#racism is bullshit

[lejindaryikiki]

TW! Rant

No but, when people just call our country the most 'horrible' one, when people think that our country is filled with 'predators', when people think that guys in our country are lustful and crap, when crappy media thinks that our country is the most poorest, when it criticize our government's decisions, how our religion taught nothing but to assault, but forget that there are problems within their own country, like how women are assaulted everywhere, how to resolve their 'immigration' problem, how people (irrespective of their nationality) are being more vile!

And yes, I'm talking about crappy topics, like Canada (no hate, tho. I just don't like that prime minister cause he blamed my country without any evidence), Western media (always eager to see the 'bad' side of our country, to earn money), people with ignorance and hatred, r*cist bananas who grew up with a low-standard life.

Not to mention that I was s*xually harassed online by two faggots (far worse than viruses), and yet one of them had to 🤮 because of my nationality. Too bad, I know where they are from.

So much for calling my dad and my male cousins 'predators'.

F*ck Canada and Britain, f*ck that Canadian prime minister, f*ck rasicm and all those racist who have discriminated my religion. I hope they suffer and rot!

P.S: I love people, but some of them just don't deserve my love and respect. You can block me or unfollow me if you want to, but don't insult me if I'm from a country which you don't like. And Western media should focus on their own countries, not on ours. We can handle on our own.

[wilwheaton]

What, and I can't stress this enough, the ACTUAL fuck.

[razrogue]

Being subjected to fandom racism and antiblackness near constantly takes its toll on Black fans in fandom. Just dipped my toe back into a new fandom last October and by April (some earlier than that!), many folks I've met through the fandom have already left it because of the bullshit they had to endure for daring to speak up and have a conversation.

If it's not characters being whitewashed or having their defining facial features slimmed down and trimmed or their hair being straightened out then it's the character being left out or replaced entirely or their stories and demeanor co-opted for the nonblack characters. Or OCs created by Black fans being ignored at large or copied damn near exactly by a nonblack fan and suddenly the OC is the greatest thing ever?

When does it stop being "oh I'm just going by what's popular in the fandom" or "they're just boring" or "they're a goody two shoes" or "they're annoying" or "they're mean" or "they're a liar" for folks to realize all of this is just racism and antiblackness in different clothes? And don't get me started on the folks who aren't even subtle about why they feel the way they do because they are certainly in fandoms and they are still supported and uplifted.

It's so gotdamn insidious and folks don't even take a second to think about WHY they react so viscerally to Black characters yet praise and adore and worship THE EXACT SAME THINGS in characters that aren't Black. Apparently it's one of the worst things ever for people to go "damn maybe I need to reconsider my position and why I'm feeling this way" instead of immediately going from 0 to 100 and deflecting and fighting back against valid concerns! People would rather be racist and antiblack when these things are brought to their attention rather than STFU, listen, and go reflect.

[thenonbinarydetective]

Things batfam stans need to leave behind in 2023:

Jason's Lazarus pit rage

Thinking Tim's parents were horribly abusive and hated him

Only caring about Stephanie in terms of her relationship to another person (ex: Tim's bestie/ex/gf or Cass' gf/bestie)

Treating Jason or Stephanie like they're stupid

Feral Demon Child Damian

Permanent sunshine boy Dick Grayson

Any "[blank] was the real violent Robin" discourse

Really just any reducing or sectioning of certain traits to certain batfam members and not allowing other characters to exhibit those same traits (ex: see sunshine Dick Grayson)

But also stealing traits from other characters and projecting them onto someone else (ex: Jason getting Dick's personality in fics. He is not the same type of big brother Dick is canonically)

Purposefully mischaracterizing characters for angst (ex: Dick sent Tim to Arkham, my beloathed. also again see Tim's parents)

Trying really hard to nuclearize the family. They are an unconventional family for many reasons, and that's why they're interesting.

"Alfred solos the batfam"

Making Duke "the normal one" and completely forgetting to give him an actual personality.

Cass using sign language because she can read body language (note: does not apply to YJ Cass who has damaged vocal chords)

Cass being used as a prop for her brothers

Tim being weak, woobified baby

Feel free to add on ~~

Don't send hate over these things because idgaf, they are harmful mischaracterizations, and many are built on total ignorance and often racism, classism, ableism, and sexism.

