#they literally out queer Palestinians who ask them to stop killing them

[doriandrifting]

White neoliberal queers will really advocate for genocide because the side committing the genocide seems more queer friendly on the surface. Yeah Israel’s so fucking progressive they’ll lock you in an open air concentration camp and bomb you to pieces with illegal white phosphorus in violation of the international laws of the Geneva Convention and the United Nations so they can resettle the land with colonizers 😍 And I guess it’s just fuck the queer people in Palestine because they had the sheer audacity to be born there and brown?

Some of ya’ll are heartless barbaric fucks, and I see exactly how your grandparents were picnicking during lynchings. I don’t want to hear some of ya’ll ever talk about queer liberation again. I’m done coddling ya’ll and explaining nicely when people are coming to my page to spew nothing but violent propaganda and advocate for ethnic cleansing. If you don’t know where you stand on genocide, you stand for nothing. You’re a weak mindless coward who only cares about politics when it’s convenient to you and your whiteness. I say that as a white first gen American who was taught from an early age from my father that no one lies better about history than white neoliberal Americans who have a fucking rot in their soul under their supposedly progressive values—“Just look at what they did to the people in Palestine. Look at what they did to the people on the land where we live. It is the same.” He said that to me at 6 years old, because he said he refused to lie about history even to a child. And some of ya’ll are sitting here in your 30s with not a critical thought in your head.

You are not bigger or more evolved than anyone for staying neutral or playing both sides in ethnic cleansing paid for by the United States. Neutrality is the most radical position you can hold in the face of everything happening. Tomorrow I may be kinder to you because I care about these oppressed people, and I know I have to educate the people in my own community. But today, I cannot be kind. Today I am horrified and sickened by a lot of ya’ll, and I don’t have the energy to pretend otherwise.

[r7-b7]

Biden specifically is going around everyone to send more fucking bombs to drop on Palestine and I'm getting hit with the "if you cared about Palestinians at all you'd vote for Biden" and "Trump says he wants to wipe Palestine off the map!" Bruh what the FUCK DO YOU THINK BIDEN IS FUCKING DOING RIGHT FUCKING NOW???

Miss me with that.

Literal Nazis have been marching for YEARS and there was not nearly as much (if any) police presence but the encampments for Palestine demanding universities stop using their money to have egregious contracts with weapons manufacturers they brought out all the toys. Toys meaning riot gear, chemical weapons, armored vehicles, attack dogs and horses, snipers on the buildings, facial recognition, mass arrests.....

In 2022 Biden was asking cities to spend COVID money on police. Fuck y'all.

I'm not taking a life/history/moral lesson from some selfish white knight liberal Democrat who doesn't listen to the people ACTUALLY affected by our choices. Who doesn't partake in mutual aid, doesn't know whose mother fucking land they are settlers on, won't even wear a god damn mother fucking mask.

Anybody not seeing the link between COVID and Palestine please read this article:

What the people have been saying:

😷 Disabled: the pandemic isn't over and the best way to not cause mass death and disability is to wear a mask, stay up to date on vaccines, and keep educating yourself (specifically US handling the AIDS crisis) follow the stats and variants, and new information about COVID. Long COVID is disabling people as the cost of living and demand of labor increases while the pay is low and the houselessness to prison slavery pipeline is efficient. ADHD/Autistic folx are more likely to be affected by an infection and the children are susceptible to much worse as their immune systems are compromised globally and they miss school from chronically being sick due to COVIDs way of wrecking a body. But instead of moving funds from the military and police to fund Universal Basic Income, Universal Healthcare, free at home tests, more teachers and aids, funding PPE for hospitals and clinics, getting people housed (there's more houses than houseless people) Biden and most of your Blue-ly elected officials did none of that and instead actually became the Red no maskers, "let's get back to normal, these kids are just so lazy and need to get a job", who are all just protecting the same billionaires and millions of you followed, many to their deaths.

BIPOC: spreading diseases is one of the most efficient ways to genocide a population. COVID is not magically over, in fact it's gotten increasingly worse and it affects indigenous and black people disproportionately. Who also experiences higher in rates of homelessness, and incarceration, as disabled people have pointed out: we are pushed down a pipeline. Biden has been fast tracking pipelines that destroy indigenous land and water (which hurts literally everyone and everything), and Palestine?? We are seeing exactly what happened to our parents, grandparents, great grandparents and getting a cruel smack in the face of the reality of HOW what happened to them happened--we see you do it, just looking away, being a White Moderate. Biden is literally killing us and smiling as he does it and getting applause for doing it better than some other White man would. What is fucking wrong with some of you?

