LITERALLY SECONDS AFTER DRIVING UP TO TAMIR, POLICE SHOT HIM TWICE WITH NO QUESTIONS ASKED, THEN WAITED 4 MINUTES BEFORE EVEN ATTEMPTING TO ADMINISTER FIRST AID TO THIS DYING CHILD.
NOTICE THE COMFORTING HAND RUBBING HIS BACK… ENOUGH SAID.
When they were talking about Tamir they continuously called him a man even though he was only 12 years-old; whereas they’ve referred to this 19 year-old mass murderer as a child, over and over, that’s racism
Some of the Viking reenactors I know are giving it up because of the unfortunate association with far-right groups. I do not blame them for doing this, as I am sure it’s quite upsetting to be mistaken for a neo-Nazi. I support people doing whatever they have to to avoid this.
However, I am really bothered by the idea that there’s something *morally correct* about ceding your passions to supremacist groups. I am deeply uncomfortable with the praise such people have gotten for “doing the right thing”. You know what that’s saying? It’s saying that racists can point to whatever they please and go “it’s ours now”, and *by your own standards* you have to give it to them! Not only did you build the most exploitable loophole ever, you’ve practically drawn them a map!
I do not wish to acquiesce to neo-Nazis in any other context, and I’m not starting now. Hate groups do not get to set the standards for my communities. I’m genetically disabled and engaged to a Jew, and I *delight* in the middle finger my presence in Viking reenactment holds up to Nazi ideology. Like hell I’m going to go “oops, my bad, this actually *does* belong to you!”
It doesn’t. It doesn’t get to. History belongs to goddamn everyone, and in fact *making people think it doesn’t* is one of the great tragedies of racism. I sincerely believe that connecting to shared human heritage is one of this world’s foremost delights, and supremacist groups do not get a say in how I express that.
This is literally something /pol/ knows and exploits.
Maybe the pendulum swings and white people wave to stay in their lane and can *only* play vikings. Stranger things have happened.
In what other ways does /pol/ exploit this? I can think of a couple.
Think the ‘It’s Okay to be White’ thing from a while back. Clearly a /pol/ op and everyone knows it’s a /pol/ op, but knowing it’s a /pol/ op gets people to overextend and say that everyone saying it’s okay to be white is a far-right white nationalist.
Or Pepe memes, for that matter.
Honestly, I’m not expecting the left to die on this hill, or on any of the others, but I would like to see them fucking fight on one for once, instead of immediately retreating to the next one the moment some asshole starts to climb it. Make a goddamn stand for once and say ‘no, you can’t have this, this belongs to us/everyone’ instead of immediately ceding ground and then claiming anyone who didn’t run away with them fast enough is just another enemy pursuing them.
Make a goddamn stand for once and say ‘no, you can’t have this, this belongs to us/everyone’ instead of immediately ceding ground and then claiming anyone who didn’t run away with them fast enough is just another enemy pursuing them.
I know it’s poor forum etiquette to quote something only to shout “FUCKING THIS”, but…FUCKING THIS
I saw this thing once from a guy who was looking for white supremacist reggae groups because he likes reggae. I suppose, by tumblr logic, that means reggae is now an alt-right thing and we should be abandoning it and rejecting it as basically racist and white supremacist, because one dude somewhere said a stupid thing that one time.
jewish trans dude here, definitely specifically decided today at an SCA armoring event to go with viking costuming instead of norman because you know what? fuck nazis.
White racists pulling the “Wakanda as an absolute monarchy that doesn’t share its secrets is so fucking problematic” card as a “gotcha” to excuse their antiblack racism or get one over on Black fans of the film (“how can you be anti blah blah blah if you like this problematic country”) is beyond annoying.
Where’s the insipid commentary on how monarchies are bad related to Thor and Asgard, hmm? No one had a problem with absolute monarchies until Black people were running one.
All these fuckers parrot about Wakanda sounds like it comes straight from white supremacist handbooks and it’s so transparent considering a fictional monarchy run by black people in Africa is basically a tipping point for them and their anger.
It’s the same hypocritical bullshit of this person going “I’m not going to pay to watch Black Panther because they are exploiting Shuri who’s a minor” when they didn’t boycott Civil War or Spiderman Homecoming despite Peter being exploited by Tony in both movies. They really think they are being subtle with this crap but they are not.
Asgard/Odin literally conquered other planets and shit and committed genocide but noooo they don’t care.
A pastor says donations of bottled water to his Flint church have dried up in the past month.
Donations poured in from across the nation in the weeks and months after it was learned that Flint’s drinking water was contaminated with lead. At times, the response nearly overwhelmed the effort to distribute water to Flint residents.
Bishop Roger Lee Jones’ north side church parking lot used to be filled with pallets of water, but now the flood of donations has slowed to a trickle.
imagine being such a limp-dicked weakling that you remove a female character’s belly fat, tattoo, dyed hair, skin tone, and half of her lips. and then you add a cross necklace for some goddamn reason.
female design: *has belly fat* men: fucking tumblrina design. i can fix u babe men: *draw her skinny* design: *dyed hair & tattoos* men: tsk tsk. oh no no, baby. here’s a cross necklace. design: *has unique facial features* men: how about bedroom eyes, a skinnier jaw, and pouty lips
They changed her eyes from brown/green to blue/grey, lightened her skin, gave her a thong tanline, (which implies that that white complection is meant to be t a n n e d), and replaced her lipstick with a bullet because god forbid a woman wear any make-up, even though ALSO god forbid a woman look like she didn’t put make-up on this morning.
Thry also made it do you can see very unrealistically defined nipples and areolas through her… shirt? Bra?
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