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Tumblr continues to be a deeply racist and overwhelmingly white website. Making fun of a Palestinian woman seeking help amid a genocide because your English speaking head is too far up your own ass to consider that other languages have words similar to yours but with entirely different meanings.

The name رحاب "Rehab" (The "H" is pronounced "Ḥ", not like the English "H" in the word rehabilitation. Here's what it sounds like.) is a very common feminine name in Arabic.

The least we can do for Rehab for having to put up with this nonsense is share her fundraiser and donate if possible. Rehab is dying from hunger.

Her campaign is vetter by @gazavetters and her number is #410 on the spreadsheet.

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flirting: you look like you'd be vulnerable to getting stockholm syndrome

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flirting: you look like you'd be vulnerable to getting stockholm syndrome

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just seeing a man pisses me off sometimes like can’t i get a break from you.

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hey there guys, i hope you’re staying cool today! it’s very hot out lol

i do need some help with transportation this week ($85) , i’ll update this very frequently as i go! i’ll take it down when im all set!

$cutegoth1999, dm for other links. thank you!

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Now a house next to us, about 500 meters away, was bombed. Several missiles hit the same place. This is very terrifying.

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the two types of transfem callouts:

no just trust me bro this time it's not transmisogynist he i mean they are an actual sexual predator just trust me bro what do you mean who's the victim who needs a victim

this trans woman fucking kidnapped a child and/or raped someone! *one year later* sooo it turns out that she actually didn't and those claims and "evidence" were fabricated by ppl who later admitted to it but we will continue to pretend that she did bc to do otherwise would be to admit that online mob justice without due process is laughably falsifiable by bad faith actors and the entire framework is bunk and that is just too inconvenient

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OKAY HOW THE FUCK ELSE AM I SUPPOSED TO INTERPRET THIS

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my first reading in my African history class this year is about why using “tribe” to refer to ethnic groups stems from a racist desire to make African conflicts sound primitive or stemming from a desire to pretend that these are just ancient conflicts that have always existed. great article and I also feel like I’m vicariously experiencing the bullshittery that this author has been subjected to from people they’ve tried to talk to about this. like the article remains extremely professional but you can just hear in the tone that they’re talking through gritted teeth, you can practically see the customer service smile

[ID: a screenshot from a section of the article titled “But why not use ‘tribe’? Answers to common arguments.” Under the bullet point for the argument “Africans talk about themselves in terms of tribes” is written, “Commonly when Africans learn English they are taught that tribe is the term that English-speakers will recognize. But what underlying meaning in their own languages are Africans translating when they say tribe? Take the word isizwe in Zulu. In English, writers often refer to the Zulu tribe, whereas in Zulu the word for the Zulu as a group would be isizwe. Often Zulu-speakers will use the English word tribe because that’s what they think English speakers expect, or what they were taught in school. Yet Zulu linguists say that a better translation of isizwe is nation or people.” /end ID] 

translation: “ ‘Oh ho ho but some Africans themselves say tribe!’ You dipshit. You fucking donkey. When someone has a word that means “nation” or “people” in their own language but then when they learn English YOU TELL THEM IT TRANSLATES TO “TRIBE” then THAT WILL BE THE WORD THEY USE. Maybe if you LISTENED TO THE LINGUISTS OF THAT GROUP you’d have more accurate information. Asshole.”

each point is repeated over and over with like five different examples because you just know there are dipshits out there who will keep arguing.

to the anonymous author of this article for the Africa Policy Information Center I hope you have a good day every day and experience fewer people being assholes about this, your patience is actually legendary

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if you’re a white creator and your brown/black characters are always sassy, reckless, aggressive or cold and your white characters are always soft, demure, shy and introverted you should think about maybe why you did that

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I’m writing this with shaking hands and a broken heart.

We have lost everything. No food. No water. No home. Today, a bomb hit the tent next to ours. My cousin died in front of us. We screamed. We ran. But there is nowhere to hide in Gaza.

My family and I sleep on the ground, hungry and terrified. We don’t know if we will survive the next hour. This is not life. This is slow death.

Please… I beg you.Share this. Donate if you can. Help us stay alive.

vetted by @nabulsi link

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Hello dear,

Please don’t ignore this. I’m just a kid from gaza trying to help my family survive.

We lost our home.

We don’t have a safe place to sleep.

There’s barely any food or clean water.

Every night, we sleep in fear — the bombings never stop.

My whole family suffers every day, crying from hunger and terrified by the constant bombings.

We need money urgently to buy food.

Im sending you my love ♡

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I live in complete poverty and disability. Trying to make art to sell as prints as I am not getting commissions the way I used to. I am disabled and diabetic, immunocompromised from recent surgery, and I live in a traditional filipino house partially destroyed by storms and termites. I work 3 jobs, but they are all very unstable. Please please please, if you've ever derived joy from my art or insight from my posts or book recs, if you could pick up a print, send a tip, or subscribe to my patreon where I have 400+ exclusive drawings / early access, it would help keep me alive, in the most literal sense. I have been given a second chance at life, and I would like to keep living. Thank you so much

Inprnt / patreon / ko-fi tipping jar / paypaI tipping jar

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Hi. I'm a broke, unemployed transfem who can't seem to get a job. If you have an extra dollar, consider sending it my way!

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If a regional war breaks out between Iran and Israel, Gaza will be forgotten. We will continue to suffer this suffering and will not be mentioned in anything. We will be forgotten forever.