#tw: anti native racism mention
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panlight · 2 years ago
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The marketed love triangle is something I still get so frustrated about. I never once got the impression that Jacob actually stood a chance as a fair love interest. I enjoyed the parts of New Moon where Bella and Jacob felt more like actual teens and I wish SM cared enough to flesh that out and actually show Bella starting to move on from Edward and seriously date Jacob. Only in fics did I get the sense that Bella cared about the wolves. I'm still so upset that SM turned Jake into a creep!
My hot take continues to be that SM ruined Jacob not because she wanted to make sure everyone saw Edward was the better choice, but BECAUSE she was trying to make him more like Edward. Not necessarily in terms of personality, but like, intensity. I think she thought that happy, sunshiney, sure sure , warm soda and candy hearts Jacob doesn't come off as a real rival to "YOU ARE MY LIFE NOW" and "MY LIFE WAS LIKE A MOONLESS NIGHT" Edward. So Jacob become Eclipse!Jacob and Seth is promoted to the role of happy sunshine boy (even though his dad just died????).
I also think the kisses are Like That because SM REALLY wanted Jacob/Bella to kiss but she didn't want Bella to "cheat" on Edward, so she had to contrive these kisses and it makes Jacob look terrible.
Did SM run head-first into a whole host of anti-native stereotypes and tropes as she did all this? Oh yes. But I don't think it was a calculated "bwahaha I'll make Jacob look bad!" thing I think it was "I will make him seem more serious and intense about his feelings! Oh and also I want them to kiss but I don't want Bella to look bad," and biases manifested in the process.
But yeah I mean it was pretty clear she was always going to choose Edward and end up as a vampire. And I agree that only in fics do I really get the sense she actual cared that much about the wolves and as I've said before I feel similarly about the Cullens; I just don't buy that she actually cared about them individually other than maybe Alice. They were just another 'perk' of becoming a vampire, an instant family to be a part of. The wolves are just a 'perk' of being Jacob's friend, another group of people willing to put their lives on the line to protect her.
I can't explain SM choice with the imprinting, though. I mean I guess in Forever Dawn when Jacob was a minor character, just a family friend with a low-level crush it wouldn't . . . okay I'd still hate it because I can't get behind imprinting on children no matter how many times SM says it's innocent. But at least it's not like Breaking Dawn, where Jacob has become a major character, one of the NARRATORS even, and then she throws out all his development as the character who championed free will and choice and humanity by having him STILL imprint on Bella's half-vampire nightmare baby as originally planned.
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cree-n-jewish-thoughts · 4 days ago
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Wife saw the how racist my native post got and is now super upset.
My wife and I are both First Nations.
She is begging people to sit and listen as first nations children/ young adults ages 5-25, are the most human trafficked people in the world, the least population reported missing, they make up one of the smallest populations but the largest group to be incarcerated, often we are met with police brutality.
Sit the fuck down, and shut the fuck up.
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butch-bakugo · 22 days ago
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White people the second a native asks them to care about native issues and stop just exclusively focusing on white LGBT issues inside their little bubbles:
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Btw this is STILL in response to that post from three yrs ago where I went off on white LGBT pple specifically for skipping my posts about the 7,000 dead native children buried in unmarked graves at a singular Canadian residential school and the fact that's just a drop in the bucket as there's still over 80 more schools to be checked and the number with the 8 they already had was over 10,000...
But that's not important cause I called out your whiteness and performative support of POC because "reblog-guilting is infinitely worse than the genocide of native children that specifically aimed at killing children in horrific ways! 😞😞😞" . That's how you sound.
People are still upset about 2 paragraphs I said 3 YEARS AGO that didn't even include my signature cursing, shit, I didn't even insult anyone. I didn't call anyone names. I didn't even name names. All I said was if you can be an activist for BLM or antifa or, including now, Palestine, you can reblog either the post it's on about native people or the post without the pictures with fake blood. White people, specially white LGBT people, ARE STILL upset about that to such a degree that they send me anons telling me to kill myself.
If you're still sitting at home wondering if native Americans really are experiencing daily racism like all other POC, is this enough evidence for you? We arnt extinct and we won't be quiet like you. Stand up for native issues. Educate yourself. learn the history of the land you stand on. Support land back.
Stand with native people or get the fuck out.
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bludgeoningbabe · 2 years ago
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Tw; mentions of YJJ cronies previous anti-indigenous racism
So for context, somebody runs a fnv companion poll bracket and sets up a blog for it, is kind of whack about it because:
1) they have some really vocal bias against Cass for being kind of homophobic (kind of fair but they did blow it out of proportion a bit)
2) they called arcade a twink (lol) and doubled down on it when people were like "this is objectively wrong"
3) swung the bat at the hornets nest of the Fallout 4 fandom by saying something along the lines of "ACAB includes Nick Valentine"
4) and this is my personal gripe, saying something along the lines of "if you dont follow/vote/reblog ill send a punch lesbian to get you". I assume they meant Veronica (they kept calling Veronica that) but I do genuinely hate when ppl down lesbians to aggresive characteristics nonstop. It makes me not want to get to know you irl.
And the person behind this blog shuts it down before the semifinals because YJJ's besties find out abt the blog and start dogpiling on it. But ONLY for the Cass thing.
These are the same group of people who chastised people for mob mentality when more than one person was like "hey why is your bestie super racist"
These are the same group of people who dogpiled on a mixed indigenous person (going so far as to threaten their unborn baby and hoping they miscarry) for calling out YJJ's anti-native racism.
Like dont get me wrong, the person behind the poll was kind of whack. But they also sounded a little young (this is an assumption, i dont actually know) so i just blocked and moved on.
But a bunch of thirty somethings were so indignated for specifically the Cass thing (calling this bland white woman homophobic is the last straw but not threatening to kill someones unborn child i guess) that they preseumably dogpiled on this one person, they probably sent nasty anons knowing their history, and are now celebrating their brave defense of some bland white character that didnt really need that much defending in the first place (outside of tumblr, Cass is like the number one most liked female FNV companion)
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coridallasmultipass · 10 months ago
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TW for racism and genocide of Native Americans
Today I learned that the original "The only good _, is a dead _," was "The only good Indian, is a dead Indian." And it really sucks that now I know this information.
