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#erica mena#racism#white washing#latinas#latinex#white skin privilege#lies latinos tell#racism on tv#love and hip hop atlanta#bravo
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The whole transandrophobia discussion thing is weird bc it feels like it's a bunch of poc and jewish trans people being like "here are my experiences of how specifically being MASCULINE had affected me, and the discrimination and violence I experienced based on that. And here is how that relates to me being a racial/ethnic minority"
And then a few loud white trans people going "ohhh you wanna be oppressed so bad you *slur*. This is why there aren't any poc in your movement it's because REAL poc understand intersectionality"
#hot take white culturally christian or athiest leftests do not properly interpret white jewish ppl#like as a poc i and other poc understand that white jewish ppl often get racial privilege#but a) not always b) they experience oppression based off of their ethnicity#idk from my perspective it seems like white goyim either see jewish ppl as 'the disgusting exotic enemy' or 'basically WASPS but they#wanna feel special'#with no nuance. no recognition#look maybe this next part is bc i didnt grow up with jewish ppl and therefore didnt know until I was 18/19 that jewish ppl can count as#white. but like. idk how to say this. i dont wanna speak over white jewish ppl. but like.#jewish ppl that have obvious jewish features (whether Ashkenazi facial features OR they dont have those but wear eg kippahs)#arent like. white. idk pls correct me if this is antisemitic or incorrect or something.#but like. light skinned =/= white obviously.#i just struggle to see how my bestfriend with her lovely dark eyes and curls and nice nose counts as 'white' when ppl call her the k slur#across the street. ykwim?#like white doesnt mean light skinned. it means 'part of the in-group of white ppl'#like my ex who is white and jewish? yeah hes white. if he didnt wear his necklace then goyim wouldnt know. you know#like obvs he still experiences ethnic oppression but he doesnt experience racial oppression#but other ppl with more prominent eg ashkenazi (im singling them out bc most jewish ppl here are ash.) like i dont GET how they have racial#privilege.
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It's 2024 and there's still Americans out there trying to convince white passing latinos that we are not latinos. Can we like, progress as a society or something? It's getting tiring.
Please, call us privileged and colonizers and shit all you like. Please, disregard the fact that not all white latinos descend from colonizers, but from refugees who came here after World War I and II.
In my (admitedly very specific) case, my mom came to Venezuela after the fall of the Soviet Union looking for a better life. Her ancestors were certainly not complicit in Spanish colonization 💀
And yeah, we do benefit from white privilege and IT is fucked up, don't get me wrong. But like, look at yourself in a mirror, maybe? 🤦🏻♀
We are not the ones gentrifying Latin American cities and making everything so expensive the locals can't even efford to live in their own countries anymore. We are not the ones funding the fucking cartels with our nation wide drug problem. Yes, that's a thing. And we are certainly NOT the ones electing presidents who keep bombing the Middle East and overthrowing our goverments for funsies.
Dear god, I know I will get crucified for saying it but here it goes. Even if you are POC, you are more privileged than we will ever be just for having an American passport and speaking English without an accent. Leave us the fuck alone.
#latin america#venezuela#gentrification#tumblr en español#white privelage#social justice#colonialism#anti colonization#i had a darker complexion when i was little#and for some reason i became light skinned in my teenage years#so believe me im pretty fucking aware of my privilege#my mother's side of the family used to call me brown girl 💀#discourse?
