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homunyas · 2 months
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Brown people have been blown up and killed every second for the past few months, and you're calling a bigoted white trans woman who had her blog deleted on a social media website a "martyr".
Not to mention ignoring the various black and brown bloggers who have been getting their blogs deleted for far longer, from the time of the BLM protests, all the way up to now with people like @violottie being deleted for posting about Palestine.
Not to mention ignoring the various other trans women targeted by this, trans women of color, trans lesbians, and trans women who aren't bigots alike. But no, you choose pr*dstrogen to rally around, despite all this, despite many many trans lesbians and trans women of color having spoken out against her for almost a year.
This website is a joke; you don't care about poc, and you don't care about trans women.
You'll all just as soon forget about transmisogyny as soon as this leaves the spotlight, as has always been the case.
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mos-twin-mattress · 6 months
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It's so crazy... 2020 feels like a complete fever dream... I thought and hoped and prayed that we would keep the BLM momentum going like it was that year... But we didn't .... People started to forget and speak on it less.
I posted and still post as much as I can ab Black lives on my Facebook... Ab other social justice issues. Sometimes it felt like I was just screaming into a void... I still feel betrayed at times, by the white girlies who just a few years ago were in the streets saying "if they start shooting stand behind me"
My life doesn't feel important to most ppl. They talk a big game ab caring and wanting things to change, but at the end of the day most ppl don't want the status quo to change. They just want to do enough to look like a good person.
If this post makes you angry, makes you feel some typa way then I URGE you to look inwards and figure out WHY it strikes such an uncomfortablity in you. Figure out what you could be doing more...
I know it's difficult to hear these words, I know looking inwards is hard and uncomfortable, I've been there, I STILL have a cop in my head that I need to kill. We ALL do!
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gffa · 11 months
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To clarify, I didn't mean that ask as defending her BS. I more meant actually remembering that mess was surprising. I thought it was dead, buried and forgotten when her stories were pretty much erased and she hasn't come back to the franchise since
Haha, apologies for any snarkiness that you got blasted by then! And I hope everyone else sees this clarification, because you don't deserve to get blasted any further! And, like, I get that sometimes Star Wars fandom gets way too bitter/hateful about some things that shouldn't matter anymore (so I get where you're coming from!), but I'll defend that this one is warranted and that it's still relevant because her work does still have influence in the fandom and a lot of us have run into people still supporting her takes. She hasn't written anything new since she flounced, but the books she wrote are still quoted and moments from those books still get woven into current fandom, just like pretty much all of Legends does. I mean, the JA/JQ books are just as old and they are still VERY much going re: being assumed background canon for a big portion of fandom, you know? Traviss' stuff is kinda like that in a lot of spaces. So, coming down on Traviss' bullshit is motivated by the really heinous things she's said/supported and that she does still have an affect on today's fandom. I mean, people are free to like her stuff if they want, we're not your parents, we're not going to come over there and make you clean your room or whatever, but when her work contributes to some of the comments we get, as well as the stuff she was up to on Twitter (liking pro-Trump/BLM-critical tweets) is something I think is fair to still keep bringing up, since I'm not aware of her having moved on from any of that. (I'm not asking that anyone has to join us in this endeavor, you're fine to just scroll past it and forget that she exists at all, and I hope that you don't feel too raw from the frustration a lot of us feel over this topic, it's not about you, you're not defending her or anything! And I hope I can explain a bit more where some of us are coming from here.)
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jewishbarbies · 2 months
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Covid has really done serious damage to the world. The rise of everyone thinking they're a perfect leftist/social advocate due to the 2020 BLM Movement where they weren't even good allies there either has resulted in a terrible Pro Palestine Movement which fucking breaks my heart because Palestinians deserve people who care about them. The issue with the Pro Palestine movement is that people hate Jews and don't care about the Palestinians. They spend all their energy and time pretending to care by reblogging aesthetic images of Palestinians in the past, poetry, shitty articles they never ever fact check because doing so somehow justifies the killing of Palestinians and calling everyone a Zionist a word they just learnt and spreading the most horrid misinformation you can find.
