#racism deniers

[thatdiva]

#slavery #ron desantis #jason aldean #education #politics #florida #racism deniers #whitewashing history #crt #critical race theory #dei

[odinsblog]

#jason aldean #try that in a small town #politics #republicans #country music #racism #racism deniers #casual racism

[overleftdown]

"In addition, we should not assume that one kind of oppression is more important than another or that being advantaged in one dimension of life somehow cancels out other dimensions that often result in disadvantage. ...In a similar vein, well-off people of color cannot 'buy' their way out of racism. Despite their economic privilege, middle- and upper-class nonwhites experience institutional and interpersonal racism on a regular basis." - Desmond and Emirbayer

#farleigh start #saltburn #saltburn 2023 #i said this earlier and found a great quote from my textbook lmfao #for all u deniers and ignorers of racism directed at farleigh... #grah grahgfhd

[vampboyblogging]

Respectfully, I’m tired of white trans people thinking that their experience being trans is the same as mine. Or that being a black transmasc (or any transmasc of color, actually) is the same as being a white transmasc.

The sheer amount of white trans people (yes that includes transfemmes and trans women) that make generalizations about what it’s like to be trans…it’s so fucking irritating. White transmascs think that us being transmasc/trans men makes us the pinnacle of privilege, while white trans women/transfemmes elevate that idea. And the kicker is the fact that both of them don’t even realize how privileged that point of view is.

I’m begging y’all to stop and listen to us for FIVE SECONDS. Some of you seriously treat POC transmascs like shit and it’s fucking annoying.

White people please stop putting yourself at the forefront of everything and then getting mad/confused when people tell you that your experience isn’t universal.

#I’m so tired #and I know the reading comprehension is piss poor but this post isn’t a ‘white people bad’ post #it’s a ‘white ppl stop speaking over poc’ challenge #this especially goes out to white transandrophobia deniers #transandrophobia #racism mention

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Links:

[1] https://www.aclu.org/issues/voting-rights/fighting-voter-suppression/fighting-voter-id-requirements

[2] https://spreadthevote.org/voter-id-states

[3] https://www.judiciary.senate.gov/imo/media/doc/Tolson%20Testimony1.pdf

[4] https://www.aclu.org/documents/oppose-voter-id-legislation-fact-sheet

[5] https://www.educationnext.org/teachers-should-replace-the-soft-bigotry-of-low-expectations-with-the-suspension-of-disbelief/

[6] https://glennloury.substack.com/p/loury-vs-mcwhorter-voter-supression

Original research paper:

https://www.skeptic.com/research-center/data-briefs/Data-Brief_VoterID.pdf

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See also:

Reasons given by college students for why voter ID is "racist":

Black people less likely to have ID, or particular type of ID

Black people can't get to the DMV

Black people can't afford the internet

Black people don't know how to use the internet.

Black people don't have data on their phones or don't know how to use it

Black people are uninformed

Black people are often felons

Most of them appear to just be regurgitating ACLU talking points as virtuous "antiracism" activism and have never actually considered how infantilizing and actually racist these beliefs about black citizens are. It was genuinely shocking to me to hear these things come out of their mouths as virtuous progressive beliefs, rather than from a white Southern sheriff from the 60s.

Where I'm from, voter ID is required. It's not always requested, and I've only had to show mine a couple of times ever. But they do random spot checks and nobody thinks any more of it than showing your ID when you open a bank account or collect a parcel from the post office. (Seriously, how do they think black people pick up a parcel from the post office?)

Now, it's possible that there could be racial profiling when asking for voter ID, and that should certainly be addressed. But the idea that black Americans can live their entire lives in their own country without having an ID, knowing where the DMV Is or how to get there, and without being able to figure out the most basic aspects of "the internet" is full-blown progressive racism. That is actual white supremacy.

You would think after the elections of 2000, 2016 and 2020, there would be bipartisan agreement to improve the integrity of elections. But apparently not.

