#tw; anti-black racism

[cullen-rutherford-wifey]

Ambessa definitely isn’t faultless in the war and has everything to gain by starting it. She’s the one in control of Piltover; using Caitlyn’s anger at Jinx and her age as a justification of undermine Caitlyn.

But Caitlyn had the choice to say no; she could’ve stopped the occupation at ANY POINT in the past few months. She could’ve stood up to Ambessa way before. And even if she had she still agreed to it at the ceremony.

Why do I get a bad taste in my mouth, that the show is using one of there three black main characters. As a moral scapegoat for a white passing character to be absolved of being a police state dictator?

[princessefemmelesbian]

Maybe I’m just being dramatic but it does legitimately scare and sadden me to see that a lot of transandrophobia truthers are literally just…young boys. Like, actual children. Like you’re not even old enough to vote yet and you have your whole life ahead of you and yet you are being manipulated into joining an mra group that hates trans women with a passion and thinks that men are oppressed in society for being men, and constantly uses Black men as their talking point in order to sound diverse and inclusive, meanwhile they’re also appropriating and misusing terminology specifically created by Black women to talk about our own oppression in order to get their misandry point across…to say nothing of the fact that the largest people in this group(including but not limited to its creator!) have misogynistic rape/detrans kinks centered specifically around preying on lesbians and trans women and this is something that is normalized and defended by the vast majority of transandrophobia truthers, or at least defended viciously by every single transandrodork that I’ve ever encountered who argued with me(a lesbian!!!) that actually there’s nothing wrong with getting off to the corrective rape of women because two consenting adults can do whatever they want in the bedroom(yeah right)! Not to mention I have yet to come across a transandrophobia truther who wasn’t also a raging die-hard Zionist.

And that’s why it disturbs me so much to see young trans boys jumping onto this transmisogynistic hate train like you guys realize these men don’t have your best interests at heart, right? They’re only going to manipulate you into being a sexist entitled asshat who shuns and bullies the trans women in your community and sees them as oppressing you. Like I know you’re still in middle/high school but you can still think for yourselves, you can choose to be better than this, you can choose to actually learn about feminism and realize that it’s not actually misandry that oppresses you, it’s transphobia. Misandry doesn’t suddenly become real because you slap a trans paint over it that’s not how it works that’s not how intersectionality works that’s not how any of this shit works. There are better trans men to talk to about trans issues who know that the patriarchy is real and don’t shit on trans women in order to speak out about trans topics, so go seek them out, okay? You absolutely do not have to listen to shit that the “male supremacists but trans” group of lowlives has to say. Hell, tell them to fuck off instead! Please, I promise you that there are much better options, there are ALWAYS better options, and you still have time to escape before they fully radicalize you into basically being an incel. There will ALWAYS be another way. ❤️

[troythecatfish]

The fact that she sums up being Black as cornrows and Motown offers great insight into why in Harry Potter she gave her only Irish character the name Seamus Finnegan, the most notable Black character Kingsley Shacklebolt and the only East Asian character Cho Chang. Part of me wants to engage with this line of thinking and explain why race and gender are structurally very different despite both being social constructs and then I remember that none of these people actually care about that shit.

[newsfromstolenland]

WARNING: This story contains references to sensitive matters including violence, racism, self-harm and harassment

A government-funded report released to CTV News highlights 'systemic racism' against dozens of Black executives within the federal public service, including allegations of abuse, violence and harassment that, in some instances, led to suicide.

The internal report titled 'A Study on the Black Executive Community in the Federal Public Service,' published by Dr. Rachel Zellars for the federal Black Executives Network and released Nov. 4, interviewed 73 current and former Black employees working in the senior ranks of the federal government between October 2023 and February 2024.

It found the interviews "reveal patterns of anti-Black discrimination marked by differential treatment, abuse, cruelty, refusal, and subjugation."

Several Black executives interviewed in the study spoke of 'complaints and threats' used to punish them for their mistakes, including one person "witnessing racial harassment that led to the suicide of a Black colleague."

