#white liberal savior complex

[r7-b7]

Y'know voting is like less than 1% of what you can do to make a difference in your life and everybody else's life, right?

Y'know voting once or twice for a white supremacist who's maybe less evil than the other white supremacist doesn't make you a good or morally correct person, right?

Be real.

Do you even know what's happening in your city? Do you even follow your town council decisions?

When's the last time you read a fucking book by a Black author about the Black experience in America in the 21st century? (Or literally anything focusing on race/sociology/history)

When's the last time you donated to your city or towns' mutual aid group? Not a church charity, not a non-profit, a mutual aid group. A group of your neighbors, your community members, who come together for no other reason than to give care to other community members. When's the last time you interacted with them?

When's the last time you offered anything to a houseless person? Do you offer them money or food or water or an umbrella to provide shade since most of our cities are eviscerating all of our tree canopies in a time of climate catastrophe and record houselessness?

Whose fucking land are you on!? You are most likely a settler, a gentrifier, and abusing your position as a "comrade" or "ally" to get away with not facing what violence you enact every single day. You are an uninvited guest using our resources and killing our indigenous ways. You are doing all of these things if you are not actively working against the colonial white supremacist model. You must be actively working against these systems or else you are simply part of them.

If you want to "stop fascism" or "save democracy" or "dismantle the system" you need to do it in your own home and in your own mind first.

[rottenlittlefink]

Socializing with neurotypicals is like trying to cut the right color chord but you’re colorblind. And you’re also a fucking horse. And no matter which wire you cut, the bomb will still explode.

Edit cus I published this post too early: Possibly triggering rant in tags oops lol it’s my personal blog ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[theclosetedskeleton]

GUYS pulling on the guitar string that makes the lowest noise to make a 💥 sound effect when something happens in a medical show im watching has now became my new favorite thing to do

[icedsodapop]

The comments are so good:

John Brown’s actions were great but i feel like 90% of the reason why he’s been eulogized so prolifically in the past few years is because American ‘leftists,’ particularly anarchists, demsocs, and christian socialists (which this website is still rife with for some reason), are desperate for history to furnish them with heroes, but are ideologically unwilling to recognize the accomplishments of actual socialists leaders and programs because that would necessarily entail coming to terms with the triumphs of non-American entities, namely the USSR, China, Cuba, etc.

[pessimisticpigeonsworld]

She is a white savior that Daenerys believes to be the Mysha of the slaves, in addition to her arrogance of thinking that she is the only savior, she has that hero complex like her brother Rhaegar had that caused a war for his prophecy, I saw the publication and it makes sense Aegon according to what he dreamed of in the long night, but for me the author invented it to make it seem like the foreigners subjugated Westeros, for me it is not fair that Daenerys and her fans believe that she deserves the credit of many people who also fight against the others.

I'm sorry, have you ever read the books? Or even seen the show for that matter? Literally none of this is true in either one.

Dany didn't create the title of Mhysa, the Yunkai'i slaves she freed did. Then the name was picked up by the slaves in Meereen and others all over Essos. It's a title; it's awarded by others, that's how they work.

Dany takes this title as a responsibility. She feels a level of responsibility and care for the slaves and freedmen that no other pov ruler does. She understands the weight of ruling as no one else does; it's a ruler's responsibility to care for the people and do justice on their behalf. She is motivated by her genuine care in all the released books and in the seasons when she's in Essos.

Where are you getting that she has a hero complex? I'm assuming since you're talking about the Others, you're talking about the events of the show's ending. Well, even with how D&D royally fucked up, Dany didn't believe herself to be the only person fighting the Others, nor does she begrudge other people their credit.

She's rightfully upset when all the Northmen choose to ignore the fact that she literally saved them. Dany brought her dragons, saved Jon's life multiple times, and brought a massive army. She did literally save their fucking lives. No, she wasn't the only one to fight, nor was she the only reason they won, and she doesn't think that.

As for the slaves, she doesn't liberate them out of a hero's complex, she does it because slavery is a horrifying institution and she had power. People who have power should feel an obligation to do good with it; Dany does. She chose to put aside her conquest for the Iron Throne for the slaves.

Rhaegar didn't start the war, nor did he do it for the prophecy. Again, I don't know where you or any of Rhaegar's antis got that. Rhaegar ran away with Lyanna because of a mutual love. GRRM literally calls Rhaegar "a love struck prince"; meaning he isn't really thinking clearly.

