moved

moved to @fellout-newvegas

[falloutcrab]

moving to @fellout-newvegas

working on it

[afronerdism]

The conversation surrounding cultural appropriation has been so severely mutilated by white “allies” that the original intention behind that conversation has become almost unrecognizable in most social contexts.

[afronerdism]

To explain what I mean, the conversation around cultural appropriation was started by black and native people to discuss the frustrations we feel at being punished socially and financially for partaking in our cultural heritage while white people could take, I.e. appropriate, aspects of our culture that we are actively shamed for and be heralded as innovators. It was about the frustrations we feel when the same white people who shamed us would take our culture and wear it as if they were the ones who created it while still actively shaming us for doing the same.

The original push behind naming cultural appropriation and having these conversations were so that we as a society could evaluate why we were punished for our heritage while white People were not. It was supposed to be about seeking solutions. The idea was to create a society where we could celebrate our cultures with impunity. It was never about telling white people that they “weren’t allowed” to do certain things. We did ask that white People stop doing certain things because they weren’t doing them respectfully and were not invited to do them, but the primary reason we asked them to desist was to reclaim the things they had stolen and to reassign them culturally back where they belonged.

White “allies” saw these conversations happening and instead of trying to aplify our own voices or even try to learn about the complexities behind why we were saying what we were saying, they instead began screaming over us and creating a narrative that was hardly even the bones of what we originally set out to say. It was like they took the conversation we were trying to have, completely decontextualized it, and stripped it of all it’s nuance in order to gain social currency by seeming progressive.

So the conversation around cultural appropriation went from “This aspect of our heritage belongs to us and we find it egregious that we are shamed for it. What steps can we take to address the racism that’s creating this situation as well as rehome the things that have been stolen” to “you’re not allowed to do that because if you do that you’re racist, we don’t really understand why that’s racist but you’re not allowed to do that and if you do that you’re a klansman no exceptions. So you’re not allowed because because”

At the end of the day, did I like the fact that sally was wearing dreads? No. But my primary concern was not that sally was wearing dreads but rather that sally could wear dreads and I couldn’t. THAT was the intended focus of those conversations. It was about addressing the inequality. It was about us. Now the conversation is just about sally and were completely forgotten.

White People are always asking me what they can do to help. You want to know? Stop talking. Aplify our voices and shut the fuck up because you all have pretty much derailed this conversation and many more like it to the point that we no longer are trying to make steps to understand and dismantle the racism around cultural appropriation and instead are just using it as social shaming tactics.

[afronerdism]

TL;DR: read my post. Most things worth learning about can’t be summarized in the bullet points of a buzfeed article. Don’t come into academic circles and complain because everything hasn’t been conviently summarized for you. Stop pretending that things aren’t accessible to you because you refuse to do the intellectual labor that is learning.

[sephezade]

[thatqueerweirdo]

[Image Description: a series of tweets by @ krystinaarielle:

“I keep telling you. It’s not just the police. Doctors treat us horribly and act as if we’re faking. After my C-section they sent me home with no pain medicine. Let me repeat: they cut open my stomach, ripped out a child and sent me home with nothing.

I had to beg one of the nurses for pain medicine as she saw me in pain. My chart even had the time I was supposed to get it. She treated me as if I was a liar. It was a day after surgery and I was getting feeling back in my legs. I felt everything.

When I went back to have my scar inspected my PA looked shocked that it looked good. I go to the post interview and the assistant goes “they were shocked your scar was so smooth. He usually does an awful staple job on brown women. It’s probably because your husband is white”.

Anyways, Black and Brown women receive disparate care and it’s killing us. The Maternal mortality rate is almost five times higher than that of White women. Our healthcare system needs reform. Everyone has a right to fair, ethical, equal medical care.