[...]

"One former executive shared how a white colleague raised a chair at him and threatened to “beat the [N-word] out of him” during a meeting with other participants,' reads the report.

Full article

I know this comes across as a "water is wet" type of study, but it's useful in proving to people that systemic racism is a real and current problem.

It will also provide leverage for Black federal employees when they take action against systemic racism in their workplace.

Having a professional study on systemic racism makes it possible for people to prove that their personal experiences with anti-Black racism in the workplace are part of a larger pattern rather than being isolated incidents.

People are always trying to argue that workplace racism happens because of a few bad people instead of systemic problems. Studies like this provide proof that racism, and especially anti-Blackness, is ingrained in our culture and systems. And enacting meaningful change requires addressing systemic racism.

There's actually an example of a situation where this kind of study is useful that's mentioned in the above article:

The report is released as an advocacy group representing roughly 45,000 present and former Black public servants -- dating back to 1970 -- are laying the groundwork for a potential class-action lawsuit against the federal government.

A Federal Court hearing taking place in early November is looking to gain clearance to move ahead with the lawsuit, seeking $2.5-billion dollars in compensation -- as well as, a diversity plan to ensure the public ervice is representative of Black Canadians at all government levels and a Black equity commissioner to oversee the implementation of diversity measures.

This study can be used to help support that lawsuit! This is important work.

Read more about the lawsuit here

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[thee-radio-host-is-a-kookaburra]

Blackface is blackface. You aren't "transrace", you're racist.

more racism from this mf under the cut

Gross as hell. Please block this racist piece of shit.

[yuri-alexseygaybitch]

The white liberal consumption of Black death and suffering as a sort of pseudo-Christian martyrdom spectacle and catharsis for their white guilt continues to be one of the most ghoulish traits of living in this country.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

A Montreal woman alleges that police were called on her 8 year old brother at Henri-Foret school after he had an argument with another child, and that the police assaulted the child and used excessive force leading to various injuries. Will update with details if the story develops and makes it to the press.

[rebelcracker-s]

Sooooooo sick of people yapping about Chad with the new reel about Chloe 😭😭😭 like say you hate black women and leave. Don't hide your misogynoir behind the worst character in the fandom. If we have to deal with you all using a dead person whose entire brand was kindness to trash on a bunch of 18 year olds trying to launch their career, you can deal with Black female actresses existing, because they're not going away no matter how much you pee your pants.

[uncanny-tranny]

The idea that Black people are predisposed to hating queer people is Anti-Black rascism. The people most hurt by these assertions are not only Black people but queer Black people as well. You are not saving queer people by throwing Black people under the bus, and you'll never save queers by doing that, so just stop.

[hussyknee]

Two weeks ago, female wrestler Vinesh Phogat became the first woman from India to make the Olympic finals—and was promptly disqualified for being 100 grams overweight.

On August 9, Vinesh Phogat announced her retirement from the sport of wrestling in a post on X. After the previous day’s incidents, it was a message that many had been expecting.

Vinesh experienced the highest of highs at the Paris Olympics. She defeated an unbeaten Olympic champion wrestler who was considered not just the favourite in her weight division but across every weight division at the quadrennial event. She became the first Indian woman wrestler to reach an Olympic final. However, Vinesh also faced the lowest of lows at the Olympics. No one had ever reached an Olympic final only to be denied the chance to compete because they had failed to make weight on the day of the competition.

Vinesh had taken her case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, seeking at least to be awarded a silver medal by virtue of reaching the final. If she had succeeded, she would have set a precedent, but, much to the disappointment of the nation, her appeal was turned down by the sole arbitrator, Annabelle Bennett.

...

Vinesh has always been a fighter. Tragedy has followed her, yet somehow, against the odds, she has emerged victorious.