Queers: we seem pretty generally split between those who can see we are getting fucking played and those who are aligning with the Empire for personal rights and gain. Some of us are like "I literally will not let the Democratic party think this behavior is acceptable. I won't be told these are my choices and deal with it. I won't allow a child rapist or a child slaughterer to win a vote or a dollar. Our Liberation is bound together. I remember why the L in LGBTQIA2S+ was moved to the front. I know we have to have each other." And some of us are like "this post that I didn't research myself or think critically about said this list of things the Biden administration has done to secure MY rights and comforts I've gotten accustomed to."

White™️ Democrats: v0te bLuE N🌀 mAttEr wH🔵 🇺🇲🦅🌈😇🦠 Trump is a fascist! 👺 But not our man! He said it himself: he's a Zionist conservative who doesn't actually believe in abortion rights and Israel is our best invention! Our sweet little baby settler colony 🥹 he looks just like his dad. We love an honest man!

see this is why i know so many of yall are just being performatively supportive of palestine. you "support palestine" superficially but with any other resistance or radical movements you're all of a sudden senator mccarthy and it's the 1950s and you're screaming and crying about dictator totalitarian commies if you see a thomas sankara quote or something about che guevara. like you people are not fucking serious

[evilwickedme]

i don't wanna start a fight but i just want to know your honest opinion. should we support all jews even the racist ones, just because they're jewish? like all the people from israel who think it's great to exterminate brown people to get their land in the name of zionism? i don't think i could ever forgive them, because i can't support bigots, no matter where they're from. again i don't want to fight but i would like to read an opposing opinion. have a good day.

“it’s me again; i looked up ‘zionism’ on your blog and i just wanted to let you know that i have no quarrel with jewish people, like really the people, living their everyday lives, even the ones who happen to agree with zionism. i’m angry towards the ones who order the bombing, and the soldiers who will shoot brown civilians. but the people are innocent to me, they just have an opinion. i think jewish culture is way more decent than christianity, but it doesn’t lack faults is all.

Can’t support oppressors because they’re oppressed too. Will support someone who is Jewish if they face antisemitism, won’t support their racism. One form of bigotry can’t cancel another.”

“Do you think we should support all Jewish people even if they’re racist” is such an invalid question I literally don’t know where to begin

do we support all muslims, even the antisemitic ones? - oh wait, that’s a question nobody fucking asks, ever, because it’s weird and incomprehensible

I’m answering your question to the best of my ability but like… tbh the fact that you felt the need to ask it in the first place? antisemitism

I don’t support anyone just because they’re Jewish just like I don’t support anyone just because they’re gay, I support Jewish people in the radical act of being Jewish in an antisemitic world. If somebody is being racist, I call them out (if it’s safe for me, which sadly, it isn’t always), but I don’t call them out despite them being Jewish? it’s got nothing to do with it. Judaism doesn’t have anything to do with racism, we all grow up in an inherently racist environment and have to unlearn things.

There’s this idea that Jews=white and that is just… literally, factually wrong. More than 50% of Jews in Israel are brown (Mizrahi) themselves. That isn’t to say that Mizrahi Jews don’t face discrimination, because they do, but the situation in Israel is just… incomparable to America. It’s not white vs. brown, it’s Jewish vs. non-Jewish Arabs, and that’s a very complex situation. Not to mention conflating Jewish people with white people, our oppressors for literally thousands of years, is fucking antisemitic. (Again: Jewish people can be pale, brown, black, or Asian and I personally went to school with Jews of every supposed “type”. In Israel.)

Aside from specific, isolated cases that are reprehensible in every way, nobody is going into Palestinian land and just killing people for no reason, nor are they bombing Palestinians for no reason. Historically, the IDF has been a defense army, and I will argue even in cases it technically attacked first it was still being defensive. It’s literally in the name: Israel Defense Forces.