As for the prophecy, yes, Rhaegar knew about it; but we have textual evidence that he believes Aegon is the Prnce that was Promised. He literally tells Elia when Aegon is born that, "His will be the Song of Ice and Fire." Yeah, he said there needed to be a third child, but why logically wouldn't he choose to have a third child with Elia? Well because he's not thinking logically, he's "lovestruck", and because he didn't run away with Lyanna for a child.

No, GRRM didn't make the Targaryen conquest to reflect foreign invasion or colonization. They're literally a Westerosi house, they came to Westeros centuries before the conquest happened. It's literally a different concept all together, why is that so hard to understand?

Literally none of Dany's fans believe that she "deserves all the credit" for fighting the Others. We just want her to get the credit she deserves, which is that she saved the Northmen's lives and without her they would have failed. These are all just facts in the show. As for the books, we know she'll play a large role in fighting the Others because GRRM makes it pretty fucking clear.

[mdddante]

anyways with comms out of the way uhh im getting back into my limbus company owb au 💥💥💥💥

re-meet Dante, the White Savior, leader of the 3rd L Corp. "Liberator Saints"

somehow weaseled their way into rebuilding lobotomy corporation, attempts to upkeep more efficient energy production than the old l corp did with their new epic prosthetic worker family and their funny restoration repairs, as well as going under the radar to pull poor people from the backstreets into their EPIC prosthetic cult family

someday hopes to gain enough people to Overthrow the Government ^TM although we all know dante could never fucking do that

though while their first and second goals are to build their family of prostheses and someday overthrow the leaders of the city, dante also has a third very very funny goal:

to bring about the White Nights and Dark Days. A-fucking-gain.

thats right folks dante is a little history fucking fanboy after don quixote told them all about color fixers and the history of the city

dante has a VILE fucking hatred for humans and all things humanity so what should he do to cope with his rage and hatred? thats right he should totally bring about 3 days of positivity and light then shut it the fuck down to cause 4 days of absolute despair for all with a mind across the city and recreate the big hashtag pianist incident to wreak havoc on the city and its foul, filthy humans within it

dante of course will fail somewhere along the way because while this is basically building up to a mary sue plotline where the world shifts around one guy to get what he wants this is still a project moon mirror world and because its project moon nobody gets what they fucking want

dante will enjoy his funny cult until eventually his ulterior motives are found out by the head and by extension the rest of the city and hes fucking stomped on with spit on his grave and creating a wave of hatred for prostheses that not even the one who grips herself could create

keep in mind that half of the time during this embarrassing fucking rant i have had absolutely no idea what im talking about nor how the government in project moon works i am just looking for some way to have dante get to be cool without him embarrassing himself. i need reason in everything

tldr; dante is a little bitchboy that worships prostheses, hates humanity, somehow by some fucking plot miracle got the government to trust him with a whole ass wing, and would kiss roland and/or angela on the lips if given the chance

also his main literature inspirations are alice in wonderland and paradise lost, his more non literature inspirations are bill cipher and kromer and also the "the devil shivers when the nice guy snaps" fanfiction/au trope

take this information how you will, i dont take blunt criticism, i just wanna make dante a narcissistic god complex bitch

toodles

[blackwolfmanx4]

The white liberals are going to break out their whips.

this nu-racism is such a fascinating trend to witness i've seen less racist neo-nazis on this website

[butwhatifidothis]

You don't want a certain fic to be influential in the fandom because of what you perceive as racist and sexist undertones and that's all well and good, so does that mean you'll start sporking The Savior King, The Master Tactician and the Queen of Liberation soon? That fic has been criticized for pushing a white savior complex, a careless use of languages for cultures that don't fit them (Almyrans speak Japanese), consistently portraying Byleth as a hysterical woman who can't handle things without her boyfriends saving her from herself, and colonialist vibes of the Nabateans (a pair of Nabatean siblings are implied to be the background of the Almyran religion, which is just the white supremacist Ancient Aliens conspiracy theory but with dragons instead of aliens).

The Savior King isn't influential at all. No one is declaring it as good as or better than canon, the author never says she's trying to keep to canon or that her work is *~meta~*, and I haven't heard of any of the shit you listed ever existing despite me being in dimiclaude circles and once being in claudeleth circles.