I'll never ever forget how these people FETISHIZED Palestinian suffering and pain. They stupidly scream "SILENCE IS VIOLENCE" when someone doesn't want to reblog videos of Palestinians being killed which is disrespectful because it is understood that videos of mass shootings victims in the USA and so forth should not be spread around but the same respect cannot be given to Palestinians. Why? Leftists fetishise their pain. That's why when they see a white USAmerican solider killing himself for the cause, they cheer because they're extremists. They want people to kill themselves for the cause. They love violence in the same way Conservatives do. At least Conservatives own up to it a bit more. Leftists just say bullshit like "Violence is the only tool against the oppressor" and while Violence is often the only option, they think in such extremes that Peace makes you a coward and an ass kisser to the oppressors and Violence is the only right thing and all the oppressors must die which is funny because they're oppressors too. The same thinking Conservatives have, just directed to another group of people. Don't get me started on how they MUST use language like "this is the worst genocide ever" and the exaggeration and lies about statistics etc. That is so scary because for leftists to care, something has to be the worst thing possible. That's why they must link Israel to every tragegy now. It's the same shit like conservatives constantly comparing pain and telling everyone that they have it easy lol..
literally all of this
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lore-gore · 6 months
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Ride The Cyclone Open Roleplay
Doing a Ride The Cyclone roleplay.
Jane Doe: Taken by me
Ocean O'Connell Rosenberg: Taken by @democracyrockzz
Noel Gruber: Taken
Constance Blackwood: @jane-does-head @thenicestgirlintown
Mischa Bachinski: Taken by @max--jagerman
Ricky Potts: Taken by @krowsselfindulgy (@spacingbachelorette)
This will be the main trigger warning for the beginning of every scene:
Tw: death, unreality, body horror, implied gore, yelling, trauma, loss of identity, horny teens being horny teens
This will also be in the tags.
Any other trigger warnings should be added to reblogs as well as tags.
The concept is basically if Karnak died before ressurecting anyone. So it's just them doing silly shenanigans as ghosts, singing songs we think they would sing, and probably a bit of angst. It will mainly act as a follow up to the 2016 bootleg version, with yannick's edits of course. (If you headcanon a different performance of your song for your character that's fine.)
We will also create character sheets consisting of name, gender, pronouns, age, sexuality, sign, birthday, favorite ride, appearance, personality, backstory, and "the most _ in town." (Mine is the only one without a sign, birthday, and favorite ride. If you forget, don't worry, I can edit it in.)
It's how you imagine the characters, with a mix of headcanons and canon.
The uniforms are the same as the 2016 ones but without the plaid.
How they wear their uniform and how they accessorize is up to you.
You can interpret the characters however you'd like, but make sure to stay faithful to their base character traits. (Things like Noel being gay and Misha being Ukrainian. Also Ricky using MOBILITY AIDS THANK YOU.)
Be as descriptive as possible. (See mine and my friends character sheets for examples!)
Also me and friends are high school students, so please only other high school students!
No NSFW roleplay. Talking about sex is fine, but no actual sex scenes! I'd prefer SFW blogs too.
Characters having crushes on other characters is allowed, but it might not be reciprocated. (Me and @democracyrockzz are pretty much planning to do perfectdolls.)
Every thread will be a scene. When you want to start a new scene, make a new thread. Give a synopsis of what the scene will be about, as well as the location in the fair.
Example:
New Scene
Synopsis: The choir plays a board game.
@democracyrockz reblogged
Ocean: Guys look what I found!
(Ocean emerges with a board game)
Noel's roleplayer reblogged
Noel: Oh god, no.
It will be a public thread so people who aren't in the roleplay can still enjoy it.
