#global antiblackness.

[tariah23]

White people are miserable, racist losers period. They’ve even been getting mad at Japanese people for correcting them about Yasuke as well.

[b-0-ngripper]

Here's a video explaining how the US invaded and occupied Haiti in the early 20th century

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[everyday-is-brighter-with-you]

[ ID: Tweets from jia whose handle is @heartkiss_ on 28 October 2023 reading:

what is happening in palestine and sudan and the congo are not disparate causes that require dividing our attention, it is the same fight, several groups are facing occupation without coverage while palestine is being scapegoated, standing with palestine is standing with the rest

it's similar, in my mind, to how standing with haiti when they are repeatedly made an example of on the world stage is never solely about haiti, but about standing with the carribean, with enslaved africans, and with indigenous peoples across the 'new world' in general

corrections, as growing up in the imperial (imperial is censored with an exclamation mark) core has skewed my perspective: 1.calling congo "the congo" has imperialist (imperialist is censored with an exclamation mark) implications 2. while it's fair to link western black struggles to palestine the erasure of genocide on the african continent is more complicated than I thought

we can't conflate what is happening in congo or sudan to palestine, there is a history of northern african countries and countries in the middle east denying the atrocities there due to antiblack sentiment, we ought to highlight that erasure in discussions about global solidarity

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[emocowboylover00]

Please help

Please also help this family

[magz]

tldr; block and unfollow magz if the antiblackness of @brendanicus @there-rises-a-red-star @ruisa-faa is fine enough for any y'all to keep following and defend them just because they do it in "leftist language"

is astounding the antiblackness people just accept from nonblack leftists who don't know nothing of (and refuse to learn) solidarity, the u.s. internal colony + external colony, african americans indigeneity, african american international political activism / texts, black oppression in global south, and lived experience of black americans and black people in general.... n only know texts about u.s. american imperialism

to point that ANY black person that call out antiblackness they have, "must be narcissistic (black) american" and "is an exaggeration to call what happening to african americans black genocide" and "[insert something here about how black people and african americans have brain damage because x y z]"

have anyone noticed why black activists, of global south too, rarely in those nonblack leftist circles?

magz and lilly @the-azzangna both black from global south, n can't stand these people. (check her blog for context on situation if so curious)

btw, if you follow and keep want follow these blogs despite them barely hiding antiblackness in leftist speak and try reframe what they doing to make black ppl be villains or using nonblack (mestize) heritage as shield when people apparently don't know abt the antiblack violence of mestizaje in latin America...... just unfollow and block magz

[robotpussy]

exhibit 7492929833 of black women getting harassed and bullied out of talking about antiblackness, something that is killing us on the daily

[neechees]

Should non-Native people avoid using the words "folklore" and "mythology" when talking about stories from the histories of the communities of Native American cultures?

This kind of depends, because do you mean "folklore" & "mythology" as in oral history (which may, or more often, not be treated as trustable by White people), or do you mean those things as in Native spiritual beliefs like for spirits? If its for historical events, yes, you should definitely avoid using those words in regards to precolonial history & oral history not talked about in White schools or books, because they are not accurate to describe Native oral history & it'd be racist to assume that our history in our own words about ourselves is less accurate or real (which those words would imply). Many Native tribes valued accurate, oral information & history to an extreme degree to the point that (& we did this for legends too) our historians could track down who told them, who told that person, & so on all the way to the original teller so that if there was any inaccurate information, they'd be able to track down who started it. We didn't fuck around when it came to oral information, but colonizers assume that because we didn't have writing, & that many Europeans lied for their own histories (written or oral), then WE must have been the same.

As for the spiritual part, if you meant "folklore" & "mythology" to refer to spiritual things: You might get different opinions within the Native community, but personally yes, I think so. I think people use those terms in a way to delegitimize Native beliefs. Like, most people would think it would be weird if people called Christianity "folklore" or "mythology". Sometimes the two (history & spirituality) go hand in hand, however, & that doesn't make it wrong or incorrect. But Native religions/spirituality is not seen as "real" or as "valid" as organized religion like Christianity, which I further use as an example.