#Skeptic Research Center #voter ID #voter ID laws #progressive racism #neoracism #antiracism as religion #antiracism #election integrity #election interference #election denialism #election deniers #religion is a mental illness

[beeben]

I read these like anti Christianity whatever or even like someone whos not anti Christian just explaining something cus everyone always assumes all religion follows the same rules as Christianity but in different words which i get its annoying but some of u act like the religion itself makes u evil or dumb or something its just kinda weird. Like i understand having religious trauma but i doubt every single person who bitches about us has religious trauma from Christianity specially and nothing else... Like in any religion theres overzealous people and any religion has people who misinterpreted the teachings but its so normal for yall to act like Christians are too stupid to use the Internet and read the mean shit you say

#like saying all of us are science deniers or abuse women or are ok with racism #its just not true.

[isaksbestpillow]

Some facts about the finnish parliamentary election:

1. True Finns aka populist white nationalists and climate change deniers are now our second biggest party

2. Prime minister post goes to conservatives

3. A guy who got kicked out of conservatives for grooming teenage girls joined the white nationalists and got re-elected

4. Remontti-Reiska ('Renovation Ray') who's been doing renovation shows on tv since the 90s got elected with over 7000 votes representing the white nationalists

5. Leader of white nationalists got the most votes out of any candidate in the entire country after telling literal lies on tv. She's also the youth's favourite candidate.

6. The white nationalists didn't release an election manifesto because they literally have nothing to offer yet people keep buying it

7. I feel sick

#it's gonna be hard to for the conservatives to build a coalition #the nationalists are all talk and the left won't be eager to join after losing so badly #i worry for a lot of people in finland right now #my brother's friend just killed herself and we're voting for racism and austerity???? #the planet is going up in flames and we're voting for climate change deniers?????

[racke7]

I think one of the easiest comparisons for the movement of “don’t support JKR” is this:

Imagine if Donald Trump was... exactly the same as he is now, but he had a voice that could just... make a wolverine purr. Imagine that.

Now, even if his voice was objectively fucking orgasmic to listen to, why the fuck would you ever invite him to speak on literally anything at all?

“Oh, but his voice is really nice to listen to-”

“Every word out of his mouth is some level of hate-speech.”

“Yeah, but if you just don’t listen to what he says, but just his voice-”

“You’re showing your friends videos of him saying horrible things, and sighing about his voice. You’re giving him money to keep saying shit, and a platform to say shit from. Do you think your friends are going to assume that you “only care about his voice”? Or are they going to get the fuck away from you, before you start spouting the same shit he is?“

And like... if you’re so desperate for a “good voice” to listen to just... invest some time into looking for really good ASMR-stuff instead?

#(also - hate to make a joke about this - but like... what's the average time-frame of ''TERF to holocaust-denier''?) #(bcs considering how that's usually where that slippery slope is going - and jkr is showing no signs of slowing down) #(and is in fact gleefully doubling-down on being a figurehead for a hate-movement - i think that might be where she's going) #jk rowling #bad stuff #racism

[scentedluminarysoul]

So, a German terf is now claiming that trans people were not arrested during Nazi Germany, that they were left alone oh and SS soldiers wore women's clothes for fun sometimes, so they liked trans people!

At the same time, two white female media figures made a podcast on why they want to keep using the N-word and how PoC can't ban that!

Just in case you wanted to know how Germany is doing 🙃

#germany #nazi #racism #not good #germany is doing not good #besides these fun things #poor people are told to not spend so much money #gas for heating might get shut off ''for the economy'' #wheelchair users are expected to pay MORE for using a taxi than ableds #paying a small flatrate for public transport is the worst thing since 1945 for some politicians #others want to incarcerate climate activists for protesting #even though the right to protest is so important here #they let literal nazis march for two years side by side with covid deniers #and don't ask about our covid guidelines #(we don't have any) #it's fun here

[hussyknee]

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One let himself be arrested and stripped of his boxing license for refusing to go murder brown people for a country that treated him worse than a dog. The other *checks notes* threw a tantrum because Australia wouldn't let him in to play without getting the covid vaccine.