When she was nine, her father was shot dead by someone in her village, believed to be a mentally disturbed relative, just outside their front door. Her mother, a young widow, refused the custom of marrying her husband’s brother. She battled cancer single-handedly. Through it all, she raised a firebrand daughter, who refused to back down.

Her cousins, who grew up near her home, were the more famous girls of the family. Geeta and Babita were among the first to win gold at the Commonwealth Games. They had a movie made about them — Dangal — which made the ‘Phogat sisters’ iconic in Indian sports.

Vinesh didn’t feature in that movie. The events described in it took place too early in her career. But she wouldn’t be satisfied with being one of the Phogat sisters — she would become ‘The Phogat’ sister.

Talk to any of her peers .— and even some of her rivals in Indian wrestling – and there is, in some cases, grudging, genuine respect. She is considered the most instinctive and natural wrestler India has ever produced in women’s freestyle wrestling.

Her career is as much a highlight reel as anything out of a movie. No one in women’s wrestling compares. No Indian woman wrestler has won three Commonwealth gold medals as she did in 2014, 2018, and 2022. No one has won an Asian Games gold medal as she did in 2018. No one has won two World Championships medals as she did in 2019 and 2022.

The one medal missing from her collection is the Olympic medal — which she fought bitterly for.

...

Vinesh has had terrible luck at the Olympics — the only competition that seems to matter to Indians. In 2016, she was one of the favourites in the Indian team before her knee was bent out of shape in the quarterfinals. In 2020, she was one of the world’s favourites to medal in the women’s 53kg weight class. Then, suddenly, a freak weight cut left her physically and psychologically broken, unable to coordinate her movements on the mat. She lost to a wrestler she had beaten comfortably just a month before. Now, in Paris, another poor weight cut left her at the lowest point of her wrestling career.

Her battles, though, haven’t been restricted to the mat. Perhaps the most significant one Vinesh has fought has been for the safety of young girls in the sport. In pursuing this fight, she took on one of the most powerful men in Indian sports — Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh.

When her rivals were preparing for the Olympics, Vinesh was fighting on the streets of New Delhi, where she, and few other fellow wrestlers, accused Brij Bhushan, a five-time member of parliament and the long-time president of the Wrestling Federation, of sexual harassment.

The longer she stayed on the streets, the slimmer her chances on the mat became. Yet, she continued to prioritise what she felt was right. In doing so, Vinesh showed the kind of courage almost uniformly lacking in most sportspersons in India. Most of them, as the saying goes, “crawl when asked to bend.” Vinesh’s spine has been ramrod straight. She had the courage to take on the system without caring about the consequences. She displayed it even though it cost her what she loved the most — the chance to wrestle.

Only when her protest was forced off the streets and entered the court did Vinesh finally get a chance to compete.

This article delves into her struggle to rein in her weight as the Olympic timeline unfolded. It's horrifying to read.

TW for fatphobia and people with eating disorders and body dysmorphia: fatphobia:

Even as she had been winning, Vinesh’s nutritionist had been nervously monitoring her food and fluid intake.

She had a celebratory glass of juice in the morning right after she had first made weight – 300 grams. She had another couple of litres of fluid to rehydrate herself before her bout - another 2000 grams of body weight gained. A couple of light snacks throughout the day to keep her energy up meant 700 grams more.

By the time Vinesh was done with her day’s competition, she weighed 52.7 kg.

August 7:

As the hours rolled into the night, it was clear that something had gone very wrong. After weeks of dehydration, the human body, once it gets rehydrated, simply refuses to give up water. Even urination becomes impossible.

Vinesh didn’t sleep all through the night of August 6. She was on the treadmill for six hours and in the sauna for another three. She didn’t consume a bite of food or drink a drop of water. Every few hours, she stood on a weighing scale. The numbers were getting smaller but not fast enough. In desperation, her coaches trimmed the elastic in the bottom of her costume. They thought of chopping her hair and then did it.

But the scale didn’t budge.