A lot of people straight up do not believe or understand that Native people do in fact, follow a set of beliefs based on the spiritual & religious stories of our peoples & behave in different ways & have a different worldview & way of navigating the world because of that belief system. I've gotten asked (both online and offline in my personal life) by White people if I REALLY or ACTUALLY believe in the spirits present in our stories, like it's silly or strange that I would. Like uhhh yes? That's my religion? Would you ask a Christian if they REALLY think angels exist? & then find it weird that they say "yes" even though it's clearly present in their belief system & the Bible? It doesn't help that a lot of our spirits got bastardized into "cryptids" to the point that I'm now seeing White people call literally any Native spirit or deity they hear about a "cryptid" regardless of whether or not it even has/had a history of said bastardization by White people (like "sasquatch").

Our spirits are seen as "cryptids" that we tell for fun (but don't REALLY believe in, apparently), our ceremonies are seen as fun little activities or get togethers that we do just for shits and giggles (but they don't REALLY mean or do anything, according to racists), & our sacred artifacts or objects, according to racists, aren't things akin to the bodies of Catholic saints or historical religious items, but apparently must be just really cool stuff we like to hang onto like a charm bracelet. Native beliefs are routinely mocked and deemed as silly, and have been for a long time.

So personally for me, I don't like using those words to describe Native spirituality, no, & don't think they should be used because of the above reasons. It seems to reinforce the ideas that our beliefs aren't on the same level of importance or as worthy of respect as something like Christianity. I'm a little less turned off by "mythology", but I still don't use it that much.

[aristotels]

Was trying to find the original Stardew post to hear the og take, but I immediately cannot take you seriously with how much you reblog from that massively antiblack islamophobe txttletale, lmao. Instantly clear that you are completely full of shit.

well ok then block me what can i say, marxist analysis exist regardless of what you think of someone, why are you even coming into my inbox w this. weird behaviour 🤨

[the-everqueen]

i can't believe i have to say this but since the fandom didn't get the memo:

DON'T WRITE DREAMLING SLAVE AUS SET DURING THE TRANSATLANTIC SLAVE TRADE

i don't care if the context is "it's a dream," "it's Hob's guilt resurfacing in a freudian meta-narrative," or "but this is the catalyst for Hob's redemption arc." it is incredibly fetishistic and disgusting to use a historic moment of collective trauma that still has repercussions on Black people today for the sake of your white mlm ship. it is incredibly dehumanizing and disgusting to insert white characters into a historic moment of collective trauma that explicitly impacted Black people and continues to do so today.

i don't care about your fictional white man's guilt. my real, flesh-and-blood friends and family continue to experience the devastating consequences of the transatlantic slave trade and other historic instances of global white supremacy.

[maxellminidisc]

Like I get when people are like "I hope the US blows up" they usually mean it the way women are like "I hope all men die" aka "I hope the machine of US imperialism and white supremacy is destroyed" but like if your response to minority groups who are also very much effected by said imperialism/colonialism IN the US that are expressing discomfort with said statement from a sensitive place, is "Fuck you too, you havent been through shit and I'm going to deny your suffering" instead of just clarifying or extending patience to clarify, you've absolutely lost me. Because personally I've seen Black people time and time again extend so much patience when we have reactionary responses to what they're trying to say but it's so telling that at the very least so many of us do not have that same courtesy back.

And you've double lost me when you do this after ALREADY having a history of 1) using Black culture to base your entire humorous personality off of because you cant bother to be original let alone have one, 2) used your leftism to try and play down how serious Black people's lives and their struggle for survival under white supremacy and the police state that is the US and 3) responding with doubling down of antiblackness when some of this antiblackness has been called to question in your leftism. Like to me that kind of reaction just becomes an extension of your racism and I cant trust you what so ever.

[tariah23]

Someone commented on my post calling me a stupid westerner wnsjsjnfnsdd

[pleuvoire]

i forgot i was still following pure from years ago since they post so infrequently well not anymore

[schoolhater]

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sorry for still thinking abt this it just makes me physically i’ll anyway one thing i’ve noticed in the discourse over whether the people kidnapped from their homeland and shipped to a growing empire to benefit from the global imperialism enacted by said empire in the ensuing couple centuries is the conflation of how things claim to work vs how they actually do. its not exactly de jure vs de facto but that’s how it feels? just because US citizenship is intended to grant citizens a massive amt of privileges over the entire world doesn’t mean ppl actually see these benefits in their lives. so like what are the implications of ‘black ppl have american privilege’ even supposed to be? how are we supposed to move on after accepting this claim? are black americans supposed to redistribute their wealth (that they don’t have) or use their elevated platform (that they don’t have) to ally with (nonblack, i’ve not seen one person bring up US intervention in african countries) people in the global south (who benefit from and engage in antiblackness) or to renounce american citizenship and all benefits that come with it (which they never experienced anyway) to live in a US-enemy state (where they will continue to experience antiblackness) like what the fuck is the point of saying this

post was mad with zero evidence or research as usual ❤️ this is my blog

[dazedinaphase]

This is a rant

Being lowkey looked at as a race traitor for *checks notes* ... caring about the plight of other groups of people and not supporting white supremacist antisemitic rhetoric in black activism. Apparently even acknowledging black people can repeat basic antisemitic statements (by virtue of growing up in an antisemitic country/society and education system) means I’m “protecting” jewish people like everybody else is apparently.

