#Racism discussion

[bisexual-neco-arc]

the jokes write themselves on twitter dot com

#arcade.html #racism discussion #Ao3 Users(tm)☕️ #mf said 'i can excuse writing abt irl children being sexually abused despite these children stating it makes them uncomfortable - #and im ok with the other racist shit the OTW does but not being able to change my status message is where i draw the line'

[nepenthean-sleep]

going into irl queer spaces or the internet dot com reading people say shit like oh my bad im sorry i forgot butches and studs and masc wlw are people and are more than either "soft uwu sapphic protective head empty golden retriever girlboyfriend" or "big long strap daddy aggressive himbo dom top fuckboi"

#neph.txt #lesbian #lgbt #cw lesbophobia #racism discussion #cw homophobia

[capricorn-0mnikorn]

An hour-and-twenty-minute video essay exploring the history (Going back to Helen Keller’s lifetime, through to the current day) behind the current TikTok trend of claiming Helen Keller was a fraud, because there’s no way a deafblind person could do all the things attributed to her.

Spoiler: it’s flat out ableism combined with anti-socialist propaganda.

Made by a Brit, so it also addresses current ableism in the UK, not just America.

Properly closed captioned. Flashing warning from 02:02 - 02:04 (film projector effects).

#YouTube Video (closed captioned in English) #video essay #Helen Keller #biography #politics #eugenics discussion #racism discussion

[orbleglorb]

wrt to last reblog. i think it's so weird that, no matter what you're watching, if it's got something racist in it and you express discomfort with that you're the weird one. you bring up the orientalism in atl@ and you're the crazy sjw. like when i say "hey maybe the pr0mis3d n€verl4nd having its only black character be abusive + a mammy stereotype is pretty bad" all i get from other white ppl is "yeah you just kinda have to ignore that haha" dawg wtf do you mean ignore it. i have had to explain far too many times why pocahontas (disney movie) is racist. am i just overreacting (not about pocahontas i KNOW i am not overreacting about pocahontas)

#i think it's because im white & ppl just assume i'm an uneducated white person calling everything racism #which yeah i can understand why they'd think that #but like. you're not even gonna look into that a little bit? #just gonna say “yeah haha” and move on? #racism discussion #also i censored atl@ & pr0mised n3verl4nd because i don't want fans finding this #and this isn't even mentioning the racism in the fandoms

[orchidvioletindigo]

I think we need to just throw out all the kid's media about how you shouldn't treat others badly because they're different that uses metaphor to illustrate difference. It's very easy for any kid to say "Of course I'd never make fun of a duck for something as silly as having a green beak!" and then go right back to bullying their peers for being fat or disabled or a person of color or LGBT+ or gender non-conforming. None of those things seem like silly, superficial differences to them.

#fatphobia discussion #ableism discussion #racism discussion #LGBT+phobia discussion #sexism discussion

[mogai-sunflowers]

MOGAI BHM- Belated Day 20!

happy BHM! today i’m going to be talking about the history of activism in Black disabled communities and Black disabled intersectionality!

General Information-

There is often a huge erasure of the intersection between the history of Black civil rights justice, and disabled civil rights justice. It’s not necessary to examine just because many key Black activists from history were also disabled, but because structural ableism has always had a disproportionate impact on Black disabled people.

First of all, Black communities have higher rates of disability. Disabilities that someone isn’t born with can be caused by many things- unhealthy living environments, injuries from unsafe working conditions, lack of access to quality healthcare, living in impoverished areas that don’t have consistent access to food or healthy water- and all of these things happen much more on a systemic level, to Black communities.

Black people have historically experienced much less safe working conditions due to white employers taking advantage of them. This can lead to work injuries that cause permanent disability. Another huge issue is that the redlining system, which assigned “value” to different zip codes, one of its “value” criterion being whether or not it was a majority Black/brown area, has led to a huge deficit between the amount of functioning businesses and healthcare centers in majority-Black areas, meaning that, to this day, many Black communities have much less direct access to healthcare. Environmental racism has led to many impoverished Black communities having few quality grocery stores, and the stores that ARE there, have incredibly high prices, leading to systemic issues of malnutrition and food-related chronic health conditions and disabilities having higher rates among Black communities.