Looks like it's speculated to be attributed to one specific Union general due to his actions, but it was more likely just a common anti-Native sentiment of the time held by a lot of the settlers, not just one person.
Like I know I hear 'the only good snake, is a dead snake' most often since I love being in snake discussion groups, which also sucks because I love snakes, and they shouldn't be killed.
But I've also heard like 'the only good Nazi, is a dead Nazi.' And like, I So agree with that, fuck Nazis, but I don't want to think about the original phrase being reclaimed like that for a laugh, no matter how much I agree that Nazis suck.
It should stay as horrifying and sickening as 'the only good Indian, is a dead Indian' in my opinion. I think we should retire the phrase entirely and just note that, that was the origin of it - the continued genocide of Native Americans during the 1800s when settlers were eager to get rid of us so they could claim property for themselves while forcing us into insufficient reservations as US America expanded westward.
This book I'm reading describes that the usual retaliation for the theft of a cow would have been the execution of an entire Indian village. One specific horrifying example given, is from accounts of a traveler that joined a group of Mexicans pursuing Indians (Chumash) in possession of stolen horses. They come across a group of some old Indians, women and children, drying the horse meat. Every last one was killed, and their ears cut off as proof for the priests that they made every effort to retrieve the horses.
This shit is so sickening. They were hungry and trying to survive.
It also describes how the accounts of Indians from my tribe before the mission system were all about how generous and welcoming they were. (Though, it was through the lens of the Spanish who saw us as ideal candidates for conversion because of this.) Then after the collapse of the missions and post-assimilation, the accounts simply describe the Indians' drunkenness and disorder. What did you expect???? You assimilate a group of people so they're entirely reliant on you (the rigid structure of the mission system and the dismantling of their previous tribal villages), and then suddenly turn them out to a world without their previous villages and social order. Of course they're going to struggle and suffer and abuse the drugs (alcohol) you introduced them to.
I hate this so much.
The book also mentions how, during the mission period, anyone who ran away from the missions to go back to their original tribal lives, would be dragged back to the missions and cruelly punished with restraints, lashing, or stocks, and they couldn't understand why because punishment was exceedingly rare before Spanish rule.
Ugh. Anyway.
I'm going to bring this up any time I hear anyone mention that phrase, because the horror of that time period should not be diminished in its modern reclamation. ('Diminished,' because I, a 30yo Native American, did not even know the origin. I thought it was a modern phrase. Our local Native history was always glossed over in school to focus on the mission system. I didn't even learn of my tribe's revolt until like 2016 when I went to a lecture my tribe held.)
I get that reclamation is supposed to be like a good thing, to take away the power of its original use, but I personally don't think that's appropriate for this phrase that was used as a rally for genocide.
Maybe I'm just being a sensitive baby, though, who knows! I'm crying while reading a history book about my tribe. This shit really hurts deep, though. It always has.
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quotemenevervore · 2 years ago
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What happened with quackity?
OH BOY (tws for racism, threats, doxxing, and mentions of abuse, along with panic attacks)
first things first: he has a mod on QSMP that has racial undertones to native people. As far as I’m aware, he still has that mod on the server.
Then, he’s ghosted Dream completely about the situation between Dream’s international server ( USMP) and Q’s international server (QSMP). As far as I’m aware, he never told Dream he was planning on making a server, Dream asked him if he wanted to be on his. Quackity refused, then started ghosting Dream as things escalated. He spoke up and said that nobody from QSMP could join USMP once the translation mod was released. Multiple people, and I mean MULTIPLE, tried to reach out to Q to get this taken care of, and he has refused to speak to anyone regarding the situation. At this moment of time, his fans, and dream antis, are doxxing and sending death threats to Dream, his teenage sister, and his parents. Quackity went like today and the only thing he spoke of about the ‘situation’ (after Dream tweeted about it after not being able to stay quiet about it any longer as his fucking family’s life is at risk) was to say “if people wanna communicate, they will” indicating he has no intention of reaching out or revealing his side.
Three: he’s invited a known abuser to the QSMP.
Now, I would love more than anything to say that “oh, this surely is a misunderstanding on every front” and at the end of it, I hope it’s simply just not knowing. But until Quackity comes forward and addresses this, I cannot in good faith write about him or his character.
(This doesn’t even mention the fact that the second situation is exactly what happened between me and my ‘friends’, in which I was put into a horrifying mental state thanks to the fight and then their refusal to reach out about it when I tried to and was ignored. It rubs me the wrong way, and this situation alone has already caused me a panic attack just for that similarity alone.
And I may be white, but I can’t just sit back and watch someone be racist, whether he knows or not. I know it’s been brought to his attention, but I have yet to see him address the mod. As a matter of fact, people on his server even began saying racist things about native people. Like, dude, you can’t ignore that shit.)
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allwithagrainofsalt · 1 year ago
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So I'm watching Princess Weekes' video about confederate vampires (watch it fr) and I wanna expand upon smth they mention about the explicitly White American Confederate storytelling in,
Drumroll please...
Firefly.
Now first: I LOVE Firefly. It's an incredible show and in fact I think it's a beautiful and inspirational piece of political art in many ways, and I'm gonna talk about that part a little bit at the end. But mainly, why did I hear the comparison and immediately start to have 50 puzzle pieces click? Well. This essay got long, and to be honest idk how much I might be repeating others cuz PW mentioned it due to others talking about it too, but I just kinda took a journey of my own off-the-dome observations based on things I've already read about/know. I hope it's an interesting journey for you too.
TW below the Readmore: discussion of colonial / military violence; discussion of Sexual Assault
We are looking at a world of cowboys in the stars, in which there was a recent Civil War. In fact, we're set in a "real life future," where the majority remaining galactic race stems from the great American Empire. We do get influences of Chinese culture with language and clothing, but remember that Spaghetti Westerns of the 1960s - which themselves romanticized the values of independent, libertarian southerners (who massacred Indians and no-good loiterers - we'll talk about that later) - heavily utilized "Oriental" aesthetics and caricatures while dehumanizing the Asian people they were ostensibly in relationship with. After all, Asian Americans were a growing population in the landscape of the Western frontier, often working alongside your storybook railroad workers, gold seekers and, even further east than Pacific coastal industries, working & living alongside cowboys. However, the language of Western-genre films (because of the way it mirrors the language of Confederates) does not respect Asian culture as it is, but rather as a collection of "wisdoms" and aesthetics to pick apart and use the "good parts" of - for use by white people in their white expansion. This idea fits a bit uncomfortably well with Firefly's multiple white characters who are "orientalized" by the camera. Kaylee, Inara, and the Tam siblings fulfill various stereotypes and tropes of Chinese- and other Asian-American diaspora people groups. The show, in this way, offers the "diverse" presence of a Chinese influence... using actors of Italian, Irish, German, and possibly Latine background to fill the roles. This makes the Firefly universe look less of a pacifist future between Western and Asian cultures, and more like a colonized universe where the (white) Western colonialists maintain some practices of those forward-thinking Asians who came before them.
