#DEEPLY RACIST IN FACT

[bijoumikhawal]

only going "rape and torture are bad" when people defend Palestinians is pretty fucking scummy, speaking as someone who knows more than the average person on this site does about torture, and hates it real bad and knows a lot of people repeat torture apologia because it's deeply pervasive in modern culture

#cipher talk #Again: yes rape and torture ARE bad. Currently there is limited evidence of that occuring from Palestinian militants #During this operation #Instances may happen and may even be likely purely because this is armed conflict #How come you don't state the same when faced with Israeli opinions? #Because there are MANY. AND I MEAN MANY. Near constant reports of both from Israeli prisons and soldiers! #I get part of it is that frankly American Jews and Jews on tumblr do not see the most rabid forms of Zionism #Because I do remember being shocked when I got more active in Twitter and realized just how deeply racist and genocidal #Some zionists openly were #But I really almost want to laugh because like. A lot of yall are reformniks #The state of Israel does not respect you! It barely thinks you're Jewish! But you defend it so hard! #Claiming it's the only refuge for Jewish refugees in times of crisis like I've seen one rabbi do... completely ignoring how many jews #Are effectively declared not Jewish enough for those very purposes #A few weeks ago I was in fact darkly wondering to myself how they would be used if something happened that made Ugandan Jews into refugees #How they were not Jewish enough for the rabhinate but would surely be used in propaganda if antisemitic violence occurred #About why Israel is 'necessary' even though they were denied upfront

[saetoru]

cancel culture is one of society’s worst downfalls because it just does such a good job of labeling moments of ignorance as actual bigotry and people who willingly try to learn and be better will be dragged mercilessly while the actual racist and misogynistic and abusive people who show us time and time again that they have not changed and will never care to change still have careers

#it blows my mind jeffree star still has a career. btw fun fact i’m deeply invested in all youtube beauty channel drama i think it’s so fun #but #the mascara girl wears fake lashes in an ad #and suddenly she’s a lying scumbag u cannot trust and her reviews should be deleted #she takes advantage of her following >:( #so therefore jeffree star who has had a clear racist past #is excusable. why ?? bc he’s brutally honest with his makeup reviews #wow #nice #y’all make me sick #and not to be that person but i will always be that person: #most of the ppl in those comments like ‘this why we gotta bring back jeffree’ #most of them are white and i am not shocked in the slightest #watch who u wanna watch that’s ur business bbygirl i won’t tell u what to do there #but we got some issues when ur openly commenting that someone who’s had such a history of being an issue regarding topics that actually #matter should come back bc he was an icon who gave us real content #okkkkkkk #ok. #side eyeeeeee

[hussyknee]

Deeply pissed off by accusatory and condescending ask. You're free to correct me but not lecture me. I'm a person with triggers too. Entirely too exhausted to even figure out what you're saying with two essay length asks that equate mental illness stigma with genocidal colonization and also acting like my mutual doesn't have schizophrenia themselves. Please unfollow if you can't explain things without sending me condescending missives about how you're disappointed in me and I should know better and I post "deeply harmful" tags. I am too busy scraping the bottom of the barrel to live up to whatever standards of moral social justice behaviour you think I should follow. I am also utterly traumatized by my 17 years in the psychiatric complex, I am also in a mental health crisis and struggling with bipolar. Neither I nor my OCD appreciate it.

Edit: okay nevermind, after seeing what this person reblogged in response to my mutual's post I have blocked them. Holy shit the vitriol and name-calling. Absolutely no.

#i get you're clearly triggered but consider that other people are also mentally ill #i mean this is tumblr. who isn't #i completely do not have the bandwidth for this shit #this is not a popular blog yo. it's a very medium sized personal one full of odds and ends. i'm not an influencer #yes I am in fact 'reactive' it's called having an assortment of triggers from my own many marginalizations #and a storied career of being on social media #also what dyou call sending me two essay length lectures over a bunch of tags #and stop equating other oppressions with colonization. it's racist. there's zero need to compare things to genocide to be taken seriously #i'm not blocking you because i understand being triggered and angry but i tend to regret it after i de-escalate #and i'm hoping we can have a more constructive interaction once you stop feeling the need to attack #but again i am running on one and half spoons so the most i'll be able to do is turn it over in my head at leisure #edit: oooookay saw their reblog and blocked them. yikes on a bike. #they're clearly deeply unwell but nobody has to take that level of abuse #knee of huss #asks

