#whitesplaining

[icedsodapop]

When it comes to paranormal explorer/cryptozoology/mythology circles, Native Americans will literally spend their time and labour explaining to non-Native people why we can't use certain terms like, sk*nw*lk*r or w*nd*go, and there will always be some fucker (usually a White person) claiming how Native Americans aren't actually offended when these terms are used but overly sensitive White SJWs who are getting offended on behalf of Native Americans. And it's like, okay bitch, aren't you also speaking on behalf of Native Americans as well? 🤡🤡

[alinahdee]

Yellowstone is a terrible show and I hate it.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Consider the psychology of a person who wants someone who doesn't feel like an oppressed victim to feel like an oppressed victim.

Because nobody knows what it's like to be a black woman in America better than a white girl who learned everything she knows about oppression from a Humanities class ending in "Studies" she took at an elite school costing her father the equivalent of a luxury SUV every year, in which she took notes on her MacBook Air with the "Destroy Capitalism" sticker.

Ideologies such as Critical Theory, derived from postmodernism and Marxian power analysis, come from extremely privileged, extremely sheltered, mostly white elite academics in elite academies.

Saying, “I’m not a victim, I’m not oppressed” offends so many people viewing the world where you’re either a victim or an oppressor because you’re erasing what gives meaning to their unimportant lives. Who are they if they don’t have a dragon (even if imaginary) to slay?

-- @EricsElectrons

They need her to feel bad about herself so they can feel good about themselves and sustain their theology.

[system-of-a-feather]

Me, basically a Buddhist at this point: The term tulpa is inherently problematic and the community of people who use the term have objectified and tokenized Buddhism for their white and western benefit. I don't care of mind the "creation of an entity in your mind" or anything similar, but stop using the term and I have zero issue with you Some dumb bitch: Hey did you know that Buddhists think this!!! Me: ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Wow. I never ever once in my life have ever looked into Buddhists beliefs and their philosophies and could NEVER fathom to even begin to understand what the concepts are. I am SO glad to learn thank you probably white person who is not a Buddhist for educating me uwu

[sleepynegress]

@danepopfrippery

You are completely free to disagree with facts, but using white performers when the context of Black performers, associated products, and paraphernalia is *everything* in this subject gives away your lack of knowledge on this subject. Josephine Baker didn't revolutionize minstrelsy. She was a performer before she was a spy and in fact, her fame as a performer is what helped her spy, since she carried Nazi secrets in her music sheets. Josephine Baker did incorporate minstrelsy in her act. And she gained fame not because the French were especially evolved on race, but because she wisely took advantage of their limited gaze. The Banana dance made her famous because the French were fascinated by what they saw as an exotic other from the "wilds" and her dancing. In other words they fetishized her blackness. She catered to that (initially) and gained fame exaggerating her eyes and making funny faces.

Note the style of the vintage poster advertising her, the French were not immune:

She even had branded make-up sold in her skintone, popularly sold to the French so they could achieve her fashionable tanned skin. I know this because I saw it in person at the National Gallery's Josephine Baker exhibit. Minstrelsy was performed by Black artists because it was a norm and the only genre space where most could regularly perform. It started *before* the 1910s during enslavement with white people mocking the people they enslaved. It became an economic survival point for talented Black performers on the Chitlin' Circuit, in the Edwardian era through the early 20th century. They also performed these caricatures, at times using blackface (burnt cork) over their own skin color. Elements of it lasted from the 1910s on through the 1950s and later depending on the country. Some countries today still use minstrel tropes in their characters, products, and advertising. I mentioned Mickey Mouse specifically for a reason. Early cartooning modeled many of their characters on caricatures of Blackness, including Mickey.

This is important since the coven uses animation and animation tropes in the show written for Lulu which does change how the minstrelsy appears. This is something I was referencing specifically which you do not mention.

Claudia's pain is the punchline, her ignorance is the punchline. Her being a bird along with the implied caging of the window bars... ...The blue that completely surrounds her eyes making them appear wider, like the cartoon pictured in the above relevant book cover.... which also hints at the style of make-up application specifically used in blackface. The dingey shadows in her blue dress and framing of her face with her hands with an exaggerated smile are also hints along with the cartoon, these are all specially minstrel-coded dehumanizing antics when performed by Black people.

The context of her color matters, when she lays an egg on stage and is trying to free herself but is ignorant of the fact that she can't fly. It's subtler in this show yes than reality, because one has to be mindful of today's gaze. But it's still pretty obvious. It brought to mind the bigger extremes of the dumb servant negress tropes of Sunshine from 1940's Fantasia:

....and the hypersexualized "magic" in Coal Black and de' Sebben Dwarfs from 1943: Again, please understand, that these things have very different meanings depending on the performer's race. That's why your white performers do not matter here, (one of whom performed in blackface herself). I lived in DC just 6 miles away from The Library of Congress. I developed a hyper-fixation on early Black Hollywood and basically deep-dived into the subject because of it. I saw and got to handle many of the materials myself. This ad is for a little black girl performer imitating the world-famous Lil' Baby Esther. And while I won't show the photo here, I will link the original Lil' Esther the arms of Ernst Rolf in blackface in Sweden.