No racist, sexist, ableist, saneist, colorist, binarist, pigmentist, homophobic, transphobic, biphobic, panphobic, acephobic, enbyphobic, queerphobic, xenophobic, islamophobic, fatphobic, misogynistic, transmisogynistic, body shaming, "pro-life", transid, "MAPS", pro contact para, TERF, anti semitic, anti neopronouns, anti xenogenders, anti mspec, anti BLM, anti feminist, or incel blogs.
Toxic behavior will not be tolerated. Hate comments will be deleted.
To claim your character, simply comment who you want to play or DM me.
Afterwords, write your character sheet. Take your time, the person playing Noel won't be ready for a little while so don't be rushed. (I'm getting ahead of time.) Make sure to tag me too.
Also let me know what to add to the main tw. If you plan on having your character bring a sensitive topic up, I need to add it.
I will then put your character sheet in the pinned post of my side blog @mystery-contestant. Make sure to follow it!
If you want to make changes to your already posted character sheet, edit the original post and send me a message letting me know!
You will know the roleplay has started as I will announce it on my side blog. I will be starting off the first "scene."
Also if there's something you think should be a main tw let me know!
We will be starting this summer!
Jane's character sheet!
Ocean's Character sheet!
Ricky's Character sheet!
Constance's Character sheet!
Breakdown of edits!
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Don't get me wrong, I love Taylor Swift and her albums but I think everyone especially my fellow swifties need to see that she is not flawless.
She just like everyone else on this planet is deeply flawed and especially from the place of being a billionaire she is not without blame. In 2019 she made a huge deal about advocacy and standing up for people and yet when the BLM movent was big in 2020 she did nothing and now with the genocide happening in Gaza she says nothing. She has been seen and associated with many horrible people and it isn't right.
To be clear I am not calling her evil or without empathy but i am calling out her hypocrisy that so many fans choose to ignore.
I think it is wrong not just in a moral sense but also just in a 'do you actually respect her' sense because Midnights and ttpd shows her begging for us to see her as she is and how much fame and fans have harmed her because of this rose colored lens.
We often forget that she is in fact human and not some goddess or witch before us. She is deserving of being seen and especially by people she adores(aka the fans). She adores the attention that we give her and she just wants to be seen and to me and several other fans it has become glaringly obvious.
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allamericansbitch · 11 months
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I'm gonna be honest and say that I would normally send this anonymously but I just can't this time. If there's one thing Taylor knows perfectly how to do is sweep the shit she does under a rug and pretend it's not there.
It's obvious she's known what was going on and people's feelings over the entire sitting for a long time but to see her be so blatanly dismissive of them by releasing not only the remix with Ice Spice (another disgusting cover up) but another version of Midnights is disturbing. Most people are gonna eat that up and forget about the rest, just the way she wanted.
In all the years of being a fan of Taylor's, I don't believe I've ever been this angry and sad except for 2020, with her lack of support for BLM. She slapped every fan in the face who dared to call her out on her BS this time and I don't know how one can continue to be a fan of a person who acts like that.
Exactly. It’s all so transparent and just weird? Like idk how else to describe it but just so weird. She knows what’s going on and refuses to speak on it, but instead just dangle shiny new music or merch in our face to try and distract us, like it’s no big deal. It’s so insulting to us as fans and also the communities of people she’s basically insinuating aren’t important enough to talk about…
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doberbutts · 2 years
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(someone else got this ask about me)
Me: hey can white feminists that claim to support BLM stop forgetting that BLM includes black men so maybe don't broadbrush all men as violent rapists because that disproportionately affects black men in lawmaking and the justice system which majorly contributes to black men getting gunned down in the streets
Them: you think black women are speaking over black men!!!
Also lmao what the fuck where did I ever say that black women are more harmful to black men than white women y'all are trippin I swear. I guess we all just say shit now. You wanna provide screenshots of that pal because that's just straight up untrue.
This is what I'm talking about tumblr's worst version of whisper down the lane. That shit absolutely did not happen and not only is it being spread unsourced but also believed without a second thought.
