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What if a white child with cancer only had 3 weeks left to live and their last wish to the make a wish foundation was to be able to say the N word just once. Are you telling me its not okay for a white person to say the N word in that instance?

yeah

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the world is a better place with trans women in it. trans women are valuable and important members of our communities. trans women deserve safety and protection and love.

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Happy, depressed, and on drugggssss (prescription)

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Im praying i wont be on tumblr anymore by 2028

2018 was five years ago let that sink in

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From @ pinkpillled on tiktok

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Literallytt i didn't know that unaliving urself was a sin and in 5th grade i legit was thinking if i died id be closer to getting saved like wtf wtf wtf (also i had traumatic things going on but you know)

I DONT CARE HOW YOU JUSTIFY IT THIS RELIGION SHOULD NEVER MAKE SMALL CHILDREN SUICIDAL!!!! THEY ARE IN THE THIRD GRADE THEY SHOULD NOT WISH TO BE KILLED

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i was just thinking about how adorable humans are. When we like or vibe with another human we will want to sit next to them in the bus, eat with them at the cafeteria, hang out with them when we don't even need to. like !!! it's so cute.

we're like, "i like this human," then go out of our way to be around them more often. that's so sweeeet!

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My little brother made this with our cat haha

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For a long time mine was "I'm eating without praying 😈" and "I drank a coca-cola 🤭"

Growing up mormon can be so weird, sometimes you'll just be sitting there in you early 20s like "I have a mocha and a tank top I'M EDGY!!"

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I will never get over growing up poor in a religious mormon household where my parents still gave 10% of their income to the church (tithing) despite maxing out dozens of credit cards every month to feed the 10 children the church encouraged them to have.

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I was raised mormon and this post is true and summarizes my disdain for that religion. I left the church when i was 15 years old, though i had been doubting the religion since I was 6 years old.

Anyway, I just wanna add that the main branch of mormonism today does not practice polygamy anymore. Now they preach marriage is between one man and one woman. But it's true that in Joseph Smith's time, they practiced polygamy to increase their numbers, have more mormon-born and raised practitioners.

Also I wanna add that the church is super fucking misogynistic to no one's surprise. Women are expected to be baby-factories, get married at 19 and be devoted to their husbands. It's more nuanced than that but basically all the leaders of the church are men and women aren't allowed in any of the high positions like bishop, etc. Why? Cause they're expected to raise 8 children at home while the husband does all the high church work. Anyway dumb shit.

Also, a lot of mormons today don't know about many bits of history about the church. The church tries to hide it because they care about their image a lot. Others will deny it happened or minimize how bad it was. It's really infuriating. Try talking to a mormon about the dark side of their church's history, they will gaslight u.

Yeah, it's a cult that tries to look innocent.

It's amazing to me just how good the Mormon church has been at hiding just how bad they really are from public view. Even the shit that gets spread around is the relatively harmless bullshit. They had a crazy prophet with magic glasses. They believe in god-mandated polygyny. They think everyone who is good enough will get their very own planet after the world ends. They wear magic underpants. Mormon men are all paladins.

Here's one of the ones you hear less often:

See, like many other Christian sects, the Mormons really do believe that the existence of Christ obviates the existence of Judaism. Judaism was just a placeholder until the "real" church could be established by Jesus.

And the Mormons in particular believe, dead ass, that the entire inheritance of Israel has been given to them, because the Jews failed to recognize the Messiah when he was on Earth. They really do. They have this whole system where people are given a "divine revelation" about which of the Tribes of Israel they're a member of (don't worry, they decided that most people belong to the two tribes that are willing to "adopt" people. Only the most specialest boys and girls are members of the original ten).

Let's sum up so far. The Mormons believe that they are the people of Israel, chosen and protected by God. If Jews want to get back in on that party, they can always repent and convert to Mormonism, the one true church to which God gave all the rights and blessings that were originally bestowed on Abraham's house.

But it doesn't stop there!

The Mormons also believe, in all seriousness, that all Indigenous peoples of the Americas are descended from a small group of Jewish people who left just before the fall of Jerusalem (~600 bc iirc). Their entire weird-ass extra bible is a chronicle of those people's history in [unspecific part of America]. At the very beginning of the book, two brothers in the original family turn away from god, so they and all their descendants are cursed with dark skin, so that the good Nephites (who remain "white and delightsome") will always be able to tell themselves apart from the wicked Lamanites.

So, you've got supposedly Jewish people running around the Americas. And the "good" ones are white, and the "bad" ones are brown. Then, ofc, Jesus comes to visit them (I guess supposedly that's part of what he was doing during his dirt nap? Or possibly after he left again, it's not clear), and they all convert to Christianity, which they think is clearly the natural evolution of Judaism. Well, at the end of the book, all of them become wicked, in a kind of weird pseudo-apocalyptic series of events. They are all cursed with dark skin, until such time as they repent for their ancestors sins and return to the gospel.