People right now this second are saying Byleth isn't part Nabatean despite the game literally actually factually directly saying they have a straight up blood connection to Sothis comparable to Rhea's and despite Sitri literally being made through Sothis' actual literal physical heart. Take a guess as to who else said that and has been saying it for years in his fic (and thus his meta since he treats his fic as meta). Teacher Theory, Faerghus Toxic Masculinity and Faerghus as a whole needing to be uprooted and destroyed completely, the entire Edelgrid ship as a concept, CF being about fighting fate, all that shit and more is in a shit ton of places in 3H fandom and they either start from Cap'n or were popularized by him.

Popular =/= influential.

Hope that helps <3

[thowawayuntilfurthernotice]

I'm probably get a bunch of shit for this, but I honestly don't care anymore.

So I watched Matt Mercer's video that he posted on his socials where he discusses what is currently happening in Palestine. And I'm gonna be brutally honest, this was a frustrating video to sit through.

First off, I respect him for contacting his reps directly and asking them to push for a ceasefire, and I will commend him for giving money to Pro Palestine charities.

That being said, I hated how vague he had to be in his wording, because he's obviously scared of being blacklisted by the industry.

Notice how he refereed to what was happening as the "War in Gaza" instead of a genocide.

Notice how he referred to the Palestinians who were brutally killed as "civilians" instead of Palestinian civilians.

But I think what frustrates me the most about this video is that once again, another white liberal feels guilty about "Not doing enough" when it came to doing the right thing.

Matt Mercer has one of the biggest platforms imaginable, all he had to do was voice his support for a ceasefire and the majority of Critical Role fans would have come out in droves to push for a ceasefire.

Also, what the fuck is with this "It isn't my place to speak on this issue" talk? Innocent Palestinians are on the verge of being wiped out, and you're seriously worried about having a white savior complex?

Get the fuck outta here with that nonsense.

[raadiomaquia]

This is sumeru all over again bro we are never going to be free

So i feel like a have some room to talk about the cast reveal for natlan and people's reaction to the distinct lack of dark/light dark skinned characters considering that i'm latino myself and i'm not from a big city and have educated myself in the indigenous/contemporary art and culture that natlan is driving PART of their inspiration.

First, i do have to say that what ultimately matters is that the people whose culture is being inspired on/represented feel like such, not that your mental image of what these faraway from wherever you post (probably the U.S) is fullfiled. with that in mind, the jury shall still remain out until the main content of the patch (archon and main world quests) is done and the themes and depictions of what natlan is IN THE FICTIONAL SPACE OF GENSHIN.

Now, affirming that there is no problem with the lack of dark skin tones is the same as complaining about LGBT or black characters being in media, because the argument boils down to people not wanting their thing to not be exclusively for them.

But applying borderline blackface to most of the characters is quite messed up considering that the population of mestizos and mixed people is quite high. that being said, the problem boils down to the people who aren't there, being dark skinned and indigenous people.

Hoyoverse does have a story of doing bad darks skinned characters meta wise and depicting NPCs that are in the game as bad guys, goons or shady people, which is what people should be focused on, not the skin color itself.

This shit overall feels really performative due to whose mouths the complains are coming from and reenacts the savior complex that USAmerican white liberals have that they must always speak for minorities as if they don't understand their situation or don't have agency to act.

I know some people don't want me near them, i know some people think i exist and have what i have just to fullfill an agenda and i know that many want me and compatriots to put our heads down and let them take what is rightfully ours, that's why i speak, that's why i learn and educate myself, that's why i train to defend myself and i know better than some twitter melanin lackies where i come from and what makes me and my home special.

But i can assure you, it's not the skin tone

[ladychlo]

The West sees our queerness from two lenses: dehumanization and fetishization. Funny enough, these two lenses are a result of the western construct concept of orientalism. It is either our queerness is an impossible thing because the dehumanization strip you away from human complexity, or they will project their fantasies on us and our qeerness is objectified in a sense that the western white savior complexe will enter the mere existence of your sexuality and your desires and make it about themselves.

The queerness of the Orient person is either exoticized and objectified in Western representations or insufficient and we refuse to follow ''Western progressivism''

It is impossible for them that queerness and queer culture is part of our culture too and that we exist outside of their orientalist narrative and imaginary. When it comes to Queerphobia in the west it is depicted as it, queerphobia. When Queerphobia is depicted in our Mena Region is depicted as the lack of progression and that we are far behind and far ignorant and we should follow the more knowledgeable, the more human West.

Anyway, read Falasteen queer literature, listen to Falasteen queer music, watch Falasteen queer movies, read Falasteen queer poetry, the Falasteen liberation movement is a part of the queer liberation movement.