Always investigate claims no matter what because people can and do weaponize this type of thing to silence those they dislike.
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khaotic-neutrxl · 5 months
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Please, Use Your Brain...
It's honestly surprising to me how many people still show anger and hatred towards people who don't support Pewdiepie anymore.
So, a grown man goes onto the internet to interact with his MASSIVE fanbase, which in turn has way more significant of an impact, and in the most literal sense uses a SLUR as a genuine INSULT towards someone. While face-to-face with people who have looked up to him for years, supported him, given thousands of hours towards to support, just for him to completely disregard an entire COMMUNITY with one moronic action.
His literal first response to anger and frustration in that moment was to use a slur. Not a fucking little insignificant curse word, a slur connected to GENERATIONS of injustice and genocide, related to something that has so much more of a serious impact than he could even imagine. Than he could even understand, along with the majority of people with their mouths wide open accepting an apology not even DIRECTED TOWARDS THEM. As if your word, as someone who is white on MOST occasions, is SOMEHOW above the word of people who are the only ones capable of truly understanding the impact of his words and actions. People who have RELATIVES who have TRAUMA from racism, because IT ISN'T AN OLD STORY, IT'S REAL AND STILL RELEVANT.
For the love of everything, don't go around using BLM as a way to further your point supporting a man who literally disregarded the lives of THOUSANDS of Black fans who looked up to him. Responsibility is important when you are a GROWN ADULT making that large of an impact to that many people. Especially if it's on a platform like YouTube, where people literally WATCH you grow in front of them, with them, regularly and directly, in a way that is so much more on a intimate level and that has such a large impact. And that impact is even bigger WHEN YOUR FANS ARE QUITE LITERALLY 9 YEAR OLDS.
The way that people disregard the impact of this man's actions in favor of comfort without change is genuinely disturbing.
The most cancel culture has done to this man is increase backlash, which literally comes with being a massive figure on the internet. Not to mention that, idk, maybe if you have that many fans THE BACKLASH MIGHT EQUATE TO THAT. It's almost like the more people you have watching you, the more people you impact and hurt when you do ignorant careless shit! Isn't that lovely?
But at MOST, cancel culture has not changed ANYTHING on this man's stance. He's still one of the biggest people on YouTube, making just as much revenue, having MILLIONS of people STILL supporting him.
I KNOW. Cancel culture was so terrible to him! (His follower count totally isn't still 112 MILLION!!) It must be terrible to have to be held accountable for bad actions as a grown adult responsible for the influence he has as an influencer! How awful it is for people to want a man borderline 40 to log off the internet, go touch grass, and maybe just maybe do that to make up for the absolutely massive and terrible impact he made to thousands of his fans!
Thousands of people who looked up to him and idolized him, just to find out he's like so many others who have UNDOUBTABLY hurt them just as badly in life with those words.
Because while he gets to apologize, forget, "change" and leave that moment behind, countless of his fans cannot! Because they will always associate him with an issue he inserted himself in carelessly, an issue that has CENTURIES of impact no one can understand the true pain of unless they grew up in that community. Which still ACTIVELY is facing that same horrific injustice regularly!
So yes, I think that people are allowed to be angry at someone who did that significant of a mistake at the expense of years of their support and love! Because physical wounds heal, but words don't. And YOU as a "critic" don't get to draw your own conclusions to a situation you can't even fully understand, because that is blatant ignorance! (talking to all his fans who aren't part of the community impacted)
(Also, this post, unlike the ones that support him, is actually reiterating the words of those who have ACTUALLY been impacted!)
You also don't get to draw your own lines when you yourself constantly let others, yourself, and people you favor cross them.
You're angry about the most minor petty impact out of this entire situation, and demean others for being angry.
You hate when people are too intense with their disapproval and honestly can't help but joke about your inhumane "niche opinion" because if they don't they'll only be left to cry, but then support shitty "critique" dry humor streamers and YouTubers who's entire personality surrounds telling people they're cringe and to "kys haha". Don't put on a pretty face if you've never played pretty.
