what if we stopped making Ambiguously Brown Character and started actually thinking about the race and ethnic features of the characters we made? what if instead of drawing a character that looks like you painted a white character brown, we started varying noses, lips, eyes, and hair? just a thought
The transmissibility of genocide. The violence is like a being that seeks a host, like a virus. It was transmitted, and then it incubated and now it is being enacted again.
Rabbi Shapiro explains how the original Zionists, in the late 1800s, actually believed that antisemitism was a message that something was wrong with Jews. They actually believed the antisemitic steriotype that a studious, peaceful, life-valuing perspective was cowardice. So, they decided to become warlike. They rejected many things about their religion.
Highly recommend listening to him on the history of Zionism.
Another example seems to me, the desire not to speak the Yiddish language in Isreal (though maybe that has changed).
It makes sense to me that if one absorbs the attitudes of ones oppressors, one begins to think like them.
And thinking like fascists, well, that has created a new fascist state.
In particular the terror of a world where might makes right --which is the belief of fascists, that violence makes you superior --has been solved through might makes right.
This is absolutely self contradictory of course... you can't solve the fear of fascism and the fear of hate with fascism and hate.
on another note i know i’ve ranted about this before but im mad about it again
true crime has done irreparable fucking damage to middle class white women
every time i see some middle class white mom of two saying “girlies! you need to get a visible tattoo because then a rando won’t try to snatch you in broad daylight in the middle of the walmart checkout to put you into sex trafficking!” i get pissed off because you are NOT the primary target of trafficking! poor children of colour in underdeveloped countries, indigenous women, sex workers, these are the people in danger!
true crime podcasts always talk about the rare instance a middle class white woman is taken and so these true crime girlies only ever hear about it happening to women like them and start thinking they’re the main target, but if there were a true crime podcast for every poor non-white child who has been trafficked there wouldn’t be enough data centres in the entire world to hold them all! the fact that white women are the focus of these things is because society only gives a shit about white women, and turns a blind eye when women of colour are the ones being victimized!
i’m not saying that middle class white women are completely safe in society, far from it. but the fact that these podcasts prioritize stories of white women is because of white supremacy, and comes with the underlying sentiment of “these stories matter because they happened to the group of people it’s not supposed to happen to”, and the way white women are eating it up and making themselves the centre of the issue is a huge fucking problem
Saving money to buy anything in a developing country with high inflation is frustrating. I have been wanting to buy a nintendo switch. I do not know which one would be the safest option though. Lite or the oled? I have heard, once the controls accidentally stick to one side they'll need repair. And you gotta send the whole switch lite to the repair-people. But with oled you can just switch the consoles on each side? I do not know. The prices are really ridicilous here (Lite 18k liras, Oled 25k liras). I am not even gonna consider oled 2. But I have been wanting to buy it for a long time now. (games start from 2-3k). And I do not want to waste all that effort and time which I spent to save the money. Any advice? Or what are yall's experience?
no, the bombing and deaths of thousands of palestinians, lebanese, yemenis, iranians, iraqis and people in west asia and africa are not 'distractions' for the epstein files. we get it you see our lives as less but it's just not. we matter.
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Maybe I'm not paying enough attention, but I haven't seen anything online or in the news about this and it's bad. Consider that the Palestinian governments and several benevolent humanitarian organizations are considered terrorists by Israel which would mean Palestinians are designated terrorists by default.
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Iron Lung is finally being aired in my country too! Yay! I wonder who is going to be the Turkish voice for Simon. Or if they'll ever do it.
Is the movie as worthful as my fellow markiplier fans are hyping it to be? I'm going to it regardless, but I wanna know! Without spoilers if it is possible.
Also, if they ever going to translate the title too, "Demir Akciğer" (Iron Lung) sounds like a chef special from a döner/kebap restaurant.
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