Additionally, many disabilities which can develop from unsanitary living conditions, have immensely higher rates among Black communities- so gentrification drives many Black and brown people into poorer, less sanitary neighborhoods, causing increased risk of health problems.

Historically (and presently, for that matter), ableist concepts and structures like eugenics, have been extremely racialized. In examples like the Nazi regime, eugenics was employed because it was believed that disability was a “corruption” upon the “master Aryan race”. Disabled people were targeted, ESPECIALLY Jewish disabled people and non-white disabled people, for “tainting” whiteness. Eugenics has always been not just about eliminating disabled people, but eliminating Black and brown people. Eugenics history is just as racist as it is ableist. Programs carried out under eugenicist governments, like forced sterilization, majorly targeted Black and brown people- thousands of Black and brown people, both women and men, were forcibly sterilized because eugenicists didn’t want Black and brown populations to grow larger.

Another often overlooked aspect of Black disability intersectionality is how disability functioned during slavery. Not only did the physical and psychological horrors they faced cause enslaved people who had been born able-bodied and able-minded to develop disabilities, but already-disabled enslaved people were often valued even less than their able-bodied counterparts. Physical and mental ability, or “soundness”, was a huge factor in the transatlantic slave trade, so disabled enslaved people often were forced to ignore the limitations of their disability so that they didn’t get punished for not completing their work, and forced to hide their disabilities if they could, as many disabled slaves were not bought and instead were abandoned in the woods. Disability was often seen as just an excuse to be lazy, meaning many white plantation owners didn’t believe that Black peoples’ disabilities actually counted, they thought they were just being “lazy” to get out of having to do work. The history of claiming that disabled people are just “lazy and refuse to work”, is deeply rooted in anti-Blackness.

So, understanding the history of ableism is key to understanding Black history because they have always been intertwined. 

Black Disability Activism and Activists-

[Image ID: A black-and-white photograph of Brad Lomax, a thin Black man with a small afro who uses a wheelchair. In the photograph, he is smiling and wearing a fancy grey suit. He is holding a microphone on his lap and is speaking outside on a stage. End ID.]

Disability rights activism in America was heavily intertwined with and influenced by the Civil Rights Movement. Social change began to be at the forefront of the American consciousness, so even many white disability activists were inspired to action by the Civil Rights Movement. One example of success on the Black disability activism was when, after the forced sterilization of two young adolescent Black sisters, Mary and Minnie Relf, Black women activists worked with the Southern Poverty Law Center to file a lawsuit on behalf of the two sisters. This lawsuit resulted in the successful case of Relf v. Weinberger, which outlawed federal financial support for involuntary sterilization.

Another integral figure in Black disabled history is Fannie Lou Hamer, who suffered lifelong disabilities from having polio as a child, and who also spoke up against the forced sterilization of Black women and other women of color, after she herself was sterilized against her will during a medical procedure. She also experienced disability from injuries she sustained when she was violently beaten by police after participating in a bus sit-in in the whites-only section of a bus. 

Fannie Lou Hamer helped to found the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, which helped to counter efforts by the Mississippi Democratic Party to block Black voter registration. She helped organize the Freedom Summer for voting rights, and she openly protested against forced sterilization laws at a march in 1964, where she shared her own experience with being forcibly sterilized against her will. She co-founded the National Women’s Political Caucus in 1971. One thing she is known for is saying “I am sick and tired of being sick and tired”.

Another important Black disabilities advocate is Lois Curtis, who was also a self-taught visual artist. She confronted the ways that segregation impacted Black disabled people. She had intellectual disabilities and was schizophrenic, and for much of her early life, she was forcibly institutionalized despite wanting to live in her own community. In 1999, her lawsuit resulted in the landmark case L.C v. Olmstead, in which she argued against the forced institutionalization of people with mental disabilities. This case resulted in the declaration that forced institutionalization of mentally disabled people was a form of segregation and discrimination and therefore an illegal violation of the earlier landmark Americans with Disabilities Act.

