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chabochi

loavfer

always reblog the bog hogs

something-that-needs-nothing

source: trip advisor????????????

calebwittebane

they are the trip advisors and they will lead you safely through the bog :)

newjackcole

Skeleton Swordsman

yrbutchgf

mentally im here

lyingfigure

look like i’m going for a swim....

catasters

djlechat

satyriconmp3

every time i make a silly joke i start sweating bullets thinking oh no now they'll all think i don't understand themes and narratives

robotpussy

people genuinely don't see slavery as a tragedy. why is this so fucking common that slavery and the slave trade is a component in so many stories?

why is it that people cannot comprehend how INSIDIOUS slavery is and was? why is there always sympathy for the slavers? "everybody was buying slaves they were all pressured into it 😥". of course i know the answer why, these questions are rehtorical

I am not surprised that whatever pirate thing has slavers as charcaters in it, because thats what pirates were doing! it wasnt just drinking rum and getting scurvy, thats mostly why i generally stay away from pirate media. but to see people continuously dismiss slavery and act confused as to why black people are upset that people keep using that as a backdrop to either "show white people a lesson" (which it never does because white people do not want to accept they are complacent in it all, nor do they want to see themselves as the villains hence why they are so quick to say "slavery wasn't that bad") or be revisionist, letting white people use the excuse "its not a documentary! it can be lighthearted it dosent have to be accurate"

people dont understand that slavery did not just end and all of a sudden black people were free to do whatever they wanted, they dont understand how horrific it was. whenever i hear people talk about 12 years a slave i always see a response along the lines of "that was like a horror movie, definitely overexaggerated". that movie did not even touch the tip of the iceberg of what was going on on plantations and in those houses.

There is generational trauma from this, the last survivors (yes, survivors) of this are leaving but their children and their children will and are seeing and experiencing the repercussions of slavery. Yet, when people express how painful it is to see nonblack people using the monsters who treated our ancestors like cattle and less than human as their little protagonists that they project all sorts onto, there is an outcry, black people must get over it and shut up.

jamaicanblackcastoroil

They really think we were better off being slaves here than being in west Africa. They think this was civilized compared to back home.

angelsaxis

These people insist that TV shows can't teach you about history but let all the sanitized depictions of slavery and all the revisionist history in their fave media inform how they view the entire tragedy and its modern social/political/economic repercussions.

#literally #anyway i think we should popularize the term maafa to refer to the slavery (and it’s historical + ongoing impact) as an act of genocide

y2kaestheticinstitute

Fluidium Lamps (1999) Designed by Ross Lovegrove for Mathmos

mossworm

hmmmmmmm 2d dolphin game but you’re one of the really small ones. you’re SO small

starlightandtears

At the end of the day, Anti-Blackness’ function is go trick you into belittling the experiences and realities of Black people globally, no matter where the Anti-Blackness shows up. In cartoons, shows, legislation and politics, interpersonal interactions, etc

iamnotlanuk

what really fucking bothers me in conversations about racism and saying that some work has racist elements people always counter with "I don't think the author had deliberate racist ideology in mind" cause it's like that doesn't fucking matter. it doesn't have to be deliberate to be racist. most people don't go hee hee hoo hoo I'm gonna put racist things in this. everyone was raised in a racist society and covert racism exists and yes needs to be examined in ourselves and everywhere and yes even in works you like author "deliberate" intent or no

iamnotlanuk

this applies to other forms of bigotry too. listen to the voices of those who have to live under systemic oppression