But! You may say! Firefly isn't quite so white as that. What about the POC in the show!? Beyond its treatment of the de/re-Orientalization of a decidedly American/Western future, what about Firefly's real interracial representation, like Zoe Washburne and Shepherd Book? I would argue the inclusion of these unapologetic and kind black activist ideas is part of what begins to bring this show towards something more agreeable, but I also think they are at risk of becoming a bit of an obfuscation of a deeper anti-black racist remnant that remains entrenched in the show's Confederate story influences...
We need to talk about Reavers.
Joss Whedon admitted that Reavers were influenced by the role Native Americans played in traditional Westerns. "Every story needs a monster," he said in an interview. "In the stories of the old west it was the Apaches." It's pretty clear how the Reavers, who rape, murder, skin and cannibalize those of the "civilized world" are constructed from the specific racism against Black and Indigenous groups in America. Depictions of cannibals and savages in media have always been constructed to dehumanize those on the outskirts - whether it's the Apache threat Whedon mentions from the Wild West, or indigenous tribes of Africa or South America in any media, or the "terrifying" blackfaced "black" characters in Birth of a Nation, the horror trope of "uncivilized bands of roving lunatics who self-mutilate and can't communicate with their words" is pretty inseparable from its own racist origins. For centuries Europeans have been making "demons" out of pagans and indigenous people for their battle tactics or necropolitics, while simultaneously working hard to entrench our own atrocities in "necessities of the time." For one example, think of the fear associated with "headhunter" displays versus the still-controversial but more civilized-presenting "harsh peacekeeping" of public hangings. What is the difference between these practices besides a different eagernesses to contextualize the practice? I don't argue in favor of punitive violence for cultural purposes here, but it's important not to lose the contextualization of these tropes' origins in the social messaging of popular media. And in fact, the Reavers show an interesting way that the criminalization of Black and Indigenous Americans ties closely to the way we talk about the incarcerated and the mentally ill. I'm frankly not much more satisfied by the Reavers being an embodiment of "space madness" than I would be if they were straight up just Native Americans, or runaways from enslavement. American culture is great at coming up with "madnesses" which are really just the pushback to dehumanizing and unjust regimes. I'm not saying that the logic of the show would allow Reavers to receive constructive community-based mental health support involving free medicine and good therapy. But in a show that claims to be in favor of the marginalized and their voice for power, it's weird that this doesn't come up, right? Do the monsters in our media need to be irredeemable to work as narrative tropes? I would argue, once again, the inclusion of this Western and frankly genocidal trope (and if you think the Reavers are NOT a genocidal story trope, let me know what paths the narrative offers as a solution besides killing them immediately and indiscriminately when given the chance.) works to build a world-feel that's less "for the people" and more "for the justified, downtrodden warriors who know right from wrong," which is a very confederate line of thought.
Although Firefly highlights some literal black voices in their main cast, the plotline of the show is much the same as a confederate apologist story. Some people are more worthy of life than others in this tale - others who are too animistic and uncivilized; or who are simply left behind by the inevitable march of the white, righteous underdog ideologies. And these bold, brave rebels from the Civil War which recently happened are still around, just waiting to reassert their power and their independent desires from the empire. The Confederacy of the US was a white, ethno-nationalist and fascist state, admittedly so by their own politicians. It provided ideological groundwork for Nazi Germany and preceded much of the pseudoscience of phrenology. The Confederate position was based on white supremacy nearly entirely, and argued for the most racist version of a "globalist" idea possible. As evidence, here's some of the Cornerstone Address presented by Alexander Stephens, the "vice president" of the Confederacy: "Many governments have been founded upon the principle of subordination and serfdom of certain classes of the same race; such were and are in violation of the laws of nature. Our system commits no such violation of nature's laws. With us, all of the white race, however high or low, rich or poor, are equal in the eye of the law. Not so with the negro. Subordination is his place. He, by nature, or by the curse against Canaan, is fitted for that condition which he occupies in our system." But confederate stories and ideas have maintained a long-standing and unyielding influence, as after they lost the Civil War, the ideology of the Confederacy underwent a serious PR rebranding. Rather than "anti-American" racists, they became the noble fighters of a lost cause. They became the "defenders of heritage," and they became the mythologized ancestor of any white people who wanted to claim them. The Civil War "rebels" were painted as noble Southern men and women who, in a political landscape of the South becoming red states and the bible belt, were mythologized as Southern Belles and nobly humble plantation owners who loved Good Black people... just not the "mentally ill" ones who did things like run away or fight bondage.
(By the way, Alexander Stephens had some things to say about mental illness too (same link again)- I'm tying this back to my point about "mentally ill Reavers" being less of a far-cry than you might think from Confederate thinking: "Our new government [the Confederacy] is founded upon [this] idea; its corner-stone rests upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery, subordination to the superior race, is his natural and normal condition. ... Many who hear me, perhaps, can recollect well that this truth was not generally admitted, even within their day. ... Those at the North, who still cling to these errors [of racial equality], with a zeal above knowledge, we justly denominate [call them] fanatics. All fanaticism springs from an aberration of the mind from a defect in reasoning. It is a species of insanity. One of the most striking characteristics of insanity, in many instances, is forming correct conclusions from fancied or erroneous premises; so with the antislavery fanatics. Their conclusions are right if their premises were. They assume that the negro is equal, and hence conclude that he is entitled to equal privileges and rights with the white man. ... [I] told [a gentleman from one of the northern states in the House of Representatives] that it was he, and those acting with him, who were warring against a principle. They were attempting to make things equal which the Creator had made unequal." It's worth wondering what makes us, as viewers, accept that Reavers are inherently incurable of the mental illness which makes them monsters. Of course this trope could be used in a critical way - but we can see the real-language example here which should make us question what kind of reading to take from media which only addresses the single solution of wiping a True Evil demographic from existence.)