I know this is surprising, but there’s a huge group of Jewish people and Israeli citizens who - gasp - don’t think that we should killing Palestinians at all, including myself. But the fact that we disagree with and even hate the way our country is run doesn’t mean we invalidate its entire existence in the first place. If Israel stopped existing, half the Jewish population of the entire world would very suddenly be in incredible danger, and with nowhere to fucking go.

Of course one form of bigotry doesn’t cancel another, but what antizionists are currently doing doesn’t actually fucking help. Instead of invalidating Israel - which just makes most Israelis take what they say with a cup full of salt - they should actively criticize it, work to change it. That’s what most Israelis do. We go to protests. We pay attention to laws. We vote. We get outraged. We try to make things better for everyone.

Most importantly, this whole thing should never have been about Israel in the first place. Because Jews deserve to exist as Jews and we shouldn’t be interrogated on our opinions about Zionism and Israel to make sure we’re good Jews. We should be allowed to exist, out in the open, shouting: “We’re here, we’re queer, we’re Jewish” without having to answer for the crimes of other people who just happen to share an ethnicity and/or religion with us.

And that’s my answer. I might have gone on a small tangent somewhere.

You have a good day, too, anon. And don’t forget to call out antisemitism everywhere you go.

[insideanairport]

Patrisse Cullors' “When They Call You a Terrorist”

❍❍❍

A Black Lives Matter Memoir

After reading this book, you might find yourself so excited that you want to only read books by black women writers. The book is as exciting and informing as autobiographies of black radical activists such as Angela Davis and Assata Shakur. It reminds us of other works such as: Push Out, We Were Eight Years in Power, Long Walk to Freedom, White Fragility, Golden Gulag, and Revolutionary Suicide. It is written smoothly with a down-to-earth style of writing. She has a non-academic working-class tone that connects with everyone.

POPO

The ending of the book [Spoiler Alert] is very powerful with the birth of Patrisee’s child, the presidency of Trump, the rise of hate crimes, mentioning the names of victims of police brutality and the future of the Black struggle. On a #SayHerName-style, she brings to light the names of victims of police violence and white supremacy. She reminds us of the ordinary Americans who lost their lives due to police racism. People such as Tanisha Anderson, Miriam Carey, Shelly Hilliard, Rekia Boyd, Shelly Frey, Aiyana Stanley-Jones, and Kathryn Johnston. The reason for this imperative is that women are often left out when the histories of white supremacy, slavery, and genocide are told.

”These few names are only part of a long, terrible list, but, like the horrific history of lynching in this country, when the story is told, women are often left out of it even as we are lynched, too. And some of the women are pregnant at the time of the lynching. And maybe because our movement is being led by women, Queer and straight, cisgender and Trans. And maybe because so many of us have family who have been harmed in jails and prisons but that harm has not become part of the broader public discussion about the bind, torture, kill that is part and parcel of the American system of incarceration.”

Colonial Structures

In chapter 15, Patrisse identifies the United States as the country of borders and walls. As a first-generation immigrant, I completely agree with this description. I don’t take this description only literally. This definition of the United States as the country of borders and walls does not only apply to the brutal border regime with concentration camps for children, deportations, and criminalization of asylum seekers. It also applies to the European mindset which is always preoccupied with congealing definitions and categories. It prevents people to accept each other for who they are and making an effort to understand cultural differences and historical trauma in order to heal the previous wounds inflicted. 

Historically speaking, white supremacy has a tendency to define and categorize everything outside of itself as the “other” or “minority” or “abnormal”. When I was living in the United States, I thought this solely applies to the North American mindset. However, If we look into European societies as well as European settler-colonial states around the world, we see the same type of mentality reminiscent of colonial enlightenment which still hasn’t been flushed out of the systems.

Patrisse has lost close friends and family to police brutality and white supremacy. She is telling the reader, if her dead body was found in police custody, we should know that the police have killed her. Her position is not only from a radical black perspective, but it is also within the black queer tradition.

We know historically that women often do the work and men get the credit for it. And living in patriarchy means that the default inclination is to centre men and their voices rather than women and their work.

She skillfully takes the reader into the “world" of the working-class black community in America. In some instances, she takes us even deeper into the community of queer activists of color. The non-black reader should naturally understand the reality of ethnic profiling targeted towards the black and Latinx communities. The history of police in the United States is founded upon white supremacy, slavery and defense of public property. 