[padawan-historian]

There are so many adoption agencies and family-saturated programs connected to the settler-colonial (i.e. laissez-facism) structures that seek to "straighten out" our (eco)systems in order to erase our histories, erode our community spaces, and exploit our cultures and our labor.

I ain't gonna say the big R-word (cause apparently is the equivalent of radioactive kryptonite to certain folks of a . . . lighter complexion) but #ParentsRights are fundamentally antiblack, anti-indigenous, and antiqueer in nature. Not only do they miseducate our young and grown folks across colorlines and cultures, but Parents Rights programs fundamentally displace and disposses the personhood and human rights of our young scholars who are growing up behind the veil of bigotry (both the intimate and the institutional)

By claiming children and classrooms should not be politicized, these mama bears and ugly feminists reinforce both the colonization and [R-word] color-codes of our identities, histories, lived experiences, memories, and magic.

There is a sharp difference between being concerned and being a colonizer, especially one with a [white] savior complex ~

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[hero-israel]

I’ve honestly fucking had it with antizionist/nonzionist jews who think they’re on some pedestal of morality and knowledge-bearing. Thinking that zionist jews are at best simply traumatized and don’t know any better than identifying with a “harmful movement” out of no choice. It’s unbelievably patronizing. To assume that I am miseducated and with gentle guidance and education will choose the “better path.”

It’s actually possible to have a different perspective of the world, be educated in the full context of historical events, believe strongly in anti-oppression, justice, and liberation, and recognize that there is *nuance* to everything that a black & white perspective will never deliver. You can decide not to identify as a zionist, you can feel whatever you feel about israel, I do not care. But don’t treat us like we’re some unfortunate, dishevelled stray cats in need of saving. It's some evangelical savior complex shit, jewish lefty edition.

I've certainly encountered some who think Zionists don't know the history of Israel and that we couldn't possibly support it if we did know. It reminds me very much of Neo-Confederates who say nothing justified the body count of the Civil War, that the South should have been allowed to go its own way because slavery would have been abandoned someday at its own pace.

[qqueenofhades]

I also want to add that my dad didn't.... read an article calling Bernie a radical? The framing around Bernie has been that he's radical, whether the leftists like it or not. He may not be, if you read deep into his policies or tweets or whatever else, but most voters are not doing that. Most voters are going by outrage-driven news headlines or TV reporting. The facts don't matter and the left won't win votes by "well actually"-ing people. It's all how the narrative is framed, in the end.

Well, yeah, because America is a deeply racist, imperialist, savior-complexed, essentially conservative country that was built on white settler colonialism, systemic Native American genocide, and African-American chattel slavery. Its existential conflicts about race and its unwillingness to solve the slavery question are written directly into the Constitution and are the core cause for a lot of our current social and legal angst. So yes, of course the most milquetoast left-of-center views are treated as a terrible existential threat by the shrieking right-wing noise machine that, due to the shifting demographics that might finally and generationally put them out of power, is more desperate than ever to keep (white) Americans stupid, angry, afraid, and viewing POC Americans as the "enemy."

Aside from all my other problems with Bernie as a functionally useless totem of white online leftism (as noted a few days ago, African-Americans generally don't vote for him either), obviously he's going to be heading upwind in regard to either shedding the socialism label (which he doesn't seem keen to do, seeing as he has previously defended Castro and that was what made him DOA in Florida) or getting over America's deep-rooted conservatism. The founding white supremacist state was then supplanted by Reaganism in the 1980s, and has been taken to its logical and hateful neo-fascist extreme under Trump. When that's what is treated as the "normal" standard, it sets the Overton window wildly to the right and makes even centrist Democrats (of which there are fewer than people tend to think; the Democratic Party overall has moved firmly liberal) look extreme. When Bernie leans into being "far left" without any attempt to educate, or any attempt on the part of his followers to educate, it's easy to spin and demonize. It can be undone, but it takes time, effort, and engaging in the real world with people who don't necessarily think like you, and a lot of Online Leftists seem deeply averse to actually, y'know. Doing that.

[beardedmrbean]

Hey, about the black Americans taught to hate our country.

Yes we and in many other parts are treated like shit…but so was everyone else. I mean…I don’t know their exact backgrounds…but people do know a lot of Japanese creators in the entertainment industry of Japan are mostly the descendants of the “peasants” not the feudal lords?

