[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

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[captain-price-returns]

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[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.

[sovietpostcards]

Postcard by S. Zhmurenkov (1963)

[trigonognathus]

i just ghost people for no reason these days

[butchfagminotaur]

it’s nice seeing other people starting to open their eyes to what i’ve been saying for a while in that the current use and proliferation of the term “gooning” is an outright tool of fascism

[butchfagminotaur]

the second “gooning” stopped referring to a specific sexual practice and started to be used as a replacement for “masturbation” we needed to kill it immediately and sadly we didn’t

[butchfagminotaur]

if you call someone a “masturbator” in a derisive way you sound like a fucking mormon but suddenly you switch to calling them a “gooner” and you’ve created a way to express the same puritanical beliefs around masturbation that is not only palatable to the average person but the attached underlying implications of the term make people way more susceptible to adopting those beliefs themselves

leftists need to fucking stop using the term “gooner” right fucking now

[butchfagminotaur]

demonizing human sexuality and treating masturbation and sexual activity as deviant and disgusting are straight up fascist tools and it’s startling how successful this aspect of it has been the last few years

[danielkahndyke]

sorry it’s actually so fucking crazy thinking abt how certain places have banned burqinis like literally making a woman take her clothes off in public like that shit is so fascist

[danielkahndyke]

genuinely horrific like that’s law mandated sexual assault & we just let it happen. hello. can anyone hear me.

[spirit-of-art]

Léon Spilliaert, The Absinthe Drinker, 1907

[haciaelmar]

cloud cast shadow | Leica M6 | Rollei Redbird 400 | 2015

[pokemon-cards-hourly]

[theoriginalsupermodels]

Bella Freud - Fall 1995 RTW

[kisaragi-filmphotography]

紅の世界　Crimson World

Camera Yashica Electro 35 GTN

Film Harman Phoenix 200

[megalofauna]

CGkaiju #09 CUBIRIRA

[trigonognathus]

so many times i see maps or lists that do not include things from where i come from. map of castles of europe, my island is not listed despite having castles. how you spell a word in various european languages, my language is not shown etcetera. there's many factors at play: the population isn't particularly large; internet literacy is low; a long tradition of suppression from the central government in the mainland; a general low self esteem, low political activity that prevents us from thinking we can contribute to anything in the broader scope. my first instinct is to try and write that wikipedia page or comment down the video about a historical figure whose birthplace isn't mentioned, but then i stop because i think about all those other places or things that became known overnight only to be exploited in online spaces, becoming a flavor of the week with no real material gain. i see other people from here try to get viral by broadcasting a distorted version of reality that caters to the eyes of americans and i don't like it. but i do want my island to be aknowledged by others. i'm not sure what the course of action should be so for now i just insert bits and pieces of things into my work

[badassdemonsword]

Steely Dan sucks!....

on opposite day!

[poketcg-art]

Hydreigon -- kawayoo

[trigonognathus]

it's the Thank You Hydreigon. reblog to thank your followers

[trigonognathus]

i cant open up about my partner without making it sound like im bragging and it kills me