#liberal racism

[redditreceipts]

When your movement has no arguments so you have to cling onto other movements to give your movement some type of credibility

[odinsblog]

“Professional” white women have disrespected Angel Reese and told her to “shrink don’t shine” ever since she was in high school

“I was sleeping when she came into my bedroom at about 11:30, and she was really upset,” her mother, also Angel Reese, recalled. “Then she showed me why.”

The 17-year-old Reese had become unnerved after seeing comments about her on a social media post.

Overtime women’s basketball Instagram page had posted a video clip praising Reese on Tuesday. But that post prompted the user of the Instagram account of an opposing coach to send a direct message to the Overtime WBB page, criticizing Reese and claiming her success was because she was “genetically blessed.”

Chloe Pavlech, who curates much of the Overtime women’s basketball content, was going through the messages when she discovered the message:

“Celebrating a player (w god given height and talent) and zero humility or impulse control. As a female coach of female high school ballers, I find this behavior repulsive, unacceptable, unflattering and unnecessary. You can have swag while not acting like a punk. Highlight some other girls in the conference who aren’t as genetically gifted …”

Pavlech found a second direct message from the coach’s account in response to a different video in December celebrating Reese:

“She’s not the greatest player that’s ever come out of this area. She’s genetically blessed. And lacks any humility. Guess you haven’t watched the film of her…”

not acting like a punk. Highlight some other girls in the conference who aren’t as genetically gifted …”

Pavlech found a second direct message from the coach’s account in response to a different video in December celebrating Reese:

“She’s not the greatest player that’s ever come out of this area. She’s genetically blessed. And lacks any humility. Guess you haven’t watched the film of her…”

The area that was whited out (by Pavlech) is the coach referencing a fight that Reese was involved in during a scrimmage last season against a non-league opponent, an altercation that earned her a three-game suspension.

“Angel had to apologize in front of the student body, and she’s played this year knowing if anything else happened she’d be off the team for the year,” her mother said. “People come at her, but she plays at a college level against high school girls. When she steps on the court she doesn’t hold back. She’s going to go at you until you sit down.”

Pavlech took a screenshot of both messages from the coach and posted them on her personal Overtime Instagram page (that post, as seen above, has since been removed). Pavlech included her own message at the top of her Tuesday post: “Why do women try to tear down young girls?”

“I was shocked that an adult — especially a coach — would be talking about a young girl in that manner,” Pavlech said. “The context of those remarks was also surprising; she was DMing in response to a very positive video Overtime WBB had posted about one of the country’s most gifted young talents.”

The direct messages came from the Instagram account of Lisa Smith, who, as of Thursday morning, was listed as the head coach of Archbishop Spalding High School girls basketball team. Later Thursday, Smith’s name had been removed from the site, with athletic director Jeffrey Parsons now listed as the current head coach of the girls team.

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[thenixkat]

If yer not Black keep any variation of woke out ya mouth. It's a term used for discussing Black people being aware of the systematic oppression we face.

Just cause you saw conservatives being antiblack and mangling and misusing it doesn't mean that you get to be antiblack and mock and misuse the term. Not even if yer making fun of conservatives misusing woke b/c guess what? Yer still being fucking antiblack.

"But I saw some Black people making fun of woke so--" Have you considered that conservative and antiblack Black people exist, shit for brains?

Shut the fuck up and drop woke from your fucking vocabulary.

[tododeku-or-bust]

Oh ho ho this is about to be a GOOD book 🔥🔥🔥

[hussyknee]

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[so-what-then]

A good example of leftwing racism: Anything that enough middle class white ladies/white lgbtq people find alienating is "white supremacy".

Conflating all marriages and families with the WASP, bourgeois christian nationalist nuclear family unit you as a white lady were pressured into just proves you don't know POC at all.

[decolonize-the-everything]

we all learned that "it's just a joke" isn't an excuse for rape jokes because they're an undeniable part of rape culture and I'm genuinely glad that we all got comfortable calling people like that rape apologists and consequently that not a single joke like that has gained popularity in recent years.

So why is this website so comfortable using the same excuse about racism and perpetuating white supremacy?