Just asking…I mean people know the sengoku period was about Japanese CIVIL WARS?

Hell what I heard another modern imperial Japan ancestry. Their ancestors ghosts probably go “you got to be fucking kidding me” when they learn they have the same descendants

Sorry funny

But yeah we could use Bass Revees, Tuskegee Airmen, the Harlem fighters, as inspiration for black characters

“We weren’t taught that in school!” You honestly think career politicians like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden who heavily influence the education while they push for the tough on crime bill and ensure that black Americans are 75% born out of wedlock

Would teach the fact that many black people successful lives despite systemic oppression?

Not to mention the white liberals with their savior complex would fight tooth and nail and said we were nothing until the civil rights movement

And the feminists are damn sure not to mention the fact their ogs founders were racist af and made damn sure that black men didn’t get proper voting rights until the 60’s

Also learning what the government did to my community made me more anti socialist as hell

Also we bounce back that fast from the Civil hence our “modern” American empire? Actually I heard Teddy Roosevelt say the Lincoln coffin tour when he was 6

But thanks, I wanted to used a American military outfit era that wasn’t colonial but not ww2-now

Also my Chimera republic (you know I just keep the us part until I figure out what to do with pseudo latam) is a combination of different American eras in a steampunk setting. As east coast have very colonial look with the rising art deco

While Midwest part especially the in universe Chicago is very art deco and rampant “advance “ as I watched a video on the queen of nyc glided age and I realize how different my midwestern ass is to East coast

Of course the west coast have a lot of it Spanish influence. Actually your Californian (the good ones) can you help me out with that?

And yes I’m trying to figure what to do with First Nations as my chimera republic is a fantasy America were we drop the social Darwinism is shit and DIDNT do. The residential school horror show

Of course I’m just a 23 year old man with a HS degree. But I’m pointing out we got our own culture to take inspiration and not trying to force ourselves into Asian or European cultures like what modern black activists do.

Yes we and in many other parts are treated like shit…but so was everyone else. I mean…I don’t know their exact backgrounds…but people do know a lot of Japanese creators in the entertainment industry of Japan are mostly the descendants of the “peasants” not the feudal lords?

People take offense at 'your experiences are not unique' it's wild and not limited to age, race, hair colour, nationality, disability, and so on.

Me being dyslexic there's stuff I'll relate to more than most people, but I know better than to say it's purely a dyslexic thing.

Just asking…I mean people know the sengoku period was about Japanese CIVIL WARS? Hell what I heard another modern imperial Japan ancestry. Their ancestors ghosts probably go “you got to be fucking kidding me” when they learn they have the same descendants

They kept their slaves (peasants) after this one, not sure how many wars globally were fought in order to free slaves, only wars I can think of that were fought with the abolition of slavery in mind were waged by western nations. US, UK, and France specifically.

You want civil wars in Asia check out China

“We weren’t taught that in school!” You honestly think career politicians like Hillary Clinton and Joe Biden who heavily influence the education while they push for the tough on crime bill and ensure that black Americans are 75% born out of wedlock ect

Some of it there really just isn't time, they have to hit the big stuff and if anything catches your eye hope people have the ability to study it themselves, much more complicated before the internet at large.

Suffragettes were massive racists fighting for white women's right to vote, but that was society at the time.

Margret sanger founding planned parenthood as a way to reduce the black population was just evil, difference between the two is one was denying rights one was attempting to deny life.

Also learning what the government did to my community made me more anti socialist as hell

That's fairly common for people that study history.

The Chimera thing, ya there's all kinds of different influences all over the place when it comes to they way things are laid out and constructed and I'd be happy to help with the Spanish influence stuff San Diego has managed that better than Los Angeles, honestly CA covers so much different kinds of terrain and has different histories you can find most anything here, so long as you don't expect to be able to afford it.

And yes I’m trying to figure what to do with First Nations as my chimera republic is a fantasy America were we drop the social Darwinism is shit and DIDNT do. The residential school horror show

First Nations, this ain't canada. lol

I'm sure you'll come up with something

Of course I’m just a 23 year old man with a HS degree. But I’m pointing out we got our own culture to take inspiration and not trying to force ourselves into Asian or European cultures like what modern black activists do.

Amen to that

[chronicallylatetotheparty]

White liberals saying "Y'know *insert POC community here* has much more sexism and homophobia right? 😌😉" is just them repackaging the White Man's Burden so they can tout their savior complex as "progressive".

You're not special you're just racist.