A Black disabled woman named Johnnie Lacy was a huge part of the independent living movement that Lois Curtis represented, and she helped found the famous Berkley Center for Independent Living in 1981 and served for more than a decade as the director of a nonprofit called Community Resources for Independent Living. She worked to educate others about Black disabled intersectionality.

Jazzie Collins was a Black disabled transgender woman who served as an important member of San Francisco’s Senior and Disability Action group. Sylvia Walker was Director of the Center for Disability and Socioeconomic Policy Studies and the Howard University Research and Training Center. She also served as Vice-Chair of the President’s Committee’s on the Employment of People with Disabilities. She was a champion for disability rights and her research helped lead to the Americans with Disabilities Act. Donald Galloway was a blind Black man who served on many various disability councils and boards and made a huge impact. So many other Black Americans have made crucial progress in the disability rights movement- including Brad Lomax, who is widely hailed as a bridge between civil rights and disability rights movements.

Brad Lomax, who was a wheelchair user due to his history of multiple sclerosis, was a fervent civil rights activist who was a member of the Black Panther Party. This membership led to one of the most memorable and notable disability rights protests of American history: the capitol crawl, when disabled activists marched to the capitol building, abandoned their mobility aids, and began crawling up the steps to the capitol. This protest was huge- and it is widely considered that it would’ve failed without the help of the Black Panther Party who, at the quick direction and action of Brad Lomax, provided shelter, support, food, and water to the capitol crawl participants. Brad Lomax sustained one of the most important disability rights protests of history.

Black disabled history is not a thing of the past. It is ever-present and ever growing.

Summary-

Disability disproportionately affects Black people in America because of environmental factors, systemic racism in healthcare, exposure to more unsanitary living conditions, and many other factors

Eugenics, forced sterilization, and forced institutionalization has historically dramatically targeted Black and brown people

Black women’s activism led to the illegalization of federal funding for forced sterilization

Many Black civil rights leaders, like Fannie Lou Hamer, were disabled and combined Black and disabled activism

Lois Curtis and Johnnie Lacy were two Black women who were integral to winning more rights for mentally disabled people to live on their own without forced institutionalization

Brad Lomax was a disabled Black Panther whose crucial leadership of the BPP during the capitol crawl sustained its success and led to its completion

tagging @metalheadsforblacklivesmatter​ @intersexfairy​ @bfpnola​ @cistematicchaos​ 

Sources-

https://www.childtrends.org/publications/5-things-to-know-about-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-in-special-education#:~:text=In%20general%2C%20students%20of%20color,disabilities%20than%20are%20their%20peers.

https://www.nationaldisabilityinstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/disability-race-poverty-in-america.pdf

https://ihpi.umich.edu/news/forced-sterilization-policies-us-targeted-minorities-and-those-disabilities-and-lasted-21st

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09687599.2014.931652

https://twu.edu/media/documents/history-government/Autonomy-Revoked--The-Forced-Sterilization-of-Women-of-Color-in-20th-Century-America.pdf

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/fannie-lou-hamer

https://sdaction.org/about/disability-history/

https://psychnews.psychiatryonline.org/doi/full/10.1176/appi.pn.2020.7b27

https://digitalcommons.wou.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1283&context=his

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https://www.centerforlearnerequity.org/news/johnnie-lacy-an-advocate-for-independent-living/

#mogai bhm #mogai #mogai community #bhm #black history month #blm #black lives matter #ableism discussion #racism discussion #antiblackness discussion

[wetwareproblem]

Anyone else getting deeply suspicious of the spread of that movie trope where a white dude is cured and absolved of his racism by the relentlessly forgiving kindness of a non-white person or family?

Like. I just saw an ad for a Tom Hanks movie that straight-up sounds like "Manic Pixie Dream Girl for racism," and... I dunno. The whole thing just feels like an exercise in building reasons that racism is "not that bad" or "not his fault" and shift the responsibility for fixing it onto the victims.

#WWP: Ciel #Racism in media #Racism discussion

[tabby-shieldmaiden]

I came into Transformers as a fandom via watching some of the ‘older’ media* as a late teen, so I could be considered a ‘latecomer’ in some aspects. And honestly, as a latecomer, it was really jarring to go and find older posts back when Miko was considered the most annoying thing in the world. When I came in, the general atmosphere was really one where a lot of people really warmed up to her as a character. People liked their ‘unhinged’ female characters. She was silly and delightful to them. And I really liked that sort of environment. So it does become a real shock when I scroll back far enough and I encounter like, genuine Miko hate. Especially the more overtly racist and misogynistic stuff around her; that stuff just jumps out at you like a snake in the grass.