If you're joking about anyone eating your pets, you're getting blocked on sight for being a white supremacist (apologist). Simply stop doing it & delete your posts about it so it stops doing harm.

Reblog this and you can normalize not being racist instead

[intersectionalpraxis]

Trevonte Helton, a 29 year old Black man, "was found hanging from a tree at High Shoal Falls in North Georgia." This man was murdered, and their quick eagerness to call this an "isolated" incident is just horrifying.

[redditreceipts]

you don't have to answer this ask, this is just a shameless drop https://reddit.com/r/transgender/s/4fVGeHiXbu as expected, comments are abhorrent

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is an author born in Nigeria who wrote plenty of widely influential books and articles about her home country, racism and feminism. Here is her Ted Talk on feminism, which has received 8.1 million views. She is also active for the rights of homosexual and bisexual people in Nigeria. So, what are her crimes?

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So then she does an interview with the Guardian, where she is just somewhat baffled by the behaviour of Western feminists. Of course, the person interviewing her does not engage with her arguments, but is just outraged that she dares to make the arguments in the first place. The entire article contains like three of her sentences, and the rest is the author just putting words in her mouth.

Then Pink News makes an article about the article in the Guardian, which is an entire dumpster fire. But the sentence that enraged me the most is this:

"she remains rigid" is the only critique that this entire godforsaken article is able to articulate. Yeah. Of course she remains rigid. Because she had not had any reason to change her mind. Accusing a woman not of making a false argument, but just of being "rigid" in their beliefs (when these beliefs have not been refuted) is the absolute worst. Adichie comes from a country where 43 percent of girls are married before the age of 18. Do these people really think that Adichie stop arguing for her opinions because some western liberals tell her to?

I really think that this entire "controversy" is so exemplary for how white western feminists entirely miss the mark when interacting with feminists from other parts of the world. When I tried to explain the transgender debate to my friends who are still living in Latin America, they refused to believe that it actually was a thing because it was so absurd. What we call "radical feminism" in the west is just called "feminism" in other regions of the globe. (also, note that the woman who wrote the article for the Guardian as well as the woman who wrote the article for Pink News are both white lmao)

Here's part two where we're gonna look at the comments these brilliant redditors made in the r/transgender subreddit.

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BREAKING NEWS: The Biden administration announced a new policy that could disqualify most migrants from being able to seek asylum at the southern U.S. border.

A tough new immigration measure could disqualify the vast majority of migrants from being able to seek asylum at the southern border. (source)

↳The Biden administration rolled out a proposal on Tuesday that would bar migrants from seeking asylum if they attempt to cross the southwest border illegally without first asking for protection in a country they traveled through.

Why it matters: It's the latest in a string of new policy moves by the Biden administration to deter migrants and asylum seekers from illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

[SN: The negative connotation associated with the framing, “illegally crossing the border,” is intentionally misleading and disingenuous - Seeking asylum is a human right protected under our laws, and doing so in person is NOT illegal]

This proposal — which after 30 days allowing for public comments would be in effect for two years — echoes a controversial immigration policy under former President Trump.

The Biden administration proposal cites the government's "anticipation of a potential surge of migration at the southwest border" after the end of pandemic border policies, expected in May.

It is expected to severely restrict access to the asylum process, allowing for easier deportations for some migrants seeking protection in the U.S.

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[thenixkat]

But also just the absolute selfishness and intentional ignorance to go on a post telling people that making light of hate speech not being something to joke about since, ya know, it kills people and joking about shit that affects people makes those people not like or trust you just to declare why you're gonna do what the op is saying you shouldn't b/c shit doesn't affect you.

Just why do bigots feel the need to tell everyone how much they don't give a singular shit about anyone who isn't them? Especially the 'I'm doing the bigoted thing to clown on other bigots' type bigots like... the lack of self-reflection hot damn.

[icedsodapop]

Suprised that pple are suprised over Mark Hamill supporting Israel when a few years back, he actually gaslit a couple of Native Americans who called him out over Twitter for dismissing anti Native racism (one of them being @alinahdee). If that was how he, a "liberal" wealthy White American actor, treated Native Americans who called him out, is it really that suprising that he supports Israel (a settler colony that displaced and oppressed the native Palestineans, similar to America)?