Maybe put the energy you put into supporting this man into actual real life problems, instead of shedding light on them JUST to further your point that literally ends up harming them more than anything. Maybe let this little part of your nostalgia go and actually MATURE, please. Because this is not it. It's not even on the same spectrum. It's ignorant and COMPLETELY dismissive.
Just because he's someone you favorited, doesn't mean he's exempt from being held accountable for shitty things that had way too big of an impact to simply be swept under the rug and left behind. I promise, he's not a 10 year old child that made an honest mistake, he's a grown man that had responsibilities and carelessly fucked them up in the worst way possible.
You're not brave if you still support this man. You're willingly ignorant and dismissive, end of story.
And since people love criticism when it comes to getting a message across, here's some of mine! Freedom of speech is a lovely thing, isn't it? It's such a sight to see when insecure people come to the realization that criticism does in fact work both ways and they're not a special exception!
Anyways, that concludes my rant. If you want to support a better gaming YouTuber, maybe go watch some Coryxkenshin! Or, even better, a hygiene YouTuber since I can smell y'all PDP supporters from a mile away, like abetweene! She's wonderful.
Byeeee 🫶✌️:]
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1eos · 7 months
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People also like to forget that Palestinians were literally backing us up during the height of the recent BLM protests. We would be there for them regardless, but to try and say they're all antiblack is such a stupid fucking lie.
the propaganda is very unserious :) and i'd wager its not that they forgot its that they just didnt know bc they paid 0 attention to blm beyond 'ugh everyone is talking abt black ppl' bc anyone that tries to pit minorities against each other amid a literal genocide doesn't care abt anyone and wants to convince other ppl to not care. and this goes for the black ppl trying to be like 'well well they don't care abt us' YOU don't care abt us bc if you're 10 toes down dismantling racism you would never say some shit like that
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steampunkforever · 2 months
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When people discuss the oppressive secret policing agencies, you'll often see organizations like the Stasi, Gestapo, NKVD, Political-Social Brigade, FSB, and Ministry of State Security listed as these orwellian entities ordained to crush political dissidents and act as muscle carrying out the bidding of Machiavellian regimes. Rarely do you see the FBI listed in there.
You can probably boil this down to the past 30 years of overt targeting of conservative groups (there was a congressional hearing about this last year) where ACAB-leaning demographics aren't necessarily going to complain about the people who want them dead getting jailed. More recent films like Imperium and Blackkklansman (though the latter isn't FBI) echo this, where members of a special taskforce go undercover to infiltrate and target white supremacist dissidents, and are overall painted as the good guys who uphold progressive values of truth justice and racial equity.
These are the G-Men coming to convict those that the corrupt cops won't, like the guys from Killers of the Flower Moon. It's like copaganda for the federal government specifically, made by people who seemingly forget the FBI's harassment and surveillance of the BLM movement. Judas and the Black Messiah crushes any illusion of the FBI as anything more than a secret police force bent on subduing the population squirming under its grasp.
Don't get me wrong, Mulder, Scully, and Dale Cooper are my friends. I don't think there's anything wrong with the FBI being the good guys in film and TV. The G-Men in Killers of the Flower Moon, for example, were the ones who stopped the murders committed and covered up by corrupt lawmen. But Judas and the Black Messiah is just as much of a true story as Flower Moon, and the FBI very much did assassinate Fred Hampton.
The FBI infiltrator narrative has always been a fun, pulpy one. It's like a spy novel, but domestic. Undercover agents flirt with danger, and face fun dilemmas like "I'm starting to feel nice toward the men I'm about to stab in the back." Except instead of mobsters or drug runners, our FBI undercover is betraying civil rights leader Fred Hampton and eventually sending him to his death at the hands of an FBI death squad.
