Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

cryptocurrencies are a nerd's joke project gone too far and are now actively harming the planet in several ways. fuck cryptocurrencies all my homies hate cryptocurrencies

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@Stoori ugh I hate nonhuman races as standins for nonwhite humans and it's a big part of what turned me off to fantasy in general. The nonhuman races got quite a lot of exploration in Star Trek: DS9, which is my favorite Trek show, but a lot of them are also problematic as hell.

An excellent example of exploring racism without going straight to white supremacy is the #BrokenEarth trilogy by N.K. Jemisin, where race supremacy exists but the "master race" is not white in Earth terms. The people considered genetically superior, the Sanzed, are bronze-skinned and tall, and phrenology has entered people's thoughts with characters judging people based on how much Sanzed blood they have. Even the protagonist is casually racist at times (toward a character who'd read as white in Earth terms lol), showing the all-encompassing power of these systems.

Of course, it's very clear that the blood quantum stuff is bullshit and this race's so-called superiority is based on their being the denizens of a powerful genocidal empire, not any natural advantage.

So yes, it's completely possible to explore racism without making white supremacy the default or centering white characters. Choosing to do either is a choice, not an inevitable mandate.

Gentle reminder to creators of worlds that white supremacy, while it is currently dominant in our world and seems all-encompassing, is neither inevitable nor "natural." It isn't even all that old. It arose under extremely specific historical circumstances, and can go away when circumstances change. To posit white supremacy as some kind of inevitable default without those specific circumstances is to give white supremacy more power than it has by unquestioningly imposing our current assumptions on worlds where the background conditions don't exist. It's incoherent worldbuilding and comes close to saying that white people are naturally "superior." I understand that authors want to explore real-world issues in their works, but it's ineffective if the integrity of the work is compromised.

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@FreyaManibrandr @Jaded_maple905 thats because a lot of these folk have internalized christianity to the point where they cannot function without the hierarchal dogma and the rhetoric of ultimate good vs ultimate bad and the world being in an eternal struggle. they've swapped on messianic figure for another without really realizing it. its not all together that different from the people that worshipped trump. to them there needs to be a leader, a figure head, to validate them.

Yeah, I do agree with this but I do believe that a lot of leftist take this shit way too far. Where they believe that nobody can disagree with them because they are somehow way more enlightened than anybody else. I've always found that to be weird and creepy

Have you ever noticed any time someone says anything in solidarity with black people just white people run to do something like this. This is a white leftist doing this by the way. White leftist don't ever talk about Palestine until it's got something to do with them not caring about something because they said something positive about black people. By the way this is dangerously close to blood libel

like okay i think i have this out of my system for the moment but uh like

no. no you don't get to enjoy being white. that's not how it works. the entire CONCEPT of being white was created as a superiority thing. WE did this. not anybody else. White people are the ones who decided that white meant "the domineering ethnicities." I mean, that's how races get homogenized and "turned white." that's the criteria.

They’re actually claiming that driving 10 MPH over the limit is reason to deploy a spike strip and deliberately physically injure someone is custody. https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/04/22/northcarolina-police-hair-shoulder-bottom/

This kind of crap only makes sense when you understand the point of policing as enforcing a racial caste system. She didn’t immediately submit to white authority, so they dispensed extrajudicial punishment to keep her in her place.

Tear down the whole rotten edifice.

to define something as white history means to highlight the whiteness as an inextricable part of what occurred. Black history is often named as such because of various obstacles, not just civil rights

anything dubbed "white history" is going to BE the shit that white people moan about. whiteness being explicitly tied to that history means colonizing and exploitation being tied into those events.

"what about white history, i want to learn about that"

tired: all the other history people feed you is the white history

wired: Do you want to start with how Hawaii was stolen or do you want to hear about why Black babies were referred to as alligator bait

US Senate passes anti-Asian Hate Crime bill on a 94-1 votes, with Sen Josh Hawley the only no vote. A number of trivial #gop amendments apparently intended to obstruct were voted down. The wave of Hate Crimes against Asian persons originates in MAGA rhetoric https://www.politico.com/news/2021/04/22/hate-crime-bill-passes-senate-484245