#Asian Lives Matter

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(Small warning for swearing and genocide mentions)

Today in my history class I learned that some reservations JUST got electricity. >:/

How I love being American.

Seriously though, it shouldn't have taken that long.

This is just another reminder of the effects of colonization (AKA mass genocide).

"America is the land of the free!"

Land of the free my ass.

If it's truly the "land of the free", how come the Indigenous Americans are still being discriminated against? Not just Indigenous Americans, but also Muslims, LGBTQIA2S+, Neurodivergents, Blacks, Asians, Hispanics, and many more. Hell some people are even being full on ATTACKED for siding with Palestine. Not to mention the book bans happening. AND ALSO PEOPLE GET HARASSED FOR HOBBIES (Example: Furries) AND SPIRITUAL BELIEFS (Example: Therians)!

Last time I checked, we had rights to identity and freedom, so why is that being taken away from us?

Which brings me to this point:

We are not free until all of us are free.

Thank you for reading my Rian Rant, hope y'all have a great rest of your day/night. <3

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Happy Asian Pacific American Heritage Month! Find out today from the following 5 organizations how you can support the AAPI community!

➡️ 18 Million Rising (18MR) 

➡️ AAPI Women Lead

➡️ Asian American Federation (AAF)

➡️ Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC)

➡️ The Asian American Foundation (TAAF)

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Just finished watching Wakanda Forever.

This beautiful story is filled with so much hurt and pain. A perfect encapsulation of the hurt and pain that the natives as felt, hispanic and latin people. Of the hurt and pain the Black people have felt, African Americans and those of mixed Afro ethnicity. Of the hurt and pain that Asian people have felt, Asian Americans and the natives of the Hawaiian islands. The hurt and pain that Jewish people have felt. The hurt and pain that we continue to feel today... In the "land of the free"

And in our pain we have clawed our way out. We have fought kicking and screaming to have our basic human rights. Rights that still to this day are ignored in favor of the system of white supremacy.

And in our pain, in our fight we have kicked down others who are equally oppressed. Allowing the colonizer to pit us against each other. When we should be our strongest allies.

And today, while there is still a struggle, we move more and more towards a future where we 100% have each-others backs. We share each other's stories, sign each others petitions, walk together in protest.

But that doesn't mean that with every step of the way the system won't fight back. Abortion rights, the pipe lines and oil drills. Schools banning books on the Lgbtqia+ community, Black and native history. Police brutality. Anti-Semitism. Hate crimes against APPI. Police raiding peaceful protests and arresting water protestors, POC, trans individuals. All for using their human right to speak their voice against destruction of their land, against violence and abuse again their communities.

We have a long way to go but its not FUCKING OVER!!

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MSNBC Panelist Calls on Biden to Tap Stacey Abrams to Lead Election-Reform Effort

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Do you ever get sucked into finding out the internal life experiences of a stranger? I wonder how interesting narratives would be if being palatable wasn’t the highest priority.

The real un-marketable version. People want the credibility of identities, want to market the biographies.

They want to sell suffering with obvious villains , smoothed down and made palatable to the milketoast readers they prioritize. To assuage guilt with stories that promise to make them better people “I’m not racist, I don’t act like THAT” while never threatening them (which isn’t how it works), discomfort is part of growth. In the end, people have no investment in the actual voices.

Always, the real experience is first sacrifice at the altar of marketability. Even the nutritional benefits of learning is stripped away in the name of making biographic junk food.

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Racist motherfuckers can’t be reasoned with because to be anti-racist you have to be open to learning that you are the problem. The only way to help someone stop being racist is to get them to understand, not that they are being harmful, but that they’re too weak and stupid to be right in their beliefs and that their feelings are indicators of that. In order to do that isn’t to tear them down with verbal violence of aggression but to show it to them so gently they think they found it on their own.