“Racial disparity in transformative assets became especially striking to Shapiro during interviews with middle-class black Americans. “They almost always talk about financial help they give family members. People come to them,” Shapiro said. But when he asked white interviewees if they were lending financial support to family members, he said, “I almost always get laughter. They’re still getting subsidized.”
So, update on the asshole who got himself killed by deliberately trespassing on Sentinel Island… He was not a missionary, but a travel blogger masquerading as a missionary to gain access and treat the Sentinelese as a zoo exhibit (whilst exposing them to germs, and encouraging other intruders).
Again: It is illegal for outside people to barge onto Sentinel Island (borders: they kinda work that way. And a lot of white Americans seem real excited about ‘protecting the border’ with deadly force. Just saying.)
The last outsiders to arrive kidnapped a bunch of Sentinelese people and also introduced deadly diseases, so they have more than enough reasons to use force to fend off invasion.
This asshole was warned multiple time not to go there.
He was going for some extreme travel adventure blog, which is the epitome of colonizer nonsense: disrespecting indigenous sovereignty, endangering indigenous lives, and treating indigenous people like a zoo exhibit, all so he could make a quick buck.
PS. Thanks for getting the right-wing Christian crowd all riled up against indigenous people with your missionary stunt, bro!
Sometimes i wish white people would like ask themselves “Am i unnecessarily exposing black people and/or people of color to racism/anti-blackness they otherwise wouldnt have encountered?”
When you white people share these graphic videos of black people getting shot in the streets or immigrant crying for their parents are very traumatizing for people of color to see over and over 24/7 365, because this is still our lived experiences and these things can happen to us and our communities!!
Exposing us to unnecessary racism is racism!!!
white people can reblog
ok i understand where your coming from, but that picture of the immigrant child specifically and sometimes other horrible racial things need to be shown, they’re not being shown to people of color and marginalized groups, they know this happens, they deal with it everyday, this is for people like myself who need reminding that this shit continues and for those that believe racism and the like are dead. I don’t deal with racism on a daily basis and other white people don’t either and in order to do something about it we need to see that it exists and is bad. The police don’t want these shootings recorded, the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see crying children, but because we did we can move forward to do something. If this evil is not seen by everyone, not everyone will believe there is evil and it will flourish.
wow i love how you admit that you/other whites need to see and spread graphic horrible thing happen to people of color to “empathize” and see us a s human
evil doesnt always need to be seen, evil is felt and if you cant feel the evil ass whiteness in your response then idk what the hell to tell you
if people don’t see it they will claim it doesn’t exist no matter how much of a problem it is. Remember that slave auction in Libya, if that video didn’t exist many people wouldn’t believe it. My point ISN’T that we need to see suffering to humanize people (although some assholes do and it is disgusting) My point is that many people think it doesn’t happen and need undeniable proof (like a video) that these problems exist.
You say there is no reason to expose you to unnecessary racism and you are right but the white people who think racism is in the past need to be exposed to it because they think its in the past because they aren’t seeing it. You can’t feel evil if it isn’t near you, and the point of sharing these pics/videos is bring it closer to home to the people who aren’t near it like whites and republicans who never see these things.
White people like me need to see or we will forget
White people like them need to see or they won’t even know
empathetic and compassionate people dont need see to injustice and suffering to know that its happening and that its something that needs to be changed
thanks for reaffirming the lack of empathy white people have for people of color
One more thing before I finish my break: It’s incredibly worrisome the speed with which non-Black marginalized folks assume Black people are inherent bigots. We’re assumed to be relatively more (anti-LGBTQ, anti-Semitic, etc) than our non-Black peers so often and it’s really concerning. It definitely feels like a way to justify reflexive anti-Blackness.
like the “Florida will be underwater xD” jokes are all cute and funny until you realize all the poor brown and black people, especially immigrants, in (south) Florida who will be battered with hurricanes from global warming and get little to no help from the government…..like these people consistently vote blue but by all means get ur top kek
Brazil did it. Brazil elected a neo-facist, racist, homophobic asshole to govern our country and the consequences about it it’s already happening.
