#white supremacy cancelled

[ausetkmt]

THIS BURNS IN DETROIT EVERY MEMORIAL DAY

It’s Memorial Day on Monday. Some Michiganders will be visiting cemeteries, others will attend parades, and many will be lighting up the grill.

One person will be burning flags.

Not the United States flag. The flag that’s often a symbol of the Confederacy, the Stars and Bars Confederate battle flag.

John Sims, a multimedia artist and a Detroit native, who currently lives in the South, joined Stateside to explain why he burns Confederate flags every Memorial Day. 

"I'm not doing this to change pro-Confederate folks' minds," Sims said. "I'm doing this for people who have felt and are connected to the trauma and pain of the Confederate Flag and all that it represents. I'm doing this for me. I'm doing this for people who are looking for ways and rituals and processes and art performances as a vehicle to heal and to reflect and to gain energy and to stay in reflection about this historical legacy of American racism and segregation and division."

Sims has burned and buried the Confederate Flag all over the country, but he's bringing what he calls his "multimedia memorial" of the Confederate Flag to his hometown of Detroit. The event will have eulogies, remembrances, and a symbolic cremation where attendees will have a chance to pause and reflect.

Events like his have stirred up quite a bit of controversy wherever he has gone, and he is likely to do the same for the "Burn and Bury Memorial: Detroit 2017".   

The irony, of course, is that roughly 90,000 men from Michigan served in the Union Forces during the Civil War, including 1,600 black soldiers. Nearly 15,000 Michigan men died fighting the Confederacy. Yet, if you drive around the state today, Confederate battle flags can be seen flying at homes, and as decal stickers on vehicles.

Waving the flag in Michigan at the time of the Civil War would have been seen as traitorous by people in this state.

Listen to the full interview to hear details about the event in Detroit on Memorial Day and why Sims thinks the Confederate Flag is still popular in his home state of Michigan.

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[odinsblog]

Example number I’ve lost count, of why there is no such thing as cancel culture. That’s just another made up imaginary phrase that wealthy, predominantly white males made up to play the victim. It’s almost hilarious watching millionaires and billionaires complain that they “got canceled” while they’re on international platforms that allow them to speak to millions whenever they want to. But you know who does get cancelled? Disproportionately poor Black and Brown people who have little to no power, and voice our protests against things like Israel’s ongoing brutality. Many people who cannot afford to be unemployed are straight up losing their jobs and having offers rescinded for speaking up. They are the ones who get silenced, except we don’t call it “getting cancelled” when poor Black and Brown people suffer the consequences of white supremacy. We just call it another Wednesday. When people try to hold oppressors to account, it’s called some made up thing like “pc culture” or “call out culture” or “cancel culture,” but when the oppressed speak out against oppressors, it’s called losing your job and getting fired. If cancel culture is real, then it favors the powerful and the wealthy, and only works in one direction: against the marginalized and the oppressed.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“The right to speak my mind out, that's America … The right to think, speak and write as we believe without fear that Big Brother will retaliate against us because we don't toe the party line.”

-- Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Practically a white supremacist. /s

Big Brother is now crowd-sourced.

[coffeebooh]

i need to punch someone real quick and this someone is david zaslav

[dontmean2bepoliticalbut]

[hunterarden]

OMG Witcher fans have one brain cell and it’s entirely influenced by white supremacist propaganda about the story.

Disclaimer: This is a generalization.

