#marginalized group

[anticoquette]

Not to sound weird but I really wish non Americans would shut the fuck up about the results. So many of us did what we could and then some. Also saying you’re “happy” you don’t live in America as if this shit isn’t going to effect AT LEAST a portion of you is fucking insane. Learn how international relations, allies, and world politics overall work. I’m genuinely not trying to scare anyone but thinking the stuff that will happen in the US is going to stay within the US is idiotic. I know it’s popular to hate on the US and Americans but majority of you just sound cruel. We know we’re fucked and we don’t need people who think our country is like a coming of age film to keep giving their ignorant two cents.

Edit: And if you disagree I don’t care. Be as entitled as you want. As much as I know this will affect people outside of the US it’s going to affect American citizens directly before anyone else. Thinking you know more because you’re seeing it on social media will never compare to me actually living it and knowing my quality of life as a black, queer woman in this country is going to plummet quickly.

[sunbeamedskies]

If you see articles and tweets about how the Star of David is now a symbol of fascism and think to yourself "maybe they have a point," then whatever you define as your antizionism has absolutely crossed the line into antisemitism

The Star of David is one of the most important symbols in Judaism. The fact that it is on the flag of Israel does not make it fascist. The government of Israel is separate from the symbol. Labeling such a widely used symbol by a marginalized people as fascist is incredibly dangerous and seeks to conflate Jews as a whole with the Israeli government- something antizionists continually claim people shouldn't do. So why are some doing it?

High control groups slowly ease you into believing nonsensical things. They provide "reasoning" and "logic" which goes largely unchallenged within echo chambers. People in these echo chambers are prone to believing it because they start to see it as real logic instead of bigoted, twisted reasoning. Even otherwise intelligent people can fall for their prejudices as they begin to view it as a form of justice

It is a fantasy that high control group leaders go from 0 to 100 in five minutes or refuse to answer any questions- they are usually much more manipulative

Please confront your biases. The Jews are tired

[ocean-breeze-pier]

Okay multiple people have now shared with me that when they tried to educate pocket deer boy on the issues trans men and transmascs face, he immediately blocks them. Hmmmmmmmmm it’s almost like he doesn’t give a shit and just wants to talk shit about us under the guise of supporting the opinions of transfems…🤔

[classicslesbianopinions]

the other thing about being disabled in academia is everyone is like "yeah we can't do much about the buildings they're old :/" as if "old" being a synonym for "inaccessible" isn't just a constant reminder that the people who built the school did not imagine that someday someone like me might study there

[cumulativechaos]

something about grace’s instinct being to get herself and her husband out of there at the first sign of trouble and leave everybody else there to deal with the unknown danger, and this being the thing that actually dooms her and by extension all the other characters too… she makes bo go outside to get the car which gets him killed, then remmick is able to use bo’s memories to manipulate grace into inviting the vampires in. something about the lack of solidarity being everyone’s downfall. is this anything.

[arimabari]

i'm probably only going to throw my two cents in once but fantasy game fandoms - Elder Scrolls AND Dragon Age - need to stop pretending like these games are divorced from the political landscapes they were made in. No one is saying you can't like so and so character or even have a fascination with an "evil" faction, but you're gonna get the hard side eye from a lot of people if you're looking at this group uncritically.

These games were not made in a bubble. You can like fantasy for fantasy's sake while still using those media literacy skills they teach you in middle school to critique the things you love. I promise it's not going to kill you.

[freakoutgirl]

said this in the tags of my post before but I feel like it's worth repeating. the thing about this argument that leftists (and specifically feminists) being mean to cishet white men is what's driving them to the alt right is that it's ignoring the fact that these men have women in their lives who are already nice to them. they have mothers, sisters, aunts, coworkers, neighbors, even sometimes girlfriends and wives. there are very, very few men out there that are totally isolated from women that will treat them with kindness. and yet these men will still not see these women as people. they still vote to ban abortion, they will still feel entitled to women's time and bodies, they will still insult perceived "beta males" for not exhibiting their same behaviors. women's kindness does not have a significant material effect on their politics. as long as women will get jobs over men, as long as women are able to say "no" to men, as long as women assert they are people, there will be those men who choose (and I specify choose so people don't misinterpret this as saying it is an "immutable trait") to turn to patriarchal supremacy, and specifically white patriarchal supremacy as long as people of color also make any social headway. that's why the term "reactionary" exists.

