palestine really is the litmus test bc most people who ardently support israel either have bad politics in other realms or are just morally shitty people.

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palestine really is the litmus test bc most people who ardently support israel either have bad politics in other realms or are just morally shitty people.
The thing is that rape culture is already a very huge thing that is normalized is our society, victims aren't taken seriously or believed most of the time, and the perpetrators don't face much if any legal repercussions, and obviously most of them don't try to make amends with the victim somehow & own up to their behavior or try to change. So one of the only ways they might see any affect into what they've done & how they shouldn't have done that is by social ostracization. And even THAT isn't very widespread because of said rape culture. Surprise, enacting one of the most traumatic experiences & violation of their personhood onto another person makes people not want to be around you.
People won't want to be their friend or be around them or date them or do business with them or hire them because fucking obviously they don't. Whose to say they won't be abusive or violent in a different way? How do we know they won't hurt someone else? I don't want to be friends with rapists & their apologists. But here we have some people saying we shouldn't do that either. Like. Lol.
ofcourse isff is back on her "but think of the poor rapist" bullshit.
"Canceling" was also an AAVE term that originally meant "We ain't fucking with this person anymore because they're weird with weird and questionable beliefs" and white people took it and tainted it to mean "You're trying to ruin someone's life, how dare you make someone take accountability for their actions !" like they really thought that saying "Hey this person is racist, maybe you want to think twice before giving them money and support" is a bad thing and that says a lot more about them than it does about us
tumblr users will be like it's wrong to judge people based on their words and actions
Karmelo Anthony has been found guilty by the all white jury in his court case.
nonblacks gon start taking that “racist phase” shit more cautiously when they kids start coming back in coffins bc Black children start defending themselves more.
if that white boy didn’t have a “racist phase” his ass would still be here 🤷🏽♀️.
Black teen protects himself in self defense from an entitled self appointed policing white teen acting belligerent and violent, 5-99 years.
Asian American adults racially profile a young Black teenager in their store, following him around in close proximity, and proceed to chase him a football field’s yards away, leaving their store completely unattended, to shoot said child in the back when he didn’t steal anything in the first place. Gets found not guilty.
it’s really giving we damned if we do and damned if we dont so if nonblacks are gonna lock us all up or put us in the ground anyway, we might as well get our licks in too, shit.
in 2021, 29 year old Ryan Le-Nguyen shot 6 year old neighbor Coby for going to retrieve his bike in front of Le’s yard.
Ryan Le-Nguyen is accused of shooting an Ypsilanti Township boy last summer.
The child's father, Arnold Daniel, said his children were playing outside. He said his son Coby went to grab his bike. Daniel said Le-Nguyen came out with a sledgehammer and said something to Coby.
Daniel said he didn't know exactly what was said but knows his son said something back. After that, the neighbor went back inside and Daniel said he shot a gun through the front window, hitting Coby in the arm.
"He tried hitting me with a sledgehammer but that’s not going to work because I’m too fast. [Then he] got a gun and BOOM shot me right here," Coby said.
Ryan was sentenced to 40 months to 15 years in prison. he could possibly currently be out right now.
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i bring a sort of “you should maybe interrogate your so-called ‘preferences’ to make sure they’re not literal textbook examples of severe unconscious bias” vibe that my woke gay friends dont really like
They are on twitter trying to tell me that the clones actually aren't people and they're not human and since the narrative (erroneously) treats them as soulless meat droids then that means we should too
like folks fully arguing w their chests w me about this lmao
Coming out of my tumblr hiatus for this, I think it's really funny when people try and argue that the chips make the clones more like droids.
As if order 66 in the movie isn't the clones immediately following the order with no questions whatsoever or even verifying it or wondering who the hell this guy with a scarred face in a black robe giving them the order is.
And also like. The clones spent three years fighting with the Jedi. You're telling me they all immediately turned on and started killing the Jedi? All of them? At least all the clones serving under Jedi? Really?
It's weird how much a lot of these people want the clones to have unquestioningly and willingly committed a genocide.
See you get it.
Some people view it as a tragic yet valid ultimate act of volition in favor of their own liberation from the Jedi, but the Jedi don't own the clones. Killing the Jedi doesn't make them any less property of the Republic/Empire. And at that point, why go after the Jedi children as well? Across the series we see clones starting to question orders and struggle to rationalize things to themselves. Am I to believe that all the thinking stops?
Some people argue that the clone wars doesn't argue its point well, which fine I agree lmao. But there's also little in the way of the clones viewing the Jedi as their oppressors to the point of genocide besides the repcomm books. So where do we find that the clones collectively had enough *hatred* for the Jedi to want to off literally all of them, including all of their children, only to....continue doing the same thing they were doing before they killed the Jedi?