So I hope you see the influences now, how Firefly follows Confederate and White Supremacist storylines. It's of course worth talking about though, the ways it can be read as a radical story as well. The cast includes an empowered revolutionary black woman, a black spiritual elder who advocates for pacifism in resistence, a sex worker who consistently values and stands up for herself and her line of work explicitly, a working woman who struggles with misogyny, and a rich man disgracing himself from society to save his mentally ill younger sister who was facing violent abuse at the hands of the state. These are people who orient themselves for one reason or another in at least some form of opposition to the oppressive and violent power of the government, which once again, is an analogous state to the United States. Of course, the difficulty of the anti-governmental Confederate narrative is that anti-governmental sentiment can have incredibly valid origins. If you are facing discrimination you should indeed oppose the oppressive force that monitors and abuses all its citizens in one way or another. But for God's sake, that opposition should come from a perspective of eliminating discrimination for all. Not a perspective like Jayne Cobb's - the explicitly violent and self-serving voice which, through the show and movie, metaphorically pulls our disaffected protagonist, Malcolm Reynolds, toward the direction of his more cynical, militaristic and even fascist internalized values. Firefly wants to simultaneously make a diverse revolutionary text, but also misses the opportunities it presents itself to say something more meaningful through its own medium. We could've addressed the harm of Jayne's willingness to grant "humanity" ONLY to the people he deems as something like family - or who he feels have properly convinced him that they're worth saving. He is the perfect embodiment of the right-wing, misogynist, white-supremacist ideology at the center of Confederate thinking. He's a Nazi who has been pulled into collaborating with real marginalized people through his relationship with Mal. And there's some level of that which could be an interesting story about deradicalization. In fact in some ways I believe the show could be open to some kind of that interpretation, given the almost-betrayal that Jayne goes back against due to his dedication to Mal. But unfortunatly I'd also say that in the execution of the show I got a different perception, which is back to the whole Confederate thesis...
Instead of a fascist who we could watch be deradicalized by his fellow crew, Jayne ends up doing marginal good only ever out of respect for Mal. I would argue in this way, their relationship mirrors the romanticized mythology of the Civil War being a "war between brothers" due to split households in border states. This narrative clearly holds more respect for the Confederacy than continuing to rightfully call the ideology the abhorrent thing that it is, and it is clear that the same ideology rears its head deep into our legal systems through the treatment of oppressed groups to this day. In ways, the influence of pro-Confederate radicals AFTER the war worked to legitimize bigotry of all kinds in a truly unprecedented way in America. If we have to respect the opinions of the Confederates because they were our "brothers" and not our ideological enemies, then who will we feel more and more comfortable throwing by the wayside - them or the people we work together to shamefully dehumanize? Through this contextual lens, with a vision of Mal as a "decent cowboy" compared to Jayne's more blatantly intolerant cowboy persona, it seems glaring that Jayne's bigoted views are just more intense outward versions of similar prejudices to those Mal feels, but by comparing the two characters to one another Mal would of course begin to look more forgivable despite his relative centrism and lack of care for the marginalized beyond his immediate group. Neither Mal nor anyone, for the narrative's sake, ever really, constructively pulls Jayne aside to actually lay down meaningful expectations of respect. And our rebel storylines of outgroup justice in the future should not accept this lack of accountability! By doing so, we leave no room for the revolutionary need for the Paradox of Tolerance...
The one thing we must not tolerate is intolerance.
Oh and P.S., one last thing: Upon an internet search about the paradox of tolerance I learned that Bill Maher has a famous quote about it, and idk the specifics but seeing that dang centrist asshole liberal made me want to clarify that the argument itself could tie very well into stuff like Islamophobic talking points, since the US defends a lot of its military landgrabs as "defending liberal ideals" due to conflating all Muslims with extremist groups. So I just felt the need to add that being "intolerant of intolerance" is NOT equivalent to dehumanizing groups based on stereotypes of them being "more prone to violence" or other dogwhistles like that. I would imagine that comes through, but it's also just worth making explicit. Even me, in this essay, seeing a character who falls into many of the plot points of a Confederate heroism storyline and is a white man - I'm not intolerant OF those things. In the episodes where Mal successfully subverts those ideologies he's mirroring on screen, by interacting with the world differently because he has learned to humanize an increasingly large group of people, I cheer for him! However, I remain intolerant of the intolerance Mal continues to show by virtue of his failure to hold others and himself accountable to the paradox of tolerance, and lets abuse goes unchecked for longer than he, as a man with power and a growing communal mindset, COULD put to rest.
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tkachow · 4 years ago
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with what’s currently happening to ethan bear, i think white hockey fans really need to sit down and think about how fucking colonized hockey is. this is a sport that was used as an assimilation tactic in residential schools during the ethnic genocide of the indigenous peoples of canada. there are so many accounts from indigenous peoples firsthand explaining that they use hockey as a tool in their liberation. ethan bear has a right to play this sport that he loves and he deserves to be respected while he plays it. turning around and spewing racial slurs and harassing him on social media with racist stereotypes shows and enforces the settler colonialist ties in hockey. do better.
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pocfansmatter · 4 years ago
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Okay I said before I was going to get more in depth with blood quantum eventually so now is as better time than any I guess. Mind you I'm speaking as a Native American meaning an Indigenous person from America. Specifically from 2 southern California tribes. I cannot speak for all Native or Indigenous people. I can only speak for myself, I can’t even speak for my tribe. However most Natives tend to have the same view when it comes to the blood quantum debate. From this point on blood quantum will be shortened to BQ & Native American to Native(s).
Originally this was gonna be a reply to another comment but decided to make it it's own post so I don't associate my blog with that anti Indigenous one. Please try to read the whole post before clicking the articles. I screenshotted the main parts to keep the discussion going. Feel free to click on all the articles because they are good & most of them are from Native run news websites.
I was gonna do this with a read more tag but my laptop doesn't want to work. I'm literally getting anyther one on Thanksgiving but my old one doesn't cooperate sorry so y'all are gonna get a long post. 😕
So let's start with the basics. What is blood quantum?
