#racism and prejudice

[gabrielerner]

The debate on the bombing of Auschwitz and the fear of a new Holocaust

In 1968, almost 24 years after the events, a different kind of research on the last days of the Third Reich was published. In While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy, Arthur D. Morse renewed interest in the Holocaust by claiming that the United States had rejected, abandoned and was insensitive to the Jews of Europe, and that the Administration policies may have caused the death of…

[alwaysbewoke]

[timothylawrence]

I just find it really frustrating and exhausting how openly racist fandoms can be with little to no repercussions. Nonwhite characters are straight up ignored and have their stories/character arcs replanted onto white characters and no one bats an eye. Nonwhite characters (especially black ones) are held to incredibly high standards that white characters don't have to meet, and if they fail they're villified, if they pass they're labeled as boring.

white fans will reblog one post calling out fandom racism and then do 0 inward reflection about their own behavior and how they perpetuate racism in fandom.

[ciderjacks]

Someone made a really well written post on chilchuck and misogyny, but its not able to be rbed so im just sharing my analysis of it here. Bc i love this topic. I love it so much.

[evie-doesnt-write]

Watching Dungeon Meshi

[the-microphone-explodes]

So recently this Tweet went viral on Twitter, which is generally stating something that is rather common that I have also noticed on the app. (I will say that I do believe antisemitism and anti-black racism to also be extremely normalized as well, perhaps to an even greater extent).

That being said this was the general response (found in the quote retweet and the comments) to the above tweet:

I wanted to put this together and show it to others on here because it seems that it is strongly indicative of how hated Indian people are in progressive spaces. And before someone comes after me to say this is largely online, I will state that this rhetoric is eerily similar to the discrimination I faced growing up as Indian and that I continue to face. Additionally, people online are people in real life, they carry this rhetoric in the real world too and Indian people exist online too, we see how people dislike us.

To dissect and debunk all the sentiments in the tweets above would take an immense amount of time and energy that I do not have. Even archiving and collecting these tweets caused me to fall into a spiral of stress and tension. You don't have to go through all of it, much of what is expressed is vile, but I am trying to point out something. And it's that racism against Indians has become normalized, perhaps even encouraged, obviously in right-wing spaces but in progressive and liberal-left wing spaces as well. If you click on the accounts of many of these people, you can see them advocating against other forms of racism, homophobia, transphobia, anti-Palestinianism etc. These are progressives, not your run-of-the-mill conservative bigots. Hostility is growing against Indians, out in the open, and it seems that not many are willing to combat or acknowledge it.

The tactics are the same of course, to take a vocal minority of a group of people and paint the vast majority as the same, effectively portraying the group as if it has monolithic ideas. This is obviously a ridiculous thing to do, but even more so when one realizes that India is home to 1.4 billion people, not counting Indians living in other countries. These are all individuals who hold their own complex ideologies and beliefs, it is not possible to condense them down to one stereotype.

Am I denying that Indian people have our own issues and bigotry (to say the least) surrounding anti-Black racism, misogyny, islamophobia, casteism etc. Absolutely not! I have spent much of my life trying to unpack these sentiments drilled into me from a young age, and I have tried to help my peers do too. I have also spent time in real world activism combating such issues, because it is the only way forward to a more equal society.

But just because our society has prejudice does not mean we should be subjected to such bigotry from other progressives or have the discrimination we face not be taken seriously. Even the worst among us does not deserve to have racist sentiments spewed against them because bigotry is wrong, point blank. We don't deserve to be called rapists, to be accused of all being racists, and say that racism against us is "self-inflicted". Indians do not deserve that, we just don't.

[nimrochan]

This is how Jewish voices are silenced.

Literally all I asked was for suggestions from people who heavily criticized the attack on Hezbollah.

