#tw scientific racism

[x-manson-annotated]

X-Manson Annotated Chapter 5 - Part Six: "APOCALYPSE AND AUTISTIC PSYCHIC PROTECTION"

This fanfiction is fucking stupid. But we're almost done. The show must go on, everybody! :) We're going to be getting into some gross shit, but that's hardly new.

*Your U.N Secretary General, everybody. (Just joking, he doesn't look like this in the story, you'll see. it would be funnier if he did.)

**Cable and Xavier are biased in favor of psis. But now we're seeing further holes in the cult's internal mythology. this is showing that they were making things up as they went along.

***I don't totally see how autistic people can mirror psychic signals. But whatever, Doctor Benway.

*Nonverbal, they probably wouldn't have spoken even if born in more pleasant circumstances.

**They stopped actively trying after the twins?

***So Jean and Betsy and everyone else was probably still talking, possibly while being puppeted by Xavier or Cable.

James is referencing the psychologist "J.Phillippe Rushton" here. Or at least, he is the closest person I've found to matching this description. He ranked various ethnicities based on his Differential K Theory. In this theory, he attempted to "Explain the differences in intelligence, fertility, criminality, and sexual autonomy between the races". It goes without saying that it is racist pseudo-science.

Thought, I'm not entirely sure how this ended up being where the cult evolved. I think Benway put it in the story to add a bit more layers to it. Maybe the specificity of placing jews and first nations people at the bottom is a petty response by Xavier that's somewhat directed at Erich, Gabrielle, and the Proudstars?

The cult's racist dogma also explains why the new mutants are missing any reference to Roberto, but it doesn't account for the inclusion of Ororo and the "Arab Woman" in the fold. It also doesn't totally explain why Ororo wasn't cored like Jean. Is it because she isn't a psi?

****This explains why Kitty in the present hasn't had her period in years. She probably was given the crudest surgery on the planet. (If I had to guess, probably done by McCoy.)

20 children. That's only the ones found in the mansion. This isn't taking into account anyone born in the cult that reside outside in the town surrounding the mansion.

*This might be true, seeing as how there's evidence that the Kelly amendment has made few strides in terms of actual equality for mutants.

Could the children born in the cult possible not even be mutants? It's slim, but it might be true. Granted, Proudstar said that the cult killed children who were not born psychic, so human children probably wouldn't do well. So, a possible 20 psychic children have been sent away from the cult's influence?

*oh yeah, he sounds really intimidating, Ororo.

*Weird hobby to have.

ESN: Oh Ozymandias dear boy, could you select for me a set of those insane letters, I need a hearty chuckle this evening.

****This still seems to be the case with actual America.

*yeah.

*Typical cult paranoia?

**Maybe ESN is making himself smaller than his body actually is so that he doesn't actively physically intimidate people.

Goes without saying, real world Suez Crisis.

Erich used his abilities to make bombs, missiles, and planes not work?

I can see why that might be something to raise a fuss over.

*This seems very far in the past, but it would have felt like the immediate future to someone like Benway or ESN.

**Is this because these are places where nukes were actively used?

***Proactive response.

Amelia Vought is completely human?

[maddyaddy]

This is, for lack of a better word, an old-fashioned sort of racism that I don't usually see popularly bandied about. Usually, this sort of scientific racism masks itself through stuff like "IQ differences" and what not. That's typically laundered through liberal publications like the NYT that foolishly provide a platform for racists like Charles Murray. 'Fun' fact - this sort of thing is how the word 'Caucasian' came to popularly refer to white people in general, and not just Nakh/Nokhchi, Georgians, etc. The fetishization of 'Circassian beauty' is seen from the medieval period onwards. But in the 18th Century, the cranial shape of a particular Georgian woman was seen as the archetype of white beauty by Johann Friedirich Blumenbach, an anthropologist/zoologist. To put a long story short, Blumenbach believed that mankind originated with a white Adam and Eve in the Caucasus mountains. He thought that all other people-groups of differing skin colors were subjected to degeneration from environmental factors and were hence inferior. Thus, the term Caucasian entered into the lexicon of race science and is still used to this day.

not the coquettes literally reinventing nazi phrenology on tiktok

[kiristephens]

Name: Kiri Stephens Occupation: N/A Age: Appears 48; actually 48 Sexuality: Lesbian Species: Vampire Clan/Pack/Coven: Clan Lomidze Hometown: Auckland, New Zealand Relationship Status: Married (I guess??) Personality Traits: Intelligent, efficient, organized, patient, ruthless, calculating, standoffish, arrogant, vindictive

Biography (tw: racism/colonialism, kidnapping, torture, death)

Magic was something that Kiri was born into, though in her community, they didn't call it that. Her family comes from a long line of tohunga, Maori priests and healers who used the natural world and its abundances for their craft. However, it was never called witchcraft, for fear of persecution from settlers who already perceived them as primitive for their practices. Her own parents and siblings preferred to assimilate into the tidy little boxes that the world crafted for them, while Kiri craved learning more. She wanted to fill in the all of the gaps in knowledge left behind by colonial violence that stamped out anything that was different.

