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I'm listening, and I'm telling you it's wrong. It's fighting as though you've already lost. And we- as in the universal we. It's not casual. It's casual to throw people out, or bash them for showing up. It's complete stupidity. Bodies are bodies. Whatever, man, whatever. I'm on the Canadian side, but your bitch ass likes to imagine that there aren't any anishinaabe stuck on the American side? Like it doesn't effect us here? Or even environmentally, like it doesn't effect everyone? I'm listening- it doesn't matter to you though. You just want the echo chamber of people agreeing with you. Someone disagreeing sounds like a personal attack. Look at how well that worked in the election. You can't teach?

This is what white privilege looks like.

This is why we need to be critical of whites who enter non-white spaces.

This is disgusting.

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Shit man, I mean in the sense, that if they're gonna be on the ground when militarized police use force, and they're gonna take it, then why the fuck would someone say "get them out". Like you see where I'm coming from? If they're using your shit and not showing up for the actual protest throw them out idgaf. But this? This stupid attack? This stupid article turning it into something poetic? This isn't poetry. Maybe they'll write poetry about us when we're all gone? Then they'll be happy? They'll write about how the drunk white got turned away and our native selves fought beautifully in peaceful protest until we all died? You get what they're turning this into with shit like this? They're trying to turn us in to some poetic Custards mother fucking last stand. It's bs. We're not some story. We're real, and trying to ignore an opportunity won't help us. You don't know how to use white people? I'm sure someone can figure out how to manipulate stupid potheads. I don't see how you want to play by a level playing field when the cards are already stacked against us. Also, I'm not over you telling me to shut up because I'm not there? Like screw you. Honestly. Ka. Motherfuck. Ka.

This is what white privilege looks like.

This is why we need to be critical of whites who enter non-white spaces.

This is disgusting.

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Lmfao you're telling me to shut up? Like, you realize that I'm native too, right? Like my family has been tortured and ripped apart by white people, and here I am, telling you, that allies are fucking needed. Like this isn't a stupid fucking discourse on tumblr, and this isn't a fucking pride thing. You think I feel great about my stance on this? No. I don't. But I am a student of history, and telling people to leave? A protest? That doesn't fucking work. Whatever, you know what? Whatever, I'm Ojibway anyways, I'll just shut up. Wtf would I know? Bitch, please, you're going to lose. It's going to happen. Wtf are you even thinking? Just fucking use the stupid hippies, use them. Screw your pride. Use them. Be smart, and stay safe. Ffs, I'm just upset about the stupidity of Tumblr "discourse" over a real fucking issue, but whatever. Look at the notes "get them out" wtf this isn't a fucking game. Btw I'm in Canada, it's literally impossible for me to join the protest because my status was taken away after my Mishomis served in ww2. Also screw that, wtf is that? Rules against drinking? Are you insane? Some people need a fucking drink when shit hits the fan. You think I'm your enemy for talking about this realistically? I'm not, I want you to win, ffs of course I want you to win, three generations of my family were stolen by the Canadian residential schools. I dream about revenge all the fucking time.

But let's be real here, it's an attack. And defendants need the stupid sheep, because the militarized police certainly aren't on our side. So don't tell me to shut up. I am trying to say, use the fuckers- they're high anyways. Fuck them, but they're useful.

This is what white privilege looks like.

This is why we need to be critical of whites who enter non-white spaces.

This is disgusting.

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I don't care I don't care I don't care. Listen to yourself, we need bodies, we need these fucking white people, fuck them but fuck the cops trying to kill our brothers and sisters more. Fuck it, we need people, and we need the people the stupid fucking racist media in your goddamn country cares about. Who the fuck cares if these fuckers are going there and smoking weed, fuck them, but seriously who the fuck cares, they're showing up. Let them get motherfcking hurt while high, where the fuck are you?!? Are you even fucking there??? I wish I could be there, I can't I'm not on the American side, but every day I fucking hurt more from this. For fucks sake. You want them to be respectful? Teach them, you pretentious ass, teach them. They're there because they give a shit, teach them so they give more of a shit, these little fuckers with their privilege, teach them. You can be angry, but at the end of the day, at least they fucking showed up. This isn't a fucking game, this isn't politics, this is fucking life or death, this is reality, and in reality, we take our allies where we can get them. That's the fucking truth. For fucks sake, this isn't a non-white safe space, this is a fucking war zone. There's an invading nation on our doorstep. Fuck me with this bullshit. We need the stupid fucking hippies.