[lazylittledragon]

if one more alt character gets saddled with the "smells bad/doesn't shower" headcanon i'm going to start swinging

[revverencie]

i am so genuinely sick and tired of the way bisexual women are being treated in queer spaces nowadays.

statistically, bisexual women are at a higher danger of things like rape, sexual assault, intimate partner violence, stalking, etc. than anyone else when grouped by sexuality. yes this includes heterosexual women, yes this includes lesbians, yes this includes gay men. but the rest of the community as a whole seems to delight in stereotyping them as predators, accomplices to predators or undeserving of support just because of their identity. because people care more about the strawman of "bisexual woman with a boyfriend" than giving real people who are at a statistic vulnerability to actual violence a support network.

[aestariiwilderness]

Watch people visibly change their minds on what it's okay to do to people or not based just on who the victims are.

Very telling video. Source: https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel/37117

[gabrielerner]

The debate on the bombing of Auschwitz and the fear of a new Holocaust

In 1968, almost 24 years after the events, a different kind of research on the last days of the Third Reich was published. In While Six Million Died: A Chronicle of American Apathy, Arthur D. Morse renewed interest in the Holocaust by claiming that the United States had rejected, abandoned and was insensitive to the Jews of Europe, and that the Administration policies may have caused the death of…

[alwaysbewoke]

[eowyntheavenger]

Got into a debate with someone who is clearly a leftist and part of the LGBTQ community and yet believes the very right-wing opinions that men experience sexism (from women!) and white people experience racism. This is truly the worst timeline.

And btw, they didn’t say “well, white Jews can experience racism,” which is a true statement. Nope, they just said white people can experience racism, like, generally. This is literally an idea that conservatives call “reverse racism” and you are spouting it out of your so-called progressive mouth??? The fuck?

As for the idea that men experience reverse sexism from women - no they don’t. Can men experience prejudice? Obviously. Enforcement of restrictive gender roles? Yeah. But sexism? No. I’m so tired. Yes, patriarchy can hurt men (it hurts women more); no, men do not experience sexism. Why are we at this level of discourse.

[jakeperalta]

men in instagram comments will be like "is anyone going to take this random content of a woman doing literally anything and make it an opportunity to share my hatred of women" and not wait for an answer

[someguywriting]

One of the most common misconceptions people seem to have about the western/cowboy era (in pop culture, around 1860-1900) is that people back then must have been extremely homophobic, or strung up every gay person within a hundred mile radius.. well, I'm here to tell you as an authority on the subject (an autistic man who's got a special interest in the civil war/reconstruction era) that you're mistaken!

People really didn't start to care much about classy or 'civilized' things until the Victorian era came around! Lots of things were demonized from 1900 onwards, like alcohol for example. There was alcohol, and then there was prostitution, and then there was drugs (marijuana was in a lot of over the counter medicine until it was banned) and the church swept the country over!

Cowboys weren't terribly concerned about gay people, because typical cowboy life was hard and tough. The land didn't give back, it was lonely out on the prairie unless you were near a big city, and people helped eachother out where they needed it because the "west", the land of the Louisiana purchase, hadn't been too populated yet. It was inhabited by indigenous people, but they didn't build cities that stayed in one place, they were nomadic and moved around with the food (buffalo, antelope, deer, etc).

Lots of men travelled together because sexism was very much alive and well, and it was seen as too rough a life for a woman out on the prairie. That was why prostitution was so lucrative, or why men out west would pay to even just see ladies underwear. Two men travelling and living together, doing things like cooking and taking care of a house together was totally normal. Some of them were purely partners as in they looked out for eachother and made a go at a business or a farm, and some of them were something more! Really, a lot of the culture back then revolved around minding your own business. If a cowboy stopped at two gay cowboys place for a drink of water, he didn't stop to call them slurs or look down on them, he thanked them for the water and kept on riding.

Sure, it was taboo and there probably were some people who would've been homophobic and cruel about it, but it's like that with all things, and sadly that probably wasn't the biggest prejudice they would hold. Two men in love living on a homestead together looked a lot better to most people than an indigenous tribe simply existing, or a free black man buying supplies from a store.

Please, dear god, stop writing your western stories with gay men who are horribly afraid of being tortured to death or hung! They probably wouldn't go around telling everyone they're gay, but they definitely wouldn't be as unsafe as a black man or an indigenous person from that time period. Or even a woman!

gay cowboys, everybody