"Blood quantum laws or Indian blood laws are laws in the United States and the former Thirteen colonies that define Native American identity by percentages of ancestry. ... For instance, a person who has one parent who is a full-blood Native American and one who has no Native ancestry has a blood quantum of 1/2."
In case that was confusing if one person is "full blood native" they are considered 4/4. Meaning they have no relatives who are of any other race or ethnicity. If the "full blood native" has a child with a non Native person the child would have a BQ of 1/2 Native blood. If that child has a child with a non Native that child will be considered 1/4. This will continue to get lower & lower unless the child has a baby with another Native. Then the BQ raises or stays the same depending on the other parents BQ.
Now that the definition is out of the way lets get into the issue with this.
This is a good article that narrowed down an issue with Pharrell wearing a headdress. I wanna focus on one part of the article though.
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"... deeply connected to their Native culture & live it every day."
"Having Native American ancestors doesn't get you off the hook if you don't bother to do the homework."
So I mentioned before that a lot of Natives don't consider BQ as a proper way of measuring your culture. Being Native isn't something you can pull out when it's convenient like for a photoshoot. Its every single day. It's in the words we speak, in the clothes we wear & in the food we cook. Same as any other culture.
Asian people don't wake up not Asian. Black people don't wake up not Black.
So why is do some people pull out the Native card when it is convenient? Like Pharrell did or Elizabeth Warren claims.
This article sums it up well but I wanna focus on the last 2 paragraphs.
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There's similarities in both articles by 2 different Native authors from 2 different news websites.
They both speak about connections to our culture. A DNA test cannot measure ones Indigenous Ancestry because being Indigenous is much more than something in your blood.
I made a post asking some questions that might help understand if one is Indigenous or not. Now I'm not saying these are all the questions nor that I'm the expert on this. These are just STARTER questions to help people understand what it means to be Native.
Does the tribe you claim, claim you?
Have you been to the reservation?
Do you participate in the community?
Have you met your family from the tribe?
Do you know your history, traditions, anything about the tribe you claim?
The big one is are you claimed. You cannot claim a tribe that doesn't claim you. Now I'm not saying the entirety of the tribe has to know you personally. I'm not even saying you have to stand in front of the tribal council & ask them if they claim you. A claim can be made as little as just your family saying "this person is one of us".
The reason I bring this up is because multiple tribes have in the past & continue the practice of "adopting" a person into their tribe. There's many examples of this. Some can be adopted because they married into a tribe. Non Natives & Natives of other tribes alike have been adopted into tribes. There can be legal adoptions like adopting a child. And countless other examples.
A lot of the time biologically those members aren't apart of the tribe & cannot be enrolled but are still viewed as a member by the community.
For personal example, my sister has been adopted by my tribe. She's actually an enrolled member from another tribe & technically my cousin but was taking away by CPS & my family took her in. She grew up & still lives on my reservation. She is from another reservation. Although her tribe still claims her as a member my tribe also does. People in my community know her as a member of my family & have grown up with her. She knows many of our traditions & practices some ceremonies with us that are specific to my tribe. No one in our tribe has expressed any issue with this so far & even if they did they would have a stern talking to. We are even in the process of organizing her to be buried on our tribal land instead of hers. Her choice & we are okay with it.
Now I want to point out another way people can be considered Native even if they aren't enrolled or cannot answer those questions properly.
Let's look at something called "reconnecting Natives".
What is a reconnecting Native?
A reconnecting Native is someone of Native Ancestry who for whatever reason has been removed from their culture, family, reservation, etc so they do not know them & are actively trying to learn those things so they can reclaim their Native roots.
So, how does this happen? This is actually a very common issue in the community.
One of the main ways a Native might become disconnected is through the process of Residential Schools or Indian Boarding Schools. What is that? Here's a snippet of an article to help explain.
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Of course here is the link:
The official motto of these schools was "kill the Indian, save the man” and if you think it sounds awful I promise you, it was much worse than you could imagine.
There's a movie on Netflix called Indian Horse which I have not watched yet but is based off a novel by an Indigenous author that looks at these Boarding Schools if you wish to check that out.
The goals of these schools were to strip Indigenous children of their culture. They were beaten, starved, punished of things as simple as speaking in their languages. A lot of them didn't even speak English. It was illegal to keep your kids from this school & often times tribal children went to these schools and never returned to their family. Natives who attended these schools or are children of children who attended these schools more often than not stop practicing their culture or forget it. In that way they become "disconnected".
Those members can if chosen too began the process of reconnecting.
I found this really good article going a little more in depth on the do's & don't's of reconnecting.
But here's a screenshot of important parts.
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Granted this is a long process. Lifelong. Every journey to reconnect is difficult & very different from others. It depends on your tribe & community. Some of them make it easier & some make it harder. It's up to the individual to put in the work.
Now I don't want to make it like being a connected Native is easy. Yes it's easier but connected Natives also put in work to live their culture everyday.
Now what does this have to do with blood quantum? As you can see none of these articles about being Native or even a reconnecting Native mention blood quantum or DNA being a requirement.
If one is Japanese & someone asks "how are you Japanese?" What would the answer be?
"Because I just am. Because my parents are Japanese."
If someone is white & has kids those kids are white, correct?
So if it's so easy to explain for other cultures why does mine require math? Why are some of my family members not enrolled members despite having Native parents & growing up on the reservation? Why do my people have to actively think about the DNA results of our children if we choose to have them?
Because of BQ. Its a tool created by colonizers that are forced upon us. If we do not abide by the rules & requirements the government sets in place we run the very big risk of
Losing our status of a Native American tribe.
Losing our land & land rights.
Losing funding from the federal government.
Losing our housing.
Losing Healthcare.
Losing our basic citizenship rights.
The thing about BQ is it's designed so that we fail. If we fail to keep a certain amount of enrolled tribal members in a tribe then the government can break treaties & take away our land & things that are rightfully ours.
BQ is a lose/lose situation all around for us as well as extremely racist.
Because of the BQ requirements Natives actively worry about who they have children with. Some don't date outside of the their culture in fear of their children not being seen as legally Native. The problem here is a lot of the tribe is related. The issue of inbreeding increases. How do we solve that problem? Well we can have children with Natives of another tribe. But there's a problem here too. Most tribes do not allow what we call dual enrollment. Both of my tribes for example don't allow this. Which means one would have to pick which tribe to enroll their child. That means one of the tribes will lose out on a member. So that's another way identities are erased using BQ.
