#racial attitudes

[tragedyposting]

Insane how (at least after a fairly cursory glance through adaptation history) Heathcliff has never been played by a man of color in a direct adaptation of Wuthering Heights despite the…text of the fucking novel? Emerald Fennell if you cast a white boy I’m going to bite you and draw blood

[flower-seeks-the-moon]

you using the 'this is a targeted harassment campaign against a poc' outcry is increasingly becoming a flimsy excuse considering the people you've driven away so far (that i've seen talking about it) are all filipino.

[glasspalacesstoneshop]

Something about the way people talk about “having kids you can’t afford” always feels really eugenics-y to me. Like alleged leftists will say this. And then complain about Margaret Sanger like. Do you hear yourselves

[thepersonalwords]

I am not a little bit of many things; but I am the sufficient representation of many things. I am not an incompletion of all these races; but I am a masterpiece of the prolific. I am an entirety, I am not a lack of anything; rather I am a whole of many things. God did not see it needful to make me generic. He thinks I am better than that.

C. JoyBell C.

[mariocki]

Roger Delgado practices diplomacy as the unnamed ambassador of an equally unspecified Central American Republic, in Man in a Suitcase: Burden of Proof (1.15, ITC, 1968)

[thursdaysbagman]

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[prince-liest]

Hey, I just read this post which I found interesting

https://www.tumblr.com/theroselens/742154059538104320/i-know-theyre-probably-not-going-to-go-into-this?source=share

and it made me wonder if you had some headcanons about Alastor's background as well! (Like, how his experience as someone of "mixed race"/Creole background from 1920s Louisiana impact his character)

That is a baller post that I read and loved earlier! It has some really thoughtful insights and I highly recommend giving it a read.

That said, I am in no way qualified create headcanons about what it was like for Alastor to live as a mixed person in the American deep south, and I don't think that trying to do so would be wise or decent of me! I try to defer to the perspectives of people with relevant personal insights and opinions, and do my best to synthesize said perspectives into my work where appropriate without overstepping the bounds of what I can reasonably say on the subject! I want to be considerate of what people have to say (ie. not pussyfoot around the subject of Alastor's race like it doesn't exist) about things I otherwise have no fucking clue about while also really not being in the game of speaking over people.

I'm always really interested in what people have to say on the subject of Alastor's race, though, because there are... definitely layers to it, both within the scope of canon and from a meta perspective.

[catboyrightsdefender]

every time i see a post mentioning slurs on this hellsite i lose 10 years of life expectancy you are all so stupid

[unpopularly-opinionated]

Every time multiple mass tragedies happen, I swear we go through the same exact timeline of events.

Timeline of events:

*Mass tragedy A happens.*

Person A posts: “Omg this is so sad, I stand with the people of Tragedy A :(“

*Mass tragedy B happens.*

Person B responds to Person A’s post: “This is so tone deaf, what about the people of Tragedy B? Honestly, this is so disappointing of you to just ignore them. I can’t believe you’re not giving your support of the people of Tragedy B. Unfollowing. Blocked. Kill yourself. Etc. Etc.”

And what’s fucking annoying about it is that it’s not as if these posts aren’t timestamped, wherever they’re posted to. So you going back in time to the post they made BEFORE MASS TRAGEDY B EVEN HAPPENED just to bitch at them for not commenting on an event that hadn’t even occurred yet makes you look fucking dumb. They’re the type of people who’d show up to a funeral and scream: “BUT WHAT ABOUT THIS DEAD GUY, HUH!?”

And also, like this is my greater problem overall with making these sort of affirmation posts in the first place. Every time something really bad happens, you don’t need to jump online and reaffirm the greater world that you are “anti-bad things happening”. Most people will just assume that you don’t support people dying en masse, unless of course you’re famous, in which case all of the world’s worst idiots will come out and demand your stance on every little thing that they honest to god have no business talking about in the first place.

Anyways, yeah this is a vague blog about THEM but I made it generic because it is something I’ve seen in the past. I’m just bitter over all of the inane comments I’ve seen recently on videos of Jewish people lamenting the loss of other Jewish people in “Mass Tragedy A”, and yet these clowns act like they’re the good guys who are really doing something special when they tell you how disappointed they are that you… *checks notes* …don’t like others like you dying. Heinous, I know.

[healingbesties]

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[yisanged]

the japanese-korean stuff is always just this weird elephant in the room.... idk. a lot of the times the stuff like in that one orv arc is just really uncalled for but at the same time it doesn't feel right ignoring all the bad blood there just to say oh this is hashtag problematic or whatever. idk it's not a topic i know as much about as i maybe should what with being a usamerican with parents that have made no great efforts to keep me super tied to korean culture other than just like. the food. but it's hard to get good information on it with all the polarized uninformed biased opinions out there. my parents themselves aren't the most impartial sources either. idk idk. whatever

[basilepesso]

Aucune origine donnée > info totalement caduque, l'imbécile ou l’étranger s'imaginant des hordes de blancs. >>>> "Le bruit du moteur rugit sans discontinuer dans un ballet incessant de deux-roues. Alors que le printemps s’installe, les rodéos urbains recommencent à empoisonner la vie des riverains et à préoccuper les autorités. «Dès qu’il fait beau et un peu plus chaud, les conditions pour rouler redeviennent idéales et les rodéos reprennent», constate un policier de la région parisienne. À Carrières-sur-Seine, dans les Yvelines, une petite fille de 10 ans a été renversée le 24 avril sur un chemin de halage, en bordure de Seine, par trois hommes juchés sur un scooter alors qu’elle faisait du vélo. Quelques jours plus tôt, un policier en service a été percuté par un moto-cross multipliant les allers-retours dans un arc à Plaisir." (Aussi sur Fb, 28 avril 2 023) Article du Figaro : “Avec les beaux jours, les rodéos urbains s’envolent de nouveau“

[mariocki]

New Scotland Yard: A Case of Prejudice (2.2, LWT, 1972)

"Now, what about this audience - do you know any of them?"