Lol, I guess. Fucking goofy.

I’m not even that person who believes in poc solidarity and spends much of my time calling out antiblackness in all groups.  Black people come first for me. Always. I’m not out here muling for any damn body. I dont “cape” for other groups. This person knows these things about me.

But, you know, fuck me I guess, for not being able to just turn off my empathy. Because that’s exactly what the world needs. More apathy.

Fucking. Goofy.

[anissapierce]

As a nonblack person its ... Uncomfortable to be reminded of how art of 'cool' nonblack characters from nonblack borrows heavily from black characters in a way i cant ignore like giving a pale east asian girl box braids and scalp braids ...but it does kinda shake you out ur own idiocy.

Edit Fuck it im adding a visual example

[readingsquotes]

"I’ve thought about that passage from the cable many times over the past several weeks as I’ve been reading excerpts from a private WhatsApp group chat established last December by Erik Prince, the founder of the military contractor Blackwater and younger brother of Betsy DeVos, the secretary of education during President Donald Trump’s administration, who invited around 650 of his contacts in the United States and around the world to join. Prince, who has a long track record of financing conservative candidates and causes and extensive ties to right-wing regimes around the world, named the group—which currently has around 400 members—“Off Leash,” the same name as the new podcast that he’d launched the month before.

Among the group’s hottest topics: ...

• The shortcomings of democracy that invariably resulted from extending the franchise to ordinary citizens, who are easily manipulated by Marxists and populists. “The West is at best a beautiful cemetery,” lamented Sven von Storch, whose aristocratic German family fled the country after World War II to Chile, where their son was raised before returning to the land of his ancestors, where he married the granddaughter of the Third Reich’s last de facto head of state, who was convicted at Nuremberg.

• Israel-Palestine, a problem that Michael Yudelson, Prince’s business partner at Unplugged, which markets an allegedly supersecure smartphone, said should be handled by napalming Hamas’s tunnel network. “I would burn all those bastards, and have everything above ground, everything left of Gaza, collapse into this fiery hell pit and burn!” he wrote. .

....

Many of the participants, though not all household names, are wealthy and politically wired—which makes their incessant whining in the group chat about being crushed under the bootheel of the deep state particularly grating—and they will collectively become wealthier and more influential if Trump wins the November election. That’s especially true of the Americans in the group, but the same holds for the international figures because the global right will become immensely more powerful and emboldened if the former president returns to the White House. ...

The roster of invitees includes: ...

• Current and former lawmakers and aides, such as Tennessee Congressman Mark Green of the House Freedom Caucus; Vish Burra, who was director of operations for Congressman George Santos; and Stuart Seldowitz, a national security adviser to Barack Obama from 2009 to 2011 who was arrested last November after harassing an Egyptian halal street cart vendor in New York City for two weeks, during which time he called him a “terrorist” and said, “If we killed 4,000 Palestinian kids, it wasn’t enough.”

...Participants chirpily discussed the desirability of clamping down on democracy to deal with their enemies at home and regime change, bombings, assassinations, and covert action to take care of those abroad.

...

Even more farcical was the manner in which group chat members portrayed themselves as rightful guardians of democracy, even as they proposed employing military force against their unarmed domestic political opponents and rounding up members of the “global cabal” for trial at a Nuremberg-style tribunal. It’s blazingly evident that many in the group can’t even define democracy, and those who can don’t like it. ...

Off Leash’s participants want a “democracy” where the “plebs” vote the way they want in every election and the government only approves their preferred policies, which would give them the absolute certainty they want that their outsize wealth, privileges, and influence will be protected. That’s not the way democracy works, it’s the way dictatorships do, which no doubt feels comfortable to group chat members who have thrived doing business with corrupt, repressive regimes and leaders, which is the way many met each other and Prince, and how they came to be part of Off Leash in the first place