End of ID]

[passionpeachy-deactivated202312]

old punk rock song: 1 2 3 LETS GO igkajk kg fgjdf kjgdkjh kdl kdfhgfkkhfgh swdfkjskghf ??? SHAKFJGHAUFGNHFHNDGH !!!

me: this slaps hard

[catbillion]

Visit Original Link

i found some (unused?) arcade lines and liked them too much not to share

[letmebegaytodd]

[letmebegaytodd]

[dumbbitchawards]

i have a fucking bone to pick. u kno that minecraft song 'don't mine at night'?? this has weighed on my conscience for several years. that song makes absolutely no sense. why the Fuck would you not mine at night?? monsters do not spawn in relation to the day/night cycle. monsters spawn depending on the darkness level of an area. you can get mobs in a cave during the day. why the FUCK would you waste daylight hours when mobs are going to spawn anyway?? night is the BEST time for mining. day is reserved for activities that can only be done then (if we're assuming the singer doesn't want to encounter mobs), like gathering wood or building. you're going to encounter mobs in caves either way. the REAL issue the singer has is the mobs not night, and has built an unfortunate association between being killed by them and night time, a time of day which ultimately has nothing to do with whether or not you're going to be killed in a cave. it has pissed me off since the first time I ever heard it in 2013. it's such a fucking banger as well fucks sake

[manrippedapartbydogs]

[chaoticrenee]

“Police will not investigate due to lack of public interest”

What the actual FUCK

[stonerzelda]

https://www.change.org/p/portland-police-bureau-justice-for-tete

Sign the Petition

JUSTICE FOR TETE

there is a petition

[astromp4-deactivated20160827]

[redsatinsheets]

a meme i can get behind

[kidkendoll-deactivated20240714]

Oh my god this. A date took me back to his house and I swear to god this man says I have olive oil.

OLIVE OIL 

[mellicose]

*wheezing*

Got that booty smelling like a Greek salad.

[kidkendoll-deactivated20240714]

Kehdshgsksjsgshsnsdn

[thecorporategay]

Hahahahahaha

[tigerleggies-deactivated2019121]

[im-the-batmann]

[hollyhooddai-deactivated2021010]

😂

[lickmetilllicecreammmm]

🤣🤣🤣

[closet-keys]

saw a straight cis white dude celebrity being called “queer femme butch realness” and it’s occurring to me that straight cis people are literally just stringing together gay words they overheard and literally don’t care at all what any of them mean

[turing-tested]

when men have a lil bit of titty 😏👌

[turing-tested]

when men have a lot a bit of titty 😏👌

[turing-tested]

when men don't like having titty and take steps to reduce the amount they have so they feel more comfortable in their own skin 😏👌

[matt-parker]

Wait what

[turing-tested]

[i-hate-chick-fil-a]

Noam Chomsky claimed that the US has all the maps for where they planted the land mines they just refuse to release them

and yet there’s so many delusional people who think that other countries are a threat to the US

[depechepacito]

the domain penis.com is available for two and a half million dollars

[jackiechanadventures]

[snuffysbox]

good stardew lads

[dagwolf]

Vomitous

[demonius-darkblade]

can we please stop pretending this shit is good?!!?! What the fuck!!!!!

[kittycatdeathtrap]

I don’t understand why this is a bad thing??

[demonius-darkblade]

whats sold as inspirational here is somebody whose fear of being fired and having their source of food and shelter yanked away from them forced them to push themselves to unhealthy lengths

[i-rogue]

Walking isn’t unhealthy, whoever told you that is lazy. Dude got a job for a company and wanted to prove his reliability, he could’ve given up and not showed up but unlike most people he made a commitment and stuck to it and guess what. That commitment paid off. Its like you people are unable to handle when. Someone it’s doing better than you.

[demonius-darkblade]

You have never walked 20 miles ever

[aggrokawaii]

whats with all the fucking bootlickers on this site?

[pinkcheesegreenghost-deactivate]

he literally left his house at midnight. 

[edgemarquess]

How does someone see a 20 mile, eight hour walk as “a good work ethic” and not as a man whose been driven beyond his limits to ensure he doesn’t lose the one thing that keeps him from starving to death I mean what the fuck

[i-rogue]

God you people are fucking weak

[airframeextender]

sign your car over to me and walk to work to prove how strong you are

[necrodivergent]

Even for soldiers who have trained specifically for such things, a 20-mile march is a fucking grueling experience. Nobody should have to do that and then be expected to work for eight hours. That is literally insane.

[plain-and-simple-ninja]

(source)

[funkyness]

20 miles = 32 kilometers, in case anyone is wondering