He's not some fuddy duddy space grandpa, he never was.

[sunbeamedskies]

People on here spreading propaganda that the Iranian government is good...stop.

You are hurting Iranians, Jews, Muslims, Arabs, and more.

The Iranian government does not give a fuck about Palestine. All they are interested in is spreading their power and influence across the Middle East. They even hurled missiles at Al-Aqsa Mosque, which potentially could have destroyed or damaged it if the Iron Dome didn't exist. The only seriously injured victim in Israel was a 7 year old Muslim Bedouin girl. Many Arab countries understand how dangerous the Iranian government is and intercepted some of their missiles.

Iranians have been screaming at the top of their lungs that they don't want war and they are tortured and murdered by their government, but your desire to view the Middle East as a sports match makes you want to root for anyone who is against Israel. The Iranian government literally hosted a Holocaust denial convention in 2006 which included David Duke, one of the former leaders of the KKK. They are not against the Israeli government for the right reasons, but for antisemitic ones. The growing antisemitism in Iran due to their rule drove out thousands of Iranian Jews, many whose only option was to move to Israel.

Please do research before spewing ignorant bullshit that harms everyone. There is no shame in admitting you were misinformed. Peoples' lives are worth more than your bruised ego.

[ahaura]

im sure its been said already but as the election draws near more and more liberals will come out of the woodwork to shame people with a conscience to give away their vote to the democrats for free. i'm already seeing posts saying "why aren't people more concerned about a trump presidency?" you want to know why? it's because people already know he's bad. everyone already knows what he is and what he's done and what he'll do. there's nothing to discuss. he's a racist despotic worm of a man. there's nothing else to say.

biden is currently president. the genocide is happening under his watch. he's the one funding isra*l and arming them; he's sidestepped congress more than once to give them weapons. by oct. 27, the biden administration already knew that "Israel was regularly bombing buildings without solid intelligence that they were legitimate military targets." the state department/biden have engaged in atrocity propaganda, cast doubt on the legitimacy of the death toll recorded by the gaza health ministry, and so on. the united states is currently in the process of trying to pin the "war in gaza" on netanyahu (see sen. schumer's speech) after months of backing blatant genocide as a means to act as if they're "doing something" about the genocide (Instead of, say, threatening to cut off all aid to israel with the condition that all hostilities in gaza, the west bank, and occupied jerusalem are halted immediately and permanently, allowing palestinians freedom to travel, allowing aid into gaza, etc etc etc.)

the long and short of it is that liberals view their own lives as being worth more than palestinians'. that's it. they'll vote for another 4 years of the guy ushering in genocide and supporting apartheid + settler colonialism because he isn't outright attacking them (despite various laws and rulings happening both at the supreme court level and at the local level all over the country that will endanger people). they'll settle for the illusion of safety and security and shame anyone with a conscience and accuse them of "supporting the republicans" when in an actual democracy you would be able to use your vote as leverage to extract concessions from those who want to be elected. that's how it's supposed to fucking work.

democrats are not owed people's vote. if biden loses, it will be biden's fault; it will be his campaign's fault; it will be the democrats' fault. trump is bad; the republicans are bad. we already know this. this is not an endorsement of either. but if democrats are too cowardly and feckless and servile to the motivations of the american empire and never do anything for their constituents then why the fuck should anyone vote for them. you want to get mad at someone, why don't you do something useful and stop worrying about team-sports with a purely selfish basis and start hounding the people in power who are supposed to serve you, the voter.

[apollos-olives]

"go to palestine and see how they treat you" okay. i did. they treated me like normal. i'm palestinian and queer and they treated me just fine. but you know where i was treated like shit for being queer??? the u.s. of fucking a.

[autistic-ben-tennyson]

Prismatic-bell has been accusing Palestinians asking for donations of scamming people. They also are acting like they know better than Palestinians on what’s good for them and are using the old conservative whataboutism regarding how poor people can’t have anything nice unless they’re lying by bringing up Palestinians living in poor conditions while still having access to gofundme and wifi while also bringing up the war in Ukraine as par for the course.. They blocked me for calling them out but have no right to say this when they don’t care about Palestinians at all.