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Let’s pay black people!

Haha, let’s not.

So recently people have been talking about how white Americans should pay African Americans ‘’reparations’’ for the slavery that went down a few hundred years ago.

Which is absolutely ridiculous.

Why should white people have to apologize for something that happened so incredibly long ago, something they had absolutely no power over.

 And how are you even going to decided who has to pay who?

What about people who’ve only been living in America for two generations? What about the black people who descend from slave owners or slave traders?

Because newsflash, the black slaves were bought from black people.

 In Africa you had tribes, the tribes fought and the winners took the losers as captives or slaves.

They then sold those slaves to the Europeans who then sold them to the colonists in America.

So do the descendants of those traders also have to pay reparations? And what about the white slaves? Do they get reparations? And are you going to check every white person in America to see if their ancestors owned slaves?

 Or you’re simply going to move forward and not try to play the victim.

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The new ‘‘pride’‘ flag!

Is not what the pride flag is about.

So as most, if not all, of you know by now.

Philadelphia recently came out with a new pride flag.

This flag now also has a brown and a black stripe on top of the flag to include people of colour in the bunch.

Which got a lot of backlash, which is in my opinion completely justified.

The pride flag is for the LGBT community, it has to do with sexuality.

And I’m pretty damn sure your skin colour has absolutely nothing to do with your sexuality.

And also, if it’s meant to include those who are discriminated against (on racial basis) where’s the Asian stripe? Oh what? The yellow one is for Asians, nice racism there.

  But in all seriousness, I, as a bisexual person, am completely against the new flag design.

Because, as I mentioned before, the flag is about sexuality.

The LGBT community is about sexuality (and gender I think). Not about race.

And even if people of colour are discriminated against, there are movement for that.

There are groups for that.

Don’t force your own problems, for which there are several groups, onto the LGBT community.

This isn’t what it’s about.

  I don’t know about you, but I’m getting pretty sick about everything having to do with race nowadays.

  Thank you for reading and have a blessed day.

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Although I do agree that the joke is in  poor taste, I don’t think it has anything to do with misogyny.

Firstly because it’s simply a joke, and a joke isn’t a representation of the person who said it. And secondly, women make these kinds of jokes as well.

finding these examples only took me about 4 minutes. So please don’t take everything too seriously, especially not jokes.

you know misogyny is real and alive when men start making jokes about KILLING women for not wearing makeup.

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The incredible hypocrisy of the white-washing controversy

If there’s one thing that annoys the living daylight out of me, it’s hypocrisy and oh boy.

My attention has been drawn to this a few times now, but I just watched a video which lit my sparks of annoyance aflame.

White washing.

Or rather, the opposite.

I do agree that it’s annoying when a coloured character is played by a white actor, but that goes the other way around as well.

It’s only reasonable to get annoyed when a character isn’t portrayed like he/she is in the books/comics whatever they originate from, both personality wise and appearance wise.

When a character who is a minority is played by a white character, there is outrage.

‘’It’s racist!’’ ‘’Part of the goddamn patriarchy!’’

But when a white character is played by a minority it’s suddenly ‘’empowering’’ and ‘’showing how America is actually build’’

For instance, the character ‘’L’’ from Death Note will be portrayed by Keith Stanfield.

I have no personal opinion on the actor himself, because I simply put, don’t know him at all.

But I personally do frown upon him being casted as ‘’L’’.

 L’s character is simply put weird.

He is sickly pale with dark circles around his eyes and black hair.

This appearance shows his personality, an important thing in manga.

It paints an image of the character, gives the reader an immediately impression.

Which is why I disagree with Keith’s casting.

They take away a very important part of who L is, because appearance does matter.

 Another thing is Hamilton (the musical of course).

Firstly, I do absolutely adore the musical and listen to its music every day, but there are some things I disagree with.

And that’s not in the musical itself, but the reaction from fans.

‘’Casting white actors might be truer to history — but it would also be rank censorship and artistic butchery.

(Don’t worry, all the largely white high school “Hamilton” productions to come will be fine: They’ll just add to the fun, with Anglo teens playing minority New Yorkers playing all-white Founders . . .)

Mindless hyper-sensitivity does nothing to heal the nation’s racial problems.’’