[foldingfittedsheets]

The professor I TA for asked for things to go in a “pumpkin spice still life”.

Unsure if that meant theme or color but assuming color, I gathered up my plush red panda, a plastic red-brown rock, a toy bison, a leather pouch, some satsumas, and a can of pumpkin.

We set up a fine still life, adding my stuff to his. And one of the students fell in love with my playmobil bison, asking if they could borrow it. I said yes, but only if they could provide collateral. They reached for an earring (after suggesting an organ) and I was like, no no, less valuable collateral!

While they cleaned their brushes I scoped their stuff and asked for their backpack keychain.

For my toy bison I received: a plush toy cheeseburger (the thing I actually asked for), a miniature PS2 copy of Bully, and a tiny vial containing a petrified rat heart that I hadn’t actually seen.

I’m so fucking stoked on the rat heart. If they don’t return my bison I won’t even be too sad.

[gamer2002]

Out: Black people can act civilized like everyone else

In: Peace and quiet is racist

[simply-ivanka]

TRUMP AND RACISM CLAIMS

Trump's commitment to the rights and advancement of African-Americans has been fully Apparent from the policies and priorities of his administration. In addition to passing the largest Criminal Justice Reform in recent history, which mostly benefited black males who had been unfairly sentenced through the Justice system, Trump increased funding form historically black colleges and universities and made the funding permanent so that these schools would no longer have to Lobby Congress every year. Black employment reached a record low like youth employment reached an old time low and wages for black workers were rising at a historic rate. By early 2020 Trump was consistently pulling it over 20% with the black community, a potentially game changing 12-point game from the 2016 election. Democrats are desperate to reclaim these black voters and they are willing to resort to Reckless and unfounded accusations of racism against Trump.

[noirineverysense]

so so crazy how people love talking about how they love to break white male characters and how hurt/comfort can be one of the biggest ao3 categories and then when you say you want that same energy for female characters or characters of colour you get people being like do you want poc to be tortured? Do you want women to die?? It has to be played up obtuseness. Its completely on purpose.

[miraculouslumination]

The audacity to be like "there's a problem with racism in transandrophobia discussions" while also unironically using the term "transandrophobia truther(s)"

[kattythingz]

Day 100000 of wishing people would stop making Ed insult Ling, a Chinese-coded character, by calling him "squinty eyes" because that SHIT'S SO RACIST OH MY GOD GUYS GET A GRIP

[ummyesisthisjasongrace]

The insinuation that Tommy fans are racist is so wild to me. "You don't like Eddie so that means you're racist" my sibling in christ, first of all, Eddie is my special little character. Don't you dare question my love for him. Second of all that implies that you're only allowed to dislike a character if they're white and cishet because otherwise you're "racist, transphobic, homophobic". It's not like when I dislike a character it's about their personality and not their looks. Since all you can do is make any argument about race, I wonder who's the racist here, hm?

[magnetothemagnificent]

Goyim who keep insisting that the "Semite" in "Antisemitism" isn't exclusive to Jews, and citing the linguistic definition of "Semitic"....

Would you call English speakers "German" simply because English is in the Germanic language family?

Would you call all French speakers Italian simply because French is in the Romance language family?

No?

Then why do you keep trying to decenter Jews in discussions of antisemitism?

Antisemitism does not refer to the Semitic language family. It refers to the historic racial classification of Jews as racial mutts called "Semites", and the word Antisemitism was coined to replace "Judenhass", because "Jew-hatred" was too obviously bigoted and they wanted to justify their hatred of Jews through scientific racism terms.

If "Semites" were an actual people, the only "Semites" would be Jews because that's what the racist classification was coined to describe.

Stop trying to justify your antisemitism by making yourself look stupid when you equate linguistic terms to ethnicities.

[wathanism]

i'm confiscating these until y'all gain a modicum of scientific literacy and stop talking like eugenicists

[seveneyesoup]

ngl i’m still worried. like i Do have complete faith in ncuti gatwa but what i Don’t have is much faith at all in rtd’s writing about race

[assiraphales]

fellas we caught another one