Today, if we step out of North America, we see similar patterns of police brutality emerging increasingly in Western and Eastern Europe. European societies as the so-called defenders of Western democracy and civility are turning into deportation regimes and in some cases semi-apartheid Islamophobic regimes. Although they are spending tremendous energy in hiding the data from the international community and presenting themselves as civil and superior to North America, they increasingly see themselves vulnerable to the new generation of BIPoC activists and organizers. 

The European Network Against Racism (ENAR) after releasing its 4-year report in 2018, noted that hate crimes that target racial and ethnic minorities are on the rise and need immediate actions to be prevented. Yet, only one-third of the 24 member states have guidelines, policies, and instructions for the police in documenting the hate crimes. If that doesn’t sound right to you, you are not the only one. First of all, the question comes to mind what does the other two-third think about hate crimes? and the second question is that “Are you designating the police in charge of documenting the hate crimes, even though a good portion of hate crimes might actually come from police themselves? The report also shows that the police do not take reports of racist crimes seriously or they do not believe the victims of racially motivated crimes. (1) 

Turns out that Stephen Lawrence and Emmanuel Chidi Nnamdi are not the only people in Europe to be the victim of hate crime. (2) Recent reporting shows that London recorded 1,652 antisemitic incidents in 2018, an increase of 16% in one year. (3) Meanwhile, in the United States, the FBI reported that in 2018 alone, 8,646 people were victims of hate crime in 7,036 single-bias incidents. Almost 60% of these incidents were motivated by race, ethnicity, and ancestry. (4)

Another EU survey in 2015-2016 showed that 14% of respondents with different ethnic minority and immigrant backgrounds have been stopped by police in the 12 months preceding the survey. (5) In France, according to the results of a national survey of more than 5,000 respondents, Arab and African men are twenty times more likely to be stopped and searched than other males groups. (6) In England and Wales, black people were nine and a half times more likely to be stopped and searched by the police. (7) All these are excluding the Algorithmic profiling that has been vastly problematic across Europe due to its preexisting structural racism. 

When Silicon Valley first emerges, it might as well be a Nordic country for all its homogeneity. Even today, its diversity has not yet found a way to reach into the communities of those who were legally and willfully excluded.

ENAR Shadow Report 2014-2018 (1)

In occupied Palestine, we see the same techniques of systemic killings being exercised towards Palestinians by Israeli soldiers, police, and settler-colonialists. That might be one of the reasons for the huge solidarity between Palestinians and Black activists in Ferguson when military tanks started to appear on American streets. (8) Today, beyond Angela Davis’s pro-Palestinian activism and support for the BDS movement, we see a broader unification of forces between black & brown activism with Palestinian liberation.  

Susanville, incorporated in 1860, was named for the child of the man who laid claim to founding it at a time when founding something was a euphemism for manifest destiny and homesteading and all the blood and death both of these wrought. “Founding,” a term like the phrase “collateral damage,” the use of which was ratcheted up in the 90s so they didn’t have to say dead Iraqi children.

Formerly incarcerated mothers, organizers and activists at the Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., after performing a play highlighting Black-Palestinian solidarity on September 3, 2018. (Will Johnson) -972mag (11)

Governmental Terrorism

“There’s a difference between abuse and torture. Both are horrible, often unbearable, and both leave scars. Neither can be minimized. But I make the distinction here in order to explain that while abuse may or may not be intentional, and is often spontaneous, torture is always intentional. It is always premeditated. It is planned out and its purpose is to deliberately and systematically dismantle a person’s identity and humanity.”

Patrisse recalls a day when his brother Monte gets into a car accident with a white woman, and she calls the cops on him. LAPD arrives and arrests Monte after tasing him brutally. Patrisse's brother gets into trouble simply because he has a mental problem and he is black. Later in the book, she asks herself: why cops never seem to understand that black people can also have mental illness?

She criticizes the classical racist “War on Drugs“ policies that were basically “War on Black and Latinxs peoples”. Even Nixon’s domestic policy chief John Ehrlichman admitted that the purpose of these laws was to target black peoples and anti-war students. (9) The laws were written so broadly that it made otherwise normal daily activities illegal. It gave police a nice opportunity to arrest those who targeted. These policies are similar to the strategies used on indigenous peoples which have resulted in spending more money on erasing their language rather than saving them. (10) The War on Drugs was the campaign to start the prison industrial complex targeting Black and Latinx peoples. And these laws were so ineffective, that for example in Los Angeles between 1990 and 2010, about 10,000 people died.

