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As much as I enjoyed seeing Laura in Deadpool & Wolverine, one thing has been bothering me since opening night, and I can’t shake it:
Why did Marvel design her a shirt that says “Savage”?
It’s a fictional band t-shirt. I spent hours reverse image searching and browsing album covers and tour posters of bands with related names, album titles, and song titles, and while it’s clearly inspired by real rock bands and tours, it was nevertheless made up. They actively chose to make up a shirt with a derogatory racial term for a group Laura and the actress who plays her is not a part of for her to wear. Someone was paid by Marvel to design it. Why?
Now companies are selling copies of the shirt, so more people will be out in the world wearing a shirt with a term that, whether you want to call it a slur or just a “derogatory racial term,” has a dark, violent history and makes many Native Americans uncomfortable. It is a word that was used to justify cultural genocide within my parent’s lifetime, that has been used as a justification for racist discrimination and hatred within our lifetimes, not just Logan’s lifetime.
Logan had band logos, too. They used Awaken the Dreamers by All Shall Perish. The title track is about fighting for human rights and ending oppression, the design features the Statue of Liberty holding a gun, not a torch, surrounded by the silhouettes of swarming military planes. Now in Deadpool & Wolverine, we’re casually using the word savage, sticking it on a “feral” character with a reputation for violence. It could be powerful if Laura were Native. She escaped from a government run institution systematically abusing and dehumanizing children based on their heritage. Logan cast primarily people of color to play the X23 children. Gabriela Lopez died at the Liberty Motel and Logan died at what was described at “the last stop on the mutant underground to Canada”. They utilized the mutant metaphor very deliberately, and I feel that Deadpool & Wolverine’s choice of costuming for Laura did that a disservice.
(Yes, I’m aware of Savage Wolverine. Its potential as an Easter egg for a racist comic book title doesn’t make it not racist)
#Deadpool and Wolverine#Deadpool 3#racist language#anti native racism#Marvel#Deadpool & Wolverine#The first part of Logan was filmed right across the street from the Santa Ana rez and bordered to the north by the Zia Pueblo#The cast stayed at the Tamaya Resort on the Pueblo while filming there.#The gas station scene was the Laguna 66 Pit Stop on the Laguna Pueblo.#Eden was less than 4 miles from the Poshuoinge Pueblo ruins.#Chama - where the final scene was filmed - is situated between the Jicarilla Apache Nation and Taos Pueblo.#I’m not Native. I’m local enough though that when I watch Logan I see Indian Country.#I think that made it all the more jarring to me to see ‘savage’ in D&W.#(Not being reclaimed or subverted but casually on a white actress)#idk... I know it doesn't bother everyone & like I said I'm not Native. but as a white woman who's heard that word weaponized#(& a diehard fan of Laura for the last 20 years so believe me I’m not looking for something to be mad about)#i don’t think the mutant metaphor is enough to make it okay for a white actress to wear that shirt#(first post in the morning pre-coffee no editing we die like fic authors with no betas)
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CONTENT WARNING: This packet contains dated and racist language/imagery towards Native American peoples.
Brand: View-Master Company: GAF Corporation Packet Title: Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies Packet Subtitle: N/A Packet Type: N/A Packet Number: B 776 Packet Style: G1/G2 Booklet: Included Reel Numbers: B 7761, B 7762, B 7763 Reel Edition: A Date: 1970 Copyright: Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies
#viewmaster#view-master#gaf corporation#shipstad & johnson ice follies#ice follies#g1 packet#g2 packet#b 776#content warning#racist language
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"Neely Fuller Jr - "A Detailed Explanation of Codification""
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many of us never had conversations about Codification and how it relates to our communities. This help us to understand what is being said about us in main stream society.