*Meaning the parts of the franchise that were not releasing new material at the time; my intro was Prime.

#tabby says something #like i think there was this comic comparing g1 vs prime #and they were comparing carly with miko and it was like #miko was painted as this 'otaku' weeb fantasy that was completely out of line with how she was in the show #and i really did feel like the only reason they had read her as such when they made the comic #was because she was a japanese character in a western animated production #anyways #transformers prime for ts #racism discussion

[lenasai]

(cw: anti-indigenous racism, gun violence)

i wanted to make people aware of this because, as far as i know, it's not being covered on national news (although it is being covered in local news, though sparingly)

the activist who was shot is recovering in the hospital and has a gofundme page set up to cover medical bills - please consider checking it out:

do at least read the statement if you can, the folks on the ground can say more about what happened than i ever could. solidarity and love to all who were affected by this senseless act of violence.

#current events #racism discussion #gun violence

[dogcasino]

Hey there I'm genuinely wondering why "yellow face frisk/kris" is a problem? As an Asian person I'm just happy protagonists are heavily implied as Asian in games and in fan arts

I don't see what's the issue here can you explain what you mean

hi! i'm really happy to explain my thoughts but before that i do want to say i am white and i do not want to tell you how to feel about this. if you still feel happy or take away a positive perspective from this, that's great! my perspective is based on what other asian people have said on the subject as well as what i know of historical racism against asian people and how that has manifested in art (specifically in the US, where undertale was made).

so firstly, i don't actually think frisk or kris were Intended to be asian by toby and i think it would be fairly upsetting with how their current designs are if they were. in my understanding, their designs resembling yellowface caricatures was an unfortunate coincidence, which was pointed out by fans with the hopes that there would be some form of course correction or acknowledgement that making a character with bright yellow skin, a brown bowlcut, and squinted eyes is, not ideal. instead, the design motifs (barring the eyes) were repeated in deltarune. people take issue with them because yellowface historically has not been used to represent asian people with kind intentions- i bring up US history because when i think of yellowface some prominent examples i think of are anti-japanese propaganda from WWII which led to the establishment of concentration camps for japanese americans and art in support of the chinese exclusion act targeting chinese immigrant laborers to keep them from being able to work in the US. both of these had real, horrible impacts on asian americans and the depictions of asian americans in art during these eras were reflections of the intentions to do harm to and dehumanize asian americans. because of the harmful past of these caricatures, i feel like many don't see kris and frisk's resemblance to them to be representation, but instead a hurtful accident that intentionally or not references a visual tool that has been used to harm asian people in the past and present on a political scale.

i think it would be amazing for frisk and kris to be asian but i think there would have been a better way to accomplish that than giving them unnatural skintones and making them resemble these caricatures. i don't intend to strip any potential asian identity from them by asking that people in the safeutdr tag draw them in natural skintones, and i believe many people do actually draw them as asian in the tag! i would also like to invite anyone else with thoughts on the matter to chime in, especially anyone who is also asian like anon. this is worth talking about and the last thing i want to do is say "i'm right so shut up" haha.

#asks #racism discussion #ask to tag #yellowface mention #from my own experience i am jewish and i do think looking at history is important to understanding the significance of caricatures #sometimes when seeing art resembling jewish caricatures i feel like i am overreacting but if i look up nazi propaganda i will see the same #thing. a drawing is often just a drawing in the present but in the past you can see how the full of effects about how that kind of sentimen #being popularized plays out. #TO BE CLEAR. i do not think toby was trying to be bigoted when designing frisk i think he stumbled on design motifs with a very #painful and unfortunate past and for whatever reason did not correct that mistake in deltarune or other subsequent art about the games #nazism mention #(in tags)

[buckbutch]

not to be a conspiracy theorist but the AO3 ddos attack feels so much like a false flag by terminally online (pro)shippers who want to act like saying "ao3 having child porn is bad" is equivalent to homophobic gay bashing and are using a Nebulously Evil Brown Country as their figurehead lol.