As of this writing, three of the organizers from Ferguson, DeAndre Joshua, Darren Seals and Edward Crawford, have all been found shot dead in their cars. The cars of two of the young men, DeAndre and Darren, were burned, which destroyed forensic evidence, and Edward’s death was ruled a suicide—even as he had just started a new job and had secured a new apartment, hardly the action of someone looking to die.

BLM

After reading this book, if a non-black person [anywhere] doesn’t see the police brutality as something real toward black and brown communities in the United States, then I guess there is no way to have a discussion with that person. If after reading this book, someone doesn’t comprehend the urgency and magnitude of the Black Lives Matter movement, then I guess there is no way to have a discussion with that person. 

There are many white folks who decide to stay neutral amidst the rise of far-right racism and xenophobia. “White Silence is consent” was a slogan introduced by the Civil Rights activists in the ’50s and ’60s. Today, after Trump’s presidency and impeachment, amidst all the human rights violations that the United States government is inflicting upon humanity, remaining silent is taking the side of white supremacy.  

“…while I know the basics of what he experienced the first time he was sent to LA County Jail in 1999, a jail run by the sheriff’s department, it will not be until 2011 when I read a report issued by the ACLU of Southern California that I fully understand what was done to my brother there. This is to say that Abu Ghraib was first practiced on this soil, in this America. And before the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Before the second Gulf War. The skills to torture people were honed in this nation on people who were not terrorists. They were the victims of terrorism.”

Culture Issues

Patrisse Cullors talk about her memory when her white classmate invited her for dinner. She accepts the invitation. When they are eating at the dinner table with the family, the father is asking Patrisse questions such as "have you thought about what you want to be when you grow up?". She tells herself: “It is incredible. Who asks children such things and over a well-set table where all the family has gathered to eat, converse? I’ve only seen that in movies, on the TV shows I love, 90210. But this is real life and here I am.” And then she asks herself: "Have I ever known such a moment in my own home?"

White people’s economic and money-oriented mindset is well known around the world. White parents like to talk about money during mealtime, even when kids are around. In contrast to this first-world behavior of homo economicus, the majority of non-Western cultures highly value the eating time as something important if not sacred. It is the designated time for the family and loved ones.

Bib.

1. racism, european network against. ENAR Shadow Report 2014-2018. s.l. : ENAR - European Network Against Racism aisbl, 2018.

2. Pianigiani, Gaia. ‘Racist’ Killing of Nigerian Asylum Seeker Stuns and Saddens Italy. nytimes. [Online] July 7, 2016. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/08/world/europe/racist-killing-of-nigerian-asylum-seeker-stuns-and-saddens-italy.html.

3. Staff, Algemeiner. UK Jewish Communal Body Reports Record Number of Antisemitic Outrages During 2018. algemeiner. [Online] 2 7, 2019. https://www.algemeiner.com/2019/02/07/uk-jewish-communal-body-reports-record-number-of-antisemitic-outrages-during-2018/.

4. (UCR), The FBI's Uniform Crime Reporting. 2018 Hate Crime Statistics. United States Department of Justice. [Online] 2018. https://www.justice.gov/hatecrimes/hate-crime-statistics.

5. Rights, European Union Agency for Fundamental. Second European Union Minorities and Discrimination Survey (EU-MIDIS II) . Luxembourg: Publications Of ce of the European Union : European Union Agency for Fundamental Rights, 2017, 2017.

6. defenseurdesdroits. Enquête sur l’accès aux droits Volume 1 - Relations police / population : le cas des contrôles d'identité. s.l. : defenseurdesdroits, 2017.

7. Mijatović, Dunja. Ethnic profiling: a persisting practice in Europe . Commissioner for Human Rights. [Online] 2019. https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/ethnic-profiling-a-persisting-practice-in-europe#_ftnref5.

8. Ahmed, Nasim. A new civil rights movement unites Palestinians and Black Americans. middleeastmonitor. [Online] April 5, 2019. https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20190405-a-new-civil-rights-movement-unites-palestinians-and-black-americans/.

