Velvet Silmeria!Mánibranðr @FreyaManibrandr@awoo.space

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I do not like music copyright.

Stopping people from sharing the recordings? /That/ I can understand. But making it illegal to /play songs/ in a public place? What the actual fuck.

"trans women belong in womens' sports.

trans men belong in mens' sports.

don't agree? delete me, you piece of shit. "

It's becoming very clear that a significant portion of the wallstreetbets userbase are white supremacists who see taking down Wall Street and hedge funds as harming Jews. So. Keep that in mind before you romanticise these people and their motivations.

We’re sending books to prisoners

(can't resolve because someone saying "hey, you know that's incredibly racist" is an outside influence and won't be internalized no matter how much a listener with a background like mine, might want to internalize it. Like right now I'm feeling that you can do fairly superficial dialogue about racism only, as a stopgap measure, but if you can connect that dialogue to a whole batch of internal processing, you're more likely to get the paradigm shift that could affect a real change.

Wow, I think I just made this *more* convoluted rather than less, I'll stop now...)

I was thinking earlier that my mind's clicked over to accepting that I have white privilege, because white privilege is *luck*, and over the last few years my mind's clicked over to thinking I am fortunate rather than put-upon a lot more often.

And I don't think this is accidental, my childhood had all these messages about suffering justifying getting things, about having to justify getting things/deserve having things, and then blanket assumption that if you're in power, you must be good. I figure there's an us versus them thing which can explain authorities seen as not good, or how people suffering might be punished and therefore bad. So the idea that you got somewhere because you're lucky is completely alien to that (and I guess it's the distinction handed the Bad People).

Like; it's this huge clusterfuck that *just* tackling it as a racism thing can't resolve, if that makes any sense?

(And to further detail; I don't, and will never, consider myself white. But I definitely think I pass such that white privilege has literally saved my life in the past, I can tell you exactly when. I was gonna friends lock this but ehh, I initially didn't so I'll run with it.)

An analysis of just how prevalent "dark patterns" such as fake urgency and deceptive graphics are on shopping sites:

https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/dark-patterns/

@EricaJoy@twitter.com

"it's "pay Black women" and "listen to Black women" until those Black women ask for their worth or say something you don't want to hear."

There's a script for the way certain critiques or even just questions are dismissed.

But then when your group is "suddenly" all white or predominately non-Black even tho you claim to be/working/with Black communities you're all "oh but how did this happen? Where did all the Black people go?"

Well, you dismissed and shunned us to the point where we were just like yeah fuck it nevermind

I may be cynical (i know i am) but spaces that claim kinship need to not claim but do

watch what they do, not what they say

bc 'decoloinzing space for bipoc' don't mean shit except for the optics for whites, which are prominent

Cruel but Not Unusual: The Punishment of Women in U.S. Prisons: An Interview with Marilyn Buck and Laura Whitehorn

https://monthlyreview.org/2001/07/01/cruel-but-not-unusual

"to me, what your politics are in the abstract don’t mean a damn; it’s how you practice them. For myself as a white woman, I ask, how do you treat people; how do people receive you as a human being? Are people abstractions to you, in terms of racism? Or do you treat people as real equals, even given all the issues of privilege?"

"The only truly effective response that will neutralize repression is already captured by the politics and practice of abolition and decolonization, led by black and indigenous communities against the colonial-capitalist order, and the politics of anti-violence work, which locates heteropatriarchy and misogyny as key conditions for state violence and repression"

https://disorientation.guide/info-share/counter-intelligence-counter-insurgency-security-culture-defense/

Plural folks are valid. I can’t judge y’all.

Fun fact!

Black people can be primary sources! If a Black user says that they're experiencing a lot of antiblackness, you do not actually need to find someone else to cite! You don't need a secondary source at all!

Hope this saves everyone some effort!

@wauz The USA didn't come out of nowhere, though--it's a product of, and also a reproducer and amplifier of, an international order of colonialism and capitalism which justified itself based on the superiority of the white race and its right to rule, with Blackness being defined as the antithesis of white superiority and civilization. Structural antiblackness is firmly rooted in the British economic order and European enlightenment, constructs which were exported to and enforced in far-flung places along with colonialism. You can't localize antiblackness to just the "USA" as a way to deny its global reach.