Listen and learn a bit about how language creates false narratives and how to deconstruct them. Gain the knowledge and share it widely
#Neely Fuller Jr#Black Psychology#A Detailed Explanation of Codification#Black Community Language#systemic racism#bias#language#american language disparities#codification#racist language#white supremacy
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this is problematic of me (joke) but i really enjoy the splashing of french into english speech or writing. just adds a pizzazz
#im fetishing the french language#i mean this is not a new thing and the reasons probably have to do with a long held idea of france being particularly enlightened#or whatever kinda racist shit but it does sound pleasant nonetheless
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"To be quite honest, I do not think well of being required to room with salvages, such as those I understand are known to you. I cannot think how you and your brother abide being in such close quarters with them. I imagine it tries your patience, as it does my own. I would be glad of some counsel as to how you manage to bear it." I gave him no reply other than a cold stare. He barely glanced at me, then went on scrubbing. "I wrote to my stepfather and asked that I be allowed to board upon the town, when the first of them came here. He wrote me back and said he was not in purse to board me out. I do not see why they cannot be boarded elsewhere, as the funds for their education are limitless, seemingly. You know, I suppose that it comes, all of it, from England, where the cause of Christianizing the salvages is well supported. I have heard that the new building, the Indian College as they call it, over yonder in the Harvard yard, cost in excess of four hundred pounds of English money. Can you credit such a sum? For salvages. While English scholars crowd into a leaking, draft ruin. Of course, no sooner was it up than President Chauncy was canny enough to see its uses. He has filled its rooms with English students, who had been in such cramped quarters. A cunning ruse, do you not think? To get so fine a building in such a way ..."
– Geraldine Brooks, Caleb's Crossing, 2011, p. 160.
#Caleb Cheeshahteaumuck#harvard university#harvard#native american#education#us history#racist language#links go to relevant wikipedia pages#it's incredibly disheartening that this sort of rhetoric still exists today#books#Geraldine Brooks#Caleb's crossing#reading
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How does Goldie feel about Noah Ikumelo?
(Tiny gold ghost plushie. Double naps.)
So!! I'm endlessly fascinated with cases of Chimera twins where the surviving twin has a child but ended up passing the deceased twin's genes instead of their own. This idea that they ended up living on in someone new when they never got a chance to exist? Amazing. I love twin science. It's like cosmic horror. Since John and Goldie are identical twins, their chimerism is essentially undetectable (identical sets of DNA being mixed)- but that doesn't mean a part of Goldie doesn't pass on genetically to Noah.
Speaking of Noah! Here's my take on him! I aged him down to 14 and went for a younger look (the artists couldn't make up their mind with what his face and especially hair looks like so I went with a combo of his hairstyles but also something new). Noah doesn't know Johnstantine is his dad- that's still a secret John keeps to himself.
tiny golden ghost plushie.
guilt ridden naps,,,
#askjesncin#john constantine#vertigo comics#hellblazer#noah ikumelo#goldie constantine#jl remix#where are my noah ikumelo stans AT I love him. hope they do more with him other than America Sure Is Racist plot device#got rid of the notebook necklace thing cuz I've never met a Deaf/signing person communicate like that. noah has a phone#all the Deaf ppl I've met just talked to me via texting if we had a language barrier. idk I have a lot of feelings over how badly-#-disability has been portrayed with Noah. I'm just an able bodied hearie tho
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Every time a homophobe and biphobe post that the show is ruined because Buck is bi, Oliver Stark is living his best life, happy that he can finally play Buck with 100% honesty and joy. And knows that in doing so, he's giving a majority of the fans joy.
#911 fox#911 spoilers#911 show#buddie#eddie diaz#evan buck buckely#911 speculation#911 buddie#evan buckley#lgbtqia#911onabc#911#911 abc#911 on abc#bi buck is canon#bi!buck#oliver stark#i suppot bipoc and lgbtqia+ creators and blogs#i will not tolerate any hateful racist sexist ableist discriminatory language on reblogs comments or tags#911 season 7#tommy kinard#lou ferrigno jr#911 fandom
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whenever i find a cool story or character or whatever my immediate thought is "ok but what if this was in tropical asia and everyone was southeast asian"
#what if the earth was red clay and everyone spoke a language that was a combination of sanskrit and austronesian languages#what if we did dungeons and dragons in a southeast asian historical-mythological setting and it wasnt racist
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women in fandoms can have one of two character traits: #girlboss or toxic bitch. occasionally these overlap and the same woman will be characterized by some people as a #girlboss and by others as a toxic bitch. sometimes she will also be referred to as a mom [friend], which can be a subset of #girlboss in that she's sooo much more emotionally mature and capable and careful and responsible than any man around her. but as we all know, #girlboss and mom friend, or toxic bitch: these are the only traits women have. any negative traits a woman has are erased - this is the thesis statement of the #girlboss characterizers: of course i love female characters!! i think women are so great they don't have any character flaws! #feminism - or are overinflated with disgust (she's toxic, she's a total bitch, she's evil. especially if she's not white. i mean what?)