MLK's death will always be shrouded in enough conspiracy to cast a shadow of uncertainty on whether or not the FBI pulled the trigger, but Hamptons is clear cut. Shaka King's direction on Judas and the Black Messiah takes advantage of this, providing us with an intimate picture of Hampton's life and the events leading up to his assassination in an elegant, sophisticated piece of art that absolutely deserves every accolade it got and more.
The film is only King's second feature, and he threads the needle of historic and present day commentary expertly, never seeming to soapbox while still crafting an elegant narrative around an injustice that many have heard of but few understand the gravity of.
Go watch it.
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kabutone · 5 months
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after the years of people jumping on activism like its a trend and then leaving it behind after a few weeks i am so fucking tired. like not to be cynical but like i see SO many people talking about palestine and saving lives but like be so fucking real are you gonna forget all about this in a few months? like how ppl ditched BLM after it gained traction in 2020? like how so fucking MANY OF YOU have stopped wearing a mask despite the pandemic still happening? you could be saving lives right in your own town instead of posting tiktoks that might not even help
i'm not saying you need to dedicate your lives to activism forever and ever but you do need to at least change Something to make yourself and the world better. i will always be listening to black voices, jewish voices, disabled voices, any groups that need to be heard, and trying to change my behavior for the better. like idk after seeing this happen time and time again a LOT of this shit seems so so fake. like there's so many bad things in the world and i know you cannot dedicate your all to every single problem ever forever and i don't want people spreading themselves too thin or burning themselves out but like please don't just stop giving a shit when it's not "popular" or getting you views or pats on the back anymore.
#i keep seeing SO many tiktoks that are like 'it is not that hard to use the filter. there are people dying. you are a bad person etc etc'#and like ok yeah. using a tiktok filter is probably the bare minimum YOU will do before patting yourself on the back and forgetting about i#do you wear a mask? real question. if you're posting that shit trying to guilt people into using a filter answer me.#bc wearing a mask is ALSO the bare minimum to fucking SAVE LIVES. will you do that?#like. idk. i know you don't fucking care i know you just want to look cool.#do you fucking care if people die? or do you just want attention on tiktok. be so fucking real with me.#i can GUARANTEE you that you not wearing a mask harms more people than you not using the stupid fucking tiktok filter.#i can guarantee you that someone that wears a mask is still ten million times better than someone that just used that tiktok filter#if you wanna feel like a hero so fucking bad wear a mask. you will legitimately be protecting and saving people if you do.#also i hate to break it to you but honestly. theres not a lot that normal people can do in this situation.#theres still things you CAN do but there isnt a lot of options#so if you want to save lives so bad!! a well fitted respirator mask if the easiest way to do it right now.#its so frustrating to see people be like EVERYONE! DO THIS THING THAT HAS LITTLE TO NO EFFECT TO SAVE LIVES!!!#AND ALSO IGNORE THE THINGS THAT HAVE A VERY HIGH CHANCE TO SAVE LIVES!!!!!! fuccckkkk you for real.#oh also one more thing. ive seen some people use palestine as an excuse to be antisemitic. dont do that shit either.
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time-alien · 6 months
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Wanted to do subtle designs for BLM and LGBTQ+ with Pokémon, and this was my first idea for a BLM design. A shiny Hitmonchan.
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nabulsi · 5 months
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https://www.tumblr.com/nabulsi/735339856692166656/anyway-i-expect-to-just-remove-all-my-writing-from?source=share
I was about to start posting fanfics and was thinking of starting writing on AO3, but after seeing what OTW said… I think I’ll just write on Tumblr. Even though Tumblr ain’t shit either, I haven’t heard of anyone being emailed for simply saying Palestine will be free.
I mean... yes fuck OTW and AO3, but tumblr very much does try and silence Palestinians. Several of my palestinian friends on here are shadowbanned, Their posts don't appear in the tags and their activity doesn't appear in my notes. Not to mention a few of my friends have had their blogs deleted without warning.
And let's not forget tumblr removing all tags related to Palestine from the trending list, similarly to what they did with Ferguson and BLM.