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every now and then i remember the time a few years ago, when sdmi fandom first had its revival thanks to netflix, when a wildly popular sdmi blog run by an anti said the words 'perfectly good Black woman' in reference to why you should ship [man you could easily read as white, whose arc she was fridged for] with her instead of [hatesink character whose race is ambiguous due to being a furry, but has a BLISTERINGLY antiblack narrative under a thin layer of fantasy racism, with a fun side of homophobia and holocaust denial the latter of which is directly invoked in the post], which got hundreds of notes, and i grimace my face through the back of my head all over again lmao
#sdmi#scooby doo: mystery incorporated#cassidy williams#ricky owens#professor pericles#like man i'm sorry i really do love rickidy and their dynamic and it's rich and complex and deeply tragic on both sides#but they textbook fridged her and i have never once seen someone talk about that in the wild#instead there is just nearly-always-antis being blatantly balls-out racist about her in like a dozen different ways and EUGH#while also turning around and gushing about a privileged misogynistic white boy who abuses a girl and refuses to let her leave#and literally talks about how he should have thought of hiding a tracking chip under her skin without her knowledge#and this is treated as silly + cute and kinda immature but also About His Trauma Making Him Abuse Her; and they get back together in the en#and making endless posts about how he's Cute Tragic Best Boy because he's autistic and traumatized and (genuinely!) endearing#and reblogging and celebrating and cheering on Cute Art of Them while conspicuously not shaming or excommunicating anyone l o l#you're not required to hate fred over it but god damn dude fuckin yikes#and 'perfectly good Black woman' made me physically recoil from my screen lmfao#racism cw#misogyny cw#antiblack racism cw#abuse apologia cw#homophobia cw#holocaust denial cw#the salt files#the crit files#SDMItag
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Video shows migrants waiting before ill-fated migrant boat voyage
03:41 - Source: CNN
CNN —
The hull of the fishing trawler lifted out of the water as it sank, catapulting people from the top deck into the black sea below. In the darkness, they grabbed onto whatever they could to stay afloat, pushing each other underwater in a frantic fight for survival. Some were screaming, many began to recite their final prayers.
“I can still hear the voice of a woman calling out for help,” one survivor of the migrant boat disaster off the coast of Greece told CNN. “You’d swim and move floating bodies out of your way.”
With hundreds of people still missing after the overloaded vessel capsized in the Mediterranean on June 14, the testimonies of those who were onboard paint a picture of chaos and desperation. They also call into question the Greek coast guard’s version of events, suggesting more lives could have been saved, and may even point to fault on the part of Greek authorities.
Rights groups allege the tragedy is both further evidence and a result of a new pattern in illegal pushbacks of migrant boats to other nations’ waters, with deadly consequences.
This boat was carrying up to 750 Pakistani, Syrian, Egyptian and Palestinian refugees and migrants. Only 104 people have been rescued alive.
CNN has interviewed multiple survivors of the shipwreck and their relatives, all of whom have wished to remain anonymous for security reasons and the fear of retribution from authorities in both Greece and at home.
One survivor from Syria, whom CNN is identifying as Rami, described how a Greek coast guard vessel approached the trawler multiple times to try to attach a rope to tow the ship, with disastrous results.
“The third time they towed us, the boat swayed to the right and everyone was screaming, people began falling into the sea, and the boat capsized and no one saw anyone anymore,” he said. “Brothers were separated, cousins were separated.”
Another Syrian man, identified as Mostafa, also believes it was the maneuver by the coast guard that caused the disaster. “The Greek captain pulled us too fast, it was extremely fast, this caused our boat to sink,” he said.
The Hellenic Coast Guard has repeatedly denied attempting to tow the vessel. An official investigation into the cause of the tragedy is still ongoing.
Coast guard spokesman Nikos Alexiou told CNN over the phone last week: “When the boat capsized, we were not even next to (the) boat. How could we be towing it?” Instead, he insisted they had only been “observing at a close distance” and that “a shift in weight probably caused by panic” had caused the boat to tip.
The Hellenic Coast Guard has declined to answer CNN’s specific requests for response to the survivor testimonies.
Direct accounts from those who survived the wreck have been limited, due to their concerns about speaking out and the media having little access to the survivors. CNN interviewed Rami and Mostafa outside the Malakasa migrant camp near Athens, where journalists are not permitted entry.
The Syrian men said the conditions on board the migrant boat deteriorated fast in the more than five days after it set off from Tobruk, Libya, in route to Italy. They had run out of water and had resorted to drinking from storage bottles that people had urinated in.