So at 18, she left Aotearoa behind and set off for the United States, seeking out an advanced degree in biochemistry while also learning all she could about her history and practices that have since been lost.

The wider world of the supernatural is opened up to her while she is trying to get her PhD in traditional Maori practices combined with the latest pharmaceutical endeavors, using it as a way to carve her way into the world she demanded. It is through this that she met an elder, someone who still seemingly held knowledge from a long-forgotten time, and eventually encourages Kiri to make her way to Port Leiry.

Once there, Kiri learned that the world was so much wider than she was initially led to believe. The Circle of the Phial welcomed her, and for the first time in her life, Kiri felt like she had a proper place somewhere. No longer was she chased away from knowledge that she felt entitled to know, and her mentor was thrilled to have someone to pass along said knowledge to carry on their culture, rather than led it fade away over time. Combined with Kiri's natural talent and her scientific background, she built a reputation for herself as particularly skilled with developing drugs and salves for illnesses and injuries, that were grounded in both traditional techniques as well as scientific advances. Kiri flourishes, reaching for higher goals and with them, riskier substances, particularly in ways to not only heal witches from attacks by other supernatural creatures, but to provide an offensive edge as well.

It's this ambition that has Kiri crossing into Westriver Gardens one day by herself, in search of a rare plant that had particularly potent numbing capabilities, originally local to her homeland but now transplanted into the Pacific Northwest. She doesn't anticipate being stopped by the owner of the Gardens herself, and is even more surprised that she manages to get away wholly unscathed. Rather than a threat, Laure proved to be the next person to change Kiri's life.

For the first time in decades, her ambition takes a backseat to this new development in her life. They dance around each other for months before taking the next leap, and after that, everything is history. She spends the next 12 years happily thriving in her relationship, and seeing what perks came with loving someone who was immortal. With it came bursts of creativity, unbound by issues of cost or material. The apothecary she runs leans into the tourist trap notions of spells and curses, while also providing all supernatural creatures with a variety of magical potions and enhancements. She reconnects with the family she thought she had walked away from, in the form of a niece and a protege. It's the closest thing to bliss that Kiri has ever been able to imagine.

What she kept secret from everyone, including her wife, were Kiri's recent experiments into new types of potions that, instead of enhancing traits, would work to suppress them. They were meant to be a means of easing this way of life to the people who were unwillingly brought into it. A potion to artificially flavor animal blood to mimic the qualities of a human or a witch, an elixir that allowed a wolf to sleep through the full moon in peace without the loss of control, a combination of herbs to help quiet the voices from the other side. An arguably noble motive, but one that could lead to disastrous consequences if exploited.

She never got far in these endeavors, sidetracked by the upcoming ceremony where she would transition from witch to vampire. She assumed that she would have eternity to continue working on such things, even without her natural magic.

The initial attack is a blur, iron tang in her mouth as an athame slices across her throat. Not deep enough to kill, but enough to spill the blood that is necessary for this ruse. She can still sometimes smell the way the crimson viscera poured out onto the concrete. She assumes it means her death.

She has never been so wrong.

When she wakes, she sees only her. For three years, she lives, solely at Lana's discretion. The vampire says it's because she needs a witch, to undo what another has done, but even if that was within her realm of magic, Kiri refuses. She languishes in the dark, provided updates on the outside world, on her wife, from a cruel voice, and she feels her mind begin to fray.

The masquerade is the final straw. Lana brings Kiri as her date, so she can see with her own eyes the indiscretions of her wife. She watches as Laure flaunts around a younger creature, a vampire, dressed in one of Kiri's favorite gowns. She watches as she dances with a human, whispering sweetly in her ear. She watches as her wife stands three feet away and is unable to hear Kiri's internal screaming while Lana bites into her neck.