Okay I think I'm going to end this here. There is so much more I could've added. I also could've expanded on residential schools, what it means to be Indigenous, & reconnecting Natives but I wanted to keep it focused on BQ. If you have anymore questions feel free to ask or research on your own. We're still here. We aren't stuck in the 1800's. We weren't all killed by cowboys but the government is still actively trying to erase us.
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idk-my-aesthetic · 4 years ago
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...... hot take but generally speaking Americans don’t actually care about the Holocaust or Nazis they just want an easy way to say “hey we’re not the bad guys they are”
revisionist history goes out of its way to paint nazis as the ultimate evil and the Americans as the heroes of the story. So then when ppl criticize the horrific human rights violations that the US has committed (especially against Black and Native ppl) they can just say “we’re not the bad guys, the nazis are!”
Like they’re basically just using Jews as a prop so they can pretend to be morally superior. While simultaneously ignoring not only the horrorific human rights violations other groups have been subjected too but also America’s long history of antisemitism and the fact that America was very very much complacent in the Holocaust before Pearl Harbor.
And then they basically force feed everyone the narrative that America went into wwii to protect the poor helpless Jews. Which is a narrative that makes me so mad bc they’re literally just using our genocide for their own gain. And then when Jews say no one cares about the Holocaust it looks like we’re lying bc of all their fake caring.
(This false narrative also completely erases the Romani ppl and tries to cut them off from their own history/tragedy. Which I shouldn’t need to explain why that’s a massive problem.)
OH and then on top of that they again use our tragedy to try and silence other ppl. Like when Black ppl try and talk about slavery and Native ppl try and talk about their genocide white Americans are just like “well it wasn’t as bad as the Holocaust.” Which is. Such fucking bullshit because a) you cannot and should not try and compare how badly one group suffered to another and b) it doesn’t actually matter which is worse all were absolutely horrific and should be remembered
Like idk I just think the fact that they can literally tell Black ppl to “get over Slavery it wasn’t as bad as the Holocaust” and then immediately tell Jews to “stop talking about the Holocaust we literally saved you” really says a lot about how their priority is just dodging blame or guilt at every opportunity
TLDR: Americans don’t actually care about the Holocaust they just like using it as a sheild from blame
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oberynmartell · 5 years ago
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the ku klux klan has been active in the united states since the 1860s and have killed, injured, and terrorised thousands upon thousands of black, native american, queer, jewish, muslim, and catholic women, men, and children — but they are still not classified by the american government as an official terrorist organization.
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panlight · 1 year ago
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Hello 👋 I like your stuff you are amazing ❤ I wanna say something . So every one is talking about how toxic Edward and belle's relationship but the only relationship ship that I can't tolerate is Sam and Emily. OK he imprinted on her and has no other choice because of his nature .he left leah and SM says that he still has feeling for her it's just that the connection with Emily is stronger like WHAT it's like saying he loves leah but he is forced to stay with Emily no matter what the reason is .and as for Emily she has no supernatural nature that force her to be with him so why is she being with him especially after he attacked her . For me this relationship is the most toxic and weird
I tend to believe the Sam/Emily problem is that SM wanted to show us an example of how 'random' imprinting can be, that it can force someone who was in a happy relationship to be with someone else, and also to demonstrate how risky it is for humans to hang around people with supernatural abilities.
I don't think she was trying to make a point about domestic abuse or toxic relationships and I would bet cash money in her mind Sam and Emily are soulmates and beautifully tragic and blah blah blah.
But, phew, man, she stepped in it with this.
If she wanted me to be happy for Jacob for finding his imprint in Renesmee (which, lol, was never going to happen but bear with me), then she absolutely should not have made this whole disaster our first taste of imprinting. Because why on EARTH would I think it was a good thing when the first example of it we see leaves the shifter wracked with guilt, his imprintee covered in scars, his ex-girlfriend heartbroken and bitter and, oh, HARRY CLEARWATER DEAD. In the books he died of a heart attack from the shock of seeing Leah phase; Leah being upset about the Sam/Emily situation was part of the reason she phased when she did, therefore, the imprint indirectly cased Harry's death. This is not a happily ever after to me, I don't care how 'perfect' Sam and Emily are supposed to be for each other.
I don't think she meant that Sam 'attacked' Emily; I think she meant it as a tragic accident; the consequence and risk of a human being involved in the world of 'monsters and magic.' Sam didn't try to hurt Emily, he just was too close to her when he phased and the wolf-form is bigger than the human-form so he kind of . . . instantly took up more space and his claws were in Emily's space. But I understand why people often see it as a metaphor for abuse or a partner's anger, that whole "he becomes a different person when he's mad" or something. I don't think SM MEANT that. But she certainly made it all too easy for people to read it that way.
I think Emily's fate is meant to be a warning to Bella. But this falls flat in a couple of ways--firstly, lol, like Bella is going to listen to anyone's warnings about being involved in the supernatural world. Edward has been warning her away since the get-go and she's just like NOPE so putting Emily, Sam and Leah through this to teach Bella a lesson that Bella is not going to take to heart AND won't even apply to her anyway (Bella gets to be a vampire in the end which erases all HER scars and even fixes her emaciated body) is just kind of a waste of everyone's time.
And secondly the optics of using her indigenous characters and their trauma to teach her white protagonist a lesson is not a good look at all. It also brushes up again the real issue of missing and murdered indigenous women, and in making Sam seem violent (even if she meant it as an accident), plays into harmful stereotypes about brown men generally and Indigenous men in particular.
Should have made Jared and Kim as our first look at imprinting instead.
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robotpussy · 3 years ago
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ok i had to delete the original because i had so many people harassing me because i told them their white woman fave fucked up and are terrible people, but unbeknowest to me, everything under the cut cannot be seen once the original post has been deleted. so im going to quickly do this again.
Before you come here and say "you just hate women", you're right, i hate bigoted white women! hope this clears everything up 👍
I am only going to mention things i have evidence to back myself up with, so sorry if i left anything out.
TW RACISM
Im going to briefly bring up lindsay ellis because she is the reason why i made that original post.