-New York Post, Post Editorial Board

First, it is ‘’minority-washing’’ or whatever, as I mentioned before it’s a horrible thing when a white actor plays a role that should be played by a minority according to history, but when a coloured actor plays a role that should be played by a white person according to history and people protest against it it’s suddenly ‘’rank censorship and artistic butchery’’

 The little snide comment in between brackets is also a great annoyance.

If the majority of students is white then yes, the casting will probably also be mostly white.

And they say ‘’all-white Founders’’ like it’s something white people came up with. Like the founding father weren’t white?

And last but definitely not least, the mindless hyper-sensitivity.

That’s just plain old pot calling the kettle black.

 If there’s a group that is hyper-sensitive, it’s the SJW’s/people who call racism on everything.

You can’t even say a word without offending them, and now that people complain about a musical not being Historically correct they’re suddenly being hyper-sensitive?

 And finally, the costumes!

I was very much surprised when I discovered that people of colour were calling white people racist for dressing up as a Hamilton character for Halloween.

Yes that actually happened.

‘’ historical figures who were reinterpreted as people of color. so white people dressing up as those Hamilton! characters is white washing’’

[This came from a debate wheter it was okay or not to cosplay as Hamilton characters because they were slave-owners link to orinigal post can be found on this link : https://hamiltondiscourse.tumblr.com/post/145667823350/white-people-wanting-to-cosplay-hamilton-oh-my]

 ‘’ Well good because multiple people of color have come forward saying that white propel cosplaying Hamilton makes them uncomfortable. Listen to them’’

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 ‘’ youre speaking over poc’s voices rn when they say DONT COSPLAY HAMILTON’’

http://ladyjenevia.tumblr.com/post/146272865000/whats-wrong-with-white-people-cosplaying

 So simply put, white-washing is annoying, PoC-washing is annoying, people are over-sensitive about everything.

If you don’t care about PoC-washing then don’t care about white-washing.

As long as the skin colour of the character had no important meaning to the story, I don’t care what the race of the actor playing them is and neither should you.

In case you were dissapointed I didn’t metion the whole Ghost in the Shell controversy here’s a great video explaining it perfectly:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2sNX1wRlubQ 

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Today is the day, after years of training it is my time. *throws spear* *perfect throw 10/10* *looks at wrist as the muscle slowly appears* *one manly tears slides down cheek* I’m worthy

Lay your arm on a flat surface and push your thumb and pinky together. If you don’t see a raised band across your wrist, you are a product of evolution. If you do, you’ve got a useless extra muscle in your arm that is slowly being erased from our genetic code. Source

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Heteronormativity

So something that has been bothering me quite a bit lately, and that thing is heteronormativity.

But what has been bothering me isn’t the concept of heteronormativity, but the problem people seem to have with it.

They complain about people tending to expect someone to be hetero, like it’s not to be expected?

The vast majority of people are hetero:

According to a study from 2014 done by the Canadian Community Health Survey only 1.7% of Canadians aged 18 to 59 identified as homosexual, and only 1.3% as bisexual.

 In an anonymous online sex survey carried out by The Observer on the sexual orientation of the British, 4% of the surveyed identified as homosexual, and another 4% as bisexual.

 According to Callip’s daily tracking phone survey, the proportion of Americans who identify as LGBT in 2016 was 4.1%

 And there are many other studies, of most countries LGBT makes up less than 10% of the population.

 So how come it is weird to expect people to be straight? It’s not like people treat you like you should be heterosexual.

 People also often complain about how LGBT people have to ‘come out’.

But this is absolutely idiotic in my opinion for several reasons:

You don’t have to come out, there are enough people who simply have a gay relationship, bring their partner home. The parents will probably ask something like ‘’So you’re gay?’’ the person says ‘’yes’’ and that’s it.

There are also those who actually plan a whole thing and make it something special, who enjoy coming out and surprising their loved ones.

Both are completely fine.

Nobody asks you to explain yourself, it’s as big or as small as you chose it to be.

 And another problem I have with the problem with heteronormativity, you can’t complain about heterosexuality being considered normal and then swoon over every gay couple you see.

Or tell gay people how ‘’brave’’ they are for being openly gay, that’s alienating!