[hellbentrapture]

NO PRIDE IN GENOCIDE Over 10,000 Graves

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RESOURCES: • Idle No More • Settlers Take Action • Truth and Reconciliation Report

[sscarletvenus]

shein has taken down the selling of the israeli flag, stopped its collaborations with the country's influencers and also cancelled free delivery services to the country. do you know how fucking insidious you have to be for SHEIN to cut ties with you??? SHEIN???!!!

it makes me physically ill. a Palestinian on twitter's last post was about burying their six-year-old cousin without his head. a Palestinian boy on youtube dreamt of 100k subscribers on his gaming channel. and yesterday he reached 500k, but he has been killed in the bombing of the gaza strip. the class of 2023-24 in Palestine has ended early because there are not enough students left alive. literal children who were the teachers, artists, doctors, scientists, scholars, writers, engineers of tomorrow.

when is it enough? statistics released by Palestinian officials about the numbers of martyred isn't enough. photographs and videos of fathers scurrying to piece together their children by gathering their body parts isn't enough. presscons surrounded by dead bodies beside a bombed hospital isn't enough.

yet, somehow, the narrative they are pushing is conflict between two faiths. it is absolutely not. this is no religious conflict. this is colonization, occupation, genocide. it's systematic oppression of Palestine and its people.

the word peace has never angered me as much as it has now. and it should anger you too. there can be no peace under violent oppression. there can be no peace after 75 years of ethnic cleansing. there can be no peace in occupied Palestine.

peace is the product of white supremacy, they prod and kill anyone other than them but when retaliation occurs, it is suddenly rabid savages, unjust savages...

[reasoningdaily]

White Woman Cancelled For Saying This About Slavery

 #africanamerican #af...

[itsalla-blrrrr]

[trustherkindheart]

There is nothing more American than surviving a White Supremacist Terrorist Attack in the morning only to have to relive your fresh trauma that evening because people don't even have enough empathy not to shoot off fireworks all night (in a state where individual fireworks are illegal)

[jasmineiros]

I wasn't going to post this here due to the somewhat sensitive subject of idolization of celebrities and I actually already vented on Instagram stories, but once the dam breaks out it's useless to even try to contain it. And the only thing that is flooding my mind now is rage.

I already hated millionaires, but after Taylor Swift came to Brazil to that freaking circus people called a concert, I hated them even more.

In case you're not aware, Brazil is dealing incredibly badly with the climate crisis. In Rio they hit the temperature of 60°C (100F, but the sensation was of 140F). It was the highest temperature registered SO FAR. A mix of this unbearable heat and the fact that the staff managing the production of concert used certain materials such as god-damned metal to cover certain structures made several people to get severe burns and 23-year-old die of a heart attack.

Now, that's where the irony comes.

After hearing the news, the best Taylor could ever do was posting a stories saying "how sorry she was and she was so young and she was so beautiful and blablabla" but also very vehemently reinforcing that "due to her grief she wasn't going to say anything about it during the show". I mean, a person who technically loved her, had to get donations to travel across the country and literally died because of this god-damned concert and you can't even make a tiny, small tribute for her. She didn't even mention her name in the stories, which was Ana Clara, btw.

She or the staff never reached out to the family to ask if they needed anything, even though they absolutely had the means to do it. Several years ago, when a Rihanna fan was murdered, she personally paid for the expenses of the funeral, because the family couldn't afford it.

And it gets worse.

She cancelled her next performances due to the climate issues. Being herself is the biggest celebrity CO2e polluter of this year so far. And she got back to the US. In a fucking private jet.

I mean, this combo couldn't be more unbelievable. She not only completely dehumanized an incredibly painful and serious situation, as she, with the 1% of magnates that literally rule this planet, is simply the root cause of the imminent destruction of this planet but it doesn't matter, as long as she still has money being shoved into that white ass of hers.

Or maybe I'm being naive, maybe it's our fault, after all, monkeys are meant to the zoo, not to be in the presence of an untouchable, perfect and almighty nature force such as she, since apparently she can't even breathe the same air we do by just using a freaking common airplane, like a sensitive and sane person would.

The fact that she will just run out and make other concerts with that same innocent angel aura, even though she displays a borderline psychopath behavior, like she still was the 16-year-old girl writing songs about her break ups is absolutely unbelievable to me.

This is just so similar to when that cryptofascist piece of trash of Aurora decided it would be just a good idea to make a shallow and generic discourse about love and acceptance and how everyone is being cancelled nowadays when a member of her band posted and gestured dog whistle supremacy symbols on more than one occasion.