"We are Anonymous Sudan and we use words like smut, LGBTQ+, and NSFW in our serious politcal threats against America and attack a company which has no political power and makes no profit in a way which can be reversed in a few hours by volunteers"

#like i believe there was a ddos but like come on..... not even ao3 themselves believes that #cricket chirping #proship mention #racism discussion

[mexicancat-girl]

Just finished watching The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes in theaters earlier today. I've got a lot of thoughts.

Overall the movie felt like a mixed bag, but I enjoyed it.

Spoilers below

The main characters were all worse versions of themselves in the film, minus Coriolanus (and arguably the Dean). In fact, some of the cleverness and actions that other characters had were taken and given to him instead-- like Sejanus' plan to give Marcus food.

Kind of disappointed how they rewrote Sejanus in general... They took a lot of scenes away from him and watered down his character a lot. His Ma literally got zero lines and only one cameo, despite her being a huge reason as to why Coriolanus and Sejanus are seen as such good friends in the first place.

I was still devastated by that scene with Sejanus, but the pacing and the lack of Ma (and her food) bridging the gap between Snow and him made their friendship seem even more shallow.

The pacing overall didn't do the story favors. Everything felt rushed. Lucy Gray and Snow's romance felt like it was going through a speed-run and felt even less realistic than the book. Not the biggest romance person, but they could've added a little more there. They barely kissed except for once on screen.

Pacing was rushed at the start and things felt like they dragged at the end. But I liked how the Games themselves were restructured, it all felt like it made more sense and the quickness actually helped. Plus it added to the cinematic feeling to have the games end with Lucy Gray taming the snakes with her song than dragging things out with Reaper, and Reaper got a heroic death keeping the flag over the dead tributes he laid to rest.

Uh, what else... The added scene with Gaul after Lucy Gray wins, and having the entire school chant to let her get out Lucy Gray from the Arena, was... bad. Like, awful to sit through, and not just because of how cheesy it was.

Yes, Lucy moves the people in the Capitol and entertains them with her songs. But she isn't a revolutionary figurehead. That's not the point of her character. She sings to survive, not to make people stand up and demand change, not like Katniss would in the future. (Plus, these games get wiped out from record afterwards regardless, showing how little impact Lucy Gray truly has in the world of Panem.)

I get that it's because it'll make things dramatic and cinematic, but that scene was unnecessary. Gaul is already portrayed as being cruel and disliked because of this, we don't need a school full of chanting students questioning her authority and morality to add to that.

Plus it just looks bad that we have a dark-skinned black woman be seen as the cruelest and evilest character Ever, who is someone the main character (a white man) must stand up against so she stops being So Evil and Cruel to a lighter-skinned woman of color. Viola Davis is amazing in the role, but that added scene screams misogynoir by pitting her as the ultimate evil versus white boy Coriolanus, making him a white savior in the process.

Stripping the nuance of the characters played by actors of color seems to be a running theme in this film, actually. Or hell, some of them like Clemensia disappear entirely from the film. Would've loved to see her all fucked up from the snake bite and still trying to Mentor, her dynamic with Coriolanus was great.

Overall disappointed they watered down Lucy Gray and made her less spunky, plus took away a lot of her agency during the Games, too. Lucy Gray's dialogue/way of speech is so fucking awkward for a human to say aloud, so props to Rachel Zegler doing what she could with what she's given. Love her and love Lucy Gray.

Of all the characters that survived their massacre in the movie writing, Tigress was good. I liked her, even if we didn't see the full extent of her worry and what she does to help keep her family afloat. Plus her last line in the film, telling Coriolanus he looks like his father is chilling, A++

Uhhh, another positive? I liked the music. Bluegrass is a good choice for all the songs Lucy Gray sings, and Rachel Zegler has a fantastic voice. I'll definitely keep my eye out for the soundtrack later.

Cinematography was great. The fact they went to film in Poland to get a lot of the nature scenes and the Arena was worth it, it looks gorgeous on screen. Costuming was fantastic. And all the actors playing the tributes each gave them such wonderful character and personality no matter how little screentime we got of them, they're all so talented!