How can you complain about people not considering gay to be normal, but then go and worship everything that’s even slightly gay! Or go out of your way to make being gay this absolutely amazing special thing. It’s your sexual orientation, it shouldn’t define your personality in any way. It shouldn’t define who you are in any way.

 So in short,

Logically speaking, it’s completely normal to expect someone to be straight,

You being gay isn’t a big deal at all and lastly, but probably most importantly, stop alienating gay people by putting them on a pedestal.

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A poem about growing up as a Chinese American and my thoughts on it.

So, I just read a poem about how it was growing up as a Chinese American. It was shared by means of photos so I don't have the exact link, but the source was mic.com if you're interested. I will split the poem into several different parts and give some arguments per part explaining why it is, pardon my french, absolute bullshit.

1. ''If you ask me if I'm fluent in Chinese, I will tell you my chinese is the ghost lodged in my throat.'' Honestly I don't know exactly what is meant by the second part, but simply put. Apparently it's offense/rude to ask someone if they're fluent in the language their parents/grandparents spoke. I don't see a problem with this. My first language isn't english so if I were to move to England/America people might notice and ask if I'm fluent in the language from the country I come from. (Putting it like this makes it sound weird and cryptic but I trust you know what I mean) This would not come close to offending me. I'd actually smile, say that I am and ask if they wanted to hear/learn some words from my native language, because that's a cool thing and a good conversation starter. Simply put, someone asking if you're fluent in chinese when you're chinese and live in i.e. America doesn't mean they're racist or that they're being rude. It means they're interested in you/your home country or simply try to get a conversation going.

2. ''My Chinese is a racist joke I threw in the garbage wrapped in a napkin stained with my culture. It made a sound as it hit the bottom.'' There are racist jokes about every culture. Literally every culture. And it's just that, a joke. Jokes aren't meant to be taken serious. That's the whole thing about jokes.

3. ''Chink. Chink as in the weakness in armor. Chink as in crevice. gap. hole. Chink as in the slits they called our eyes.'' Is the Chink refering to people going like ''Ching Chang'' when talking about how most asian languages sound? Anyway, ''Çhink as in the slits they called our eyes.'' Are you saying your eyes aren't really your eyes? And it's simply true that chinese people have thin eyes, yes some mock chinese (or Asian people overall) by pulling at their eyes making them thinner. But then, some Asian people also pull their eyes wide open to mock people who don't have thin eyes.

4. ''If you ask me if I'm fluent in Chinese I will tell you that my Chinese doesn't think it belongs here sometimes.'' Sorry to burst your bubble, but everyone feels out of place from time to time. I also feel like an outcast in my own country from time to time for god knows what reason it is this time. And most of the time it's just me fooling myself. And most of the time when people feel unwelcome because of their ethnicity it's just them making themselves belief that.

5. ''My Chinese wonders why ''Hey, this person I know is really into Asian girls. You should talk to them,'' is a compliment.'' So for some reason, people think that having a preferene for a certain ethninicty us racist now? Someone is just pointing out that you have one of the things that a guy/girl is into. It's the same as saying. ''Hey a friend of mine is also really into Harry Potter you should talk to them.'' Or ''Hey my friend is really into blond girls. You should talk to them.'' They're simply pointing out that someone could be interested in you. If someone where to come up to me and say '''Hey, this person I know is really into European girls. You should talk to them,'' I might just give it a shot. It means we immediately have a good conversation topic which prevents an awkward beginning. If it's purely for cosmetic reasons then still so what? It's basically just someone telling you someone thinks you're beautiful.

6. ''My Chinese wonders why it is exotic. Why you think fetishizing my culture is the same as loving it.'' Funilly enough, I was recently in England and was told by someone that my name was an exotic. And you know what, I was flattered. You know why your Chinese is exotic, it's because the majority of Americans aren't Chinese. It's not meant as an insult, people actually tend to like exotic people because they're interesting to them. And they're not 'fetishizing your culture''  they simply have a preference for people from your culture. It's a taste that's it.