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#muhammad ali #sports #anti vaxxers #covid deniers #racism #anti blackness #white supremacy #white people #black history #knee of huss

[odinsblog]

#politics #mlkjr #whitewashing history #black history #racism deniers #mlk jr #revisionist history #civil rights #blacklivesmatter #martin luther king jr

[genderjester]

German politics is when a right wing politician having had a disgustingly violently antisemitic flyer in his backpack when he was in school is a controversy that doesnt kill his career and even allows him to stylize himself into the victim role to a good chunk of people but empathizing with palestinians will get u on an antisemite watchlist as an immediate kneejerk reaction in many ppls minds like. HELLO ARE WE GOOD ARE WE LIKE OK ARE WE USING OUR BRAINS AND HEARTS HERE?? 2 MILLION PALESTINIANS ARE BEING SUBJECTED TO GENOCIDAL VIOLENCE CAN WE STOP PRETENDING LIKE THE NEWBORNS IN THE HOSPITAL ARE TERRORISTS CAN WE STOP PRETENDING CARPET BOMBING CIVILLIANS IS SELF DEFENSE?? CAN WE STOP FUCKING DEHUMANIZING PALESTINIANS!!!!! WHAT THE FUCK!!!!!

#somehow what ppl took away from history ended up being support israel under any and all circumstances and not how to recognize genocide #depressing #sel talks #ppl also do not rly care abt antisemitism that much here unless a muslim or immigrant did it and they can intrumentalise it for racism #bc clearly germany has never had a domestic antisemitism problem it's all just imported from those pesky illegal immigrants /s #it's not like theres a disturbingly popular party rn that contains several ppl that have been in the news over minimizing the holocaust #or defensing holocaust deniers #i feel sick actually.

[nando161mando]

"FWIW, CPAC Australia was fronted by the two Indigenous faces of the 'No' to 'The Voice' campaign, sponsored by (among a handful of others) Christian nationalist crowdfunding site Give Send Go (whose two co-founders were speakers at the event last weekend in Sydney) and featured an array of climate change denialists, racists, reactionaries & semi-professional transphobes -- along with the former Australian Prime Minster, Tony Abbott."

via @slackbastard

#ausgov #politas #australia #auspol #tasgov #taspol #fwiw #cpac 2023 #cpac #the voice #indigenous #fuck neoliberals #christianity #christofascists #christiannationalism #givesendgo #sydney #climate change denial #climate change deniers #racism #reactionaries #reactionary politics #transphobes #tony abbott #neoliberal capitalism #anthony albanese #albanese government #bigotry #bigots #hypocrite

[theworld-accordingtocasey]

Many conservative females won’t get this until the white men come for them.

You aren’t the target for tomorrow, but you will be one day, and the rest of us will neither want to be, nor be able to be champions for your rights once that day comes.

I first read this quote from the 1940’s while in training to be a School Safety Ambassador & Peer Mediator. Even though it was meant to be regarding the Holocaust, it always stuck with me. A shame that so many people older than I was then and now, never absorbed it or don’t see how it’s still relevant.

#racism #supreme court #civil rights #the Holocaust taught lessons people still don’t understand #i think about this quote a lot #equality #affirmative action #inclusion is a choice #Holocaust deniers do not come here you are not welcomed in my presence #this is america #this post-racial america nonsense republicans are spewing simply DOES NOT EXIST #& i am both disappointed & amused at the Asian Americans who sided with the white people on this decision…but one day they’ll see #the pedestal they thought they were standing on next to white people only existed to further put the rest of us down #but once we aren’t there to break the fall you’ll be kicked down to the ground next #that goes for you too white girls who have your eyes closed #history repeats itself #he’s German but it’s core values have the same meaning #pity #one day it’ll be too late

[big-bird-nerd]

I know people have grown immune to the notions of “both sides-ism,” which is the proper move when you’re dealing with politics and history that you have direct experience with, are directly affected by, and know the history of. I think what people don’t realize is that the bourgeoisie will and does weaponize this to promote belief in racist myths, using it as a method to make people resistant to or outright immune to actually studying the conditions and history of the place they are trying to make you hate. I really think people would do well to understand why and how the Protocols Of The Elders Of Zion functioned well as propaganda despite being complete and total bullshit, and yes it’s because people wouldn’t listen to Jewish people who told you it was bullshit because it played on very real hatred of Jewish people and of fears born of violence and oppression people faced in their everyday lives (which was not from Jewish people, but the bullshit protocols tell you otherwise).