I overall liked the movie and found it enjoyable to watch. But the pacing and twisting of character motivations, a lot of which was used to prop up Coriolanus further and paint him as a more charitable protagonist, soured things for me.

#the ballad of songbirds and snakes #tbosas #film review #sejanus plinth #lucy gray baird #dr gaul #tigress snow #misogynoir #racism discussion #me being dumb

[furbearingbrick]

you, a dumbass: heritage not hate

me, an intellectual:

#history #junk from my recommended #racism discussion #antiblackness discussion #historical revisionism #i hate america i hate america i hate amer #im tired

[orbleglorb]

i understand the "believe all victims no matter what" stance but i really don't think a lot of these ppl know how false accusations of rape have been (and still are) weaponized against men of color. that didn't just stop after we came out of the 60s. like genuinely i understand why ppl want to believe all victims no matter what and i'm not condemning that, but there should be a certain point where you look at both party's races and you look at the victim's past statements (and possibly past accusations) and you look at your town's political climate and what type of people they routinely discriminate against, and you need to re-evaluate your trust in the victim

#also rape isn't a crime if a white guy does it but that's a different conversation #rape #tw rape #cw rape #racism #racism discussion #tw racism

[orchidvioletindigo]

You know, I'm wondering now if part of the reason why so many people have turned against Not Like Other Girls (besides girlboss feminism brainwashing people into believing that any girl or woman who rejects femininity and calls out bullying and oppression done by other girls and women has internalized misogyny) is because Hollywood's depictions of NLOGs are so incredibly sanitized and misogynistic and tailored to appeal to straight guys that they really do present NLOGs as girls and women who have unjustified victim complexes.

If your only exposure to NLOGs is silver screen Stacy who looks like a model but doesn't fit in with other girls because she enjoys sports and eating burgers and wearing women's bootcut jeans and reading, of course you're going to think that everyone who's ever claimed they couldn't fit in with the girls and women around them never had any real problems and was just trying to make themselves seem special to appeal to guys.

The only time Hollywood shows us fat, hairy, bare-faced NLOGs with textured hair and unflattering or unconventional clothing is if they get a makeover to remove all of those features. They certainly aren't allowed to be canonically LGBT+ or autistic. If they're girls of color, they're as white or white-passing as they can possibly be. They can't even keep their glasses, let alone be visibly disabled in any other way.

#misogyny discussion #fatphobia discussion #racism discussion #ableism discussion #LGBT+phobia discussion #classism discussion

[mogai-sunflowers]

i really haven’t seen many posts about this, as in i’ve only seen one and it didn’t even really explicitly talk about the labrys lesbian flag so i’m just going to say it: if you see “discourse” that amounts to “don’t use the labrys lesbian flag”, then please realize that that is not just “stupid flag discourse”. yes, most flag discourse is pointless and is based on stuff like “well this flag looks similar to another one” or “the creator of this flag supports mspec lesbians” and we can all agree that discourse like that is stupid and pointless.

the “discourse” about the labrys lesbian flag is not that. that flag contains the literal Nazi symbol that was used to designate the Romani and Sinti people in Nazi concentration camps. it was used for people deemed “Asoziale”, “asocial” which in this instance referred to people who were vagrants, prostitutes, and generally who fell outside social norms. among the people who were deisgnated with the Black Triangle were homeless people, migrants, prostitutes, but most prominently Romani and Sinti people, who were literally marked with the Black Triangle and the German variant of the g slur on it. 

the labrys lesbian flag is, first and foremost, a white supremacist symbol. there’s a big difference between queer people using the pink triangle in reclamation, and non-roma queers using a white supremacist symbol. so if you see “discourse” over this flag, please remember that it’s not just “discourse” it is literally asking you not to use a white supremacist symbol. 

if you want to learn more about Nazi symbols so you can avoid/recognize them when you see them, i recommend visiting the website for the german auschwitz memorial museum, specifically here

#🌌when the stars align ; reigns rambles🌌 #tw nazi #nazi tw #tw nazism #nazism tw #tw racism #racism tw #tw white supremacy #white supremacy tw #racism discussion