#of white american moralism

[anghraine]

My father's politics are roughly centrist, but more as an average position than anything else—he tends to be firmly left-wing in US terms wrt race and environmentalism, center-left wrt socioeconomics, and rather conservative (by blue state US standards) about gender and sexuality. He's both a devout Mormon convert and an easy-going SoCal guy who vaguely distrusts all forms of authority (no I don't know how he reconciles this), so he can be very unpredictable.

Meanwhile, a friend of mine has been kind of taken under my parents' wing due to various personal things. Both of my parents know she's trans, and don't usually see any need to bring it up unless she's talking about it herself, but she and my mother in particular have been bonding a lot over being The Girly Ones of our social circle and learning from each other and so on, while Dad does his programming work from home or meanders around.

Anyway, my friend and my mother were talking about some trans issues my friend is struggling with, when Dad happened to wander into the room. Once they'd finished, he decided to join the conversation and I was bracing myself because I had no idea what he was going to say.

my dad to my friend: Hey, is your name the one you had before? me: [still somehow shocked and struck silent for a terrible moment] her: Um ... yes, actually, I, uh ... I didn't even change the spelling, it's pretty unisex. my dad: Interesting! I would have chosen Lady Phoenix, myself.

And then he wandered off again.

[thesunlikehoney]

Seeing some pretty gross posts about Miguel, and... It's actually pretty important that Miles, an Afrolatino character, is both making friends with the younger generation of POC and in direct conflict with the older generation of POC. Like yeah Gwen and Peter B. are still important figures in his life for good and now also bad reasons, but it is Miguel and Jessica who he has an ideological conflict with. It is Hobie who in some ways takes over as a mentor and guide. Margo helps him escape. Pavitr is someone Miles himself helps and gives advice to. The antagonist is not Latino because they wanted to use stereotype shorthand to make everyone understand how dangerous he is, he is Latino because Miles is Latino. And surprise surprise this movie has a lot to say about-- not generational trauma per say, but community trauma. About what happens when shared trauma starts to define the boundaries of who is and who isn't a member of your community, rather than shared passions and shared dreams and shared missions.

[rosegardenofeden]

See the thing is that for a lot of americans, their political consciousness and wants don't extend much farther than "are gas prices cheap?" and are perfectly willing to let genocides happen, land be poisoned with pipeline spills, floodwaters rise and displace millions, just so they can keep their cars running at $3/gallon

[conspiracydawg]

okay I'm gonna say it: I think some folks on here are really, really weird about aesthetics. like, yes, it is totally possible for an aesthetic to have baggage. I can't think of one that doesn't. but at the end of the day it's just an aesthetic. it's a vibe. it's a set of images and motifs that a subset of people enjoy. it's not a moral statement. it's frankly rude to assume that no one who enjoys, like, dark academia or something has thought about the assumptions and worldview that led to the development of that aesthetic. like do you think you're uniquely wise and analytical to discern that images come from somewhere and have associations beyond the literal? I guarantee most of the rest of the world also has this capacity

now this doesn't mean that you can't just dislike the damn thing. I get it, cottagecore is too twee or steampunk looks too imperial, whatever. but don't look at someone's aesthetic and go, like, "ah they like edwardian clothes, they must be an imperial apologist." like sure it's possible. but what a fucking assumption to make about someone!

[rosenecklaces]

Nice post. SJM is still a Zionist pig though

[hussyknee]

Okay who the fuck is the Al Qassam Brigade's media unit?? All their videos go harder than a freight train. Hollywood couldn't afford them.

[aro-culture-is]

Fandom aro culture is wanting to be obnoxious about your arospec headcanons but the idea of anyone coming after you for them makes you want to scream

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[xicanaroja]