At the end of the night, she returns to the cramped space that has become hers over the last several years. When Lana inevitably visits her, the pain and humiliation have twisted her into something inconsolable. So she begs, and Lana provides. It is a far cry from the detailed plan that she had created with her wife, but Lana takes her time. Shows her the closest thing to gentleness that she's felt in three years, and it ends with the snap of her neck.

Wanted Plots / Connections

TBA

[cowboylikedean]

Thereis a difference between everyone doing something problematic and being with a certified racist who said (TW: RACISM, SEXUAL ASSAULT) he gets off on the p*rn that actively humiliates black women in the most disgusting way(by white men ) after saying things like ' anyone who tolerates white supremacy is disgusting' and saying how much she cares about black community. Not hanging out with people who is actively damaging the community s the bare minimum she could do. And weren't you against Calvin because how much of a misogynist he was? No one is perfect can be applied in many places but this is not one if those

I could never be you

First of all, I know the whole fandom finds this cnc porn to be the most evil thing about him, but like I cannot. I'm sorry but there is 0 way, as in literally ZERO WAY, that what you like in FICTION (and porn is FICTION) means you like it in real life. That is now how it works. It isn't magically how it works with porn. Many many MANY studies have been done about this and there has not been a link proven between violence in porn and real life violent even inclinations. At absolute best, studies are inconclusive and contradict each other. The reality is, however, that the more scientific and unbiased a study is, the less it shows a relation. Studies that show high relationships are paid for by special interest (namely religious) groups. From a scientific perspective, I do not and will not ever use the porn someone watches as evidence that they are actually a bad person unless it is illegal and truly unconsensual. Ghetto Gaggers is not that. The women in these videos are consensual sex workers who agreed to this, and thus, watching it and enjoying watching it is not enjoying watching a literal sex crime. It's fiction. And what you like in fiction does not determine what you like in real life. You don't have to like what he does, I don't. But you can't pick and choose what consensual kinks to decide are actually morally bad. Consensual kink is not morally bad, it just isn't. That goes for kinks you don't like too.

Second, all the other things Matty has done are reprehensible in that he's a misogynistic edgelord who thinks he's cool kind of way. And I don't vibe! But getting dicked down by a dude who has not stopped talking about wishing he treated her right for fucking 9 years after the sudden loss of the most committed relationship she's ever had is not the same as dating calvin! like I hate to put it in those terms, but seriously, how many more ways does Tree have to tell you that they're literally just fucking and that to her, this is just sex? She's hooking up with him and they are having fun and Taylor has a long history of taking her mind off her problems with sex and so she's doing it again and like I can't be mad at her for it. Sorry, but I'm built different.

If it becomes something else, I'll adjust accordingly. But for now, I'm glad she's got someone consistent to get her mind off it and I hope she's well.

[meloncolliemovies]

POOR THINGS (2023)

Director: Yorgos Lanthimos

Emma Stone (Bella), Mark Ruffalo (Duncan Wedderburn) ,Godwin Baxter (Willem Dafoe)

2.5/5

REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS

TW// SEX, RAPE, RACISM (?)

The primary discourse I've heard about this film has been due to an inaccurate perspective on female empowerment through a cis male's eye, which I completely agree with. This film does miss the mark on what could be a truly empowering piece of art. However, in terms of cinematography, performance and mise en scene, it is stunning, visually interesting and quirky. I am always excited by steampunk stylistic choices, and Lanthimos creates a strange reality through this style. I especially give props to the costume design, it is really great in this film. I also really did enjoy the use of CGI, and that is unusual for me as I often prefer practical effects.

I would like to say this film was successful with it's ideas on feminism, which I'm sure many of you are talking about, but it also has a weak narrative ending, which unfortunately brings down my review and leads me to believe it is not successfully empowering. Viewers are led to believe that Bella Baxter will go on to become a doctor as soon as she quite literally declares to Godwin her interest in science and health. We are also led to believe that she goes on to become highly educated, finding joy in reading and studying, however, one thing that Lanthimos forgot to portray was the viewers actually being able to see this? By the end, we simply hear about her anatomy exam, she is not shown to do anything scientifically phenomenal, as we believe she will. The fact it is a film portraying feminism means it is important we see female success, but we don't. Another thing that makes this film fail on the womanhood mark is her final joys, she only finds happiness in a domestic setting or during sex, and her eventual happiness is set in an idyllic household where she orders other women about, and simply watches in domestic bliss, which just furthers the idea that women will not be successful unless they use their body or are told what to do. In terms of this film as a queer piece of art, I think Lanthimos was unsuccessful in showing the power of female on female sexuality, as despite Bella clearly enjoying her sex with Toinette, it is barely touched upon, and empowerment is not just found in pleasurable sex, despite what Lanthimos shows.

