaign against DEI AND the long-term effects of Project 2025 on the budget of the Secret Service, This kid got a shot at Tampex Ear because of the budget shortfall that is a conseqeunce of Grover Norquist’s “starve the beast” of Project 2025 and Steve Bannon’s objective to dismantel the administrative state, This is a result of the reactionaries of the white supremacist agenda of Project 2025,

In the Nixon White House, there was the adult leadership around Nixon who were committed to the DEI performance technology of Eisenhower associated with Ray Price while Pat Buchanan and the Plumbrs represented Project 2025, going back to the master mind, William F. Buckley. Ayn Rand’s Atals Shrugged is the essence of the resentment white supremacists felt towards FDR and the New Deal, even after having won the war with a huge surge of DEI performance technology that eventually put man on the moon with Apollo 11, Eisenhoer doubled down on the New Deal from the lessons he learned writing Crusade in Europe. Eisenhower’s 1956 Presidential Platform is the Marshall Plan for America that the Democratic Socialism of the Pursuit of Happiness makes possible,

And Project 2025 has done everything it could to prevent it from happening, Think Moscow Mitch and Obama’s SCOTUS legacy. Moscow Mitch is what the New Deal did to non-RINO Conservatives.

[lawforeverything]

The voting rights act of 1965

On this page you will read detailed information about The Voting Rights Act of 1965.

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 stands as a landmark piece of legislation in the United States, aimed at dismantling discriminatory barriers that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote. Enacted on August 6, 1965, the Voting Rights Act marked a significant turning point in the fight against racial injustice and inequality. This comprehensive act aimed to ensure that every citizen, regardless of their race or ethnicity, could freely participate in the political process and elect their representatives. In this article, we will delve into the historical context, key provisions, and impact of the Voting Rights Act, highlighting its ongoing relevance in today’s society.

Historical Context: The Fight for Voting Rights Act of 1965

Reconstruction and the Fifteenth Amendment

The struggle for voting rights began soon after the American Civil War, with the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870. This amendment guaranteed that the right to vote could not be denied based on race, color, or previous condition of servitude. However, Southern states quickly implemented discriminatory practices, such as literacy tests and poll taxes, to disenfranchise African Americans and maintain white supremacy.

Jim Crow Era: Disenfranchisement and Discrimination

Throughout the Jim Crow era, African Americans faced numerous obstacles to voting, including intimidation, violence, and complex bureaucratic restrictions. Poll taxes, literacy tests, and whites-only primaries were used to systematically exclude Black voters, particularly in the Deep South. By the early 20th century, the majority of African Americans were effectively disfranchised, leading to a severe imbalance of political power and limited representation for marginalized communities.

The Need for Change: Selma and the Voting Rights Act

Selma and the Voting Rights Movement

In the 1960s, the Civil Rights Movement gained momentum, with activists like Martin Luther King Jr. leading courageous efforts to combat voting discrimination. The Selma to Montgomery marches in Alabama became a pivotal moment, as peaceful demonstrators were met with violent opposition from state law enforcement. The tragic events of Bloody Sunday, where marchers were brutally attacked, shocked the nation and galvanized support for voting rights reform.

President Johnson’s Call for Legislation

The outrage over the brutality in Selma prompted President Lyndon B. Johnson to push for comprehensive federal legislation that would protect voting rights. In a speech following the march, Johnson declared his intention to sign a Voting Rights Act into law, stating that denying any American the right to vote was “wrong, deadly wrong.” His commitment to equality and justice set the stage for the passage of this historic legislation.

The Voting Rights Act: Key Provisions and Impact

Overview of the Voting Rights Act

The Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a multifaceted legislation that aimed to dismantle discriminatory voting practices and ensure equal access to the ballot box. Its key provisions addressed both the immediate challenges faced by African American voters and the long-term goal of eliminating systemic barriers to political participation.

Section 5: Preclearance and Federal Oversight

One of the most significant aspects of the Voting Rights Act was Section 5, which required jurisdictions with a history of discrimination to seek federal approval, or “preclearance,” before implementing any changes to their voting laws or procedures. This provision gave federal authorities the power to scrutinize and prevent any measures that would disproportionately impact minority voters.