This is a "Topsy" doll. They were made up through the 1950's. I include it because it's another possible reference point.

It matters that all of my examples reference Black women and girls and none of yours do.

All this to say, you are wrong and you overstepped.

While I'm On Claudia...

THIS storyline she's in right now? ...is yet another example of the show gleaning more depth than the original incarnations of the characters because of race.

Her role as Lulu is popular for the most part because of its minstrelsy elements, which were big in that day. Her large eyes, her dance routine, the exaggerated smile, her laying an egg like a cartoon bird and not a human, her schadenfreude and "death" as comedy... She is playing a live-staged minstrel cartoon character, many of whom in that era were modeled on exploitative caricatures of Blackness.... Including the original Mickey Mouse. Which makes her plight that much more tragic, beyond being frozen in girlhood. It's not even a true girlhood, but one mocked and marked by her color. It's brilliant, but I think it went over the heads of a lot of viewers.

[neechees]

I feel like if you have to add something to the effect of "but don't blame people for enjoying it!! We can like something critically!!" Whenever you see someone criticizing something you like (for say, racism) then you probably aren't actually very capable of enjoying it critically lol.

I think annoying fans like to say this moreso to silence people into saying anything negative about their interests (especially if its for something serious like racism or transphobia) rather than an actual reminder of anything.

[radiocurrency]

I can't believe in the year of our lord 2024 I have to explain that whitewashing photos of Assad Zaman to 'show what book!Armand looks like' is inheritantly racist regardless of whether you meant it like that or not.

Just, don't do it.

[i-still-mask-because]

TIL: The person that picks up when you call your representatives isn't always going to simply listen, take notes, and pass it on for you. They may try to argue with you and gaslight you about your concerns! 😃🙃

So this is friendly reminder to take care of yourself if you're marathoning calling representatives! Take breaks if you need to, drink your favorite drink, eat your favorite snack, take deep breaths in between each call! And if you have an audio recorder feel free to keep it close to your phone in case the person you're on call with tries to say some slick shit 🤗

[qilingxiong]

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[antinativefaves]

....they really infantilized a 40 year old racist white woman AND whitesplained anti-native racism to natives all at once didn't they.

Dear Lindsay Ellis, this is not how you begin an "apology' to Indigenous people who call you out on your racism.

[corbinite]

Ecofascism is "environmentalism" through the lens of blood and soil. It's about the "purity" of what you put in your body, of the people who own a land, and of the land itself. It's about not wanting to be "tainted" by "savagery" (note this is not nonviolence even if it tries to look like nonviolence). It's about land Belonging to white people and white people being entitled to a version of stewardship through dominance and blood ties. And at its core it's about ownership over nature and over the people who are degraded to be seen as less human and therefore "ownable". That's why ecofascists treat marginalized people as if they were invasive species.

Veganism is about nonviolence. That's it. It takes many forms but it is inherently about nonviolence and a REJECTION of ideas about any hierarchical nature of humanity or the earth. Veganism is not eating plant based because it's more "pure" or "wholesome" or even because it's less environmentally impactful on average. It's just a commitment to nonviolence.

How many of you claiming that veganism is ecofascism can actually list off the traits of ecofascism? Was my first paragraph the first time you've actually seen the word defined instead of just being used as a vague "veganism is colonialism because of [insert whichever factoid you wanna play telephone with this time]"? Was it the first time you heard an explanation of what it was past "well the maga shaman guy didn't eat meat so you connect the dots"? (which wasn't even true, he eats *organic* and that includes meat). Do you think you can identify and fight ecofascism without a working definition of the ideology? Let me clarify, I'm not even saying your definition is wrong. I'm saying you don't have one. If you don't actually have a model of what ecofascists BELIEVE IN to reference, do you think you can pretend to be an authority on how to fight them? The end goal of ecofascism is genocide justified as "fighting overpopulation" and "keeping the land under its rightful protectors. It has to be actively and competently opposed at all costs. You cannot be an activist on vibes alone. You certainly can be a reactionary though.

[alethiometry]

what the FUCK do i have to do to make my dipshit coworker remember to RETRIEVE OUR CODE FROM THE ORG before he makes changes and deploys back into the sandbox because i swear if i have to comb through diffs across 4!!!!! orgs!!!!!! ONE MORE FUCKING TIME and waste my time investigating defect tickets due to his constantly overwriting everything i do i AM going to fucking SNAP

[willgrahamsipodnano]

i think it should be required for white people on here to say they’re white in their bio……

[neechees]

Do you think I'm stupid like fucking obviously people will have disagreements on what dies or doesn't constitute appropriation (particularly members of the same group regarding outsiders) but it is literally not up to people within the outside group who are being appropriated from to decide what is or isn't appropriation from a culture they don't belong to dvg gb

[crazypenguintacofan]

Yesterday someone said to me with a straight face that "survival is guaranteed in a Western society, we're all gonna make it to 80 years old" and good lord did it take all my strength not to out myself then and there

[artianaiolanthe]

You ever read the first two sentences of a post and immediately go to block the blog it's from?