But of course, Mormons being the good and kind people they are, they want everyone to receive the blessings of God and be brought into the houses of Israel etc etc. And it isn't the fault of those poor little Indigenous children that their distant ancestors turned away from God and became wicked.

So what's the natural answer? Well, Mormons are real big on missionary work, as we all know. But apparently that wasn't enough in this case.

Because the Mormon church has been one of the big players in abducting as many Indigenous children as possible, in order to indoctrinate them into being good Mormons, so that they can turn white again and be blessed. My mother remembers hearing talks about this in the 70s and 80s. The church literally had a "Lamanite Adoption Program," where families in the church were encouraged to get as many Indigenous children as possible away from their families and not let them be reunited until they were fully assimilated and ready to go back and proselytize about how wonderful the church is.

The church leadership literally talked about how wonderful it was to see these children becoming whiter. Actually whiter. Like, saying that when they finally saw them with their families again, it was beautiful how much paler they were.

I'm pretty sure this program has been officially ended, but it doesn't take a genius to speculate about who might be behind the curtains on the movement in the western US to gut the ICWA....

So yeah. Next time someone tries to tell you that the Mormons are just harmless weirdos, please remember that they're an antisemitic cult that advocates for the forced assimilation of Indigenous children to help them escape the cursed brown skin of their ancestors.

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Hi thanks for sharing! It's true what you said about needing safe space for women from men, as well as giving them more opportunities. I cannot disagree with you on those points, and I thank you for bringing that up. Tbh I easily get swayed by overly simplified tiktok videos, and I didn't realize the person posting that video misunderstood and oversimplified some things.

But I guess where we disagree is that I believe trans women are welcomed in those spaces. I'm a bit disappointed and sad by the way you refer to trans women if im being honest. My reasoning for supporting trans women is:

1. gender is socially constructed, so we can do whatever the fuck we want with it, it doesn't matter. Though obviously that does not mean that our sex assigned at birth is irrelevant, like yes, being born female or male or intersex is pertinent information in certain situations such as with a doctor, even a psychologist, etc. I would say the relevance of being trans in competitive sports is a bit nuanced bc of testosterone and whatnot and I haven't really dived into researching that yet so Idk about that yet but I'll admit I'm inclined to want to find a way to include all women no matter their identity.

2. At the end of the day, we're just human. I've personally met a lot of trans women and heard a lot of their stories, and yeah, when they're perceived as women, they are just as in danger being around men as cis women are. Yes, trans women experience different things when it comes to their bodies, yes cis women have periods, can make children (though, a scientist recently successfully transplanted a uterus in a trans woman's body), but this isn't oppression olympics. Like i dont expect a trans woman to know exactly what it's like to be a cis woman, but she still deserves to be treated nicely and we still need to understand that they are in danger. Men don't care if someone is trans or not when it comes to misogyny, let's be real. They see something that looks like a woman and will be abusive. They don't think trans women are equal to them. The numbers don't lie, trans people are most likely to die when found out about being trans. It's really horrifying. I wish all women could include all women even if they don't personally understand their experiences. And my heart breaks when i see women so divided on this. We don't need to understand someone to include them.

3. People can do whatever they want with their bodies. It's not mutilation otherwise we'd start calling getting one ear pierced mutilation, all surgeries mutilation, etc. Like shit. Anyway, let people enjoy things and yes that extends to gender.

4. Truth be told, if trans women were men, then they wouldn't try to be a woman. Sorry but men live amazing lives in constract. Obviously trans women dont choose to be trans otherwise theyd wanna be cis cause that's less complicated and u get less prosecuted. Like being trans is very dangerous and scary in this world. If u were born male and could choose ur gender, you would stay male cause the world treats u better. Hence why, it's not a choice. Trans women are women and their experiences are valid :)

Ok this post is kinda long and im not even saying half of what i want, but idk if u know what i mean? Trans women arent dangerous. Idk if u ever met one irl and had a conversation with her? I have a million times (queer club at my school) and they're not the weirdos u make them out to be. Look, my dad used to hate gay men religiously like he would say really mean things about them. Then, one day my sister brought over a good friend of hers who was a gay man, and my dad talked to him, and was open minded while doing so. Suddenly, he didn't hate gay men anymore. Suddenly, he understood them a bit better. Like maybe if u tried talking to a trans woman irl? Maybe more than one? Just really hear them out? They're really just like u and me, wanting to have a safe space, wanting to be accepted. They don't deserve any of the hate they get. It's just not fair.

what she said ♡

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what she said ♡

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if i wake up one day to find out that netflix is making a zepotha movie, i will go back to sleep and never wake up again

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Remember Goncharov? Tumblr's iconic fake movie? Okay so now Tiktok has one called Zepotha.

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Nothing feels more violating than walking into a single string of spiderweb you didn't even know was there and it's on your face

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Which is funny bc threads is actually a twitter ripoff and the ppl who really think it's like tumblr, need to get tumblr instead? Like i dont get it. Just get tumblr if that's what u like about threads?

Can we talk about how the charming aspects of threads are its similarities to tumblr and its dissimilarities to twitter