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Analytical Application: Race and Representation

Cultural dominant: 

The cultural dominant refers to the social and cultural norms that prevail within a certain group or culture. In Stuart Hall’s “What is ‘Black’ in Black Popular Culture?”,  he writes that it is “impossible to refuse the ‘the global postmodern’ entirely,” stating that in this case, postmodernism has become the cultural dominant, whereas culture in itself is going through a significant shift (1). He goes on to relate this to Black popular culture and that has been created and encoded within the context of popular culture itself. 

In the musical number “When I See an Elephant Fly & Dumbo Flies” from the film Dumbo (1941), birds squawking throughout the music video employ jazz and jive like musical style. The style of the music itself is reminiscent of blues and jazz, both genres popularized by the Black community. This is in itself problematic, primarily being that the actors voicing these birds are white and are participating in this “vocal equivalent of blackface” (2). In a Washington Post article, the journalist writes that the original 1941 was “decried as racist” in this past decade in a time of more political correctness and open dialogue about race representation in media. The main bird is named Jim Crow, which references the American cultural dominant: the Jim Crow era. The Jim Crow era is known as a time of racial segregation in the United States, but where it got its name is from a white man playing a caricature of a Black man on stage for entertainment and comedy purposes – the character being named Jim Crow. The main bird in this number is named Jim Crow, participating in the cultural domination of using music and entertainment styles popularized by Black Americans but tokenizing and co-opting their forms of expression for white entertainers and audiences. Additionally, the behavior of the birds – creating them as snarky and villainous – adds to the culturally dominant racist attitudes towards Black people that were explicitly obvious in this era of American history. From the beginning to the end of the musical number, the birds are very obviously caricatures of Black men. But, because making caricatures out of Black men and women was so accepted and adored at the time, it is playing into this cultural dominant. 

 Cultural hegemony: 

Cultural hegemony refers to the dominance or control exerted by one cultural group or ideology over others, influencing societal norms, values, beliefs, and practices. Hall writes that  “cultural hegemony is never about pure victory or pure domination,” but instead, “it is always about changing the dispositions and the configurations of cultural power” (3).  What this means in context is that there are “cultural strategies” or ways that people utilize tactics to gain power in popular culture. For white people, to gain cultural power could be anything that instills white supremacy and is a way of reminding those on the margins who have the superiority in society. 

In The Jungle Book (1967), a young boy befriends animals in the jungle and goes on an adventure. But, through stereotype, The Jungle Book instills this cultural hegemony by participating in negative stereotypes and depictions of Black people using the voices of the monkey characters. By having the monkeys in the film depict voices of Black people, the film relies on a negative trope of Black people being compared to animals, specifically monkeys. In the song “I Wan’na Be Like You,” one of the main monkeys, King Louie, sings to Mowgli, saying how he should feel lucky to be human: “I wanna be like you / I wanna walk like you / Talk like you, too / You'll see it's true / An ape like me / Can learn to be human too” (4). These lyrics could be argued to imply Black characters desire to adhere to popular culture -  that the characters representing Black people want to partake in the “human” culture. These lyrics reflect cultural hegemony because there is a certain set of rules that controls a society in this fictional world as well, and everyone wants to be near that power. Unlike the character Jim Crow in Dumbo, King Louie is voiced by a Black actor and musician and he received critical acclaim for his vocal performance of the song in the 1967 film. It is significant that instead of casting a white voice actor for this part, they casted a Black actor, but the role definitely perpetuates who has the power in a society inside and outside the world of the film. 

The Orient: 

The Orient refers to the Eastern part of the world, specifically the continent of Asia, and even more specifically, parts of Asia that the West finds exotic or mysterious. In Edward W. Said’s “Orientalism,” he writes that “the Orient has helped to define Europe (or the West)” (5) meaning that the Western understanding of Eastern culture helps position Western culture in a certain fashion. 