9. LoBianco, Tom. Report: Aide says Nixon's war on drugs targeted blacks, hippies. CNN. [Online] March 24, 2016. https://www.cnn.com/2016/03/23/politics/john-ehrlichman-richard-nixon-drug-war-blacks-hippie/index.html.

10. Nagle, Rebecca. The U.S. has spent more money erasing Native languages than saving them. newsmaven. [Online] Dec 6, 2019. https://newsmaven.io/indiancountrytoday/opinion/the-u-s-has-spent-more-money-erasing-native-languages-than-saving-them-qh2w3-wqPUCNqrGcblbHQg.

11. Taylor, Jen Marlowe and Je Naé. From Palestine to Ferguson: Reflections on shared grief and liberation. 972mag. [Online] Oct 1, 2018. https://www.972mag.com/october-2000-killings-black-palestine-solidarity-play/.

[ionahradicaldance]

This past week (give/take) in It Feels Like the World is Ending news…

This past week (give/take) in It Feels Like the World is Ending news…

Jordan Edwards, a young black boy is killed by the police and his family and friends are witness to and reprimanded/jailed after this tragedy.

The DOJ lets Alton Sterling’s killer walk. Yes also they charge a woman for resisting racist Jeff Sessions.

A police officer is shown assaulting a black teen on camera in a school outside Pittsburgh, PA. He takes the teen out of sight of security cameras to hide his heinous, racist, violent, vile, disgusting actions. Social media response asks not why the cop is not being reprimanded for abusing and assaulting a minor but what the teen did to deserve this…

Chay Reed, a black trans woman is killed in Miami. She is the ninth trans woman of color to be killed this year. The ninth. Trans woman off color. To be killed. This Year. That is like one every other week. Literally.

ICE came into Ithaca—the little “progressive” haven of Ithaca we love so much—a sanctuary city—and detained Jose Lopez Guzman, an undocumented individual living in Ithaca. People still debate those who should stay and those who should leave a place that was once always Indigenous and on which borders were constructed to concentrate power among rich white men.

Cheeto-Monster rolls back rights (for which the fight was not over to begin with) for LGBTQ folks and the House guts the neoliberal ACA.

Also Cinco de Mayo is approaching and so basically people are going to love on some corporatized, white-washed version of Mexican culture for profit while actual Mexican/Chicanx folks experience some large-scale worker rights abuses, massive systemic and interpersonal racism, and the possibility of communities and families ripped apart by Cheeto Monster’s border wall and ICE raids.

A lot is crappy right now. I got all sorts of worries. As a working-class queer woman with a mental health disability and resulting physical health ailments, I already struggle under this neoliberal agenda that tries to demand I adhere to its principles. I was not having it before and I am not having it now. Nahhhhhhhhh.

These rollbacks to LGBTQ rights—let us remember they will first impact trans women of color. Let us remember that gay marriage was not the last stop on the line on this fight for justice and that the fight has still been going on for some time. These rollbacks will impact cash poor and working-class folks the most because they/we have fewer employment protections. Let us remember that the healthcare repeal and replace plan is going to kill people—but not everyone all at once. No some will fare better and some fare worse than others. Racism and capitalism (which create poverty by design) leave a lot of cash poor/working-class folks of color (and cash poor/working-class white folks) without access to quality food (let alone the ability to afford that food… let alone have time to prepare that food ...) This is just one small example of many of how racism and capitalism impact health.

So why is this all important to remember? It is important because when we white folks say we feel the world is ending we can kind of ignore what is actually happening and the lived realities of people while we sit back and watch and pretend we are allies and say “the world is ending—Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!” When we examine climate change and say, “well geez the world is going to end anyway,” we ignore the fact that for some folks/some of us, the world has been seeming like that for a very long time and those folks/we have not given up. For many communities of color—like the Diné and black folks in Flint and Palestinians and so many others—that level of environmental destruction we think will happen in decades HAS ALREADY HAPPENED/IS ALREADY HAPPENING! But through all that there is such resilience. Folks are being resilient and resistive in so many creative ways relearning languages, redefining culture, creating art and stories, developing community—and through all of that is resistance and something new. So no. The world? It is not ending right now. Right now we are fighting for liberation.