“People were dying. People were fainting. We used a rope to dip clothes into the sea and use that to squeeze water on people who had lost consciousness,” Rami said.
CNN’s analysis of marine traffic data, combined with information from NGOs, merchant vessels and the European Union border patrol agency, Frontex, suggests that Greek authorities were aware of the distressed vessel for at least 13 hours before it eventually sank early on June 14.
The Greek coast guard has maintained that people onboard the trawler had refused rescue and insisted they wanted to continue their journey to Italy. But survivors, relatives and activists say they had asked for help multiple times.
Earlier in the day, other ships tried to help the trawler. Directed by the Greek coast guard, two merchant vessels – Lucky Sailor and Faithful Warrior – approached the boat between 6 and 9 p.m. on June 13 to offer supplies, according to marine traffic data and the logs of those ships. But according to survivors this only caused more havoc onboard.
“Fights broke out over food and water, people were screaming and shouting,” Mostafa said. “If it wasn’t for people trying to calm the situation down, the boat was on the verge of sinking several times.”
By early evening, six people had already died onboard, according to an audio recording reviewed by CNN from Italian activist Nawal Soufi, who took a distress call from the migrant boat at around 7 p.m. Soufi’s communication with the vessel also corroborated Mostafa’s account that people moved from one side of the boat to the other after water bottles were passed from the cargo ships, causing it to sway dangerously.
The haunting final words sent from the migrant boat came just minutes before it capsized. According to a timeline published by NGO Alarm Phone they received a call, at around 1:45 a.m., with the words “Hello my friend… The ship you send is…” Then the call cuts out.
The coast guard says the vessel began to sink at around 2 a.m.
The next known activity in the area, according to marine traffic data, was the arrival of a cluster of vessels starting around 3 a.m. The Mayan Queen superyacht was the first on the scene for what soon became a mass rescue operation.
Human rights groups say the authorities had a duty to act to save lives, regardless of what people on board were saying to the coast guard before the migrant boat capsized.
“The boat was overcrowded, was unseaworthy and should have been rescued and people taken to safety, that’s quite clear,” UNHCR Special Envoy for the Central Mediterranean Vincent Cochetel told CNN in an interview. “There was a responsibility for the Greek authorities to coordinate a rescue to bring those people safely to land.”
Cochetel also pointed to a growing trend by countries, including Greece, to assist migrant boats in leaving their waters. “That’s a practice we’ve seen in recent months. Some coastal states provide food, provide water, sometimes life jackets, sometimes even fuel to allow such boats to continue to only one destination: Italy. And that’s not fair, Italy cannot cope with that responsibility alone.”
Survivors who say the coast guard tried to tow their boat say they don’t know what the aim was.
There have been multiple documented examples in recent years of Greek patrol boats engaging in so-called “pushbacks” of migrant vessels from Greek waters in recent years, including in a CNN investigation in 2020.
“It looks like what the Greeks have been doing since March 2020 as a matter of policy, which is pushbacks and trying to tow a boat to another country’s water in order to avoid the legal responsibility to rescue,” Omer Shatz, legal director of NGO Front-LEX, told CNN. “Because rescue means disembarkation and disembarkation means processing of asylum requests.”
Pushbacks are state measures aimed at forcing refugees and migrants out of their territory, while impeding access to legal and procedural frameworks, according to the Berlin-based European Center for Constitutional and Human Rights (ECCHR). They are a violation of international law, as well as European regulations.
And such measures do not appear to have deterred human traffickers whose businesses prey on vulnerable and desperate migrants.
In an interview with CNN last month, then Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis denied that his country engaged in intentional pushbacks and described them as a “completely unacceptable practice.” Mitsotakis is widely expected to win a second term in office in Sunday’s election, after failing to get an outright majority in a vote last month.
A series of Greek governments have been criticized for their handling of migration policy, including conditions in migrant camps, particularly following the 2015-16 refugee crisis, when more than 1 million people entered Europe through the country.