The function of weight classes is to prevent outsized mismatches in strength due to body mass and minimize injury. Pathologizing what is clearly water weight to this extent and subjecting athletes to this kind of psychological torture due to minute variables is simply making what is essentially a safety measure into a punitive arbitrary criteria that has huge implications for racialized fatphobia for female athletes and the reinforcement of toxic diet culture across the board. It's misogynistic, unscientific and fucked. This article goes into more detail about Phogat's career-long battle with her weight— a yo-yo of losing too much, and then too little. Indistinguishable from an eating disorder, only one imposed by the standards of international sports.

You will never convince me that a white athlete would have been disqualified in the lightest weight category for a weight less than a bar of soap. The disqualification retroactively places her dead last, which is added cruelty. The refusal to revise this and even award her a joint silver is just adding racist insult to racist injury.

Phogat spoke two days ago about her devastation at being disqualified by racism and fatphobia with a three page post on twitter.

And on top of all of this, because the Indian National Congress political party welcomed her with a road show that outshone the alt-right BJP's own planned welcome, the Hindutvas in her own country have launched a hate campaign against her.

This copy-paste has "disqualified in Rio 2016" trending on twitter. It's doubly cruel and fatphobic because she wasn't disqualified for being overweight, she sustained a knee injury.

After the witch hunt against Imane Khelif and Lin Yu-ting, I'm just so fucking done with the Olympics. The outsize importance of this competition is nothing but an anvil to break entire careers on and offers female athletes of colour on a platter for all the world's vultures.

[aishabellasbigblogofeverything]

All of the Hazbin Hotel characters’ designs are bad beyond belief but imo the icing on the sour cake is Alastor. Who the hell(no pun intended) thought this shit was fucking okay?

I mean just look at his ass:

Who tf looked at this and thought “yup, seems legit” what is going on with his silhouette? His hair? His face(which I’ll be getting back to later bc I mean OH GOD)? His outfit? 🤮 You expect me to be happy with this? Also why the hell is he so skinny? He makes the Disney Princesses look healthy and realistic in comparison, because damn.

And that’s not even getting into the sheer anti-Blackness that goes into his character and thus his design: him being an evil cannibalistic voodoo practitioner, with his Blackness slapped onto him as a less minute attempt to make his portrayal seem “not racist” well guess what BitchziePop, it is. The man is supposedly half-Black on his mother’s side, and yet he does NOT look Black at all. He does not have Black features, nor Afro-textured hair, what a goddamn JOKE. *he also does not have a Black/biracial voice actor. so much for diversity I suppose.

And don’t even get me started on that big ass, creepy ass, goofy ass grin:

Oh dear.

[princessefemmelesbian]

Block @/feministfang!!!

Feministfang is a radfem/terf blog who is incredibly, ridiculously, ruthlessly racist, islamophobic, ableist, white feminist, and transmisogynistic, amongst other things.

Receipts under the cut, and obvious TW for everything I just listed above:

I don’t know how anybody can have this much hate in their heart, but somehow this person manages it. Anyway, please block and report her, this lady is dangerous and she desperately needs her account deactivated for the betterment of the rest of us. This qualifies as hate speech and should be banned.

[newsfromstolenland]

A $2.5 million lawsuit alleges Ottawa police wiretapped and surveilled five of its own Black, Somali officers, hasn't told them why and accuses the service of being an institution "rife with racism and discrimination that over-polices the racialized communities it has pledged to protect."

The civil action was filed in the Ontario Superior Court of Justice by constables Liban Farah, Mohamed Islam, Abdullahi Ahmed, AhmedKhador Ali and Feisal Bila Houssein in 2023 against the Ottawa Police Services Board and three unnamed members of the Ottawa Police Service (OPS). In addition to the five officers, there are three civilian plaintiffs who are family members of two of the officers.

As first reported by CBC, the lawsuit alleges three wiretaps and a general warrant which included video surveillance were obtained "based on racist and stereotypical assumptions about Black persons of Somali origin." They don't know why the wiretap authorizations and general warrant were approved by a judge because they're sealed.