In “Aunt Sarah and Her Twin Siamese Cats” from the 1955 animated Disney film Lady and the Tramp, two siamese cats come to tease and mess with the cocker spaniel, Lady. In the present day, the anti-Asian depictions of the siamese cats has received a lot of backlash, but in the past, these characters were able to exist scot-free. That is possibly because of Said’s explanation of the mystery and intrigue of the Orient and how Western consumers understand it. Western audiences perceive East Asian characters as this sneak and foreign caricature that the siamese cats represent that racist stereotypes perpetuate. Their eyes are slanted and their voices are high and shrill, imitating racist East Asian stereotypes. Said describes this phenomenon of the Western’s negative portrayal of the Orient as the West’s cultural hegemony, relating to the term above (6). With the power that the West has over media depictions, their representations of outside and foreign cultures are not accidental or made up of myth but purposeful, attempting to collect material and social power from its putting down of other cultures. By portraying the Orient relying on only stereotypes, it positions the West in a position of power because it assumes that Western and US characters are the only ones that are worthy of stories. 

Orientalist theory:

Orientalist theory is a way of separating the Orient from the Occident through factors such as power structures, creating that feeling of otherness, stereotypes, essentialism, and imperialism. Said asks: “How does Orientalism transmit or reproduce itself from one epoch to another?” (7), questioning how Orientalism is then passed down through generations and how it is instilled into parts of global society. 

In “Everybody Wants to be a Cat” from The Aristocats (1970), the musical number shows many different types of cats all singing and dancing together and then cuts to a very racist Asian depiction of a cat playing piano with chopsticks. The cat’s eyes are dramatically slanted and with the symbol of the chopsticks the audiences can tell this is a portrayal of an Asian caricature. These depictions are a possible answer to Said’s question of how Orientalist theory is passed down through generations and how it is so instilled in our global society. By including casual anti-Asian sentiment in media as a way to caricaturize the Orient, the American audiences that The Aristocats was primarily intended for will carry this representation of the Orient into their everyday lives and their understanding of the East. Through Said’s argument, it is evident that this negative representation of the Orient is then translated into how the West views the East and positions themself into a position of power. 

Stereotype: 

A stereotype is a widely held belief or oversimplified idea about a particular group of people, often based on characteristics such as race, ethnicity, gender, or nationality. Stereotypes usually arise from a lack of understanding the depth of a group of people and making snap judgements about them. As Shohat and Stam wrote in “Stereotype, Realism, and the Struggle Over Representation,” “Filmic fictions inevitably bring into play real-life assumptions not only about space and time but also about social and cultural relationships” (8). 

Peter Pan (1957) employs racist stereotypes of Indigenous people  in their musical number “What Makes a Red Man Red.” First of all, the name “red man” is an outdated name for an Indigenous person that was originally coined as a nickname from an Indigenous person’s appearance, so the name of the song and the language throughout already shows the Indigenous community in a negative light, one that is based solely on appearance instead of character. Secondly, how the film portrays Indigenous people is very problematic and relies on stereotypes. They are portrayed as angry and territorial and Peter Pan and his crew have to dance and partake in their traditions with them even though they seem unenthused. These stereotypes stem from colonialism as white colonizers stole land from Indigenous people, killing them and torturing them for the land. It is very clear that the representation of the Indigenous people from how they were dressed to how they acted was extremely dominated by stereotypes and misunderstandings of Indigenous culture.

WORKS CITED:

(1) Stuart Hall, “What is this ‘black’ in black popular culture?” in Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies (London and New York: Routledge, 1996), 469

(2) "The original ‘Dumbo’ was decried as racist. Here’s how Tim Burton’s version addresses that." The Washington Post, March 29, 2019. https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2019/03/29/original-dumbo-was-decried-racist-heres-how-tim-burtons-version-addresses-that/.

(3) Stuart Hall, “What is this ‘black’ in black popular culture?” 471

(4) "The Jungle Book." Directed by Wolfgang Reitherman. Produced by Walt Disney. Burbank, CA: Walt Disney Productions, 1967.

(5) Edward W. Said, Orientalism (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1978), 9

(6) Edward W. Said, Orientalism. 14

(7) Edward W. Said, Orientalism. 23

(8) Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, “Stereotype, Realism and the Struggle Over Representation” in Unthinking Eurocentrism: Multiculturalism and the media” (London: Routledge, 1994), 179

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