7. ''My Chinese wonders why it is beautiful only if it is white enough. My chinese wonders if it is white enough.'' You know, wanting to be 'white' is actually quite common in Asia. People bleach their skin to be more white. It's a horrible thing and I'm not saying every Asian person thinks like that but this is something that is more common in your own culture than in the western. Nobody is coming to you to hold a skin sample next to your hand to check if you are white enough. Nobody is telling you to be more ''white''. How are you even supposed to be more white? Is it purely meant like skin colour or also in way of culture? Because if it is meant as in ''act more like a white person'' then good luck, because there are quite a few different ''white cultures''.

8. ''My Chinese wonders why the massacres, mass expulsions and near genocidal polcies are missing in the hsitory textbooks.'' That's because you are in America and in America they mainly focus on American History. Just like how in Europe they focus on European History and how in Asia they focus on Asian history. I'm not complaining about how (relatively speaking) barely anyone knows about the horrible heretic persecution that happened in my country, I'm not complaining about how there is nothing about the occupation of my country in the American or Asian history books. Because what use would Americans or Asians have with that? If everyone had to learn about every genocide, every massacre and every mass expulsion that took place in China, they should also learn about every other genocide, every massacre and every mass expulsions that took place in every other country.

Better yet, go read this real quick: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/06/world/asia/chinas-textbooks-twist-and-omit-history.html?_r=0 I got that website after typing ''What is taught about American history in China'' into google it was the third link.

9. ''My Chinese wants you to know that it is not an accessory for you to wear. My Chinese wants you to remember that I can not be eaten and then spit out.'' Good thing that other people can't 'wear' your culture as an accessory for themselves. I believe she is still speaking about some people having a preference for Asian girls, yes there are some people who use their significant other as an accessory instead of.. well.. a significant other. But not everyone who has a preference for Asian girls(or boys for that matter) uses it as a sort of accessory. Rather, I'd be worried if you think of yourself or your culture as nothing more than an accessory (to your significant other).

10. ''My Chinese sits in the back of class. Knows the answer but does not raise hand.'' I have no idea what this has to do with race. There are a lot of people who don't raise their hand despite knowing the answer. I do this myself as well, this has nothing to do with my ethnicity it's simply because 1. I don't bother. 2. I know someone else will just yell the answer without waiting for a turn or 3. I'm too shy/worried that I'm wrong. So again, absolutely no idea what this has to do with your ethnicity.

11. ''If you ask me if I'm fluent in Chinese I will take you to the grave where my Chinese lives.'' If you ask me if I'm fluent in the language spoken in my motherland, I will tell you that yes I do and ask you if you want me to say something in my native tongue. Absolutely no problem.

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Fat acceptance...

Now before I’ll start explaining, just for your information.

I am overweight, borderline obese. So believe me, I’m not just spouting ‘‘ignorance nonsense’‘ I’ve lived with this my entire life.

So you’d think I’d love fat acceptance, and you know what.

It’s fucking disgusting.

Now again, don’t misunderstand. I don’t think people who are overweight, or simply put fat. Should be ridiculed for their weight or anything of the like.

But being grossly overweight shouldn’t be seen the way people who support fat acceptance see it.

Being overweight has many, many cons and absolutely zero pros.

-It damages your body

-You’re more likely to have a heart-attack and a lot more heart diseases

-You’re more likely to die an early death

-Back problems

-Depression (this can be caused by having out-of-balance body chemistry)

-diabetes

and many more.

There are also the social factors.

‘‘People make fun of me because of my weight!’‘ ‘‘Nobody wants to date me because I’m fat and all they care about is being good-looking’‘

Believe me, if you weren’t fat they’d make fun of something else.

They’d joke about your hight, your voice, your way of speaking whatever.

And it’s completely natural to not want to date overweight people.

People simply have preferences and instincts.

And it’s normal that someone doesn’t want to date someone who’s overweight because that means they’re unhealthy which automatically makes your brain say ‘‘no’‘. It’s simple as that, of course you’d prefer dating someone with perfect health to someone who looks like they’ll die after walking up the stairs.

Personally speaking, I would highly prefer dating someone who’s fit to someone who’s obese. And be honest you think the same.

Fat acceptance makes people think there’s nothing wrong with being overweight, which is absolutely not true. It prevents them from getting up and trying to get fit, to get healthy.

There are many more things to say about fat acceptance but I’ll leave it at that.