"A lot of them, some of them are friends of mine, they live in the street."

"Black and white or... all black?"

"Both, black and white. That's what this is all about, right?"

"That's what what's all about?"

"This place, this street, this district, this killing."

"Tell me what you mean by that, please."

"This was a community venture; I spent ten years in this district trying to get people together: black and white, together. That's what my play's all about, right? Simple people power. Look, my play says that white power is finished, but there is always a chance that -"

"I don't think we want to go into politics, Mr. Buckingham."

"No, go on, please."

"You don't want to go into it? But that is why Charlie was killed!"

[compulsiveobsessing]

feels really weird for everyone to suddenly be talking about project 2025 when people in the deconstruction space have been talking about it for well over a year

[fursasaida]

This article is from 2022, but it came up in the context of Palestine:

Here are some striking passages, relevant to all colonial aftermaths but certainly also to the forms we see Zionist reaction taking at the moment:

Over the decade I lived in South Africa, I became fascinated by this white minority [i.e. the whole white population post-apartheid as a minority in the country], particularly its members who considered themselves progressive. They reminded me of my liberal peers in America, who had an apparently self-assured enthusiasm about the coming of a so-called majority-minority nation. As with white South Africans who had celebrated the end of apartheid, their enthusiasm often belied, just beneath the surface, a striking degree of fear, bewilderment, disillusionment, and dread.

[...]

Yet these progressives’ response to the end of apartheid was ambivalent. Contemplating South Africa after apartheid, an Economist correspondent observed that “the lives of many whites exude sadness.” The phenomenon perplexed him. In so many ways, white life remained more or less untouched, or had even improved. Despite apartheid’s horrors—and the regime’s violence against those who worked to dismantle it—the ANC encouraged an attitude of forgiveness. It left statues of Afrikaner heroes standing and helped institute the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which granted amnesty to some perpetrators of apartheid-era political crimes.

But as time wore on, even wealthy white South Africans began to radiate a degree of fear and frustration that did not match any simple economic analysis of their situation. A startling number of formerly anti-apartheid white people began to voice bitter criticisms of post-apartheid society. An Afrikaner poet who did prison time under apartheid for aiding the Black-liberation cause wrote an essay denouncing the new Black-led country as “a sewer of betrayed expectations and thievery, fear and unbridled greed.”

What accounted for this disillusionment? Many white South Africans told me that Black forgiveness felt like a slap on the face. By not acting toward you as you acted toward us, we’re showing you up, white South Africans seemed to hear. You’ll owe us a debt of gratitude forever.

The article goes on to discuss:

"Mau Mau anxiety," or the fear among whites of violent repercussions, and how this shows up in reported vs confirmed crime stats - possibly to the point of false memories of home invasion

A sense of irrelevance and alienation among this white population, leading to another anxiety: "do we still belong here?"

The sublimation of this anxiety into self-identification as a marginalized minority group, featuring such incredible statements as "I wanted to fight for Afrikaners, but I came to think of myself as a ‘liberal internationalist,’ not a white racist...I found such inspiration from the struggles of the Catalonians and the Basques. Even Tibet" and "[Martin Luther] King [Jr.] also fought for a people without much political representation … That’s why I consider him one of my most important forebears and heroes,” from a self-declared liberal environmentalist who also thinks Afrikaaners should take back government control because they are "naturally good" at governance

Some discussion of the dynamics underlying these reactions, particularly the fact that "admitting past sins seem[ed] to become harder even as they receded into history," and US parallels

And finally, in closing:

The Afrikaner journalist Rian Malan, who opposed apartheid, has written that, by most measures, its aftermath went better than almost any white person could have imagined. But, as with most white progressives, his experience of post-1994 South Africa has been complicated. [...]

He just couldn’t forgive Black people for forgiving him. Paradoxically, being left undisturbed served as an ever-present reminder of his guilt, of how wrongly he had treated his maid and other Black people under apartheid. “The Bible was right about a thing or two,” he wrote. “It is infinitely worse to receive than to give, especially if … the gift is mercy.”

[communist-ojou-sama]

The most grating thing about tumblr's wannabe aesthetes is the really obvious unearned superiority complex they have about their whiteness.

They so clearly speak from a perspective that, tacitly, everybody "knows" that art made by white westerners for white westerners is better than the art of the global south or from racial minorities, and surely, anyone with Real taste only deigns to know a few nonwhite classics, a Wong Kar-wai film here, a Borges novel there, maybe even a Fela Kuti album if they're really feeling adventurous, and of course a few token Black American recording artists (but nothing too scary and working-class) but the idea that Anyone would give any more attention than that to non-western non-white art, they could only be doing that if they have some political agenda, they must be forcing themselves to enjoy this lesser nonwhite art instead of our superior Aryan art. It's really, really vexing how ubiquitous this attitude still is on here.