Yeah. Even if I agree the Jedi were still upholding the conditions the clones found themselves in, ultimately it's the Republic who has control of the slave army.
I think the only argument I've heard against the chips that I can at least understand the sentiment of was contrasting the clones to soldiers IRL and how often times, soldiers will absolutely do horrific things with little pushback, and as star wars is not at all shy about its influences from real life and it's parallels with irl politics. I can see where this person was coming from. But like. Let's use Vietnam as the obvious example. Even if a lot of the US soldiers were still drafted, I don't think it's comparable to the clones literally being raised from birth to be soldiers.
Even if I could buy that the clones grow up initially having a very gung ho I guess attitude and being taught to be patriotic to the Republic and all that, it's clear through TCW that even in the early war, the clones had their own personal feelings or thoughts about it even if the vast majority are still loyal to the Republic. And it's clear that at least the clones who served under the Jedi began to question their orders and status more and more and they clearly appreciate the Jedi as leaders, it's why Rex and Co are so surprised at Krell being the way he is because he's such a departure from other Jedi.
So like. Why would the clones just willingly immediately turn on and start massacring the Jedi? Including the children? They're just really gonna turn on the people they've fought alongside for three years and not at all question why they're being asked to kill them?
They are on twitter trying to tell me that the clones actually aren't people and they're not human and since the narrative (erroneously) treats them as soulless meat droids then that means we should too
like folks fully arguing w their chests w me about this lmao
Coming out of my tumblr hiatus for this, I think it's really funny when people try and argue that the chips make the clones more like droids.
As if order 66 in the movie isn't the clones immediately following the order with no questions whatsoever or even verifying it or wondering who the hell this guy with a scarred face in a black robe giving them the order is.
And also like. The clones spent three years fighting with the Jedi. You're telling me they all immediately turned on and started killing the Jedi? All of them? At least all the clones serving under Jedi? Really?
It's weird how much a lot of these people want the clones to have unquestioningly and willingly committed a genocide.
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hi! sorry if this is a weird ask but do you have any feminist lit book recs? I feel like I'm lacking skills in the "being able to call out how capitalism, colonialism, and patriarchy affects everyday life" department. idk a better way to put it. I just need to brush up on it all, really. again, sorry if this was weird, feel free to ignore!!!!!
anon of course! and I'm opening this ask up to any feminists who've done more reading than I have. My current Big Recommendation is Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins. Writing wise, it's super accessible (stay away from the voice that academics use when talking about theory). She talks extensively about Black women as a people, culture, and political force. Her second edition, the one I'm reading now, is inclusive of queer sexuality and gender as other axes in the matrix of domination that Black women must contend with. I haven't reached that section yet, though.
There's a free PDF available online if you just Google it. I'd say this is my first time really reading feminist theory--everything else I've read both online and off, in class and outside class, has touched on feminism in bits and pieces or just mentioned gender and sexuality relations without talking about feminism in particular. I'm using Black Feminist Thought as a jumping off point to read other feminist works by other (largely) Black women, since Collins cites so many.
Another good book is Becoming Abolitionists: Police, Protests, and the Pursuit of Freedom by Derecka Purnell. This one isn't feminist-based, but I do recall gender and gendered relations/expectations being part of the core text. If I'm also recalling correctly, there was an issue of class reductionism at the end, but the great thing about reading theory is that you don't have to accept everything the author says as the Gospel truth, especially when we have evidence to the contrary.
Are Prisons Obsolete by Angela Y. Davis is one that looks at the prison system as a reform to previous systems of punishment, and then focuses on how women are affected by the current prison system and gendered expectations both within and outside that system.
A book that isn't explicitly feminist but definitely brings up issues for those feminists who care about the intersections of reproduction, medicine, and culture is Birth in Four Cultures: A Crosscultural Investigation of Childbirth in Yucatan, Holland, Sweden, and the United States by Brigitte Jordan, Robbie Davis-Floyd. I loved it.
Most of my education on feminism was in bits and pieces. I'd read through portions of feminists works here, or read through threads and debates on social media talking about different types of feminism. I have the very online upbringing in feminist thought, like many feminists. I also learned what I could in college, but I genuinely don't remember those readings and I don't know if i could find them now, sorry 😭. Part of my learning to critique capitalism was reading anti-capitalist works by men and training myself to see the gaps in their knowledge. Their statistics, their theories, their hypotheses, etc, frequently failed to include women. So I'd ask myself -- if women were included in this analysis of the division of labor, how would it change? Which women? Poor women, Black women, immigrant women? What are their lives and histories like now that would influence the outcome of this work?