Another thing I would like to mention in 'Poor Things', is the lack of successful representation. I found the two black characters to be very two-dimensional, with Harry being an extreme pessimist, and Toinette being an extreme socialist who is just used for Bella's empowerment, suggesting that women can only have successful sex with other women, which in ways is accurate, but not entirely true. There is also a lack of successful representation of disability within this film, with unnecessary use of the r slur, and the one other disabled character we see, the man with a hook for his hand, his only plot device being that he gets beaten up by Duncan, a straight white man.

However, Mark Ruffalo and Emma Stone do an incredible job of portraying an exaggerated character, which made it much more interesting to witness as a film. As well as this, anyone with any media literacy can make judgement towards the Frankenstein allusions, and I believed them to be pretty successful, especially in the portraying of Wedderburn as Victor Frankenstein, and Godwin as well, God, which twisted the usual narrative of what is may I mention, an amazing book which stands the test of time, written by a woman. :)

My first reaction to this movie by the end, was that "it seemed like a film aimed for women, but made by a man." and it holds true. Bella is a wonderfully eccentric character to watch, however she continues to be infantilised throughout her sexual journey, and the fact she has a newborn brain is not touched upon well enough as a sensitive and difficult issue to navigate in her relationship with Wedderburn and with sex. Furthermore, the movie makes no attempts to make her seem like an adult woman apart from the physical appearance of her body. She has no menstrual cycle, she doesn't get pregnant, she doesn't get an STI and she has minimal body hair, which just further infantilises her, even into her prostitution journey, and is unrealistic. When I first watched this part of the movie, I thought that portrayal of her choice in sex work was successful. It was an empowering way of portraying sex work, however now I have thought about it more I believe that Lanthimos fails to give her any other choice, she is raised around sex and sexual nature, and gets no choice in the matter realistically.

This movie was an unfortunate failure for me, as I was excited. I find Lanthimos style constantly hot or cold, and I often think his narratives and ideas are unique in a way which is perhaps lost on me and many alike. Poor Things was unfortunately, not for me.

[stressedbeetle]

His name was Eric Mjöberg and this was not the first time he had taken bones it was also not unusual for his time. It was part of the so called "scientific racism" and eugenics in europe at the time. Thankfully though the bones were returned in 2004!

I'm reblogging this because I've been thinking about making a series of posts relating to the awful things swedes and sweden has done in the past and just sorta gotten away with.

It's a lot, unfortunately

but I would like to do it because I like history and also because I don't like that people don't know these things

but I do think it would be best to have a separate blog for that so if you're interested follow this blog: @swedensshamefulhistory

there was a swedish guy in like the early 1900s that literally just traveled to Australia, attended a funeral of an indigenous person and then HE CAME BACK A FEW WEEKS LATER TO DIG UP THE BONES TO KEEP IN HIS COLLECTION!!!!

DO YOU HEAR ME??!!!

HE WENT ON A FUNERAL AND THEN CAME BACK TO DIG UP THE BONES!!!!!!!

Thankfully the aboriginal people there had heard he had dug up bones previously and they moved the grave.

AND WHEN HE DISCOVERED THIS HE GOT MAD AND SAID THE ABORIGINAL PEOPLE COULDN'T BE TRUSTED

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

[beloved-not-broken]

Weird things I learned after studying Genesis 10 ("the table of nations")

until the "new world" was discovered, people mapped out the earth like a dinner plate (the technical term is a T and O map)

Noah's three sons were thought to have populated the three known* continents: Shem = (western) Asia, Japheth = (eastern) Europe, and Ham = Africa

people didn't stay in one place; they moved around a lot - sometimes thousands of miles to find new territory

And this is why we need context when we read the Bible, because the writers didn't know that eastern Asia, western Europe, the Americas, and Oceania existed.

TW: Racism

in the 1780s, historians at the University of Göttingen came up with three classifications of people: Semites (descendants of Shem), Hamites (descendants of Ham), and Japhetites (descendants of Japheth)

these historians also came up with color terminology for race - i.e. Caucasian and other outdated descriptions that became the basis of scientific/biological racism

remember how Ham is associated with Africa? the "curse of Ham" (based on Genesis 9:20-27) was used to justify enslaving black Africans even before the transatlantic slave trade was a thing

[james-vi-stan-blog]

i can‘t believe they got the smoking part wrong. this is really irking me…

I hope that was an offhand slip during an interview and not indicative of actual show content😬if James smokes in the show and they don't explain it away as hypocrisy I'll be soooo mad...

