#if you're going 'im not racist but'

[edwinas]

Malakai’s first and only choice was Amerie, he goes out of his way to befriend her even though it’s social suicide, he helps her, they have fun/soft/funny moments (basketball, that sex scene, swimming, arcade date etc), both apologise and strive to be better, Amerie is there for Malakai despite having her heart broken, those dino keychains, the yearning and heart eyes. 

Heartbreak high gave us a canon interracial relationship between two Brown kids built on respect, love, affection. Even after breaking up, they only had eyes for each other. But fandom acts like they’re strangers and ship them with white people who have knowingly and/or intentionally hurt them. Fandom racism never rests.

[hazel2468]

I keep seeing people bitching about "uwu when I say 'from the river to the sea' people say I'm calling for geeenocide! They say I'm antisemitic!" and like.

Maybe. instead of clinging to a phrase that a bunch of white leftists have co-opted because they think it sounds nice. And digging your little immature heels in. You should LISTEN when people tell you that yes. The phrase's FUCKING ORIGIN was a call for the eradication of Jews from the area known as Israel and Palestine. That NO, you cannot divorce it from those roots. YES, it IS still used to mean that TO THIS DAMN DAY.

And look. Maybe you DON'T think that Israelis should all be killed and/or exiled from Israel and Palestine. Maybe you DON'T think that the genocide of an entire people is the solution. Maybe you DON'T hate Jews and want all of us dead. And if that's the case? Great!

But how the FUCK are we supposed to tell the difference when you are using the EXACT same phrase as countless people who DO want those things. People who DO hate Jews, who ARE supportive of organizations that want to commit violence, people who SUPPORT what happened on October 7th?

When people tell you "hey, this phrase means something else, it has ALWAYS come from those roots, and using it is NOT OKAY because it is STILL used as a rallying cry for violence against Israelis and Jews worldwide", the way to react? Is NOT to fucking double down and use it.

Because that? DOES make you an antisemite. And if I see you using that phrase? Then I MUST assume that at best, you do not know what it means and have SOMEHOW avoided the countless Jews and non-Jews I have seen talking about it, or at WORST you actively hate me and want me and every single one of my people dead.

And frankly? You are not worth that risk to interact with.

Stop saying it. There are SO many ways to support Palestine, the Palestinian people, and their fight for rights, that do not involve spouting genocidal, antisemitic rhetoric. it is NOT HARD.

But apparently, some of y'all are insistent on being racist.

[gentil-minou]

I just want to point out in this time where I'm losing all faith in this government there are people who aren't afraid to condemn genocide and the US government for being complicit and funding it

Rashida Tlaib is Palestinian-American and this entire month her colleagues and zionists have constantly put her down for defending her people and heritage, and I admire her strength in speaking up and remaining the voice of the people, especially when everyone else is too cowardly to say anything else

[inkher0]

You ever just stop and realize Palestinians are dying en masse because a lot of white people really loved the Left Behind book series

I do

Constantly

[evanox]

me: hi mod can i know why you never removed this person who started a wholeass argument with people in the server to defend zionism and hatecrimed like 3 different ethnicities in the process, even though multiple people have come to you to express their discomfort?

mod: hmm since you both can't come to an agreement. i will remove you both 👍

[dolokhoded]

thinking about song of the ocean from dimitris papadimitriou's moby dick musical... girl.....girl.....

[girlwiththegreenhat]

cannot fucking believe i saw a god damn confederate-flag wearing sw-stica-tattooed n-zi at fucking walmart in GOD DAMN ILLINOIS

[brianeno]

garbage fucking country

[martyrbat]

every day mcr fans prove to be the worst people alive huh

[worldblight]

Can my roommate stop having a racial debate over the phone when I'm trying to fucking, sleep

[fizzytoo]

reading pumpkin night……

i know the translator not black bc it doesn’t make sense in the situation it was used in…..

not to mention another more recent translation says something completely different. you are not funny or edgy, you're fucking lame

[snekdood]

Idk why i expect charitability from ppl who probably listen to whatever their staple favorite left-leaning video essayists says about the Other Leftists they dont like and takes it to heart and doesnt form their own opinion with the information provided (or the information specifically and intentionally left out to make the person look the worst that they can) just kinda does whatever that persons says because Its Probably Correct

I mean, theyre "on the left" and uses all the words you like, nevermind what their intentions or long terms goals are or how thatd reasonably be practiced irl or if it'd actually hurt the general cause of progressives and make things even more divisive and worse bc they value being petty more than actually having any values.