[...]

The Plaintiffs "believe that they were the subject of wiretaps for ulterior motives in breach of their Charter rights: retaliation for their complaints about racism within the OPS, their attempts to improve the OPS and stereotypes about their kinship and familial relationships," the lawsuit states.

Full article

Tagging: @allthecanadianpolitics

[fandomshatewomen]

I wasn't sure about sending this here or to fandomshatepeopleofcolor so sending it here. Anyway, as someone who enjoys playing video games I love to add mods to games and always thought people who made mods for games were amazing, and I still think a lot of them are but some of them are just gross. I'll mostly be using BG3 for examples bc that's the most recent game I've looked at mods for, but someone made a mod to make Wyll and his father white (note that Wyll is the only non white companion, Karlach's VA isn't white but Karlach is a red tiefling). Then someone made a mod to make Dame Aylin (a woman who's strong and can be direct and say what's on her mind, could come off as a little rude at times but tbh I don't blame her, and she's in a relationship with a woman) into a man and the description is "meet Ser Aylin, a slightly more polite and male version of Dame Aylin" and that the mod "ensures that the gender and sexuality of world NPCs match medieval status quo" but dragons and magical creatures are okay ig but not people of color or LGBTQ+ people. I believe the white Wyll mod and the Ser Aylin mod are made by the same person. Both mods were removed from Nexus and the account banned but sites like moddinghaven and rpghq still have them up and have other terrible mods to make NPCs white, straight, cis, etc. on RPGHQ the modder has a mod pack called no alphabets that includes the Ser Aylin mod and removes mentions of any LGBTQ+ relationships by changing someone's gender and turn trans characters cis. Oh and they also use AI to alter their voices. Baldur's Better Aesthetics is another mod that changes NPCs from POC to white claming it's more "lore accurate" even tho the creator of the forgotten realms setting has said forgotten realms has always had LGBTQ+ people, people of color, etc. Anyway I just needed to rant and to say if anyone mods their games, maybe stick to nexus and not moddinghaven or rpghq who keep these mods up. RPGHQ doesn't just allow these mods they encourage them as well

Hey thanks for taking the time to explain all of this to us!! I want to play bg3 but my laptop is old lol.

So here's Wyll in bg3

and here's the alternate wyll on moddinghaven (btw there's 2 white wyll mods the original was revamped to make it work better 🤮)

here's the ser aylin

and here's the "better aesthetics" (the one that white washes the npcs)

So um yeah its a shit show!!!

Since I'm not familiar with moddinghaven I don't think its worth it to complain. and I'm not even clicking on rpghq because like this is their results when you look it up on ecosia

Like the top 2 mods are for the whitewashing mods. also "made in america"??? what bullshit. just admit you're nazis and go.

I'm really really hoping that like me none of our followers have strayed from nexus!!! Because this is honestly repugnant and I wish I could coordinate like an attack on moddinghaven and rpghq and bring them down.

mod laina

[smilepilled]

hello i have a question very specifically aimed to people who are black, be they educated on this or not — because there is no other way to ask this properly, or have this conversarion, without your inputs. please take this kindly, as i am trying to not only educate MYSELF, but also spark knowledge && a discussion (preferrably respectfil) about this.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

Three Durham police officers committed professional misconduct when they showed "pro-police bias," conducting an inadequate investigation of the incident that led to the conviction of an off-duty Toronto constable for assaulting Dafonte Miller in 2016, according to a disciplinary tribunal ruling.

Citing the serious injuries sustained by then-19-year-old Miller, retired Ontario Provincial Police Supt. Greg Walton, who oversaw the disciplinary proceedings, said in a ruling dated June 26 that the officers ignored clear signs that a thorough investigation was warranted.

"The inequity in injuries and one-sided result of the altercation alone begged for questions to be asked," Walton said.

"I am convinced that the main reason those inquiries did not occur is because of the involvement and role of an off-duty officer." [...]

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Tagging: @politicsofcanada