This is what white privilege looks like.

This is why we need to be critical of whites who enter non-white spaces.

This is disgusting.

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😍😍

Eartha Kitt speaking truth to power at a 1968 luncheon at the White House hosted by Lady Bird Johnson which resulted in Kitt being blacklisted in the US for nearly a decade.

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Did you just ignore the white ones or?

Texas now allows guns on campus, so UT Austin students are fighting back with dildos

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Really tired

Weird weird weird so weird so so so very weird. I wonder why I can't sleep and I don't eat and I want to smash in to ramps when I'm driving and I want to fall off the side of a cliff- the brain wants to live so it's expends extra energy on running the scenarios in which I die so I can avoid death. Weird weird weird. Being alive is weird.

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I just had an instant flashback- like honestly I think I had forgotten about it until I read this. But my granny is batshit insane, so I used to help Mishomis do it. Id always complain that I didn't even like beans and he'd threaten to go get a rabbit and we could have rabbit stew instead...that shut me up (22 years old now and I realize that rabbit actually tastes phenomenal)

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First time I noticed it was when the weeknd literally roles out on the Victoria Secret fashion show looking like he was just stopping in to a convenience store at 3:00am cause he needs some redbull for the all nighter he's pulling to pass his art history exam like excuse you, everyone else is dressed up- he looked homeless standing beside every fucking woman in that room. Douche. Put on a coat ffs

can you believe male artist literally go on stage in sweatpants and put little to no effort into their performances but female artists have to get custom bodysuits and learn 2+ hours worth of choreography to get half the fuckin recognition and critical acclaim like what kinda nastiness

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There is dead silence in my house...

It’s sincerely creepy.  An episode of TV has ended, and no one is getting up to fix it. No one is putting music on. No one is talking. We’re just sitting here, in this silent shroud of outrage and disbelief.  And I am so, so tired.

Like, the thing is…  The thing is… There is no way to avoid the fact that this is exactly what we all know it is.  A cheap ploy to get attention that will, very really, very truly, be gone. Probably soon.  Maybe by the end of this arc.

But that is…  That does not fundamentally alter or reduce…  Anything about why this is a problem.  Not the willingness to do harm.  Not the ugliness of spirit.  Not the obliviousness to the power that popular literature has in people’s lives/the culture.  Not the violent appropriation of Steve as a symbol.  

Not the failure to recognize that we are locked in a progressive cycle of artistic decay centred around the publishing arm’s belief that being ‘shocking’ will boost numbers that are flagging because of a fundamental unwillingness to rise to the challenges of a new era in the existence of a complex medium.  That it’s not working.  At all.  We would not have reached ‘Captain America is a Nazi’ if any of your previous shock tactics had developed you a stable fan base that you actually understood how to produce for, how to motivate. 

 Fundamentally, this hatefulness, in addition to being rooted in all the things that racism and its vile compatriots are rooted in, is rooted in the same blindness that insists that relaunching every six months will address issues of profitability by keeping you constantly in the sweet spot of look-in numbers.  It’s a mind set of short-term profit-seeking with no sense to the long-term building of a fan base, or a universe, or… anything.

Look, this is anecdata, I get that, but I know more lapsed Marvel fans than I know any other sort of used-to-bes.  This doesn’t work.  You can’t drag them in, slap them around (not my language.  I actually would not have brought violence into this conversation.  Why am I not surprised that some people were comfortable with that, though?), and expect them to keep giving you money.  

Look, I get it, mixing commerce and art warps things.  It makes them difficult and dangerous and dirty. It’s right at the core of every tortured creative archetype, it’s in most writer’s nervous breakdowns.  This is a barrel I’m personally staring down.  There are no easy answers and nothing is sacred.  