[blog-of-reaction]

My Get Smart ships

Max/99 obviously

Max/Hymie (it’s never stated that he loves Max in more than a platonic way, due to the time Get Smart takes place that would probably be a bad idea, jeopardizing if not both of them than Hymie for sure. I am of the firm opinion that Max/Hymie is canon as much as it can be, it’s just that it’s unrequited love on Hymie’s part.)

Max/Siegfried do I even need to explain why? Just look at them.

Starker/Larabee no reason other than I think it’s funny.

#get smart #fun fact Siegfried’s first name is apparently Conrad #which I didn’t know until I double checked the internet to see if I was spelling his name right #conrad #huh #anyways yeah the only thing that stopped them from becoming a thing was that they are technically sworn enemies #also max is fun and all but 99 could do better #kinda casually rewatching the show and I’m not surprised per say but yeah #it’s even more sexist than I remember #just as racist as I remember though #like oh boy there is some stuff that makes me deeply uncomfortable #asides from that it’s a fun show though #I grew up watching it and it is hilarious (the parts that aren’t sexist or racist) #and the stereotyping and stuff tends to be isolated to a few episodes #like it isn’t everywhere but there are som episodes it might be a good idea to skip #anyways yeah #Don Adams had amazing comiedic timing #and the chemistry with most of the cast wa spretty good #….. #yeah that second part probably could’ve been a separate post but whatever #s watches shows

[brightest-star2]

growing up is realizing that the authors of your favourite childhood books might actually be shit people

#jkr 🤝 michael ende #the crab raves #it's painful but you gotta push through it #you can still enjoy the good in their content #and (in ende's case at least) recognize that they tried #but still point out that the content is problematic at times AND see where this might come from #authors are products of their time period and environment and sometimes this shows in the way they portray characters #and the vocabulary they use #it's interesting to see but also makes you recognize some of the more questionable choices the author makes #one thing that bothers me though #is those kinds of people who will say that media is racist just because there's racist characters in it? even if they're clearly portrayed #as villains #context is important #in hp for example the racism allegations don't stem from the fact that there's a racist extremism group #it's the fact that racism is deeply ingrained into the status quo of the society #and is not opposed or resolved by the main characters #not portrayed as an issue #that's the problematic thing. not some crazy death eaters #which. please stop glorifying them #talking too much #just something that's on my mind #writing #tw racism #tw jkr mention

[queermycelium]

The "now I know you've got a screw loose in that cop head of yours" and the fact there is evidence of moonshining in the Hackett basement tells me Travis' job is not a popular choice in his family. There is a deeper argument or arguments buried under that line that we never got to see and I would have loved more.

#the hacketts probably deeply distrust cops #which given how Travis illegally detained and mistreated Laura and Max #and had their car secretly disposed of #and tried to hide the fact he kidnapped them from his brother #just in general imo if Travis had just come clean day one to Max and Laura MOST of the deaths wouldnt have happened #And between his racist comments towards the Romani and the line near the end i honestly wanted him gone #ideal ending: everyone lives and Travis goes to trial for all the fucked up shit he did and loses his badge #at least Jason from HoA had a change of heart #Travis came in with red flags and added sirens onto them by the end #The Quarry #Travis Hackett #Hacketts Quarry #Supermassive games

[nexus-nebulae]

was watching a video on how shit the pocahontas movie is and thinking about the mystification of native americans in media and how they're usually shown to be serious, quiet, and typically not very emotive- i have just realised that i cannot imagine a native american child being silly and having fun because i've literally never seen that before and that is so fucked