A Counterblaste to Tobacco is short and available full text free if anyone is curious and hasn't read it, and if the period English is difficult for you someone wrote a modern spelling version on English Language & Usage Stack Exchange.

Big TW racism but I was amazed at how, in 1604, James complained about peer pressure, correlation/causation, regression to the mean, anecdata, nonsensical claims of curing opposite conditions, etc., as regards trendy health hacks. IN 1604!!

Despite his many bad decisions (and, in Counterblaste in particular, scientifically wrong and racist premises), he really was a smart and savvy guy.

[yourfellowhuman07]

Medical Practices

A She-Ra: Princess of Power 2018 fanfiction

Hordak have never been to a doctor in his life, nor did he want to; however, after some convincing, he agreed. They know nothing about his illness nor how to treat it, so they need the advice of a professional. Now he and Entrapta are traveling to a doctor's office on a nearby planet, all the while King Micah is reluctantly chaperoning.

*Part Two to Where Do We Go Know?*

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Hi guys. We're back again.

TW: Depictions of Spacebat racism.

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Chapter 2: The Doctor Is In

Micah leaned on the back wall, bored out of his mind. He looked up at the happy couple ahead of him. Hordak was sitting in the captain’s chair flying the ship while Entrapta sat on the arm of the chair. She sat babbling on and on about scientific exploits, using words Micah could never decipher the meaning of, while Hordak smiled back and occasionally interjected with his ideas. He occasionally glanced back at Micah but otherwise ignored him.

The sight made Micah’s chest tighten. His eyebrows knitted together and his mouth was pulled back into a thin line.

He couldn’t understand why Hordak of all people got to have someone while he was left alone. Hordak’s family wasn’t ripped apart by war. Hordak wasn’t left to fend for himself in a place unknown to him where everything was out to kill him. Micah knew he was no saint, but he couldn’t understand why he was denied the love of his life while Hordak got to settle down with his.

Micah stopped himself in the middle of his spiral, taking a deep breath. He knew he would get his Angella back soon, but the wait was unbearable.

Another thing he couldn’t understand was why they were there in the first place. No one in the Alliance knew why the couple needed to go to space. Entrapta was incredibly vague about their plans, but she made it abundantly clear it was important. The Alliance was immediately suspicious, so sent Micah to make sure they didn’t do anything wrong, whatever that may be.

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Hordak stood at the door of the ship as it slowly opened. He fidgeted with the buttons on his right sleeve until lavender strands of hair wrapped around his left arm and braided their way through his fingers. The tension in his shoulders dissipated as he looked at his beloved. She gave him a warm, encouraging smile.

The door fully slid open, revealing a large, silver building with dozens of windows. A large sign had the words medical facility written in Eternian.

Micah's eyes widened, fully realizing where the couple had taken him. He looked up at Hordak the down to Entrapta trying to figure out why on Etheria they would need to visit a hospital.

To add to his confusion, Micah looked at the people surrounding the building. It was mainly humans, save for the few alien species. Their clothing was bizarre, creating striking, geometric silhouettes. Their hair was dyed in a rainbow of colors, matching the sculpted, gaudy makeup caked on their faces. They spoke in a language that had a similar tone and pronunciation akin to Etherian common, even some of the words being the same; however, their accent was so strange to the point neither Entrapta nor Micah could understand them. These people were nothing like the people of Etheria.

Exiting the ship the trio got a better look at the strange planet. Ships of many shapes and sizes flew above their heads. Various colored metallic buildings lined the street. Holograms of ads glittered against the purple sky.

Entrapta was in awe of all she saw. Tech coated every surface of this world. Some of the tech teaming with magic goes far beyond anything on Etheria. It was all so mesmerizing, and she could be here for hours just observing the tech. But, she was there for Hordak, not for tech.

The trio entered the hustle and bustle of the hospital lobby. Many individuals looked up at Hordak with a mix of bewilderment and disgust and began to whisper with the people surrounding them. 

Hordak went up to the desk where a lady with long lashes and purple lips looked up. A distasteful look crossed her face before her plastic customer service smile masked her face.

“Hello, I have come for my appointment with Dr. Alore.” He stated, ignoring the woman’s aversion to him.

“Ah yez, you are zey Bastipt zat he was talking about. Zour name?” She asked, stressing every “z” and “e” in her speech.