Except…  Captain America is not a Nazi.  You and I and everybody at Marvel, we all know this.  Captain America was created not to be a Nazi.  Take everything else away and what remains is that Captain America fights Nazis. There is a very natural revulsion and fury that an audience who have known for 75 years that Captain America fights Nazis feels when you don’t just make it so that Captain America is now a Nazi, you employ a retcon to say that it was always true.  75 years ago, Captain America was a Nazi.

Captain America was a Nazi plant under the hands of his Jewish creators, who created him to fight Nazis.  Who created him in a country that wanted to refuse to fight Nazis, refuse to stand against their violence and their hatred and their corruptness.  Captain America was an aggressive appropriation of everything that was American (and arguably of everything in American iconology that was and is uncomfortably close to Nazi iconology) for the defense of people who most Americans refused to consider worthy of that ideal and that defense.  And at the same time, so canon now reads, he was a Nazi.

Marvel is counting on outrage as publicity, and it is short sighted.  Because publicity only matters if you have something to sell.  Because you may intend to fix this in six issues, but that’s three months of your comic having no core.  Of it being unmoored from the central fact of its existence.  Because, in the end, even when you “repair” your canon, your continuity, you will still have revealed yourselves as people who do not understand what you are selling.  Who do not understand your power, who do not understand your legacy, your heritage, your relationship to history or your readers.

Think about this, for a moment.  Marvel is counting on people to talk about the book because they’re angry.  Because they’re hurt.  Because they hate it. This is the problem, now, the over-arching problem that ties all the other problems together.  You’re supposed to write what you love.  Hell, you’re supposed to publish what you love (I’m not making this up. A publishing executive told me this.  He said no one goes into this field to make money, they do it because they love books.)  And that love of the content is what’s supposed to sanctify- yes, fine, some things do have to be sacred. I’m a naive idealist and I think it’s an article of faith for Captain America readers that he was not always secretly a Nazi - sanctify the pact between creator and consumer. You are supposed to buy and read and recommend things because you love them.

Somewhere along the the line, cape comics, at least, became about capitalizing on outrage, rather than building on a shared joy in the material*.  And nothing good has come of that.  And nothing good ever will.

I have written so many angry screeds at Marvel over the years.  Most of them never make it past my hard drive.  Because I’m self-conscious, because I’m uncertain I’m right.  Because whatever they’ve done now, they’ll just take it back next year.

Except… Comics in the age of the internet cannot survive the disposability of earlier eras.  Because everybody hears when you make Steve Rogers a Nazi, and nobody reads a retraction.  Nobody.  Except that whatever the plot resolution, this is still a very public act of violence - both to the property, and to the people who have loved and leaned on the property for what it is supposed to be.  Except that cape comics cannot thrive on making their audiences unhappy, and it’s corrosive, disrespectful, and morally reprehensible that they’re trying.  Except I’m through apologizing for loving the stories that come out of this company when it’s working right because of all the times its head is up its ass.  

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*Do feel free to bring me back to the corporate nature of the enterprise.  To the fact that a huge amount of the creating and producing of mainstream comics was rooted in crass commercialism.  That’s all true and there’s some very valid arguments to be made about the inherent artistic corruption in the system, but none of it changes the fact that if the joy was not shared, then at least it was understood as a necessary element.  Bad stories used to be told to amuse, to please, to inspire happiness and brand loyalty.  Good stories were told for the same reason good stories are always told.

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I admire people who choose to smile after all the things they’ve been through.

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Two weeks ago when my friend was out, she was assaulted by 3 guys, who beated and forced her to stay quite while they were cutting all her hair with a knife. For my friend who has been transitioning since 2011 her hair was everything for her because she was in a situation where she couldn’t afford a hormones treatment until last year. Ever since that day she hasn’t been the same, she’s depressed all the time and cry everytime she looks at herself in the mirror and I’m afraid she attempt to suicide. So here I am begging y'all to have a little compasion with her and donate whatever you can so I can get her a wig so she can go back to be the same person she was until her hair grows. I’d really appreciate it.

gofundme.com/awrxysac

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Omg yes.

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A white artist wrote “Black Lives Matter” 2000 times last week on a wall in Detroit.

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