In less than 24h since he’s been elected it’s been hell of fucking earth in Brazil. Countless people have been reported dead all over the country, mainly LGBTQ+. Countless. People parading around cities with their fucking guns (it’s pretty much illegal in Brazil but this asshole is trying to change our law to allow guns, he’s even encouraging parents to give their kids a gun ????), shooting it into the sky in sign of victory. Did you know that one of those bullets killed a child? Yeah. One killed an old lady too. There’s been report of them invading a indigenous village and attacked them. They’ve been saying they are going to kill every single “slut”, “fag”, “dyke”, poor people, Nordestino (people that lives in Nordeste, a region in Brazil, that is mainly against this government), black and homeless people. Aka in the last 24h Brazil felt what is like to live in the fucking Purge.
There’s already people recruiting “good citizens” to erradicate Brazil of “fags and dykes, because now that their master’s been elected, there’s nothing protecting them, they’re not even people.” I kid you not. They’ve created group chats in popular apps to talk about mass shooting the LGBTQ+ community in Brazil. Yesterday there were people waiting outside a queer club to beat anyone that went outside.
Our police enforcement already started to invade college campuses and schools to destroy history books because they think our teachers are indoctrinating us in favor of communism. These history books tells about our 1964 military dictatorship (something we’re very afraid of happening again and we’re pretty sure is gonna happen with this demon in charge). They are trying to say that we choose to elect a military government back then, when in fact was a fucking coup. They’re also trying to get rid of philosophy classes and social studies because they think it only teach us to become communists as well. Basically, they’re all very ignorant and violents and they’re trying to fuck with the only fucking hope we have to our future: education.
You won’t probably hear many of the things I’m saying because I’ve been reading it on social media, and everything we (the opposition) say on social media is basically reported as “fake news” by his voters. But yeah, I can’t count how many videos I’ve saw today of women getting beaten and threatened. Of how many stories I’ve read of people walking the streets and cars pullover poiting guns at them and threaten them. Of people posting pictures of their “victory bbq” with guns spread in their tables close to their fucking meat. Of how many times I’ve cried since his pronouncement, thinking about how I’ve never felt so unsafe in my entire life. Of how I’ll have to be cautious about everything from now on, if I don’t want to become another casualty.
If you don’t believe what I’m saying, read about what foreign news are talking about us:
Jair Bolsonaro, a fascist, pro military dictatorship, racist, misogynist, and homophobe, has been elected Brazilian president. My heart goes out to all Brazilians who are in danger and living in fear right now because of him and his horrid followers.
wrt the laquan mcdonald case the cop’s defense tried (and luckily failed) to move the trial out of cook into the much whiter lake county, barred all but one black person from the jury, and argued that van dyke had the responsibility to keep shooting 17-year-old laquan while he was bleeding out onto the ground he lay on because he “twitched towards his knife” and therefore posed a threat
chicago police also threatened eyewitnesses into silence, deleted footage of the incident from nearby restaurant security cameras and purposefully filed several fabricated several reports corroborating the cop’s lies about being provoked into shooting
Like when I say ‘white people need to talk to bigots because bigots don’t listen to minorities’ I did not say ‘and it will be easy and fun’.
I know it’s easier to be like ~boo hooo the world is so evil and there’s nothing I can dooo~ but it’s statistically and experientially understood, just by fucking 3rd grade logic, that a bigot will be less amenable towards the subject of their bigotry.
Bigots don’t just ~not like~ minorities- they don’t think we’re human. It’s not about whether they agree with you or not in the moment. Like, pause.
Understand this:
Calls to action for white people to oppose bigotry are calls for white people to position themselves as opposition. THEY ARE NOT CALLS FOR ~SUCCESSFUL DEBATE~
Do not think you are expected nor are you likely to just go around arguing with bigots and they’ll go ‘I agree with you because you’re white!’.
Your job is to be sandpaper.
Every time they open their mouths to make a bigoted joke, or a bigoted remark, or post their shitty bigoted opinion online, you grate against them.
Your job is to make it hard to be a bigot or a fascist. Your job is to ostracize them. Your job is to speak over them the way they love to speak over minorities. Your job is to make it difficult, lonely, annoying, stressful and unwelcome to be a bigot.