Also don't be scared not to just take everything at face value. Bad Feminist by Roxanne Gay was originally going to go on this list, but I don't recall much of it outside her scrabble chronicles, her acknowledgement that she still listens to music with misogynistic lyrics, and her disagreement that trigger warnings are that good of an idea. I take issue with the second and disagree with the third.
This is long enough lol, hope this helps! And again if anyone has any recommendations, feel free to add! I'm still hoping to get my hands on a copy of Whipping Girl by Julia Serano, so that's next up on the list.
While we are talking about isuggestforcefem's racism to the native people of Turtle Island (and the many names it is called), lets also extend the focus on helping people of Turtle Island.
Here is a list of things that I used/have came across online in ways to help and support:
Indigenous Women Rising - a native ran organization that helps native/indigenous peoples in Turtle Island (US) have access to abortion and reproductive care
Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe Donations to help preserve culture
Chappaquiddick Wampanoag Donations to help preserve culture
The Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project
Warrior Women Project
Partnership With Native Americans
The Aquinnah Cultural Center
Redhawk Native American Arts Council
The Native Land Conservancy
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A post that links Native made & grown food, recipes, and other business
Beyond Buckskin - a site that lists many Native made products and business
Native Movement - a site that lists native books, websites, articles and other resources (fiction and nonfiction)
Find the Native Land you live on with Native Land Digital
Feel free to add more that you know and also feel free to add your own donations/gofundme/ko-fi/shops etc if you are native to Turtle Island
I have grown to realize a lot of you severely underestimate just how much antiblackness we have to swallow for the sake of our personal peace and our livelihoods. I'm not saying that to be mean or to make you go into a guilt spiral- that would be a useless reaction anyway- but I do want you to consider it. That what you believe to be peace is not just because it "is".
"Well if it was important why didn't anyone say it sooner?" "if it was important, why didn't they say it was racist?" peer, a good 75-80% of what I might say to the white and/or nonblack people that offend me directly goes swallowed for the sake of my paychecks and running water, or God forbid to avoid a bullet. Or if I'm online (where that number shrinks significantly), to be left the fuck alone 🤣
Y'all are very used to not having to hear that feedback bc we've been forcibly socialized into accepting that you won't take it well and often have the power to make it not worth our while to speak. Retaliation is common. That's why it's perturbing to folks when Black people DO speak up. Interrupts the status quo 😅
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Did you block op of the post that you rebloged with comment (the one about Emmett) or did you get blocked? Cause I can't see your reblog in the notes of it at all
didn't block her because I'm not afraid of confrontation + I wanted her to learn from her mistake. At first she just turned off reblogs but I went back and checked....and yup I'm blocked 👍🏾
can't find my reblog either but I figured something like this would happen so I took a screenshot just in case
also I've been informed that this is the user formally known as sizhens who is in the group of tumblr transfem 'communists' like tattle tale and soup mother that very often put their food in their mouth with clunky racial allegories and do throw stone hide hands-antiblackness. just a taste here of the type of shit that she says and the people that engage with her blog.
Also she didn't delete the post about vigilante justice etc. because it's still on her blog so she can showcase herself 'dunking on' somebody she deemed with an incorrect opinion but she specifically turned off reblogs so nobody would reblog the version of the post with my addition on it very kindly asking her not bring up Emmett Till's murder in such a manner, especially since she's not black, and I in turn get blocked so that the post gets disappeared from my blog and so she can continue to seem like the one in the right.
also how tf you gonna say that black americans are eager imperial assimilationists/lack consciousness and turn around and invoke Emmett Till's murder, the catalyst for the modern civil rights movement, for your dumb anti carceral logic post. Y'all love throwing dirt on black americans so fucking much and denigrating everything about us our culture our art our music our language our political movements yet you're always stealing and putting your grubby fucking mitts on our shit when it's convenient to you and the agendas y'all wanna push. miss me with that bullshit.
I'm gonna share this one, NOT because I think these people should be harassed (as is often accused of Black users when they speak up against other bloggers) but because I think this sort of antiblackness from certain users goes unchecked on Tumblr behind the guise of "anti-imperialism" and "communism" and "but they had good political opinions on other things!"
I think that y'all ought to see what it looks like in action. I think y'all ought to see how some people who may look like they have "leftist", "progressive", and "informed" perspectives can be just as racist (if not moreso) than the people they claim to fight against. I don't care how good your politics sound, if they thrive on antiblackness. 🤷🏾♀️ And if these are bloggers with beliefs that you like or share, I don't want you here. You are not safe, and there is no solidarity I will hold with you.