It is crappy, crappy, crappy right now I am not going to lie. So I do not begrudge a person who needs to throw up their hands in despair and retreat for a minute. Do that. I am—I can barely write this right here let me tell you. But for those with relative privilege—my white cousins and friends out there, I am looking at us—can we just not? Can we not make this our excuse for not showing up? Because the world is not ending for all of us at the same rate. It really is not. And saying that ignores and centers our feelings when people have been doing some pretty resilient stuff for a long time living under and fighting back against the things that are just coming into view to those of us who have ignored them far, far too long. And we demand that emotional labor from those who have known this oppression and who also have been pretty much saving the rest of us by resisting this shi*t for so long. So much love to all those putting out that emotional and intellectual and spiritual and physical labor. The world sure does feel like it is ending. But I am sending out all the love I can muster to my queer community—especially my queer femme community and my friends and fam of color—sending out love to my working-class community even though a lot of us white working-class folks really need to get out of our dang way and remember we have been lied to for scraps of privilege, and lots of love out to all my friends and fam of color.

[walks-the-ages]

Listen, I'm not reading the long rants about "We're only going to care about the genocide of Palestinians when trump is doing it because when the guy in the blue hat who is currently committing genocide is doing it, it because he nebulously'has to' go above congresses head to send billions of more dollars in bombs for israel to kill civilians with and constantly spread disinformation that his own aides have to desperately correct as soon as he speaks them and his own staff and party have been abandoning ship for months now" --

You want your "third" option?

Here's a third option:

And you know what? There's another 6+ candidates running for President.

Do some actual research and actually listen to the actual fucking minorities and victims of the ongoing genocide you claim to want to protect.

You either shut the fuck up and stop trying to brow beat people into voting for a man committing genocide, or you sit the fuck down and internalize the fact that committing genocide is something you are now supporting and complicit in if you choose to vote for Biden.

You literally only care about your own self, and you either have to admit that and shut up or be left for e everyone to point to your posts in the future and wonder how fucking far a person has to fall to defend the shitstain that is Joe Biden, man committing genocide for 9 fucking months straight, who instead of using his power as President and cutting all military aid to Israel and enshrining abortion and queer rights, is instead sending billions and billions of dollars in weapons to israel, has US troops on the ground in Gaza taking part in massacres, spreading racist disinformation, has his aides and staff quitting in droves, and is such a bad, losing fucking canidate his party is begging him to step out of the race a

nd if you just go outside and ask the average fucing American what they think of Biden 9/10 are gping to tell you they hate that this man is running again with no fucking chance to win becuaze tge majority of the US population is not on fucking Tumblr being browbeat by genocidal, hitler-voting Liberals, theyre living their lives day to day and seeing what this man is like on national fuck8ng tv.

And no one is going to vote for a man who looks like hes going to fucking keel over on stage to the point most people are genuinely wondering if either of the candidates are even going to survive another term.

Nobody fucking wants Biden on the ticket except for Biden. When he loses the election he literally only has himself to fucking blame.

If you dont care about the ongoing genocide of Palestinians, thats your own problem. People who give a shit about humanity that exist outside our borders will be over here actually fighting for a better future where Genocide isn't on the ballot.

An anonymous genocidal shithead said, at 2:01PM June 20th 2024:

if Trump wins and gives the go-ahead to flatten Gaza because you people don't understand how the world works, that blood is going to be on the shared hands of everyone who helped him win by refusing to do ANYTHING to keep him out of office. i hope you know that. he will not bend to any sort of pressure, like Biden has been doing (political alliances don't work the way you want them to, nobody can just snap their fingers and force another country to do something). he will permanently mess up the election system. he will enthusiastically support the genocide of every country he doesn't like, as well as every group in the US he doesn't like (which is most of them). and you can bet he will ABSOLUTELY order the cops to kill anyone trying to protest anything he does. and you will have no right to say anything, because you couldn't even be bothered to learn how to spell "fascist" before you started throwing the word around at anyone who would prefer to retain their right to do anything about it.

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ok fashist

I'm literally just gonna spell it like that even more now just to piss you genocidal fucks off instead of just for the sake of my literal disability.

You can save everyone time by just typing out "I'm okay with genocide as long as I think it'll benefit me" next time.

Another white supremacist who wants to pretend they're helping Palestinians by ignoring them when they tell everyone not to reward the man literally comitting genocide against them as we speak.