“Orion Hordak Lightyear.” He replied his mouth a thin line.

The mask of forced cordiality dissolved from her face. She glanced at the two security guards at the door. Hordak sighed. He should have known choosing the most popular name the universe gave him would get him unwanted recognition. He looked back at the woman. Her face was a melting pot of disgust, fear, and animosity.

She slips a piece of paper across the desk and quickly snaps her hand back to her side.

“Zign there.”

“Thank you.”

He quickly signed his name in his sharp cursive. He went to sit on a chair next to Entrapta, but he was stopped by a woman placing her purse on the seat. He looked at her face which was contorted into a menacing scowl as she held her son close to her chest.

Guilt gnawed at his chest as he went to stand in a corner out of the way. He couldn’t blame any of them for their mistrust. He would be miffed too if a planet-destroying warlord demanded the sympathy of healthcare. He tried not to think about his past too much to avoid spiraling. He hated what he had to do for Prime. Tearing apart families. Killing worlds. It formed a heavy feeling in his gut and a lump in his throat. It made him want to die.

Maybe I should just-

His train of thought was cut off by lavender hair wrapping around his left arm and two gloved hands pressing against his own hands.

“You ok?”

“I am fine, darling. You should go sit back down. You do not have to stand for me.”

“No thanks. Besides, you know I can’t sit for long.”

“You care for me too much.”

“Someone has to.”

Hordak’s lips quirked slightly up. He brought Entrapta’s hand up to his mouth and kissed it. Out of the corner of his eye, he could see the mother covering her child’s eyes.

“Lightyear, Orion.” Called a small, tan woman with large poofy hair tied back in a ponytail.

“Yes?” Hordak stood in front of the woman. Her face dropped when she saw the tall, imposing man.

“Right this way.” Her voice was barely above a whisper.

After waving goodbye to his beloved, Hordak followed the small woman down a clean, white hallway filled with doctors and patients running about.

She took his height and weight, which had to be estimated after informing her of his cybernetics,  then his temperature and blood pressure. Afterward, she led him to a small room and with a quiet voice told him to sit on a bed covered in paper and wait for the doctor to arrive.

As the minutes alone went by, Hordak’s anxiety rose. His fists balled into his pants, creating wrinkles for him to deal with later. Every time footsteps neared the door his ears would perk up before dropping when the person walked away.

He was about to give up hope the doctor would ever come until he heard the door handle click.

In walked a short, round man with long, auburn, save for a few grey hairs, flowing hair, and a big bushy beard.

“Ollo,” he looked at his clipboard, “Orion, how are zou today?” His voice was as chipper as a songbird. His smile was wide and his eyes were sparkling. He was happy, too happy.

What kind of doctor had Entrapta found for him?

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Ok, first of all, I'm ignoring any and all lore from the original She-Ra and He-Man shows and any other pieces of media. I don't have the time or funds to go out and find these old shows. All due respect to those who do, but it just isn't my cup of tea.

Secondly, yes the citizens of this unnamed Eternian colony are based on the capital citizens from The Hungar Games.

Thirdly, the name "Bastipt" is not the name of Hordak's species. It's something much more insulting.

Thank you all for reading this and dealing with my irregular updates.

[aloeverawrites]

So he was antisemitic at that point, that's what I'm hearing. If someone asks if you believe in a bigotry, and you redefine that word and blame the minority group for certain social problems, that's being bigoted towards that group.

If someone asked a guy "are you racist?" and he said "I don't believe in race there's only the human race, and also black people need to lower the rate of black on black crime and they only accuse you of racism to distract from that" I'd be like okay yeah that guys a racist.

Short history of the term anti-semitic and tw for nazi mention:

"The term anti-Semitism was coined in 1879 by the German agitator Wilhelm Marr to designate the anti-Jewish campaigns underway in central Europe at that time. Nazi anti-Semitism, which culminated in the Holocaust, had a racist dimension in that it targeted Jews because of their supposed biological characteristics"

"This variety of anti-Jewish racism dates only to the emergence of so-called “scientific racism” in the 19th century and is different in nature from earlier anti-Jewish prejudices."

Also taking into account other things Malcom X has said about Jewish people, I do think he was at least a bit anti-semitic at least at that time. "This is because they [Jews] know that they control 90 percent of the businesses in black communities, from the Atlantic to the Pacific. "

He was the national representative of the Nation of Islam, a group that is very anti-semitic (and homophobic) and had been seen by some as organised again.