#like i just. they've been mystified and their histories have been rewritten and erased and destroyed #to where i don't even have an image in my mind of them being normal fucking emotive humans #that's so supremely fucked up #that their entire culture has been boiled down to such few traits that seeing anything beside that is surprising #like oh my fucking GOD there is such little fucking representation in media of native peoples #i was severely socially isolated growing up so the way i learned about other cultures was solely via media #and the fact that the only native representation i saw as a child was between fucking peter pan and pocahontas #so: blatant racism and fully rewriting history #and then a few shitty books i read in elementary school about white kids “becoming” natives by. living in a tribe for a year or smthn #and that's ALL I GOT??? #so in my head i literally just have a single homogenized image of the HUNDREDS of groups of natives OF THIS ENTIRE FUCKING CONTINENT #i've never met a native person. in my racist ass hometown they were talked about like a fucking extinct species. #like as in. i was genuinely told in schools that native tribes just fully dont exist anymore. #i was assigned projects speculating about them in the exact same way we did with fucking dinosaurs and ice age animals #and all this has been so deeply ingrained into my skull that *i literally cannot imagine a native child FUCKING LAUGHING* #that's so supremely fucked up like. i dont even have a good conclusion to my thought here that's just fucked up.

[theluttleprince]

I don’t know who needs to hear this, but West Side Story is a racist musical.  It’s a musical created by white men who had little to no understanding of Puerto Rican people. The musical mocks Puerto Rican people by giving them ridiculous accents. It fails to understand the relationship Puerto Rican people have with the island and generalizes all Latino people by thinking Puerto Rican people have the same “immigrant” experience as other Latinos in the US. Furthermore, the musical and movies are trauma porn in regards to how the Puerto Rican characters have traumatic events happening to them throughout the musical. The 2021 West Side Story movie fails to right these wrongs and in some cases makes it worse. (And arguably speaking, there is no such thing as righting these wrongs because of how far gone it is.) This fandom needs to be very aware, they are consuming racist media that Puerto Rican people have rightfully critiqued time and time again. If you cannot admit to yourself this musical and the movie adaptations are racist, maybe you shouldn’t be telling people upset at your racist consumption of said media, to get over it. 

#west side story #the fact some of you guys were/are willing to die on the hill of your racism rather than admit this musical is racist is weird #the white characters in this film are racist #and the portrayal of Puerto Rican characters in this film is racist #there's no such thing as this movie bringing people together despite their differences when the play ITSELF is deeply problematic and racist #and honestly speaking #this musical SHOULD retire #because Puerto Rican people deserve to tell their own stories and have stories that accurately represent them #and you guys should be embarrassed for excusing the jets racism over and over again #straight up disgusting #also I know none of you listened to a thing Bernardo said at the rumble if you're actually out here shipping riff and anita

[kashilascorner]

I love spock and mccoy's dynamic so much

#they banter a lot but deeply care for each other #they're exact opposites with kirk just in the middle #also ppl alqays talk of mccoy as being racist and he's not? not exactly? his bigotry towards other species (such as vulcans) #comes exclusively from the fact he cannot understand something that runs in anything other than compassion and empathy #he's perfectly fine and capable of studying other races and respect them. his bigotry/racism comes from him thinking the human #way is better because it is based on empathy compassion peace etc #i also just love that spock bites back every. single. time. he's bigoted too in his own way and condescending as hell but #you won't see people calling him racist because of that #anyways love them. love their banter. love their biting each other. love them being petty bitches. love them caring a lot #laura watches stuff #I'm watching bread and circuses and it's niiiiiice #laura watches star trek

[cryptvokeeper]

the worst part about blizzard’s stupid overwatch diversity drama is that it worked because i am now thinking about overwatch again.

jokes on them though cuz im only thinking about it in that idealized 2012 avengers sorta way where they all live together in Gibraltar and no heroes beyond sombra exist and the cowboy is still called mccree and its all just found family bullshit.

#If symmetra and junkrat are not butting heads affectionately and soldier76 is not everyone (but esp Hana’s) tired dad and we all just gloss #Over the several characters who are robo-racist #And don’t really think too hard about the fact that much of the cast are wanted criminals or dangerous terrorists #Or that the original overwatch organization was deeply flawed and not think critically about what a story focused around bringing that back #would Even mean #the what is even the POINT

[fagcodedcas]

hey uh i'm finally into the later seasons now and I don't understand all of the fuss about kaia. the reason she was controversial around here was because of the indigenous representation thing but she.... isn't? like the show has not come out and stated what her race is meant to be interpreted as (and that would probably be weird if they did) but it isn't even implied that she's indigenous. I'm stumped. does this perception come from some casting call that I've never seen or is this a conclusion that some people jumped to because she was first mentioned by another character who is indigenous?