Absolutely baffles me that the libs out here are whining, crying, and shaming anyone who doesn't want to vote for EITHER genocidal freak. Their justification seems to be either "harm reduction" or "loyalty to the real America". I get it, many of you will be voting for the blue genocide because some of her policies will protect you and your interests, and yall take any opposition to your chosen corrupt political party as a personal attack on yourself and people like you. You're allowed to think and feel that way, but understand this: I, and a lot of other leftists and anti-genocide folks, are doing the same thing. My life is a small price to pay for the safety and lives of the collective majority. I would rather die at the hands of the fascist state, then vote for someone who may even make my life more comfortable, at the price of millions of deaths in the Global South. My loyalty is to MY people, to other Latin, brown, and indigenous peoples, then to the countries and peoples who are being brutalized by the West's imperialism (including within the imperial core, i.e. black Americans and any and all immigrants to the US regardless of origin), and primarily to my community, many if not most of which are immigrants. I will not be voting for someone who will make immigration harder and more deadly, I will not be voting for someone who will continue to support, aid in, and fund genocides in Palestine, Sudan, Congo, Syria, and other places around the world, and I will not vote for someone who supports the continued inflation of the US millitary industrial complex.

My family has been in the US since the 50s; my abuelos were undocumented pickers being paid CENTS on the bushel, and they had to bring my dad and his siblings to pick with them before school because they needed to make enough money to feed their kids, and more hands meant more bushels meant more food. My dad was an unpaid child laborer, a slave to US consumption if you would. My dad grew up during segregation, and as a Mexican in South Texas, was subject to the same segregation laws that affected black and indigenous people as well. I may have been born an American with all the privileges and comforts that brings, but before they were Americans, my family were indigenous, Mexican, immigrants, pickers, unpaid laborers, brown. I can trace lines of my family back to Otomí and Chichimec people, and from them, to time immemorial on this continent. Why the hell would I throw all that away to protect the interest and desires of the descendants of the people who colonized, segregated, enslaved, exploited, and deported members of my family? Fuck you and fuck that.

[milesimmorales]

ok i wasn't gonna say anything bc the jokes are funny but i'm going INSANE . miles also wears his shoes on his bed in itsv

did u guys know that he wears his shoes on the bed (on the bed!!!) in itsv

and his parents wear their shoes indoors rio's got her shoes on the couch (the couch!!!!) are u guys aware. it's important to me that everyone knows this. gwen can still catch it for her own shoes dgmw but why did they do that y'all...

[listen-to-the-inner-walrus]

...wait, people are genuinely upset that greta gerwig didnt get nominated for best director for the toy commercial movie when the movie got nominations for best supporting actor, best supporting actress, best original song, best production design, best costume design, best picture, and best adapted screenplay for which greta gerwig was nominated?

[coffeeastronaut]

got mad about the portrayal of adoption in media again. 10 dead 50 injured

[cakemoney]

i don't want to put my uninformed foot in my mouth or get involved with the Discourse but i've been seeing the two extremes of reactions to the korean low birth rates issue (on tumblr and twitter both) and i'm just kind of like. look. i feel like "low birth rates (in many countries but especially japan and korea as part of this conversation) are more broadly the result of capitalism/a culture of overwhelming overwork that makes social relationships and having families incredibly inaccessible to young people" and "low birth rates are very much a part of the current conversation about misogyny and social expectations for women in korea especially in the context of reproduction as 'unpaid labor' for women" are statements that can both be true

[thedevilsfamiliar]

It’s really annoying how people are completely ignoring the fact that Miles Morales is Afro Latino on FB.

Like, the amount of times I’ve seen people suggest an African American actor with zero Latino roots is yikes. Then when you point out that Miles has a Puerto Rican mom, that he speaks Spanish and is therefore Hispanic/Latino… they start bitching.

There’s so many African American actors out there representing you— let Afro Latinos have someone. Let dark skin Latinos have someone.

Being Puerto Rican is a part of Miles’ identity and you will not take that away from him.

[theriverdalereviewer]

everyone jumping to team kamala we will never experience true freedom in this country

[fjeld7]

me if it was illegal to get obsessed w a piece of media/character after reading one post about it

[wizardnaturalist]

the thing I keep thinking of, constantly hearing zionist arguments everywhere, is when they say, "jews deserve a place of safety, to not be threatened or discriminated against, and that is why we need israel." this idea that all the nations of the world were so moved by the horrors of the holocaust that they had no choice to craft for themselves a new jewish space. that world leaders at last recognized the depths of prejudice that exists against jews, and were filled with the noble need to ensure something like this never happens again.

why then, was there no effort to solve antisemitism within their borders