#rimi talks#sorry i was just thinking abt lois lane. and then i started thinking about talia. and. well#many dc women get extreme girlbossification in fandom. i think steph brown is one of the most egregious#but there are people who call her a toxic bitch as well#ditto re barbara gordon.#cassie sandsmark often gets mom-variety girlbossed because ofc she hates fun and is super responsible.#never mind that every single time she's seen diana get into a fight she goes FUCK HIM UP!!! >:D#who else. cass cain? girlboss for sure but in funky fresh racist and infantilizing ways#because she's an asian woman with a language disorder i guess#anyways. theres my thought of the evening im so eepy. goodnight friends
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for the ppl saying Hobie has been Spider-Man for 3 years so he must be way older…Miles is supposed to have been Spider-Man for 2 years in atsv too? So Hobie only has like only 1 year over him 💀
Also the English version of the book line up perfectly with the Japanese, with the Japanese only has the added context of 男の子 (boy, male child to be more literal) to describe Hobie because Asian languages are high context and we need to classify things based on age hierarchy.
So punkflower nation just shove the artbook in haters’ faces next time.
#I LIED THE JP VERSION POST WASNT THE LAST POST#but this one is like if you gonna spam a video about EARLY CONCEPT at me I will spam the LITERAL OFFICIAL UPDATED ARTBOOK OF THE MOVIE AT U#good morning punkflower nation#and if i have to see one more vague racist remark about Asian language this and that I SWEAR
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As an actually autistic person who learned English as a second language can I just say this about Yuki:
If your reaction to Yuki’s sincere apology, written in his own cadence and “imperfect” English, is to disbelieve his statement that he genuinely did not know what the R-slur meant and then call for cancelling him on all platforms -
I want you to take a long look at yourself and think hard about where your expectation that he is lying about his knowledge of the term actually comes from. Think about it for a second.
You are not actually helping autistic people. You’re just racist.
#f1#yuki tsunoda#for the record I am happy they fined him because an example does need to be made#but I am happy they suspended half of the fine#because he literally did it unintentionally and was horrified and apologised publicly#it was proportionate. I’m glad he apologised. let’s move on#I am DONE with the rise of white knight cancel culture where people who haven’t grown up in English language spaces#are held to frankly colonialist mindset linguistic standards#‘he should have known what it meant’#well WHERE do u think he learnt the word. we need to take a long long at the f1 garages and ableism there#but ripping yuki apart and accusing him of lying about not knowing what it meant? you’re just racist#tw ableism#tw racism#actually autistic
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CONTENT WARNING: The image, caption, and booklet description contain dated and racist language/imagery. They are however presented unedited and in their original form.
Caption: Cherokee Chiefs beat tom-toms in Legend Climax.
Booklet Description: TOM-TOM DANCE There may be no cowboys around, but there are plenty of Indians as the troupe warms up to the climax of the "Legend of the Cherokee." This number is a triumph of Stanley Kahn, the show's staging director, who puts the cast through hundreds of grueling hours of rehearsal to lay the groundwork for the seemingly effortless performance. Equally important in the coordination of this or any other number are the efforts of Dick Friesen, the Follies musical director, who orchestrates contemporary sound and great classical themes to the tempo of rhythmic skating.
Brand: View-Master Packet Title: Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies Reel Title: Shipstads and Johnson Ice Follies Reel Subtitle: N/A Reel Number: B 7763, Reel 3 Reel Edition: A Image Number: 1 Date: 1970
#b 776#viewmaster#view-master#Shipstads & Johnson Ice Follies#ice follies#content warming#racist language#Dick Friesen#racism#Stanley Kahn
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people who try to use that one panel to prove mithrun is like, uniquely elf racist are rather funny to me. like the very next line is like ���that’s what everyone used to call them’. that’s the language all elf society used to use to refer to different races & language changed & he just didn’t care to keep up with the convo post-dungeon lord.
pre dungeon lord mithrun would’ve been ON the language change bc he wanted to be perceived as the best/correct/etc— he absolutely would’ve had the ‘right’ language. but having the right words doesn’t necessarily equate to having the right beliefs/ideology— how do these characters interact with other characters and how does that show their biases?