#kaia #obviously I would be willing to change my mind about this if I'm just missing something #but like..... chill everybody. it was deeply upsetting to me when I saw descriptions of how racist this storyline was #and I jumped into an argument that I didn't have all the facts about (bad idea) #and now I wasted so much effort and energy on something that just does not exist while other blatant examples of anti-indigenous racism #aren't getting brought up very much #like if you want to talk about racism let's look at sharp teeth.

[homoquartz]

this post is not gonna be well put together but i am having feelings

mean girls is trending right now because the musical movie just came out and i feel insane. idk why i do, it was stupid of me to think that most people Got It, no one ever gets it, it was always about the memes and the aesthetic.

the first mean girls movie was based on a nonfiction book called queen bees and wannabes. it interviewed and discussed the social hierarchy system in teen girl friendships. how they hold each other to these insane standards of heternormative femininity out of sheer terror that they won't meet those standards themselves. the way they leverage their relationships for some small degree of power in a world designed to strip them of it, even if it drags other girls down.

the "you can only wear your hair in a ponytail once a week and on wednesdays we wear pink" speech was not an original creation for the script. it's a QUOTE from a real teenage girl. those were REAL RULES.

then the musical came, and it was one step removed from the intended messaging of the film. OG mean girls was not perfect (and was extremely racist), but it said what needed said. the musical leaned on the comedy more, but still left a heartfelt undertone, and still critiqued the systems in place. of course no piece of media is going to be perfect, but it was about the conversation.

then this new movie comes out and it is washed over in the veneer of white hollywood feminism so thick you can't see anymore. the problematic aspects of the original movie are taken out to avoid "offending" when the offense was the point. it becomes toothless, it becomes some other thing entirely. they changed karen's line "i expect to run the world in shoes i cannot walk in" to "watch me as i run the world in shoes i cannot walk in." because choice feminism is in vogue, suddenly this character whose entire point is that she doesn't think deeply about WHY she does anything is suddenly hip to the fact that the world is against her.

i think of sokka losing his misogyny arc in the new atla. i think of the Heathers remake casting the bitchy, identical heathers as queer and hollywood-fat outcasts. as if the story, the meaning, the allegory is hidden in the sets and the jokes and the music. it's a whole new thing now, and it's a thing that means nothing in particular.

the plastics should not wear jeans. they should not have curves. their queerness should be suppressed, painful. their sexuality is not a slay, it's the only thing they think they have of value. the santa dance isn't sexy, it's shocking, it's mortifying - they are children.

they're not mean because "we are all mean." they are mean because they are girls in a world that brutalizes them and crushes them into a standardized shape. they are mean because the world is mean to them. they are mean because it gives them some power back. they are mean because it's the only weapon they have.

the landscape of femininity today has shifted to camera-ready makeup at the age of 10, stringent performative hygiene standards, and avoiding being caught on film while having a genuine emotion. the consumerism, the fatphobia, the racism, the classism, the homophobia remain. We could have had a conversation about that.

#mean girls #huge unhinged rant sorry #misogyny

[clamorybus]

its not fun to talk about, and i feel like such a dick talking about them like this, but it's fucking sickening how easily swayed my parents are

