interesting white guy

jack 25, he/him, white, jewish.

[byjove]

I hate Joe Exotic but this exchange reset my brain

[byjove]

me when I’m baffled by the inefficiency and callousness of everything and then I remember it’s all corrupt girl

[attackingmidfielder]

[softhe4rted]

self-compassion: an antidote to shame mb

[boycopter]

also adaptive sports fucking rule thank you adaptive climbing for fixing my shit far better than my physio has

[boycopter]

i’m glad i’ve started surrounding myself with people who find sport like… beautiful and worthwhile because your hobbies become far more enjoyable when you don’t have someone screaming sportsball in your ear every ten seconds

[broresteia]

baseball skies

[sunshinefleury]

{+} FLOWER IN 2007 <3

source

[storyweavingspider]

YOU. GET MORE ANTI-SLAVERY NOW.

[storyweavingspider]

Californians voted not to abolish slavery in 2024 because it’s “not economically feasible”

But also beyond that and prison abolition, unofficial (and in some cases official) slavery still exists both in the US and globally. I’ve met multiple Black people, myself included, who have been “functionally” enslaved to specific individual whites even if there wasn’t a legal contract making us their property. In my case, she not only raped me, beat me in public and private, otherwise abused me, controlled my finances so I couldn’t escape fiscally, but also literally hunted me down when I tried to escape her on foot with nothing but my clothes and would use threats of police violence to coerce me into sex and other shit with her.

It’s not just prisons. It’s not just human trafficking. It’s not just capitalism. It’s not *just* colonialism/imperialism/white supremacy. It’s all interconnected and built off the backs of systems that enable slavery and genocide NOW and people simply won’t care unless it makes them sad or affects someone they know personally.

[moebutcher]

people who are shocked that slavery is still common and widely supported also seem to have a very narrow idea of what being pro-slavery means. it isn’t just “slavery is good we should bring it back!!!” although that sentiment is also WAY too common.

being pro-slavery is also when:

- people believe criminals do not “deserve” to be paid for their labor or do not “deserve” to be paid ENOUGH

- when multiple of my teachers throughout my education since i was very young taught that slavery was a “necessary evil” because it was integral to the southern economy (in a school in a reliably blue state in the late 2010s! i am twenty and they were still teaching that shit)

- when people say we shouldn’t criticize sweatshops because then the employees will lose their jobs

- “the civil war was about states’ rights”

- white people getting angry that some black people mistrust, fear, or hate them because “it was so long ago!!!” (no it wasn’t. my dad was born before black people could vote [they could vote on paper but voting restrictions practically banned black people from voting in many places]. once again i am twenty. even after slavery was abolished many people were not freed. people who experienced or remembered slavery in the united states did not die that long ago)

- glorifying historical figures that enslaved people

- elementary school (in a northern state circa like 2012-2016! !! my southern friends experienced much worse pro-slavery propaganda!) being taught that some people were nice to their slaves :) !!! (translation: “some people didn’t torture the people they kidnapped and trafficked as badly as other people did!”) i remember being told specifically that george washington enslaved people but it was okay because in his will he said to free them after he died

- calling the abuse of sally hemings (starting at FOURTEEN!) at the hands of third president of the united states, thomas jefferson, an “affair” or “forbidden romance”. in 8th grade (which i think was 2018) i went on a school trip to washington dc. on that trip we toured thomas jefferson’s house. somewhere along the tour we watched a short film glorifying the rape of a 14-year-old. literally the age of the 8th graders on the tour

- northerners refusing to take accountability for slavery and trying to pin it all on southerners as if most northerners were not willing to let slavery continue indefinitely because they didn’t want to cause trouble. the north abolished slavery faster because it was less useful to us. that’s the only reason. lincoln didn’t want to abolish slavery at the beginning of the civil war. when he did it, it was NOT because he loved black people

the same people who don’t understand how anyone justified it at the time would’ve been the people who did not care. people in my community don’t want to acknowledge slavery because they feel guilty. thinking about what happened makes them uncomfortable. it isn’t their problem

[wagitfag]

picklesbaseball

[magikonch]

[houndmother]

many of you just. genuinely don’t believe that people can grow and change.

[houndmother]

this is about the death penalty and its also about call out posts about people who have already apologized for things they did a long time ago and it’s also about using ‘toxic’ or ‘abuser’ as if its an immutable class of person, and its also about any other circumstance with permanent consequences or wherein you assume someone is still the same person they were.

[lesboydefender]

seeing young trans men saying how they feel so “validated” by people telling them to kill themselves because “at least they see me as a man” is actually so fucking sad. 15 year old trans boy you do not deserve to be treated like a monster because of the words you use for yourself and the goals you have for your body. you do not need to accept this kind of treatment from your own community in order to prove that you’re not a threat. you are a person. you are a person

[dogpuppy]

[justsomeguycore]

i think everyone in the whole world forgot that mystery doesn’t have to equal crime

[justsomeguycore]

sometimes it’s just like. what happent ?

[gracefree]

Hyena Pup by send2prashant_mali

[stranglerfigpudding]

[wolfie-barks]

[boycopter]

before you turn 26 as a white man you have to pick whether to be a rock climber, work at staples, or be called nick

[boycopter]

i am almost 26

[ca314159bara]

if you're having trouble sleeping the best you can do is put a bright object close to your face and look at it for at least 30 minutes. if that doesn't work you can close your eyes but make sure to think really hard about a bunch of bullshit