Lindsay has made claims she was "harassed" off the internet but will not explain why she was "harassed", she was told that she has continouslly said racist things and decided to brush those "criticisms" off.
The examples of these instances i can find are when she dismissed the racist portrayal of Native Americans in twilight as being a factor of why Twilight was so hated, (and also the racist rule based on the mormon belief about black people in twilight (not mentioned) being inherently evil because they are black) and instead just said "its because the world hates teenage girls!".
she also made very strange and racist tweets about finding reylo-type fic of Harriet Tubman and her "Twinky salve master" on a plane.
and of course the Raya tweet many people spoke about
This also goes beyond twitter as people who knew Lindsay in real life had come out and said Lindsay is very dismissive of and has racist biases
1. Jenny Nicholson
Jenny Nicholson has a very long history of being extremely racist, but most well known for getting john boyega harassed over a joke he made about movie characters that are not real.
here is the thread of some of the harassment john had to endure because Jenny claimed he was a misogynist
Then wanted to turn around and play into her white woman victimhood
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And when told she was racist and encitied the harassment John Boyega received, she went on a mass blocking spree
(all people shown below were blocked by Jenny after they called her out)
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TW CANIBALLISM
and i think she also defended caniballism?
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2. Contrapoints
TW TRUSCUM, ANTI-SEMITISM, RACISM AND NAZI IMAGERY
Despite me finding Contrapoints' obsession with "deradicalizing numerous young men within alt-right spaces" is weird (and it shows as she spends so much time with them she ends up spewing a lot of their same rhetoric) she constantly gives them a platform.
The most notorious instance of this was when she made a video with known domestic abuser and truscum, Buck Angel.
TW ANTI SEMITISM
Contrapoints keeps to have a affinity for "ironically" being anti-semitic, evidence can be found in these videos, where she "jokes" about the anti-semitic conspiracy of the lizard people.
What's Wrong with Capitalism (Part 1)
What's Wrong with Capitalism (Part 2)
She also sold t-shirts with said lizard people, and apparently had in the description "David Ickle was right" in the description. I cannot find this, but i did find the shirt on TeePublic with "The reptiles rule us" in the description.
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TW RACISM AND NAZI IMAGERY
She also mocked Native Americans for talking about racism and dressed up as a Nazi in her video about Charlotteville (yes, its weird to have nazi gear lying around your house)
3. Sarah z
Sarah Z is known for going on mass blocking sprees when she is called out for her racism, and claimed she was "curating her space" due to "harassment". she also went on a big petty blocking spree when people were joking about her blocking anyone who interacts with a post talking about her.
posts can be found here:
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She has obviously gained a lot of attention on here because of her youtube channel, where she talks about tumblr history and fandom "drama". I will not be bringing her channel up because as i stated in my last post, i do not care about her content and i have no reason to bring it up.
But she did reblog a post talking about only caring about the women and children of Afghanistan, which is a very common scapegoat white women use as cheap representation for them to "tear down the patriarchy" when they do not care about women of color (and will deny their womanhood when criticised by them, or claim it is misogyny as Sarah z did to me when I confronted her) and also an excuse to be racist towards men of color.
TW RAPE KINK, PEDOPHILLIA AND RACE PLAY MENTION
as of July 7th 2022 Sarah came out to say that it is transphobic that people, many of whom are not white, are discussing how harmful race play, pedophillia and rape kinks are.
These women constantly cry about being "cancelled" (Lindsay and Contrapoints even made videos about them)
Lindsay's video
ContraPoints Video
When they were "cancelled" for genuine shitty things and not "they were mean to someone on twitter and a video we don't like".
And if people telling them they have racist biases, spew alt-right rethoric, and enticing the harassment of a black man is wrong is "harassment", then i don't know what else to say.
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akajustmerry · 3 years ago
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Hey I want to see Wildhood but the last anon said there were trigger warnings. What are they? Thank you
hi. tw for domestic violence between the main character and his dad for the first 15 mins or so, tw for various homophobic slurs during those scenes as well, and tw for suicide mentions throughout. also the main characters deal with some casual anti Native racism from minor characters they encounter throughout the film. keep safe and enjoy the film if you choose to watch it. it really is so beautiful and mostly about finding joy and belonging 💕
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judes-thoughts · 3 years ago
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Hey everyone!
I've been on here for a while, and I finally decided to make an intro post. My name's Jude, but you could also call me Jay if you want, I don't really mind. I'm 25 years old and I use he/they pronouns. I'm a intersex FtM transgender dysphoric transmasc demiboy butch lesboy dyke. I'm a butch-trans cusper. No, I do not want your insight on how it's a term created by T//RFS. I have taken the identity and claimed it as my own. If you can reclaim slurs and insults used against you, I can call myself a cusper. I'm also a stoner.
I'm mixed Japanese, Cuban, and primarily African and Native American. Born to a tribe in America, raised primarily in Cuba, residing in Australia for University. Going to school for education, taking gender studies classes. I want to teach lgbtq history, although I also intend to move back with my tribe after my schooling.
I'm Jewish, practicing, but a born Catholic. This doesn't influence who I am now, and I have never called myself a Catholic. I just wanted to note that.
I don't identify with the terms tme or tma. I am a visibly trans intersex + black person, therefore I experience transmisogyny. You can decide if it's 'misdirected' or not. I'm chronically ill, disabled, and neurodivergent. On my account I mainly post about lgbtqa+ issues, ie. transandrophobia, transmisogyny, homophobia, etc. Being a black and latino person I also talk a bit about racism, and I mention ableism often as well. Ask me to tag certain triggers, I'll try to remember.
I'm not opening my follow list to you, but I regularly reblog from and interact with people like nothorses, dead-dyke, yharnamsnewslug, tylenol-tranny, vaspider, etc. If you're uncomfortable with that I sincerely do not care.
DNI IF
You're a cisallohet
If you're under 18. I reblog sex workers often, and there will most likely be a lot of nsfw content in general, whether through text or image. Also, I'm 25. I want you to really ask yourself why I would want a 13 year old on my blog. (This rule was added recently. Current mutuals/people who follow me/people I follow are free to interact with my sfw posts. If you are a minor and have just now followed me, I'm going to softblock you.)