#again they say that i'm a black-and-white thinker but they are so much worse with it than they are #i'm just firm in my beliefs #like my dad was straight up like 'the jewish people have been through a lot and a lot of them are doctors #therefore israel is in the right here' like im not exaggerating that was his view on it #without any deeper thought or reading between the lines on it #my mom was more receptive to my concerns #but she basically let me dictate her opinion on the whole thing because 'you know what you're talking about' #and im genuinely glad she trusts me and values my opinions #but mom. you're fifty years old PLEASE have opinions on things that aren't your daughter's or the news' #i know they don't do the deep political readings that i do; im unemployed and they both work really physically demanding jobs #so of course they don't. its just they don't seem to think very deeply about things and they aren't very curious #to research more about what they're hearing #like a quick glance at the wikipedia page for the history of israel or palestine should be enough fuel to question #the narratives the we're being told #like 'hey europe has a history of ethnic cleansing their colonies maybe that's what THIS european colony is doing' #but whenever the news covers a story about a person being killed by a cop they jump right to 'well yeah lol that's what they get' #even before they hear the full context of the murder. hell the fact that's their first instinct #when hearing about a murder is fucking disgusting. and racist. and terrifying #i love them they are good parents but god damn do i hate them as people. it feels like they have no moral backbone of their own #like p much all i have to do to convince my dad israel is in the wrong is show him #the photos of the irish-palestinian solidarity murals and his pride will tell him to Listen to Our Ancestors #which includes irish people we've never met who're his own age apparently #ofc i don't expect them to be Morally Pure tm or whatever a lot of stuff has to be unlearned but jesus christ TRY. PLEASE #mickey.txt

[creeperthescamp]

i think one of the least used concepts in elder scrolls lore is its nebulous relationship to truth.

like something i do actually appreciate about that cunt kirkbride's writing in morrowind is that the mythology of the tribunal is allowed to be relatively ambiguous and there's room for poetry and fable and unreliable narrators. there's a strong general tendency in both fandom and dev to interpret lore quite literally and treat every text as reliable sources of fact about tamriel even when the text is like. fiction or written with a clear bias towards certain factions or prejudices.

the main example I'm thinking of is the 'notes on racial phylogeny' lore book. it's literally just racist pseudoscience and in a real life context would be considered unreliable and deeply offensive. but in tes, i rarely see anyone stop to actually consider that perhaps this lore isn't really a factual study of how bodies work but about how the imperial empire categorises the people it colonises and justifies it's supremacy. there's so much focus on determining the rules and metaphysical aspects of the world that there's no consideration that the way factions like the empire see the world is inherently flawed.

it's fun to think of a world where stars are literal holes punched in the fabric of the sky, or that water is made of memory, but i also think it would be a much more fun and flexible world if these theories are considered to be just a few of many lenses that people in tamriel use to try to understand their world. some of my favourite pieces of lore and world building are things like 'cherims heart of anequina' that imply a rich world of culture and art; i love the idea that tamriel has art and art critics and people who discuss ideas for other purposes than trying to figure out what's The Only True Lore.

#martin posts #tes #morrowind #the elder scrolls #ugh i do not feel that confident in my ability to analyse and write essays on stuff but i like to try anyway #when i started googling stuff i just got more confused and frustrated. these games must be very hard to write a wiki about #i would someday like to put these ideas into better words and gather more evidence. but writing it here is a start i guess

[txttletale]

h… how is any of that racist

assuming that you mean my posts about the 5e monster manual entry for orcs and how insanely racist it is--by happy coincidence i have a bunch of sources about this strewn haphazardly across my browser so i'm happy to answer this.

so we will start with this. the words 'tribe' and 'chief' are deeply, deeply racialised. they have been used throughout colonial (and well into modern and present-day!) history to describe groups of indigenous peoples across the world—with implications of 'primitive' people and societies within the Western myth of linear societal progress. europeans have nations and kings--africans and native americans have tribes and chiefs. the 'tribe' is not a neutral concept--it is a concept that was constructed by europeans in positions of global military domination over a century to justify a narrative about the linear progress of civilization to justify domination [1][2]. of course, it's not just the use of the words 'tribe' or 'chief' but their deployment here in the context of what is obviously supposed to be a 'primitive' method of of government--the 'orcish tribe' is inherently violence, a 'savage' society entirely built on "bloodlust" and "fear"

regis stella puts it much better than i could in this account of an early 20th-century travel memoir in Imagining the Other: The Representation of the Papua New Guinean Subject

while we're on this point i figure i'll add all the other language around 'savagery', 'inherent bloodlust' and so on in the monster manual here to further illustrate my point: it's all quite rote and repeats itself a lot.