Honestly I wish I could feel anything else right now, but the only thing I can still manage to internalize and express is pure hate.

[thottacelli]

Saying that a usamerican can never benefit from living in the imperial core because they are marginalized in some way is like saying white woman can never benefit from their whiteness because they suffer under the patriarchy. Or saying black men can never benefit from their maleness becasue they suffer under white supremacy. Or that a neurotypical gay person can never benefit from being neurotypical because they suffer from homophobia. Or that an able bodied poor person can never benefit from their able body becasue they also suffer from poverty.

Two things can be true at once. White women can benefit from their whitenss WHILE suffering under the patriarchy the same way usamericans can benefit from the empire we live in while suffering from US racism, sexism, poverty, ect.

Suffering from one thing does not cancel out how you benefit from another.

[decolonize-the-left]

"Okay, here's my guess. As humans evolved, the first big problem we had to overcome was me vs. us; learning to sacrifice a little individual freedom for the benefit of a group. You know, like sharing food and resources so we don't starve or get eaten by tigers, things like that.

The next problem to overcome was us vs. them, trying to see other groups different from ours as equals. That one, we're still struggling with. It's why we have racism and nationalism and... why fans of Stone Cold Steve Austin hate fans of the Rock.

What's interesting about you is, I don't think you ever got past the me vs. us stage. I mean, have you ever been part of a group that you really cared about? The Brainy Bunch is basically the first group that became a part of your self identity and now that it's breaking up you're feeling this new kind of loss, and you're scared of going back to being alone. I mean, that's my guess. The other possible medical diagnosis is that you're just a bit of a dick."

More The Good Place posting because I think the show is underrated and none of the actually good parts have clips or gif sets cuz they aren't funny. For context this was Simone (a Black woman) speaking to Eleanor (the white woman main character).

This is a very good quote to remember, as we dismantle whiteness and you find yourself getting defensive about it. Although, this also applies to other communities and interests you've used to define yourself (like when you see criticism of The Thing you identify with as criticism of you.)

Remember this quote, for example, when you feel so strongly about a show that you want to donate money to keep it from being cancelled. Or when you find yourself unable to make a sacrifice to the 'me' like say your morning Starbucks for the 'us' that wants to limit human suffering.

Maybe you actually are afraid of the gang (white ppl) breaking up and all that implies. Maybe you are scared of being alone if there is no (white) community."

And building on previous convos we've had here; since being alone outside whiteness is something y'all have talked about extensively on my blog..

Defining yourself outside whiteness might literally feel like an attack on your self but it's not. You are you and you are a person whether you're white, mixed, or not at all ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Whether you want it to continue being the defining aspect of your personhood will show through your actions.

But it is time to move on.

Because whiteness tries to force it's beliefs onto you when you identify with whiteness -ignorance, individuality, superiority- and it shows through that "do it yourself/not my problem" attitude if not through blatant racism. It's up to y'all to reject that pre-set definition and define yourselves, now.

What are your values? Your principles? Your likes and hobbies and dislikes? Like in a world without racism or sexism or transphobia or taika waititi or Stan lee... Who are are you when stripped of bigotry and socially constructed identities, ykwim? Y'all gotta figure that out.

And you won't be alone in that endeavor and I really can't stress enough how much easier it would be to our shared goal of destroying racism and white supremacy if it wasn't an abandonment trigger that put white ppl into a literal identity crisis to imagine a world without those things.

Like at it's core that's what those feelings are and idk about y'all but it feels like a huge disservice to literally every person on earth to keep compromising on human rights because white supremacists made y'all scared to be outside whiteness where the rest of us are when you don't even like how it feels to be white anyway.

Have some solidarity. Give a little of 'me' for the 'us' so we All can have better.

[sissa-arrows]

It was about time we cancel Albert Camus pro-colonial ass!

https://jacobin.com/2020/12/albert-camus-colonialism-algeria

Camus is someone that I would compare to liberal settlers who occupy Palestine.