For those who lived through last week’s sinking, the harrowing experience will never be forgotten.
Mostafa and Rami both say they wish they had never made the journey, despite the fact they are now in Europe and are able to claim asylum.
Most of all, Mostafa says, he wishes the Greek coast guard had never approached their boat: “If they had left us be, we wouldn’t have drowned.”
#‘If they had left us be#we wouldn’t have drowned:’ CNN investigation raises questions about Greek coast guard’s account of shipwreck tragedy#greek coast guard#greece#brown skin#white privilege#racism in immigration#africans#european racism
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Some of you are trying to find misogyny where it doesn't exist because you want to be victims so bad
#i said it#i stand by it#im sick of it#rewording the tags because i really did that wrong the first time#now unsentimentaltranslator made a point so allow me to redeem mine#misogyny is absolutely the bigger issue but there's no contest#but ive seen people go out of their way to find something to be offended by. in general too ofc but#im specifically referencing people who milk their identity as a woman for all its worth#while being deliberately ignorant of the privileges they do have#i hate that. i do. it's annoying#some of yall want to be offended so that you can be the victims so that you don't have to take responsibility or accountability#for any privilege or any sort of power you do have#easiest example is the way some of us white woman ignore our privilege when compared to a dark skinned woman#or how us well-off women are in an infinitely better position than the women out there fighting for their lives in congo or gaza#knowing your privilege even in a marginalized position is crucial to being a true feminist#feminism#misogyny#coming back the next day to add a few things#this can actually also be a form of misogyny in and of itself. in MANY different ways#and i can double down on that but ill save it for another post
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the next time someone forgets that japanese characters are also non white is the time i start murdering people i’m not kidding
anyway whitewashing goes beyond making skin tone lighter. it’s erasing a characters name, their non white facial features, etc. like. you know how many times i’ve seen japanese characters from like anime or some shit drawn white in a “realistic” style? lighter skinned non white characters are STILL whitewashed
don’t get me wrong, like i’ve talked abt many times before, colorism is always a problem. it will ALWAYS be a problem, and i’m not trying to undermine that by referencing lighter skinned non white people. but good christ you people are so stupid
#mine#text#my thoughts#saw someone talking abt the darker skinned characters from d//antaño row and like. valid#D//ANGANRONPA#but they were like#‘they are NOT white’#and shit like that#as if everyone isn’t non white too? lol#use different language. if you want to refer to light skin tones then say. light skinned#it rly isn’t that fucking hard#just bc someone has light skin doesn’t mean they’re not poc 😭😭😭😭 IM TIRED#and like#don’t get me wrong. i know the privilege i and other light skinned people have#but i’m just. i’m tired
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Traditional femininity is to misogyny as colorism is to racism
#or traditional femininity : misogyny :: colorism : racism#y'all remember your analogy formats from grade school? 😂#and yes I will eventually be expanding on this but basically#being traditionally feminine is a more acceptable/palatable way of being a woman and treated as something all women should aspire to#it doesn't protect women from misogyny but it does offer them some form of privilege considering that#femininity is very much a factor of both class and race#upper-class white women are inherently seen as more feminine than lower-class women of color regardless of how they act#which makes sense considering traditional femininity is a byproduct of white supremacy and the patriarchy#it's literally a tool used for control but sure let's shame women for not conforming to it#note that femininity isn't actually an area of oppression like lighter skin isn't one it's just misogyny and racism respectively#the more you move away from the acceptable way of being the more oppression you're going to face#not a 1:1 obviously but for simplicity's sake I'm making the comparison between the two
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like were you really not black enough for black people or were you up your own ass. just wondering
#speaking as the alternative emo nerdy light skinned cousin. i was definitely just up my own ass as a kid and needed to sort my shit out#and its the best fucking thing you could do for yourself. stop fucking wallowing and start seeing your people as PEOPLE#if you have the privilege of existing in the in between of both worlds you should take advantage of how broad the perspective can be#you could have first hand fucking knowledge that could be used to do right by yourself and your heritage#so if you choose to just sit there and laugh it off when your white friends are racist bc its not Directed at you? go to hell#txt
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Actually no, if you fight so hard against racism, and even other forms of oppression, but let colorism slide specifically, you're not actually committed to being anti-racism and are instead actively upholding the very things that you claim to be against. Colorism absolutely intersects with multiple other forms of marginalization but too many folks (mainly folks with light skin) are in denial about that or see colorism as something to let slide.