We don't have to support antisemitism to support the people of Palestine. We shouldn't to dismiss anti-semitism as just reactions to criticism of "the Jews". As a whole the Jews don't do anything except be Jewish. We can't assign actions and intentions to a whole group of people.

And from what I know he became less anti-semetic.

"I totally reject Elijah Muhammad’s racist philosophy, which he has labelled ‘Islam’ only to fool and misuse gullible people as he fooled and misused me. But I blame only myself, and no one else for the fool that I was, and the harm that my evangelical foolishness on his behalf has done to others."

"my dearest friends have come to include all kinds — some Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Hindus, agnostics, and even atheists!"

It's important to remember that civil rights groups are not immune to anti-semitism including black empowerment groups. Like Louis Farrakhan who was also part of the NOI and said things like:

“the Satanic Jews that control everything and mostly everybody, if they are your enemy, then you must be somebody.” “The Jews, a small handful, control the movement of this great nation, like a radar controls the movement of a great ship in the waters … the Jews got a stranglehold on the Congress.” And “Osama Bin Laden didn��t destroy the Twin Towers. that was a false flag operation to take the world’s attention away from the great disunity in America after George W. Bush stole the election.” "homosexuality is 'created by Satan and his manipulation of biology and chemistry.'" “Those of you that say that you are Jews, I will not even give you the honor of calling you a Jew. You’re not a Jew. You’re so-called. You’re Satan. And it’s my job now to pull the cover off of Satan.” "[Hitler was] a very great man"

There's a lot to criticise about the treatment of Palestine without supporting views that were created by bigots like this and that are now regretted by the person who said them.

Conflating human rights with hate is just harmful to the efforts of human rights activism.

[reginaldqueribundus]

Where do you stand on the r4cs0 issue? I mean, I'm sure you don't care about his rampant homophobia, transphobia, dendrophobia and racism. But you can't really support his attitude toward animals can you? Aside from the constant trolling of vegans, he brags about the fact that he lives in a remote area of Idaho where there is no real law enforcement, so he gets away with hunting endangered grey wolves and decapitating geese. Google it! Look up "Idaho Geese Massacre."

[chaserofstarsandtheabyss]

Taking a catholic theology class is weird because I’ll agree with 75% of what I’d said and then the teacher will say something and I just know that argument is used against minorities or to scare people into doing something

But that might just be my bigot of a teacher

[beatingtheouijaboardallegations]

( saw person also spam on system blogs article from same writer about “ DID not real “ which gross and wrong. )

look up this writer and he very much also case of “heartbreaking: the worst person you know just make great point.” wrote book called “cult of smart” about how society over values intelligence and leave behind people with intellectual disabilities. which really agree someone should write book about that! but apparently actual point he make is that intelligence 100% genetic and connect to race. old old eugenics scientific racism bad bad bad. he also a white guy who know for complain about abolish police and black lives matter movement so all around bad person )

but agree agree agree idea of “ intact mind “ in every autistic person label as severe ableist , that nonspeakers who problem mainly “ just physical ” leave rest of us behind. . bread actually first person saw say similar thing. so this IS discuss here and this person just scream into void.

but if read further ( which should not have do was triggering but once start read can’t stop ) the issues he talk about are 1) how some disabled people “ need ” to be pay less than minimum wage 2) how guardianship is always good and 3) how FC entire bad bad bad no nuance. the book is written by head of horrible group called national council on severe autism which whole point is to take away rights and target autistics with high support needs. so could lead to good point but it pro-anon source not reliable source.

second article actual disgust gross bad awful. it about old case of parent murdering her autistic kid. it claim to not defend murder but say that she murderer’s “ most active supporter “. this is quote from article TW for bad bad horrific ableism:

And yes, we grieve for the original tragedy that underlies them all, that Issy was born with a profound disability that left her intellectually disabled, completely dependent, with greatly impaired functioning that will no doubt preclude any semblance of an independent adult life.

this horrendous. say that severely disabled person life more tragic than her death. anon you are fucking evil if this what you promote. go away and leave disabled people here alone.

warning people goingnotsurpassing create new blog to get around anon off & being blocked again

new username is chasingthecloudsworld

[kny111]

"I’ve had several inmates tell me that they’ve been to see the doctor and they’ve had hysterectomies and they don’t know why they went or why they’re going,” Wooten said in the report. She also noted how ICDC consistently uses one out-of-facility doctor, who is responsible for the hysterectomies in addition to accidentally removing the wrong ovary in one patient."