Like, if someone is making a massive claim about something occurring in another place, particularly if it’s weirdly familiar to things happening where you’re living, and there is a large amount of people *from within the groups being talked about* who deny the claims, you should probably at least be ambivalent, if not use that as a sign for further research.

“But information from the other side is biased!” It is good to be aware of biased information. Understand that there is no unbiased information; the information you know is also biased info. It requires research of multiple perspectives to determine the truth from biased sources. The best way to determine degrees of truth within biased sources is to study the histories of the locations and relations between the cultures in question.

“Information from the other side is propaganda!” It is good that you’ve grown aware to the basic functioning of propaganda and are staying aware of how information manipulated you. Keep in mind; people said the same thing about Jews denying the Elders Of The Protocols Of Zion, a document that any sensible modern person knows was bullshit. If you’re afraid of being manipulated through misinformation, then read critically, but do not deny something just because it’s inconvenient to your current understanding of social oppression, one that is itself still biased. Also understand that since all information is biased, any political information is necessarily propaganda, which includes the sources of whatever has given you your current information; you should be reading that critcally too to avoid being manipulated. In fact, you’re vastly more susceptible to propaganda from home since the propaganda is actively targeting you, as propaganda tends to focus largely if not entirely within the confines of the country the government operates; nobody gives a shit how Americans feel about their country insofar as Americans aren’t actively calling to blow them up.

“Oppression isn’t unique to America/the west, and we must stand with all people who are oppressed!” This is correct information; oppression has a history across the entirety of the world. However, what it’s missing is an understanding of the meaning behind the fact that oppression is systemic and how this relates to being part of a colonial, imperial country. While your energy is not wrong on an individual level, the fact that it doesn’t account for your own racist colonial government makes it misguided in a way that supports the racist colonial system where you live. Racist misinformation and myths are used to manufacture consent for colonial and imperial violence upon another nation. That means uncritically spreading and believing such information promotes the colonial and imperial characteristics of your government.

To stop dancing around the biggest example of this; while you may have only the best of intentions for people in North Korea, the fact is that misinformation that makes people afraid and hateful of the DPRK, yes even its government, exists to justify the imperial history and ongoing actions that your governments take part in. They aren’t interested in saving the people of Korea any more than they were when they were “spreading Christianity to the natives to save their souls.” Their interest is in stealing the trillions of dollars worth of minerals in the DPRK, which necessarily means massacring the people who currently live and work there and devastating the landscape in potentially irreparable ways. This is already well proven from how the Korean War went, with some villages completely and totally destroyed by US bombing, as well as the use of biological warfare, which has had long term consequences on Korea as a whole and beyond; the US doesn’t care because protecting the people isn’t on their agenda, they just want the minerals.

Discussing the nature of misinformation is not overlooking or erasing the existence of oppression and bigotry in other countries any more than acknowledging The Elders Of The Protocols Of Zion is complete and total misinformation is denying the existence of Jewish bourgeoisie (a minority but still technically existing) or denying the imperial colonial violence enacted by the Israeli government on Palestine. People did not spread the Protocols because they predicted the current state of Israel and wanted to stop it, they wanted an excuse for perfoming and enacting pogroms on Jewish people, up to and including Shoah.