[anticoquette]

I’m a black woman part of many marginalized and oppressed groups in America. There is nothing nobody in or out of this country can tell me about anything. A lot of Americans who voted for Kamala are self soothing by saying “be hopeful” “it’s only 4 years” “after this he can’t run again” “stick together”. We barely have 10 years left and I have to spend 4 of them being terrorized, having my rights as a human being stripped away? Anything that could or has benefitted me is going to be gone. I don’t stand a chance here. People are so quick to label posts like these as “doom posting” or “fear mongering” but that’s what I feel. I feel doomed and I’m fearful

[taxinealkaloids]

behold hitherto unposted htn doodles! harrow+her terrible mentor, harrow+her terrible roommate

[fourgottencoast]

genuinely how many of the people reblogging this post still mask lol

edit: added alt text!

[eddie-redcliffe]

"You choose stories to tell that give people voice that are not often given voice. Reservation Dogs, queer pirates, vampires.'

[storm-of-feathers]

Accusing jewish people of just being paranoid whenever we talk about our fears is antisemitic btw.

[coyoteworks]

IN CASE YOU MISSED THE MEMO: HERE'S THE THING ABOUT DRAGONS

[starleska]

every single time Toby Fox has released a game instalment, he has always managed to create some unhinged little freak who takes up my brainspace for years at a time. June 4th has me quaking 😳😳

[legalandnotease]

Me: The whole "making amends" idea in The Falcon and the Winter Soldier is incredibly stupid and smacks of victim-blaming because Bucky should not be forced to make amends for things he was *made* to do against his will.

Its literally like telling a SA victim to apologize to all the other people their attacker also hurt.

Also, don't tell trauma survivors to *get their shit togeher* its extremely insentistive and misinformed. Mentally ill people aren't just being annoying or mean on purpose.

Sam Stans and people in wider fandom:

*That's not victim blaming! Bucky was never a victim, it was doing it all willingly anyway and that's why Sam said to make amends!

Also Sam has PTSD too. He is the only person in history who ever suffered discrimination, so Bucky trauma doesn't count and if you keep mentioning it you are a big bad racist!!

Me: OK, that's messed up. Don't dismiss and invalidate people's trauma.

Also know its not just black people who are subject to discrimination? Lots of people suffer discrimination, including disabled people and mentally ill people and this applied historically as well.

Furthermore, having been subjected to racism doesn't give Sam or anybody else a free pass to mistreat others. What's wrong with just treating those around you with basic decency, sympathy and compassion?

That includes Bucky, who is also disabled BTW.

Sam fans and others in general fandom:

"Bucky is not disabled! I already told you HE IS NOT A VICTIM he never was! He is not marginalized! Stop babying him! He's an adult and he CHOSE to do all the things he did as the Winter Soldier!"

He's just being mean to Sam on purpose and being selfish. Sam doesn't have to be nice to him! That's so tone deaf and its racist!"

Seriously poeple: if Bucky had bought up how the disability jokes and blaming him for things that caused his PTSD made him uncomfortable IRL Sam would have been receptive and understood because he's actually a decent human who knows its wrong to mock people for things they can't help. Or blame them for things that they didn't choose.

It is a shame that the writers of FAtWS and a good number of Sam Stans can't seem to grasp this.

[isdalinarhot]

People doing Stormlight discourse need to learn what is and isn’t a genocide. The war of reckoning = genocide, they were aiming to systematically wipe out the listeners. Rathalas = not a genocide, “citizen of The Rift” is not an ethnic group and virtually the entire population of the city were other Alethi. It’s still a crime against humanity due to the immense loss of civilian life, but if you’re trying to make an argument that Adolin is “better” than Dalinar because “Dalinar killed Adolin’s mother in a genocide” then you need to realize that 1. That’s not what Rathalas was 2. Dalinar DID participate in a genocide but so did Adolin. So yknow.