[nihiltism]

hello mutuals and beloved friends and also the rest of you. I have an announcement.

the hatoful boyfriend series currently costs less than a vaguely complicated order at starbucks on steam and will continue to until november 29th. if you have Any interest in the games at all, Especially if its morbid curiosity or just for the funny, i could not recommend it more.

do you want to play a game where you date talking pigeons? no? great! because here we are! theres actually a lot more to it than that but part of the point of the game is to go into it for The Silly so i'll just say that it is a Lot more than it appears. like, not just "it gets dark and scary" like I personally expected it to get, as you get further on it actually does become a drama and mystery so much better crafted than it had any right to be or had advertised itself as. it's just the perfect storm and I look deranged whenever I talk about it being an actually superbly written game series and hey! if you play it, you too can look deranged!

note: I will say though that hatoful boyfriend is A Lot. like. it has a tw list and it is a lot. you can look up specifics on does the dog die, but the general tw list goes as follows.

(put under a readmore, in case you want to go in blind or don't mind, though just the tws aren't inherently spoilers)

🕊 is for hatoful, 🌠 is for holiday star

- war 🕊

- genocide 🕊

- suicide 🕊 (including coerced suicide 🌠)

- murder(decapitation/dismemberment)🕊

- Arguable Cannibalism 🕊

- guns 🕊���

- terminal illness 🕊

- bioweaponry 🕊

- pursuing monster based horror 🕊

- unreality 🕊🌠

- scientific experimentation based horror🕊

- Bird Racism 🕊🌠

- childhood trauma 🕊🌠

- parent death 🕊

- infanticide 🕊🌠

- emotional manipulation 🌠

- unhealthily codependent relationships 🌠

- death of a romantic interest 🕊

- parental abuse 🕊

- death by fire 🕊🌠

- death by drug overdose 🌠

- there's like 2 teacher/student routes 🕊

[mermaidsirennikita]

Hello, I know this is very cliché but would you recommend me books like Devil In Winter? Not really much about the trope of convenient marriage but more about their personalities, you know, the Rake and the shy but sometimes stand up to him

Not cliche--classic!

If you're looking for a rake paired off with a kind of "shy but strong" type, I'd recommend:

Indigo by Beverly Jenkins--Galen is a true blue rake, and Hester is a virgin who's kind of quiet but definitely strong. She works within the Underground Railroad, whereas he directly "steals" enslaved people so that they can be free, which leads to them working together. TW: obviously, this is set in pre-Civil War America and both the hero and heroine (but especially the heroine) are subjected to racism quite often.

To Seduce A Sinner by Elizabeth Hoyt--This is a marriage of convenience book. The hero is a dissolute rake (and war veteran with PTSD) who needs an heir, and the heroine offers him marriage because she's always loved him from afar. She's very prim and proper and quiet in the daytime, and a freak in the sheets, which takes him aback. TW: hero was a POW in the American Colonies and underwent some pretty graphically described torture.

How to Steal A Scoundrel's Heart by Vivienne Lorret--The hero is a rake and the heroine is a quiet woman who's fallen on hard time after being ruined. He's into her, so he offers to make her his mistress for four months. Love ensues.

Scandalous Desires by Elizabeth Hoyt--The hero is a pirate king and a rake, and he semi-kidnaps the heroine, a quiet widow who runs the orphanage he left his illegitimate child at. One of my all time favorites, extremely hot and high emotion.

The Wallflower Wager by Tessa Dare--The hero is a total rake, and the heroine is the kind of shy, quirky girl who likes to rescue animals. They're neighbors, and he wants her to find new homes for her animals, and sets out to help her with it. TW: the heroine experienced sexual abuse as a child.

The Serpent Prince by Elizabeth Hoyt--The heroine picks up the hero on the side of the road when he's been left for dead and nurses him back to health. She's the shy virginal type, he's a flashy rake.

One Good Earl Deserves A Lover by Sarah MacLean--The heroine isn't super quiet, but she is very nerdy and scientific. She asks the hero, a famous rake, to educate her on sex before she gets married. He agrees--but he'll only educate her.... verbally.

Nine Rules to Break When Romancing A Rake by Sarah MacLean--Classic, of course. The heroine is a spinster who wants to experience the world. The hero is a total rake who agrees to help her experience it if she helps his little sister come out in society.

The Devil of Downtown by Joanna Shupe--The hero is this rakish crime lord type, whereas the heroine is a kindly, upper class girl who devotes herself to helping people in need.