now, wait, waiiiit, wait a second. wait a moment. hold up what was that last thing

oh thats not good. having to explain why this is racist feels a little like having to explain why its bad to hit people with hammers but i'll do it anyway: the comparison of real-life 'tribes' of people to insects, vermin, and pestilences is a very real element of genocidal rhetoric--from the holocaust [3] to the rwandan genocide [4]. what is the implied correct societal responose to a tribe that is 'like a plague?'

finally, this is the part that made me say "holy fucking shit this is in the 5th edition monster manual?" because it is pure undiluted gygaxian eugenics shit. first of all, the narrative of the ever-swelling horde, the indigenous or Asian people as an undiffernetiated mass of amorphous Other, is an old one and one that's been used to devalue the lives of people of colour and justify violence against 'the horde'. but the part that's absolutely jaw-dropping is the use of the tropes of reproductive racism--the narrative of Black and indigenous hyperfecundity is also an established racist trope, one which was instrumental in the forced sterilisation of Black and Native women in the USA [5] and now manifests itself in the "great replacement" demographic anxieties of modern racism [6] -- think of White Genocide conspiracy theories and the 14 Words. and of course that is to say nothing of the fact that is made very clear and reiterated (and mechanicised in the form of the Half-Orc player race!) that WotC wants to be very clear about how much orcs "readily crossbreed with other races". this is miscegenation anxiety, plain and simple--somethign else stella talks about.

so yeah! hopefully nobody will ever ask me this fucking question again! (this is just across two fucking pages of the monster manual by the way don’t get me started on the shit that’s in the other books! god forbid i even think about campaign modules!!)

#ask #ttrpg #dnd #orc discourse

[bill-the-dog-for-the-check]

Let's talk about Israeli cuisine.

Unfortunately, I have less experience with it than I should, as it looks absolutely delicious, but I've never had any. Diaspora Jew in a place with few Jews or Israelis moment :(. And I'm talking less about Israeli cuisine and more about how it's perceived--namely how it's taken from Israelis, denigrated as 'not Israeli', as having been 'stolen' from Arab cuisine as a part of a broader project of 'cultural conquest'. Looking at you, Joseph Massad.

This assertion is not only a bald-faced lie, it is also deeply antisemitic. People have the right to make food. Nobody's going to call a non Italian racist for making or eating Italian food. Nor would an Italian be culturally appropriating if they eat sushi. Yet Jews and Israelis are stealing if they make Middle Eastern food?

More than that, though, it ignores Jewish history. Jews have lived in the Middle East for... as long as homo sapiens have lived in the Middle East? Mizrahim, who make up most of Israel's population, did not grow out of the ground in Israel from 1948-1979. They were expelled, violently chased out of the Muslim-majority countries they had lived for millennia. Before then, they sustained themselves on falafel, couscous, hummus, tahini, halva, shawarma, and every Middle Eastern food under the sun. If there were such a thing as the 'right' to make food, they'd absolutely have it.

But it's instead 'colonization', 'cultural appropriation', and 'cultural conquest'? To bring the culinary practices they and their ancestors had been practicing since Judaism began to the only country that had thrown open their doors to them? After experiencing pogroms, riots, anti-Jewish legislation, the world once sat by and did nothing to stop it. Again. And then members of these countries have the gall--the audacity and sheer disrespect--to accuse them of pilfering their own fucking culture?? After violently kicking them out???

Like, it blows my mind how many injustices Israelis are subjected to by moronic protestors who think 'Zionism is racism' or whatever. Every time someone posts about Zionist colonization of Palestinian food and culture, they're ironically themselves indulging in cultural erasure. The fact that Palestinians often make the same foods isn't indicative of a supposed Zionist plot to exterminate Palestinians and steal their culinary practices, but rather reflective of their shared origins as being Middle Eastern. But these online 'activists' don't care--nor do they care that the implied 'Zionist plot' that runs through their claims is textbook antisemitism.

Middle Eastern food is widespread in Middle Eastern countries. When Middle Eastern people get kicked out of Middle Eastern countries and go to another Middle Eastern country, they make... Middle Eastern food. Shocking, I know.

It isn't stealing. It isn't cultural appropriation.

Now, gut shabbos everyone.

#jewish #jewblr #jumblr #antisemitism #anti zionisim #judaism #leftist antisemitism #israel #israeli food