#dungeon meshi#mithrun#like. show other panels to ‘prove’ he’s racist don’t use the ‘language has changed since i last paid attention to it’ panel#like it’s still bad but by god some of yall are acting like he’s holding racist elf society up in his back#pre dungeon lord he’d absolutely use the most pc language but how would he *treat* them/*think* of them/*interact* w them?
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Mongoloid: is an obsolete racial grouping of various peoples indigenous to large parts of Asia, the Americas, and some regions in Europe and Oceania. The term is derived from a now-disproven theory of biological race. In the past, other terms such as "Mongolian race", "yellow", "Asiatic" and "Oriental" have been used as synonyms.
The concept of dividing humankind into the Mongoloid, Caucasoid, and Negroid races was introduced in the 1780s by members of the Göttingen school of history. It was further developed by Western scholars in the context of racist ideologies during the age of colonialism.
The term Mongoloid has had a second usage referencing people with Down syndrome, now generally regarded as highly offensive. Those affected were often referred to as "Mongoloids" or in terms of "Mongolian idiocy" or "Mongolian imbecility".
Lily once again being violently racist towards Asians (And Native Americans, but you are all not ready for that conversation).
#lily orchard critical#Asians and Native Americans! A two for one special of downright horrible racist and ableist language
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god I hate how brainless trump supporters are. There's signs all over the county I live in saying "Trump low prices, Kamala high prices" and there's this old lady who's a facebook friend (she helped me with a stray kitten some years back) posting about "no more money for wars, vote trump" "lower taxes, vote trump" "stop giving our tax dollars to foreign countries, vote trump" Like excusez-moi, he wants to fund wars, he wanted to fund russia's war on ukraine, he slashed taxes for the rich and now the working class has a heavier load.
Also what's their fucking obsession with deregulation? Sure let's turn america into a capitalist hellscape, what could go wrong!? The triangle shirt waist factory? Let's do that again, new executive order: Bosses can lock their employees in the buildings and no more emergency exits. OSHA? Scrap it too, everyone gets to get sliced in half or cooked alive in the factories. Let's send children back into the coal mines so they can all die of black lung. The endless food recalls? Who cares! The ""pro-life"" nimrods don't believe in quality of life
I know you're joking, but a 19 year old girl just died brutally in a walk-in oven at a walmart (found by her own mother), so the idea that regulations could get any worse is like so sickening since the the US is strict, but not even as strict as we should be.
Secondly, its because trump supporters (not necessarily gen Republicans, mind you) are not voting for him because of any specific policy they legitimately care about, they vote for him because of what he represents morally and ethically. They see themselves in all his disturbing rambles that just boil down to racism, misogyny, xenophobia, and greed. so much greed that they too think will somehow trickle down to them, that they deserve it too. they aren't educated individuals in any way, they aren't moral and good people, but it doesn't matter because trump just feeds off his followers stupidity and fear/aggression towards things to get them to do his bidding.
#like republicans are more so classical liberals and trump supporters are a vastly different breed#many known Republicans even discuss at length that trump is not a republican and its true hes not#hes in it for himself for his greed and his insane want for power and control over the country#he wants to harm our government end point and anyone who's devoted to him are just mindless idiots#theyre racists and facists and misogynists point blank. they don't need to be educated in order to back a candidate they see encouraging#and displaying that same disgusting behavior and language#edit: the walmart thing happened in Canada it just made me think of it my bad
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I think some pjsk fans are a little too comfortable making fun of how the characters pronounce english words. Saw a video titled “wxs speaking ‘engrishu’” & it’s like hey man. that feels a little unnecessary. You can just say English.
#I think it’s a little funny when the characters throw in English out of nowhere bc it’s like woa hey English jumpscare#but I think it veers a little too close to mockery of accents when youre making fun of pronunciation.#mine#like. make fun of tsukasa for walking up to a small child and going HEY GIRL I AM WORLD FUTURE STAR DANCE AND SING bc that’s a freak thing#to do in any language but cool it on the pronunciation stuff. maybe consider the long running racist jokes about making accents or#broken English into a punchline & how you could be (unintentionally) playing into that.#Ik some people use the romanization of uhhh.#hiragana? katakana? kanji? (unfamiliar w Japanese writing system) with songs and stuff but I don’t think you need to be doing that for#translated dialogue.
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