There’s that thing where because they are not/don’t seem as extreme as the rest of their counterparts people think Camus and others like him are good progressive folks. Except they are settlers first.

Camus did acknowledge that indigenous Algerians were oppressed by the French but his solution wasn’t to end colonialism. Except you’re either against colonialism or in favor of it. You can’t just sit on the face and be like « sure it’s horrible but we should just reform it » and « sure it’s horrible but the resistance is just as bad for refusing to let themselves get killed while us civilized people settlers progressives try to find a solution that won’t make the openly white supremacist uncomfortable »

Camus was filled by racist bias and he saw himself as a legitimate inhabitant of Algeria he couldn’t imagine an Algeria without settlers. He went as far as claiming settlers had became indigenous (that ain’t how it works sweetheart…)

A lot of (white) liberals have that stance regarding settler colonialism so to white people it often look progressive when it’s actually not. It’s still supporting settler colonialism it’s still supporting dispossession, white supremacy, ethnic cleansing and genocide.

I hate Albert Camus with all my heart. And the fact that a lot of people online call him “Algerian” angers me even more because of the way settlers like him were called Algerians but indigenous people were stripped of their “Algerian-ness” under colonialism.

P.S: I’m at work so I haven’t read the article linked about Camus yet. But I wanted to answer now.

[joesalw]

To the anon who said that the last time they couldn’t connect with Taylor was during the original 1989 era, I felt the same way back then and I’m starting to feel it again now. I’ve been a fan of her music since 2009 but ever since 2014 I’ve had a difficult time calling myself a ‘swiftie’. I think how we both felt at the time was common sentiment brewing among the general public, which is why 2016 happened. 

Swifties go on about ‘overexposure’ and ‘misogyny’ being why the world turned on her, but I really don’t think 2016 happened in a vacuum. The general public were already sick of the sight of her ‘girl squad’ and million boyfriends, and her white feminism came across as self serving and out of touch even back then. She was completely silent on the 2016 election, and being a blonde, blue eyed country singer it was easy for the general public to assume she voted red even if it wasn’t true. Kimye just gave people a valid reason to say “oh she’s a liar, playing the victim again, we hate her” because her persona and especially her approach to feminism already was coming off as out of touch and constantly self victimising. If people had any kind of trust in her or saw her as a likeable, honest person it would've never happened.

In 2016 the political climate was different, so people were less able to articulate why she didn’t sit well with them. People deep down felt she was self victimising, unsympathetic and out of touch, rather than the underdog or anti hero she paints herself to be, even back then. Now in a post Trump, post covid world with all of the war and genocide going on (that she continues to ignore), the general public is more easily able to articulate why white feminist billionaire ecocidal barbie is not a good person to support, beyond just ‘misogyny’ or ‘overexposure’. The whole foundation of white supremacy and girlboss feminism/capitalism that her entire brand is built on is something the general public is a lot more critical of now than they were back then. When the public inevitably does ’cancel’ her again, she won’t need Kanye to do it, she will ruin her reputation all by herself. That viral tiktok of someone saying she uses feminism as a defence to say people can’t be mean to her is just the start. People felt that back in 2016 and just didn’t know how to articulate it. I felt that way about her feminism back then and that’s why I stopped being a fan, it had nothing to do with overexposure or Kanye West (also rep was a terrible album).

I came back around to being a fan of her around lover era, because I really thought she was making a start at using her voice for more important things, and she was so private and not in everyone’s faces anymore doing obnoxious pap walks with her current boyfriend or ‘girl squad’ like she was back then. Now she’s doing all that crap again I’m starting to think Joe was the only reason she was tolerable. Now she’s back to staying silent on important issues, only difference is now she’s not just an out of touch millionaire, she’s an out of touch billionaire. I can’t in good conscience call myself a swiftie anymore. Her music will always be important to me, but I refuse to be a fan of any billionaire.

you're so on point