[butchvamp]

some people in online book review spaces are soooo funny they will like lash out super hard at some authors for being "problematic" (which i don't inherently think is bad when the criticisms are warranted) but then you go to their profile and they have the entire captive prince series in their top 10 and they somehow think i'm supposed to take them seriously

[ame-to-ame]

grrr extrapolating in my own little rant bc I've literally. gone thru it.

u think ur safe in a predominantly white queer friend group with like a certain amount of literacy and understanding of mental health and neurodivergency so like u hope the ppl also understand intersectionality and cultural nuance bc if ur open-minded to one thing it makes u more open-minded to others. it's like when u realize capitalism is a problem you can't also ignore other inequalities like racism and sexism and ableism. To go like hey that's not right only for what applies and shut your eyes to all else would be a form of hypocrisy.

but then you experience first hand. the sort of like. we will excuse and defend and everything for a white woman's tears. if they have a mental issue they are working on it and let them off easy. if you have a problem you're expected to be quiet and palatable or you're su*cidal. everything is also applied through a very white lens of the world so any cultural nuance, any why this can't work for me bc of my specific circumstance becomes a personal issue and about willingness or not trying enough, and something ppl are not willing to accommodate or even understand.

but like. coming to understand that at the end of the day queerness isn't something as perceptually damning as race. queerness can be accepted in places queerness can be a norm in places queerness doesn't have to be outwardly visible sometimes. and like there is a struggle in having to hide or being different or not feeling like you can be yourself god do i know that. but there is absolutely nothing you can do about race when you aren't whitepassing. you might not be able to go on the streets and point at someone going like oh they're queer for sure but there is no world where i don't have to deal with the implications of my race almost every day.

[decolonize-the-everything]

"just move"

I can't always hold my gf's hand, but I can see the stars the way you never could in a city.

"just move"

When I was younger it would have been so, so much easier to keep going and plan for the future if I had even one example of a future worth having

"just move"

I forgot my 'what are you, a cop?' bag at the place where my gf sings for open mic nights and when I went to pick it up the bartender with a dyed mullet gushed about how she liked my queer pin like she was excited to meet the person it belonged to.

"just move"

In 2020 I knew every single BLM activist and protestor in our town by name there were so few of us, but when a pissed off racist pulled a gun out on our organizer I was grateful there were so many people.

"just move"

In the city I'd just be another person trying to be happy. I'd blend in better. You're right. There are more people fighting and protesting there, thats true that I could make a difference. Things would be better for me.

"Just move"

But then who's going to make things better here? For everyone else? Who's going to be part of the community and numbers that offer safety if I leave? How will this place Ever have safety in numbers like cities do if everyone like me leaves for somewhere better?

Who's going to move here and care and love about the community here? Who's going to replace all that love, time, and effort I put into trying to make this place better and safer for everyone? Who's going to give a shit about the little brown trans kids if I move?

"just move"

I don't want to. This place might just be some shitty conservative town to you, but this is my home and Im not letting bigots have it just because fighting for it was too hard. All things worth having are worth fighting for and that includes equality especially in the conservative towns directly fueling alt-right extremism.

If we can have progress in places like that then we can have it anywhere.

"just move"

You first

[kqluckity]

some people really need to get off of their pedestals and realize that in the world outside of this small town they are not going to be considered better than the rest of the south of the country or, honestly, better than anyone else from around here, just because they themselves think they are ❤️