When you are white and silent, You are making it easy. You are just letting it happen.
When minorities speak up for themselves, they are in danger, and the bigot just writes off our arguments as the chattering of ‘lessers’.
You, white people, whether you think so or not, are their peers.
Specifically those of you who look and talk like, to an outside observation, your average white american.
Bigots think you all think like them, but are too scared to say it. That, or you’re too much of a coward to stop them.
YOUR JOB IS TO PUSH BACK AND PROVE THEM WRONG.
YOUR JOB IS TO SEPARATE THEM FROM THEIR OWN COMMUNITY AT LARGE.
There are devils among you and if you want to stop being associated with them then fucking prove it. You’re pretty much the only people who can.
j.k.r. needs like one close friend to sit her down and go: “okay, but, go over this with me again. you decided the evil snake your dark wizard kept as a pet and vessel of his fragmented horrific soul – the one that has to be murdered in order to defeat the evil wizard – is in fact….an asian woman who was cursed to eventually become a beast and monster in her own body. am i getting this right? the asian woman turns into a snake because her bloodline is cursed and then she becomes the pet of a white supremacist with magic. you invented a body curse specifically for turning women into monsters and your first thought was not like, subversion of fairy tale misogyny but….to add a layer of racism? just trying to understand here.”
Or mayhaps, Political correcteness is in sure need of a close friend to sit down and be able to keep perspective?
Grindelwald, as a character on paper, is not racist. He doesn`t care, as long Wizards get to sit on the top of the pyramid instead of continuing to hide in plain sight and non-wizards consent to that view. Voldermort, on the other hand was indeed all about “pure blood”.
Is there anything in the trailer that claims or tries to claim that only female asians can be cursed? No? I didn`t see it either.
Can we just cool on this social modern trend of ruining storytelling?
me: hey friend of political correctness, there’s this trope that has been used to demonize asian women for the last idk, eighty years in cinema, and I think it’s kinda bad. how do you propose we put that in perspective. i mean the racist trope of the Dragon lady came out of Yellow Peril – which was extreme racism towards asians – and is identified often by making an asian woman look exotic and associating her with dragons or snakes and being very sexual. this whole reveal is a literalization of the dragon lady because this woman is physically going to become a snake. there are entire books written on this one form of racism.
Dragon Lady Stereotype: The Dragon Lady is an ethnic stereotype of East Asian women found in America and other Western societies. The Dragon Lady stereotype is one of the major East Asian woman archetypes utilized in American fictional works in literature, media, and theater and is defined as a strong, deceitful, authoritarian, or mysterious woman of Asian descent. Dragon Ladies are also calculating, clever, and sexually alluring exotic woman determined to seduce white men. The inception of the stereotype is hard to pinpoint, but its stereotypical nature has connections to the racism toward people of Asian descent during the Yellow Peril years in the late 19th century and the sexist attitudes toward East Asian women as sexual objects.
Historically, East Asian societies have long traditions of women serving in positions of power. However, these histories challenged the larger spectrum of Western patriarchal beliefs, which were particularly widespread during the early 20th century. Therefore, the Dragon Lady image is the antithesis of the submissive, subservient, and exotic Asian sex doll stereotype. The term has been applied numerous times to Asian film actresses and politicians throughout the 20th century.
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Welch, Rosanne. Women in American History: a Social, Political, and Cultural Encyclopedia and Document Collection [4 Volumes], edited by Peg A. Lamphier, and Rosanne Welch, ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2017.
It’s almost like this is a thing that is actually a big deal, with a lot of history behind it. that’s not even the full entry, it’s longer than that.
actually this is specifically something that gets taken up a lot in regards to popular culture because it’s a trope that originated FROM pop culture. just searching this for articles and books I get a lot of hits on the subject:
including ones that focus on things like Batman’s Talia al Ghul! And Wolverine!
it’s almost like this is somehow indicative of a pattern i did not personally invent
that affects women, particularly asian women
even in non-acting worlds, like idk, Law.
I just think maybe this is worth noting because it has a nearly century long history that is recognized by a range of scholars and just regular people who have been affected by it.
“Friend of Political Correctness”: yeah but like,,, without racism, how will we tell stories?
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