Stop pretending like you don't notice whenever you hear or see news about a Black or Brown person being murdered or assaulted, the folks that get shown being beaten or killed on news outlets the most, aren't ones of darker shades. Reports about POC being harmed that get sensualized, are often ones of brown & dark skinned folks, let's acknowledge that elephant in the room. Just like who's more likely to be the face of a supposed "thug" or "dangerous looking individual" versus who's the face of the "approachable" or "docile individual". Cut the shit.
And this covers all communities that include POC in them. Darker skinned Black and Brown trans folks being amongst the most reported cases of harm and assault. Dark skinned queer folks being more likely to be viewed as masculine, regardless if they identify as such, and as a a result having a higher chance of being stereotyped as "mean", "aggressors", or "perpetrators of harm".
This isn't even getting into how medical racism banks heavily on myths about darker skin being harder to treat in various different ways or the lack of training on detecting and identifying injuries on darker skin tones therefore heightening the risks of medical neglect and misdiagnosis. And of course it doesn't stop there, it happens on much smaller and less physically harmful scales as well.
Such as a variety of darker skin tones being harder to find on binders or packers, being less likely to be advertised on items that multi marginalized darker POC buy (examples being plus sized clothing, mobility aids, and hair care products), and still having to take a backseat in terms of representation because folks with a closer proximity to whiteness, still have a privilege in being represented, even if they're not white & marginalized in other ways as well.
I could quite literally go on and on about how colorism intersects with so many axes of oppression, on both marco and micro levels but first I'm gonna need more so called activists, educators, progressives, etc, to really pay attention to colorism and take it seriously in the first place. Regardless if you or anyone that you know faces it personally because we're way past only caring or talking about certain things, just because of your close proximity to someone who personally faces it.
#colorism#racism#anti racism#liberals#poc#people of color#intersectionality#intersectional activism#activism#light skinned privilege#light skin privilege#white privilege#ableism#medical racism#transphobia#homophobia#queerphobia#queer#trans#lgbt#lgbtq#queer community#lgbt community#lgbtq community#bias#prejudice#discrimination#anti black racism#anti blackness#antiblackness
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eastern european racism would blow your mind
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sometimes i just think god i love being a black girl
#feeling comfortable in my skin!#my parents were so supportive of our blackness and how it molds us#but i have always studied in more privileged places#which means more white people#i’ve always been quite aware of how i am different#but now i feel comfortable in my skin. no one can stop me. etc
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the world would be a better place if it was universally required to take one (1) cultural anthropology class
#race structure and religion are intrinsic parts of cultures#You cannot have a culture without a religion#you cannot have a culture without a system of race#Race as defined in cultural anthropology doesn't refer to skin color but rather more of a class system#brazil for example has a racial system categorized not just on skin color but social and monetary status#who you mary etc etc#class systems race systems and caste systems are all very similar#and despite the problems they have they are found in every culture.#When you universalize the idea of whiteness or american racial classification you are universalizing american culture#you are accidentally doing the exact thing you're trying to fight back against#What is considered white in america is different than what is considered white in europe#and the existence and privileges of whiteness change drastically depending on the culture#you cannot universalize things into white and poc for non-western countries#this is partially about israel/palestine#israel palestine#israel
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remember "ahed tamimi has white privilege" discourse? this is what that anon sounds like xd
luckily i don’t know of such discourse 😭
#she probs does gain privilege within her community for being so light-skinned but ? white privilege? in the context of being#palestinian in the west bank? where?