To use a more historic example, there was a lot of oppression and systemic violence in the Aztec Empire. According to surviving reports, it was an expansionist slave empire, not exactly the best of places to live. However, you see I said ‘surviving.’ The remaining accounts are largely Spanish colonial accounts, as the Spanish completely destroyed the empire, massacred the peoples across South America, assimilating and genociding peoples wherever they went. Even if all accounts of the horrors of the Aztecs were completely and totally true (which is rather doubtful but I’m not an expert), it does not mean the information was learned and spread because the Spanish wanted to save the Aztecs. It is an excuse for the genocide was enacted upon people. People back in Spain probably had good intentions when they talked about improving the life conditions of people in Spain. Improvement to life conditions did not occur; life was destroyed and people were enslaved to a genocidal power, and to this day are still fighting back strongly against the systems of oppression that continue trying to kill everyone off. Even if the entirety of the Spanish colonizers said they only hated the Aztec government, it doesn’t mean the violence they perpetrated did not primarily target the civilians and even the oppressed groups and slaves.

“It doesn’t matter if it’s a lie, I’m not going to be acting on it and I don’t support the state anyway.” People do not make up lies about a hated national group with good intentions in their heart, and the existence of such lies should immediately alert you to violent intent, and spreading those lies must be understood as supporting those violent intentions and actions. This is what it means for racism to be systemic; your individuals beliefs and intentions don’t matter if your actions allow for the systemic oppression and violence towards these groups.

Western governments, and particularly the US, represent the most powerful global imperial force. They do and will continue to use misinformation to manipulate people into submitting to its systems of violence that seeks to oppress not just people in its own borders, but those in other borders too. You don’t have to like the governments of other countries, feel free to dislike the governments of China, Russia, DPRK, Cuba, Venezuela, Vietnam, or whatever. If you are truly anti-racist though, you must not spread racist misinformation, even if to you it only would be harmful to the governments of those cultural groups; the government doesn’t lie to criticize the governments of other nations, but to push towards war to crush, rob, rape, and murder the people who live in their borders. Being anti-racist must necessarily mean not spreading these lies and even better, not allowing those you know to believe and spread such lies, for the good of the oppressed people in your own country as much as around the world. After all, misinformation spreads and creates hatred, and the people living within your own borders will enact that hatred on the people in your country, even if you won’t.

#long post #this will probably be ignored #but I'm getting sick of seeing people with genuine anti-racist attitudes being manipulated into being racist #especially with accusations of being a genocide denier or a foreign spy or whatever #I've already seen the US setting up a story that Alaska natives are pro-Russia because some follow Russian Orthodoxy #and preparing to say that any calls for independence would come from this group #this misinformation not only affects global geopolitics #but the racism and politics within your own borders too #truth should be challenging #if the story you hear is too convenient for the actions being done by your government #there is probably something either missing #or being lied about #anyway #end all sanctions

[bellamer]

The Harry Potter Millennials were quick to jump Miriam Margolyes about what she said but now they’re all turned around, covering their eyes and ears when JK Rowling just went full holocaust denier just like they did with her transphobia and racism.

And the fact that they proved Miriam right with their absolutely absurd behavior too. They’re terrible people who will whine and cry if a kid got picked over them to do the stupid wand store attraction thing at Universal Studios, they need to grow the fuck up. I actually saw a video of a grown ass woman in her 30s crying about how kids always get picked for a KIDS ATTRACTION and not adults and how it isn’t fair and that she paid money for her vacation, so she should have gotten the chance to be picked.

So yeah Miriam is right, JK Rowling can die in a fire and Harry Potter Adults are just as rancid and stinky as Disney Adults.

Also the fact that they act like Harry Potter is her one acting credit , they do that shit every time a actor who was in the movie goes against JK Rowling and and act like she’s the reason why everyone got their start when they’ve been acting for years before that, why the fuck do you think they got picked ? Maybe if they read another book or watched another film series and consumed any other media that wasn’t barfed up from JK Rowling they’d know that.

THAT IS MISS GLOW WORM FROM JAMES AND THE GIANT PEACH AND YOU WILL PUT SOME RESPECT ON HER MOTHER FUCKING NAME

#jk rowling #miriam margolyes #james and the giant peach