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Does anyone else remember playing music in Windows Media Player and just sitting there and watching this for like two hours

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Its frustrating that people are going "hey look at all these things which trump is doing which is similar to what Hitler did when he was in power, we are so fucked" and then just not mentioning the rise in antisemitism.

Like antisemitism was a major part in why hitler was elected into power.

Hitler blamed Germanys issues on jews. During his election, he pulled back from spouting antisemitism to make himself look more sane, but all the issues he campaigned on were issues that were blamed on the jews.

He didn't say "jews are ruining the economy but I can fix it", he knew that people were already blaming jews and campaigned on that.

According to the ADL, only 3 months after Oct 7th, antisemitism increased 360%. And it's not like rates of antisemitism has started to go down.

You cannot talk about how facisiam in the US is on the rise, compare it to the rise of hitler and not mention the rise of antisemitism.

Jew hatred was essential to hitlers rise to power and his actions. You cannot talk about jewish history and erase us from the picture.

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Continuing the celebration of the photographer’s birthday today, a selection of Carl Van Vechten’s  brilliant color portraits of African American performers: Billie Holiday, Geoffrey Holder, Pearl Bailey, Carmen De Lavallade, Ella Fitzgerald, Joyce Bryant, Harry Belafonte, Ethel Waters, James Earl Jones, and Blanche Dunn.

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petition to change LGBT to DFTQ (Dykes Faggots Trannies and Queers, naturally)

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Consideration is such a overlooked and unappreciated quality that many lack.

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A reminder to anyone reading this that so-called Australia is stolen Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander lands, that we never ceded sovereignty to our colonizers. So called Australia is the only "Commonwealth" country that has never had a treaty with First Nations peoples. Only two years ago the government held a referendum to determine whether we, the sovereign peoples of this land, should have an advisory body in government and the nation voted no. So called Australia is the only nation that celebrates on January 26, the anniversary of the beginning of the attempted colonisation and genocide of its First Nations peoples. If you are not Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander and you're living in so called Australia, you benefit directly from our colonisation and it's your duty to stand with us. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are the most incarcerated people by percentage on Earth. We are also the oldest living, continuous culture known to humankind. For 100s of 1000s of years our Mob stood beautiful, Blak and deadly and we will continue to do so because this always was and always will be our lands. We are still here.

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“May I rest my weary head on your shoulder?” (insp.)

In the Mood for Love (2000), Rafiki (2018), Cold War (2018), Your Name Engraved Herein (2020), But I’m a Cheerleader (1999), Moonlight (2016), Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019), And Then We Danced (2019), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), My Own Private Idaho (1991), Anatomy of a Fall (2023), Lovesong (2016), God’s Own Country (2017), The Handmaiden (2016), Notorious (1946)

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what if we danced in the kitchen……. and we were both butches

11x14in acrylic on canvas

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Hii! Id like to get your opinion on something.

How do you know if someone is being racist or if they just have a different opinion? Im not talking about clear distinct cases im talking about, for example, someone preferring a white character over a Black one or disliking a Black character. Does that immediately make them racist? Or is it just fans being normal about their fandom? (Let me also clarify that by disliking i also mean in the way they would dislike/prefer a white character. I repeat, in a normal way of voicing your opinions)

Also for example not liking rap (Again, i am not talking about only disliking rap by Black artists because that really is weird) or preferring another music genre. Is that antiblack? Also, another example, not finding a Black person attractive (i am talking about not finding a certain Black person attractive because saying you are not attracted to Black people in general is again just weird and doesnt even make sense because there are so many different features and gorgeous Black people).

In my opinion i think there is not really an answer because conext matters and there are other factors and it is differetn in every case as well but i might be wrong.

I hope i made my question clear and not too complicated hehe

Thank you for your time!

I gotta be honest, I almost didn't answer this 😅

You're right, context does matter. And every preference isn't racist, no. I think the real issue is that very, VERY many people don't even realize when they're being racist, or when their beliefs have been affected by racism. (Why would you, when our society thinks pointing out racism is worse than being racist?)

I'm a big fan of the Socratic method for things like this. We could ask people questions down to the bone and then when we finally hit that last reason for that "preference", we could probably still point out a bias you didn't know you had. You haven't lived your life in a bubble where you've never internalized things!

But most people don't even like hearing the word "racist", let alone subjecting themselves to an uncomfortable self-conversation to realize these things about themselves.

And most of us aren't going to do that for them, nor do we have to. And if no one likes hearing that they have a bias, but no one wants to have the conversation to find out what it is, and we're all gonna be mad regardless, then 🤷🏾‍♀️ guess you'll be mad AND probably racist lol. it's on the people potentially being racist to check that, not on the people pointing it out. The way you know is by being aware of what makes things racist, and then recognizing them in yourselves and others.

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IF GOD HATES TRANNIES WHY DO WE KEEP WINNINGGGGGG

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There's a sort of mythos about Natives that spreads around White American Conservativism. I've seen it many times, of white conservatives who heat the stories about how we as a people fought against the US government, defended out homes and people, and somehow it gets into these white people's minds that they, are like us.

That they too are like the "mythic brave Indian" fighting the US government in,,, some way? I've heard one call the Tea Party the modern day Indians and it sends chills down my spine. They refuse to acknowledge that THEY killed us. And you see it no clearly when they actually have to acknowledge us as people. Then they hate us, they want us dead and gone, because we work so much better as a fictitious story, a symbol of bravery in a weird fetishist way without ever acknowledging what exactly we were fighting against, what we still are fighting against.

Today the American conservative agenda is a continuation of the horrible violence they have done to us. Executive orders that Alaska can be pillaged and Greenland should be colonized, our names should be stripped away again, our citizenship under question. More and more to just wipe us out so we're just myths, because us being living breathing human beings complicates that history, and it makes it harder for them to justify ongoing genocide and ongoing colonization.