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one thing that has stuck with me from the latest kerfuffle i got into on twitter is like. there was one person arguin w one the homies that my bio stating i was white isnt accurate because white people cant be people of colour or a poc so putting 'white' in my bio was the reason people wouldnt acknoweldge Im mixed. and like. that shit has stuck w me
cuz to me that seems fucked up towards mixed ppl like me who have that white background mixed with some non-white identity. but thinking about it i can ABSOLUTELY understand the idea of it due to the notion that white people cannot be poc. cuz that sentence in itself is SENSIBLE. like oh Obviously white people cannot be in the non-white community, so therefore mixed people 'cannot' identify as white????
but i keep thinking about it cuz. wow that shit really pointed out an issue that is so obviously present when it comes to recognizing and acknowledging mixed people like me. Because regardless of how much of a Person Of Colour i am or how much aboriginal background i got, i look very white. I have possibly more typically white experiences than typically aboriginal ones. I have blue eyes as when i was a kid I had naturally blonde hair and there was the joke that i was the whitest in my family because of it. which despite the joke is pretty damn true. people dont see me on the street and say oh thats an indigenous person, and the extremely rare times someone sees me as non-white its usually another indigenous person yknow.
I think its like. its kinda led to this revelation of mine i suppose. On one hand i've come to terms with the idea that i am Aboriginal AND white in the sense that i cant just pick either or as both aspects of me have influenced my entire existence as a mixed person. but its really hit home on why i've struggled so much with seeing myself as being in the non-white community or recognizing myself as a person of colour. because the only 'requirement' of being a poc is Not being white. but does that instantly eliminate all mixed white and non-white people like me from being anything other than white? does that not just further the notion that mixed ppl have to just 'pick a side'? Wouldnt decrying my white identity to be a poc then just diminish my own experiences with white privilege and passing as white?
#ask to tag#idk i think its like. when it comes to racial groups and racialized peoples it tends to seem more#black and white (lmao)#in the sense that ethnicity and race isnt something changeable therefore it is treated as more concrete aspects of identity#rather than the fluidity of gender or sexuality when it comes to identity#but in actuality. its really not so easy with race either#like the lines between races and even between that of being white and being non-white isnt so clear#like ive spent years feeling guilt for my identity. as a kid i tried to get rid of my indigenous identity#and somewhat more recently i felt guilty for being white#and its only recently ive resolved that i can be both#but i hadnt explicitly thought about how much of an outlier that makes me#but honestly with mixed white poc i feel its worse to try and limit or get rid of the white aspects of us#like we cannot ignore how it has benefited us or how our general ease as being seen as white has made our lives easier#like i always think of a friend i had in highschool who was also native#but she had the more traditional features of darker skin and black or dark hair unlike me#and we bonded a lot over our aboriginal identity#but the fact she experienced more blatant descrimination than me was a constant factor in our relationship#like it is not something us white poc should not ignore! our expiriences with both privilege and descrimination is unique and unavoidable#i feel the idea of you cannot be white and a poc really tries to bury the privilege of that though. and thus the varied experiences#idk man i been thinkin bout it a lot#like maybe the inclusion of white people who are mixed should be noted in non-white circles more. because of this weird#inbetween we have
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Ghetto 🤝🏾 Red Neck
#This one is a bit more controversial#due to the racial tensions#but truth be told?#same shit different skin tone#poor whites get dunked on just as much as the hood does#look at those old episodes of Cops#like goddamn the way they treated those folks?#plus it's a mindset of making a meal out of crumbs#there used to be more unity between trailer parks and the hood#of course we all know what happened#it's sad to see because#poor whites are grasping at something#they will never get#and they're bending the knee#to callous kings#those people in power dont care about them#and they never will#they're white and they want the privilege#but they're poor so they're seen as worthless
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