You don't believe in transandrophobia
If you're homophobic, transphobic, racist, sexist, a nazi or a t*rf/sw*rf, basic dni criteria
You think ace/aro people aren't inherently lgbt
You're bi/panphobic
If you're against he/him or transmasc lesbians, obviously
If you're a fan of DSMP or South Park
If you consume problematic media uncritically, or if you're giving money to JKR (Buying books, buying merch, etc. Engage in the fandom if you must but don't fund a woman who wants so many people to die.).
White people can interact, but no clowning.
Pro-shippers and anti-shippers are welcome here. I'm a grown adult, I don't need or care to engage in fandom discourse; however, if your pro-shipping entails shipping 'controversial' things (paedophilia, beastiality, incest, and the like), you need to get off of my blog. If you must have a reason, I suffer with trauma related to those kinds of topics, and I'm not comfortable with those ships being anywhere near me. This is my safe space, I like to to take after the first word in that term.
My original posts are tagged 'Jude Rambles'. My transandrophobia posts are mainly tagged by 'transandrophobia' or 'tw transandrophobia'.
I started testosterone on 8/5/21 (day/month/year)
That's pretty much it. I'll probably be updating this frequently. If you wanna talk, just message me.
[LAST UPDATED 01/10/21]
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southitaly · 4 years ago
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On Historical Hetalia Collective
TW: anti-blackness and anti-Indigenous racism, Islamophobia, abusive language, gaslighting.
Posting on a burner acct mainly because I’ve survived tumblr death threats/doxxing before and don’t want to deal with it again. I’ve been contemplating coming forward about this for a while — it’s been three and a half years since this transpired. In the historical APH fandom in particular, we are especially prone to thinking we are different from the “fashy” fans who don’t have a problem with Nazi Germany being a character in the show, with its casual dismissal of colonial and genocidal history, and its erasure of the Shoah and the war crimes of imperial Japan (amongst scores of other things). Those of us who enjoy playing with the premise and focusing on a more faithful depiction of history seem to think we are exempt from recreating those same oppressive structures in our own work, in our own fandom groups and relationships. This is absolutely not the case.
Most of this took place approx. January through May 2017. I was freshly 21 at the time and the people responsible were ~19-20; I recognize that people change, and make mistakes, and grow, especially at that age. But I can also safely say at 19 I was not doing or saying these kinds of things to people, and that if I did and have forgotten, I believe I should be held responsible for those things. That being said, I also believe that these events must be brought to light.
I joined historical hetalia collective in the late summer of 2016 at its founding. At the time, I did not emphasize my Métis identity because, as someone who is also Italian and has a strong interest in Italian history, it was not the focus of why I wanted to join and what I wanted to discuss. I was very excited to talk with other creators in what I assumed was an anti-racist, canon-critical setting. Lyz, then “yelyzavetaart” on tumblr, along with one other person was a founder. I was the first person appointed as a moderator, eventually joined on the moderator team of about five people, including Alex stirringwinds and a white Ukrainian-American person who went by “ilaaer”.
It was around winter 2016 that a user named Baguette (at the time petitebaguette on tumblr) joined. Baguette very quickly began saying incredibly racist things in the server; most did not address it. Baguette maintained that reverse racism was real, that white women were targeted specifically for sexual violence by men of color, & that Europe does not owe reparations to First Nations and other Indigenous people, amongst other things.
When I voiced discomfort — pointing out that as an Indigenous person, much of her racism was pointed at people like myself in particular and not necessarily at the non-Black, non-Indigenous others to the same extent— people on the mod team were quick to tell me that I was being out of line and aggressive in my approach. When I advocated for her to be banned, others on the team were quick to give her another warning, another chance, instead. This resulted in an incredibly hostile environment; instead of a racist European being told to examine her bigotry, the group decided it was more important to tell me to watch my tone.
I truly began to question my own experience and all of my relationships on the server. All of these people who I loved to speak to about history and things I cared about did not actually care about my well being, let alone that of others experiencing similar things. I was not more important than the collective’s optics; standing in solidarity with Native people was less important than any bridges that might be burned in doing so. I was concerned about the effect that such rhetoric going unchallenged would have on younger members; I did not like what kind of conclusions were being encouraged.
It culminated when Baguette posted about the “preferential” treatment Muslims got from the French government over Christians, a major Islamophobic dogwhistle. As someone who has also lived in France I decided to challenge her on her beliefs. When she reacted poorly, I was blamed, stripped of my moderator title, and effectively banned as well.
Upon telling me I was being removed, Lyz said something to the effect of me being “hostile” towards a person who said genocide, as a European, was not her problem, and that members in the collective should not be “caught in the crossfire” of our dispute. I would argue that being on the receiving end of a racist tirade is not a “personal dispute” -- the team absolutely failed to address the problem and then also blamed the person who was being targeted. 
While I commend Lyz for trying to be diplomatic at the time, Lyz had zero problem banning an openly homophobic European (by the name of Nessai) a few months prior. Somehow, when the question of Native people came up, Lyz — and the other non-Natives on the administrative “board” — could not summon that same conviction. Somehow, a Native person could not be given that same empathetic treatment. Baguette’s racism was condemned in private, sure, but decisive anti racist action was far too “radical”. I should not have to elaborate on how and why this is racist.
In short, tumblr user petitebaguette (now sartreslemonade) was a virulent racist. Users Alex stirringwinds, Lyz neviart, ilaaer, and many others were not only complicit, but enabled that behavior by systematically gaslighting and then deplatforming the one Native person on the moderator team who demanded she be removed for her actions. All of them should be held responsible, and creators of color (especially Black and Indigenous creators) in the APH fandom should be aware of this.
I have included screenshots of some of these conversations below — I sincerely invite others to make the judgment themselves. I know of at least one other Native person who had similar problems in this same collective, not long after I left. I do not know if there are others — I know people can and do change. I hope that by the time this is posted, all those mentioned can and are doing better by Native and Black people. I hope that my story does not repeat itself in other mouths with the same cast of people. I have included what I have been able to recover/keep over the years: my letter of dismissal from Lyz, some of the things Baguette was saying, the interaction between myself and Baguette when talking about anti-indigenous racism in France, and Alex’s response to that conversation. 
Lyz’s letter:
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Interaction between myself and her about reparations for Native people: 
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Alex’s response: 
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