because you’re stereotyping a country with something incredibly incredibly negative and acting like it’s what represents them in the world.
associating colombia with cocaine and the cartels is like associating every single muslim with ISIS. do you get how racist that would be? because the cartels are literally ISIS in colombia, they were the biggest users of modern day terrorism originally. bombs, kidnappings, public killings, they’ve used it all.
it’s also a very personal situation.
you know how nobody makes any jokes about 9/11 in the US? that’s because 3,000 people were killed.
over 500,000 people have been killed in colombia over the drug wars.
because what cocaine for colombia is is a “war”. it’s not a drug, it’s actual warfare that has been going on for over 60 years. there were over 5 million refugees having to flee their homes at one point because of it. the people most impacted are indigenous people who live in the mountains and jungles (a good place to originally hide from the conquistadors) but are where the drug traffickers hide.
one of our own players cuadrado had to hide under his bed when guerillas came and shot and killed his father in another room. that’s something he lived through.
so i know westerners think it’s cute and funny and seem to enjoy this idea we live in these weird backwards ways and do nothing but fight each other for drugs because we’re “monkeys” and “animals” and “thugs” according to tweets i saw yesterday, but this issue has had a huge impact on colombia and we don’t think it’s funny. we’re not proud of cocaine, we don’t use it the way england does (third on the list of users and we’re somewhere at the bottom), and if you think think it’s funny it only shows you’re really ignorant and have no respect for the devastation it’s caused our country.
White people who openly say that “Diversity is a code word for white genocide” are explicitly stating white people are too weak to survive if they have to compete equally for resources and would literally die out- literally go extinct- without being protected and isolated for their safety.
Y’all white people need to do something about those weak links among you.
It might seem like this argument would work but it doesn’t 😦 I mean, it works against people who are on the fence, but committed white supremacists already have a practiced answer: the white race is always the best and smartest and strongest and whenever they’re not, it’s because traitors on the inside (Jewish people) stabbed them in the back. It’s the same argument Hitler used to rise to power: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stab-in-the-back_myth
This is an incredibly powerful explanatory model if you choose to believe in it. Everything good you do is because you’re naturally good and deserve it: everything bad you do is because an enemy made you do it.
It also doesn’t work for the same reason why “so you think you’re the master race but Asians and Jews are inherently smarter?” doesn’t work. They don’t so much see themselves as the best at everything ever as much as the creators of everything wonderful that has existed. They see all the pretty cathedrals in Europe and go “this is the pinnacle of human achievement and we will never get back to anything like it.” They think any intermixing between White and non-White cultures will lead to the end of civilization as we know it. They justify all of this with some really bad evolutionary psychology. It’s all rubbish of course but it’s attractive to people who are willfully ignorant of science and history.
He deleted and reposted it but here’s an archive version
A. Wyatt Mann is the alias of a disgustingly racist cartoonist popular among the alt right, if you don’t know. The cartoon contained anti-Semitic, anti-Asian, and anti-Black caricatures
Libertarians Will Inevitably Become Fascists, exhibit 354c
It’s people on Shuri Udaku’s internet who really think Shades DREADED Mariah’s… anything. I can’t relate. That man climbed into her personal space at every opportune moment.
Shades been sweating Mariah from moment he laid eyes on her. To the point she actually called him out about his thirst. Or do they not realize what that exchange meant when she asked Cornell , ‘Does your guard need a drink of water?’
And you’re right he almost always initiated physical contact. Intent on making sure she wasn’t distancing herself physically or emotionally.
This man has done everything but literally drool on her and people still convince themselves he was not interested in her sexually.
i don’t know the original context, but i do know there’s a significant number of people who have a gut-level negative reaction to m/f femdom or anything like it–the other side of the coin of the gut-level positive reaction society trains us to have to m/f relationships where the sexual and/or emotional power dynamic goes the other way–and “compliment” the man by imagining he has the “right” feelings about it and refusing to see what’s actually going on
That may play into it, since she’s much more overtly sexual. I tend to think her age and complexion account for MOST of the problem, either separately or combined.
There are seriously dummies out there who ended this season thinking he wasn’t really into her? Dude was in love. He says it when he has no possible ulterior motive for doing so.
He shoots a guy in the head for insulting her race and appearance, a guy they needed for business purposes. (Unfortunately the subtitles don’t translate what he’s saying, but it’s pretty racist and colorist) I was afraid starting this season that they might write it as him using her or what have you, but killing Arturo was a huge inconvenience, and he had no reason to do it other than genuine rage that this guy was tacking shit about the woman he loved.
@i-just-like-commenting EXACTLY! That was actually the first mistake in what ended up being a series of unfortunate events.😂 Even though a lot of what happened that led to their downfall ended up being Mariah’s fault ultimately, the first critical error was actually Hernan’s. He couldn’t let that slight to Mariah rock and so he killed the best buyer for their business on GP –which left them wide open to all the crap with Cockroach and Nigel/Bushmaster. It wasn’t the smart play (that Shades usually makes), it wasn’t the prudent play but he was going from his gut. And there was just no way he was gonna let some dude talk shit about his woman. He knew better, Shades is not easily rattled (they showed that fact about him on multiple occasions through both seasons) but he did it anyway. Not because he’s a hot-head or blood-thirsty, but to clearly show the audience that he was in love.
I don’t know what more these blind people need? They showed his feelings in context as seen above, also in actual lines of script…I mean, did they want Shades to carve it into his forehead? People are not only obtuse…but just plain old racist and sexist.
it upsets me deeply to see “anarchists” rejecting decolonization and self-determination for oppressed nationalities.
decolonization means acknowledging the social system we want to negate is built on stolen land and genocide, and that a free society requires negating the social relations that allow white settlers to exploit everyone else. self-determination for oppressed nationalities means that acknowledging that indigenous, black, and chicanx ppl are colonized and oppressed ppls who should be able to take their own futures into their own hands and take back what is being stolen from them.
if u cant reconcile these things with ur anarchist politics, which are based precisely on self-determination, self-management, and liberation for all, then maybe ur not as much of an anarchist as u think u are.
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