Like tumblr's owner is a zionist. But like lmao tumblr is actively leaking money from my adblock having ass living rent free on their site. Like tumblr is already on its way out and Im working on moving away from this place too
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lgbtawarenessproject · 11 months
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[Image ID: A black man sitting comfortably on a greenish-white couch with his arms sprawled across the top. He is wearing a black durag with white stripes and a BLM shirt. He has an afro-textured beard. Above him is the Black American Heritage flag, which is three diagonal stripes of red, black, and red, where the center lies a yellow reaf surrounding a sword. The texted captions read throughout the video, "Juneteenth: Educational Purposes," "The Slaves Freed on Juneteenth were NOT African, they were black", "In Reality: African Slaves went extinct after generations of interacial breeding & indoctrination of Christianity", "The Slaves released & Modern Day Black Ppl today are the successful product of said brainwashing & deterioration of thr African in America!" and "Black American Heritage Flag created 1967." End ID]
[Caption: The man says, "Public service announcement in regards to Juneteenth: As we know, the holiday is less than a week away, and we also know, greedy ass corporations are going to try and capitalize and get a dollar in anyway, shape, or form. Which leads me to this announcement, or should be better clarified as advisory. If you step foot, in any store, and you see Juneteenth related products with nothing but the African flag or African flag colors, do not by that shit. This is in no way disrespectful to our melanated neighbors from the mother land. Because, if it's one thing, that the black community has been able to piece together with the context clues of history shared museums and novels. To map out what all happened during that time period, that history books would not tell us in school. It's the simple fact that the slaves that were finally being freed after the Civil War were not African. They were black. Please allow me to explain Juneteenth in that statement I just made. Slavery was officially abolished on January 1st of 1863, when Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation. Unfortunately, a portion of traitor sore losers- excuse me, I mean slave owners, decided not to relay that information to their slaves for another 2 and half years. Leading to another, smaller batch of slaves to finally found out they were on June 19th of the year 1865. And, honestly, Juneteenth is just the tip of the fucked up iceberg, as to what slave owners were capable of, when they did not want to give up their slaves. Because there were still slave plantations being discovered and shut down past the year of 1865. Killona Slave Plantation in Louisiana was the last recorded discovered in America, and shut down. And that was in the 1970s. The only reason those plantations lasted so long, was because of how isolated they were, in deep forests, and the constructions of roads, and highways, was what lead to their exposure. But in that century of slaves finally being free, there were several factors that they all had in common. They spoke fluid English with no African Language, they were all Christians with no practice of African religion, nor did they know what African tribe they were a part of. Within the first 100 out of 400 years of slavery, Africans were seperated from their tribes, their bloodlines, told to forget their names, and then forced to forget their African religions and learn Christianity, and forced to mix with other races. I have a friend who just discovered he was part Latino, and he does not look Latino at all. Hell, thanks to the best of my family's ability, I know I have African, Native, French, White, and Asian blood running through my veins, and I still don't know what tribes I am connected to. But, that is why I choose to have this flag on my wall, because this flag right here, represents all people of color, who either lost, or do not know their history prior to being naked and chained up on a boat. End ID]
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anchorandrope · 2 months
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we need to talk more about louis and harry being silent over the genocide on palestinians. i think we can all agree we love their art, their music, etc. but at this point i have to admit its just unacceptable. they literally talked about political and social stuff before. the gun problem in the USA, lgbtq+, BLM and more stuff but they still decided to remain silent on this. don't get me wrong im glad they spoke on those, but i, as a long time fan, feel disappointed, furious and sad that people with enormous fan base and platforms don't want to say anything about it. and let's be real: its about money.
if you are gonna promote "tpwk" and get the fucking anarchy symbol tattooed on you maybe you should actually do something about it because otherwise i'll assume you did that to contribute to a certain public image because it clearly doesn't represent who you are.
i stand with palestine. i will never forget their silence.
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